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@adambyte@dragonscave.space Your opinion is not really "most controversial" (it's pretty normalized now no thanks to the Soviet antisemites), but it is probably one of the most ignorant.

A quick and careful look at the history would show you that Zionism has never been a homogeneous movement as you'd like to portray it as (that's your first mistake). Many (especially the Labor Zionists, which actually governed the Israeli state in most of its history and fought the Arab states trying to destroy Israel while it was in power) actually believed in integrating the Arabs into Israeli society and giving them equal rights. The recent aliyahs of Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) made Israel far from an ethnostate, as they brought with them cultures that clashed with the then-vast majority Ashkenazim (who you'd probably call "white"). Today the demographics are pretty much 50-50 between the Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, so the argument "go back to Europe" doesn't even work anymore. And ironically, it is mostly the Ashkenazim who are left-leaning and want a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The Likud's mass base is Mizrahim.

It wasn't even necessarily the Shoah that pushed the Zionists to accelerate the reestablishment of Israel. I'd argue it's the refusal of Western countries to accept Jewish refugees (and the UK even blocked further Jewish immigation into Mandatory Palestine, they just don't want Jews to go anywhere!) and the continued pogroms in post-WW2 Poland which tipped the scales. What else could they have done to save the millions of surviving Jews, now refugees, trapped in a still-hostile Europe? People really just love Jews when they die helplessly; god forbid them actually live and determine their own destiny!