This is how much Jews identify themselves as Palestinians in 1930 50 years after the zionist movement started.
MY FATHER was a Zionist.
At the time, the Zionists were a tiny minority among the Jews in Germany (and elsewhere). Most Jews thought that they were a bit crazy. A current joke had it that a Zionist was a Jew who gave money to a second Jew in order to send a third Jew to Palestine.
Why did my father become a Zionist? He certainly did not dream of going to Palestine himself.
So what about his Zionism? My father was a “Querkopf”, a contrarian. He did not like to run with the herd. It suited him to belong to a lonely little group. The Zionists.
The nationalist (not religious) identification with the Holy Land was the creation of the zionist colonial movement...
A tiny group of heretics from Judaism (in the case of religious zionists) and atheists and agnostics with a jewish ancestry (in the case of secular zionists).