I do not doubt that Zionism as a project is evil, with parts that go about removing Arabs from Palestine.

But I still doubt it would succeed as it did if interwar and WW2 antisemitism spike didn’t happen (and not like it was all good pre-WW1, Russian Beilis trial as prime example).

It “had” to happen simply because everyone was keen on giving Jews ample reasons not to stay where they were chronically unsafe.