@martinvermeer @LaNaehForaday It's not a coincidence. Zionism in the late 19th/early 20th century Austro-Hungarian empire was just one of a ferment of ethno-nationalist movements: it relied on the same axioms as its peers, only applying to Jews as opposed to Czechs, Hungarians, etc, and bolted it on top of the crass 19th century imperialist colonialism of the European empires. There was a rival non-colonialist Jewish movement—the Bund—but Hitler murdered them when they didn't flee in time.