Zionists are the people (with whatever religion, race, etc.) who believe that the Jews deserve a nation of their own which should be Jerusalem. Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people.
Most Jews have always been Zionists, they have always though that they are a nation or people.
Zionism in Israel
Israel was a thirsty country, and zionism brought water to this country. Nowadays, glass and steel towers rose from sand dunes. Jews and Arabs have the benefits of water thanks to Zionism.
I think being a zionist is great, but there are actually some jews that don’t agree with Zionism.
"The Zionists do not make Jews heretics in order to have a state, they want a state in order to make Jews into heretics!"
Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik of Brisk (1853-1918)
"The Jewish people have suffered many (spiritual) plagues -- the Sadducees, Karaites, Hellenisers, Shabbatai Zvi, Enlightenment, Reform and many others. But the strongest of them all is Zionism.
Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik
His son Brisker Rav later explained this, he said that it was because the Zionists “attacked the center point of Judaism”
http://www.zionism-israel.com/Zionists.htm
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
