The missing piece to this discussion all too often seems to be the conflict between the different schools of zionism and the fallout that has come from out of that. It offers both a more realistic and yet confusing answer to this question.
I became aware of this first when doing research for the bernie sanders thread. I came across an unending number of socialist jews who were deeply anti-israel but also ardent jewish nationalists. This made no sense to me when I first came across it. I would see some socialistia dyke with triple parentheses around her name absolutely duking it out with some yenta with a bari weiss quote in her profile. I would see these people each calling each other hitler and bad jews for their choice in democrat candidate. Seeing two jews call each other hitler because one wants to vote michael bloomberg and the the other wants to vote bernie sanders was one of the strangest(and funniest) things I've ever witnessed so I had to look into this mess.
The most important part was that they both seemed to think they were the better jew. The basis of this seems to lie in the split between the so-called movements of 'political zionism', 'cultural zionism' and 'labor zionism' or 'socialist zionism'. These are all groups of jewish nationalists but they do hate each other.
After the Basel Zionist Congress of 1897 many Zionists became disillusioned with the route zionism was going and believed that a re-invigorated and more faithful/traditional jewish people was preferable to an actual physical jewish state or at least they thought israel would not survive without a return to tradition. This can be clearly seen in the actions and beliefs of
Achad Ha'am further spelled out in his written work
'Lo Zu Haderekh' (This is not the way). In his words Achad says:
A jewish state is still the end goal but without an "empire of our ideal in jewry" this state is not practical in his mind. This is the ultimate in elitism Ha'am and other jewish thinkers like him did not care about the palestinians or the effects on the surrounding arab world of a massive influx of jewish settlers he merely wanted those settlers to be good jews in his ideal before aliyah. Moreover he had little care for jews whose ties to judaism end at ethnicity.
In aid of this goal many jewish publications were started and attempts were made to kick start a artistic jewish renaissance. Some of the "Oy Veyying " we know so well today started around this period not to be used against non-jews but against secularised, assimilated diaspora populations particularly in the west.
Looking at it through this lense what can appear to be a monolithic conspiracy is actually many groups of jews with opposing ideas on how best to "save" the jewish people. It is important to note that even though socialist zionists put a great deal of emphasis on racial/ethnic persecution they only do this as a proxy to accomplish their own goals as they are extreme racists and elitists from the very core of their belief system. A common tenant amongst them is to discourage diaspora populations from assimilating or engaging with non-jewish populations. Indeed one of the reasons they didn't see the settlement of israel as practical is because they didn't see themselves ever working with the native arab populations and held a deep disdain for them.
All of these movements seem to have an outsized influence on world events since their inception but their goals are not exactly the same and I do believe some bad shit has come out of their respective scheming. However I can't really do this subject justice because I am just learning about it myself .