It looks very like Zionism in general has its original roots in Britain [via both Henry the 8th and Cromwell's invoking the monetary aid of the Venetian banker families, who then married wholesale into the "British aristocracy"] - and it was no less ugly then, but the targets were different - Native Americans [and Negroes too, though slavery isn't the subject of this article];
https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2...ive-americans/