Even Israeli historians will happily blow your garbage alt-history out of the water for you.

"The idea of the Jews returning to their ancient homeland as the first step to world redemption seems to have originated among a specific group of evangelical English Protestants that flourished in England in the 1840s; they passed this notion on to Jewish circles." - Anita Shapira

Even right-wing Israeli historians doesn't claim anything that can be called "proto-zionism" with a straight-face that existed before 1860, genius.

Well, then you should try reading the second part of that sentence

So which part of...

No - it isn’t. Comparing Israel to Apartheid-South Africa is actually softballing it.

...are you having a hard time comprehending?

Ben Gurion is one of those hard-liners

In other words... just a Zionist that was schooled in the white supremacism, antisemitism and colonialism of "western civilization" - just another bog-standard colonizer who happened to be Jewish.