How would you describe zionism?

How would you argue in favor of secular zionism?

• Or to make it broader: How can secular Zionism work? Most of the arguments of Zionism are based on religious arguments. But a strictly secular Zionism is very hard to argument for. What are arguments for secular Zionism? On what grounds does secular Zionism claim to have right to Israel?

• Answer:

  The name of "Zionism" comes from the hill Zion, the hill on which the Temple of Jerusalem was situated. The reason for this is that historically, Zionism has been a movement dominated by secularist Jews. Herzl and most of his colleagues were assimilated Jews, who did not believe in or practice the Torah. Some Zionists were vehemently anti-religious, and saw the Torah and mitzvos as outdated rituals with no place in their modern state.