Calling him the leader of Zionism is quite a stretch. I don’t think anyone really used that word until the last few years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism
Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the Zionist movement, now led by Theodor Herzl, associated this national revival with Palestine, then under Ottoman rule.[8][9] The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[10][11][12] The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that the Jews’ historical right to the land outweighed that of the Arabs.[13]
Feddit will ban him for saying genocide is bad, so shhhh, just fund more weapons!