That last bit is false, you are conflating Zionism and Judaism. Plenty of non weird non colonizer non Zionist Jewish folks.
Disclaimers: atheist, no (informed) opinion regarding GP's comment.
From my outside perspective, Israel's leadership appears to have spent years deliberately conflating Judaism and Zionism.
They have, but you don't need to let them get away with it.
We didn't have nearly the prosperity gospel and doomsday cult of christians we have today in 2008 (or at least they were kept much more at bay instead of running the country)