somejewiknow – The quote you bring from a biography of the Chazon Ish (not ??? ???? ??? or any authoritative Halachic work of his ???????…) is not talking about Zionism per-se, rather ???? ?? ???? ?????, something many ostensibly ‘Chareidi’ people (including on this website) permit themselves to indulge in… The source for that is the Gemara in ???? ???????, not a special ????? of the Chazon Ish. If you want to be more Lomdish, that actually proves AGAINST your argument – If the only reason the Mizrachi Rabbi is ???? is because he is ???? ?? ???? ?????, then simply being Mizrachi isn’t enough… The story about the ‘Kiddush’ sounds garbled and missing pieces (and also ?????? contradicts the previous quotes.) What is meant by “this is the first I’ve heard”? There was plenty of interaction between the Chazon Ish and members of Mizrachi before then. Also, bear in mind that at the time the Secular Zionists were proactively tearing children away from Yiddishkeit, importing treif meat and selling it with the Hechsher of the Rabbanut, and attempting to forcibly conscript Chareidi/Dati GIRLS (=????? ????? for those who can’t put two and two together), all with the tacit and-or explicit complicity of the old Mizrachi ?????? ?????. Many of the secularists themselves at the time were from Frum homes who were ??? ????? ??? ?????, with an agenda to eliminate Yiddishkeit, similar to the Soviet Yevsektzia. (Some of the Mizrachi were not much better, despite pretending to be Frum… That may explain the Kiddush story, and why it seems to be ‘censored’…) Nowadays the situation is quite different, and most of what is going on is from ignorance, not malice.
