Yya, I understand your argument and I don’t defend anti religious activities. Still, your defence of Arab regimes is a sign that there are weaknesses in your position. The idea that it was ok for jews to live under “secular ” socialist dictatorships is very insensitive. Those regimes prosecuted a lot of groups not just zionists.
It is a difficult question why zionists were zoche to understand the dangers of 20th century and others tragically didn’t. I am not proposing theological explanations, just suggesting we look honestly at the facts. Note that zionists were not always so proactive. It took them some time before they stood by jews in the soviet union, who were in harder and longer suffering than Sephardim.