Yeah, all of this. Individual anti-zionist Jews are not uncommon, but almost all Jewish institutions and communities are Zionist to some level. There is enormous pressure to conform to Zionist beliefs and opinions, and being wholly open about being anti-zionist inside your community is pretty much impossible. Your choice basically becomes keeping your anti-zionism private, or at the very least, subdued, or being completely isolated, practicing alone and having no community. Converts have to be incredibly careful about what they say regarding Zionism, and there's a sort of unspoken view of "if you don't support Israel then you shouldn't be a Jew". Even the more radical movements within Judaism, which started out as anti-zionist, have adopted Zionist stances over the last 50 years. The tiny pockets of anti-zionist communities are shunned and ostracised. Jewdas (a little radical Jewish organisation in the UK) asked to rent our synagogue's hall for their community passover dinner a few years ago, and our council immediately said no, because it was too "controversial" to allow them to share our space. I'm in a GC with the other known anti-zionist Jews at my synagogue and we just had to have a meeting with the council about whether or not we were still welcome to be a part of the community. It's absolutely inescapable on an institutional level.
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