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Dispensationalism *is* (effectively) "Zionism", because dispensationalism is also a key part of the "pre-tribulation rapture" which basically teaches that the jews are the *real* purpose of God's end time plan - not the Christians. Christians supposedly get whisked away before anything bad happens to them, so many openly welcome events that appear to indicate the end approaching.

Pre-tribulation rapture timeline tl;dr is basically:
1. The jews build a literal third Temple - this basically requires the Palestinians being holocausted/exiled/etc. so the jews can fully control Jerusalem, which is why some see the conflicts in Palestine as a Good Thing.
2. Jesus does a mini-Second Coming to beam up the Christians, Star Trek-style (this doesn't count as a Rapture, somehow). Some depict this as being secret/invisible, so non-Christians have no idea why all the Christians suddenly vanished (see Left Behind etc.)
3. A man (the Antichrist) reveals himself and starts doing bad stuff to muh joos (the Tribulation) - not Christians, they're already gone.
4. Facing this tribulation, there is a mass conversion of the grabblers to Jesus (seen as fulfilling "all Israel shall be saved", because jews == Israel, right?)
5. Jesus returns *again* to do the Rapture (Second Coming but for real this time) to rescue the jews (and I guess some non-jews) that turned to Jesus during the tribulation events.

This is also why teaching any other timeline is condemned as evil, false, and antisemitic - putting the rapture during or after the tribulation (or saying there is no rapture) can't be correct, because this means there's no special timeslot for God to focus on the jews without those pesky Christians getting in the way.