since the white people who colonised SA had never set foot
Neither has the Europeans who colonised Palestine and created Israel, Clyde.
while that absolutely isn’t the case for Jewish people returning to their homeland.
European Jewish people’s “homeland” is Europe, genius. You know… the place where they were born and lived for more than a millenium before western antisemitism drove them out?
There is no valid Zionist “claim” to any part of the middle-east - never was, never has been. You might just as well “claim” Jerusalem as “western” because the Crusaders massacred it’s population once.