If you read the works of the early zionists going back to hertzal, you will see that most if not all of them were atheists that held absolute contempt for religious Jews. They saw them as weak for clinging to what they thought was an inferior culture and superstitions. In fact the only jews they hated more than the religious eastern European jews were the arab jews that were in around the levant.
If you read the works of the early zionists going back to hertzal, you will see that most if not all of them were atheists that held absolute contempt for religious Jews. They saw them as weak for clinging to what they thought was an inferior culture and superstitions. In fact the only jews they hated more than the religious eastern European jews were the arab jews that were in around the levant.