Political Zionism revolted against Judaism, not against the West

Evidence

Yet there emerged a major rebellion against Geiger’s scholarly and political (and, at that time, non-Zionist) endeavor, a rebellion that was led most prominently by Gershom Scholem on the scholarly front (and there are successors), and more generally by so-called Political Zionism on the cultural and political fronts. Heschel explains that “the Zionist revolt against the alleged marginalization of Jews in history that had resulted from Diaspora experience turned out to be a revolt against Judaism, not a revolt against the West” (69). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 972

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the midrashic/Heschel thesis that Zionism’s rebellion was against Jewish marginalization-as-Judaism itself rather than against Western marginalization.
• XREF: connects to: Zionism rose on Holocaust sympathy to become a leading Western ideology — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 144; Zionism reacted against the older invention of Judaism as religion. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 748