The Haredi-Zionist divide in Palestine was ethnic as well as religious.

Evidence

This implied not simply a religious distinction between the more traditional anti-Zionists and the Zionists; there also was an ethnic divide, as the Aguda championed “the Orthodox and the Sephardim,” whose practice of Judaism was not the same as that of the Ashkenazi Orthodox. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 444