Zionism adopted the Christian supersessionist view of history against the Jews themselves.

Evidence

Clearly, Zionist thought was inspired by a number of Jewish traditional sources. The reformulation of the theological myth in modern romantic terminology, however, marked a radical change in the Jewish perception of time, as embodied in the terms exile and redemption, and its adaptation to the Christian perception of history—the same perception upon whose rejection Jewish consciousness was previously established. Just as Christianity criticized Judaism as a historical anachronism, so did Zionism criticize the Jews in exile as having been left behind by history. Zionism came to “supersede” exilic Judaism just as Christianity purported to supersede Judaism. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 642

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A striking inversion: the movement of Jewish national liberation internalized the very Christian supersessionist logic historically turned against Jews, then aimed it at exilic Jewry itself.
• XREF: Parallels the broader orientalism thesis of Said and postcolonial theories of self-colonization; also echoes the moral-panic framing in the reader’s knowledge base.