Zionism was a revolution in Jewish theological and political history, not a natural continuation.

Evidence

No. 77: Jewish Ethics in a Time of Power (Shalom Hartman Institute)

corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
XREF: connects to: Zionism faces serious challenges from two historical narratives. — David Ohana, David Maisel , The Origins of Israeli…, 23; Zionism perpetuates Jewish exceptionalism and tells a version of Jewish history disconnected from others. — Jewish challenges to Zionism on the rise in the US; Modern Jewish nationalism emerged from Enlightenment contradictions. — David Ohana, David Maisel , The Origins of Israeli…, 39 (+3 more)

Modern Jewish nationalism emerged from Enlightenment contradictions. (similarity 0.87)
Zionism reacted against the older invention of Judaism as religion. (similarity 0.83)
Jews faced the twin contradictions of equality-as-privilege and non-national existence in nation-states. (similarity 0.83)
Zionism adopted the Christian supersessionist view of history against the Jews themselves. (similarity 0.81)
Enlightenment thinkers grounded antisemitism in progressive secular ideology, not religious prejudice. (similarity 0.80)
Zionism perpetuates Jewish exceptionalism and tells a version of Jewish history disconnected from others. (similarity 0.80)
The religious core is inseparable from Zionism but separable from Israeli Jewish nationalism (similarity 0.80)
Zionism countered the earlier invention of Judaism as a religion (similarity 0.80)
The moral force behind the Zionist movement is a sense of Jewish, and consequently Israeli, exceptionalism. (similarity 0.80)
The challenge for modern Zionism is to move from defining the modern Jew to defining a political framework for modern Israel. (similarity 0.80)

Modern Jewish nationalism emerged from Enlightenment contradictions. #expands (0.75) — David Ohana, David Maisel , The Origins of Israeli…, 39