People act like early Zionism was some pure hearted thing but no, there was always elements of supremacy in the movement. The literal concept of "Degenerate art" later used by the Nazis was invented by a Zionist named Max Nordau, and not in a "Oh they just lifted some inspiration", it was the whole damn concept taken straight from him.

I guess theres just this tendency to want to think that "things went wrong" with Israel rather than things going pretty much as anyone with a functional understanding of politics and society should have expected.