When Israel was founded, there was a culturally powerful Kibbutz Movement, which mixed socialism and Zionism and young people lived communally. It was primarily agrarian at first, as utopian communities often are. These days most people getting back to the land are doing it just because they like it, but in the 50s-70s at least, that life was pursued as having a special holiness of its own.
The socialists now reject the Zionists with an intense hatred. I wonder if any of that comes from seeing them as defectors from socialism. Israel has an extensive social safety net, but it is also prosperous and free market.
It may be only indirectly related or even coincidental. But betrayers of the cause are treated with implacable anger.
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When I was in Israel in 2014, there was a lot of discussion about how the religious part was overtaking the secular/socialist original core, so that without needing an ideological/doctrinal development program the population was becoming more and more religiously observant Jewish.
I think the basic issue is the idea that it is not just an ethnic state, but a religious state. Generally progressives will express their ideas in terms of philosophical universality, so that even an ethnic state should be odious given that it is structured to favor the culture or mores of a particular ethnic group. But a religious state! That is an abomination, directly in violation of Marx's dictum that religion is just the opiate of the people, which like the state itself should wither away in the face of socialism.
To have tried socialism and embraced religion afterwards is a complete rejection of the whole model.
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