The zionism was just a pretext, a means to their ends of getting rid of him.

Oh interesting. I didn’t know that.

Although amusingly, the zionism itself was not the direct pretext, because they didn’t say “we’re getting rid of him because we’re zionist and he’s against that.” They said “he’s antisemitic”, the all-too-common dogwhistle used on people who are actually just anti-zionism. So if it was actually about neoliberalism, that means there were two layers of misdirection involved.