As I have posited several times, there is only one single religion, not two different ones, the Judeo-Christian religion, that is the mainstay of Western Civilization and of America. The history of Zionism attests to that fact.
1. “…the movement arrived in America with the first settlers. The Puritans and the Scottish Covenanters were Christian Zionists who modeled their escape from the British Isles over the Atlantic on the Israelite exodus from Egypt through the Red Sea….The universities they founded, Harvard and Yale, required all students to learn Hebrew. Salem, one of their first settlements, was named after the Hebrew word for “peace.”
2. …radical Protestants such as the Puritans read biblical promises made to the Jews as unfulfilled commitments to modern Jews. These included, crucially, the repatriation of the Jews and reconstruction of a Third Temple.
3. The emergence of the Jewish Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century was shaped by Christian Zionists who were far greater in number and had been agitating for centuries for the repatriation of the Jews to their biblical homeland. William Blackstone, a highly influential evangelical author who dubbed himself “God’s little errand boy,” headed up a mass petition to then-president Benjamin Harrison for the delivery of Palestine to the Jews….petitioning for the transportation of Jews to Palestine was sent in 1891, several years before the Jewish Zionist movement had emerged.
4. William Hechler, an Anglican clergyman, and a patron and door-opener for Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Jewish Zionism, is another important figure in the history of Christian Zionism. Hechler lobbied Herzl to select Palestine as the political objective for the movement over other options in Africa and Asia offered by the British Empire. So implicated were nineteenth-century Christians in the early days of Zionism that many scholars and rabbis have gone as far as to describe Zionism as a Christian phenomenon.
5. …Gil Hochberg, a professor of Middle East Studies at Colombia (sic), has argued that “the majority of Zionists across the globe are Christians. In fact, it has always been the case. Zionism is a Christian ideology with deep roots in both Catholic and Protestant communities.” Christian eschatology, which conflates the Jews of the Bible with contemporary European Jews and which advocates for their physical restoration to Palestine, dates back to at least early seventeenth century Jacobean England.”
1. “…the movement arrived in America with the first settlers. The Puritans and the Scottish Covenanters were Christian Zionists who modeled their escape from the British Isles over the Atlantic on the Israelite exodus from Egypt through the Red Sea….The universities they founded, Harvard and Yale, required all students to learn Hebrew. Salem, one of their first settlements, was named after the Hebrew word for “peace.”
2. …radical Protestants such as the Puritans read biblical promises made to the Jews as unfulfilled commitments to modern Jews. These included, crucially, the repatriation of the Jews and reconstruction of a Third Temple.
3. The emergence of the Jewish Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century was shaped by Christian Zionists who were far greater in number and had been agitating for centuries for the repatriation of the Jews to their biblical homeland. William Blackstone, a highly influential evangelical author who dubbed himself “God’s little errand boy,” headed up a mass petition to then-president Benjamin Harrison for the delivery of Palestine to the Jews….petitioning for the transportation of Jews to Palestine was sent in 1891, several years before the Jewish Zionist movement had emerged.
4. William Hechler, an Anglican clergyman, and a patron and door-opener for Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Jewish Zionism, is another important figure in the history of Christian Zionism. Hechler lobbied Herzl to select Palestine as the political objective for the movement over other options in Africa and Asia offered by the British Empire. So implicated were nineteenth-century Christians in the early days of Zionism that many scholars and rabbis have gone as far as to describe Zionism as a Christian phenomenon.
5. …Gil Hochberg, a professor of Middle East Studies at Colombia (sic), has argued that “the majority of Zionists across the globe are Christians. In fact, it has always been the case. Zionism is a Christian ideology with deep roots in both Catholic and Protestant communities.” Christian eschatology, which conflates the Jews of the Bible with contemporary European Jews and which advocates for their physical restoration to Palestine, dates back to at least early seventeenth century Jacobean England.”
