wonderful interview. wish the news about justice for the world's oppressed, in this case, for Palestine...could be as wonderful. Oh wait, it really could. it's about the organized political will to do so. Nice holiday gift for 2026 though huh?
Re educate ! Once, the wider world lived in ignorance. But now we see and cannot unsee. I am not a politician, I live many countries away from Palestine but I cry for the people of Palestine. Now the world sees, and the ordinary people protest and even organise but it’s not enough and time is running out.
What is it with anti-Zionist Jews claiming that Christians invented Zionism? The image above is from the beginning of a video by Zachary Foster where he makes the bold claim that “Zionism was a Christian idea”. He begins his story in the 1640s, saying, “In the 1640s, you had this movement founded in England known as the Restorationist movement.”
His post got some pushback, which he describes here:
Many comments on this video go something like this:
“Another attempt to absolve them of their crimes”
“You are diminishing Jewish Zionism and its actions”
“hasbara propaganda”
He responds: “The 17th century Christian origins of Zionism have absolutely 0 political implications today. Doesn’t make Israel less genocidal. Doesn’t have an impact on the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu or Gallant. Doesn’t make Israel any less of an apartheid state. Doesn’t make Zionism any less racist or settler-colonialist. Doesn’t absolve Jewish institutions today of their complicit in apartheid and genocide. It’s just a curios [sic] point of history.”
It may be curious, but it’s also wrong. His argument echoes that of Ilan Pappé, who, in his book Lobbying for Zionism, claimed the key figure in the invention of Zionism was Lord Shaftesbury in about 1839. Pappé was wrong about that, as I showed in my review of his book. Unfortunately, even though Foster manages to go back two hundred years further than Pappé, he is still incorrect.
Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of significant moments in the building of Jewish settlements in Palestine from 1211 to 1890, the year in which Nathan Birnbaum coined the term Zionism in his journal Selbstemanzipation, seven years before the First Zionist Congress in 1897. As one can see from the list, the development of settlements in Safed and Hebron long predated the 1640s. So the idea that Jews got the idea from Christians after the 1640s is false. Let’s start with an event celebrated in Zionist historiography, some four centuries before the 1640s.
wonderful interview. wish the news about justice for the world's oppressed, in this case, for Palestine...could be as wonderful. Oh wait, it really could. it's about the organized political will to do so. Nice holiday gift for 2026 though huh?
So Israel’s corruption began on Day 1, and it has been lying, cheating, and murdering ever since. Got it.
Re educate ! Once, the wider world lived in ignorance. But now we see and cannot unsee. I am not a politician, I live many countries away from Palestine but I cry for the people of Palestine. Now the world sees, and the ordinary people protest and even organise but it’s not enough and time is running out.
The zio-epstein parasites genocidal terrorist Always Lie.
Brilliant!
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What a facetious crock of useless apologetic, Jewish bullshit.
I prefer Gilad Atzmon
What is it with anti-Zionist Jews claiming that Christians invented Zionism? The image above is from the beginning of a video by Zachary Foster where he makes the bold claim that “Zionism was a Christian idea”. He begins his story in the 1640s, saying, “In the 1640s, you had this movement founded in England known as the Restorationist movement.”
His post got some pushback, which he describes here:
Many comments on this video go something like this:
“Another attempt to absolve them of their crimes”
“You are diminishing Jewish Zionism and its actions”
“hasbara propaganda”
He responds: “The 17th century Christian origins of Zionism have absolutely 0 political implications today. Doesn’t make Israel less genocidal. Doesn’t have an impact on the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu or Gallant. Doesn’t make Israel any less of an apartheid state. Doesn’t make Zionism any less racist or settler-colonialist. Doesn’t absolve Jewish institutions today of their complicit in apartheid and genocide. It’s just a curios [sic] point of history.”
It may be curious, but it’s also wrong. His argument echoes that of Ilan Pappé, who, in his book Lobbying for Zionism, claimed the key figure in the invention of Zionism was Lord Shaftesbury in about 1839. Pappé was wrong about that, as I showed in my review of his book. Unfortunately, even though Foster manages to go back two hundred years further than Pappé, he is still incorrect.
Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of significant moments in the building of Jewish settlements in Palestine from 1211 to 1890, the year in which Nathan Birnbaum coined the term Zionism in his journal Selbstemanzipation, seven years before the First Zionist Congress in 1897. As one can see from the list, the development of settlements in Safed and Hebron long predated the 1640s. So the idea that Jews got the idea from Christians after the 1640s is false. Let’s start with an event celebrated in Zionist historiography, some four centuries before the 1640s.
https://trackingpower.substack.com/p/no-christians-did-not-invent-zionism?r=5i319&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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