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NOTABLE BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM AND CHRISTIAN ZIONISTSBook of the Month The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. - from Amazon.com NEWS N BLOGS ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM and CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS Updated April 20, 2013 Israel to Pat Robertson: Shut Up and Listen - Policy Mic - The Baptist Standard Christian Population Still Dropping in Israel and the Palestinian Territories - Catholic Culture Israel wields Bible's soft power as far afield as Brazil - Christian Science Monitor British Zionist Lobby Strikes Again - al Ahram Towards a Christian Zionist Foreign Policy - Antiwar.com Christian Zionists spearhead fight against Hagel - The Times of Israel Christian Zionism Promotes Islamophobia in the US - Press TV
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The Role of the "Israel Lobby" in the Growth of Christian Zionism
Secret Zionist funds [by AZEC], eventually reaching $150,000 in 1946, were used to revive an elitist Protestant group, the American Palestine Committee. This group had originally been founded in 1932 by Emanuel Neumann, a member of the Executive of the Zionist Organization. The objective was to organize a group of prominent (mainly non-Jewish) Americans in moral and political support of Zionism. [AZEC head] Rabbi Abba Silver’s headquarters issued a directive saying, “In every community an American Christian Palestine Committee must be immediately organized.” The Christian committee’s operations were hardly autonomous. Zionist headquarters thought nothing of placing newspaper advertisements on the clergymen’s behalf without bothering to consult them in advance, until one of the committee’s leaders meekly asked at least for prior notice before public statements were made in their name.” AZEC formed another group among clergymen, the Christian Council on Palestine. An internal AZEC memo stated that the aim of both groups was to “crystallize the sympathy of Christian America for our cause.” By the end of World War II the Christian Council on Palestine had grown to 3,000 members and the American Palestine Committee boasted a membership of 6,500 public figures, including senators, congressmen, cabinet members, governors, state officers, mayors, jurists, clergymen, educators, writers, publishers, and civic and industrial leaders. [For citations, and additional information on the Scofield Annotated Bible – a significant source of Christian Zionist beliefs – see my article.]
In the 1970s the
Israeli government gave
Jerry Falwell a jet plane,
helping him to spread his
version of theology.
Christian Palestinians
Resource for the Study of Christian Zionism and Christian ZionistsFrom the Interfaith Commission of the National Council of Churches (USA) ![]() Why We Should be Concerned about Christian Zionism
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Articles on Christian Zionism and Christian Zionists
Sabeel Makes a Statement at the Christian Zionist Parade in Jerusalem
The Invention of the Land of Israel A book review by Donald Sasson from the Guardian
2009, Shlomo Sand published The Invention of the Jewish
People, in which he claimed that Jews have little in common with each other.
They had no common "ethnic" lineage owing to the high level of conversion in
antiquity. They had no common language, since Hebrew was used only for
prayer and was not even spoken at the time of Jesus. Yiddish was, at most,
the language of Ashkenazi Jews. So what is left to unite them? Religion? But
religion does not make a people – think of Muslims and Catholics. And most
Jews are not religious. Zionism? But that is a political position: one can
be a Scot and not a Scottish nationalist. Besides, the majority of Jews,
including many Zionists, have not the slightest intention of going "back" to
the Holy Land, much preferring, and who can blame them, to stay put in north
London, or Brooklyn or wherever. In other words, "Jewish People" is a
political construct, an invention. Now Sand tells us, in this second volume
of what will be a trilogy, that even the "Land of Israel" was invented.
Guardian readers who happen to be Jewish should brace themselves for the
third volume: The Invention of the Secular Jew. All this takes considerable
chutzpah. What Christians Don't know about Israel Note: This article was written in 1998 by the late Grace Halsell. Sadly it remains relevant today. American Jews sympathetic to Israel
dominate key positions in all areas of our government where decisions are
made regarding the Middle East. This being the case, is there any hope of
ever changing U.S. policy? The answer to achieving an even-handed Middle East policy
might lie elsewhere—among those who support Israel but don’t really know
why. This group is the vast majority of Americans. They are well-meaning,
fair-minded Christians who feel bonded to Israel—and Zionism—often from
atavistic feelings, in some cases dating from childhood. I am one of those. I grew up listening to stories of a
mystical, allegorical, spiritual Israel. This was before a modern political
entity with the same name appeared on our maps. I attended Sunday School and
watched an instructor draw down window- type shades to show maps of the Holy
Land. I imbibed stories of a Good and Chosen people who fought against their
Bad “unChosen” enemies.
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