Zionism: The Back Story

The back story in journalism and scholarship uncovers vital information on important issues that had been obscured or omitted. It provides background. For example, the origin of Zionism is usually traced to a pamphlet Theodor Herzl wrote in 1896 called The Jewish State. However, the eminent Israeli scholar Ilan Pappe, writes “Many people do not know that Zionism began as an evangelical Christian project long before any Jew was thinking about Zionism. Christian Zionists were advocating the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine knowing very well that there were other people living there,” Palestinians, but thought that the creation of a Jewish state would not only advance British imperial interests but also “precipitate the second coming of the Messiah.”

Recorded at the University of Massachusetts.

Speaker: Thomas Suárez

Thomas Suárez is a London-based historian. A former West Bank resident, he devoted several years to researching poorly-tapped and newly-declassified historical archives. He is the author of State of Terror, Writings on the Wall and Palestine Hijacked.

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