Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism
…Palestine’s population was Jewish, but many Christians, especially in the United States, thought of it as a Jewish land. … In the 1930s, the Nazi rise to power and the subsequent worsening situation of the Jews of Europe made the implementation of Zionist aims all the more urgent. Protestant groups in the United States reacted in different ways to this threat. The leading Protestant intellectual journal the Christian Century was skeptical about r…
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