Zionism advocated by Protestants
- Quotation from Donald Trump “And we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the evangelicals” — Aug. 18 2020
During the election campaign in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, marveling at the power of the early Zionists, the Christian Zionists. - Quotation from Hendrik Verwoerd “Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state” — Nov. 23 1961
Former Prime Minister of South Africa, in the daily Rand Daily Mail. - Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Balfour, Churchill ... believed in the Bible ... we Zionists represented a great tradition” — Jan. 1 1970
Chaim Weizmann, the main Zionist lobbyist in Great Britain during the First World War, recalls, in connection with a polemic against anti-Zionist Jews, that the English Protestant leaders sympathize with the myth of the jewish "return". - Quotation from Drew Pearson “Truman cracked down... to swing the UN vote for the partition of Palestine” — Feb. 9 1948
American journalist, reporting on a few behind-the-scenes operations to push through - on the third attempt - the partition resolution of Palestine of November 29, 1947. - Quotation from Harry Truman “I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents” — Nov. 10 1945
President of the USA, in front of the Arab ambassadors. - Quotation from Winston Churchill “I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger” — Mar. 12 1937
In a testimony before the Peel Commission on Palestine, reveals the racist and "white supremacist" basis of his support for the Zionist project (the testimony was only published in 1982). - Quotation from Winston Churchill “In harmony with the truest interests of the British Empire” — Feb. 8 1920
In this racialist, anti-Communist and anti-Semitic article, Winston Churchill, then British War Minister, endorses Balfour's commitment to the Zionist project in Palestine, in the name of "the interests of the British Empire". - Quotation from Arthur Balfour “The Four Great Powers ... are committed to Zionism” — Aug. 11 1919
In a private memorandum to the British Cabinet dated August 11, 1919, expresses that the great powers do not care about the Palestinians - 90% of the population at the time - and that with help, Zionism will help solve the "Jewish problem". - Quotation from Arthur Balfour “A Body … long regarded as alien ..., which it was equally unable to expel or to absorb” — Sep. 20 1918
Speaking of Zionism, he states unvarnished that in his eyes the Jews constitute an insoluble problem for "Western civilization. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “With England as a starting point we may be sure that the Zionist idea will soar further” — 1904
Shortly before his death, repeating that England is the key to Zionism. - Quotation from John Lawson Stoddard “You are a people without a country; there is a country without a people. Be united” — 1897
American traveler and popular writer, Christian Zionist, author after Lord Shaftesbury, of the formula "a land without people for a people without land". - Quotation from William Eugene Blackstone “According to God’s distribution of nations” — Mar. 1891
American evangelist, author of « Jesus is Coming », organizer in 1890 of the "Conference on the Past, Present, and Future of Israel" in Chicago, from which emerged the "Blackstone Memorial" signed by hundreds of personalities, which was presented to Secretary of State James Blaine on May 5, 1891. - Quotation from Henry Dunant “... agricultural colonies, with the help and labor of those of their Eastern co-religionists...” — Jan. 1 1970
In 1866, Henry Dunant, Calvinist and founder of the Red Cross, recommended to Emperor Napoleon III the creation of a settlement society in Palestine for Eastern European Jews. The project never got off the ground. Dunant attended the First Zionist Congress of 1897. - Quotation from Anthony Ashley Cooper “The ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews” — Jul. 30 1853
Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman, one of the founders of Christian Zionism, in a letter to British Foreign Minister George Hamilton Gordon. - Quotation from Anthony Ashley Cooper “The ancient city of the people of God is about to resume a place among the nations” — 1838
Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman, on the occasion of the opening of a British embassy in Jerusalem (in reference to Luke 21-24). - Quotation from John Adams “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation” — Mar. 15 1819
Second President of the United States (from 1797 to 1801), in a letter to a Jewish traveler of the time, Mordechai Noah, wanted a "restoration" of the Jews in Judea with a view to their conversion. - Quotation from Thomas Brightman “Shall they return to Jerusalem” — 1615
A clergyman and influential Bible commentator, he was one of the early Protestant progenitors of the Zionist project.