A New York Times commentary piece titled:
American Jews who Reject Zionism . . .
So they still exist! Last I read about them was in Chaim Potok’s novel, The Chosen.
Excerpt:
Until Theodore Herzl created the modern Zionist movement early in the 20th century, the biblical injunction to return to Israel was widely understood as a theological construct rather than a pragmatic instruction.
Most Orthodox Jewish leaders before the Holocaust rejected Zionism, saying the exile was a divine punishment and Israel could be restored only in the messianic age. The Reform movement maintained that Judaism is a religion, not a nationality.
“This country is our Palestine,” a Reform rabbi in Charleston, S.C., put it in 1841, “this city our Jerusalem, this house of God our temple.” The Reform movement’s 1885 platform dismissed a “return to Palestine” as a relic akin to animal sacrifice.
Only when the Reform leadership, on the eve of World War II, reversed course did its anti-Zionist faction break away, ultimately forming the council in 1942. Its discourse was simultaneously idealistic and contemptuous — a proposed curriculum in 1952 described Zionism as racist, self-segregated and non-American . . . . .
Neil Godfrey
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now that’s a post title that grabs attention! when i saw it i just knew i had to read it.
What are “the churches” in the US doing to combat Christian Zionism?
“Jewish return to Palestine is a relic akin to animal sacrifice.” Amen.