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Christian Zionism did not begin as a Jewish movement. In this episode, Rabbi Shapiro traces how Christian Evangelicals helped create the ideological framework that later became Jewish Zionism — importing Christian political theology into Jewish iden…

When most Orthodox Jews think of Zionism today, they tend to picture a political movement that supports Jewish safety, combats antisemitism, and enables a flourishing community in Eretz Yisroel. What many don’t realize is that Zionism was never inte…

The State of Israel claims to be “the Jewish state,” and its Zionist leaders claim to be the leaders of the Jewish people. But these claims are entirely false. In reality, the State of Israel is nothing more than the state of the Israelis, and its…

Eretz Yisroel is not the Jewish national homeland. Jews are a religion, not a nation. Therefore Jews, as Jews, do not possess a “national homeland” in the political sense. A homeland is the place where a nation is born (moledes in modern Hebrew). …

Why the Land of Israel is not the homeland of the Jewish people: To the Jews, Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) is a holy land, not a national homeland. In nationalist philosophy, there is some organic connection between a people and the land in w…