Ziontology 6. Sixty Seven Words, The Balfour Declaration
The mere sixty seven words of the Balfour Declaration set in action the chain of events that led to the creation of the State of Israel thirty years later, and ultimately to the violence we are seeing...
19 Dec 202325min
Ziontology 5. Creating the Wandering Arab
‘The result of the purchase of land in Palestine by the Jewish National Fund has been that land became extra territorial. It ceases to be land from which the Arab can gain any advantage either now or ...
10 Dec 202318min
Ziontology 4. ‘Next year in Jerusalem’, Jewish Zionism
This is the situation early Zionists were faced with: both a long history of persecution and an immediate crisis. Theodore Herzl reasoned that whilst anti-Semitism showed no signs of abating in Russia...
16 Nov 202319min
Ziontology 3. ‘To stand against Israel is to stand against God’, Christian Zionism
The idea that the Jewish people should or would be restored to their homeland is not present in Christianity for its first fifteen hundred years. Both the Catholic and Orthodox churches saw the church...
6 Nov 202329min
Ziontology 2. A Homeland for the Whos?
A Zionist account of history has it that, at some point in the past, the Jewish people were exiled from Judea and forced to settle across the world. This exile is believed to have taken place either a...
4 Nov 202318min
Ziontology 1. Introduction: The Most Successful Cult?
The question is then: Is Ziontology actually the most successful cult of the past hundred and twenty years? Christian Aid Gaza Appeal: https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/emergencies/middle-east...
2 Nov 20237min
The Energy of Empire 19. A Carthaginian Peace? The Treaty of Versailles
The term Carthaginian Peace comes from Rome’s sacking of the city of Carthage, where they supposedly poured salt onto the land to ensure the North African city could never rise again. It was applied t...
31 Okt 202336min
The Other Naomi: A Review of Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelganger’
The book is called Doppelganger, because Naomi Klein considers Naomi Wolf to be hers. Apparently these two ladies are often conflated, but whereas Klein broadly supports government COVID policies, Wol...
24 Okt 202329min
