Whether the belief is right or wrong was not the issue decided; it was ruled that it is coherent to describe as racist an ideology promoting a state for only one race of people in a territory containing a large number of people of a different race, and where the ideology involves migration of the first group with imperial-power support to dislodge an indigenous population, it can coherently be described as colonial and imperialistic.

That’s just logic.

I mean, from a historical perspective the logic makes sense.

Zionism was Christian colonialism first, and the Christians effectively still run it: CUFI claims a membership larger than any American Jewish organization, and congressional support tracks the megachurches. Jews simply fell into a Christian operating structure built and maintained to eliminate the Jews.

Brightman was in 1609, Finch was arrested for it in 1621, Shaftesbury was lobbying Palmerston in 1839, Keith coined “a land without a people” in 1843, Hechler in 1884, Blackstone’s memorial to Harrison in 1891.

That’s all long before Herzl wrote a word. A Jewish restorationist line ran parallel, Alkalai in the 1840s, Kalischer’s Derishat Zion in 1862, Hess’s Rome and Jerusalem that same year, Pinsker’s Auto-Emancipation in 1882, and it stayed marginal because state power was always only allowed to be Christian.

The evangelicals converted states, delivering the Jerusalem consulate, the Balfour Declaration, and the embassy move that American Jews polled against. Rabbinic authority at Zionism’s founding rejected it almost unanimously, and the Jews who later embraced the state inherited a Christian architecture, the way converts inherit the church they had no hand in building. Christian states converted Jews to Zionism by closing every other door, where sermons had failed: Evian in 1938 produced no refuge, quotas ran through the genocide, and survivors were funneled toward the destination that feeds Christian prophecy.

Think about the Christian scripture that writes the ending: Church raptured out, Zechariah 13:8 executed, two thirds of the gathered Jews dead and the remnant converted, an extermination they fund and fuel as inevitable and good because the ingathering is the trigger for their own escape.

The Jewish religious mainstream refused the project at its founding, from the Pittsburgh Platform’s explicit renunciation of return to the Orthodox rejection of Herzl’s secular tract, and reversed itself only after Christian-armed states enforced it as survival (“go home or die” isn’t a choice when there’s no “home”).

If Zionism is anyone’s faith, it belongs to the militant evangelicals who built and armed it and who still preach an ending they fund: themselves raptured out first, then Zechariah 13:8 on the gathered, two thirds killed, the remnant absorbed by conversion. Their script requires ingathering as a trigger with their own absence from the horrific result.

The convert-or-die campaign survived intact into the present. It gained a state as the gathering mechanism, and its authors wrote an ending with themselves benefiting and the Jews gone.