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As the Arabs see the Jews, by His Majesty King Abdullah
The American Magazine November, 1947 Summary This appeal to the American people, written by King Abdullah, son of Sharif Hussein and grandfather of the current King of Jordan, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. … Continue reading
19th Century Anti-Semitism and the Zionist Movement
by Dan Cohn Sherbok By the last decades of the nineteenth century the European Jewish community had attained a high degree of emancipation. Nevertheless political conditions in Europe after 1870 brought about considerable disruption: several proud and independent nations emerged … Continue reading
Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government
Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government. Submitted to the British Cabinet, August, 1917 I have chosen the above title for this memorandum, not in any hostile sense, not by any means as quarrelling with … Continue reading
Films
With God on our Side by Porter Speakman Jr Synopsis: With God On Our Side takes a look at the theology of Christian Zionism, which teaches that because the Jews are God’s chosen people, … Continue reading
Biography: Anthony Ashley, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury by Mary Grey
Anthony Ashley – Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801-1885. [1] After a lonely, loveless childhood, when, like many earlier members of the British aristocracy, the only affection the growing child received came from his nanny, Shaftesbury was elected as the … Continue reading
Chaim Weizmann by Mary Grey
Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia in 1874, in Motol, now Belarus, but then in the “Pale of Settlement”, that area of Russia to which the Jews had been confined since the time of Catherine the Great. From an early … Continue reading