Christian Zionism has played an increasingly important role not only in aiding the establishment of Israel, but also in stoking the fires of Islamophobia and contributing to destabilizing the Arab World and the East Asian region.

In this second article of our Christian Zionism series, we look at how Herzl’s Zionism brought very little that was new: The concept of “return to Zion, the Promised Land;” the superior rights of the conqueror to that of the indigenous people; the forced expulsion of indigenous people from their land; the branding of resistance as terrorism—all of these cornerstones of the establishment of Israel and its continued existence as a Jewish State, have their roots in Christian European Zionism.