The Grand Island Zionist Promised Land
Today, in the Zionist State of Israel a great war between good and evil is raging. The only question is who is the good and who is the evil? It depends on what news you’re watching.
The world has been hearing a lot about this thing called Zionism lately. What is Zionism, many may ask? It’s a two century-old ideology predicated on a Godgiven permanent homeland for millions of Jewish people scattered across the world. A promised land where Jews could live their best lives ordained by their God. For the early Zionist the “promised land” didn’t necessarily mean Jerusalem.
Interestingly, in 1828 an early Zionist activist named Mordecai Manuel Noah, a Jewish lay leader who lived in the early 19th century, ] and the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence, visited Western New York in the 1820’s. Noah fell in love with Grand Island (that’s right, our Grand Island) and envisioned it as a promised land for Jews. He actually bought the Island and decided it would be a perfect mini promised land for Jews until Jerusalem was available. He named his community Ararat. He erected a monument on the island that still exists today that reads: “Ararat, a City of Refuge for the Jews.” Obviously Ararat was a failure. But the Zionist ideal came to fruition a century later when the State of Israel was established in Palestine in 1938.
What I found interesting in researching “Ararat is there was no mention of the Indians who must have been on the Island at that time. They would have been the Palestinians of their time.
Let’s just keep this real. Zionism is really a white Jewish supremacy ideology which operates under the narrative that God has chosen the Jews to have Palestine for their homeland. The thing is, the founder of modern Zionism, Theodore Hershel, was an atheist who didn’t believe in any god, yet he sold his Zionism as ordained by God. Now there are Zionists who are quoting the Bible to justify slaughtering innocent Palestinian people in a genocide-sanctioned and financed by America.