From the days of the Reformation to the ascent of Napoleon III in France and the
digging of the Suez Canal, there were no Jewish leaders in the Zionism movement,
despite repeated British and French attempts to recruit them. The non-Jewish origin of
Zionism is further illustrated by the simple fact that the ideas of Restoration
developed first in England (with no Jewish population) instead of Germany, Poland, Romania
or Russia (where the bulk of the world’s Jews lived).
With difficulty of politically persuading the Jews, the London Society
for Promoting Christianity among the Jews began to Judaize Zionism and Zion-ize Jews, with more focus on Russian and Eastern European Jews.
The ultimate end,” of British support, as crypto- Jew Lord L.S. Amery, a leading Conservative politician and Cabinet Minister recorded in his diary in July 1928, “is to make Palestine the centre of a western influence, using Jews as we have used the Scots{in Ireland}, to carry English ideal through the Middle East and not merely to make an artificial oriental Hebrew enclave in oriental country. Secondly that we wish Palestine in some way or other to remain within the framework of the British Empire….” [12]