psychoceramics: British Israelism

[Joe McNally <joe@tlon.thegap.com>]

owner-psychoceramics-digest@zikzak.net disturbed my rest to tell me:
>From: Johannes Scmidt <redskul@hotmail.com>
>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 17:57:38 +1100
>Subject: Re: psychoceramics: Summary - Texe Marrs latest newsletter
>
>As for British Zionism, are you sure you don't mean British Israelism?
>This is the religious beleif that the English are the lost tribe of
>Israel (no, I kid you not, it was very popular c. 100 years ago).

A variant on it is currently popular in some strands of Northern Irish
Protestantism; some of the more resolutely peculiar branches of Unionism
even use it as a rationale for continued union with Britain, on the basis
that NI Protestants are largely of mainland British stock, and thus are
part of the lost tribe.

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