Re: psychoceramics: British Israelism

["Andrew C. Bulhak" <a--@z--.net>]

[Joe McNally]
> owner-psychoceramics-d--@z--.net disturbed my rest to tell me:
> >From: Johannes Scmidt <r--@h--.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.

Donna Kossy's book _Kooks_, which is highly recommended, has a section
on the Anglo-Israelites.  Among claims made by them:  the word "British"
derives from the Hebrew "Berith-Ish", or "men of the Covenant".

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