In 1870 the group organized protest rallies around the country and lobbied Congress to take action against reported Romanian pogroms that had killed “thousands” of Jews. The chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee suggested that such reports might be exaggerated, but under pressure from “Israeliete” board, the Senate ordered the committee to take up the matter with the State Department. Eventually, it turned out the total killed had been zero.

In the 1880s groups advocating the setting up of a Jewish state began popping up around the country. Emma Lazarus, the poet whose words would adorn the Statue of Liberty, promoted Zionism throughout this decade.10

Reports from the Zionist World Congress in Basle, which four Americans had attended, gave this movement a major stimulus, galvanizing Zionist activities in almost every American city with a large Jewish population.

Not many American Jews went to Israel Methinks

My only agenda is to try to get Jewish people to realize that political Zionism is there worst enemy. I am not the enemy.

I have no reason to hate Jewish people. I hate political Zionism and their acquiring of land for Israel by conquest and ethnic cleansing.

They believe that they are entitled to the land because they took it and won it "by conquest."

If that were right, and if that kind of law was practiced in this country, then if someone did a home invasion and killed or frightened away the occupants then that also would be legal and "right."

Call me crazy, but I think its just wrong.

And I realize that is how America was taken away from the Natives living here. But that does not make it right. It is theft.

What ever happened to buying the land? I think we are civilized enough today that we would stop stealing from each other.

where them Jews came from all of a sudden?

Land was bought and paid over the odds for too.

No-one is asking the arabs to leave Israel. However like all citizens, they have to abide by the Law and are therefore protected. You know something - Israelis work and their tax goes to the PA. What do you think of that?

I don't want to see a world wide prejudice against all Jewish people and that is what this political Zionist movement is causing.

Not only that, there is a worldwide campaign of racial hate speech against Arabs and Muslims which is both racial and religious bigotry and it is being perpetrated by Pro-Zionists.

personally, i fail to see what the israelis are doing over therehas anything to do with any of us...but you and a few others seem to be real worried about it...

Can we find a home for 1.6 Billion Catholics

And another home for over a Billion Muslims

We could accommodate 52 different religions into the USA

Each one having its own state

The laws are designed as such that people are evicted from their homes. Jews don't want to live next door to Arabs. That is an environment of bigotry. All of Israel smacks of bigotry both racial and religious.

Citizens are labeled for their racial and genetic background and for their religion. This information goes on government record.

The Jewish people all over the world are the ones who should be worried about what Zionism is doing to them.

Americans should be worried about how the world is growing to hate us because of our support of Israel.

Citizens here are too. We have to complete the Census which categorises every citizen here according to race, religion, ethnicity etc - it's nothing special.

Yes, unfortunately there are some arabs who make life difficult for their Jewish neighbours, but on the whole Jews and arabs in Israel get on fine. It is just the minority that cause problems.

I have never been required to provide my religion or my ethnic background.

Even forms that do ask what my race is, state that the information is not required.

In Israel, it is required to be a legal citizen.

In Israel, some people won't rent or sell land to you if you are not Jewish.

name one non muslim country that hates us because of the Jews...Germany? Russia? China? GB? Brazil? Argentina?
Australia? Canada? Mexico? that's most of the world there, and not one of them hate us because of the Jews...

In America, the census is pretty much voluntary. If a person does not want to fill out census information they are not force to in order to remain a citizen.

They only say that in order for an area to receive proper government funding, the government needs to know how many people are living there.

Here we also have to put down those details - by Law and are prosecuted if we don't comply - in our ten-yearly Census.

Go to France for one. Canada is not fond of us either. I don't blame the Muslim countries for hating us, we supply the weapons that kill them.

first off, "we" doesn't really include non-citizens... second, there are only 50 states over HERE, not 52...but don't feel bad, obama thought there was 57 here...

You live in London.

We are not forced to comply.

There was a census a few years ago. No one is forced to comply.

I imagine that will change eventually as we lose more of our freedom.

France hates everyone, not a big deal... and we sell weapons to the muslims too... so what is your point? every muslim i have asked about says the reason they "hate" us is because of G. Bush senior's affiliation with the jews... anyone that helps the jews is an infidel... when i ask jews people about this, they say nothing bad about them at all....