“Build up the breaches, and re-establish the bulwarks of our English Zion” – Sir Walter Scott Oliver Cromwell. Statesman, soldier, Puritan, Lord Protector and friend of the Jews. Contemporary accounts show that European Jewish intellectuals in the 1650s saw Cromwell’s philosemitism and his efforts to readmit Jews in England as proof that the great man […]
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: OTTOMANS, ZIONISTS AND CROMWELL
Author: OTTOMANS AND ZIONISTS As has been happening with increasing frequency, President Gül and Prime Minister Erdoğan are having a passive aggressive public disagreement, this time over whether separation of powers is a necessary element for democracy or a hindrance to democratic development. It began with Erdoğan’s comments on Monday fingering separation of powers as […]
A short history of Anglo-Jewry: The Jews in Britain, 1656-2006
Jews were banned from this country for three centuries, until Oliver Cromwell allowed their return. Today, a ceremony in London celebrates that decision 350 years ago, and the key role they have played ever since. Paul Vallely reports Tuesday 13 June 2006 00:00 When people ask writer Ashley Perry where his family is from, he […]
DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES, CIVIL WAR, THOMAS CROMWELL, OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF FREEMASONRY AND ZIONISM?
In 1746, the Abbe Larudan, a critic of Freemasonry, published his Les Franc-Macons Ecrasses, apparently the child of the author’s imagination, in which he asserted that Cromwell, in 1648, at a dinner attended by Parliamentarians, Presbyterians, and Independents, first indicated his intentions to form such a society. The development of this scheme was related by […]
Before Balfour: the Reformation helped to create the state of Israel – Giles Fraser
The execution of William Tyndale, who translated most of the Old Testament into English, in 1536. ‘It was the translation of the Bible into the vernacular, a project at the heart of the Reformation, that opened up the stories of the Hebrew scriptures to ordinary people,’ writes Giles Fraser. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Israel […]
Cromwell and the ‘readmission’ of the Jews to England, 1656
Menasseh B Israel (pdf document 62kb) Cromwell and the Jews 2006 marks the 350th anniversary of the re-admission of the Jews into England. They were expelled in 1290 in the reign of King Edward Ist. Their re-admission in 1656 under the Cromwellian Protectorate is interpreted by some as evidence of Cromwell’s toleration and compassion. This […]