After reading Ray Filar’s
inane, vapid essay on why she is an “anti-Zionist Jew,” I googled the
phrase “anti-Zionist Mormon” to see whether one of my coreligionists had
published a similar piece. Although there are slightly more Mormons
than Jews in the world, I was pleased – though not surprised – to find
that no Mormon has written such an article. While I have come across
Mormons who have criticized specific actions by the State of Israel,
only Mormons who are unfamiliar with church history and doctrine could
possibly oppose Zionism.The Mormon Church has supported the Jewish people and Israel for all of its 184 years. In fact, Israel is the only country in the world whose creation was officially supported by the LDS Church. In its earliest days, the Church called on Jews to gather to Palestine and form a state. The first edition of the first Church newspaper announced that it “comes to bring good tidings of great joy to all people, but more especially to the House of Israel scattered abroad, for the Lord hath set His hand again the second time to restore them to the lands of their inheritance.”
In response to an article entitled “What Do Mormons Believe?” written by a newspaper editor, an 1834 article in a Church newspaper stated: “We believe that God has set His hand to recover the remnant of His people, Israel; and that the time is near when He will bring them from the four winds and reinstate them upon their own lands which He gave their fathers by covenant.”
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