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Zionism is the ideology that underpins the barbarism that has been meted out on Palestinians, its latest chapter being the slaughter that is currently happening in Gaza. Yet its ideals remain respectable in establishment circles. In the United States, political leaders fall over one another to declare their un denying loyalty to the creed and in Britain, there has been a long tradition of Christian Zionism that spans back to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration. Ahmed Paul Keeler argues that Zionism has become embedded into the Western mindset through education and culture. It relies upon a Darwinian hierarchy that places Europeans at the top and Arabs and others as savages and less human, terms that have been uttered in recent events with greater frequency. Ahmed was born in 1942 and was brought up in a conservative upper-middle class Anglo Catholic family. He belonged to a generation that was brought up to serve the British empire. Ahmed Keeler is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and was a Distinguished Fellow at The Faculty of Leadership and Management, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia in 2016. Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: Apple Podcasts: Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly Zoom calls: You can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: Sign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: Purchase our Thinking Muslim mug: Find us on: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Telegram: Host: Website Archive: #thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode133 Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:30 – What is Zionism? 9:47 – Jews against Zionism 14:38 – 60’s Anti War Movement 18:38 – Zionism and his Education 29:29 – Today and the past 31:40 – Christian Zionism 41:32 – Balfour and Lloyd George 43:39 – Cultural supremacy of Zionism 48:13 – Zionist story 55:19 - Civilising Mission 1:00:21 – Muslim Decline?
