British Israelism

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This paper explains that British Israelism proposes that the British people are one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, and as such, they are God's "Chosen People", a people with a unique origin and purpose who are fated to control the world. The author points out that the British Israelites, or Anglo-Israelism, movement is frequently closely-linked to the Christian Identity Movement that serves as the religious "philosophy" of most modern-day racist and White-Supremacist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation and other extremist political and social campaigns. The paper relates that such notions of an inborn Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic superiority fit well with the increasingly scientific outlook of the nineteenth century when Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution with its premise of development as the result of natural selection.

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"British Israelism was particularly appealing to Americans given the unique nature of their society. The people of the United States, unlike the residents of the British Isles, were a highly heterogeneous group. The different strata of medieval society - cleric, nobles, and commoners - possessed no legal existence on America's shores. The American people were made up of a large number of distinct ethnic groups, all of them ruled over by an English-speaking elite; an English-speaking elite that was of mostly Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic origin. Especially in the American South, this state of affairs was carried to even greater extremes. The English-speaking masters formed a ruling caste that controlled the lives and labor of an inferior race - the Negro. "

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