{"id":4689,"date":"2021-12-16T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T09:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new2022.foz.co.il\/?page_id=4689"},"modified":"2021-12-30T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T09:45:13","slug":"william-blackstone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fozmuseum.com\/william-blackstone\/","title":{"rendered":"William Blackstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Born in 1841, William E. Blackstone, a Chicago businessman, was an American Christian Zionist and an active member of the American Evangelical community. He saw the mass persecution of Russian Jewry and decided to dedicate himself to restoring a Jewish polity in Palestine.<\/p>

In 1878 William Blackstone wrote the bestseller \u201cJesus is Coming,\u201d selling millions of copies and establishing himself as an authority on Biblical prophecy worldwide. In 1889 Blackstone visited Palestine and, in anguish, followed the terrible news of Tsarist Russia\u2019s persecution of 2 million Jews worsening. He knew he had to act. His determination came from his prophetic beliefs as well as his strong humanitarianism.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1890 Blackstone hosted a large conference, \u201cOn the Past, Present, and Future of Israel,\u201d in Chicago attended by hundreds of delegates, including a large presence of American rabbis. This produced the famous \u201cBlackstone Petition,\u201d submitted to US President Benjamin Harrison in March 1891. The petition carried the signatures of more than 400 of the US\u2019s most prominent citizens: industrialists, politicians, clergymen, judges, press magnates. Its aim was to persuade President Harrison to use his influence with European nations, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia to facilitate the release of Russian Jews so that they might settle again in the Land of Israel.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The \u201cBlackstone Memorial\u201d was a significant development in international relations and was widely discussed by the press throughout the US and across both Christian and Jewish Europe. This helped direct eyes \u201cZionward.\u201d A generation later, the future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis requested a Second Memorial from Blackstone, which was privately presented to President Woodrow Wilson in 1917, serving as a major influence on President Wilson\u2019s and America\u2019s support for the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Thus, the Blackstone Petition stands as the greatest political act of Christian Zionism in 19th-century America.<\/p>

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