How did Zionism infiltrate American Christianity and sway them away from Socialistic policies?

British theologian John Nelson Darby developed “Dispensationalism” which interpreted biblical prophecies as mandating Jewish return to Palestine before Christ’s Second Coming.

This spread throughout the late 19th century (1850-1900) and was published in the 1909 Scofield Reference Bible (a text funded by capitalist backers and disseminated widely in American seminaries).

Figures like Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) and the Rothschilds financed Zionist projects, including early settlements in Palestine. Capitalists purchased religious newspapers or sponsored pro-Zionist content. The Rothschilds and associates influenced outlets like The Fundamentals (1910–1915).

Wealthy Zionists such as Bernard Baruch and Louis Brandeis (a Supreme Court Justice) funded groups like the Federation of American Zionists (1897). They coordinated with clergy to frame Zionism as a moral imperative, leveraging pulpits for political advocacy, such as endorsing the 1917 Balfour Declaration (British government expressing support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine).

Early 20th century Christians were VERY socialist, their voting numbers were growing at an insane rate. They needed to shut that down, and flooded the Church with heavily-capitalist ideology to sway voters towards the establishment (and consequently zionism).

Why does it matter?

CUFI (Christians United For Israel) is much, much larger than AIPAC. They are a 501©(3) religious nonprofit, so any donations to Zionist candidates are entirely un-trackable.

The USG want you to be mad at the people “over there” (or to make right-wingers mad at “the jews”) and not the people here (who own all of the capital and the government of the people over there).