Notes and links from my Christian Zionism seminar:

You will need a cup of tea or two in order to get through all the videos....

How has it been a week tomorrow since my seminar???

I promise I’ve had the best intentions sending these very overdue notes off...but yeah, life is just a high speed juggling act and these notes flew out of the mix unfortunately.

But here we are.

I’m determined to get them done this evening. I even have snacks to help me stay awake.

So to set the scene.

Let’s travel to the Gold Coast.

So you can meet a Christian Zionist for yourself.

The context is that I was in the Gold Coast protesting outside the Jillian Segal Combat Antisemitism Orgy and a woman saw my banner, and only read the: “This Israeli says...”

And got SO EXCITED to tell me that she prays for “me” every day. When she returned from having brunch with her family I asked her if she would be okay if I filmed her. And yeah...this is what happened:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AxubYxLXw/

That video went viral.

Okay....

And we might as well have a look at this video as well from Jerusalem. Because the woman who is being interviewed I personally know:

And to help lay the groundwork...this video is worth watching:

Speech from the pastors that visited the “Holy Land” for a week and are now “ambassadors”. (Where is the vomit emoji???)

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17vgCD7Jkd/

More about the pastors:

And this is a helpful explanation about Christian Zionism:

and this:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/christian-zionism-misuse-scripture-theological-mohamed-yakub-wmvec

Christian Zionist language being used for military personnel:

If you don’t already follow Caitlyn Johnstone...you should!

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EGApSbVfq/

Prayer at the White House where Trump is compared to Queen Esther by Franklin Graham:

One of the questions after the seminar was about Passover. Here is an interesting take:

Bit of comedy gold:

Sami Obaid

Helpful information about Cognitive Dissonance:

If I ever do a follow up seminar, I will have to talk about Zionism in the Pacific Islands. Here is a taster:

Helpful way of looking at “Next year in Jerusalem”, that is quoted by Zionists as proof that Israel should be a State:

More helpful videos:

https://share.google/JHBge4IxjFhj1LcKJ

https://www.instagram.com/

reel/DZXyugAR3au/?igsh=N2xjdzRuNGxoOGhp

Way too quick for my brain, but maybe yours can handle it:

Apologies for the giant video dump.

Now for a few notes to help with the talk that you can find here, and please share far & wide:

So the key Christians to google:

Darby

Scofield

Hechler

Father of Zionism:

Theodore Herzl

Important article exposing Six Day War crimes:

https://archive.md/GFb0B

I had a few people asking me about the forests that were grown to cover up Palestinian villages. I actually wrote an article about this a few years ago. But when I went to share it on my

Substack I realised that I need to update my language. I have clearly evolved somewhat (woohoo!) since I wrote it. But keep an eye out for it. Hopefully I will tweak and post in the next

little while:

https://substack.com/@veronicasherman

When speaking about Elham Farah, the woman killed on her way home. I mention that the Red Cross were not given clearance, just like what happened with little Hind Rajab.

If you haven’t already, PLEASE watch the very important film:

The Voice of Hind Rajab

New Jerusalem:

I initially left out this ending from my talk because it felt too vulnerable to use such “religious” language in a seminar. I then thought about my Palestinian friends and their love

for poetry. And I decided that my words could fall under that category instead of religious and decided to add them back in.

My words are my own, but the inspiration came from the wonderful Reverend Munther Isaac in Bethlehem who writes about what Palestine can look like without Zionism.

If you are interested in Christianity that is Palestinian friendly, I highly recommend following Isaac’s work. He is active on Facebook and Substack.

That is hopefully helpful information.

I have had wonderful feedback from around the globe. Probably the most meaningful was from a Palestinian friend of mine (who I met in Jerusalem when I visited after moving to Australia) who left a voice message this morning:

“Veronica, what the hell has happened to you??????”

She just COULD NOT believe what she was hearing.

Last she heard from me, I was a staunch Zionist.

I actually want to organise a talk with her. I feel that her voice is sooooo important as a Palestinian woman from Nazareth.

Feel free to listen to the first 15 minutes of this video as an introduction to Shadia. And please let me know if you think that there would be interest in hearing the two of us share

our stories:

That is all from me.

This Tuesday, June 30 at 5pm, we are having a protest outside Melbourne Town Hall to speak up against the censoring of free speech. It would be wonderful to have you come along and tell your friends.

Again, thank you so much for your support and interest. It means a lot.

And may we all live to see a FREE PALESTINE!

Veronica