Πίσω από σχεδόν κάθε σύγχρονη καταστροφή κρύβονται οι αγγλοσάξονες, κυρίως η Αγγλία
Advocacy on the part of Christians for a Jewish restoration grew after the Reformation, and is rooted in 17th-century England.
Contemporary Israeli historian Anita Shapira suggests that England's Zionist evangelical Christians "passed this notion on to Jewish circles" around the 1840s, while Jewish nationalism in the early 19th century was largely met with hostility from British Jews.