# Conversation with Rev Dr Stephen Sizer on the religious origins of the political ideology of Zionism Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/red-inverted-triangle-podcast-7052781/conversation-with-rev-dr-stephen-sizer-on-the-religious-origins-of-the-political-ideology-of-zionism Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/red-inverted-triangle-podcast-7052781/conversation-with-rev-dr-stephen-sizer-on-the-religious-origins-of-the-political-ideology-of-zionism.md Podcast: [Red Inverted Triangle Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/red-inverted-triangle-podcast-7052781) Published: 2025-08-08T01:16:17+00:00 Episode link: https://RedInvertedTriangle.podbean.com/e/conversation-with-rev-dr-stephen-sizer-on-the-religious-origins-of-the-political-ideology-of-zionism/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jcbbhedf8gjsjnak/Stephen2_RIT.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/red-inverted-triangle-podcast-7052781/episodes/conversation-with-rev-dr-stephen-sizer-on-the-religious-origins-of-the-political-ideology-of-zionism Duration seconds: 4717 ## Resource Rev Dr Sizer is a retired Christ Church Vicar and a member of Jewish Network for Palestine. Author of “Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon” and “Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church”. The conversation explores the following important questions: - What is the relationship between the secular nationalist ideology of Zionism and the theological concept of the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land of Palestine? - How did evangelical Christians and Jews manage to unite over support for Zionism and Israel despite the vast theological, political, and cultural differences? - How did Christian Zionism use the Western Judeo-Christian identity to entrench the geopolitical realities of the settler colonial project in Palestine? - Why have many Western religious institutions been silent over the genocide in Gaza or indeed have sided with Israel? ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/red-inverted-triangle-podcast-7052781/episodes/conversation-with-rev-dr-stephen-sizer-on-the-religious-origins-of-the-political-ideology-of-zionism/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/red-inverted-triangle-podcast-7052781/conversation-with-rev-dr-stephen-sizer-on-the-religious-origins-of-the-political-ideology-of-zionism.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.