ABSTRACT
Throughout the twentieth century, the thousands-strong British-Israelist community of the United Kingdom threw their weight behind the campaign to prevent and subsequently to annul Britain’s membership of the European Union. In 1958, the Treaty of Rome brought about the creation of the European Economic Community. It was signed by delegates from Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany. British-Israelists were confident, as the 1960s progressed, that there was no appetite for Britain’s integration into the European community and that ‘a majority of the people would almost certainly recoil from if they but realised the truth.’ With Britain’s entrance into the European Union, many British-Israelists came to see parallels between the European Union and Israel’s oldest enemy. The European Union was now characterised in British-Israelist literature as Babylon, the slaver of Israel.
