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I know they never amounted to more than a tiny handful of the whole movement, but those Zionist extremists in the postwar 1940s who went around vandalizing Chistian artwork certainly got an outsized share of attention, and had a disproportionate influence on how the movement was perceived by those outside of it. Certainly, it alienated numerous Christian leaders and groups who otherwise might have been inclined to give Zionism a hearing. At least one protestnt churchman in America cited whats-his-name's desecration of The Last Supper as one reason he couldn't support the movement.

So, if those young hotheads had had a moment of quiet reflection before deciding to traipse about Europe with their rotten fruit and buckets of paint, how could things have been different?
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