Many consider Theodore Herzl as the founder of the Zionist movement. But decades before, there was Moses Montefiore, a British financier who set out to "buy" Palestine, piece by piece. 🧵

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2/ Born in Italy, Montefiore married into the Rothschild dynasty and became rich through banking. With money and imperial backing, he pioneered the formula that Zionism would later perfect: Buy land Put it to Jewish-only use Lock Palestinians out