Follow-up....
Somehow, what I call "Judeofascism" is but the American metastasis of British-Israelism --clue:
...The idea that the English might in some sense be the Chosen People, or a Chosen People, is not new. It was widely held by Puritans in seventeenth century England. Ideas like this are normally philo-semitic. They may have influenced the decision by Cromwell's government to re-admit the Jews to England. British-Israelism as we know it today, the doctrine that the English or other Europeans are the literal descendants of the Ten Tribes, was developed toward the end of the 18th century by the English eccentric (and at one point committed lunatic), Richard Brothers. The notion was given more durable form in the 1840s by the preacher and writer, John Wilson, and became the doctrine of the World British-Israel Federation, which exists to this day. British-Israelism was never a religious sect. Most Federation members were Church of England. At its height in 1920, with about 5000 members, it was a mostly middle class umbrella group, strongly leavened by marchionesses, superannuated admirals, and other persons of the better sort.
To read of the origins of British-Israelism in the reign of Queen Victoria in the light of its latterday effects at skinhead conventions during the Clinton Administration is to be amazed at the ghastly mutations which seemingly harmless theories of history can undergo. The Federation was, basically, an Imperial patriotic association. It was loyal to the Crown, friendly to America as another branch of Israel, initially friendly to the Jews for similar reasons. Indeed, it supported a species of Zionism, understanding that Zion would always necessarily have to be part of the British Empire. Moreover, it was one of those sweetly crackers enterprises that only the British can really do well. You cannot wholly dislike an organization whose members held that the Ark of the Covenant was buried under the Hill of Kings at Tara in Ireland. As time went on, the Federation became more and more influenced by ideas like pyramidology, which holds that the whole history of the world is encoded in the layout of the passages of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. The millenarian endtime beliefs which flourished in the English-speaking world in the second half of the nineteenth century were largely welcomed, with the exception of the Rapture. British-Israelites began to think of the Battle of Armageddon as a battle that the English would someday win in the literal valley of Megiddo, fighting the Turks or the Russians. They were also interested in ideas like polygenicism, but simply as a way to solve the problems Darwinism posed to their schema of ancient history.
Barkun says it was British-Israel's very openness to "rejected knowledge" that made it vulnerable to strange ideological infections, once it crossed the Atlantic.
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