Looks to me like the founding fathers were anti-Zionists by this account: In 1789, two years after the United States Constitution had been proclaimed, one of the founders of the US, Benjamin Franklin, warned the nobility of the Constituent Council when he said: "Don't think that America is safe from threats by merely gaining independence. It is still exposed to a grave danger that is no less perilous than colonialism itself. This threat will emerge this time from the Jewish augmentation in our country, and we will subsequently be affected in the same way the European countries were, namely those which tolerated the Jews in their endeavour to undermine the traditions of the indigenous population, demoralise their youths, control their economic, financial and security institution, and who had refused intermingling with the people they were living among."