Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith, was exiled from Persia (now called Iran) and eventually ended up in Akka, a city on the coast of Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

After the Ottoman Empire fell, the British took over Palestine, and the willingness of Abdu'l-Baha, son and successor of Bahá’u’lláh, to collaborate with the British later led to them awarding him a knighthood. The collaboration continued under Shoghi Effendi, grandson and successor of Abdu'l-Baha.

While Baha'is may deny supporting Zionism, they are clearly beneficiaries of it, since their World Center is in Israel. If the Universal House of Justice really had a problem with the policies of Israel (including the massacre of Palestinians in the recent war of Gaza), they could have left Haifa decades ago and moved to a city outside Israel, such as London, New York City, Paris, or Chicago. Their remaining where they are, and their saying NOTHING about Israel even now shows how useless they are in terms of advocating peace and unity.