Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?
This week, Jews in Israel and around the world will commemorate Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust…
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Unquestioned Support for Israel Wasn’t Always the Way for Conservative Christians
As civilians in southern Lebanon fled an impending Israeli ground offensive, over three thousand Christian…
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Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response
Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals’ love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting.
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Hagee’s New Film Uses Jews and Science to Prove Christian, Pro-US God
Blood, warfare, and Nostradamus-style speculation make for good entertainment.
Read MoreNetanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using the upcoming Purim holiday to justify the need…
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Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis
To many Israelis, the world of Christian Zionism is largely hidden from public view. But…
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“American Values” and “Standing With Israel”
On Capitol Hill yesterday, a glorious fall afternoon, John Cougar Mellencamp’s “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” and…
Read MoreIsrael’s Chief Rabbis Say No to Christian Zionist Event
Israel’s Chief Rabbis have issued a statement condemning an upcoming event sponsored by the Christian…
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A Neoconservative Jesus, Certified Kosher
After some perfunctory praise of the last three popes, Boteach gets down to his Glenn Beck-ish business: “The American Evangelical community has proven the most stalwart and reliable friend of Israel in the United States.” Christians and Jews are now “brothers” because “together they confront the implacable foe of Islamist terrorism.”
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Ken Starr Pulling “a Clinton” on a Jewish Studies Professor at Baylor U?
According to Professor Marc Ellis, a critic of Israel and the American Jewish establishment, Baylor University’s new president Ken Starr is seeking to replace him with “a right-wing, Israel-loving Jew that would cement [Starr’s] reputation with the right wing…”
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