Christian Zionists
Updated 2024-08-24
2024-06-24 ‘Faith in Dialogue’ Won’t Stop Zionist Violence I spoke at academic institutions, civic organizations, and to religious groups. However there were always two groups which kept me away from their members:
Most synagogues — It was easy enough to explain this. Most organized Jewish institutions are partisan. They were and mostly still are, dedicated to the dream of a Jewish state functioning as a safe haven in an anti-Semitic world.
The downside of racism felt toward, and oppressive policies applied against, the Palestinians were realities they chose not to deal with. Even today, in the midst of overwhelming evidence of Israel’s failure to preserve either Jewish lives or Jewish ethics, most synagogues will not allow anti-Zionists to speak, even if they are Jewish.
The other group, Black churches, was at first harder to comprehend. During the struggle for racial justice in the U.S., culminating with the civil rights legislation of 1964-1965, there was an alliance between American Jewish and Black organizations.
That alliance was not as smooth and solid as it is popularly believed, but it was real in the sense that you had two groups who saw something to be gained by supporting each other. Black American success in the mid 1960s actually loosened the alliance because it created the space for a Black reassessment of Zionism.
However, that reassessment did not reach those Black Americans who were religiously motivated to identify with a biblically imagined picture of Jewish history. Or, as the authors we are about to analyze put it, “our shared history of slavery and oppression and our common biblical commitment to the prophetic traditions of justice and equality.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/24/faith-in-dialogue-wont-stop-zionist-violence/
2023-13-26 Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes: ‘Occult element’ among Jews must be executed [MEK Note: Fuentes is a perfect example of right wing Christians who support Israel while hating Jewish people. They believe that Israel needs to be whole to fulfil the 2nd coming that will forsake all including Jewish believers but bring everlasting life to true Christians.]
The white supremacist figure Nick Fuentes said earlier this month that “there is an occult element at the high levels of society, and specifically among the Jews,” and that “when we take power, they need to be given the death penalty.” Fuentes, 25, who denies the Holocaust, came to prominence with an online far-right broadcast called “America First,” drawing its name from the 2016 campaign slogan of former president Donald Trump. It was on this show, banned from most major platforms, that Fuentes made these most recent statements on December 8. “I’m far more concerned,” Fuentes said, about “these people that are communing with demons and engaging in this sort of witchcraft and stuff” than “I am [concerned about] even non-white people or mass migration.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/neo-nazi-nick-fuentes-occult-element-among-jews-must-be-executed/ar-AA1m3K6A
2023-11-09 Is Christian Zionism Blasphemy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7YXe1Fs8mc
2023-11-07 America’s Christian Zionists: Israel’s strategic weapon? Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a recent speech that the “prophecy of Isaiah ” would be fulfilled. This is a reference to a Christian evangelical belief in the second coming of the Messiah, which opposes the mainstream Christian belief that the Messiah was Jesus himself. So why do Christian evangelicals — who constitute a significant voter bloc in the US Republican Party — support Israel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bprofax5SPk
2022-12-12 How Evangelicals Betray Christians In The Holy Land [Pt. 2] For millions of American evangelical Christians, supporting Israel is a core part of their faith. They believe Israel needs to exist so that the “end times” prophecies and return of Jesus Christ are guaranteed. But what does that support mean for people who share their religion but live under Israeli occupation? Dena talks to Palestinian Christians about the evangelical Christian Zionist movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHT-SjIM0tA
2022-03-05 Don Wagner: Christian Zionism and growing backlash inside American churches 2022 Transcending the Israel lobby at Home & Abroad conference March 4 at the National Press Club.
Rev. Dr. Don Wagner recently retired as national program director of Friends of Sabeel-North America. Prior to that he was a professor of Middle East studies at North Park University, where he was also the director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies. During the 1980s he was the national director of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Rev. Wagner has served churches in New Jersey and Evanston, IL. He is the author or co-author of five books dealing with Palestinian human rights, Christian Zionism, a theological critique of Zionism and a history of Christianity in Palestine-Israel. These include Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Christians (1995) , Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land (2014) and Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000 (2003).
The history and theology of Christian Zionism is a central topic of the book he is currently writing. Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApbD9-fJFHk
2021-06-21 What is Christian Zionism and why does it matter?? (Understanding the End Times) JM’s debate with Dr. Michael Brown that was mentioned in this video, as well as additional resources for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be found at: www.discipledojo.org/blog/israel-palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1Wv6Vqw8U
2021-02-11 Confronting Christian Zionism Webinar (2/11/2021) The Working Group on the Middle East of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod presents “Confronting Christian Zionism as Faithful Witness.” The event was held on February 11, 2021, and featured the Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel and the Rev. Dr. Robert O. Smith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdgTlfn73A
2020-04-26 With God on Our Side (2010) | Full Movie | Evan Albertyn | Gary Burge | Ron Dart With God On Our Side takes a look at the theology of Christian Zionism, which teaches that because the Jews are God’s chosen people, they have a divine right to the land of Israel. Aspects of this belief system lead some Christians in the West to give uncritical support to Israeli government policies, even those that privilege Jews at the expense of Palestinians, leading to great suffering among Muslim and Christian Palestinians alike and threatening Israel’s security as a whole. Is there a Biblical alternative for Christians who want to love and support the people of Israel? A way that doesn’t favor one people group over another but instead promotes peace and reconciliation for both Jews and Palestinians?
Director: Porter Speakman Jr., Writers: Stephanie Hicks, Kevin Miller, Starring: Evan Albertyn, Gary Burge, Ron Dart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NahTjAsDThs
2018-03-10 Christian Zionism part 2: Why Christian Zionism Is a Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5DpLMS8rn0
2018-03-09 Christian Zionism part 1: Tracing the Lines of a Warmongering Heresy A history of Christian Zionism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRjFBSNy1M
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