Today, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu wished health & speedy recovery to an antisemitic demagogue. No, not Trump- Pastor John Hagee, influential Christian Zionist leader who marshals U.S. support for far-right Israeli gov w/Islamophobia & violent anti-Jewish prophecy [THREAD]
Christian Zionism is an evangelical & charismatic movement whose Bible interpretation mandates vigorous & unyielding support for Israeli permanent occupation, war with Iran, & other extreme-right policies- in pursuit of cataclysmic end-times theology. https://www.politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/end-times-antisemitism">https://www.politicalresearch.org/2020/07/0...
CZ is powerful movement, organizing w/in churches to lobby for far-right US agenda in Middle East. Christians United for Israel claims 9 million members, & is mobilizing to re-elect Trump. By contrast, there are ~6 million Jews in US & most are liberal https://inthesetimes.com/article/christians-united-for-israel-zionism-john-hagee-donald-trump-israel-palestine-iran">https://inthesetimes.com/article/c...
CZ is influential. Prominent believers in White House include Mike Pence & Mike Pompeo. Trump happily credits CZ influence for his far-right policy agenda on Israel, incl his decision to move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which most U.S. Jews did not support https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-trump-israel-moved-embassy-jerusalem-for-evangelicals-more-excited-than-jews-1.9081183">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-ne...
Hagee has claimed Hitler was sent by God to ‘return’ Jews to Palestine; sneaky Rothschilds r behind a New World Order; the Antichrist will be partly Jewish; Jews are not “spiritually alive”, & other staples of Christian anti-Judaism & modern antisemitism http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/6/16/163859/055">https://www.talk2action.org/story/200...
For decades Christian Zionists have demonized liberal Jews as source of evil in American society, behind abortion materialism hedonism etc. Only by & #39;returning& #39; to Israel can they be saved from sinful diasporic ways. These folks rly don& #39;t love Jews! http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/10/2/115153/281/Front_Page/Fishers_and_Hunters_the_Continuing_Saga_of_Christian_Zionism">https://www.talk2action.org/story/200...
Like broader Christian Right, Christian Zionists are deeply Islamophobic, championing ‘clash of civilizations’ against Islam; deeply anti-LGBTQ; & committed to turning U.S. into ‘Christian nation’. Rising CZ influence advances corrosion of democracy in US https://www.politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/end-times-antisemitism">https://www.politicalresearch.org/2020/07/0...
More work is needed to expose & counter the undue influence of Christian Zionism on American foreign policy, & to understand its deep antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, & toxic threat to democracy
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