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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]
![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]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjqQoaKX0AAq8hG.jpg "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
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
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
These folks claim to *really* love Jews. But many support Israel bc they hope to see a vast war engulf the earth, when Jesus returns & offers the Jews one last chance to convert or suffer eternal damnation. Their 'philosemitism' is deeply anti-Jewish https://www.politicalresearch.org/2010/01/18/the-new-christian-zionism-and-the-jews-a-lovehate-relationship
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
For decades Christian Zionists have demonized liberal Jews as source of evil in American society, behind abortion materialism hedonism etc. Only by 'returning' to Israel can they be saved from sinful diasporic ways. These folks rly don't love Jews! http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/10/2/115153/281/Front_Page/Fishers_and_Hunters_the_Continuing_Saga_of_Christian_Zionism
Growing movements within Christian Zionism promote the aggressive conversion of Jews, encourage Christians to adopt Jewish practices, and call for ‘spiritual warfare’ against all named enemies of the extreme Christian Right https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-bibis-new-tribulation-courting-jew-converting-demon-exorcising-american-allies
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
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
