Christian Zionists love those who hate them


October 25, 2016
Sarah Benton


Anti-Christian graffiti defacing Jerusalem Baptist Church 2012. See below for translations.

Christian Zionists May Want to Reconsider Their Christophobic Settler Allies

By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam
October 25, 2016

As everyone knows, the most vociferous ally the Israeli ultra-nationalist government has aside from the Israel Lobby is Christian evangelists like John Hagee and Christians United for Israel (with Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein‘s International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a close second).  I’m always astonished about this considering that the theology of settler Jews is exclusivist and supremacist.  In other words, the Christian Zionists’ most ardent allies are the most hateful toward any religion other than Judaism.  They are, in short Islamophobic and Christophobic.  Not to mention that these settlers hate most of the rest of us Jews as well and view us as fakes, idolaters or worse.

I’ve reported here on settler attacks on Christian holy places including the ancient Church of Loaves and Fishes in the Galilee.  I’ve also reported on other similar attacks against other Christian sites and holidays.  Then there are other attacks I haven’t reported on here like the priests spat upon by the ultra-Orthodox settlers in the Old City.  But today on Twitter, I saw some interesting Christophobic graffiti I hadn’t seen before.  It “graced” the Jerusalem Baptist Church in 2012.

Here are the translations: 1. Death to Christianity 2. We will crucify you. 3. Jesus, son of a whore. 4. Jesus son of Mary, the whore.

Might our Christian Zionist friends want to reconsider their slavish alliance with settlerism and its crude Judean idolatry, which worships Jewish racial purity and power–a corrupt theology passing for Judaism?

What’s also ironic is that this same Jesus was a nice Jewish boy named Yehoshua ben Yosef.  A bit of a troublemaker, it’s true.  Even one prepared to die for his beliefs.  But his views were no more radical than those of many other Jews through the ages.  And many other Jews were martyred before him (and after) for their beliefs.  It was only after his death at the hands of the Romans that others came along and transformed his legacy into a new religion.

So when you think about it–why disparage such a nice Jewish boy?  He was one of us until his last dying breath.  When you smear him aren’t you smearing his own Jewish faith?

Please, no approaches from Jews for Jesus, Messianic Jews and the like.  This is not an advertisement for conversion to Christianity.

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