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As Holy Week reaches its climax Sunday, many Christians exhibit a surreal response to the barrage of Iranian missiles pummeling the land of Jesus’ birth and its current inhabitants.
Instead of expressing outrage at the attackers, these particular Christians express outrage at the victims. That anger intensifies as Israel and the United States respond by pummeling Iran in return.
One word succinctly defines the outrage: anti-Zionism. Its adherents claim it represents legitimate political and theological positions. That excuse, however, masks centuries of hatred toward Jews. It not only contradicts the position of many churches. It not only encourages historical manipulation. It ultimately ignores the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection.
Perhaps the most organized Christian exponents of anti-Zionism are traditionalist Catholics. The most visible include podcasters Candace Owens and Jason Jones – who equates Zionism with Satanism – and former government officials Carrie Prejean Boller and Joe Kent.
Boller, fired from the White House Religious Liberty Commission, calls Israel “evil” and “a terrorist state.” She posted that “Catholics reject Zionism,” that Christianity has been “hijacked” by Zionism’s “heretical teachings” and that “We Catholics are taking Christianity back.”
When Israeli authorities prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, from celebrating Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday — Boller made this vitriolic X post:
“The Israeli government hates Christians. We’re seeing now how Christians are treated in occupied Palestine. You can no longer hide it. This is the fruit of your heretical teaching of Zionist supremacy.”
Joining Boller and her traditionalist comrades are such traditionalist outlets as LifeSite News, Crisis Magazine and The Remnant. Their collective stance reflects the position of Pope Pius X, who rejected a request in 1904 from Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, to support Jewish settlement in Palestine, then a part of the Ottoman Empire.
“We cannot give approval to this movement,” Pius said.
“We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem — but we could never sanction it. The soil of Jerusalem, if it was not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot tell you anything different. The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people.”
Archbishop Angelo Roncalli begged to differ. Roncalli, a papal diplomat based in Turkey during World War II, dedicated himself as early as 1940 to helping Jews reach Palestine, which the British secured after World War I. In 1944, he managed an operation using baptismal certificates, immigration certificates and visas — some forged — to get Jews out of Europe. Since Nazi officials recognized the documents as legitimate, the bearers had unimpeded travel access. Many went to Palestine.
In 1958, Roncalli became Pope John XXIII, who called a council to help the Catholic Church navigate the modern world. One of the many documents that emerged, Nostra aetate [In Our Time], renounced Catholicism’s historic antisemitism.
“Since the spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews is thus so great, this sacred synod wants to foster and recommend that mutual understanding and respect which is the fruit, above all, of biblical and theological studies as well as of fraternal dialogues.”
“Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures.”
“Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel’s spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.”
Nostra aetate has since become part of the Catholic catechism.
In 1993, Pope John Paul II opened diplomatic relations with Israel, making Pius’ objections moot.
R.R. Reno, ethicist and editor of the Catholic journal First Things, dismissed Boller’s assertions in a Washington Post op-ed.
“In fact, the Catholic Church advances no specific teaching on Zionism,” wrote Reno. “I am a Catholic and a Zionist. But my position is not ‘Catholic Zionism.’ Rather, it is plain-old Zionism: The Jewish people are justified in establishing a sovereign nation in the land of their ancestors.”
Joining traditionalist Catholics in their anti-Zionism is a group of Millennial Calvinist pastors whose views reflect those of R.J. Rushdoony, who created a legal system called Christian Reconstructionism that would supplant Constitutional law with the Mosaic Law in toto.
Rushdoony not only equated Zionism to Nazism. He dismissed the number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust and even dismissed the Jewish genealogy of European Jews.
The most visible of these pastors is Joel Webbon, pastor of Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown, Texas and founder of Right Response Ministries, which promotes Christian Reconstructionism. On X, Webbon revels in his contempt for Jews:
“Religiously speaking, I believe that Judaism is ‘anti-Christ.’ I believe it is a pernicious evil. I fully recognize that many Jews are secular, and do not practice Judaism. However, … American (sq) was profoundly shaped by Christian thought and Christian values. Likewise, Israel has been deeply shaped by a religion that has as its foundation, a complete rejection of Christ.”
“A people shaped by a rejection of the ‘Logos’ … will have at least some degree of hostility towards God’s natural order. They will resist, and at times even seek to subvert, natural distinctions and hierarchy.”
Webbon also uses X to broadcast the quiet part at ear-splitting volume. In response to Tucker Carlson’s comments at Charlie Kirk’s funeral, in which Carlson accused the Jews of killing Jesus, Webbon disagreed yet agreed.
“We all killed Jesus by our sin.” Webbon wrote. “Also…the Jews killed Jesus.”
On Feb. 26, Webbon stated his views more emphatically: “When your Christian theology puts you on the same side as those who killed Christ then you do not know God.”
Like Webbon, the late Rev. John MacArthur was a Calvinist. Unlike Webbon, the former president of The Master’s University and pastor of Grace Community Church, both in Metropolitan Los Angeles, admonished those who shared Webbon’s views.
“I think we are obliged to stand as protectors of the Jews,” MacArthur said, “and they’re constituted now, obviously, globally in their own nation, and so we should be protectors of that people and that nation.”
One of Webbon’s ideological comrades is the Rev. Calvin Robinson, a former Anglican priest who either left or was expelled from four denominations since the Church of England refused to ordain him in 2022.
“Christ died for us. The Jews had him killed,” Robinson posted March 14 on X. “The two are not mutually exclusive.”
Robinson made an interesting comment on X on Feb. 28 when the United States and Israel killed many of Iran’s key political and military leaders — including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – in a surprise bombing attack:
“Israel has proven itself to be the greatest threat to the world. Zionism is the greatest threat to the West/Christendom. That much should be obvious by now….”
Robinson followed on March 21 by posting that “Israel has no right to exist” and declared the next day that “Israel is a terrorist state. Zionism should be proscribed.”
The former Anglican also holds the term “Judeo-Christian” in contempt.
“I am a Christian, not a Judeo-Christian,” Robinson posted in December on X.
“My faith is the Christian faith, not Judeo-Christian faith. I believe in and am a follower of Jesus Christ, not Jesus Judeo-Christ. I try to live by Christian values, not Judeo-Christian values.”
Such ignorance reflects blatant disregard for basic biblical history.
Without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. The Tanakh constitutes most of the Christian Bible. Christianity’s fundamental moral framework came from those Jewish scriptures, especially the Ten Commandments. John the Baptist’s proclamation of Jesus as “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” reflected the Mosaic Law’s demands for sacrificial atonement.
Jesus was Jewish. A genealogy in Matthew’s Gospel traces Jesus’ ancestry to David. All of Jesus’ earliest followers were Jewish, as the first nine chapters of the New Testament’s Book of Acts demonstrate. They worshiped at the Jerusalem Temple. Peter was on his way there when Acts 3 describes him healing a lame man sitting at one of the Temple’s gates.
If the earliest Christians were not Jewish, the Sanhedrin would have had no authority to interrogate Peter and John in Acts 4 nor Stephen in Acts 7.
The Sanhedrin also had the authority to try Jesus but no power to execute capital punishment. Only the Romans, the civil authority, had it. That explains why the Sanhedrin transferred custody in John 18 to Pontius Pilate, Judea’s governor. Though Pilate had the power to release Jesus, as John 18 and 19 describe, he placated a mob by refusing to exercise that power. Roman soldiers then tortured Jesus before crucifying him. Thus the Romans bear the ultimate responsibility for killing Jesus.
Before his death, however, Jesus made an astonishing claim.
“The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life, only to take it up again,” John 10 quotes Jesus as saying. “No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Centuries earlier, in a passage Christians consider to be messianic prophecy, Isaiah wrote something even more audacious: “It was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer.”
So who killed Jesus? The Jews? The Romans? God, whom Jesus claimed to be his father?
In the final analysis, all discussion about culpability vanishes in the face of Christianity’s ultimate claim: Jesus rose from the dead to make reconciliation between sinful humanity and a holy, righteous God possible. As Paul the Apostle — a former Pharisee devoted to persecuting Christians — wrote to believers in a major Greek city, Corinth:
“If Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless. And we apostles would all be lying about God—for we have said that God raised Christ from the grave. … if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins. In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost!”
So in terms of Christian theology, it matters not whether the Jews, the Romans, the Martians, the Klingons or any other group killed Jesus. It only matters to those who wish to promote a pernicious ideology.
Very interesting article. I had never heard of this Rushdoony person, but I had never heard of Christian Reconstructionism either, and thought I was aware of all the, as grandmother use to say “Weirdoos.”
Long live Israel! Jesus is a Greek translation of the Messiah’s true Name-Yeshua which means “Salvation”. The crux of the problem is Christians do not keep Torah-which the Messiah commanded them to do-and Jews have not accepted their Jewish Messiah. We are one flock, but people prefer to hate for the sake of hating, creating a god in their own image rather than accepting the One, True God. May we all continue to pray for one another and follow the Messiah’s Command to love one another.
lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:1-3)
It is possible to love one another =without compelling others to believe what you do.
Live and let live.
Is that the same Calvin Robinson who used to sport that impressive Afro haircut, and spoke so eloquently about the dangers of creeping Islamism and political correctness? What a disappointment.
One and the same, sadly. He can be right on one but wrong on the other.
The “Jews killed Jesus” lie is a product of the Roman Catholic social justice tradition, a leftist bulwark even during the reestablishment of Israel.
It should also be worth noting that Communism infiltrated the Catholic Church ages ago thanks to the Jesuits, hence why you see Webbon and Prejean hating on Jews all the time.
Also, the Institute of Pacific Relations, a Soviet front group involved in the Amerasia scandal, was made up of Catholics and father George Dunne and the Catholic dioceses of Los Angeles endorsed an outright Communist candidate for governor of California – Upton Sinclair.
Webbon isn’t Catholic. He’s Calvinist.
Calvinist? That’s even worse!
Especially as Marx and Engels’ favorite Christian theologian was John Calvin. Modern leftism is basically recycled Calvinism when you really look into it.
I never understood was Communism was so EVIL. But now I know why.
“The Devil and Karl Marx” by Dr. Paul Kengor
Webbon isn’t Catholic and Prejean doesn’t hate on Jews.
Second, there was a combined responsibility in Jesus’ death involving both Jewish religious leaders and the Roman government.
According to the Gospels, these leaders arrested Jesus, and lacking the legal authority to carry out a death sentence under Roman occupation, handed him over to the Roman Governor, where they petitioned for Jesus’ death.
Your lack of knowledge and anti-Catholicism is showing.
“Jews had no death penalty.”
Why Jesus had to tell: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
The Sanhedrin was using the Romans to do the dirty work for them by Jesus was stirring up insurrection against Rome. Why do you think pilot said in the Scriptures, “if you have a case against him, go try him by your own laws”?
That doesn’t refute anything I said.
Any self proclaimed Christian which includes clergy, who is antisemitic, anti-Israel, is telling Lord Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah): “I hate you because you are Jewish”.
Yeshua was and still is Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish. The place HE will rule from is Jerusalem, Israel!
Claiming you are Christian but antisemitic is an oxymoron.
Thank you for writing this. I noticed the Jew-hate in Lifesite a couple of years ago, and cancelled my subscription. The very idea that Islamists treat Christians kindly is ridiculous on its face! Not that the Prejeans’ of the world – who overnight have become theologians – ever mention Nigeria and the terrors of Boko Haram. Neither does Tucker Carlson who has turned into an agent of Quatar as well as Russia. People like these are vicious and dangerous. Their rhetoric is violent and they revel in their hate. I do not know what happened to them on a personal level, but something has twisted them.
With the specific day known a “Easter” many people, naturally, related this day to the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
Therefore, if someone would ask a Christian “Why are you a Christian ?” One of best answers is that because “Jesus had risen from the dead.”
For that’s where the real foundation of Christianity is the resurrection of Christ from the dead, First Corinthians 15:1-6. To it more strongly, if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead the entire religion of Christianity if false, it’s a hoax. The Bible confirms this statement. First Corinthians 15:12-19.
Roman guards has been stationed at the tomb of Jesus to make sure that His disciple would not be able to steal the body of Jesus and then make a false claim of His resurrection , Matthew 27::62-65.
Besides the disciples of Jesus too scared to do much of anything but run away and go hiding, Matthew 26:55.
Furthermore, if those disciples did, somehow, steal the body of Jesus and then falsely claim the he rose from the dead. They would be fools to then to give and risk their lives on what they knew is false report and a lie.
Besides, I had been to the Jerusalem and seen such an ancient tomb and it has large rock covering to its entrance. If the body of Jesus had been stolen, there would have been much ground disturbance at the difficult task at moving such a large heavy rock covering. Therefore, a hoax resurrection could be easily discovered and exposed as a hoax.
Thanks for this article..
Jesus, his disciples, and his apostles were all Jews.
Jesus has not written anything in the scripture, but was written about by his personal followers.
St. Paul (also known as Saul of Tarsus) was not one of Jesus’ disciples (his followers) or one of the original 12 apostles (a specific inner circle chosen from them to be sent out to preach and heal)
Paul just claimed to be an apostle.
Paul was given the order to persecute Christians after Jesus’s execution by the Jewish high priest Joseph ben Caiaphas, who, as Roman vasal King Herod Antipas, collaborated with the Roman Emperor Tiberius.
Because Paul (Saul of Tarsus), like his father or grandfather, was a Roman citizen, the instruction came from Pontius Pilate, the Roman Prefect, who, in turn, received the instruction from Emperor Tiberius.
Paul (then known as Saul, a Hellenistic Jew having Roman citizenship) not only witnessed the stoning of Deacon Stephen, after Jesus’s death, but also ordered the murder.
The biblical account in the Book of Acts specifically notes his presence and approval of the event: “The witnesses who stoned Stephen laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.”
(His role was not merely that of an innocent bystand; he consented to Stephen’s death and was actively involved in the subsequent persecution of the early Christian church)
Both Jesus’s crucifixion and Stephen’s stoning occurred under Emperor Tiberius and Governor Pontius Pilate.
2-3 years after Paul had Stephen murdered, he infiltrated the Christian movement by converting to Christianity, becoming the first most important figure after Jesus.
Roman emperor Nero had Paul executed
Let’s start with the obvious:
Jews are former Israelites who did and do not accept the Messiah.
Christians are former Israelites who did and do accept him.
No. Let’s start with the Scriptural.
Jews are Israelites from one of the twelve tribes who descended from Jacob who had his name changed to “Israel” by God. Genesis 32:28.
Christians are Jews and Gentiles who believe in Jesus. Romans chapters 9-11
You are both right. If your primary identity is “Jew,’ then you do not believe in Jesus. The Jewish person who is Christian normally identifies himself as a Christian who also happens to be Jewish, taking primary identity in Christ.
But scripture also teaches that there is a true “Israel of God,” and that some pretend to be Jews and are not.
Jews today are descended from proselytes and converts.
Scripture and history both testify that the bloodline of the people known as “Israel” has been deeply and irreversibly intermingled with other nations and peoples, to such an extent that to claim any sort of pure ethnic continuity from Jacob to the modern-day Jewish population is both historically and biblically indefensible.
That’s like comparing ancient Israel to 1948 Israel. They are not the same. Ancient Israel was under a divine covenant and worked under Mosaic Law. 1948 Israel is a liberal secular democracy. There was no such thing as Israel prior to 1948 for 1,800 yrs.
I certainly agree with the spirit of this good piece. Yet I find it hard to understand why the truth is not admitted. There is no question that the Sanhedrin put Christ on trial, convicted Him of blasphemy, and sentence Him to death. Pilate provided the means. That’s what happened. There is no dispute. This was the ultimate act of evil by elite politicians. But it’s also true that Jesus was Jewish. He threatened the powerful and the money lenders. And Pilate was a rabble rouser.
Israel is the ancient land of the Jews. It’s also the birthplace of Christin and Christianity. We must all protect this place.
Because the “anti-Zionists“ refused to mention anything about Pilate’s role. As I wrote, the Sanhedrin had no authority to execute Jesus. That’s why they transferred custody of him to Pilate. Nowhere do I excuse the Saint Hedron’s role. What I do not excuse is the “anti-Zionist” deliberate. Disregard for his role.
“He suffered under Pontius Pilate…”
The day of Easter is a reminder that the Bible gives its reader very important information about what Jesus did for every person by being the Supreme Ransom for the sinner by taking his or her place on the cross on behalf of that human being.
In other words, Jesus made Himself Absolute Sacrifice for sinners in place of each one of them.
For God the Father gave Jesus, the, John 3:16, for a person who is willing to accept His work, he Total and Complete Atoning Sacrifice, for him or her.
Jesus made Himself Absolute Sacrifice for sinners in place of each one of them. When then buried in a tomb, dead, for three days then He, Jesus, rose from the dead, which is a very important Christian Bible doctrine, the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, First Corinthians 15:1-6.
As the Bible informs its reader, “For He made Him who knew no sin for us, to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” Second Corinthians 5:21. [N.K.J.V.]
remember where Jesus was just a week prior to His deatah. He nd His men were at the Temple in Jerusalem. They were marvelling at the beauty and glory o that place…. and as they took their leave they passed into the courtyard. Jesus railed agaiinst the money changevs and the goods sellevs plying their rades here. “You have taken My House and made it a den o thieves”. This is only truly signiphicant when you consider how those vendors were able to take that space in the Temple and ply their trades. Every one was there in the employ o the High Priest, Caiphas. Yes, THAT Caiphas. And yes, every vansaction genevaed a portion which belonged to the high pries, Caiphas. So,as ttThose thieves in the Temple Court plied their crooked trade, Caiphas got richer and richer. One o the perks o being the head priest.
So Jesus had railed against the domain o the high priest, Caihas, publically calling him out as crooked. Then, to add gross insult o that injury, He then declared that prior to this generation passing away, this Temple will be torn down, not one stone remaining upon another. Do ya think THAT kigh have even more seriously gotten Caiphas’ attention?
So a week later Jesus stood accused in the courts o both Pilate and Caiphas. There were a number o trials through the night, both men hearing the accusations Caiphas, under roman law, did NOT have the authority to execute any Jew. Only he roman poohbah had that power. So Caiphas was using the roman court toward his own ends. Jesus MUST PAY!! It is also certainy so that Pilate was also aware o the “troubles” Jesus was stirring up.
SO it took BOTH the roman and jewish governments to kill Jesus.
And just to complete the ising on the cake, remember that, once He was cerainly dead, these two men had a little visit together. They congratulated each other on removing Jesus out o their respective societies… and stuck hands together in solid accord.
Interestingly enough, it also took both the roman and Jewish governments to complete the utter destruction o the City o Jerusalem, starting with the Temple The jewish zealots who were key in stirrig up the crowds to kill Jesus, got crazier and crazier, desroying wantonly. Once the Temple was destroyed, the romans began going against the Zealots. they were eventually cwrnered, and escaped the city, heading up to the north to the plain at Megiddo. where Sodom and Gamorrah once were. The romans persued, surrounded them, and slaughteved them to the last man. The hebrew name is Har Megiddo, the greek rendering is Armageddon. So in case you are waiting around to see the Battle o Armageddon, sorry, you missed it by about 1950 years.
R.J. Rushdoony has stayed under the radar of Christian Nationalism for way too long. He is regarded as the founder of the early homeschool movement and advocated that parents get their children out of government schools and take dominion over education. He was a dominionist and founded the Christian Reconstruction movement.
I’m not blaming all of the anti-Zionism/semitism we’re seeing today on homeschoolers – I’m a strong supporter of homeschools – but I’m not sure there’s not a connection.
“Jews had no death penalty.”
Why Jesus had to tell: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
Romans crucified thousands of Jewish rebels. One of them had been worshiped by some Jews. Three hundred years later, Romans declared this martyr their new god. Romans had the problem: they crucified their god. They couldn’t claim that Jews killed their god because Jews didn’t crucify people.
Romans invented this story: “Jews made us to do that!”
Since these old times, all antisemites do the same thing. Jews are responsible for our perfidy.
When Romans declared Jesus their god, the Emperor Constantine called the Council of Nicea—the first general council of the Christian church, 325 A.D.
They canonized 27 books on the claim that they had been written by the original apostles.
The earliest of these books had been written at least 40 years after the events that they describe. That is they had been written by people who were not around in the year 33AD. They were written by the people who had been very upset and angry that Jews didn’t follow their new religion.
You probably know that it is customary for the totalitarian regimes like the Roman Empire and the USSR to edit the old books so that they fit new policies.
The Council of Nicea did all that had been required to exonerate Romans and blame Jews. They couldn’t avoid the central part of Christianity – Crucifixion.
After that, all books that had not been canonized had been burned and declared heretical. Anyone caught with these books could be declared heretic and burned with his books.
According to the Christian Biblical texts, the Messiah did not preach hatred toward anyone. How is it that traditional Catholicism finds itself able to worship this Messiah but they do not obligate themselves to follow his teachings thereby exhibiting a blatant hypocrisy and also disregard the biblical history of him as a Jew?
The current Pope has voiced opinions that are in direct opposition to the Messiah and evidenced his communistic beliefs none of which find any rational status in the Bible as well as his support of Islam and his silence about the outright slaughter of Christians in Africa..
This Messiah advocated cleaning up your own house before condemning others. Looks like these hateful antisemites give lip service to the tenants of their faith
and use the ignorance of their Christian followers to justify their baseless hatred of the Jewish people.
There is a powerful irony in worshipping a Jewish man and hating his people. Go figure!
No one “killed” Jesus. Our Lord and Savior, wholly God and wholly man, yielded up his spirit on the cross after living a sinless life according to a plan made with the Father before creation. Christ told his disciples that he would lay down his life for us all. He made a new covenant with humanity of unconditional love and forgiveness of sin, unlike the old covenant of obedience to the Law. Jesus used the Pharisees to bring him before the Sanhedrin, making it clear that they were putting their words ahead of God’s creation, to bring his earthly life to its end. But neither the angry clerics nor the discomfited Pilate had the power to kill Him.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/second-us-fighter-jet-downed-by-strait-of-hormuz-as-search-for-f-15e-crew-member-in-iran-continues#post-b790a92 Israel assisted in US rescue mission of downed airman in Iran. Intel + distraction
NOTED ZIONISTS PART I
Early Christian proto-Zionists (pre-modern political Zionism) who advocated for Jewish restoration include figures like:
* Thomas Brightman (1562–1607),
* Increase Mather (1639–1723) and
* Henry Finch (d. 1625).
It was actually John Adams, the second U.S. President, who advocated for a Jewish state in the Holy Land in 1819, nearly 80 years before Theodor Herzl’s modern Zionist.
* John Quincy Adams (1767–1848): Advocated for the “rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation”.
‘200 years ago, John Adams promoted a Jewish state in the Holy Land’.
Aug 27, 2019, Times of Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/200-years-ago-john-adams-promoted-a-jewish-state-in-the-holy-land/
* Lord Shaftesbury (1801–1885): A British evangelical who strongly promoted the restoration of Jews to Palestine in the mid-19th century.
* William Eugene Blackstone (1841–1935): An American evangelist who presented the “Blackstone Memorial” to President Harrison in 1891, calling for the restoration of Palestine to the Jews.
* Arthur Balfour (1848–1930).
As British Foreign Secretary, he authored the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which promised British support for a “national home for the Jewish people in Palestine”.
* Louis Brandeis (1856–1941).
U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a leading American Zionist leader who helped mobilize support for a Jewish homeland and influenced Woodrow Wilson’s views.
* David Lloyd George (1863–1945).
Britains Prime Minister (1916-1922) during the Balfour Declaration, known to be a staunch supporter of the Zionist project due to a combination of Christian Zionist beliefs and geopolitical strategy.
* Warren G. Harding (1865–1923).
Signed the Lodge-Fish Resolution, which supported a Jewish home in Mandatory Palestine.
* Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971).
Prominent American theologian and Christian realist who strongly supported Zionism as a moral and practical necessity for the Jewish people after the Holocaust.
* Winston Churchill (1874-1965).
Described himself as a “Zionist” and supported the creation of a Jewish state to act as a loyal ally in the Middle East.
* Hamilton Fish, III (1881–1991).
* Harry S. Truman (1884–1972).
Often cited as the first world leader to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after its declaration of independence. He was sympathetic to Zionism due to his evangelical upbringing, though he held complex views on the resulting conflict.
NOTED ZIONISTS PART II
* Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
Troy, G. (2018). ‘The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow’. United States: Jewish Publication Society, p.31
https://books.google.com/books?id=bVxQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31
* Orde Charles Wingate (1903–1944).
Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel. (1971). United States: Herzl Press, p.1222
* Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921).
Supported Zionist goals in the years leading up to the British mandate, stating in 1919 that the Allied nations agreed on the foundation of a Jewish commonwealth in “Palestine.”
* Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).
‘Reagan Praises Zionism As Aspiration of Jews’. New York Times, Oct. 29, 1984.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/29/us/campaign-notes-reagan-praises-zionism-as-aspiration-of-jews.html
* John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
‘Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at the Convention of the Zionist Organization of America, New York City, August 26, 1960’. [JFK Library].
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/new-york-ny-19600826
* Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968).
‘Bobby Kennedy’s Admiration for Israel’. Tablet Magazine, June 4, 2021.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/rfk-jews
* Martin Luther King (1929-1968).
‘In Defense of Dr. King—and the Truth’. The Media Line. Jan 19, 2026.
“He saw Zionism as a legitimate national liberation movement”.
* Bill Clinton (b. 1946):
“Well, I got news for them, they (the Jews) were there first before their [Muslims] faith existed. They were there in the time of King David, in the southern most tribes, Judea and Samaria. (Nov 2024).
* Stephen Harper (b. 1959).
* Joe Biden (b. 1942).
(Self declared)
* Justin Trudeau (b. 1971).
(Self declared)
* Karel Schwarzenberg (1937–2023). (EU president Czech FM).
* Miloš Zeman (b. 1944).
* Ursula von der Leyen (b. 1958). (EU Commission President).
* Javier Milei (b. 1970).
* Santiago Peña (b. 1978). Paraguay’s President since 2023.
* Sarah Idan (b. 1990). Former Miss Iraq and ardent Zionist.
* Charlie Kirk (1993–2025) .
I’m not a Jew but I do believe that the Jews are indeed
God’s chosen people. Not just because the Son of God
was one of them – but because since Abraham, they’ve
believed in only one true God and to do onto others as
you would do onto yourself. The mighty empires around
them did not believe in these things.
Jesus built on these in his teachings and added that each
individual is unique and precious to God and one must
turn the other cheek and not be so quick to lash out in anger.
The Roman Empire did not believe any of this.
Judeo-Christian teachings generated Western civilization
and laid the foundation for individual lives pursuing their own
happiness in freedom as embodied in the American Constitution.
Because we are endowed by our Creator with these unalienable
rights.
Since time began, the least amongst us has been stomped on
by the strongest. Tyranny – which today seeks to destroy Western
civilization – is perhaps Mankind’s greatest sin. Along with people’s
many other sins – the only path for them to take to fulfill God’s plan
to love one another and grow in spiritual wisdom is the Judeo –
Christian path. Upon which Lord Jesus – with his teachings and
suffering and death – placed all of Mankind.
I think Zionism is a separate religion, have a more political meaning than other denominations of Judaism. If this were not so, there would not be a significant number of Jews who reject Zionism.
Zionism’s eschatology is responsible for atrocious behavior towards all non-Jews, just as dispensational eschatology is responsible for Mike Huckabee’s awful assertion that Israel could just “take it all” in reference to the Middle East.
John MacArthur described himself as a “leaky dispensationalist.” His study bible was the first I ever read, and was responsible for my early dispensationalism. Dispensationalism requires reading Genesis 12:3 as applying to a nation state (Israel) instead of to “Abraham’s Seed.” So the real question is what or Who is that seed?
To be a traditional Catholic one must abide by the words that Jesus Christ actually said, and not listen to the heterodox heresy being spouted by some apostates in the Vatican who falsely try to suggest that all religions can be paths to God. Matthew 28:19-20 quotes Jesus as follows:
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
This, of course, does not mean that traditional Catholics should ever look down in any way on Jews, or above all, attempt to force conversions. When asked or challenged, however, the Faithful must state clearly what must be believed. In the case of Jews, only a false “Catholic” would ever lie to a Jew and tell him or her that there is no need to accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
“Traditional Catholics” who try to connect Jews to the Antichrist, are either bigots or delusional or both. All the great hells on earth have always been created by those who try to establish some sort of godless false heaven on earth – Jacobins, communists, fascists, Nazis, other secularizing fanatics and so on. When the “son of perdition” arises, he will attempt to unite all peoples regardless of race or creed in the deification of man coupled with a burning hatred of God.