CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS' UNREQUITED LOVE
By Harmony Grant
10 Jan 08
The Jewish Agency for Israel (which helped found the Jewish state)
has accepted a big check from the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews and given a seat on two of its "most powerful committees" to
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. Eckstein heads the Fellowship of Christians
and Jews. This partnership shows an unprecedented level of alliance
between evangelicals and Zionist Jews.
This is a major sea change from a decade ago, when the Agency didn’t
want to be seen allied with evangelicals in any way, the Forward points out. Rejecting Christians today would mean losing a lot
of greenbacks. Eckstein's group promises $45 million for the agency “over
the next three years, almost all of it raised from evangelical Christians
in North America .”
The article notes, “With a decline in funding allocations to
Israel from American Jews, and studies showing declining emotional
attachment as well, donations and political support from evangelical
Christians have become essential to Israel.” Today the loyalty
of American evangelicals has become a crucial bloc in the Israel lobby.
But many Jewish leaders don’t even conceal their disgust about
accepting Christians’ help. The
Jewish Week says this increased partnership with evangelicals--specifically
between the Agency and the Fellowship--has built "an undercurrent
of unease in Israel and North American Jewish leadership circles." One
unnamed American Jewish leader called the agreement "an abomination." It
was called "appalling" by Knesset member Colette Avital,
former Israeli consul general for New York . Anti-Defamation League
head Abe Foxman said he is "disturbed." Nina Penton, a Jerusalem
municipal council member, called it "a national disaster" and
claimed Christians are trying to "take [Jews'] souls."
Jewish Week says angry Jews have tried to excommunicate Eckstein
for collaborating with goyim--Christians, no less--and he was investigated
by the New York rabbinical court. Notice I said New York , not Israel
.
Evangelicals appear unwilling to recognize Talmudic Judaism’s
hostility toward them. The more suspicious and spiteful many Jews behave,
the more support Christians promise. Evangelicals have thoroughly digested
the Zionist myth of Jewish victimhood, impotence, and of gentile (especially
Christian) guilt. Evangelicals believe it's their responsibility to
protect "little Israel " from annihilation.
After 1900 years of dispersion and persecution, Jews enjoy unheard-of
freedom and prosperity in America . Yet despite Jews’ disproportionate
enjoyment of wealth, prestige, influence and fawning approval from
evangelicals—38
percent of American Jews believe there is “a great deal” of
anti-Semitism in the US and 48 percent think “a moderate amount” still
thrives here. American Jewish leaders trivialize evidence of their
tribe's great affluence and prestige in this country. Always identifying
new Hitlers, they promote the racist belief that all Gentiles are irrationally
anti-Semitic and untrustworthy. This premise creates a dangerous separatism
and hostility toward gentile Americans and especially Christians, who
are increasingly blamed for millennia of anti-Jewish hatred, bigotry,
persecution and evil.
Christians must begin to recognize the danger that belief presents
to them. Jews in the United States enjoy the most affluent, elite strata
of society--they are hugely over-represented in government, media,
business, and education. Jews in Israel enjoy staggering military advantage,
possession of nukes, and an unbroken stream of financial support from
Uncle Sam, and increasingly from Christians.
When Israeli and American Jews express their bitter disgust toward
partnership with Christians, that attitude should not be taken lightly.
Jews are not the underdog on the international scene today. They have
the power to do far more than suspiciously glare.
Jewish antagonism to Christian values--and Christian evangelism--is
public record. The Anti-Defamation League, creator of Christian-persecuting "anti-hate" laws,
is rabid against the New Testament, Christian conversion efforts, and
public expression of Christianity.
In November 2005, Anti-Defamation League president Abraham Foxman
criticized evangelical Christians as the "key domestic challenge
to the American Jewish community." Many right-wing Christians
were outraged, including Don Wildmon of the American Family Association
who said, "The more [Foxman] says that 'you people are destroying
this country,' [the more] some people are going to begin to get fed
up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you
feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore.' "
But despite attacks from Jewish Zionists like Foxman, and the overwhelming
liberalism of American Jews-- Christians don't publicly recognize that
the Jewish left poses (in Foxman’s words) a "key domestic
challenge" to the Christian community! Like baby rabbits in spring,
Christians literally don’t know their enemy. For this reason,
evangelicals can’t respond effectively to liberal militant anti-Christianity
in media, Congress, and Jewish “civil liberties” groups.
Harmony Grant writes and edits for National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watchdog group.
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