Left-Wing Critics of Israel Are Using the Language of David Duke and the Hitler Youth
The ugly term “Jewish supremacy.”
July 1, 2021
The New Christian Zionism Is about God’s Covenant with Israel, Not the Apocalypse
An irrevocable bond.
In the minds of many Americans, Christian support for the Jewish state stems from various ideas about the end of history. And indeed, dispensationalism—a school of Christian thinking about the unfolding of history—has played an important role in Christian Zionism. But increasingly those devout Christians who believe it to be their duty to support the Jewish state do so because of a new theology that sees the Jews’ status as God’s chosen people as irrevocable. Gerald McDermott, among the foremost scholarly proponents of this theory, explains his thinking to the Christian Hebrew Bible scholar Dru Johnson, who poses tough questions about anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and the place of Jews in Christian notions of salvation. (Audio, 34 minutes.)
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Don’t Give Hamas Another Dime Until It Releases the Bodies of Captured Israelis
A mother’s plea.
The New Christian Zionism Is about God’s Covenant with Israel, Not the Apocalypse
An irrevocable bond.
How an English Jew Grew Up to Consider Himself an American at Heart
A boy, his grandfather, and the Statue of Liberty.
How Adam Neumann Used the Mystique of the Kibbutz, and Much Mumbo-Jumbo, to Make a Bad Business Idea Seem Appealing
WeWork’s familiar tale of hubris and avarice.