By Brian Schrauger, Jerusalem Journal-— In the early days of March 2016, Bethlehem Bible College held its fourth Christ at the Checkpoint (CatC) conference. Although attendance was lower than prior iterations (about 300), the conference’s anti-Israel agenda was more explicit than ever. Notably, however, the primary focus of the confab’s condemnation was not Israel or…
By Jim Fletcher— One evening in 1998, Ariel Sharon told me that Israelis don’t learn enough Bible. I knew his statement was more than pandering to a friendly audience. His claim pointed to the foundational link between Jews and Christians: Scripture. When our group heard the then-Minister of Infrastructures invoke the foundational document of Zionism,…
By Luke Moon, The Tower– In 2010, a film was released that perfectly encapsulated the erosion of Evangelical Christian support for Israel. The film, With God on Our Side, featured a young man learning about the Palestinian struggle and coming to see Israel not as evidence of God’s faithfulness, but as a mean and heartless…
By Shira Sorko-Ram, Maoz— There is a minority of Palestinian Christians who love Israel and believe what the Bible says about God’s purposes for His chosen people. These Christians risk their lives when they share this truth with the other 98% of Palestinians who are Muslims. Their belief that the Word of God foretold the rebirth of…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, BIN— Evangelicals are the strongest supporters of Israel, so it is particularly disturbing when a group from within their midst aligns with the Palestinians – even going so far as to support acts of violence against Jews while accusing Israel of violent crimes. Yesterday, while the conference was at its peak,…
By Ariel Rudolph, Israel Today— At the Christ at the Checkpoint (CATC) conference in 2014 an invitation was extended to Rami Hamdallah, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority and president of An-Najah University in Nablus, to give the opening address. It was under Hamdallah’s presidency that a grotesque Hamas-sponsored recreation of the Sbarro Pizzeria terror…
By Tricia Miller, Breaking Israel News— The stated mission of the biannual Christ at the Checkpoint (CaTC) conferences in Bethlehem “is to challenge Evangelicals to take responsibility to help resolve the conflicts in Israel/Palestine by engaging with the teaching of Jesus on the Kingdom of God.” This mission has been carried out through the targeting…
By LUKE MOON, JUICY ECUMENISM— Over the past several decades, some of the most steadfast backers of Israel have been Christians, particularly in the United States. But opponents of Israel are well aware of this and, not content with working against the Jewish state in other institutions, they have changed their tactics accordingly, working overtime…
By DAVID BROG, MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY— A mere decade ago, Christian Zionism was seen as an emerging force in American politics. As if out of nowhere, a block of fifty to one hundred million friends of Israel were poised to enter the national debate and safeguard the U.S.-Israel relationship for generations to come. Evangelical love…
By ISRAEL TODAY— With the third biannual Christ at the Checkpoint conference just a week away, a majority of Israeli Messianic Jews continue to find the event too politically-charged and too undergirded by anti-Semitic themes to be taken seriously as a platform for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Jewish and Arab believers. While…