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Even with nuanced presentations from speaker to speaker, CATC seminars work within a shared set of goals that ultimately seek to promote historical revisionism of Jewish/Arab relations. This is attempted through sharing highly emotional personal narratives, void of greater context and woven throughout theological discourse.
Persecution and human rights violations from Radical Islam and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are conveniently avoided. This leaves undiscerning observers with the sense that not only this current war but the entirety of the conflict is one between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Christians. The Christians in mention are not only ‘victims’ of Israel but also of the broader church, which has chosen to stand with Jewish Israelis – people of a different faith – over the suffering of Palestinian Christians.
The CATC conference director is Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac. Yes, the same Palestinian Christian leader who was hosted by Tucker Carlson in early April.
It was easily observed in the interview that the Bethlehem resident failed to condemn the Hamas terrorist organization for the atrocities of Oct. 7, and while he lives under the Islamic-influenced Palestinian Authority, he solely blamed Israel for the suffering of his people. He even expressed dismay at the lack of support Palestinian Christians receive from “Christian siblings” around the world.
“And in our pain and anguish,” he said, “We as Palestinians… as Palestinian Christians, actually, had to endure an additional burden, the complicity of many in the church of this genocide.”
Of course, the use of this word “genocide” follows Hamas propaganda rather than the legal definition, and he supports this idea as valid through the use of the highly questionable Hamas-run Ministry of Health statistics.
Though the emotion behind his position is sincere, Isaac’s shock and rebuke of the church is based on a false dichotomy.
Evangelicals are not choosing between supporting a Jewish Israel, with a secular democracy, versus Palestinian Christians in the plight to establish a democratic state.
Rather the truth is that to stand with a Palestinian Nationalist movement, even presented under the guise of Christian language, is to stand with an Islamic government, one whose Basic Laws (their prototype constitution) state they will abide by Sharia Law, and one whose people currently are showing an 80% support base for Hamas as leadership. The end result would be a terrorist state bent on Israel’s destruction.
Isaac, known to be openly hostile towards Israel, is the academic dean at Bethlehem Bible College. He also pastors the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. His church made news in December 2023 for depicting a nativity in which a “baby Jesus” was displayed in rubble, wearing a traditional Arab keffiyeh, the black and white patterned scarf that has become known as a symbol of Palestinian resistance.
Isaac spoke to this display and his accompanying sermon, “Christ Under the Rubble,” in his address at the conference. It was a visual, he said, created by him “as a pastoral act” to “console” his people.
In speaking about solidarity with the marginalized and oppressed, he continued: “If Jesus would have been born in our land today, would he have entered our world in any other way today?”
Isaac believes this pastoral move was necessary to reclaim the honor and dignity of the lives of the people in Gaza.
The provocative visual of the nativity paired with the sermon, demonstrates the extent of the theological problems existing within broader Christian Palestinianism.
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Even with nuanced presentations from speaker to speaker, CATC seminars work within a shared set of goals that ultimately seek to promote historical revisionism of Jewish/Arab relations. This is attempted through sharing highly emotional personal narratives, void of greater context and woven throughout theological discourse.
Persecution and human rights violations from Radical Islam and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are conveniently avoided. This leaves undiscerning observers with the sense that not only this current war but the entirety of the conflict is one between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Christians. The Christians in mention are not only ‘victims’ of Israel but also of the broader church, which has chosen to stand with Jewish Israelis – people of a different faith – over the suffering of Palestinian Christians.
The CATC conference director is Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac. Yes, the same Palestinian Christian leader who was hosted by Tucker Carlson in early April.
It was easily observed in the interview that the Bethlehem resident failed to condemn the Hamas terrorist organization for the atrocities of Oct. 7, and while he lives under the Islamic-influenced Palestinian Authority, he solely blamed Israel for the suffering of his people. He even expressed dismay at the lack of support Palestinian Christians receive from “Christian siblings” around the world.
“And in our pain and anguish,” he said, “We as Palestinians… as Palestinian Christians, actually, had to endure an additional burden, the complicity of many in the church of this genocide.”
Of course, the use of this word “genocide” follows Hamas propaganda rather than the legal definition, and he supports this idea as valid through the use of the highly questionable Hamas-run Ministry of Health statistics.
Though the emotion behind his position is sincere, Isaac’s shock and rebuke of the church is based on a false dichotomy.
Evangelicals are not choosing between supporting a Jewish Israel, with a secular democracy, versus Palestinian Christians in the plight to establish a democratic state.
Rather the truth is that to stand with a Palestinian Nationalist movement, even presented under the guise of Christian language, is to stand with an Islamic government, one whose Basic Laws (their prototype constitution) state they will abide by Sharia Law, and one whose people currently are showing an 80% support base for Hamas as leadership. The end result would be a terrorist state bent on Israel’s destruction.
Isaac, known to be openly hostile towards Israel, is the academic dean at Bethlehem Bible College. He also pastors the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. His church made news in December 2023 for depicting a nativity in which a “baby Jesus” was displayed in rubble, wearing a traditional Arab keffiyeh, the black and white patterned scarf that has become known as a symbol of Palestinian resistance.
Isaac spoke to this display and his accompanying sermon, “Christ Under the Rubble,” in his address at the conference. It was a visual, he said, created by him “as a pastoral act” to “console” his people.
In speaking about solidarity with the marginalized and oppressed, he continued: “If Jesus would have been born in our land today, would he have entered our world in any other way today?”
Isaac believes this pastoral move was necessary to reclaim the honor and dignity of the lives of the people in Gaza.
The provocative visual of the nativity paired with the sermon, demonstrates the extent of the theological problems existing within broader Christian Palestinianism.
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