Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, the issue of support for Israel has become more divisive than ever. The anti-Israel voices are growing louder and ever more violent, and, sadly, many of those voices are Jewish.
For Jews and Christians, the importance of supporting Israel couldn’t be clearer. The Bible tells us that Israel is God’s Promised Land. Israel is central to the biblical narrative and the beginnings of both Judaism and Christianity. It’s also the only state in the Middle East committed to individual liberty.
Yet so many liberal Jews choose to stand with the terrorists who seek to eliminate Israel. Granted, Jewish people on the left are often secular and use their Jewishness as a cultural identity, but shouldn’t someone who calls himself Jewish at least understand what it means to be Jewish?
Last week, Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz wrote an op-ed at Israel365 News in which he claimed that Zionist Christians have more in common with faithful Jews than Jewish people who refuse to support Israel.
“I feel more at home sitting with Christians who love Israel than with liberal Jews who reject Israel and support political agendas that threaten the Promised Land,” he writes. “My Christian friends share many of my dearest values, share my Bible, and share my love for the most precious thing in my life outside of my family: the land of Israel.”
“Liberal Jews share none of that and have a painful disdain for all of these precious things,” he continues. “How can I call them ‘brother’?”
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For Jews and Christians, the importance of supporting Israel couldn’t be clearer. The Bible tells us that Israel is God’s Promised Land. Israel is central to the biblical narrative and the beginnings of both Judaism and Christianity. It’s also the only state in the Middle East committed to individual liberty.
Yet so many liberal Jews choose to stand with the terrorists who seek to eliminate Israel. Granted, Jewish people on the left are often secular and use their Jewishness as a cultural identity, but shouldn’t someone who calls himself Jewish at least understand what it means to be Jewish?
Last week, Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz wrote an op-ed at Israel365 News in which he claimed that Zionist Christians have more in common with faithful Jews than Jewish people who refuse to support Israel.
“I feel more at home sitting with Christians who love Israel than with liberal Jews who reject Israel and support political agendas that threaten the Promised Land,” he writes. “My Christian friends share many of my dearest values, share my Bible, and share my love for the most precious thing in my life outside of my family: the land of Israel.”
“Liberal Jews share none of that and have a painful disdain for all of these precious things,” he continues. “How can I call them ‘brother’?”
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