Evangelicals Only Want To Use Jews, Warn Activists Who Only Want To Use Jews

Support for Israel as a shared value between the two faith groups is an unacceptable form of “tokenism.”

New York, August 19 – Members of an anti-Israel group who cite certain members of the Hebrew persuasion to lend their agenda legitimacy cautioned other Americans of that persuasion that Christian movements seek to co-opt them to lend legitimacy to an eschatological agenda.

Activists in If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, and other progressive Jewish organizations opposed to a strong secure Jewish state in the ancestral Jewish homeland, and whose organizations exist for the purpose of exploiting Jewish heritage to give the organizations the imprimatur of authentic Jewishness, warned coreligionists again today that Christian evangelicals support the Jewish state only as a stepping-stone in their vision for bringing about the End of Days in keeping with their interpretation of Christian scripture. The INN and JVP members characterized the evangelical approach as exploitative, and called Christian activities to highlight support for Israel as a shared value between the two faith groups an unacceptable form of “tokenism.”

“It’s dangerous for Jews to cozy up to evangelicals even for short-term convergence of interests,” admonished Yonah Lieberman of If Not Now. “We who worry for the future of the Jewish community must speak up about this danger, which is what we had in mind when we founded our organization with the indispensable assistance of evangelical activist and ideological ally Seth Woody, who of course, being a good Christian, would never dream of exploiting Jews to advance his political vision.”

“We’re best off following the Soviet model,” advised Jewish Voice for Peace activist Tzvi Shabbetai. “The Yevsektsia, or ‘Jewish Department;’ of the Communist Party, made sure to raise up Jews who denounced other Jews for capitalism or other ideological offenses such as not renouncing Jewish practice. That tiny minority of proud Jews who did the denouncing really understood what being Jewish is about, not like the millions of deluded Jews they sought to strip of their heritage. The parallels to evangelicals are unsettling, and it’s like the Jewish side of that Zionist ‘alliance’ lacks some basic self-awareness.”

The activists also cautioned against the acceptance of so-called “moderate” Arab or Muslim voices in mainstream contexts. “If you normalize the people who normalize Jewish sovereignty, you’re normalizing tokenism,” stated Lieberman. “The vast majority of Arabs and Muslims oppose it, and they show their opposition in unequivocal ways that many might even describe as terrorism, but don’t you dare define them as violent based on the attitudes and actions of a minority. That’s for us to do when it comes to Jews.”

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