The Growing Fight Over Zionism in the Heart of the GOP
”Meanwhile, Jewish Americans still overwhelmingly lean left and are amongst the loudest voices against Israel’s violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Jews are only 2.5% of the American population, and they are a much smaller demographic within the Republican coalition, so their reach is limited. Historically, it was Christian Zionists [politicalresearch.org] who dominated GOP discourse on Israel, driven by the evangelical The end times scenarios of different religious groups. Uses include beliefs about the end of an age or the end of the world. Learn more that puts the Jewish return to Zion as the centerpiece of the coming In some evangelical Christian apocalyptic narratives, the collective salvation of the remaining remnant of the Christian faithful occurs through an event called the rapture. Learn more and return of Christ. George W. Bush was the most obvious figure in the early 2000s, but organizations like Christians United for Israel remain the largest “Israel lobby” in the United States, and Senators like Ted Cruz are vocal in their religiously-motivated support for Israel and attempts to synthesize Jewish and A strand of Christian thought which holds that the State of Israel is crucial to the fulfillment of end times prophecies. Learn more . Cruz, who was embarrassingly dressed down by Carlson for his lack of knowledge about Iran, recently told the Republican Jewish Coalition that Carlson was a coward who was “complicit” in evil.”