Democrats: Tell Mike Huckabee to Go to Hell
“Of course, you don’t have to be a Christian Zionist to ignore international law. (As the Biden administration showed, you don’t have to be a Republican either.) There are already signs that Huckabee will join forces with Representative Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick for United Nations ambassador; when he learned of her nomination, Huckabee shared his hope that she would “jackhammer” the institution. But his particular strain of extremism has been gaining traction for decades in the US government. Christian Zionists are an ascendant force in American politics and have formed an unholy alliance with Donald Trump. Trump’s secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is also a Christian Zionist. He has close ties with Christian nationalist groups and celebrates the Crusades as an admirable example of European Christian might. Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is the largest pro-Israel organization in the US. It boasts over 8 million members, [politicalresearch.org] more than the total population of American Jews. CUFI’s founder, pastor John Hagee, called Huckabee’s nomination an “inspiring choice.” Hagee regularly expresses his supposed love for Israel under the guise of caring about Jewish people, but he has a history of heinous antisemitism, including saying that God sent Hitler as a hunter to push the Jewish people to Israel.”