Are Evangelicals Anti-Semitic?
Evangelicals think that, by only speaking well of Jews, they are beyond the reproach of ever being labeled anti-Semitic. Wrong. The state department says that if Christians believe the New Testament account that Jewish leaders had Christ crucified they are the very worst kind of anti-Semites: “classical” anti-Semites. That’s what Hitler was (See, Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism: A Report Provided to the United States Congress, page 5). To please both Jews and the government, evangelicals must now fulfill two criteria: Never say true but unflattering things about Israel and abandon belief in the New Testament. Will evangelicals accommodate the state department’s new requirement of philo-Semitic correctness? Countless followers of John Hagee already do. They agree with his book “In Defense of Israel” that the New Testament testimony that Jews killed Christ is an anti-Semitic lie that birthed the Holocaust. Yet an increasing number of Americans are no longer content to be insulated from
