The biggest “pro-Israel” lobby isn’t AIPAC, it’s Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, which counts more white Evangelical members—10 million—than there are Jews in the US.
Given that AIPAC has a lot of Evangelical support, and American Jews prioritize Israel near the bottom of their list of issues, it’d be nice if people stopped conflating Diaspora Jews with #Israel. #judaism
American Jews are the most liberal religious group and the Israeli gov, like the white Evangelical movement, is dominated by fundamentalist wingnuts so they’re natural allies.
There are obvs far-right American Jews, but most of us hate Bibi and everything he stands for.
@JoshuaHolland Except I do not think Netanyahu wants Israel to be destroyed by a nuclear Holocaust
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical-christians-israel-hamas-war
Which the evangelicals want
@JoshuaHolland The Christian Evangelicals who want to support Israel because they think doing so will bring about the literal apocalypse need more negative press attention.
They are probably the closest thing the real world has to one of those death cults in fantasy fiction that worship a slumbering skeleton god that they want to wake up so it eats the world and kills everyone.
@JoshuaHolland Plus, Hagee et al aren't interested in your health or safety as a people. They want to you all back in Israel so their particular little apocalypse story in their little religious book comes to pass. It's ALL ABOUT trying to "fulfill the prophecy" from Revelation.
They are not on Israel's side. Never have been.
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