How anti-Semitic beliefs have taken hold among some evangelical Christians

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While Trump calls most Jews disloyal, some American Christians are following pastors who blame Jews for a long list of the nation’s ills.


Trump, she says, “is surrounded by a Zionist environment with completely different values from Christians. It’s kabbalist. It’s Talmudic values. Not the word of God.”

In other words: It’s the Jews’ fault.

“Why do we have pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ values, and we do not have more freedom to protect our faith? We are persecuted now,” Yanko says about evangelical Christians like herself. “[Jews] say, ‘We’ve got America. We control America.’ That’s what I know.”

It’s an anti-Semitic viewpoint shared by a number of evangelical Christians across the country. The relationship between Christians and Jews has been fraught for almost 2,000 years since the death of Jesus. Today, with a president who levels accusations about Jews and who encourages his fans to mistrust the mainstream media, a growing number of evangelicals are turning to the Internet for information and finding anti-Jewish beliefs there.


Christian theology has also gone hand in hand with anti-Semitism for centuries, dating back long before Martin Luther. To this day, some Christians believe that the Jews killed Jesus and that modern Jews should bear the guilt.

“There are plenty of evangelicals who have views about Jewish power, who assume Jews are controlling things. Jerry Falwell [Sr.] joked about how Jews could make more money,” said Daniel Hummel, a historian at a Christian study center at the University of Wisconsin who recently published a book about evangelicals and Jews.


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ANTI-SEMITISM, 2000 YEARS OF HISTORY

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The majority of Jewish people do not hold many of the same values so important to Evangelical Christians. Take homosexuality for example. Tel-Aviv, Israel's largest city and home to the largest population of Jewish people in the world had become one of the most popular destinations for same-sexuals in the world.

Evangelicals like to take a strong stand against divorce (though in practice they are divorcing almost as frequently as other religious groups). Jews and Judaism are much more lenient allowing divorce and remarriage without the religious and social
restrictions common to Evangelicals.


The most common argument is that Jewish people prefer a liberal agenda where the rights of minorities are protected. Many Jews still fear conservative Christian politics that could lead to Jewish and other minorities being excluded or even persecuted by a strong White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority -- a phenomenon that occurred not that long ago in Europe.



The strict adherence by Evangelicals to standardized theological doctrines also tends to intimidate Jews who have experienced Inquisition, Crusades and Pogroms because of dogmatic Christian beliefs.