Presbyterian Church (USA) votes to divest from Israel bonds
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“On Monday, the denomination also passed a resolution denouncing Christian Zionism.” - RNS
Zionist “Racism”: Rebutting the Most Problematic Allegation Against Israel at War
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“Israeli public policy… is perhaps more willfully anti-racist than that of any other parliamentary state, a dissenting opinion requiring the provision of otherwise distasteful ethnographic clarifications.” - Providence
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Pew Research: How Israeli Society Has Unified, and Divided, in Wartime
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“Some Israelis see very strong conflicts in their society, but fewer say this than a year ago” - Pew
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What Does It Mean to Stand with Israel? (Part 5)
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While Israel faces the increasing potential of an expanding war in the Middle East, the world is clearly careening into a new era of unreserved antisemitism.
How should we as Christians respond?
If we are convinced Biblically that God still has a future for the people, nation and land of Israel—that He will fulfill every promise He has ever given His chosen people, and every prophecy He has ever made about them—that will certainly determine the tenor of our reaction.
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The “New” Antisemitism in America’s Universities
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“The ‘new’ wave of antisemitism in the West clarifies to Israeli Jews too that they cannot escape their fate in Israel by relocating to Europe or America. They too cannot escape antisemitism by distancing themselves from Israel.” - Providence
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What Does It Mean to Stand with Israel? (Part 4)
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What does it mean to stand with Israel? My wife Lynnette and I were challenged to think about that question in a completely new way on Friday, June 7, when we heard a firsthand account of the terrorist massacre that Hamas unleashed last October 7.
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What Does It Mean to Stand with Israel? (Part 3)
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What are some specific things that we can do to stand with—that is, bless (Gen. 12:3)—the people, nation and land of Israel?
As we documented in the previous installment, we certainly have good reason to desire to do so. As Jesus told the Canaanite woman, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt. 15:24). And as He reminded the Samaritan woman, “Salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22).
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What Does It Mean to Stand with Israel? (Part 2)
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What are we really calling for when we entreat people to stand with the people, nation and land of Israel?
We’ve been pondering that question during this period of unprecedented, frightful and downright dangerous antisemitism—the worst that the world has witnessed since the dreadful days of the Holocaust.
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What the Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About
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“They are united only in wanting to tear down. In short, these protests are a manifestation of the Mephistophelean spirit of negation or, in religious terms, the spirit of desecration.” - Carl Trueman
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What Does It Mean to Stand with Israel? (Part 1)
My previous column challenged Bible-believing Christians—and all Americans—to stand with the people, nation and land of Israel during these times of unprecedented hatred aimed at Jewish people around the world.
During the past week, the animosity and hostility spouted against the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have grown to a level that we might have considered unfathomable, making such pleas all the more necessary. This story is not going away anytime soon. The acrimony is spreading like wildfire.
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