Connor Echols – Responsible Statecraft July 9, 2026
Each year, hundreds of activists from Christians United for Israel (CUFI), America’s largest Zionist organization, descend on the Capitol for a marathon lobbying campaign. This time around, offices got a warning first.“You may get a visit later on from people from CUFI,” Rev. Hannah Sachs, a pastor with the United Church of Christ, told staffers at one Senate office. While Sachs spoke softly, her flyers had a sharper tone. “Religious extremists want you to start Armageddon,” the text read, adding that CUFI is pushing an “Israel-first” agenda that would “further entrench U.S. military entanglement in the Middle East.”
Sachs, who went from office to office alongside progressive Rabbi Abby Stein, was there representing Interfaith Action for Palestine, a group of religious organizations that represent roughly a million Americans. Like many pro-Palestine organizations, the group has grown rapidly as Israel’s war in Gaza has dragged on. Efforts to disrupt CUFI’s lobbying have become Interfaith Action for Palestine’s signature annual event; Stein was among dozens of the group’s activists who were arrested last year after shutting down a congressional cafeteria.
Their opponent is formidable. CUFI, which has a self-declared membership of more than 10 million people, has long been one of America’s most influential pro-Israel groups. Since CUFI relaunched in 2006, its annual conference has drawn a litany of prominent right-wing speakers, including members of Congress like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Their activism as well as that of other evangelical Zionists helped push President Donald Trump to launch a war with Iran and relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
At this weekend’s conference, conservative radio hosts Glenn Beck and Mark Levin took the stage, as did Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter. Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the crowd via video.
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Leading CUFI is its founder, Pastor John Hagee, who is among the most prominent proponents of Christian Zionism in America. Hagee, like many evangelical leaders, argues that the Bible commands Christians to support the modern state of Israel, and he has maintained significant influence on the Christian right despite his myriad controversies, including his since-recanted claim that the Holocaust was part of God’s plan to return Jews to Israel.
Hagee still argues that “America’s solidarity with Israel has never been more important” and that “Israel’s enemies are our enemies.” But his message is rapidly becoming less popular among Christian Americans. A 2025 poll from the University of Maryland found that, while 51% of older evangelicals favored the Israelis over the Palestinians, only 24% of evangelicals under 35 years old said the same. The numbers are even starker among other faith groups: today, only 35% of American Catholics and 33% of Black Protestants say they hold a favorable view of Israel.
Indeed, only 37% of American Jews now identify as Zionist.
Sachs and Stein, alongside 50 or so other activists from Interfaith Action for Palestine, sought to press this message as they fanned out across congressional offices Tuesday morning. Unsurprisingly, the group was most at home in Democratic offices, which had largely already signed onto bills that would block weapons transfers to Israel or try to stop the war in Iran; “thanks for warning us” about CUFI, said one Democratic staffer.
But they also hoped to make inroads with Republicans. For Sachs, this came naturally. She grew up in an evangelical Zionist home and went to a church that made regular donations to CUFI. As a child, she was taught that you “could not truly be a follower of Christ and not support the modern nation-state of Israel,” she told RS. “Israel could do no wrong.”
Then, after leaving evangelicalism and joining a mainline Protestant church, she abandoned this point of view and came to see opposition to the current Israeli government as a “more faithful reading of Scripture.” As Sachs put it, “if you love your neighbor, you shouldn’t kill them.” Speaking to congressional staffers, she emphasized the plight of Palestinian Christians. “We do not believe that God would bomb children.”
Perhaps the most unusual aspect of the day’s proceedings was the relative calm that prevailed. For unclear reasons, CUFI scheduled its lobbying push during a congressional recess, meaning that the halls of Congress were largely empty and members were far from Washington. The subdued scene was a striking contrast to previous years, when Interfaith Action for Palestine verbally sparred with CUFI activists and even blocked CUFI buses leaving from a local hotel for Capitol Hill.
But loud protests are no longer the only way for anti-Zionist activists to make their voices heard. Increasingly, pro-Palestine advocates are finding allies in high places. Stein is a testament to this fact; she served on the transition team for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a leading socialist politician with a strong pro-Palestine perspective. And she is a close ally of three left-wing activists who recently won Democratic congressional primaries in New York while running on a pro-Palestine message.
As Sachs and Stein worked their way through the halls of Congress, it was hard to ignore the fact that their friends and colleagues would soon be sitting on the other side of the desk. Stein is hopeful that, if Democrats win a narrow majority of the House later this year, the growing group of strong progressives will have “a lot of power.”
“I really think it’ll be a different Congress,” she said.
Christian: Someone who believes in the teachings of Jesus and so by extension, is anti war.
Zionism: Jews who, after taking over the world’s “governments”, started a war and gave themselves palestine.
So what the fuck is a “Christian Zionist”?
It is, of course, the “christians” who are pretending to be christians but are really jews. They’re easy to spot. They support perversion, destruction of countries, “government”, “farmers”, drugs, prostitution, homelessness, and anything else that makes them money.
Gee, talk about Christian Zionists being fooled, The British worldwide are original true Israel.
British is from the Hebrew words Berith בְּרִית & Ish אִישׁ meaning Covenant & Men or People: all Saxons which name comes from [I]saac’s-sons, as prophesied in Genesis 21:12, who fall under their UNION of JACKob flag https://deuteronomy4verse2.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/127-saxons-are-the-sons-of-isaac/.
All S(h)emites to boot!
The people making the antisemitism slur are 95%+ actually Japethites; not Shemites at all https://deuteronomy4verse2.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/the-anti-semitism-hoax/.
Talk about descent into madness!
If you would only *think* about it, you would understand that the only way to get rid of Christian Zionism is to get rid of Christianity itself, or or totally delegitimize it.
The entire concept that the world was created by the god of some tribe of Middle Eastern thieves and murderers, who then gave it to them, is insane to begin with. Someone who believes that will believe anything, and might go along with anything.
The chance that the average man or woman could understand — let alone comprehend — “Reality,” let alone communicate it in words, is absolutely nil.
christian zionists how can christians support jews when they killed jesus ?
Ann Widdecombe’s death just exposed the left’s true colours – and it’s vile
Story by Giles Sheldrick
In truth Ann Widdecombe is probably giggling at some of the bitching and sniping aimed at her following her tragic death.
The former politician – first a socially conservative Tory and later Brexit Party and Reform MEP and activist –
was immoveable in her faith and beliefs.
And when politicians so often face two different directions at once it was a rare quality.
When the government stopped the world famous Maudsley psychiatric0 hospitals counseling service for those with abnormal
sexualities, An begged them to keep it going, they cured many disturbed people, and she spoke out about the LBGT child sex agenda
being pushed in schools by peter tatchell
“Christian” Zionism can’t die soon enough! And wouldn’t it be interesting to see Jesus whip these supporters of a nation that hates Christ (Israel) as he did the moneychangers in the Temple!
There has never been a more deceptive heresy than Christian Zionism.
The task of Christianity according to its founder is to convert souls for the kingdom of God, to save them from the clutches of sin and evil through Christ. The task is not to destroy the world, or to abandon it. It is to save it by conversion on a person by person basis, which is a process which includes serving as instruments of God to bring his kingdom into our world which is locked into great ignorance, selfishness, sin, and suffering through its rejection of God and his kingdom. Anything which diminishes the light, hope, and love God in this world is adverse to God and his kingdom.
While the other more globalist-orientated hierarchs of the leading Christian denominations are busy compromising the very nature and essence of Christ to forge some kind of world religion, heresies such as Christian Zionism abound. Jews who are religious may accept through their scriptures and teachings that the Almighty is a loving father, but in their rejection of Christ they have ended up with God only really being a loving father to themselves, resulting in an exclusivity which results in a relatively narrow neighbor principle in their beliefs. That is likely why so many irreligious Jews gravitate to universalistic systems of equality such as communism, while others who are more individualistic are simply secular.
As for Muslims, if they cannot say the “Our Father” prayer, acknowledging that the Almighty is a loving father wanting to forgive and redeem souls to him, and by simply praying that his kingdom come and his will be done on this earth and it is in heave, then from a Christian perspective, it must be said that the Christian hierarches are not really “helping” anyone, or for Muslims to come into the full revelation of God’s will which is rooted in that universal love which makes everything actually work.
The answer is neither to compromise Christ nor to feed any system of belief or thought based on hate and violence, or on the realm of Satan which propagates the heresies that might-makes-right, and the ends justify the means.
Christian Zionists are religious fundamentalists deceived into becoming political zealots. If they stopped to think about it they should be pissed off but they’re not thinking. If they did think they could ask themselves where in the New Testament does it say any of this stuff? It’s like Jesus didn’t turn over the tables of the moneylenders and more like he offered himself as muscle for hire. That’s the credo of Christian Zionism. They religiously believe things never told in the New Testament.
When Shemites are more concerned about the breed of their pet dog or cat than the preservation of their own kind, that is a unique victory for the Will of Canaan.
Today’s ‘israel’ is a figment of Shemite gullibility for at least 300 years.
“Christian” Zionism is a satanic false spin given to Christianity in the same sense that Satanism gives a demonic false spin to some “white awareness” groups.
Both “Christian” zionists and some “white awareness” groups are highly deceived by the same infernal entity, and in the end without even knowing it cooperate and complement each other in advancing its malignant designs.
But some people just don’t get it and keep walking like a ghost that repetitively reenacts the same scene in the same place century after century.
Hmph – Christian Zionist is an oxymoron stating a complete idiot is a. genius. And you can guess who created that sick joke!
“Reverend Hannah Sachs and Stein” for the rescue of ….. lol!
“Only 37% of American Jews ‘now identify’ as Zionists” – Remember the ole days during the beginning of the Spanish inquisition when masses of “Spanish Jews” became pork eating Catholics and Reverends like Hannah were instantly burned at the stakes? Well, all that is past. Right?