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A delegation of 1,000 U.S. Christian pastors and influencers — the largest radical of American Christian leaders to sojourn Israel since its founding — arrived past Tuesday arsenic portion of a Friends of Zion initiative.
The trip, organized successful concern with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is designed to supply grooming and hole participants to service arsenic unofficial ambassadors for Israel successful their communities.
Dr. Mike Evans, laminitis of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center successful Jerusalem and a confidant of President Donald Trump, said astir Evangelical book believers are Zionists, making them a cardinal state successful efforts to antagonistic antisemitism.
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The largest delegation of evangelical Christian pastors and influencers ever brought to Israel meets with erstwhile Hamas captives astatine the tract of the Supernova euphony festival connected Wednesday arsenic portion of the Friends of Zion Ambassador Program. (Shlomi Amsalem)
"These devils that hatred Jews hatred Christians conscionable arsenic much. What is being said against the State of Israel is 1 100 times worse than what the Nazis said connected their enactment level successful 1920, and everyone is ignoring it. They don’t recognize however unsafe this is," Evans told Fox News Digital.
"The caller wars of the 21st period are media wars, ideological wars, economical wars and proxy wars. And portion Israel has ne'er fought an ideological war, its enemies have," helium added.
Evans said members of the visiting delegation were vetted to guarantee nary hidden agendas and signed a pledge committing to basal successful solidarity with the Jewish people. "We had implicit 2,000 apply; we chose those champion suited for this archetypal trip. These 1,000 pastors correspond tens of millions of Americans and person large media and societal media influence," helium said.
The inaugural was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Evans has known for 45 years.
Dr. Mike Evans, laminitis of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center successful Jerusalem, meets with erstwhile Hamas hostage Edan Alexander. (Shlomi Amsalem)
"When we were connected Mount Herzl, 1 widow was determination sharing her story. Her girl nary longer has a daddy. Thinking that my small miss mightiness not person her dada broke my heart. I connected connected a heavy idiosyncratic level," Tamryn Foley, a subordinate of the National Faith Advisory Board's enforcement team, told Fox News Digital.
The committee is the largest conjugation backing and advocating for radical of faith, led by Pastor Paula White-Cain. Its ngo is built connected 4 pillars — protecting spiritual freedom, promoting a beardown America, defending beingness astatine each stages and honoring household values — and it identifies the U.S.-Israel confederation arsenic cardinal to that agenda.
"I basal with Israel precise strongly, and truthful does the radical of pastors I enactment with. I don’t deliberation we realized however large this lawsuit would be. We wanted to amusement support, and since we’ve been here, it’s been truthful overmuch much than we thought," said Foley, who lives successful Florida.
"I americium going backmost location with a occurrence to marque definite young radical successful my state cognize the truth. It’s 1 happening to recognize thing intellectually, and different to travel here, conscionable radical who person been affected, and link with them connected a bosom level," she continued.
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"There is truthful overmuch antagonistic propaganda successful our country. It’s loud, and we request to bash a amended occupation of educating young people. They’re susceptible of seeing done the nonsense and lies — I don’t deliberation we springiness them capable credit. We request to contiguous them with the information and works the effect for lifelong enactment for Israel," Foley said.
One nonsubjective of the training, helium explained, is to scope young radical — claiming countries similar Qatar person turned against Israel by investing millions of dollars to dispersed antisemitic contented done universities and integer platforms.
Evans said the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, has waged ideological warfare, describing it arsenic a "powerful demon due to the fact that it doesn’t wide customs, and you can’t termination it with a bullet.
"More than fractional of the Palestinian colonisation embraces Hamas’s ideology of extremist Islam," helium claimed, "which isn’t based connected onshore for bid but connected establishing an Islamic authorities and eradicating the Jewish state."
Dr. Mike Evans, laminitis of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center successful Jerusalem, meets with erstwhile Hamas hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel. (Shlomi Amsalem)
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Evans noted that the Evangelical movement, representing 9.7% of the planetary population, has importantly influenced U.S. overseas argumentation done its content that the biblical onshore belongs to the Jewish people.
"The president loves america and knows however we consciousness astir Israel," helium said. "We judge the president respects america and that we person his assurance and ear. We would not person had the hostages backmost without him. He volition basal with america and volition not cave successful to Jew-haters’ intentions regarding Judea and Samaria oregon a Palestinian state. He volition effort everything helium tin to assistance Israel," Evans added.
On Wednesday, the delegation met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and visited the tract of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre astatine the Supernova euphony festival, accompanied by erstwhile hostages Emily Damari, Tal Shoham, Moran Stella Yanai, and Aviva and Keith Siegel, who received the "Here Am I" Award for their advocacy work.
The largest delegation of evangelical Christian pastors and influencers ever brought to Israel tours the tract of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre astatine the Supernova euphony festival connected Wednesday. (Shlomi Amsalem)
"We are seeking to unify — and show that unity — betwixt evangelical Christian leaders successful America, Israel and the Jewish people, and to antagonistic immoderate cognition that this assemblage is divided connected the issue, due to the fact that it is not," Pastor Mike Atkins, a subordinate of the delegation, told Fox News Digital.
"The antisemitism that erupted had agelong been simmering beneath the aboveground connected assemblage campuses and successful large European cities. This is an unfastened basal against the lies, and a declaration of our committedness to truth," helium said.
Atkins explained that the delegation has been exposed "at the highest levels" to firsthand insights — visiting the tract of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, listening to victims, and seeing the realities connected the crushed successful Israel. Delegates, helium said, person besides received extended accusation done symposium speakers connected however to combat antisemitic deception and volition proceed to bash truthful arsenic they coalesce into a coalition.
"To the youth, I say: articulation the movement. Commit to ne'er again allowing the poisonous deception of antisemitism to penetrate our culture. Take a stand, talk up, and bash not stay silent," helium said.
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"The champion medicine for Jewish Derangement Syndrome, an acute signifier of bigotry and antisemitism, is for radical to travel to Israel and spot and perceive for themselves. These American spiritual leaders are committed to utilizing their pulpits and power to supply truth," Huckabee told Fox News Digital.
"Truth is the champion antibiotic to combat the conspiracy theories and falsehoods said astir the United States, its concern with Israel and the Jewish people," helium added.
Amelie Botbol is simply a freelance writer based successful Tel Aviv. Her articles person appeared successful the New York Post, Canada’s National Post, and the Washington Times. Amelie tin beryllium followed connected X @DatReporter
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