Iowa David

Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

I am an evangelical Christian. I am a Trump supporter. I believe in America First with every fiber of my being. And I am one of the most dangerous people to anyone trying to peddle Jew hatred as foreign policy because I know my Bible, I know my history, I know what this movement actually stands for, and I am going to TRIPLE down. Trump inherited a Middle East on fire and left it transformed. He moved the American embassy to Jerusalem. Three presidents before him promised it. None of them did it. He destroyed ISIS. He killed Qasem Soleimani. I supported getting out of endless wars. I still do. Demanding that American foreign policy serve American interests is legitimate. Being skeptical of neoconservative nation-building fantasies is legitimate. None of it has any bearing on Iran. I am not a neocon. I cannot be dismissed as a warmonger or an establishment stooge or a globalist who doesn’t care about American lives. I care enormously about American lives. I want American soldiers home. I want American money spent on Americans. I want an end to the era of nation-building fantasies that turned the Middle East into a graveyard for American kids from towns that never recovered from losing them. AND I know my Bible. And my Bible tells me in terms that do not require a seminary degree to understand that God made an unconditional covenant with the Jewish people, that the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable Romans 11:29, look it up and that the nation that has returned to its ancestral homeland after two thousand years of exile and survived seven wars of annihilation is not a geopolitical accident. I am dangerous because I hold both things simultaneously and I will not let either one be used against the other. My foreign policy skepticism cannot be weaponized into antisemitism because my theology won’t allow it. My theology cannot be dismissed as naive because my foreign policy analysis is serious. The Jew-hating fake right currently parasitizing this movement has a very specific vulnerability. It depends on people not knowing what Trump actually did. It depends on people not knowing what the Bible actually says. It depends on people not knowing that the foreign policy critique they are nodding along to is a vehicle for a destination they never agreed to travel to. It depends on the evangelical base being too polite, too conflict-averse, and too institutionally cautious to name the operation for what it is. I am none of those things. And those who can’t win on the message always try to take out the messenger. I do this because I want my kids to grow up in a free country, because God blessed with this platform even though I have no podcast, no coupon code, no vitamins and no endorsement deals. I say what I want. And if you don’t like it, scroll up.