Rebecca Singerman-Knight of Kingston Liberal Synagogue

Who was your lovely woman who spoke up for the starving Gazans on 29th June?  What a fantastic woman!  Tim Weller

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Our evangelical friends want the lot - from the river to the sea and more!

TRANSCRIPT

Yesterday, 29 June 2025, Radio 4's 'Sunday' covered Israel's war on Gaza.

"500 people killed and 4,000 injured.  Those are the casualty totals stated by the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza for people waiting to get aid from the American and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."  Thought to be registered in Delaware but, from the address given, it was not found there.

Some evangelicals believe the Lord's coming is linked to the fulfilment of Israel taking land and the warfare that is inevitable in the unHoly Land before Christ's return.

An excellent woman, a former co-Chair of Kingston Liberal Synagogue and recently suspended from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, spoke so well.  She said she really loved Israel, was a proud Zionist but was deeply critical of the actions of the current government which was being governed by the extremists in the governing coalition.  She said she is speaking up against the horrendous actions that are taking place in Gaza because of the extremist elements in the Coalition.

The evangelical Christian, Rev Johnnie Moore who is Executive Chair of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Delaware, was referred to.

Author of 'Before the Religious Right', Gene Zubovich said,

"Johnnie Moore is a protege of the religious right man Gerry Falwell Snr (from the 1970s).  Moore believes in religious Zionism.  Most evangelicals believe that the restoration of Israel/Palestine to the Jewish people must precede the Second Coming of Christ.  The technical term for this is premillennial dispensationalism.  Evangelicals believe that history is divided into distinct eras or dispensations and they also believe that a lot of suffering will take place before the millennium.  Hence the premillennial part.  So because evangelicals believe that the restoration of Israel/Palestine to the Jewish people must precede the Second Coming of Christ, they have historically supported Zionism.  Evangelicals view the events of the Middle East and the conflict that is happening there as a confirmation of their prophecy about the End Times.  So their theological beliefs have very much driven their Zionism."

"Johnny Moore is very close to Donald Trump ... He picks and chooses who gets invited to meetings with Trump.  So somebody with a lot of access and political power in the way of connecting evangelicals to the Trump administration."

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