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Is Evangelical Support
For Israel Tainted?

RONNIE SCHREIBER

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s an observant Jew, a
lifelong Zionist and a
longtime activist in
the movement fighting Chris-
tian missionaries who target
Jews for conversion, I was ap-
palled at Joseph Puder's Opi-
nion piece Dec. 16 on
Evangelical support for Israel
titled "Staunch, Reliable
Friends of State."
Though certainly it is bet-
ter for Evangelicals to express
support for the State of Israel
than to oppose Israeli
political interests, Puder's
tunnel vision chooses to ig-
nore the Evangelicals' stated
religious missionary agency.
His position paper is obvious-
ly a product of the "any-port-
in-a-storm" school of wishful
thinking.
Let's begin with his claim
that Evangelical Christians
"have never denied the
Jewish collective identity." Ig-
noring the long-standing posi-
tion of Evangelical and other
mainstream Christians that
they, "the body of Christ,"
have replaced the Jews in
God's eyes as "the New
Israel," Mr. Puder also seems
to be ignorant of the enor-
mous financial and logistical
support by Evangelical Chris-
tians for Jews For Jesus and
other missionary groups who
target Jews.
This support approaches
$100 million in contributions
annually and makes it possi-
ble for missionaries like
Moishe Rosen, director of
Jews for Jesus, to publicly
make statements such as
"Judaism is a false religion"
and "We (Jews who have em-
braced Christianity) are the
only good Jews."
Mr. Puder is satisfied with
Jerry Falwell's carefully
worded response to the ques-
tion, "Are you and your
church aggressively seeking
to convert Jews to Christiani-
ty?" To Which Falwell
replied, "We have no such
specialized ministry."
Though Rev. Falwell's
church in Lynchburg, Va., has
no such ministry, he personal-
ly sits on the boards of groups
who specifically target Jews,
like the International Board
of Jewish Ministries based in
Chattanooga, Tenn., as well
as the Southern Baptist
Board of Missions.
To get a more accurate idea
of Falwell's true attitudes
toward Jews and Judaism,
one need only look further in
the book Mr. Puder has so

carefully quoted from Jerry
Falwell and the Jews. Rev.
Falwell describes Jews who
have embraced Christianity
as receivng a "great treasure"
and Christians who convert to
Judaism as rejecting that
treasure.
The problem is not
restricted to just Jerry =(
Falwell. Virtually all
Evangelicals support mis-
sionizing. Falwell's fellow TV
evangelist and self-professed
Judeophile, Pat Robertson,
and his Christian Broad-
casting Network make at
least 10 percent of its
religious broadcast time
available to so-called "Jewish
evanglists," and Christian
Jews are frequent guests on
his "700 Club" show.
As for the International
Christian Embassy (ICE) in
Jerusalem, Jews For
Judaism, the leading group in
the struggle against
unethical Christian mis-
sionaries, considers the ICE
to be a major supporter of
Hebrew-Christian activity in
Israel.

(

Pastor Bob Lindsey, a gen-
tile Christian who has work-
ed with the ICE, has stated,
"I deny that there is a Jewish
stream that is meaningful —
ultimately meaningful — out-
side the Jewish-Christendom
stream. I say I still feel
Jewish . . . I want to be able
to come to this country
(Israel) and say, I am a Jew
and therefore I have a right to
return to this land under the
Law of Return like every
other Jew."
If this isn't a denial of
Jewish collective identity (the
assertion that Christians can
claim to be Jews), then
nothing is.
According to Jews For
Judaism, missionary groups
like the International Chris-
tian Embassy have increas-
ingly focused their efforts to
encourage Christian Jews to
move to Israel under the Law
of Return in order to pro-
selytize the Israeli Jews.
Many of these Hebrew-
Christians have asserted that
the Jewish covenantal claims
to the Land of Israel are
maintained solely by the ex-
istence of Jews who embrace
Christianity. After snatching
perhaps 100,000 Jewish souls
over the last 25 years, now
Christian missionaries may
also want to lay claim to the
Jewish Land.
As for the implied assertion
that Jews and Evangelicals
were equally persecuted by
state religious authorities

