Today we’re excited to share an episode from the Latitude Adjustment Podcast looking at the role Christian Zionism plays in continuing persecution of Palestinians.
Eric Maddox completed his graduate research in Conflict Transformation from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank, collecting oral histories from the 1948 War. He is the founder and director of the Palestine Podcast Academy, and the host of Latitude Adjustment Podcast.
He interviewed Rev. Dr. Don Wagner, a friend of Mondoweiss, and expert on Christian Zionism.
From Latitude Adjustment’s show notes:
While there have been different strains of Christian Zionism dating back to the Sixteenth Century, the most politicized, powerful, and violent iteration of the movement has its roots in the contemporary Christian Evangelical Church. Modern Christian Zionists hold that the ethnic cleansing of roughly 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in historic Palestine in 1948 by Jewish Zionists was the fulfillment of a Biblical prophecy in which the so-called Holy Land must be resettled by the Jewish people in order to usher in the return of Jesus Christ as the messiah. Modern Christian Zionism is distinct from the modern form of political Zionism that arose amongst the European Jewish community in the late 19th Century.
Don Wagner is a Christian theologian, a former minister, and author. He received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary. He is also author of, “Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land”.
If you want to hear more from the Latitude Adjustment Podcast and the Palestine Podcast Academy, check our show notes for links.
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Interesting to hear how these two men moved from Christian Zionism to Anti-Zionism. A couple of salient quotes from Dr. Wagner –
“It’s not enough to have a ‘free press’ and a First Amendment if people don’t have the courage to actually speak the truth. … There’s a lot of misdirection, misinformation, and just outright propaganda, through omission, and perspectives that are being left out in coverage of what’s happening in Israel / Palestine, and frankly the Global South more generally, in US media.”
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“Seeing the reality on the ground, it’s pretty hard to deny the severity of the abuse and the structural racism. And frankly, if there is such a thing as evil, the evil is being done to an entire population, … amongst them innocent children.”