Friday, January 23, 2026
Elder of Ziyon
It is a fascinating statement. It does not give any theological arguments against Zionism. It is entirely about protecting turf and silencing any opinions of Israel besides their own.
And they hate Israel.
The churches behind this declaration – primarily Eastern and Oriental Orthodox bodies – have a long, unresolved history of antisemitism and theological hostility toward Jewish sovereignty. Unlike the Catholic Church after Vatican II, these institutions have never formally repudiated supersessionism, never acknowledged their role in fostering anti-Jewish theology, and never meaningfully reckoned with the consequences of that theology in the modern Middle East.
This is not ancient history. In 2009, Palestinian church leaders issued the Kairos Palestine document, a text that framed Israel’s existence as a sin, rebranded classical Christian anti-Judaism in the language of “liberation theology,” and provided theological cover for the global Christian campaign to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state. The document was not a marginal curiosity – it became a touchstone for church-based anti-Israel activism worldwide.
In 2006, the spokesman for the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem accused Israeli women of diabolically spreading AIDS among virtuous Palestinian men.
That is the moral and theological lineage from which this new statement emerges.
The January declaration repeatedly invokes “unity,” but unity here does not mean dialogue or mutual respect across Christian traditions. It means submission to their opinion.
The claim that the Jerusalem church leaders “alone represent the Churches and their flock” is not about doctrine; it is about control. Visiting Christians – many of them Evangelicals or post–Vatican II Catholics – are implicitly told that supporting Israel, or even engaging Israeli officials independently, constitutes interference and moral harm.
No one believes this standard would be accepted in reverse. If foreign church leaders visited Rome or the United States and were told to not spread their anti-Israel propaganda, they would not only refuse, but they would publicly flout the demand and complain that they were being censored.
So much for unity!
Christian Zionism is condemned in this statement not because it is heretical – no doctrinal argument is made – but because it rejects the Jerusalem churches’ political theology: a theology that treats Jewish sovereignty as illegitimate, Israel as a moral stain, and Christian witness as necessarily aligned against the Jewish state.
For many Christians, support for Israel is not political fashion but moral repentance – a conscious rejection of centuries of Christian antisemitism. That is precisely why it is threatening to institutions that have never abandoned replacement theology or their hostility to Jewish national self-determination.
Churches with a documented record of antisemitism and anti-Israel activism are now warning others about “damaging ideologies” and claiming exclusive moral authority in the land of Israel – without a word of self-reflection, repentance, or historical accountability.
This is not a call for unity. It is an attempt to enforce conformity with a hateful ideology while insulating past sins from scrutiny.
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