Curry’s investments demonstrate how Israel’s security establishment co-opts high-profile cultural influencers to provide the country, and its military-derived technology, with legitimacy.
A recent statement by Church Patriarchs in Jerusalem rejecting Zionism was historic, and the response it provoked from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shows the steps Christian Zionists are taking to silence Palestinian Christians.
The Bible-thumping, messianic rhetoric of Israeli and American politicians reveals a dangerous irony: they don’t oppose theocracy (unless it’s the Islamic kind) and cloak their own fanaticism in terms like ‘Judeo-Christian values’ and ‘the West’