Christian Zionism in the News

The Forward’s Provocative Perspective on Mike Huckabee and Christian Zionism

December 10, 2024

The November 2024 issue of The Forward, a Jewish, independent, nonprofit magazine, included an opinion piece titled “Mike Huckabee’s old-school Christian Zionism is bad news for anyone who wants Middle East peace.” The opinion piece is blunt: “The goal of the ideology that Huckabee preaches . . . is the removal of Palestinians from the biblically defined land of Israel to facilitate Christ’s return. This extreme position goes farther than that of even the most rightward Israeli settlers.” In the article, author Tristan Sturm outlines Huckabee’s theological perspective and quotes Huckabee on his fervent support for Israel. He concludes, “For Huckabee, what happens next in the Middle East will not be about politics. It will be about a violent vision of religion, one in which conflict, war and dismal fates for Palestinians and Jews alike are preordained by God.”

Tristan Sturm is Reader in Geography at Queen’s University Belfast. He researches apocalyptic thought related to climate change, conspiracies, and religious movements in the USA and Israel/Palestine. He is currently finishing a book titled, The Future is a Foreign Country: Christian Zionists and Landscapes of the Apocalypse in Israel/Palestine.

To read Sturm’s article (click here): Mike Huckabee’s old-school Christian Zionism is bad news for anyone who wants Middle East peace