{"id":18089,"date":"2026-02-07T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=18089"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:29:12","slug":"does-the-right-have-an-antisemitism-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=18089","title":{"rendered":"Does the Right Have an Antisemitism Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Reading Time:<\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent address to the annual summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), three-term Senator Ted Cruz startlingly claimed,\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last six months, I\u2019ve seen more antisemitism on the right than I had in my entire life. This is a poison,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I believe we are facing an existential crisis in our party and our country. It\u2019s a handful of voices that are spreading this garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Join others crying out to the Lord day and night.<\/h4>\n

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Senator Cruz, arguably a leading light in the Republican party and a longtime supporter of Israel, presented the moment of division on the right as \u201ca time for choosing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as for me, I choose to stand with you,\u201d Senator Cruz said to the room of about 100 Jewish Republican donors. \u201cI choose to stand with Israel, and I choose to stand with America.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Rising Antisemitic Voices on the Right<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In his remarks to the RJC, Senator Cruz did not mention the names of those he believed were in the anti-Israel camp on the right.\n<\/p>\n

But later that week, he clearly alluded to Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News superstar now podcaster, and his interview with fellow podcaster and self-proclaimed white supremacist, Nick Fuentes, who gushed about his admiration for Adolf Hitler without a peep of pushback from Mr. Carlson.\n<\/p>\n

Later in that same week, Kevin Roberts, President of the influential conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, unreservedly stood by the comments made by his \u2018close personal friend\u2019 Tucker Carlson. After pressure to resign, he issued a weak apology rather than a resignation, calling his remarks a \u2018mistake\u2019, and has held onto his position.\n<\/p>\n

The damage done to Heritage by this debacle resulted in a mass exodus of many key leaders, including three Trustees, several senior staff and fellows, notably all the members of \u201cProject Esther\u201d, Heritage\u2019s antisemitism task force.\n<\/p>\n

Former Minnesota GOP Congresswoman, 2012 Presidential Candidate, and good friend of IFA, Michele Bachmann, resigned from the Heritage Foundation\u2019s National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism (NTFCA),\u00a0criticizing Heritage\u2019s board of directors for failing to hold President Roberts accountable.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe political left embraces antisemitism full\u00a0stop,\u201d Rep. Bachmann said, warning the right could soon be taken over by such thinking, telling Newsmax that \u201cantisemitism has no place within conservatism.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Applauding the strong support of \u201cthe most pro-Israel president in the history of the United States,\u201d\u00a0Senator Cruz called out his party as a whole.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many elected Republicans do you see standing up and calling this out?\u00a0 How many do you see willing to take on the voices on the anti-Israel right?\u201d\n<\/p>\n

We Have an Obligation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Heritage gaffe is not an isolated incident. The scope of influence prominent podcasters, such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes, have among young Republicans includes broadcasting growing antisemitic sentiment among future party leaders, as well.\n<\/p>\n

Candace Owens has become increasingly antisemitic in her comments. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Owens has claimed that Judaism was \u201ca pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons\u2026[and] child sacrifice.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

She\u2019s accused Israel of being behind the assassinations of President John Kennedy and Charlie Kirk. She\u2019s warned that criticizing Israel can get you killed. She claims Israel has \u201cpolluted American minds to believe that we must defend Israel out of morality and the evils of the Holocaust.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In addition to his fawning interview of Fuentes and calling Fuentes \u201ca cool guy\u201d, Tucker Carlson regularly uses language in his popular podcast that Israel \u201ccontrols\u201d or \u201cpulls the strings\u201d in U.S. politics and media. Carlson has also claimed on his podcast that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was telling everyone he knows that he controls President Donald Trump and tells him what to do.\n<\/p>\n

Senator Cruz has stated, \u201cFuentes and Carlson have a right to say what they are saying. But every one of us has an obligation to stand up and say it is wrong.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Powerful Intercessory Prayer Desperately Needed<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We turn to Derek Prince, founder of IFA, for guidance through his booklets, \u201cWhy Israel? God\u2019s Heart for a People, His Plan for a Nation<\/em>\u201d and \u201cOur Debt to Israel<\/em>.\u201d<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

In the final two chapters of \u201cWhy Israel?\u201d<\/em>, Prince presents us with questions and a higher vision.\n<\/p>\n

First, the questions: \u201cAre you willing to ask Jesus to give you His heart for the Jewish People?\u00a0 Are you willing to enter into an identification with the appalling evil that has been done in the name of Christ to the Jewish People? Are you willing to confess and repent for the continuing prejudices that are like an inundating tide?\u201d\n<\/p>\n

We cannot be intercessors in any real sense until we share the burden of the Lord for the situation for which we are praying.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u201d, according to Derek Prince, \u201csimply need to humble ourselves before God and say, \u2018God we<\/strong> have sinned. We <\/strong>have been guilty of the blood of the Jewish people. We, the Christian Church collectively, for 16 centuries have been instigators and perpetrators of antisemitism.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

From the Crusaders, in the Middle Ages, who captured Jerusalem by shedding Jewish blood, to the ghettos of Europe and Russia and the 20th-century\u00a0Nazi purge of six million Jews, while worldwide, Christians averted their eyes.\n<\/p>\n

In the eyes of the Jews, multitudes of Christians stand condemned simply by their silence.\n<\/p>\n

Israel \u2013 The Apple of His Eye<\/strong><\/h2>\n

He found him in a desert land, and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him. He instructed him. He kept him as the apple of His eye.<\/em> (Deuteronomy 32:10)\n<\/p>\n

He who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.<\/em> (Zechariah 2:8)\n<\/p>\n

Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses Israel will be cursed.\u201d<\/em> (Numbers 24:9 Good News Translation)\n<\/p>\n

From Israel\u2019s inception, Satan has sought to destroy God\u2019s chosen people and their nation. But God has preserved His nation, and He has called us to come alongside Israel in our time to fight our common enemy.\n<\/p>\n

Our battle is not against flesh and blood. It will not be won by political moves. It will not be won with money. It will not be won with arms. But it will be won through warfare in another realm.\n<\/p>\n

God is calling us to do battle for Israel in the Heavenlies through intercession for Israel. In so doing, we will be paving the way for the return of Christ.\n<\/p>\n

We cannot expect antisemitism in our land to diminish if the Church is unwilling to lead the way.\n<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Pray<\/strong><\/h2>\n

(Prayer written by Derek Prince)\n<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Lord God, I want to start by saying, \u201cThank you!\u201d Thank you for Israel, both the land and the people. Thank you that you have chosen the land for your people and that You will uphold Your Word against all odds.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Thank you for Your salvation which comes to us through the death, burial and resurrection of our Savior, Yeshua Messiah, who was born to a Jewish mother in Bethlehem, Israel.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

We praise You for the way You are regathering Israel to the land You gave them by Covenant. To You alone be the glory for the restoration or Your people and the softening of their hearts taking place now<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus Christ, You who are head over all things to the Church which is Your Body, We stand before you, Lord, and acknowledge with shame and sorrow our unutterable guilt in the sufferings of the Jewish people. O God, there is no way that we can express the sense of guilt and sorrow that has come upon us.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Now we stand before You, not merely to acknowledge our own personal sins, but we stand before You on behalf of the sins of the Christian Church. We are not indicating any particular denomination or section of the Church. We are repenting on behalf of the whole Church.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

We are ashamed before You of our indifferences, Lord. O God, we are ashamed of our hardness and our materialism. We have let so many obstacles come between us and the interests of Your Kingdom, and the purposes of Your heart.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Forgive us, Lord. Blot out our sins as a cloud, and our transgressions as a thick cloud. Blot them out because of Your mercy, Lord. Blot out the dark cloud that hangs over the Church in this land because of antisemitism \u2013 that dark cloud which withholds the real outpouring of Your blessing.\u00a0 Blot it out, Lord, we pray, in Jesus\u2019 name.\u00a0 <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

With this prayer, we now submit ourselves to You completely for Your purposes and Your will to be done in and through us. Teach us, remind us, and quicken us to intercede for Israel.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

As we pray, remind us of the words Paul spoke in Romans 11:12: \u201cif their fall means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles,\u00a0how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring! Please bring Israel to that point of restoration and fullness we pray. We ask again that You would pour out upon us, Lord, a spirit of grace and of supplication.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Release Your Spirit upon us in the mighty name of Yeshua, Amen.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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How are you praying about antisemitism on the right? Share your prayers and scriptures below.<\/h4>\n

Belinda Brewster analyzes cultural, political, and world events from a biblical worldview. Belinda\u2019s passion is to equip, support, and encourage parents and grandparents who are courageously battling against the spiritual and cultural forces impacting children and grandchildren.\u00a0<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Reverend Susan Nye Thornton has served the Lord and his people as Pastor in three of the original Congregational Churches planted by the Pilgrims. She has recently retired from \u00a0Chiltonville Congregational Church of Plymouth, the surviving daughter church of the original Pilgrim Church in Plymouth.\u00a0 She is an active Intercessor in Massachusetts, contributing regularly to IFA prayer calls each month.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a0Photo Credit: Screenshot\/Tucker Carlson via YouTube, Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America \u2013 Candace Owens, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia, and Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America \u2013 Tucker Carlson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia.<\/em>
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