What nation could be “apartheid on steroids”? Surely some Islamic stronghold, right?

Wrong.

Try Israel. That’s according to World Vision’s Steve Haas writing for the Lausanne Movement.

Haas goes on to suggest that all the problems of the Palestinian people perpetrated upon them by Islamic thug dictators are, in reality, the fault of Israel. He even blames the demise of the Palestinian Christian population upon Israel when, in fact, Palestinian Islamic leaders have driven out the Christians.

Haas states, “As peacemakers, we have been tasked by a justice agenda of love and sacrifice. I truly believe we can be pro-Palestinian, pro-Israeli, and pro-justice because we are adamantly pro-Jesus.”

Don’t believe it.

I’ve been present at a tragic event called “Hope for the Holy Land”. The one-night event visited my alma mater a few years ago, Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. It featured a World Vision rep, Mae Cannon, Willow Creek’s Lynne Hybels, and The Holy Land Trust rep Sami Awad.

Their approach offered zero hope for the Holy Land because they only wanted to talk about “the occupation”. Jesus didn’t live in “occupied territory”. It was and is God’s land and the borders are outlined in the Bible.

Efforts to interject truth into that forum were blocked.

Haas says, “For over 60 years, many evangelicals have clung to a very narrow theological narrative that weds Christian theology with a political ideology known as Zionism.” This is in the latest issue of Lausanne Global Analysis.

He compares Christian Zionists — evangelicals with a Bible-based zeal and love for Israel and the Jews — to Spanish inquisitors, Crusaders, supporters of apartheid South Africa, and other historical atrocities.

I don’t put the root of such thinking at the feet of antisemitism as much as I lay it at the feet of “Replacement Theology”. This is the belief that all the promises made to Israel have been transferred to the church. It is raging through many denominations today.

“Replacement Theology” leads to “replacement reality”. That’s what is going on. There is a twisting and a distorting of facts so severe that it has created a “replacement reality.” Folks are believing a lie.

To add insult to injury, pro-Palestinian U.K. Vicar Stephen Sizer last week stated that Israel was likely behind 9/11. The comments were especially egregious coming during the week when most of the free world recognized the 70th anniversary of the liberation of many of the concentration camps.

Sizer’s “replacement reality” leads him smack-dab into the heart of antisemitism, so much so that he hangs out with the daughters of Iran’s Ayatollah Khoumeini.

Here Sizer presents many of his anti-Israel books to the Khoumeni daughters with fond autographed comments.

Sizer has also been a regular organizer, lecturer and panelist at the Christ at the Checkpoint conference hosted by the Bethlehem Bible College. The bi-annual event has been characterized by sentiment that Israel and her Christian supporters are to blame for most of the woes in that region.

Sizer did apologize for his “replacement reality”.

Folks who think this way believe that the old religious Right crassly imposed a pro-Israel U.S. foreign policy based on its end-time theology, creating untold suffering among largely innocent Palestinians. They now hope that more thoughtful, more compassionate evangelicals, will reject that heritage and instead stand with the Palestinians as the victim group most needing compassion.

The fact is that evangelicals are strong supporters of Islamic evangelism around the world. Many evangelical agencies have been raised up, particularly since 9/11, to reach out to lost Muslims, including Palestinians.

One of the most frequent e-mails I get is asking why American Jews continue to vote for a party that has some leaders who cannot stand the stench of Israel. In the November 4 mid-terms, Jews voted 3 to 1 for Democrats over Republicans.

Barack Obama has not been the first liberal President to dislike Israel. So did Jimmy Carter and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Bill Clinton was not fond of the Jews or Israel but he admitted that he needed to tap into the “Jewish genius” and thus had more Jewish advisers than any president.

Jews appealed to FDR during WWII to come to the aid of suffering Jews enduring the Holocaust. As I bring out in my “Understanding the Times Fall 2014” conference message, he almost always looked the other way. Yet they voted for him overwhelmingly. He could have saved hundreds of thousands or more but chose to be rather uninvolved. Many said that had he been President during Israel’s founding, rather than Harry Truman, Roosevelt would not even have voted in favor of the independent state.

One almost has to conclude that it is more important to many Jews that they be liberals first and Jews second.

It is important to know that they tend to sympathize with the less fortunate and with minorities as they are a minority and in the past, they have paid dearly for that. They are “discrimination minded” and they are “justice and equality minded.”

A recent online article by The Guardian states that, “On the issue of Israel, only 40% of Jews believe God gave them Israel. This percentage is lower than the general public’s belief and far below the Evangelical conviction.”

The Guardian concludes that “Only 43% of Jews believe that caring about Israel is an essential part of being Jewish.”

Some suggest that this is a part of their spiritual blindness spoken of in the Bible though that should have nothing to do with politics. Others say it is a generational issue in that many Jews have parents and grandparents who came from socialistic nations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That socialism is a part of their DNA. Soviet Jews came out of Communism although they were persecuted by the Marxists.

Israel was founded on socialistic principles. That is why President Eisenhower was not a friend of Israel as his focus was Communism. He felt sure Israel’s socialism would lead to Communism.

American Jews are in favor of the proverbial “two-state solution” and giving “land for peace.”

Israeli Jews are far more conservative as they are fighting for their very survival. While there is most certainly an Israeli Left, they are more in the minority. Over the years, however, they have elected liberal leaders who have harmed them including Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and others. A recent poll suggests many Israelis feel the response to terror in Israel should be more peace talks. “Peace through strength” is a fading concept.

Sadly, the stakes have gotten much higher in the last year. America is now trying to “negotiate” with Iran, allowing them a nuclear bomb. We are trying to gain Iran as an ally in the war with ISIS while Iran continues to swear to obliterate Israel. I maintain that there will be a strike by Israel on Iran in 2015. Will that wake up American and other Western Jews? Will they come out from being under the liberal spell?

The Jewish people have a “great awakening” during the Tribulation and they may not have eyes to see properly until then. Great numbers come to faith at that time, although a remnant are doing so in this Church Age.

With that extensive introduction, I encourage you to view the 30 minute video below to better understand America’s abuse of Israel under our current President. Understand that there are consequences to this, based on Genesis 12:3. It should be no surprise that we have unprecedented problems in America now that some of our highest leaders have made our best ally our enemy.