‘Without Israel, Christianity would be wiped off the map,’ says US senator

Ohio senator urges Christians to see Israel’s fight “as their own,” warning that without the Jewish state to guard the Holy Land, Christianity would be “wiped off the map.”

By World Israel News Staff

Christians around the world should support Israel against radical Islamic terror groups and their patron, Tehran, a US senator said, pushing back against recent comments by far-right populists denouncing Christian support for Israel.

On Wednesday, Bernie Moreno, Ohio’s Colombian-born senior US senator, addressed The Jerusalem Post Washington Conference in D.C., during which he said Christians in the US should “see Israel’s fight as their own” and urged that more be done to combat antisemitism.

Moreno warned that without Israel safeguarding the Holy Land, Christianity would be “wiped off the map.”

“Christians like myself understand that without the State of Israel protecting the Holy Land, Christianity would be wiped off the map immediately,” Moreno said. “That is why you have tremendous allies, allies who see Israel’s fight as their own.”

While support for Israel among evangelical Christians in the US remains high, some polling suggests that the Jewish state has lost ground among evangelicals under 30 – part of a broader trend of eroding support among younger Americans that has weakened conservative backing for Israel.

A number of high-profile right-wing podcasters including Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Brett Cooper have objected to America’s policies vis-a-vis the Jewish state, and in some instances, have invoked their Christian beliefs to denounce support for Israel.

Carlson repeatedly castigated Christian Zionists, accusing them of the “oldest heresy.”

Moreno, a staunch conservative who has called for banning dual citizenship in the US, said that Israel and its supporters must wage a more robust public relations “battle,” calling for war on antisemitism.

“If we fight the PR battle with the same determination as the military battle, we can eradicate antisemitism in America,” he said.