For decades you’ve been leading the effort to strengthen support for Israel from within the Christian community,” he said. “Pastor Hagee, I want to thank you for your enduring, tremendous support. None of that discouraged Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, from addressing a CUFI summit in Washington in 2019.

He has also suggested that Jews brought centuries of persecution on themselves by disobeying God. Left largely unmentioned by Haley and Hagee’s Israeli allies were his antisemitic views, including calling Hitler a “half-breed Jew” who was sent by God to drive the Jewish people to Israel. “Pastor Hagee, I still say I want to be you when I grow up,” she enthused. President Donald Trump made no secret of his desire to keep Hagee and Christian Zionist voters happy as a key part of his base by abandoning even the pretense that the US was a neutral player in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.įormer South Carolina governor and current White House hopeful Nikki Haley recognised Hagee’s power within the most important religious bloc of Republican voters and their influence over political priorities, from anti-abortion laws to Israel policy, when she invited him to give the invocation at her presidential campaign launch last month.

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