A Judeo-Christian alliance for Israel
The death of Ayatollah Khamenei should have been a moment of moral clarity. After four decades of theocratic rule, a regime that financed Hamas and Hezbollah, called for the death of America and Israel, and exported terrorism around the world suddenly found itself leaderless. Across Iran and much of the world, people celebrated.
However, some voices on the American right condemned this action. Tucker Carlson called the war “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Carlson clearly confused the arsonist and the firefighters.
This type of disorientation endangers Judeo-Christian civilization.
The prophet Ezekiel foresaw a time after the gathering of the Jewish exiles – when two rods, the rod of Judah and the rod of Ephraim, would be joined and “become one” in the hand of the Creator. Two distinct identities linked not by uniformity, but by a common goal: the defense of a world in which human beings have dignity and freedom. Iranian rockets were not just targeting buildings. Their goal was to return Western civilization to chaos.
After the chaos of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, many Jewish movements disappeared. The Sadducees have disappeared. The Essenes have disappeared. The Zealots were extinguished. However, two currents persisted. One became rabbinic Judaism, preserving Jewish identity through centuries of exile. The other arose from the Jewish followers of Jesus, eventually becoming Christianity, transmitting the ethical heritage of the Hebrew Scriptures across civilizations.
These two traditions developed different missions. Judaism has become the guardian of continuity. Christianity became outward-looking, transmitting biblical values to the nations. Although pursuing different goals, neither could have fulfilled their destiny without the other. Without Judaism’s fierce adherence to tradition, there would be no Jewish people capable of returning home.
Without Christian Zionists – Lord Balfour, David Lloyd George, President Harry Truman – Israel’s rebirth would never have happened. When these two traditions came together, history changed.
Today, our alliance is under immense pressure.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. On the American right, voices once considered that the allies were engaged in anti-Semitic plots. On the left, animosity toward Israel has become normalized in academia and the media.
Anti-Semitism thrives when truth is rewritten and identity is detached from history. When societies lose their foundations – in human dignity and the belief that justice is not simply the will of the powerful – Jews are among the first to suffer.
We write this as beneficiaries of a Judeo-Christian heritage: as dual American and Israeli citizens, sons of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, witnesses to how alliances break when truth gives way to propaganda. Israel is living proof that this partnership is possible: the only country in the Middle East where Jewish sovereignty protects Christian worship, minority communities and the rule of law.
Earlier this year, we brought together nearly 400 Christian and Jewish leaders representing 180 networks in Nashville, founding the first Jewish-Christian Zionist Congress. Pastors and rabbis, policymakers and media figures, educators and cultural influencers united by the common belief that this alliance has the power to change the course of history.
Iran’s missiles target the idea that nations can modernize, rights can expand, and people can worship freely. They aim for freedom, normalization and everything that dictatorial theocracy fears most. The question of who opposes this darkness – and who hesitates – will be determined by civilizational identity.
The prophet’s vision offers us the image of a strategic and consistent alignment: two distinct peoples linked by a shared heritage.
We are unbreakable when we stand together to preserve the precious way of life we hold dear.
Calev Myers and Simeon Myers are the founders of the Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress.
