Why Do Evangelicals Support Israel?

Inbari, Motti; Bumin, Kirill M.; Byrd, M. Gordon

doi:10.1017/s175504831900052x

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“…God's Chosen People. Another implication of the literal reading of the Bible is the emphasis on the special relations between God and Israel (Inbari et al 2021). For centuries, the attitudes of the Christian world toward the Jews were influenced and shaped by the "replacement theology."…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Evangelical support for Israel is explained by theological, cultural, historical, and strategic motivations (Inbari et al 2021). There are, however, two major gaps in the existing literature.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another implication of the literal reading of the Bible is the emphasis on the special relations between God and Israel (Inbari et al 2021). For centuries, the attitudes of the Christian world toward the Jews were influenced and shaped by the “replacement theology.” This theory, also known as supersessionism, asserts that the church “replaced the Jews as the chosen people of God” (Carroll 2002, 58).…”

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“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

Ziv

2021

Politics and Religion

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The relations of the Evangelical movement and Israel have drawn the attention of many scholars of religion, public opinion, and political science in the last two decades. This study examines the influence of Evangelicals on their country's policy toward Israel. I conduct the first quantitative, cross-national research, investigating the links between the size of the Evangelical population of a country and its support for Israel. Analyzing 198 UN General Assembly votes of 18 Latin American countries from 2009 to 2019, my results show that as the Evangelical population in a country grows, so does its support for Israel. Unpredictably, I also find that a state of armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinians does not decrease the support for Israel.

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Section: Motivationsmentioning

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“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

Ziv

2021

Politics and Religion

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“…Despite their denomination's long history of antisemitism, for example, contemporary American Evangelicals are significantly more likely than most Americans to express positive attitudes toward Jews. Counter to what a naive application of social identity theory would predict, this is the case especially for those who have a strong religious identity (Inbari, Bumin, and Byrd 2020).…”

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Imagined Otherness Fuels Blatant Dehumanization of Outgroups

Loon¹,

Goldberg²,

Srivastava³

2020

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What leads people to feel negatively about members of other social groups? While recent work has mostly focused on the strength of group identity, we propose that perceptions of intergroup difference, and the animus they catalyze, are often rooted in beliefs that members of other groups interpret the world in inherently different ways. Drawing on work in the sociology of culture, we define these interpretations---which we refer to as construals---as cognitive associations and develop a theory of multilevel perceived construal distance. We theorize that perceived intergroup construal distance relates to negative outgroup affect, whereas perceptions of construal distance between an outgroup and "most people" relates to outgroup dehumanization. We introduce a new method, the Multilevel Construal Elicitation Task (MCET), to tap respondents' multilevel construals and apply it to politically affiliated Americans' perceptions of the concept "America." In support of our theory, we demonstrate that antipathy toward members of the opposing party is related to people's perceptions of construal distance, above and beyond their strength of party identity or ideology. Our findings contribute to debates on the causes of increased political polarization in the U.S. and have implications for research on identity, social boundaries, and measuring cultural meaning.

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“…Trump successfully linked white resentment over the increasing visibility and influence of racial minorities to foreign policy through blaming economic problems on "bad trade deals with countries like Mexico and China and on immigrants competing for jobs" (Nye, 2020: p. 20). Trump's retreat from globalization to isolation reflected a foreign policy shaped by his inexperience in world affairs, his narcissism, the adulation received from his nationalistic supporters, and his acceptance of fundamentalist evangelical religious doctrines (Inbari et al, 2021) 3 embraced by a major component of his political base.…”

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U.S. President Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy towards the Gulf

Al-Alkim¹

2021

OJPS

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U.S. President Joe Biden, with long experience in foreign policy, is likely to understand that contemporary Middle East issues are interrelated. Focusing on Biden's first 100 days in office, this study used a comparative analysis approach with the aim of assessing the significance of Biden's foreign policy, how a renewed American commitment to global engagement might help in addressing Gulf issues, and to determine Biden's priorities in the Gulf and how he is likely to deal with U.S. Gulf allies on issues such as human rights, the Yemen war, and the Iranian nuclear deal. It appears that Biden intends the U.S. to play a more active role globally but with an understanding that the U.S. will be less inclined to pursue unilateral action or use force to deal with foreign policy challenges. Only with the collaboration of allies in the region and around the world will the U.S. be able to pursue the multiple initiatives needed to address the legitimate security concerns of the Arab Gulf states while advancing human rights.

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Why Do Evangelicals Support Israel?

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

Imagined Otherness Fuels Blatant Dehumanization of Outgroups

U.S. President Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy towards the Gulf

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