Mimi Kirk is an editorial consultant with Al-Shabaka. She served as the organization’s commissioning editor and managing director from 2016 to 2020. She is co-editor (with Rochelle Davis) of Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-first Century (Indiana University Press, 2013), as well as several other volumes on the Middle East. Her writing has appeared in Middle East Report, Al-Jazeera, Jadaliyya, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, among other outlets.
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Christian Zionism can be defined by the unquestioning support for the Zionist colonial project, from the violent establishment of the Israeli regime in 1948 to continued Jewish settlement in Palestine, as part of one’s faith as a Christian. Christian Zionists’ support for Jewish settlement in Palestine is a precursor to their own (the Church’s) salvation, not that of Jewish people; they actively seek an end of times in which Jews and other non-Christians will be destroyed while they ascend to heaven. This ideological commitment aligns Christian Zionists with Israeli governments and their colonial and belligerent policies toward Palestinians, Iran, and other adversaries of the Israeli regime.
