Why Jews Can Count on American Christians in Terrible Times

“Be careful,” my elderly aunt admonished me before I left New York City 22 years ago to visit a number of Christian colleges across the country for research on a book I was writing.

She and others in my Jewish extended family were genuinely worried about my physical safety, with one even muttering something about lynching. They warned me about antisemitism and cautioned me to watch my back.

I thought their words were silly even before I visited these schools — which included those affiliated with evangelicals, Catholics and Latter-day Saints — but afterward I found their ideas downright preposterous. The truth is that Jews have no greater friends in this country, and in this world, than faithful Christians, and I can only hope that somewhere in the aftermath of the horror we are witnessing in Israel, my friends and relatives will reckon with this truth.

According to Gallup polling from 2020, about 70% of Protestants are sympathetic to Israel, a number that remained unchanged since 2010 and is 10% higher than the rest of the American public.

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