A recent statement by Church Patriarchs in Jerusalem rejecting Zionism was historic, and the response it provoked from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shows the steps Christian Zionists are taking to silence Palestinian Christians.

A recent resolution of the Evangelical Church in Germany underscores the church’s continued failure to challenge Israel’s prolonged settler colonial occupation.

It is primarily in the hands of Israelis to reject their settler colonial occupation, their apartheid laws, and their current government and nationalist parties. The alternative means the loss of their humanity.

Palestinians are wondering why, after seven weeks, the New York Times hasn’t published a single word on B’Tselem’s landmark “apartheid” report.