Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Politics of Apocalypse: The Rise of American Evangelical Zionism - LSE Undergraduate Political Review

To evangelicals, the return of Jesus to Earth necessitates the Jews to return and live in the Holy Land – a vision complicated by the estimated 5 million Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank and would necessitate their expulsion – to fulfil Armageddon and Jesus Christ's eventual return to Earth. However, one could argue such a theory is fundamentally anti-Semitic, as it essentially calls for the destruction of all non-believers of Christianity and allows Jewish people little agency or self-determination.