The prospect of Mike Huckabee serving as US Ambassador to Israel is horrifying.
Implore your Senators to do all that is within their power to reject his confirmation—as disastrous for Palestinians, dangerous to Israelis, and detrimental for global accord.
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By all measures, Huckabee is an apocalyptic extremist with a long history of incendiary public statements and bigoted beliefs. Operating on the basis of a false, ahistorical worldview completely divorced from on-the-ground realities, his appointment would do nothing to secure peace, justice, or security for the peoples of the Holy Land or the wider region. Just the opposite, it has the potential for great harm.
Masquerading as a person of faith, Huckabee is beholden to a violent, theologically suspect, and long-discredited apocalyptic fatalism, at complete odds with the witness of scripture and the teachings of Jesus.
In response to Huckabee’s nomination Luis Moreno, a former Chief of Mission to Israel and former Ambassador to Jamaica wrote on Twitter, “I unfortunately was exposed to him during his visits to Israel back in the day. Full blown (and knowledgeable) fanatic of the End of Times, Apocalypse, Israel’s destruction, etc. A true and utter nut case. Couldn’t be a more dangerous selection.”
His Christian Zionist worldview is profoundly dehumanizing—simultaneously anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and antisemitic—as both Arabs of all religions and Jews are instrumentalized, reduced to pawns in the service of a pseudo-Christian End-Times fantasy: a cynical fantasy largely designed to sell books, secure votes, and solicit donations, as it works to discredit the international system and manufacture consent for extreme violence.
Casting Palestinians and Arabs as the enemies of God, Huckabee has called for ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, supports genocide in Gaza, and adheres to a worldview that openly demonizes humanitarian law and the international system. Yet even his support for Israeli Jews has little to do with their actual welfare but depends entirely upon the extent to which they serve his apocalyptic agenda, an agenda which embraces regional war and anticipates the widespread destruction of Arabs and Jews alike.
To reiterate, Huckabee is beholden to an extremist theological system, bigoted assumptions, and a false reading of history. To confirm his nomination is beyond irresponsible, as he will greatly exacerbate an already untenable situation.
Mike Huckabee has no business serving as US Ambassador to Israel.
The prospect of Mike Huckabee serving as US Ambassador to Israel is horrifying.
Implore your Senators to do all that is within their power to reject his confirmation—as disastrous for Palestinians, dangerous to Israelis, and detrimental for global accord.
Read:
By all measures, Huckabee is an apocalyptic extremist with a long history of incendiary public statements and bigoted beliefs. Operating on the basis of a false, ahistorical worldview completely divorced from on-the-ground realities, his appointment would do nothing to secure peace, justice, or security for the peoples of the Holy Land or the wider region. Just the opposite, it has the potential for great harm.
Masquerading as a person of faith, Huckabee is beholden to a violent, theologically suspect, and long-discredited apocalyptic fatalism, at complete odds with the witness of scripture and the teachings of Jesus.
In response to Huckabee’s nomination Luis Moreno, a former Chief of Mission to Israel and former Ambassador to Jamaica wrote on Twitter, “I unfortunately was exposed to him during his visits to Israel back in the day. Full blown (and knowledgeable) fanatic of the End of Times, Apocalypse, Israel’s destruction, etc. A true and utter nut case. Couldn’t be a more dangerous selection.”
His Christian Zionist worldview is profoundly dehumanizing—simultaneously anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and antisemitic—as both Arabs of all religions and Jews are instrumentalized, reduced to pawns in the service of a pseudo-Christian End-Times fantasy: a cynical fantasy largely designed to sell books, secure votes, and solicit donations, as it works to discredit the international system and manufacture consent for extreme violence.
Casting Palestinians and Arabs as the enemies of God, Huckabee has called for ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, supports genocide in Gaza, and adheres to a worldview that openly demonizes humanitarian law and the international system. Yet even his support for Israeli Jews has little to do with their actual welfare but depends entirely upon the extent to which they serve his apocalyptic agenda, an agenda which embraces regional war and anticipates the widespread destruction of Arabs and Jews alike.
To reiterate, Huckabee is beholden to an extremist theological system, bigoted assumptions, and a false reading of history. To confirm his nomination is beyond irresponsible, as he will greatly exacerbate an already untenable situation.
Mike Huckabee has no business serving as US Ambassador to Israel.
