Dear ,

Writing from Washington, DC, several months into the second Trump administration, launching the Journal for the Study of Christian Zionism feels all the more vital. While Christian Zionism has always provided cover for or fueled Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid, the level of genocidal violence has reached staggering levels.

This first issue provides essential work by two founders of the Institute, Stephen Sizer and Don Wagner, who address the origins of Christian Zionism in the Anglican Church and the use of the Bible to justify genocide, respectively. Atalia Omer and James Thompson’s article demonstrates how such roots and fundamentals of Christian Zionism hinder Black-Palestinian solidarity in the United States. Finally, Jesse Wheeler reviews Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb’s important work, Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible.

Please find a link below to the inaugural issue of the Journal for the Study of Christian Zionism! 

Also included:

• A video recording of the ISCZ webinar launch, "Christian Zionism and the Interruption of Black-Palestinian Solidarity," featuring Atalia Omer, Thandi Gamedze, and Mitri Raheb.
• An opportunity to support the mission of ISCZ by sponsoring the travel of ISCZ Library Manager Deanna Roberts to the 2025 Peacebuilding Summit: Palestine in Comparative Perspective in the UK. 

All the best,

Mimi Kirk

Director, Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism (ISCZ)

Watch the video below from ISCZ Library Manager, Dee Roberts, and consider supporting ISCZ's participation in the 2025 Peacebuilding Summit in the UK:

About the 2025 Peacebuilding Summit: Palestine in Comparative Perspective

We are excited for the opportunity to send an ISCZ representative to the Peacebuilding Summit: Palestine in Comparative Perspective, which will be held at the High Leigh Conference Center just outside London, England, in July, 2025. The summit will bring together Christian scholars, practitioners, and leaders from both the Global South and North in conversation with Palestinian Christian theologians and practitioners. Of special importance is the juxtaposition of global theologies and praxes that have emerged from realities of settler-colonialism and discrimination alongside Palestinian experiences.