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Jun 23, 2014, 9:54 AM

Jews, Forgive Us

After years of obsessive activism, a small group of anti-Zionist Christians has succeeded in forcing a major American denomination to divest from corporations that “profit from the Israeli occupation.” Despite some obligatory interfaith language and caveats that the Presbyterian...

Feb 27, 2014, 11:06 PM

Who’s afraid of Christian Zionism?

There's no dissonance in supporting Jewish autonomy in Israel and telling the world about the Messiah's arrival

Feb 12, 2014, 12:25 AM

The Presbyterians don’t speak for me

I’m not quite sure what Israel did to the Presbyterians, but it must have been pretty bad. Take the recent Zionism Unsettled report released by the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s quasi-official “Israel Palestine Mission Network.” Glossy, high-color, and bundled with a...

Jan 30, 2014, 7:29 PM

Recovering Dr. King’s lost legacy on Israel

It’s almost accepted knowledge today that Dr. Martin Luther King was, or would have been, deeply hostile to the State of Israel. Social activists have been using his name, his image, and snippets from his powerful speeches to bookend...

Dec 20, 2013, 10:13 AM

Four reasons to hate the Jewish state

Calling on fellow Christians to wake up and support the Jewish people

Sep 22, 2013, 2:46 AM

Invasion of the Christians

The Feast of Tabernacles assembly may unnerve some Israelis, but these Christian believers seek only to show their love

Sep 6, 2013, 6:48 AM

Trusting God in a nasty neighborhood

In his recent book In God’s Shadow, famed philosopher Michael Walzer argues that the Hebrew prophets rejected both the “high theory of monarchy” (messianic kingship) and the “low theory of monarchy” (secular rule) in favor of religious resignation to...

Sep 3, 2013, 12:21 AM

Syria and the Sicilian Expedition

As the U.S. Congress readies for its historic vote on intervention in Syria, many Americans doubt whether another war in the Middle East is worth it. "Why spend one more dollar," they ask, "let alone one more American life...

Aug 28, 2013, 11:28 AM

Syrian regime change pointless for now

Throughout T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom—that majestic, if oft-criticized memoir of the Arab revolt during World War I—one finds plenty of Eurocentric sermonizing on the Middle East, Arabs, and “Semitic culture” writ large. But though some of Lawrence’s...

Aug 26, 2013, 3:48 PM

Oslo Accords Unequal? You Bet

Next month the world will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the most famous handshake in modern history, that legendary moment when Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat stood face to face on the White House lawn and acknowledged each other’s...

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About Me

Robert Nicholson is a recent Tikvah Fellow and former Marine who researches law, religion, and the relationship between Christians and Jews. He holds a JD and MA in history from Syracuse University and a BA in Hebrew Studies from SUNY Binghamton, and has published articles in, among other places, Mosaic Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, and The Libya Herald. He lives with his wife Lyndsey and daughter Brooke in New York City.