
(Dost) Düşmanlar: Hıristiyan Siyonizminde Antisemitizm ve Anti-İslamizm
The paper deals with “Christian Zionists”, who have born out of Protestantism, conglomerate particularly in the United States of America, provide a non-proportional support for Israel and who at the same time antagonize Islam. The movement’s quiddity, genesis, theology, activities, as well as anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic tendencies are elaborated. According to initial findings, Christian Zionism constitutes an anomaly from a number of perspectives. Most importantly, Jews and Christians symbolize two com-munities that have been violently antagonizing each other since centuries. Defenders of Christian Zion-ism believe in the eschatological scenario of “premillennial dispensationalism”, a theology mainly in-troduced by the Anglo-Irish priest John Nelson Darby that divides world history before the establish-ment of the global Millennial Empire following the Second Coming into seven dispensations. This scenario determines the raison d’être, purposes, friends and foes of the movement. While the Jewish role in it as frenemies is controversial and ambivalent, Muslims’ role as enemies is unequivocally unfavorable. This situation leads to the demonization of Muslims by Christian Zionist figures. Albeit being criticized by co-religionists in a number of areas including ethics, politics and particularly theology, Christian Zionists occupy a significant position in world politics thanks to their alliance with imperial powers. The paper aims to fill the scholarly gap caused by the scarcity of Turkish literature on Christian Zion-ism’s quiddity, as well as its nexus with antisemitism and anti-Islamism.
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