(CBN News) Evangelical Christians are some of Israel’s biggest supporters in the United States. However, there is a movement to turn evangelicals against Israel and it’s coming from other Christians. For the first time in its history, Christ at the Checkpoint (CATC) hosted its bi-annual conference in the United States. The event was created by Palestinian Christian activists in Bethlehem in 2010. This year, Christian leaders from around the world gathered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to condemn Christian
Zionists and fight Israel’s “occupation” of Palestinian land. “From the beginning, the target of CATC has been Christian Zionists. This remains the primary target,” Luke Moon, Deputy Director of the Philos Project, told CBN News. “That being said, many of the speakers at the conference go out of their way to make a distinction between Jews and Zionists. For them criticizing Zionism is not anti-Semitism, but certainly, for many Jews there is no distinction between being Jewish and being a Zionist. READ MORE