Towards the end of His ministry Jesus gave a warning to His disciples telling them that there would come a time when there will be those from the synagogues (congregations) who will kill you thinking that they are doing God’s service.
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time comes, that whoever kills you will think that he does God service. 3 And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
John 16:2 AKJV
The current day fulfillment of this may not be as you might expect. But when Evangelical Christian Zionists financially support and condone the expansion of the Israeli state and its settlers into Palestinian lands in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem then they are supporting what those settlers do on those stolen lands.
HealthImpactNews reported today from a ZeroHedge article that the last Christian village in the West Bank is now under attack. The name of the village is Taybeh, which in the New Testament is referred to as “Ephraim,” and it is the place where Jesus lived with His disciples during the last week of His life, before He was crucified.
Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews. Instead he withdrew to a region near the desert, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples. (John 11:54)
Last Christian Town In West Bank Attacked And Besieged By Israeli Settlers
The last entirely-Christian town in the Israeli-controlled West Bank is enduring a wave of attacks by violent Jewish settlers, a local church leader says, prompting families to flee and leading clergy to declare the town is “no longer safe” for its inhabitants.
Ominously, settlers have also set up an “outpost” on the fringe of that town — Taybeh, Ramallah — a 4,500-year-old community with huge significance in the story of Jesus Christ.
According to Grok
Taybeh, a Palestinian Christian village near Ramallah, was attacked by Israeli settlers on June 25, 2025, with homes and vehicles set ablaze, part of over 1,800 settler attacks in the West Bank since October 2023. The village, historically linked to biblical Ophrah and Ephraim, has about 1,340 residents, mostly Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic. While reports confirm the attack, the Israeli government’s response is debated, with some arrests made but criticism for inadequate action. Emigration has reduced Taybeh’s population, with many now in Detroit.
ZeroHedge continues…
This is only the latest in an ongoing pattern of aggression directed toward Taybeh’s inhabitants, a pattern that has also included stealing farm equipment, and destroying crops with fire or by releasing settlers’ cattle to devour them, Catholic News Agency reports.
Settlers have established an outpost on the town’s eastern edge, on the remains of a farmhouse abandoned by Christians who’d fled about a year ago under the growing settler campaign of violence and intimidation.
An “outpost” is a Jewish settlement on Palestinian land that’s not authorized by the Israeli government. Outposts typically begin with something as small as a tent or a van, and are frequently situated on hilltops or agricultural land.
In the case of “herding outposts,” settlers will bring livestock that they allow to graze over a wide area with the goal of establishing a larger claim. Despite outposts’ lack of government permission at the outset, the Israeli government often legalizes them retroactively, cementing the Palestinians’ loss of the land.
(Note, there are both Christian and Muslim Palestinians, and both varieties experience the iniquities associated with being non-Jewish in the West Bank.)
The settler outpost on Taybeh’s periphery sits in an economically-essential agricultural zone that comprises 4,200 acres out of the town’s total 5,900 acres. The land is used for olive groves and seasonal crops, along with raising poultry and sheep. In the usual sequence of events, Jews in the outposts begin harassing the Palestinians whose families have long lived off that land, preventing them from accessing it. Such behavior is often carried out as Israeli security forces stand by and watch — often intervening only when Palestinians fight back.
Local Christians say this agricultural-deprivation tactic is exactly what’s playing out in Taybeh:
During the latest olive harvest season, for the second year in a row, farmers were barred from accessing their land near the Rimmonim settlement — which was built on confiscated Taybeh land — resulting in either theft or complete spoilage of the olive crop. Approximately 20 families were physically assaulted while trying to reach their land….
“These days, settlers are grazing their cows on a hill planted with olive and barley fields right next to people’s homes. Locals see this as part of a systematic effort to strangle them economically and push them out,” [said Father Fawadleh] — ACI MENA / Catholic News Agency
Here, a Palestinian Christian explains how he, his family and fellow Taybeh residents are preyed upon by West Bank settlers seeking to take over the land:
“Jesus Christ came here a week before he was crucified,” a Palestinian in Taybeh told me.
Taybeh is the largest Palestinian Christian community in the West Bank. Since October 7th, armed Jewish settlers and the Israeli army, emboldened by the war in Gaza, have been terrorizing the community with mob beatings, theft, and forcibly removing Palestinians from their own property.
“They attack indiscriminately. Christians and Muslims. That’s the nature of the [Israeli] state.”
My full documentary report from the occupied West Bank:
Read the full article at ZeroHedge.
US-Israel Ambassador Mike Huckabee, Senator Ted Cruz and many US lawmakers are Christian Zionists who support the Israeli state, with billions of dollars annually. They also back funding for munitions supplied to the IDF.
This is there way of blessing Israel which they get blessed also. Those Senators probably do get blessed with large financial incentives (all legal of course).
Read The Truth About Christian Zionism and End-Time Eschatology
In 2014 at a conference hosted by In Defense of Christians (IDC) Senator Cruz said:
“If you don’t stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.”
Remember when Ted Cruz was booed off stage at a fundraiser for persecuted Christians in the Middle East because he demanded allegiance to Israel?
Brian Shilhavy wrote (with which I agree)
Many Evangelical Christians [Zionists], like Ted Cruz, only stand for other Christians who are also Zionists.
To them, if you don’t support Israel, then you are not a “true Christian.”
This is the bizarre interpretation that have of Genesis 12:3 which says nothing of the sort. God’s blessing on Abraham was that from him would come the singular “seed”, Jesus Christ, the true Messiah.
Read The Blessings of God on Abraham.
So Christians who support Israel are supporting this type of pogrom against non-Jews, which includes Christians, in the West Bank which is UN approved land belonging to the future state of Palestine. Therefore the chain of causation means that those Christian Zionists are supporting the killing of their fellow Christians at the hands of the violent settlers in these areas. But you’ll notice (John 16:3) that Jesus said that those who do this do not know the Father nor Him.
Thankfully not all Christians support this type of violence nor do all Jews. In fact there is a large cohort of orthodox Jews who oppose the Jewish state.
But how could someone call themself a Christian and be a true follower of Christ and support such a violent settler expansion into Palestinian lands? True followers of Christ would not wish violence against any other people whether they be Jews or non-Jews. That is what Jesus taught us.
Related Reading
- The False Choice | Israel or Terrorism
- Christian Zionism is the Problem
- Inside the Mindset of a Christian Zionist
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