My Holy Land Vacation

In Harper’s, Tom Bissell writes that he recently attended a tour of Israel led by conservative talk radio host, Dennis Prager. The trip was inspired by Bissell’s confusion as to the Republican Party’s unwavering support of Israel. Bissell writes, “America’s religious right hasn’t always been enamored of Israel, much less of Jews. Quite a few of the originators of the American Christian fundamentalist movement were unabashed anti-Semites.”

Read at Harper's

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