Like birds in a cage : Christian Zionism's collusion in Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people / David M. Crump ; foreword by Gary M. Burge.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Confessions of a former Christian Zionist -- Unravelling the Zionist ball of string -- Diving into history -- The origins of political Zionism -- All Zionisms are not alike -- In the camp we are birds -- Making the right assumptions -- Bad assumptions lead to false conclusions -- The church is an entirely new person -- Daily life under military occupation -- A day in the south Hebron hills -- A family reunion spoiled by party-crashers -- Christian Zionism surrenders to ethnocracy -- Ethnocracy, Galatians 3:6-9, and the redefintion of God's covenant people -- Territory, part 1: how to disguise an ethnocracy -- Territory, part 2: using the Bible to excuse ethnocracy -- Why anti-Zionism is not a form of antisemitism -- State-sponsored terrorism up close and personal -- Restoring an evangelical conscience -- Conclusion: Life in God's kingdom is not complicated.

"When Christians collude in crimes against humanity, they betray their citizenship in the kingdom of God, demonstrating that Christ's Lordship does not rule over every area of their lives. The popular ideology known as Christian Zionism is a prime enabler of such widespread discipleship--failure in western Christianity. As the state of Israel continues to violate international law with colonial settlement in lands captured by warfare, legalized racial discrimination, and the creation of what many have called "the world's largest open-air prison" in Gaza, Christian Zionists continue their unqualified support for Zionist Israel. Though Israel advertises itself as "the only democracy in the Middle East," it is actually a rigid ethnocracy--its entire society built on the foundations of Jewish supremacy over a Palestinian underclass. History will eventually judge Christian Zionist support for Israel's crimes against the Palestinians in the same way people of conscience now condemn the Christian church in the American South for its defense of slavery and hostility towards the civil rights movement. Just as the Southern Baptist church finally repudiated its pro-slavery past, so everyone genuinely devoted to Jesus Christ must repudiate both the ideology and the legacy of Christian Zionism."--Publisher's website.

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