Religious Right Could Cease Support for Israel

American Family Association Chairman Donald E. Wildmon said that some members of the religious right would withdraw their support for Israel if a prominent anti-Semitism activist keeps up his criticism of the right.

During a December 5 broadcast on the AFA's American Family Radio, Wildmon said that Anti-Defamation League President Abraham Foxman "got himself in a bind by criticizing the religious right.

"The strongest supporters Israel has are members of the religious right - the people he's fighting.

"The more he says that 'you people are destroying the country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, ?Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore.'"

Foxman, in a November address at an Anti-Defamation League meeting, included AFA among the group of conservative religious organizations whose goal, he said, "is to implement their Christian worldview. To Christianize America."

And in early December Foxman convened a meeting of American Jewish leaders to discuss what Foxman again called the religious right's attempts to "Christianize America."

During Wildmon's December 5 broadcast, American Family Radio News Director Fred Jackson said that even some members of the Jewish community are trying to distance themselves from Foxman's views.

Jackson told the radio audience that Jewish people have "come out and said, 'Mr. Foxman is dead wrong, and you shouldn't even be listening to him 'cause we don't feel the way he does.'"

American Family Radio is a network of almost 200 radio stations across the U.S. whose stated mission is to "inform Christians about what is happening in America."