While the cabinet of the State of Israel makes a series of decisions that effectively amount to a quiet, gradual annexation of the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, foreign policy actors abroad are simultaneously trying to establish another, no less explosive narrative: that of a biblically legitimized Israeli expansion “from the Nile to the Euphrates.”
The combination of both developments creates, in the eyes of the world public, a new field of tension arising from real political measures on the ground. While Israel’s government wants to shift structures under the media radar, transfer responsibilities, and thus create the conditions for a one-state reality, voices like American TV commentator Tucker Carlson use the stage to accuse Israel of imperialistic ambitions—a classic antisemitic motif that distorts the actual political processes and squeezes them into a false historical framework. Where does political reality end, and where does the abuse of religious texts to delegitimize Israel begin?
In his most recent interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, the antisemitic commentator posed a deliberately provocative question: According to...
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