Leonard Zeskind, who has researched the white power movement, gave an interview on Democracy Now! yesterday. he notes the difference between right wing Christianists and white nationalists is that the former supports Israel, while the latter hates all Jews.

Well, in the book, I describe a moment in 1988 when Pat Robertson, the Reverend Pat Robertson, runs through the Republican primaries and excites the white Christian constituency into the Republican Party. And the Liberty Lobby, at that point, says, "Look, we disagree with the Reverend Robertson on the issue of the Federal Reserve, but mostly with his support for the state of Israel."

So they use that as a line of demarcation between themselves and what we think of as the Christian right. These people have a thorough anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, which separates them, to some degree, from the Christian right. On other issues, like opposition to abortion, trying to force women back into seventeenth century, quote, "traditional" roles, those kinds of issues, opposition to gay marriage, they support those issues. But on the issue of Israel, they think that the Christian right is wrong. So that's the core of the difference between the Christian right and the white nationalists. And I try and explore that in the book a little bit.

so, the attack at the holocaust museum was every bit as much an attack on Christians and neoconservatives as it was a hate crime against Jewish folks. seriously?!
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