Wanna Tour Israel and a Christian? They Don't Want You

Huckabee may be a Zionist 'friend,' but he's calling a spade a spade.

... “As the U.S. Ambassador representing President Donald Trump, I am formally demanding that this deteriorating relationship with the Department of State be resolved so that this matter does not escalate further,” Huckabee added. “It would be deeply regrettable if our embassy were to be forced to publicly announce throughout the United States that the State of Israel no longer welcomes Christian organizations and their representatives and that, instead, it is engaging in harassment and negative treatment of organizations with longstanding ties and positive engagement with Zionism. We will be further obligated to warn Christians in America that their generous donations to organizations in Israel are being met with hostility, and that tourists should reconsider travel until the situation is clearly resolved.”...

Those Christians and their Jesus-talk.  They're a menace to Scribes and Pharisees or sumpin'sumpin'.

Here's a cute graf:

... It is not clear why Israel may have sought to review some of the tourist visas. Israel is very sensitive about the subject of Christian proselytization, given the history in previous centuries of Christian persecution of Jews....

No mention of Jewish persecution of Christans.  Forgetting for a moment that crucifixion thing and the direct testimony in Acts making it clear that the Jews were.........ahhh.........unkind...........to Christians, there is a running controversy about that issue.

 ...The charge that the Jews actively sought the death of Christians lies at the heart of the oft-rehearsed scholarly debate over Jewish involvement in the persecution of Christians...

That involvement was often "in the background," thus making it difficult to prove.  Imagine that!

... Persecution [of Christians by the Jews] in Jerusalem by no means ended with Stephen’s death, as Acts makes it clear many in the church there were scattered far and wide, but still the Hebrew Apostles remained untroubled. All this has led some to draw the conclusion that the earliest persecution of Christians by the Jews was directed not at Christians in general, but at Hellenistic Christians⁴....

Perhaps the Pharisees (today's Ultra-Orthodox Zionists) realized the long-term implications of Christianity, summarized here by St Paul:

 ...After Saul’s famous conversion (upon which he took the name “Paul”), he began to preach the very gospel that he had once found so intolerable; the Law had been fulfilled in the long-awaited Christ, and now salvation was to those who had faith in Jesus apart from works of the law given to them by Moses.

“But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.⁵”

 Paul seems to believe he was persecuted not for blasphemy, but rather for preaching that the cross has fulfilled the law and that the ritual law has been set aside....

That is to say that the Chosen People are the Christians under the New Covenant.  The New Jerusalem became Rome.  And as we know, that implies that "Israel" is not what the Jews would have you think it is......

It is not "anti-Semitic" to mention the problems with the Jews who reject (and persecute "in the background") Christianity.  It is realistic.

Get used to it.