A few weeks ago, Trump tapped Mike Huckabee to be his ambassador to Israel. Besides being a perennial Republican presidential candidate and right-wing media personality, Huckabee is, of course, a Southern Baptist minister and an out-and-out Christian Zionist.
While a number of good pieces of commentary have since been published on Huckabee’s Christian Zionism and its likely implications, I wrote a piece for Baptist News Global coming at Huckabee’s nomination from a somewhat different angle. Huckabee has, at a few times, denied the existence of Palestinian peoplehood, something that’s not an uncommon view among professional Christian Zionists. So, I chose to juxtapose Huckabee’s views against the history of Southern Baptist relations to Palestine–a history whose most direct and enduring connection runs through the Palestinian community. Here it is.
Walker Robins 