Sionismo cristiano negli Stati Uniti: una prospettiva storico-religiosa per comprenderne l’attualità

We can find the earliest references to the colonizing mission as a God-ordained enterprise that would result in the creation of a new Israel in the American wilderness within the sermons that accompanied the first English Puritan settlers leaving for North America. Israel and the Jewish people have always occupied a preeminent spot in the minds of Protestant colonists, resulting in what has been called “an unusual relationship” between North American Christians and Jews. Unusual, perhaps, but enduring and crucial to the evolution of US foreign policy. Against the background of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the West Bank since October 2023, the essay looks at the historical evolution of US support for the founding of the State of Israel, by showing that while the political alliance between the US and Zionism is rooted in the past, its numerous political, cultural, religious, and prophetic ramifications have made it over time a cornerstone of the Christian Right.