Arizona Jewish leader: West Bank renaming bills are Christian nationalists co-opting Judaism

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: March 3, 2026

Words: 1,035

Last Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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A pair of resolutions drafted by a Christian nationalist organization that aim to force the Arizona government to refer to Israel’s occupied territory only with “biblical language” is just the latest bid by American extremists to co-opt Judaism to advance a theocratic agenda, one Jewish community leader says.

The two measures, which won approval in the Arizona House of Representatives last week, seek to eradicate any reference to the West Bank, the landlocked, 2,183-square-mile Palestinian …

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