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Jimmy Carter Hated Judaism before He Hated Israel

Jimmy Carter was not just an anti-Zionist — he was an old-fashioned Christian Jew-hater

A rarely told scandal has emerged in the aftermath of former president Jimmy Carter’s death.

In addition to popularizing the charge of Israel subjecting Arabs to apartheid, embracing Arafat, and legitimizing Hamas, Carter the “born-again” Christian also believed that the Jewish religion itself was evil.

Sunday school lectures recorded years before he went public with his anti-Zionism reveal Carter as a not a “new” anti-Semite but a classical one.

Read Charles Jacobs and Ben Poser’s new exposé in JNS, detailing Carter’s bigoted theological musings, here.