On the eve of New Year 2026, a meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
Leadership of America’s evangelical Christian community and Jewish leaders journeyed to Palm Beach to plan about defending America, Israel, and the world against radical Islamists.
They were joined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
They were also joined by Travis Johnson, Pastor of Pathway Church in Mobile. Here is Johnson’s summary of the meeting:
This isn’t from a pundit—it’s what I personally saw and heard. Read to the end for the Prime Minister’s direct quote.
Yesterday in Palm Beach, as pastors and Christian leaders sat with Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], we made it unmistakably clear:
We stand with the Prime Minister and Israel. Period. No equivocation.
And he responded powerfully: He stands with us—with America and with persecuted Christians around the world.
What a profound moment. What a vital alliance.
This is what a true alliance looks like.
The fog is lifting from formerly trusted influencers who downplay the Islamist threat to Christians, Jews, and Western civilization.
Make no mistake: Radical Islam and anti-Jewish voices vastly outnumber Israel in demographics and funding. But the mask is slipping on American influencers who’ve betrayed the grassroots movement that elected President Trump. Their shift against evangelical Christians is an assault on freedom, on the President’s base, and on our shared future—and it’s being called out with growing boldness.
Even amid rising anti-Jewish hostility and attacks on conservatism, Christians, and freedom here in America and globally, Israel and evangelical Christians stand united—defending one another wherever terror or persecution strikes.
But don’t take my word for it. Here’s Prime Minister Netanyahu in his own words:
“Israel is joining an emerging alliance of countries that support Christian communities around the world, beleaguered communities who deserve our help… In Africa, with intel, in the Middle East, with a lot of means that I won’t itemize each one.
But this is what our agenda is, it’s a main part of our agenda, and it’s going to continue with greater force and greater might in this coming year.”
Will you join me in praying for persecuted Christians and Jews worldwide?
And will you pray against the schemes that kill, torture, displace, and scatter Christians and Jews in Africa, the Middle East, the US, and Israel?
Johnson joined over a thousand Christian leaders in a mission to Israel in December.
It also included U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. It was the largest group of American Christian leaders ever to visit “the Holy Land” on a mission with a purpose. It was a “Friends of Zion” project.
The trip, organized in partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was designed to prepare participants to be unofficial ambassadors for Israel in their communities.
“We are ambassadors for Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:20.
The purpose of the December 31 meeting was to seek to unify — and demonstrate that unity — between evangelical Christian leaders in America, Israel and the Jewish people, and to counter any perception that this community is divided on the issue, “because it is not.”
The group put up a united stand against the antisemitism that has long been simmering beneath the surface on certain university campuses and in the Democrat party. It is an open stand against the lies, and a declaration of commitment to truth.
Jim Zig Zeigler is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News. His beat includes the positive and colorful about Alabama – her people, events, groups and prominent deaths. He is a former State Auditor and Public Service Commissioner. You can reach him at [email protected].
