Last week Pete Hegseth hosted a "Christmas Worship Service" at the Pentagon. The speaker he invited was Franklin Graham, who said: "We know that God loves. But did you know that God also hates? Do you know that God also is a God of war?"
Graham went on to use an Old Testament story from I Samuel 15 to justify that claim.
“Samuel said, ‘Now, go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have. … Don’t spare them, but kill them, both man and woman, infant, nursing child, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey.’ So Samuel gave the instructions for the mission. Now, people will say, ‘But, Franklin, that is so hard; that’s not the God I believe in.’ Well, you had better believe in him.”
Preaching to Donald Trump's "Department of War," Graham used God to affirm the hatred espoused by this administration and in doing so, quoted a scripture that has been repeatedly used throughout history to justify genocide.
It's worth noting that the most recent use of that scripture came from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a way to justify the genocide Israel has been committing in Gaza. I suspect that Graham (who has been a major cheerleader for the Israeli government) was aware of that - and meant this reference as a signal of his support.
In the current battle between MAGA extremists, that puts Franklin Graham firmly on the side of people like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin - who claim that anything short of 100% support for Israel is the equivalent of anti-semitism.
On the other side of that battle are people like Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes who aren't simply opposed to the Israeli government's actions in Gaza, but are openly and forcefully anti-semitic. As an example, take a look at some of the things Owens said in response to Ben Shaprio's speech at Truning Point's Amerifest.
“F*ck you Ben Shapiro and the midget horse you rode in on.”
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 20, 2025
Candace Owens, responding to Ben Shapiro’s speech at Turning Point USA, mainlines unquestionable Neo-Nazi propaganda, including dangerous Talmudic conspiracies.
Keep in mind that every episode of Candace’s show is… pic.twitter.com/9Dn5gjUINu
Amidst the foul language, Owens showcases a book titled "The Talmudic Jew" by August Rohling, a notorious anti-semite whose work relies on mistranslations, selective quotation, and outright fabrication to portray Judaism and the Talmud as inherently immoral and hostile toward non-Jews. She also claims that slavery wasn't a "white men sport." Instead, "Jewish people were in control of the slave trade."
What I find most interesting about all of this is that, while this entire group of right wing influencers fully support both racism and sexism, they've drawn the line at what it means to be anti-semitic. The choice they're offering MAGA is to either support outright genocide or blatant anti-semitism. It seems that a lot of young Republicans are going with the latter.
Meanwhile, the man who is most likely to be the next Republican candidate for president refers to all of this as some kind of "purity test" while claiming that Democrats simply take orders from our Jewish overlord - George Soros.
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