Bolsonaro supporters do not defend Israel out of respect for Jews, but out of contempt for Arabs
- plataforma9
- Mar 19
- 3 min read
For years, we have seen Bolsonaro and his supporters waving Israeli and American flags, calling for their victory in the annihilation they continue to incite in Palestine. This phenomenon has been widely explained theologically, based on evangelical biblical teachings. But this explanation is insufficient. Believing in a revelation about the return of Jesus, the judgment of nations, and the coming of the “end” is nothing compared to the disdain shown toward the Arab world by the Christian West.
Bolsonaro's demonstration in Copacabana – April 21, 2024 – Photos by Fabio Teixeira
It is worth remembering that the contempt that the Christian world has for the “other” is not only directed at Arabs. There is contempt for Africans, Chinese, Indians, Arabs… and the Jewish people as well. Is it coherent to believe that the creation of Israel as a nation was truly God’s will? Or was it a fruit of this hatred, of the racial supremacy rooted in our Christian society?
Yes, it is a question of race, more than religion. Supporting a people who exhibit cultural behaviors and values that are supposedly more ‘aligned’ with ours, what in Europe is called a propensity for ‘integration,’ is code for supporting a ‘superior’ society over another, which is ‘inferior.’
In reality, the assumption of this inferiority, or evolutionary backwardness of certain peoples, is one of the most toxic traits of our Christian societies. And this trait is much more latent than any theological or historical knowledge or understanding that people have about anything. It doesn’t matter that not all Arabs are Muslims, it doesn’t matter if we know what year it is in the Islamic calendar, it doesn’t matter that both Muslims and Jews trace their lineage back to Abraham, or that the largest Muslim nation in the world is not even Arab.
What matters to this electorate is the advancement of European domination of the world, because it is believed that Europeans (and their descendants) are the most evolved humans. This is what we see in the United States, where the real ‘American’ is the one of European descent. In Brazil, where the true Brazilian is the one with some visible European descent. Jews have been sent by them to front lines in the war of European domination as it advances eastward.
In the theological reading of Christian support for the establishment of the Jewish nation in Israel, the advance of European domination in the east means accelerating the return of Jesus and the beginning of the end of the world. At this point, the Jewish people will be saved based on their willingness to… stop being Jewish.
Do people who believe that Zionism, and what is being done to Palestine, are God's will also believe that Nazi Germany supported God's will, simply because it (also) decisively influenced the establishment of the Jewish state?
Phobia towards Islam and racism against Arabs are practically unanimous motivations amidst various religious divergences, in interpretation of biblical passages, within Christianity. Is it possible to look at the situation we are in now and see an evolution of humanity, compared to thousands of years of religious history? Are white Europeans not capable of barbarism?
Bolsonaro's demonstration in Copacabana – March 16, 2025 – Photos by Fabio Teixeira
We are witnessing barbarism, a cultural, geopolitical, and religious legacy of thousands of years, yes. But, above all, we are witnessing a paradigm of disintegration of spiritual values that gave life to all these religions in the first place.
It is Ramadan. All over the world, Muslims are observing their human and religious values, practicing, as much as possible, charity, discipline, and honoring this divine gift of being alive thanks to Allah, Alhamdulillah.
Meanwhile, barbarism continues, is exacerbated, and Bolsonaro supporters raise flags of complete spiritual decline and obliteration of human values. We, from Christian nations, who on one hand claim to defend values of freedom, justice, penance, and forgiveness, witness members of our communities revelling in the brutality of the massacre.
In the face of this disgrace, I personally have faith in the Arab world, in its human integrity and religious discipline to forge its path of resistance.
وَقَـٰتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّىٰ لَا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌۭ وَيَكُونَ ٱلدِّينُ لِلَّهِ ۖ فَإِنِ ٱنتَهَوْا۟ فَلَا عُدْوَٰنَ إِلَّا عَلَى ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ ١٩٣
“And fight them until there is no more persecution and religion is for Allah. But if they cease, then let there be no aggression, except against the wrongdoers.” (2:193 Quran)
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