Abstract
ABSTRACT Two narratives used by conservative evangelicals as justification for supporting Donald Trump are his support for the state of Israel and opposition to “globalists.” However, narratives of “globalism” are rooted in and often deploy the codes of antisemitism. Using conspiratorial constructions of progressive billionaire George Soros in American evangelical Christian Zionist texts as a case study, this article interrogates the relationship between hostility to “globalism” and support for Israel. It argues that rather than simply evading or reproducing antisemitism, evangelical Christian Zionist anti-globalism relies on the antisemitic figure of “the Jew” as both present and absent, structurally necessary and necessarily disavowed. The article contends that the result of this disavowal is the figure of “the Jew”—one whose antisemitic archive is placed under erasure and whose figuration facilitates a theo/geopolitical imaginary grounded on the securitization of borders and ethnocratic concepts of the nation-state over and against the possibilities of cohabitation.
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