Opinion: Why do evangelical Protestants hate Palestinians?

Since April 2025, Mike Huckabee, a white evangelical American Protestant and Baptist minister, has served as the US ambassador to Israel.

A right-wing religious fanatic and former Republican presidential candidate, Huckabee previously served as governor of Arkansas.

He believes, as part of his Protestant zealotry, that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian", and that Palestinian identity is merely "a political tool to try and force land away from Israel".

Most recently, the ambassador described Palestinians in Gaza as "wicked, uncivilised savages" - in keeping with the tradition of missionaries, colonists and other "civilising" forces.

Huckabee opposes Palestinian statehood and dismisses Israeli settler-colonialism on Palestinian land as nothing more than urban development.

Opinion: Why do evangelical Protestants hate Palestinians?