Antisemitism is surging in the Church. I visited Jerusalem to discuss what can be done

Steve Maltz reports from an emergency summit which was convened by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem 

There was something very special about this conference. To be able to attract 30 eminent speakers, along with over 200 delegates from over 20 countries, to what was basically an active war zone, was a measure of its timely importance.

When I arrived at Luton Airport earlier this month, Iran was literally lobbing over hundreds of rockets at Israel, each marked by a ping on my Red Alert app. A few changed their mind and remained in safety, but the vast majority of us continued on our journey, buoyed by the fact that this Jerusalem ‘emergency’ summit, arranged by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ), was always going to be protected by a God who had some key messages for His people.

So, in the two and a bit days of the summit, held in the prestigious Vert hotel in Jerusalem, we sat at the feet of academics, influencers and gifted speakers and not only learned about the reality of the current growth of antisemitism around the world, but were given practical advice about counteracting the inroads it has made in the Church itself, arguably where it first began, around 1900 years ago. This uncomfortable reality was the…