In the UK and Glasgow’s streets over the last couple of years, I have heard chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” When I ask protesters about which river or sea they mean, many appear clueless, revealing ignorance behind this divisive slogan.

My heart burns for Israel and for sharing Jesus’s love through ‘Supporting Israel’ and ‘Born Again Christians’. The Bible tells us Jews are native to Israel, God’s chosen people with a 3,000-year tie to the land (Genesis 15:18).

As a Christian from Scotland, shaped by Calvary Chapel’s grace-focused teachings and now part of a Reformed community, I watched Wandering Emma’s YouTube video about Mea Shearim, an Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem.

My heart’s breaking as we hit 600 days, since October 7, 2023, when 58 people, from children to grandparents, have been held in Hamas’s dungeon tunnels in Gaza.