Antisemitism Exposed

America and Israel: A covenant, not a contract

John Adams once wrote 'I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation'

By Heather Johnston Fox News

Published July 1, 2026 7:00am EDT

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When there is antisemitism there is anti-Americanism 'at its core,' says Rich Goldberg

Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior advisor Rich Goldberg details the deep-rooted connection between the United States and Israel on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.'

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The bond between America and the Jewish people did not begin with the creation of the modern State of Israel. It predates even the founding of our great country 250 years ago. This relationship has never been simply diplomatic. It is covenantal.

Long before there was a United States, there was a people learning to govern themselves by the principles God gave at Sinai.

The Puritan settlers read that story not as ancient history but as their own unfolding plot. In 1630, their leader John Winthrop preached a sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity," closing with the word of Moses to the Children of Israel who were about to enter the Promised Land, urging his followers "to love the Lord our God, and to love one another, to walk in his ways and to keep his Commandments and his Ordinance and his laws, and the articles of our Covenant with him."

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