Sen. Ted Cruz Says the Phrase “Christ is King” is Antisemitic

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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is now offended by the phrase “Christ is King.”

Yes, really.

In an interview with CBN, Cruz called the message an ‘antisemitic’ code word.

According to Sen. Cruz, if you say that Jesus Christ is your King, then you really mean, “I hate Jews.”

I’m not even paraphrasing.

Watch this for yourself:

Are you kidding me?

Sen. Cruz proclaims to be a Christian, and yet he believes that stating “Christ is King” is problematic.

Newsflash to Ted: you can be a Christian who believes Jesus Christ is King and not hate Jews.

In fact, I don’t know where Ted Cruz is finding all this ‘Christian antisemitism’ he’s so worried about, in the first place.

But, you can’t be a Christian without believing that Christ is King!

Folks on X have some messages for Ted:

Maybe Ted Cruz needs to read his Bible more.

Here are some verses he can start with:

During that same interview, Sen. Cruz also blasted antisemitism as a growing problem within the Republican Party.

Specifically, he went after Tucker Carlson.

Here’s more from his interview with CBN:

But while Iran remains a pressing concern overseas, Cruz says another battle is unfolding at home — within the Republican Party itself. “I have seen more antisemitism on the right than at any point in my life,” says Cruz. “It is dangerous and it risks consuming our party. I don’t want us to make the same mistake Democrat leaders made a decade ago of just to look the other way and to be silent.”

That concern has led Cruz to directly challenge one of the most influential voices on the political right: Tucker Carlson. Asked whether Republicans should speak out about Carlson — including Vice President J.D. Vance, who has a friendship with the former Fox News host — Cruz said the moment demands clarity. “Look, everyone’s going to have to decide where they stand. Ronald Reagan in 1964 gave a very famous speech, a time for choosing. And I think this is a time for choosing.”

Senator Cruz argues that Carlson’s rhetoric has specifically targeted evangelical Christians who support Israel. “The target of this operation is you and me. It is evangelical Christians. Tucker Carlson has said there is nobody he hates more on planet Earth than Christian Zionists and he names specifically me and Mike Huckabee. I think it’s unfortunate that I am the person he says he hates most on Earth. Now, why does he hate me? He hates me, number one, because I’m a Christian and that is my faith and I’m not going to run away from it or apologize for it. But he hates me number two, because I’m a Zionist.”

Cruz also criticized the rise of “replacement theology,” a belief held by some far-right voices that the church has replaced the Jewish people as God’s chosen people. “I think that is absolutely wrong,” Cruz tells CBN News. “If God breaks his promises to the people of Israel, that suggests that God could break his promises to Christians as well and I don’t believe God breaks his promises.”

The Texas senator also addressed the phrase “Christ is King,” which has become increasingly common in online political debates. According to Cruz, the phrase is sometimes used in a deeply antisemitic way.

“It is being used online in a way that is meant to say, ‘screw you, Jew.’ It is being used in a context very directly to say, ‘I hate Jews’ and that’s almost an online code word. ‘Christ is King’ is ‘I hate the Jews.’”

When asked why he believes that, Cruz pointed to the broader context in which the phrase is often used. “Because you see the people who are saying it and they’re saying it in that context,” Cruz explains. “They’re saying Jews are horrible, like they’re attacking Jews, and they end with ‘Christ is King’ to make it sound like somehow there’s a biblical basis for attacking Jews.”

What are your thoughts on all of this?

Do you have a message for Ted Cruz?



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