More than a thousand pastors and Christian leaders from the United States and around the world made a historic pilgrimage to Jerusalem this week, gathering on the ancient Southern Steps and at the Western Wall to pray and to stand with Israel in its hour of need. Organizers call it the largest delegation of its kind in modern Israeli history, a powerful display of faith and American solidarity with a longtime ally. This was not a sightseeing tour — it was a deliberate, public act of moral clarity that the global left-wing noise machine will find hard to ignore.
At the Western Wall the pastors placed prayer slips and notes in the cracks of those holy stones, including memorials for victims of the Nova music festival massacre, and prayed aloud for peace, for hostages, and for Israel’s future. Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich led them in Scripture and thanked the delegation for coming to confirm the friendship between America and Israel. The scene was nothing less than Americans answering a moral call to defend life, decency, and the right of a nation to exist free from terror.
This extraordinary mobilization was coordinated in part by the Friends of Zion and its founder Mike Evans, working with Israel’s Foreign Ministry to bring these leaders to Jerusalem, and Evans himself made no secret of the delegation’s influence — saying the visit will be noticed by the most powerful offices in Washington. Evans also said more than 200 pastors in the group have ties to former President Donald Trump, a detail that will rile the left but thrill millions of patriotic Americans who believe in strong support for Israel. This pro-Israel, pro-faith alliance is exactly the kind of civil society muscle America needs right now.
Beyond heartfelt prayer, organizers framed the visit as strategic: Israel and Friends of Zion are commissioning pastors as “Friends of Zion Ambassadors” to push back against rising antisemitism and the cultural campaigns that have turned young people against Israel. Leaders called it part of an ideological battle, not just a military one, and the program aims to expand dramatically — the group says it plans to bring thousands more leaders in the coming year to build grassroots defense of Israel. If conservative churches and civic leaders don’t step up, the left’s narratives will continue to take root in schools and online.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and others urged pastors to return home and use their pulpits to push back on antisemitism and the dangerous moral relativism permeating our institutions. That call should be heeded by every American who values truth and the Judeo-Christian foundation of Western civilization; our pulpits must not be quiet while hatred grows. The mainstream media and academy have spent years gaslighting the public about who our friends and enemies are — these pastors went to Jerusalem to make sure the pulpit speaks truth again.
This delegation was more than a photo op — it was a message: hardworking Americans of faith stand with Israel, and they will carry that message back to their towns, congregations, and legislatures. Rabbi Rabinovich’s words of gratitude made clear that this support matters to Israelis who have endured unspeakable pain and who want the world to know friends still stand by them. If patriotism means anything today, it means supporting allies who defend freedom, praying without apology, and calling out the cowardice of those in power who cower before violence and cancel culture instead of defending what is right.
