I am writing this from the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention. I met one of my good friends who will return to Israel and return to the IDF as a reservist next week. He has already spent nearly eight months called up in the IDF. He is brave and resolved and appreciates your prayers and support.

Antisemitism continues to run rampant, not only among certain members of Congress and on college campuses but around the world.

And some in “the most pro-Israel American Administration in history” continue to propose imposing a “two-state solution” on the world’s only Jewish state.

Clearly, Christians in Defense of Israel’s work is FAR from over. But our funds are running low. As we approach month end, Christians in Defense of Israel has only managed to raise 73% of our monthly budget.

We need your immediate financial help to raise the remaining 27% of our monthly budget by midnight tomorrow, February 28, 2025.

Defend Israel with your tax-deductible gift!

Beyond what you and I see on the political horizon — for good or ill — we have God’s pledge that He will defend His people:

I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety. ... I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul (Jer. 32:37, 41).

God is doing that in our day, and President Donald Trump is certainly helping! But you and I have our part, too. God’s Word calls on us to pray for, defend, and bless Israel — with the promise that God will bless those who bless His people (Gen. 12:3).

We cannot be unconcerned bystanders. That is what Judah’s neighbor, Edom, did when the Jewish people came under assault. God took notice and issued this rebuke:

On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his [Judah’s] wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them (Obadiah 11).

Edom’s detached indifference put Edom under the same judgment as Judah’s attackers. “You were like one of them,” God declared.

But YOU are standing with Israel. YOU are raising your voice on behalf of the Jewish people and the Jewish state!

Will you please help CIDI do that now — at this time of grave threat to Israel — by giving a generous gift designed to help us meet our monthly budget? Please make your best gift to help CIDI continue fighting for Israel!

Thank you for your friendship and for standing with CIDI as we, together, stand with Israel!

Mat Staver
Chairman
Christians in Defense of Israel