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Posted on 03/14/2026 3:30:45 PM PDT by ebb tide
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has joined in the chorus of voices who maintain that the phrase “Christ is King” is anti-Semitic.
In a sit-down interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network this week, Cruz argued that those who use the phrase intend it to be an insult to Jewish people.
“I’m really troubled by how the phrase ‘Christ is King’ is being used,” Cruz said. “I agree with the statement ‘Christ is King,’ although it is being used online in a way that is meant to say, ‘Screw you Jews.’ It is being used in a context very directly to say, ‘I hate Jews,’ and that’s … an online code word.”
The phrase “Christ is King” grew in popularity several years ago when then-Daily Wire host Candace Owens repeatedly used it in 2024. Owens’ comments, coupled with her outspoken opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza, resulted in her being fired from the company she worked for.
Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan later admitted that Owens’ firing was the result of her repeatedly using the phrase “Christ is King,” which he said was being co-opted into an “antisemitic trope” by social media users.
Owens pushed back against those claims, telling Tucker Carlson that she rejects the claim she hates Jews and that Christ is indeed King over all men.
Owens also called out Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson for co-authoring a study released by a left-wing group linked to the radical Anti-Defamation League that claimed “Christ is King” can be anti-Semitic.
READ: White House officially removes Carrie Prejean Boller from Religious Liberty Commission
Cruz tripled down on his faulty theology in his comments to the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“Jesus was a Jew,” he said. “The twisted theology that says Jews are Christ-killers … as I read the Gospels, Jesus went to the cross willingly … it was not the Jews who killed Jesus. It was me. It was you.”
While it is true that mankind’s sins are what caused Christ to have to die on the cross, multiple verses in the New Testament confirm that it was the Jews who demanded He be crucified in the first place.
“Let His blood be upon us and upon our children,” Mathew 27:25 states, referring to the cries of the Jews who demanded Jesus be crucified. “The one who handed me over to you has the greater sin,” Christ told Pontius Pilate in John 19:11. “The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to death,” St. Peter said to the Jews in Acts 5:30.
Debates over the appropriateness of the phrase “Christ is King” have grown in recent weeks thanks to Carrie Prejean Boller’s remarks during hearings of President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission.
“I would rather die than surrender my faith in Christ, and be forced to bow to a foreign nation demanding I forsake the Truth. Christ is King,” Boller wrote on X last month, quote-tweeting a LifeSiteNews petition expressing support for her after she was fired for expressing opposition to Zionism.
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How does he feel about Allahu akbar?
How could “Christ is King” be anti-Semitic? Jesus Christ was a Semite!
Does Cruz support CornHole?
Cruz is known to be a recipient of AIPAC donations.
Another RINO
Cruz supports Cruz.
Just when I was willing to tolerate his sleaze he goes and doubles down like this.
Viva Cristo Rey! Sorry, Rafael Eduardo Cruz. Lyin’ Ted is a cynical bastard, isn’t he? He’s been working for months to manufacture a feud within MAGA over phantom antisemitism. He’s going to every GOP-aligned Jewish group he can find to ‘splain to them how he’s their great defender and champion. It’s transparent ploy for donor backing for his 2028 presidential campaign of which Ted imagines himself winning.
Ted Cruz is Canadian.
Should walk up to every Jew and say that to their face just to spite Cruz
Thanks for the reminder.
His gloss has started glowing all Criscoey to me.
I used to like him, too.
Christians beez waciss
- Uncah Ted
Christ is King
And these dipshits wonder why people are starting to question our allegiance to Israel
Crap like this sure doesn’t help
Jesus was a Jew killed by Romans, so it is nothing new. Gentiles have been trying to kill them for 2600 years, so yes, Jews are a little sensitive, depending on the context. There are many, many Zionist Christians, however, and Jews are not offended by them at all. Just cautious.
And I think what Cruz said is perfectly reasonable.
A statement can both be true and said in a time and setting that is intended for a more malicious purpose.
Some people say Chris is King to express their love and devotion to Christ, and when they do that it’s a perfectly fine statement to make. Some people says it to the face of Jews in an loud and hostile tone, specifically to antagonize them, and when they do that they are usually motivated by a hostility to Jews.
It’s all about the tone and the circumstances.
Christ is King. If Jews get out of joint by this, one can easily point out Jesus was Jewish. I think if people want to get offended by something, they will find a way.
Cruz is trying to set himself up for some campaign contributions when he runs for president in ‘28.
Cruz is just another weasel politician.
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