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=== Opposition to Christian Zionism ===
[[Christian Zionism]], which has long represented a major thread of [[Christian Zionism#Protestant Reformation|historic and contemporary Protestants]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wesley-fellowship.org.uk/Zionist_Hymn.html |title=''A Wesley 'Zionist' Hymn?'' Charles Wesley's hymn, published in 1762 and included by John Wesley in his 1780 hymn-book, A Collection of Hymns for the use of the People called Methodists |work=The Wesley Fellowship |date=2010-07-01 |access-date=2014-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717011126/http://wesley-fellowship.org.uk/Zionist_Hymn.html |archive-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=lewis>{{cite book | last = Lewis | first = Donald | title = The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury And Evangelical Support For A Jewish Homeland | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 2 January 2014 | location = Cambridge | page = 380 | isbn =9781107631960}}</ref> is characterised as a view which "distort(s) the interpretation of the Word of God" and "damage(s) intra-Christian relations".<ref name="mnd2">{{cite web | url= http://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/wcc-programmes/public-witness-addressing-power-affirming-peace/middle-east-peace/statement-on-christian-presence-and-witness-in-the-middle-east | title= Statement on Christian presence and witness in the Middle East | work= World Council of Churches and The Middle East Council of Churches International | date= 2013-05-25 | access-date= 2015-02-21 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150207040331/http://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/wcc-programmes/public-witness-addressing-power-affirming-peace/middle-east-peace/statement-on-christian-presence-and-witness-in-the-middle-east/ | archive-date= 2015-02-07 | url-status= dead }}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=In this context, what is a source of concern is that Islamic fundamentalisms are giving rise to a counter reaction of other religious fundamentalisms, the most dangerous of which is Jewish fundamentalism which exploits the Islamic fundamentalist phenomenon to justify before western societies the distasteful aberrations of Zionism in Palestine. |author=WCC working paper, Lebanon, May 2013<ref name="mnd">{{cite web | url = http://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/wcc-programmes/public-witness-addressing-power-affirming-peace/middle-east-peace/ME_conference_working_paper.pdf | title = Middle East Council of Churches International & Ecumenical Conference "Christians in the Middle East: Presence and Witness" | work = World Council of Churches | date = 25 May 2013 | access-date = 2015-02-20 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924091644/http://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/wcc-programmes/public-witness-addressing-power-affirming-peace/middle-east-peace/ME_conference_working_paper.pdf | archive-date = 2015-09-24 | url-status = dead}}</ref>}}

Frank Chikane, moderator of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) of the World Council of Churches (WCC), was criticised for using the term 'demons' to describe advocacy for Zionism in 2021.<ref name= "alg">{{cite web | url = https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/02/10/church-official-declares-war-on-israel-and-its-supporters/| title = Church Official Declares War on Israel and Its Supporters | work = The Algemeiner | date = 10 February 2021 | access-date = 2021-02-17}}</ref>

On January 4, 2023, World Council of Churches general secretary [[Jerry Pillay]] joined the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and all the churches of the Holy Land in condemning the desecration of the historic Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oikoumene.org/news/wcc-condemns-desecration-of-historic-protestant-cemetery-in-jerusalem |title=WCC condemns desecration of historic Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem |work=World Council of Churches |date=4 January 2023 |access-date=2023-01-04}}</ref>