Skipp Porteous

Skipp Porteous is the publisher of Freedom Writer, a newsletter published by the Institute for First Amendment Studies (IFAS), an educational and research organization that focuses on church-state issues. He is the author of Jesus Doesn't Live Here Anymore: From Fundamentalist to Freedom Writer.

The Christian Right is the source of much anti-Semitism. Examples of Christian Right anti-Semitism include stereotypes of Jewish behavior and appearance, missionary activities, Christian home- school textbooks, and the Christian Identity Movement. Attacks on Jews are also disguised as attacks on humanism, an approach taken by Tim LaHaye and Donald Wildmon, among others.

Astudy by the Institute for First Amendment Studies found a prevalence of anti-Semitism within the Christian Right. While some of the prejudice and hostility toward Jews is concealed, much is blatant. Stereotyping of Jews is widespread; and anti-Semitism in the form...