Rev. Johnnie Moore warned students at Liberty University on Thursday, October 22, that antisemitism is spreading through conservative Christian circles online, with influential personalities twisting Bible verses to justify hatred of Jewish people.

Moore delivered the welcoming address at an event hosted by Liberty University's Center for Israel in Lynchburg, Virginia, ChurchLeaders reported. The gathering also featured former Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl, Ambassador George Deek, ICEJ USA outreach director Dr. Tyson Lambertson, and the center's director Dr. Troy Temple.

"This antisemitism used to come mainly from the left, but now it's coming increasingly from the right, and it is often wrapped in Bible verses taken out of context," Moore said. "It is amplified by algorithms. It's monetized online to make us fuel our outrage."

He drew a sharp line for believers tempted to treat it as just another opinion: "When antisemitism hides behind a cross or addresses itself in Christian vocabulary, when it flows from the mouth of a Christian influencer, it is not just another viewpoint; it is a betrayal of the gospel itself."

Moore, a senior founding fellow of the Liberty University Center for Israel and vice chancellor and managing director of Middle East Studies at Pepperdine University in Washington, D.C., argued that Christian support for Israel is not a modern political fashion but a belief anchored in the whole counsel of Scripture.

"Zionism, our support of Israel and the Jewish people, is not some modern political idea that Christians decided to support. It is a biblical idea," Moore said. "It begins in Genesis 12 with God telling Abraham to go to a land he would show him, and that promise runs unbroken through the entirety of Scriptures, from the patriarchs to the Gospels."

He also tied Liberty's stand with Israel to the school's roots, noting that founder Jerry Falwell Sr. traveled to Israel with the university's inaugural class of 154 students.

Moore told the students that a new generation of believers is facing a historic test: whether they will let online outrage merchants redefine their faith, or hold fast to a Gospel that shows no partiality and a God whose promises do not expire.