Johnson Gave Netanyahu Deicide Bible Study, Report Shows
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- Mike Johnson gave Netanyahu a two-part Capitol Ministries Bible study pamphlet during a July 2025 meeting at his Capitol Hill office, telling the ministry in its 2025 annual report that the two men discussed it 'at some length' and Bibi 'left with a copy.'
- The pamphlet, authored by Ralph Drollinger and posted online June 13-14, 2025, urges the US to back Israel while stating Israel is in a 'time-out' for 'executing the Messiah'; Drollinger's video for Part 2 says Jews were 'sidetracked' by God because they 'crucified their messiah.'
- The lessons were recycled — the 'biblical case for defending Israel' language dates to at least October 2021, and warnings about Iran's nuclear threat have appeared since 2011 — and were dusted off the day after Israel launched its 2024 attack on Iran to make a fresh Biblical case for US entry.
- Capitol Ministries runs Bible studies for the House, Senate, White House, and governors; Senate Majority Leader John Thune has been involved with founders Ralph and Danielle Drollinger for more than ten years, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth participates in the White House studies, the Pentagon confirmed.
- Johnson became a sponsor of Drollinger's House Bible study in May 2025, the month before the Israel lessons were posted and the same month Trump administration leaders Russell Vought and Brooke Rollins revived the weekly White House cabinet Bible meetings.
- The deicide framing has already shaped legislation: in 2024, Chuck Schumer tried to attach the Antisemitism Awareness Act to the military spending bill to block a deicide-exemption amendment, but Johnson refused, and the bill later died; in April 2025, Senator Bill Cassidy, a Drollinger sponsor since 2013, was pushing a similar deicide carve-out, per The Forward.
Why it matters: The theological framework informing the Bible studies Mike Johnson, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune actively participate in still carries the deicide libel the Vatican rejected in 1965 and that major Protestant bodies have repudiated. With one senator already pushing to shield 'Christ-killers' rhetoric from the legal definition of antisemitism, the teaching is shaping congressional votes on Israel policy and Jewish civil rights in real time.
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