Raphael Warnock delivered the sermon in question in May 2018, the week that Trump moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in a move that he later said was meant to please his evangelical supporters. In the sermon, he described seeing Palestinian protesters face reprisals from Israeli soldiers.
“We need a two-state solution where all of God’s children can live together,” Warnock said. “We saw the government of Israel shoot down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey. … It is wrong to shoot down God’s children like they don’t matter at all. And it’s no more anti-Semitic for me to say that than it is anti-white for me to say that Black lives matter. Palestinian lives matter.”
