Paying the jizya to stay in Bethlehem

Dexter van Zile attended the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in Beit Jala, next to Bethlehem this past week. He questions whether Christian submission to Islam is a worthwhile price to pay for staying in this land.

At the 2012 and 2014 conferences, speakers
blamed radical Islam’s violence against Christians in the Middle East on
Christian support for Israel, as if Muslims had no moral