By Judy Lash Balint
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 7, 2005

The members of the Christian Allies Caucus of Israel’s parliament sat in
stunned silence. A visiting African American pastor had just told them
something they had never expected: Israel had a potentially powerful
ally in America’s black community.

Pastor Glenn Plummer, 50, former Chairman of the prestigious National
Religious Broadcasters Association told those gathered in the Knesset
lecture hall that the potential for support for Israel from black
Americans is huge. Plummer claimed that more than 80 percent of 33
million African Americans are “Bible-oriented Christians.” According to
Plummer, a recent survey asking respondents if they had read the Bible
in the past week indicated that 62 percent of African Americans polled
responded in the affirmative. By contrast, only 31 percent of white
Americans did.