People have, in the name of Christ, persecuted Jews for centuries. It's a terrible, embarrasing and damning fact of history of the religion of Christianity. The Roman Catholic church has been the largest vendor of anti-Jewish sentiment, but even among Protestant Christianity, it's been a sad, very un-Christ-like story over the last millenia or two.
It's no surprise, then, to see how Judaic Jews look at the new influx of support for Israel coming from gentile Christianity: caution, suspicion, defense, even some mocking. After being persecuted by Christians for the last 1500 or so years, I can't say I blame them. It's a sad irony that followers of Messiah have so badly persecuted the race that produced not only our Messiah and master, Jesus, but also all the apostles, Paul, and the author of every book in the New Testament, barring perhaps Luke.
