Palestinian evangelicals in Israel-Palestine describe themselves as a “minority of a minority of a minority”—Palestinians in a Jewish state, Christians among a Muslim-majority co-ethnic population, and evangelicals within older Christian traditions. Though small in number, they strategically mobilize their minority status to engage global evangelical narratives on religious freedom, often securing influence beyond their demographic size. Yet, their relationship with dominant evangelical frameworks—especially Christian Zionism— as well as the Israeli state is complex and fraught.
This paper explores how Palestinian evangelicals navigate competing notions of freedom—religious, political, and theological—within both the Israeli state and global evangelicalism. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in Israel-Palestine, it contributes to critical debates on the politics of religious liberty and highlights the intersection of religion, power, and geopolitics in Israel-Palestine.