The Seven Noahide Laws have been quietly creeping into American political life for decades, usually disguised beneath the most harmless description imaginable: seven basic biblical principles for a moral society. What almost nobody bothers to explain is what Noahidism actually means once you get past the seven-item brochure. What it plans to do with Christians, and how deep the conspiracy really goes, has been hidden from the American people in plain sight.
Texas has produced its share of strange religious movements, but even by Texas standards, this one takes the cake. Beginning in the late twentieth century, a group of ostensibly Christian Gentiles began gathering around a former Baptist minister named Vendyl Jones, studying Jewish rabbinic law, renouncing Christianity, and embracing the idea that Gentiles are ontologically inferior to Jews, and that God had assigned Gentiles a separate, submissive religion under the Seven Laws of Noah. Jones became one of the fathers of the modern Noahide movement, and Fort Worth became home to the first International Conference of the Descendants of Noah, which was held there in 1990. Its keynote speaker was none other than Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Israeli Kach party, a man whose politics were considered so extreme that Kach was eventually barred from Israeli elections.
For added context, Kahane is the muse and hero of Israeli Security Minister and wanted international terrorist Ben Gvir, who he referred to as “my hero” and “holy man.” Kahane was widely repudiated for anti-Gentile racism, was banned by Israel’s Central Election Commission for racism, and Israel’s High Court of Justice upheld the ban. He advocated for the full expulsion of every non-Jew from Israel, and advocated for Israel to be run fully by the Rabbinate under Jewish Temu-Sharia, or Halakha - not just its civil legal system - the same way Iran is run by clerics under Shariah.
In 1989, Kahane said, “I have not the slightest sympathy for Christianity or Jesus.” He hated Jews for Jesus and created a group to attack them called “Christians for Moses” and said, “If you lose a Jew in Auschwitz or through conversion, it’s still a soul lost.” In 1976, he stood outside of Jimmy Carter’s Baptist church in Georgia, disrupted their worship to announce the creation of “Born-Again Christians for Israel,” and demanded “Christian American fellow citizens” to support Israel as a religious duty, and God commanded it. He was a real peach.
But back to the meeting in Texas, these weren’t Gentiles converting to Judaism. They wanted to remain Gentiles while accepting a religious system in which Jews possessed one covenant and Gentiles another, with the Gentile side interpreted through Jewish Torah and rabbinic tradition. Jones’s organization became so important that, when a group of Orthodox rabbis in Israel revived the ancient Sanhedrin, its emissary, Rabbi Michael Bar-Ron, traveled to America and attended the annual Vendyl Jones Research Institute convention looking for Gentiles to help form an international Noahide council. The stated objective was to organize the world’s Noahide communities beneath a single organization operating under the “direct authority and supervision of the Sanhedrin.”
That project culminated in a ceremony in Jerusalem in January 2006. Gentile Noahide representatives appeared before the developing Sanhedrin and pledged allegiance to the God of Israel, “His Torah and its representatives, the developing Sanhedrin,” while promising to observe the Noahide laws according to the Oral Law of Moses “under the guidance of the developing Sanhedrin.” These were Gentile men voluntarily traveling halfway around the world to stand before an aspiring Jewish religious court and formally place their religious lives beneath its guidance.
Council spokesman Jim Long was even more revealing, and addressing the rabbis, he told them, “We are here because of your Torah,” explaining that rabbis had elevated Torah and drawn these Gentiles toward it, whereas “before that, we stumbled in darkness.” Long said the movement needed to prevent emerging Noahide communities from splitting into denominations and explained its members came from other religions - primarily Dispensational evangelicalism - and therefore needed to learn how to approach them in a way that wouldn’t startle them, but get them to distance themselves from their faith in Jesus. The council planned Noahide prayer books, children’s books, and educational materials presenting the world through Torah, which wouldn’t startle evangelicals.
If this sounds considerably stranger than anything you have ever heard described as the “Seven Laws of Noah,” that is the point. Most American Christians who have encountered Noahide laws have heard something different: they are “just the basic biblical laws” God gave mankind, universal moral principles about murder, theft, sexual immorality, idolatry, and justice. That’s a lie from hell. And most evangelicals believe that this is all the Noahide Laws require. It’s very untrue.
CHABAD
Those weirdos in Texas were not just inventing a homemade religion in somebody’s double-wide. The religious arrangement they embraced is now recognizable in contemporary Noahide institutions worldwide, including an organization founded and operated by Gentiles called Noahide Nations. Its material says its Gentile members believe Torah is God’s “true, final, and definitive revelation to mankind,” revealing separate purposes and missions for Jews and Gentiles. They don’t want to convert to Judaism, because they are not good enough to become Jews. They can never be good enough. They are, by nature, inferior. They are part of a separate and non-equal religion that submits to Jewish religious authorities, but isn’t Judaism. It’s Torah for Gentiles.
Noahide Nations employs rabbis as teachers and writers and openly says that when questions of halakha, or Torah law, arise, they defer to Orthodox Jewish posek Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel. The organization has even created its own credentialed Gentile clergy program, called the Nagid Program, but warns students not to get the wrong idea about what their fancy new title means. The program “is not meant to create leadership independent of the Rabbis or a group of scholars to replace the Rabbis,” it declares, adding that “such an idea is ludicrous!”
Essentially, Gentiles are being trained as clergy to conduct marriages and funerals, build congregations, perform prison ministry, and potentially serve as military chaplains, while the same organization explicitly says those Gentile religious leaders are not supposed to become independent of rabbis. They quote Maimonides to explain that Gentiles “are not to be allowed to originate a new religion,” meaning that Noahides must submit to Jews at all times.
Noahide Nations’ educational material says most Noahides have abandoned Christmas and Easter, develops Gentile prayers and religious ceremonies “in co-operation with leading rabbis,” and describes the elevation of Jesus to deity as one of the “later heretical developments within Christianity.” Noahides argue that true Christianity recognizes Jesus as a Jewish rabbi, not as King or God. In this, they can infiltrate Christian circles by claiming to be Christian. They speak highly of Jesus as a teacher, but they deny that He is the Messiah, effectively making Jesus the mascot of Judaism. They claim that “the nations are to come to Jerusalem to learn God’s way,” while Noahidism represents “a beginning of that great goal.”
Now the Texas ceremony begins making sense. Those Gentiles who eventually pledged themselves to Torah and rabbinic guidance had not merely discovered that stealing was bad. They embraced an entire religious architecture in which Gentiles remain Gentiles, Jews remain Jews, Torah belongs uniquely to Israel, and Gentile religious life develops within boundaries supplied by Jewish law and Jewish religious authorities. Gentiles, they teach, are here to serve, protect, and provide for Jews. Gentiles are called to submit to Jewish authority. That’s the heart of Noahide beliefs.
And yet, when Noahide law is introduced to American Christians, that complicated theological architecture has a tendency to disappear, and all that remains is a cheerful little list about not murdering your neighbor or stealing his lawnmower, usually accompanied by the soothing assurance that “it’s just biblical law.”
HUCKABEE
Mike Huckabee has spent most of his public life presenting his support for Israel as something considerably deeper than foreign policy. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister who speaks about the modern State of Israel in explicitly theological terms. Just this week, a new speech surfaced in which Huckabee said the following:
It is astonishing that a tiny little country of 10 million people outpunches its weight over and over again when it is threatened with its existence by those who have 10 times the population, many more times the military budget. And yet it doesn’t just survive. It thrives. So is that what the secret is? And I would say to you, no, it’s none of that. The secret is that 3,800 years ago God told Abraham, ‘I’m going to create a people and you’re it. And I’m going to put you in a place and this is it. And this is going to be your place and I’m going to give you a purpose and you’re going to fulfill it.’ And it doesn’t matter who rises up against the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And it does not matter how dark sometimes the night may get, because as it says in the Psalms, joy comes in the morning. And we are living in a land that is able to exceed what it should be able to do, whether it’s the military, the economy, diplomacy, agriculture, technology. And the reason is none of those things. The reason is because God Almighty put his hand on the land, and because God himself has said, ‘This is how you will know that I am God.’ And I believe we see it from the Bible.”
Of course, the purpose of God’s call upon Abraham was fulfilled already in Jesus. He was the purpose. It’s been fulfilled. Any Christian should know this. Jesus was the point. Jews did not fulfill it. Modern Israel isn’t fulfilling it. Ancient Israel didn’t fulfill it. God fulfilled it, in spite of them. “Joy comes in the morning” comes from Psalm 30:5, a Messianic psalm about Jesus. Apparently, the Jews to whom Huckabee spoke did not know that He was God, because they crucified Him.
That Israel-centered theology makes one of Huckabee’s longest-running relationships more interesting. Rabbi Pinchus Ciment arrived in Arkansas in 1992, not merely as another local rabbi but as a shaliach, an emissary of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Ciment had studied at Chabad’s Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn, received rabbinic ordination in 1990, and was dispatched to Arkansas to advance the movement’s religious mission. Four years later, Huckabee became governor and became the first Arkansas governor to participate in Ciment’s public Chabad menorah lighting.
That relationship did not fade when Huckabee left the governor’s mansion. It continued for nearly three decades, and when Donald Trump selected Huckabee to become ambassador to Israel, Huckabee returned to Ciment’s Chabad community for its December 2024 menorah lighting. Another Arkansas Chabad rabbi presented the incoming ambassador with Make Peace, a book explaining Schneerson’s teachings concerning Israel.
A few months later, immediately before his Senate confirmation hearing, Huckabee and his wife traveled to Schneerson’s grave in New York, where Chabad photographed the Baptist minister praying at the tomb of the late rabbi. Afterward, Huckabee said, “After visiting the Ohel, I’m even more confident it will all work out.”
Huckabee is on the record saying, “The president told me to go pray at the Ohel. I was there, I prayed – and I got the position!” Behold, a miracle wrought by Rebbe Schneerson (that was quoted on a Chabad news site, Anash.org, and is available in the I2I Article Research Dossier intel drop in this article’s bibliography, along with links to the other quotations). Huckabee continues to go to the Rebbe’s grave to pray, as you can see below. Each time, he wears the yarmulke, prays to the grave, and reads the Talmudic passages as part of the Jewish liturgy for worship of the rabbi. Chabad's official instructions literally say, “it is customary to write a letter to the Rebbe.” You then enter the grave enclosure, read your letter aloud, tear it up, and place the pieces at the grave.
The Chabad explain that this is becuase the Rebbe now serves as an intermediary to God, and at the grave it is easier to “connect to the tzaddik's soul above” and “request his blessings.” You are also supposed to knock before entering, and are not supposed to turn around for him to see your backside. You must walk out backward.
But his relationship with Schneerson’s movement is considerably deeper than some prayers to a corpse. Huckabee’s relationship with Chabad-Lubavitch goes back to at least 1996 through Rabbi Pinchus Ciment, and the evidence now indicates that his familiarity with Schneerson and the Lubavitch world long predates his appointment as ambassador. By 2025, when Huckabee returned to Schneerson’s grave immediately before his Senate confirmation hearing, this was not some evangelical tourist being introduced to the Rebbe for the first time.
Four days after Huckabee prayed at Schneerson’s grave, his longtime Arkansas rabbi walked into the United States House of Representatives and served as guest chaplain, and of all the subjects available to a rabbi addressing the legislative branch of the United States government, he chose to preach the Seven Noahide Laws.
Ciment began with, “I beseech You, in the merit of the great leader and spiritual giant, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson…” and then told America’s lawmakers that God had given Noah and his descendants instructions intended for “all of humanity.” He presented the Seven Laws as “seven guiding principles” for a “moral, ethical, and productive life,” but he did not confine them to private morality. Ciment invoked Schneerson like a Christian would invoke God, and praised him for having “passionately shared the richness and importance of the said Seven Noahide Laws for all to embrace.”
Schneerson’s program was considerably larger than persuading Americans that murder and theft are bad. He taught that Jews possessed an affirmative responsibility to bring Gentiles toward Noahide observance and that “the nations of the world need Jews to teach them how to observe these laws properly.” His metaphor for the proper relationship between Jewish religious instruction and Gentile government was even more revealing: “The governments of the world steer the ship; the Jew charts the course.”
That doesn’t sound conspiratorial at all.
That makes Huckabee’s relationship with Ciment impossible to dismiss as just a politician occasionally shaking hands with the local rabbi. For almost thirty years, one of America’s most prominent Baptist politicians has maintained a relationship with a trained Lubavitch emissary whose religious leader commanded his followers to teach Noahide law to Gentiles, and who has demonstrated his commitment to that mission by preaching it from the floor of Congress. Huckabee has repeatedly entered that same religious world, received Schneerson’s teachings from Arkansas Chabad, and prayed at Schneerson’s grave immediately before assuming one of America’s most consequential diplomatic posts.
We have to ask a question that becomes increasingly difficult to avoid: after nearly thirty years, what exactly has Rabbi Pinchus Ciment been teaching Mike Huckabee?
GENTILES AND JEWS
To understand what Schneerson was actually offering the Gentiles, we have to go considerably deeper than the Seven Laws themselves. Chabad-Lubavitch did not begin with the premise that Jews and Gentiles are simply two populations of otherwise spiritually identical human beings who happened to receive different numbers of commandments. Its foundational theological text, the Tanya, teaches an ontological distinction between Jewish and Gentile souls, and Schneerson spent his life teaching and defending the theological system contained in that book.
The Tanya teaches that Jews possess a divine soul, described as literally “a part of God above,” in addition to the lower animal soul associated with ordinary appetites and bodily existence. The distinction becomes considerably less ecumenical when its author, Schneur Zalman of Liadi, turns to the nations. The souls of the Gentile nations, the Tanya teaches, descend from the “unclean kelipot which contain no good whatsoever.” Even the good deeds Gentiles perform are described within this scheme as ultimately rooted in self-glorification rather than the holy source from which Jewish spiritual life proceeds.
The legal structure is similarly unequal by design. Jews remain obligated to the 613 commandments of Torah while Gentiles receive the Noahide code, and rabbis administer it. Schneerson also insisted that Jews must actively steer Gentiles toward the Noahide framework to know their place in the world, sending out his followers as missionaries, “crossing land and sea to make converts twice the sons of hell that he is.” The 3500 Chabad houses in the world are outposts of anti-evangelism; telling Gentiles to submit themselves under the Law.
He wrote that Jews should do “everything possible” to secure Noahide observance, whether through peaceful persuasion or, where legitimately possible within the halakhic framework he was discussing, even “through force.”
“We must do everything possible to ensure that the seven Noahide laws are observed. If this can be accomplished through force or through other kinder and more peaceful means through explaining to non-Jews that they should accept God’s wishes [we should do so]… Anyone who is able to influence a non-Jew in any way to keep the seven commandments is obligated to do so, since that is what God commanded Moses our teacher.”
And there is another consequence that American Christians almost never hear when someone tells them the Noahide Laws are “just biblical morality.” Christianity itself becomes part of the problem. A Gentile cannot simply take the seven laws, keep worshipping Jesus Christ as God, build an independent Christian religion around Him, and assume that this is what the rabbinic Noahide system means by serving the Creator.
Christianity isn’t allowed.
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