Short answer: Yes. Michele Bachmann, the former Minnesota congresswoman, is one of the most visible Christian Zionist supporters of Israel in American politics. She has visited Israel more than 30 times, co-chairs the annual Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, sits on the board of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), and continues, as of August 2026, to publicly back Israel's military actions against Iran and call for US support of Israel.
What Michele Bachmann has actually said and done
2015: In a radio interview, Bachmann said Christians should "share Jesus Christ with everyone that we possibly can, even among the Jews," remarks widely criticized as calling for Jewish conversion to Christianity, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
May 12, 2018: At a joint Jewish-Christian Bible study at the Knesset on Jerusalem Day, Bachmann apologized for the 2015 remarks, saying "I ask for forgiveness from the Jewish people for what it is that we have done" and that the statements "brought pain," the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.
May 14, 2018: At the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, coinciding with Israel's 70th anniversary, Bachmann said Israel was "in a golden era," called the Iran nuclear deal "an unmitigated disaster," and praised the US withdrawal from it, according to JNS (Jewish News Syndicate).
May 2026: In a video released around the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, Bachmann said President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu "were appointed for this task" on Iran and that God would "deliver the midterms and the Israeli elections" if Trump dealt with Iran, as reported by Joe.My.God and corroborated by Right Wing Watch.
May 27, 2026: Bachmann, co-chair of the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast alongside founder Robert Ilatov, attended the movement's 10th-anniversary event at the Knesset in Jerusalem, where she said the fall of the Iranian regime, which she called a "death cult," was "very possible," according to CBN News and All Israel News.
The bigger picture
Bachmann's support for Israel is long-standing and rooted in Christian Zionism. She has said her first trip to the Holy Land as a teenager, including work on a kibbutz in southern Israel, "changed the course of my life," and she has since visited Israel more than 30 times. She sits on the board of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), a major Christian-Jewish humanitarian organization active in Israel, and co-chairs the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, an annual gathering of Christian and Jewish leaders held in Jerusalem that marked its 10th anniversary in May 2026.
Her advocacy has not been free of friction with the organized Jewish community. The 2015 remarks encouraging Christian outreach toward Jews were seen by some Jewish observers as theologically loaded and as undercutting genuine partnership. Bachmann apologized for them in person at the Knesset in 2018, a rare and specific gesture of accountability. Aside from that episode, her public record since, including through her current role as dean of Regent University's Robertson School of Government, has been consistently pro-Israel: praise for the 2018 embassy move to Jerusalem, and in 2026, vocal support for the US-Israel military campaign against Iran alongside continued participation in the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast.
The bottom line
Michele Bachmann supports Israel, consistently and publicly, through decades of visits, board service with a Christian-Jewish humanitarian organization, co-chairing an annual Jerusalem prayer gathering, and vocal 2026 statements backing Israel's actions against Iran. Her advocacy stems from Christian Zionist theology and included a 2015 conversion-outreach controversy that she later apologized for at the Knesset, a fuller picture than a simple yes or no, but the record points clearly toward support.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
