Are Christian Zionists starting to think of Jews as actual human beings now?

I just came across a 2017 article in the very respectable Brown Journal of International Affairs by Tristan Sturm, who makes the argument that over the last 20 years or so, the fundis no longer look at Jews as just bit players in their apocalyptic horror show. ("Christian Zionism as Religious Nationalism Par Excellence," 24:1 2017)

"Christian Zionist eschatology has revised its theology from a functional role for Jews to a discursive set of relations with Jews," Sturm writes.

The general Christian Zionist End Times view includes the variation that before the Jews go to Hail, all the Jews of the world will be slaughtered except for a handful who will convert to Christianity, i.e., stop being Jews. Then Jesus will make his Second Coming.

One thing we can assume with complete assurance is that this worldview is not in any way ”pro-Jewish.“

The Christian Zionist view looks forward to the End Times as a thing to be greatly desired. When you enthusiastically look forward to the world being rid of Jews as the culmination of history, my advice to would be: put down your AR-15, stop daydreaming about doing a rerun of the Pittsburgh massacre last Saturday, lay off the Alex Jones YouTube videos, and for God sakes get some competent psychological counseling! Really, counseling and the right kind of psychotherapy can help with this sort of thing.

I don't buy Sturms's argument yet, although I do recognize that how fundamentalist Christian Zionists read the timeless and "inerrant" prophecies in the Christian Bible does change over time. I think he may be overgeneralizing from the rhetoric of "Jews for Jesus" types and Christian Zionists living in Israel.

He also thinks this shift in their view of Jews relates to the increased popularity of "post-Tribulation Rapture" thinking compared to "pre-Tribulation Rapture." (If you have no idea what that means, count your blessings!)

I like his tag line used in the title that "Christian Zionists practice a form of religious nationalism par excellence." But I don't think he really understands the toxic soup of white racism, Christian nationalism, paranoid thinking, and just plain meanness of so much of the Christian Right.