Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely-affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Many promote a Eurocentric interpretation of Christianity.

The Christian Identity movement holds that non-Caucasians have no spirit, and therefore members of other races can never earn God's favor or be saved. Believers of the theology affirm that Jesus Christ paid only for the sins of the House of Israel and the House of Judah and that salvation must be received through both redemption and race.

Advocates of Christian Identity focus most of their attention on condemning Jews as not being legitimate Israelites and claim that Jews are hated by God.

Christian Identity's key commonality is British Israelism theology, which teaches that white Europeans are the literal descendants of the Israelites through the ten tribes that were taken away into captivity by the armies of Assyria. Furthermore, the teaching holds that these (White European) Israelites are still God's Chosen People, that Jesus was an Israelite of the tribe of Judah, and that modern Jews are not at all Israelites nor Hebrews but are instead descended from Turco-Mongolian blood, or Khazars, and are descendants of the Biblical Esau-Edom who traded his birthrights for a bowl of soup.

The Christian Identity movement first broke into the mainstream media in 1984, when the white nationalist organization The Order embarked on a murderous crime spree before being taken down by the FBI. Tax resister and militia movement organizer Gordon Kahl, whose death in a 1983 shootout with authorities helped inspire The Order, also had connections to the Identity movement.US/SCM.asp" target="_blank">http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/SCM.asphttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DE163FF932A1575BC0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print. The movement returned to public attention in 1992 and 1993, in the wake of the deadly _Ruby Ridge confrontation, when it was discovered that former Green Beret and right-wing Christian fundamentalist Randy Weaver had at least a loose association with Christian Identity.

There is no single document that expresses the Christian Identity belief system; however, adherents draw upon arguments from linguistic, historical, archaeological and Biblical sources to support their beliefs. There are somewhere between 2,000 and 50,000 adherents of these groups in the United States of America, and an unknown number in Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth.

Christian Identity believers reject the beliefs of most modern day Christian denominations and claim that modern Christian churches are teaching a heresy: the belief that God's promises to Israel (through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) have been expanded to create a spiritual people of "Israel," which constitutes the Christian "Church". In turn, most modern Christian denominations and organizations denounce Christian Identity as heresy and condemn the use of the Christian Bible as a basis for promoting anti-Semitism. Adherents, however, claim that Europeans are in fact the true descendants of the Biblical Jacob, hence the true Israel, and that it is those that are against the interests of European-descended Christians that are the true anti-Semites.