Posted on 10/14/2007 7:45:16 AM PDT by SJackson
Anti-Jewish Attacks in US, Columnist Suggests Jews be Christians by Hana Levi Julian
(IsraelNN.com) Anti-Semitic activity in the U.S. is on the rise, with two incidents reported this week on the eastern seaboard as top political columnist declares on national television that “it would be better if we were all Christian.”
A rabbi suffered critical wounds after being severely beaten in the latest of several anti-Semitic attacks that have hit the community of Lakewood, New Jersey, home of the world-famous Lakewood Yeshiva.
Rabbi Mordechai Moskowitz, age 53, was beaten earlier this week as he was walking to a synagogue. The attacker wielded an aluminum baseball bat and inflicted critical wounds on his head and other parts of the body, but Lakewood officials have not concluded the incidentwas anti-Semitic.
Several weeks ago, attackers pelted a group of orthodox Jewish youth with eggs in a nearby community. Tension in the city has increased fears among the Jewish community. One teenage boy reported that a woman asked him to accompany her from a store to her car 100 feet away because she was afraid she would be attacked.
Anti-Semites scrawled a Nazi swastika in a Columbia University bathroom, two days after a noose was found on a black professor's door. University president Lee Bollinger said the swastika has been removed.
The Nazi symbol was accompanied by a drawing on a bathroom door of a man wearing a skullcap (kippa). Bollinger said police are investigating.
The incident occurred two weeks after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the university.
Commentator Says Perfected Jews Would be Christians
Controversial right-wing political commentator, columnist and best-selling author Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV talk-show host by saying during an appearance Monday that Jews need to be “perfected” by becoming Christians.
Coulter continued her anti-Semitic conversation with an invitation to Donny Deutsch, the host of the CNBC show, “The Big Idea,” to “come to church with me.”
Arutz-7's Yishai and Malka Fleisher discussed Coulter's anti-Semitic evangelical views this week on their Israel National Radio tallk show.
Deutsch, who is Jewish, clearly could not believe what he was hearing, and reworded his question to the outspoken columnist: We should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians?”
Coulter’s response: “Yeah.”
Deutsch attempted during the interview to pin down what appeared to be Coulter’s clearly anti-Semitic stance. She didn’t budge. “We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say….
His response: “Wow, you didn’t really say that, did you?”
Coulter’s answer: “Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe in the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. [While] You [Jews] have to obey laws... “
Deutsch told the audience leading up to the commercial break, “If Ann Coulter had any brains she would not say Jews need to be perfected. I’m offended by that personally.”
Following the commercial break, Deutsch gave Coulter a opportunity to explain why she thinks the entire country – and by extension, the entire world – should abandon any faith other than Christianity.
“Don’t you see how hateful, how anti-Semitic…….. How do you not see? You’re an educated woman. How do you not see that?” he pursued.
“That isn’t hateful at all,” she responded. “For me to say that for you to become … a perfected Christian is not offensive at all.”
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Thank You, Ann Coulter by Penina Taylor
Why is the entire Jewish world up in arms?
Help me out here, I'm a little confused. The entire Jewish world is up in arms about what Ann Coulter said during an interview with CNBC host Donny Deutsch. But why? Ann was caught saying out loud what every Evangelical Christian has been saying behind our back (and not behind our back) for two thousand years.
What gets me isn't that Ms. Coulter thinks that all Jews need to be Christians - I could have told you that. What gets me is that the Jewish world has convinced itself that the Evangelical Christian Right doesn't really want us all to convert to Christianity. Hello? Is anyone home out there?
"Evangelical" means "missionary." That's what it means. And the Jewish world, Israel in particular, so much wants the friendship and financial support of the Christian world that they've convinced themselves that Evangelicals are not missionaries, that they don't want to convert us.
Let me give you a little Bible lesson here. Evangelical Christians who are calling themselves Zionists and who give moral and financial support to Israel do so because they believe with every fiber of their beings that the Christian Bible - what they call the Old and New Testaments - are the word of God. They believe every word of it, literally. That's why they are generally very good, moral people and that is also why they believe, in no uncertain terms, that anyone who does not believe in Jesus will go to Hell. That includes the Jews.
I have had people argue this point with me up down and sideways, but you can't get away from the fact that if a Christian believes his or her own scriptures, then they must also believe that those who don't believe in Jesus are going to Hell, because it's in there. Don't believe me? How about these verses, for a start:
John 3:17-18 - "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
John 3:36 - "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."
John 5:24 - "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."
John 6:40 - "For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day."
John 6:54-56 - "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him."
John 17:3 - "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."
Acts 13:46 - "Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, 'It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 4:12 - "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."
Romans 6:23 - "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
2 Thessalonians 1:8-10 - "...dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, for our testimony to you was believed."
1 John 5:11-12 - "And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life."
And regarding the Christian understanding that they are considered "Jews" by God, we have the following verses:
Romans 2:29 - "But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God."
So I would like to say one thing to Ann Coulter: Thank you! Thank you for saying out loud what some of us have known all along, but many of us were afraid to accept. Thank you for getting the Jewish community upset about something that it should be upset about and for speaking the truth, even if it came out by accident.
Because then Ann is suggesting that you change yourself, not just your faith.
I find it offensive that a perfect America would be defined by my not living in it. Unless I were to convert, of course. I'm also offended by Ann connecting it to the Repubican Party. Ann's vision of a perfect America might be one without Jews, I presueme all non Christians, but that's not in the Republican platform. She should look elsewhere for political identification.
Ann politely invites a Jew to church on a scantily viewed cable program, even after the Jew presses her with his rude questioning, and it's given equal weight with both a physical assualt against a rabbi and swastikas found at Columbia weeks after Ahmadinejad's visit, all in the same article.
Fear and insecurity sucks. It's making your side look silly.
The first six paragraphs of the article describe the anti-Semitism practiced by some people. I still do not know who these perpetrators are - are they black, brown or chartruse and what was their religious affiliation? The report requires more detail or would that be considered too provocative?
She got what she wanted. The woman is an attention hog. If she hasn’t been paid attention to in a while she’ll start some silly “controversy.” I have no idea if she’s a real conservative or just someone out after the almighty dollar. Regardless she does do as much damage as help to conservatism.
DEUTSCH: Let me ask you a question. We're going to get off strengths and weakness for a second. If you had your way, and all of your — forget that any of them —
COULTER: I like this.
DEUTSCH: — are calculated marketing teases, and your dreams, which are genuine, came true having to do with immigration, having to do with women's — with abortion — what would this country look like?
COULTER: UMMMMM (pause) ... It would look like New York City during the Republican National Convention. In fact, that's what I think heaven is going to look like.
DEUTSCH: And what did that look like?
COULTER: Happy, joyful Republicans in the greatest city in the world.
DEUTSCH: No, no, no, no, but I'm talking about this country. You don't want to make this country — it's not about Republicans. I'm saying, what would the fabric of this country look like? Forget that the Republicans would be running the show.
COULTER: Well, everyone would root for America, the Democratic Party would look like Joe Lieberman, the Republican Party would look like Duncan Hunter —
DEUTSCH: No, no, no, I don't want — I'm not talking about politically the landscape. What would our — would we be safer? Would people be happier? Would they be more —
COULTER: We would be a lot safer.
DEUTSCH: Would there be more tolerance? Would there be — would women be happier, would the races get along better? The Ann Coulter subscription — prescription. What — tell me what would be different in our fabric of country, because —
COULTER: Well, all of those things.
DEUTSCH: I can give — I can give you an argument there would be more divisiveness, that there would be more hate —
COULTER: Oh, no.
DEUTSCH: That there would be a bigger difference between the rich and the poor, a lot of other — tell me what — why this would be a better world? Let's give you — I'm going to give you — say this is your show.
COULTER: Well, OK, take the Republican National Convention. People were happy. They're Christian. They're tolerant. They defend America, they —
DEUTSCH: Christian — so we should be Christian? It would be better if we were all Christian?
COULTER: Yes.
DEUTSCH: We should all be Christian?
COULTER: Yes. Would you like to come to church with me, Donny?
DEUTSCH: So I should not be a Jew, I should be a Christian, and this would be a better place?
COULTER: Well, you could be a practicing Jew, but you're not.
DEUTSCH: I actually am. That's not true. I really am. But — so we would be better if we were — if people — if there were no Jews, no Buddhists —
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DEUTSCH: That isn't what I said, but you said I should not — we should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or —
COULTER: Yeah.
Sounds like a bullet point in a Media Matters memo.
Yes Christians should just keep quiet. s/ Some people are just more special than the rest RIGHT???????
Lemmie get this straight..........
Ann Coulter is the one beating up Jooos who are thus afraid to go from store to car without armed escorts? Ann is out there urging ‘disinvestment’ in Israeli stocks and businesses? Beating up on Rabbis??
Jooos have to worry about attacks from CHRISTIANS??
REALLY? YA THINK?
I suppose that Muzzies, Dhimmi Leftoids and their Haemmorid allies with $oro$ and $audi $$$ have nothing to do with anything; and that all the anti-Israli/anti-US crap isn’t bought and paid for with oil $$$$$?
Yeah, right.
Ann (the only effective attack dog on the right) is to blame. Sure. She’s an eeeeevil Christian, after all.
Yesterday’s media listed 51 American Jews (count ‘em) on the listed of the 100 Most Powerful People in the World.
These Jews, I guess, are pandering to their own stereotype.
[smile]
In my view conservativism has no meaning, at least on the internet. Change coonservatism to Republicans, it's accurate.
I’m guessing the Jews-who-attack-Ann see Ann as easier to destroy than $oro$ & the $auidi$, so they’re fighting the battle they think they can win, and throwing in the white flag of surrender in the bigger battle.
Ann done jumped the shark.
I’m sorry folks, I like her too, but this was just plain boneheaded dumb.
Try to spin it any way you like, and it still comes out looking dumb.
Ann? Go to sleep. On the couch.
No, Ann's out there being inciteful, which is what she does. It's good for Ann.
I think most non-Christians are confusing this Christian belief and interpreting it to mean non Christians are not good people both within themselves and in their community. I always interpreted it to mean a Christian want their brothers and sisters to attain the highest spiritual level they can. This is why they want others to convert. True Christians believe their religion is the best for the individual. I see no reason wht a jew or a muslim could not say the same thing. If they did, I would respect their views, disagree but not be quite so paranoid!
you mean Coulter’s view that Jews needed to be “perfected...”?
You = whomever it applies to.
If you are offended by Ann Coulter’s dream that everyone in America be Christian...look back in history to the Christian missionaries who brought Christianity to the American Indians, the Hawaiians, and innumerable others. Do those missionaries offend you because they wanted to convert people who already had another religion? Would you say they were as bad as slave traders, except their trade was ideas and their captures were the hearts of their converts?
If you give them a pass, what makes you different from those Indians and Polynesians? Why is it offensive to wish to share the Good News with you, but not with them? Is it because they were regarded as “little brown brothers” in their day? Or because their faith was not as good as yours?
Ann’s dream is in complete accord with the expressed wishes of the Savior. That shouldn’t offend you, unless He does too.
Is this nonsense in response to Ann in the “gentiles are all closet nazis unless under our perfected moral tutelege trains them to be different?” Please tell me it is not.
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