Posted on 05/01/2024 4:36:10 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, CNN reported.
The bill would mandate that when the Department of Education enforces federal anti-discrimination laws it uses a definition of antisemitism put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The House vote was 320 to 91 with 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting against the bill. The GOP opposition largely came from the right flank of the conference. The bill would next need to be taken up by the Senate.
New York Republican Mike Lawler, who introduced the legislation, said in a statement, “It’s critical that we crack down on antisemitic hate within our own country.”
“I’m thankful for the bipartisan support of the Antisemitism Awareness Act and for the support from a wide range of Jewish organizations that are standing up, endorsing this legislation, and saying enough is enough,” he added.
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The words of MTG. The woman is as dumb as a bag of hammers.
The bill would adopt, as its own definition of "antisemitism," the so-called "working definition of antisemitism" that was conjured up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016, as I understand it. Among the examples of "antisemitism" listed in the IHRA's "working definition" is this:
"Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis."
I believe that this is what MTG was referring to.
I also believe you will that the Apostle Peter (in Acts 2), Stephen the Evangelist (in Acts 7), and the Apostle Paul (in 1 Thessalonians 2) identified, respectively, the "men of Israel," "rulers and the people and elders," "you stiff-necked people," and "the Jews" as those who were responsible for Jesus of Nazareth having been "crucified and killed," having been "killed," having been "crucified," having been "betrayed and murdered," and having been "killed."
I mean, that's just what it says in Scripture. To paraphrase Patrick Henry: "If this be antisemitism, make the most of it."
Jews means Jewish leaders, and even then, Peter said they did it in ignorance. No man killed YESHUA, he willingly gave up his life in the most victorious way possible.
Nor should they. It makes criticism of Israel illegal. So I can criticize my own country but can’t criticize a foreign nation? Ridiculous. AIPAC who pushed this legislation has gone too far. Enforcement of this bill will CAUSE antisemitism not get rid of it.
“No man killed YESHUA.”
Someone pounded those nails into him. Those people had names.
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He chose those nails.
“He chose those nails?”
He didn’t pound them in Himself.
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Up to the moment he died he could have come off the Cross.
You miss my point.
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The apostle Peter, in his Pentecost sermon as related in Acts 2, specifically addressed his remarks to "men of Israel," which was, in context, clearly not a reference to Caiaphas or the other members of the Sanhedrin who had appealed to Pilate to have Jesus executed. This is attested by the fact that, at Pentecost, Jews from all over the then-known world -- i.e., of the regions described in the so-called "Table of Nations" in Genesis 10 -- were represented, Jews then still in the diaspora of the Second Temple period. That Acts 2 describes some 3,000 of these "men of Israel" to whom Peter addressed his sermon coming to faith in Christ that day refutes your notion that Peter only had in view, in his use of the term "men of Israel," the Jewish leaders of his day.
I won't quibble with your thought that Jesus lay down his own life willingly. Scripture makes that clear. But that hardly absolves the Jews for their rejection of him in 30 A.D. That's the problem with a theocracy: corporate responsibility follows on with it. Yahweh/God gave the Jews 40 years, a generation's time, to come to the realization that Jesus was the promised Messiah. After that time, the Romans under Titus were Yahweh/God's instrument for the destruction of the Second Temple and the final, great diaspora of the Jewish people from the land itself.
At that point, of course, neither the temple nor the land mattered anymore. To be Abraham's seed, and to be heirs of the promise, meant one was a follower of Jesus, that one was in Christ. The destruction of the temple and the final physical diaspora of the people from the land was merely Yahweh/God's way of punctuating that point.
The "Church," the corporate body of believers, Jew and Gentile, didn't "replace" Israel. The Church is Israel, the true Israel of God.
That’s Replacment Theology. Messianic Judaism is the Israel of GOD. Gentiles are grafted in, and we are all one Bride.
So I could go to jail for saying that Jews are dominant in Hollywood and the media? Do I have that about right?
The Romans were Jewish? I did not know that!
Yep. The same provision that allows post-adolescent morons to scream “From the river to the sea!” allows us to say things like “There are only two sexes” or “Maybe marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
Nonsense. "Messianic Judaism"?!? What sort of hogwash is that? You're just making up your own personal theology out of whole cloth at this point.
And enough with the screeching about "replacement theology! replacement theology!" as if simply sputtering out the label somehow wins the argument. Call it whatever you like. The label doesn't bother me one way or the other.
The apostle Paul said that, in Christ, there is no longer a distinction between Jew and Gentile. I don't see how he could have put it any plainer. You, however, seem to want to cling to that now non-existent distinction, perhaps because you feel that somehow makes you a sort of "super-Christian" or something, due to your supposed "ethnic" Jewish heritage.
Well, sorry, bub. No sale, as far as I'm concerned. While I'd never heard of the crackpot label "Messianic Judaism" before, the underlying concept is old hat to me. Pure a-biblical nonsense.
Messianic Judaism is an ever growing movement of Jews who have been completed in YESHUA, it is the ingrafting of the natural branches onto thier own Olive Tree. The Apostles were ALL Messianic Jews. The orginal issue was wether Gentiles could be saved at all without becoming Jews. The Messianic Jerusalem church ruled that it could not.
YESHUA is STILL Jewish today, and he is the GOD of Israel, and also LORD of all.
Paul also wrote that he would be willing to be cast into Hell so that all Israel could be saved. And Paul remained 100 Jewish.
Sorry, The Jerusalem Church ruled that Gentiles did not have to become Jews. Acts 15- The Jerusalem Council.
YESHUA is the one in the Burning Bush, the one who led the Hebrews in the Wilderness. He is the same, yesterday, today and forever.
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