Posted on 01/01/2024 6:09:10 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Amid the current debate over whether a new front will open up in Israel’s war against Hamas and its regional allies, it might be observed that this is already happening.
In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel, war has been waged on four main fronts. Israel’s campaign of bombing and infantry incursions in the Gaza Strip, and to a lesser extent the West Bank, is the first; Hamas firing volleys of rockets at Israeli population centers is the second; missile attacks from and skirmishes with Hezbollah terrorists on the northern border is the third; the explosion of antisemitic attacks against Jews living outside of Israel’s borders represents the fourth.
This last front is the most vulnerable and unpredictable. Israel’s military might cannot defend Diaspora Jews from vandalism, physical assaults or terrorist attacks. In diplomatic terms, Israel can appeal to foreign governments to intensify efforts to protect their Jewish communities, but not much more. In short, when it comes to Jews in the Diaspora, the Jewish state is more powerless than in any other dimension of this war.
Alongside these outrages is a corresponding political offensive that seeks to delegitimize Jewish fears of antisemitism, recasting them as a sledgehammer response to claims that the Palestinians suffer from apartheid and genocidal policies at the hands of the Israeli government. Central to this strategy is the aim of debunking the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which has been adopted by dozens of governments and hundreds of civic associations around the globe.
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Well, I’m sure.
Antisemitic, racist, homophobe...the list is almost endless
Blah blah blah
How about anti-White or anti-West or anti-American?
Correct. This is far bigger than hating Jews. It's hating the West, the United States, a rules-based global order that keeps the bad elements of the world in some sort of check.
This is why everyone including non-Jews should care.
I’m probably pro Semitic to a fault.
I couldn’t care less what the anti-American and anti-White extreme let-wing jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) thinks of me.
The ADL calls anyone not sycophantically kissing jewish butt ‘anti-Semitic’. They made up that word to try to force people never to say anything bad about jews in any way.
And universities across the country are wetting their pants to join in the fight.
I’m anti-Soros. Some try to claim that makes one anti-Semitic.
1. relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.
2. relating to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.
They will at that, along with criticizing an individual from any *victim* group.
The only ones fair game are whites and particularly white males.
A while back, I listened to a preacher remind people in his church, that we are to pray for Israel, NOT worship Israel. And that the apostle Paul (in Romans chapters 9 and 10) let the church in Rome know the plight of Israel (after the flesh); that they are lost, but like anyone else, can be saved.
Acts 2 shows Peter preaching to Israelites. Who, after hearing the message of Jesus Christ, realize that their souls are in a serious jam. Peter told them how to be converted (Acts 2:38).
I have neighbors that are charismatic (I think; they were formerly Baptist), that seem to be worshippers of the Jewish people, and increasingly follow the works of the Law. For example: don’t eat pork, try to keep the Sabbath, observe Jewish holy days, etc.
I’m not supposed to read a book.
Can’t read it. No way, no how..
They told me I couldn’t read this book, it’s that wrong. I hear mention it says some bad things about them... things that are so bad and so well presented an entire nation persecuted and slaughtered them.
Sounds intriguing, but I’m not supposed to read it.
Many of the Jews who rejected Jesus did so because they had turned their own bloodlines into an idol.
John the Baptist addresses this.
Luke 3:8
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
“that we are to pray for Israel, NOT worship Israel”
He is correct. Some Christian Zionists have elevated their feelings towards Israel and/or Jews to the level of idolatry and God does not approve of this. Too many misguided/corrupted preachers out there pushing this heretical interpretation of the Bible.
Right. In any Jews vs. non-Jews conflict, we are expected to take the side of the Jews unconditionally - before hearing the arguments or seeing the evidence on either side - or be deemed anti-Semitic.
The same is true for conflicts between “people of color” and whites, female and male, gay and straight, etc..
I am not racist, sexist or xenophobic, but I have been called many things by many people for wanting to hear the other side.
Screw them if they can’t even hear both sides of a story.
Well said.
“Many of the Jews who rejected Jesus did so because they had turned their own bloodlines into an idol.”
That’s exactly it to put it simply. Jews don’t believe in an afterlife, they believe in promoting the continuation and exaltation of their race. This goes against the teachings of Christianity on so many levels I just can’t fathom how some Christians want to relate the two religions as being intrinsically connected in their beliefs.
Hostility towards and discrimination against Jewish people (although there are other Semitic peoples, notably the Arabs, anti‐Semitism is only used to refer to prejudice against Jewish people). In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was strongly evident in France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and elsewhere, many Jewish emigrants fleeing from persecution or pogroms in south‐east Europe to Britain and the USA. After World War I early Nazi propaganda in Germany encouraged anti‐Semitism, alleging Jewish responsibility for the nation's defeat. By 1933 Jewish persecution was active throughout the country. The ‘final solution’ which Hitler worked for was to be a Holocaust or extermination of the entire Jewish race; some six million Jews were killed in concentration camps before the defeat of Nazism in 1945. Anti‐Semitism was a strong feature of society within the former Soviet Union, especially after World War II, and remains a problem in eastern Europe and in the former Soviet republics. In western Europe, especially in France and Germany, there has been an increase in racist violence by neo‐Nazi groups since the 1990s.
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