Have there not been heretical sects through the ages, who accepted a man as Messiah or Moshiach? Were these met with violence?
Seems to me that there is far too much focus upon bad behavior directed toward Jews by religionists well after Jesus was on this earth in the flesh, and not enough upon what the man himself said and did. He was a Jew, as were his contemporary followers.
If Messianic Jews, so called, are actually being deceptive then that is not godly behavior. But, I fail to see based upon my admittedly outsider point of view, how they cannot possibly be Jewish.
Too much fixation upon “religion” and not enough upon scripture, a fair amount of which we share, that’s what it sounds like to me.
If they don’t follow Judaism, messianic Jews are not Jewish. (Of course they might be born Jewish, that’s different). But they do follow Christianity, so they are by default Christian.
The most famous one who proclaimed himself the messiah was excommunicated from Judaism. He might be the only guy who ever was?