The Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the evangelical American Family Association, warned in a Dec. 5 radio broadcast that Foxman was "in a bind" because the "strongest supporters Israel has are members of the religious right — the people he's fighting."
"The more he says that 'you people are destroying this country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore,' " Wildmon said.
The liberal wing of American Jewry in America had better wise up and recognize who their real friends are.
Non-Jewish American leftists would sell them down the river in a New York minute if not for the Evangelicals.
fyi
Abe Foxman is no friend of the Jews.
Yet many Jews left wing media establishment types are nervous about evangelicals' intentions.
"I feel jealous sometimes. This term that keeps coming up in the Old Book — the Chosen, the Chosen," says the minister, who has made three trips to Israel and named his sons Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. "I'm a pardoned gentile, but I'm not one of the Chosen People. They're the apple of his eye."
Don't feel jealous; if you believe in Jesus you'll be living with Him in the end. What more could you want?
Jewish-American leftists would sell them down the river in a New York minute if not for the Evangelicals.
Abe Foxman represents Judaism as much as Fred Phelps represents Christians.
Wildmon should chill. 77% of "religious" Jews voted for George W. Bush in 2004 (Source: RJC, rjchq.com). One day American Jewry will be rock-solid conservative, once the generation who sinned by embracing Marxism are purged from our tribe, much as the followers of Dathan and the Golden Calf were purged after 40 years in the desert. We just have to wait for the Holocaust escapees in Palm Beach to croak and left-wing hyphenated JINOs to intermarry, in addition to the JINOs aborting their babies. Meanwhile, Orthodox Jews are having 5 kids apiece. It wont take too long for the numbers to flip around. Perhaps 20 years is enough.
**Still, some Jews think that philo-Semitism is just the flip side of anti-Semitism.**
Still some socialist Jews are Christaphobes but come by it honestly from their Marxist programming.
I most probably will be classed as a Philo-whatever. So be it. I could care less what labels are assigned to me.
It seems like every so often another article like this comes out of the woodwork, designed to split Jewish-Christian relations with the tired old argument that the "Christians want to convert the Jews" or "the Christians have murdered Jews in the past" and remove Christian support of Israel.
Both things are partially true. These things have happened in the past. But they are based on generalizations. Generalizations which are useful to promote stereotypes which are easy to propagandize mass audiences with.
The truth is, not all Christians seek to evangelize Jews, and not all Christians seek to exterminate Jews.
The reverse is also true: not all Jews hate Christians, and not all Jews suspect the motives of Christians.
There are over 1000 sects and denominations of Christianity. Not all have the same doctrines and beliefs. Most Christians could not name every denomination and sect of Christianity.
There are also many sects of Judaism: Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist, schismatic denominations like the Karaites and many other groups. A lot of Jews can not name all of the denominations and sects of Judaism.
I will readily admit I base my support of Israel and the Jews on Biblical commandments found in the Bible. Specifically the books of Leviticus and Matthew. They are called the "Golden Rule".( Matthew 7:12 and Leviticus 19:18)
Articles like this are only written for one purpose: they hope to achieve a goal. That goal is the full removal of support from the cause of Israel, and the delegitimization of Christianity and Judaism. The writers hope to do so by using a broad brush to exploit our historical differences and then seek to drive a wedge in them to keep old wounds fresh.
I find this type of article frightening in one aspect:
what will happen when the goals of article writers like this are successful and the supposed unconditional support of Israel by Christians is allowed to be eroded enough to be permanently and irrevocably removed? I can only imagine, but I know it would not lead to a good outcome. I personally believe it would lead to systematic persecution on a scale not imagined since the Dark Ages.
I hope that this revocation of support would never be able to happen, however. I hope there will always be indivdual Christians who will unconditionally support Israel, no matter what the cost, because they recognize support of Israel is simply the right thing to do.
I also hope that Christian believers who firmly support Israel do it simply because they are realists and know there is no safe place in the world for a Jew -except Israel- because of historical hatred that has resulted in persecution and death to Jews in almost every society that they have lived in since the Roman exile.
Given the growing amount of Jew-hatred present in this world, if Israel ceased to exist, where would Jews go to be safe and cared for in a hostile world when persecution is on the rise and sympathy is removed from their cause?
Hmmm. I wonder which "branch?"
"That hope is felt and expressed by Christians as a kind, benevolent hope," said Galambush, author of "The Reluctant Parting," a new book on the Jewish roots of Christianity. "But believing that someday Jews will stop being Jews and become Christians is still a form of hoping that someday there will be no more Jews."
I suppose there's no other way for Jews to cease being Jews than to become chr*stians, eh, Ms. Galambush? I notice no one objects to disseminating atheistic and higher critical propaganda as an attack on Judaism. It's always and only conservative chr*stianity that is anathetical to Judaism, and I believe this claim is often made to create the impression that Judaism is antithetical to traditional religion of any kind.
The Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the evangelical American Family Association, warned in a Dec. 5 radio broadcast that Foxman was "in a bind" because the "strongest supporters Israel has are members of the religious right -- the people he's fighting."
Unfortunately Rev. Wildmon (a United Methodist, and thus "mainline" minister) is no friend of the Jews. I've seen the anti-Semitic Spotlight quoted in his newletter, though that was a long time ago.
"The more he says that 'you people are destroying this country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore,' " Wildmon said.
That's not going to happen. Evengelicals go by the worldview they derive from their Bible, and that Bible tells them to support Israel and the Jewish People, and there's nothing Oslo Abie can do about it.
Since the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant denominations have renounced supersessionism and stressed their belief that the covenant between God and the Jewish people remains in effect.
Evangelicals generally have not taken that step, but "among what you might call the evangelical intelligentsia, questions of supersessionism have come onto the table," Noll said. "It's in play among evangelicals in the way that it was in mainline Protestantism and Catholicism -- but wasn't among evangelicals -- 30 or 40 years ago."
This is a blatant lie. The consistent literalism of Protestant Fundamentalism naturally leads to ways to resolve the ways in which "the two testaments" blatantly contradict each other, and there has long been a doctrine of "parallel but equal tracks" among literalists (in fact, Increase Mather was among these). Also notice how the liberal denominations the author praises to the skies are blatantly anti-Israel and pro-Arab.
Still, some Jews think that philo-Semitism is just the flip side of anti-Semitism.
"Both are Semitisms: That is, both install the Jews at the center of history. One regards this centrality positively, the other regards it negatively. But both are forms of obsession about the Jews," said Leon Wieseltier, a Jewish scholar and literary editor of the New Republic.
That's because the Jews ARE at the center of history, you freaking lunatic.
Rabbinic civil authority would put an end to all these misinterpretations of Judaism as an ever-evolving ethno-cultural "faith tradition."
Many (including myself) believe that the rapture MUST happen before the time of tribulation because the rapture will remove all opposition to Satan (for a short time).
The did just that during the Crown Heights riots of 1991.
Dinkins and Cuomo overtly decided that the Black Coats of Brooklyn were less important politically than the "urban youth" vote.
Dinkins went on to say he was disgusted when the "Park Avenue Jews" stopped supporting him. The Dems are loathesome things.
Ping!
For Catholic FRiends, please see Zetman's comments at #97, which contains some good, honest questions you all might be able to answer better than I, having been Catholic longer than me. Thanks!
Shouldn't the terms be "Semitiphilic" and "Semitiphobic"? Those sound better to me than the "anti-" and "phili-" variants.