Antisemitism in American Society

Antisemitism has been called the world's "oldest hatred." Jews, who the Bible calls God's "chosen people" through whom the Savior, Jesus Christ, came to the world, have been the focus of harassment, persecution, conspiracy theories, and various "final solutions" since near the time of their inception as Abraham's lineage. Just in the last few years seeing American college students support Hamas, condone or embrace or celebrate 10/7, and chant "From the River to the Sea" on campuses and in the streets is sad and shocking. Clearly, as Christian believers, no hatred can be justified, for all human beings are made in God's image, all are loved by God, and we are to love our neighbors as ourselves. But the Left promotes antisemitism and it has not gone away. This is not a political matter; it's moral. Certainly this should never occur in a free, open, and pluralistic constitutional republic, and not in America's 250th year.  For more Christian commentary see my website, www.rexmrogers.com, or check my YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #antisemitism #Jews #10/7 #Israel

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Sadly, antisemitism is now a near-weekly occurrence in American society, but it strikes at the heart of the American ethos. 

Hi, I’m Rex Rogers and this is episode #261 of Discerning What Is Best, a podcast applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world, and a Christian worldview to current issues and everyday life. 

There are many social and political developments in America, my country, that I find astounding. They are so beyond the pale I never thought I’d see them in the land built upon self-evident truths, that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. I never thought I’d see things I’ve seen in just the last ten years, no, not in my country. But here they are:

1.    Abortion is number one. That dates to 1973.  If slavery was the tragic human scourge of the 19th century, then abortion is the tragic human scourge of the 20th and early 21st century. I don’t want to offend those who rightly consider human slavery the ultimate human sin, and certainly thousands of victims suffered and died under the system, but under abortion, every human victim dies.

2.    Sexual perversion, a list that keeps getting longer in the name of sexual liberation and freedom of human expression. In Canada recently, a member of parliament listed a new 16-character acronym of the hour.  No more, LGBTQ+ but MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.  She actually stated this from memory on video. It means Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual+. I’m not sure if she was trying to go viral or is deluded enough to affirm this acronym, but this illustrates the run-amok nature of the any-sexual-proclivity-is-OK crowd. The same trend is running in America.  Once biological binary is tossed there’s no end of self-seeking.  

3.    Antisemitism – after the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, found the prison camps, and liberated roughly 200,000–250,000 Jews from Nazi camps. 

These were survivors found in concentration camps, labor camps, and some subcamps as Allied armies advanced. About 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. General Ike Eisenhower foresaw a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. He invited the media to document the scene and compelled Germans living in the surrounding towns and any soldier not fighting at the front to witness the atrocities for themselves.  

April 15, 1945, Eisenhower said, “The things I saw beggar description.... I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’”

Yet with this history, antisemitism is propagated by American citizens in American cities.  One of my earlier podcasts, “Antisemitism Is Evil,” says it all in the title. 

“Post-Holocaust, it’s very hard in the West…to say, “Let’s go kill the Jews.” So, people do all kinds of strange dances where they claim to be anti-Zionist but not antisemitic. But their ending point is always the same: we hate the Jews but try to say so artfully by couching it in Zionism, Israel, etc.” 

“Estimates place the number of Jews in the world at around 15.6 million, with nearly half living in Israel. So, of the 8 million Jews living outside of the Holy Land, is life dangerous? There is no question that in the West (as opposed to, say, China), there is a significant increase in the reporting of antisemitic events, from the minor to the fatal.”

At one time, Jews were exterminated because they are “not white.” Now, in major American universities, professors are teaching that Jews are “white,” and not just white but the epitome of colonialism, occupation, apartheid, and now genocide. This is coming from intellectuals then down into society and the street. Students are literally being misled, mis-taught, and misinformed in the interest of hate. Qatar is pumping billions of dollars into American higher education funding the future antisemitic, anti-Israel American citizens.

Islamists, under different names, now working in Western societies all believe in the overthrow of Western democracies, they all believe in the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews, and they all believe in the destruction of Western countries. Some say through political means and entryism and some through violence.  

Europe is in serious trouble, at the moment ahead of the USA in its abandonment of democratic principles like freedom of speech and human rights, if not an embrace than at least a fear and hands-off attitude toward mass migrant Muslims now living in parallel societies, not assimilating, and set on the Islamization of Europe. With this comes increasing antisemitism.

“We have graduates in Europe and North America coming out of the best universities supporting and praising and walking in the streets supporting Hamas…Hamas is headquartered in Qatar.”

“Sophisticated second-generation people now supporting Hamas who are now the Mayor of New York City, once the great Jewish city and Jews sitting around the Shabbat table in New York and asking the question, ‘Where do we go?’”

“But as Elie Wiesel always taught us, ‘Antisemitism may begin with the Jewish people, but it never ends with the Jewish people.” “And this unleashing of Jew-hatred, which is now normalized and morally required, again, because it runs deep in European society, it will not end with the Jews.”

“Antisemitism in America has reached record highs, with over 9,300 reported incidents in the last year, representing a 350% increase over five years. Fueled by tensions from the Israel-Hamas war, online hate speech, and ideological extremism, 70% of U.S. adults acknowledge it as a problem. Nearly half of young American Jews report experiencing personal attacks, leading to widespread behavioral changes, such as hiding Jewish identity. 91% of American Jews say they feel less safe as a Jewish person in the United States due to violent attacks in the past year including the burning of a Jewish governor’s home, the firebombing of Jews in Boulder, CO, and the murders at the Capital Jewish Museum.”

Christians must own a sad history of at times perpetuating what has been called the “oldest hatred.”

“Anti-Semitism is not disliking a person who happens to be Jewish. It is disliking a person because they are Jewish. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) defines anti-Semitism as ‘a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.’” 

“According to the IHRA, anti-Semitism often takes the form of ‘mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective —such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.’ Particularly among evangelicals, anti-Semitism falls into one of three categories: political/economic, social, or theological.”

1-Political/economic – “They view the relative financial success and influence of the American Jewish community, particularly, as sinister—evidence, even, of a conspiracy to control the country and the world.” 

2-Social – “is based on personal encounters with Jewish people.” We experience something negative and then generalized to the entire ethnic group.

3-Theological – “One of the most pernicious anti-Semitic theologies is that of Supersessionism, popularly termed Replacement Theology… Supersessionism… is the view that the New Testament church is the new and/or true Israel that has forever superseded the nation Israel as the people of God. The result is that the church has become the sole inheritor of God’s covenant blessings originally promised to national Israel in the OT. This rules out a future restoration of the nation Israel with a unique identity, role, and purpose that is distinct in any way from the Christian church.”

“Another example of theological anti-Semitism within evangelicalism is the view that the Jewish people are uniquely responsible for the death of Jesus. The answer to evangelical anti-Semitism is the same as any other sin. It requires that we acknowledge it as sin, confess it to the Lord, and through the grace of God, allow Him to work in our hearts to root it out and to heal.” 

Why should Christians care about antisemitism? 

1.    Human dignity and equality, which teaches that all people are made in God’s image, Gen. 1:27. “Antisemitism, which involves prejudice, discrimination, and hostility towards Jewish people, undermines this core biblical principle.” 

2.    Shared spiritual heritage – “The Old Testament, integral to the Christian faith, is also the Hebrew Bible, containing the laws, prophecies, and teachings that form the foundation of both religions.”

3.    Countering hatred and violence – “Antisemitism comes from such hatred and leads to violence, especially given the historical persecution Jews have faced. The Bible teaches love, compassion, and justice, calling believers against all forms of hatred.”

4.    Christian witness to love all people – Jesus commands his followers to love one another, Jn 13:34-35.

Antisemitism in American society grieves me. It’s morally wrong and it defies the ideals upon which this country was founded as a “nation of immigrants” welcome to all who embrace the ideals and commit themselves to good citizenship.

I pray in America’s 250th year we can all proclaim and live out liberty and justice for all.

Well, we’ll see you again soon. This podcast is about Discerning What Is Best. 

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