The New Racists: Christians Who Hate Israel.
Can Christians really hold to racist views? Absolutely!
Christian or not, we can all harbor prejudices to varying degrees, whether it be directed against other nations or ethnicities. One example is Christians who either dislike or hate Israel. Anti-Israel sentiment isn’t always a genuine criticism of Israel’s alleged treatment of the Palestinians. It often comes from a deep-rooted prejudice against the Jews.
Over the years I’ve dialogued with Christians who have criticized Israeli policies. In many cases the conversation begins with a Christian raising objections against Israeli oppression along with claims that the church is now the true Israel. As these objections are discussed and met I’ve seen some worrying cases of Christian hatred of Jews. Examples of these accusations against Jews run from fantastic conspiracy theories that they secretly run the world through media and politics, to suggestions that the Jews in Israel aren’t really ethnically Jewish.
The theme of the following article by Gatestone Institute is Christian racism against Israel – The New Racists: Christians Who Hate Israel:
That a serious Christian can place political agreement with an intransigent enemy before the simple morality of calling for an immediate end to terrorism beggars belief.
Given that the Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel or the rights of the Jewish people, the Pope’s recognizing a state of Palestine seems a contradictory gesture. By making this badly-thought-out choice, the Vatican simply encourages the Palestinians in their conviction that their tactics of violence, rejection of peace offers and glorification of terrorists and suicide bombers across their towns and villages is, regardless of all morality and prudent policy, the right course of action.
If morality is at stake, it will also enthuse them to continue with the lies about Jews, hate videos, hate preaching, false historicism, and school textbooks and TV shows that teach children to despise Jews as “sons of apes and pigs.” Is that what the Vatican really wants? Is that a goal remotely in keeping with the wishes of Pope Francis?
“Christian children are massacred, and everything is done in plain sight. Islamists proclaim on a daily basis that they will not stop until Christianity is wiped off the face of the earth. So are the world Christian bodies denouncing the Islamic forces for the ethnic cleansing, genocide and historic demographic-religious revolution their brethren is [sic] suffering? No. Christians these days are busy targeting the Israeli Jews. The Pope, who should represent the voice of one billion Catholics around the world, was not busy these days in writing an encyclical against the Islamic persecution of Christians. No, the Catholic Church was very busy in signing a historic agreement with the “State of Palestine,” a non-existent entity which, if it (God forbid) should be created, would be the first state after the Nazi Germany to officially ban the Jews and expel the remnant of its Christians.” – Giulio Meotti, journalist.
One might safely assume that Jesus would never have approved of Palestinian anti-Semitism, the preaching of bilious hatred, or the infliction of violence on innocent followers of the community to which he himself and his mother belonged.
According to Jerusalem Post columnist Max Samarov, “In a defining moment, UCC [United Church of Christ] officials rejected an amendment calling on the church to listen to Israeli perspectives and encourage cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.” Clearly, a search for truth and an openness to dialogue form no part of the UCC’s agenda…keep reading
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