The essence of anti-Semitism is not in stating some negative facts concerning the state of Judenthum, but in making prejudiced conclusions. For some unfortunate reason, however, what is readily accepted as genuine social criticism, even in its most biting expressions, when it comes to the critique of most Gentile societies, is judged offensive and unacceptable when the same is applied to the Jews and to the State of Israel.
On the other hand, certain outrageous cases of public anti-Semitism are never confronted, but quietly swept under the rug in the hope that somehow against all commonsense logic, nobody will notice and nobody will raise hell about it, for this won’t be good for Jewish business. I am talking about modern America, and the case in point is the pathological buddy relationship between the Jews and the so-called Christian Zionists.
One example will suffice here. The Reverend Pastor John Hagee of Christians United for Israel, to Defend Israel in the Media, the Public Square, and on Campus, has been billed as perhaps the greatest supporter of Israel in America since Jerry Falwell. A great fundraiser and a great friend! So who would be so ungrateful and downright evil, to read anything negative into Pastor Hagee’s celebrated pro-Israel sermons, depicting Hitler as “God’s hunter,” apparently hunting the Jews during the Holocaust on God’s direct orders, to make the creation of the modern state of Israel possible!
…So, what is it with the properly Jewish defenders of the Jewish causes? They rush to condemn the sincere and legitimate critics of Israel, yet they are eager to shake the hand of Pastor Hagee, having taken his money and having praised his cheap pep talk? How long will they keep pretending that the anti-Semitic poison of John Hagee, and of the whole Christian Zionist movement with him, has been diluted into insignificance by his outstanding generosity toward Israel and his bigoted invective against the critics of Israel and the whole Muslim world?
But Pastor Hagee’s Jewish friends beware! His sugar pill is a poisoned pill. It has already poisoned millions of American Christian Evangelicals, and the deformed chimaera of Christian Zionism is its most dangerous miscreant today. As to whether or not I am exaggerating the lethal effect of Pastor Hagee’s anti-Semitism: look, so much pro-Israel sugar and just a few tiny drops of the other stuff,--- may the sugar win in the minds of those who think that way, but none of them must be allowed to sell this pill to others as harmless sugar.
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