I am upset with the way some in America who should know better are treating our neighbor, the Jew.
I am appalled and surprised to see the amount of Anti-Semitism in the university among some faculty members. I had no idea that the influence of Marxism and its associated philosophies were so deeply embedded in the DNA of these influencers.
You have likely seen reports of the amount of venom that has been spewed from the students and supported by certain faculty members against Jewish students. Too many Jewish students have been bullied, assaulted, injured, and even intimidated into not attending class.
This week’s moral failure occurred on the campus of Columbia University. Things got so bad they told Jewish students to go home for their own safety.
Another item that has astonished me is the human capacity to overlook one’s own sin and hypocrisy. What they do reminds me of what I read about the KKK, though I see two main differences. First, the KKK members tended to commit their own atrocities, while these Anti-Semites farmed out the work to terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. The second is the KKK members wore sheets over their faces, which revealed, on some level, fear, shame, or embarrassment. Contrast that with those who hate the Jews today. They tend to be proud of their hatred. Again, it mystifies me that they are identifying themselves with groups who not just murder Jewish men, women, and children but who also torture them and savagely rape them.
The ultimate irony is this. I suspect some of these individuals would revile the thought of being compared to the KKK. Again, such is the evidence of the fall within the fundamental nature of the human being. What we see in others, we cannot see in ourselves. But, as the Lord told Jeremiah, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9.)
I yearn for all of this hatred and evil to stop.
Someone may protest, “But Mark, there has been much evil done toward the Palestinians as well!” I don’t deny that; I am working on something I will post soon addressing this very topic. But you don’t solve problems such as those the Palestinians face by calling the world to unite around one principle—death to all Jews. For the sake of God and civilization and for the protection of the Jewish people, this evil toward the Jews must stop. I hope those of us in churches will add our voices to condemn these attitudes and actions.
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