When I say, the “resurgence of anti-Semitism”, I don’t mean to imply that it ever really went away; what I mean is that it’s more ostensible of late. Antisemitism has been around since the 6th century B.C. What I’m going to attempt to do is to expose what factors contributed to antisemitism in the 20th century. I’ll do this by comparing Nazi Germany to the recent pro-Palestinian protests on several of our Ivy League college campuses,
October 7th, 2023, in what was described as the worst attack on Israel since the Holocaust. The radical Islamic terrorist group known as Hamas massacred 1,200 men, women, and children. In addition, they kidnapped 240 others. The confirmed atrocities include, gang rape, cutting the heads off babes, burning whole families alive in their homes, and killing children in front of their parents and then killing the parents. In response, Israel vowed to wipe out Hamas so something like this would never happen again. Yet, it’s Israel that is being vilified on college campuses here in America and by several countries around the world. Israel is viewed as the aggressor and oppressor. In addition, they are being accused of crimes against humanity due to 100s of Gazans killed by Israeli strikes. Before we go on, it’s important to bring out some often-overlooked facts. This set of particular facts are obscured by most of the propagandist types of “news” media outlets.
Up until the Oct 7th, 2023 attack, Israelis, Muslims, and Christians were living and working in Israel side by side. In fact, Israel withdrew completely from Gaza in 2005 leaving them to govern the province alone without interference. Moreover, Israel has been extremely magnanimous in their generosity towards the Gazans for many years prior to this latest attack. “Over the years, Israel has facilitated tons of products for daily life, from school supplies and toys to electronic devices and pharmaceuticals for Gazans through its Kerem Shalom Crossings and worked with several international groups to transfer food and other means of support into the territory to about 63% of people in Gaza.” (www.ajc.org March 2024) In addition, Israel provided liquid fuel and about half of their electricity, along with pipes so the Gazans could build a sewer system. What did Hamas do with these pipes? They cut them up and made them into bombs to attack Israel.
Another fact that has been downplayed by most news media outlets is, “(a) historical first in war measures to prevent civilian casualties was Israel’s distribution of IDF military maps and urban warfare graphics to assist civilians with day to day evacuations and alerting them to where the IDF will be operating. No military in history has ever done this.” (Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History”, by John Spencer, Jan 31, 2024)
Israel has always maintained that they want peace with their neighbors. But how can you have peace with people whose hell-bent goal is to wipe you off of the face of the earth? Understand, Israel is a sovereign nation, about the size of New Jersey, surrounded by predominantly Islamic theocratic countries on all sides. The most hostile being Iran. It’s well-known fact that Iran is the world’s state sponsor of terrorism, and Hamas a proxy. Iran incessantly boasts that they want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
I think Golda Meir, Israel’s 4th Prime Minister, said it best, “If Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.” And “peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” With regard to the latter, there’s probably no better illustration than the fact that Hamas uses their people as human shields, as well as using hospitals and schools as launch sites wherefrom to attack Israel. Moreover, lest we forget, it’s the Gazans that elected Hamas as their leadership.
Now let’s deal with the BS that the United Nations and other sanctimonious entities are trying to sell us. Namely, that Israel is killing innocent Palestinians. Albeit not intentionally, but that is true. However, if they fail in achieving their goal in eliminating Hamas, most assuredly, there would be another massacre like Oct. 7, 2023, or even worse. The sad fact is all wars have collateral damage. It’s unfortunate, but in war many innocent people die. Observe, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, we dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s estimated that somewhere between 129,000 and 226,000 people died, most of which were civilians. And shortly after 9/11/2021 we attacked Iraq. “There have been between 280,771 – 315,190 Iraqi civilians killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion.” (Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones, Nov. 2019, Brown University) In neither case, there was no outcry that America was unjustly killing innocent people.
Now that we have established some of the facts, let’s now pivot to the overriding question, how can a group of people be so cruel and violent towards another group of people? Further, how can those who carried out the annihilation of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, and those who carried out the atrocities on October 7th, justify their heinous actions? And lastly, how could the pro-Palestine protesters support such evil? What was going on in their sick, twisted, minds? Well, allow me to explain.
The general answer goes to one’s ideology and worldview. A worldview is a philosophy of life or one’s conception of the world they live in. In essence, it’s what we believe about the world and about ourselves in that world. It’s an interpretation of such. Even if you think that you don’t have a worldview, you have a worldview. It comes from what you’ve been taught and what you believe is right. It’s a belief system. And we all act from our belief system. It determines for us what is right and what is wrong and what’s good and evil. And trust me, people have vastly different worldviews. Hence, I will now tell you how these anti-Semites justify their evil actions towards the Jews.
It all started with fascism. “The elements of this worldview derive from romanticism, Darwinism, and existentialism”. (Modern Fascism, by Gene Edward Veith, 1993, p.17)
The most common observation of fascism was what Hitler, and the Nazis did to the Jews in the 1930s. While Nazism, or commonly referred to as National Socialism, was defeated in 1945, neo-fascism still exists today. And the target is still the Jews, and Judeo-Christian tradition with its strict adherence to transcendency. Which we will define later. The only difference being, dominance isn’t now necessarily always military in nature, but rather it’s who wins the ideological battle. And it’s predominantly on our college campuses where this ideological war is waged. Our kids are bombarded by the ideologies of Marxism, communism, post modernism and socialism. They’re being taught that America is a racist nation founded by white, racist, slave owning, colonialists, and imperialistic men. Consequently, America is irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. Additionally, they’re taught that Zionism is bad because it’s antithetical to the Palestinians. This kind of indoctrination is not new.
Hitler once said, “nothing makes more certain of the victory of our ideas than our success in the universities.” This is all the more apparent with the pro Palestinians, pro Hamas protests we’ve seen recently on our university campuses along with their chants of, “death to Israel”, “death to America”, “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free”. In addition, there were chats of “intifada”. Basically, it’s a call to rise up against the Jews in the form of violence. Frankly, what we’ve seen on several Ivy League college compasses across the USA is deplorable. It harkens back to Nazi Germany of the 1940s. There were Illegal encampments erected on school premises which often turned hostile towards Jewish students. For example, At UNC pro-Palestine protesters removed an American flag and replaced it with a Palestine flag. Some protestors even barred Jewish students from access to their own universities. What’s even more mind blowing is the lack of a response from several of these particular university presidents, the DOJ, and congress. And when they did respond, they had a difficult time condemning these demonstrations as anti-Sematic. Astonishingly, there was even participation from a few of their own professors. Parenthetically, can you imagine if instead of Jews, it was Muslims, Blacks, or gays? If this doesn’t concern you, it should. These are our next lawyers, politicians, businessmen, teachers, parents, doctors, clergy, etc. But, make no mistake, this war is ultimately against God and the people of God, including Christians, which we will examine later. But first, let’s take a closer look at their Fascist ideology.
Fascists, both then and now, believe that God is dead. Hence, follow this reasoning. If God is dead, there are no transcendent moral laws or absolutes. If there are no transcendent moral laws or absolutes, then right and wrong, good and evil, are subjective. If these things are subjective, you can’t judge them for their actions. Their actions are only “evil” according to those who hold to an alternative worldview. This can also be defined as Moral Relativism. Understand, anti-Semitism goes deeper than that of race. It was not just the Jewish race they hate, “Fascists hated the Jews not merely because of their race but because of their ideas and their worldview. Ultimately, they sought to exterminate the Jews and Jewish influence in Western culture because of their Hebraic monotheism. Namely, the belief that there is only one true God, and we are all accountable to Him. “Hebraic monotheism has ethical implications, which the fascists found particularly abhorrent” (Modern Fascism, by Gene Edward Veith, 1993, p.43, 45) In other words, those that ran the gas chambers in Auschwitz felt, in essence, that they were doing the rest of the world a favor. The only difference between the Nazis and Hamas is, the Nazis were trying to exterminate an “inferior” race and Hamas kills Jews because they’re infidels along with then fact that they want their land.
Another factor is the ascendance of the mass mind or mass/mob culture. The collective, if you will. Meaning, that the group’s identity takes precedence over one’s individual identity. Individual autonomy is a myth. Which includes, individual thought, individual rights and individual freedoms. Clearly, this philosophy is antithetical to the values of the American experience and to the U.S. Constitution.
I remember watching a reporter ask a few of the anti-Israel protesters several questions. For example, “do you know what exactly these Hamas terrorists did?” They couldn’t cite anything specific. “What do you know about the history of the Arab Israeli conflict?” “What exactly are you protesting?” They had no clue. Most couldn’t even find Gaza on a map if you spotted them Palestine! Incidentally, there is no such thing as Palestine and there are no indigenous Palestinian people. But I will save that argument for another day.
People in this mass/mob culture tend to do things that they wouldn’t otherwise do individually. People in a mob aren’t thinking for themselves. The group does the thinking for them. But they’re convinced that whatever the cause it’s righteous one. It’s not about the facts, it’s about the emotion. And these emotions most always result in violence and destruction. i.e. The “summer of love” riots, in 2020, in Seattle. The George Floyd riots in Minneapolis. The groups BLM and Antifa and other Marxist factions were mainly responsible. And later, the aforementioned Pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas protests. While the latter may not have personally participated in the October 7th attack on Israel, they supported it. Many even celebrated it. Think about it, they actually celebrated the atrocities of a murderous terrorist group like Hamas. They’re on their side. I venture to say that it isn’t too far of a leap to think something like that could happen here. Will one day the killing of Jews in this country be viewed as a righteous act? I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic in asking. Understand, it was a slow side in Germany from a disdain for Jews, to murdering Jews. Again, this anti-Semitism, anti- Christian, anti-America indoctrination has been going on in academia for over 60 years. And they always use mobs to accomplish their nefarious deeds.
Now, are you getting it now why Israel along with America is hated? Today this type of thinking aligns with one of the basic tenets of Marxism; tear it down, deconstruct! Then and now, both sought to demolish the ideas and values of Western civilization. In order for fascism to prevail they must deconstruct transcendence ideology. Transcendence refers to an existence beyond the here and now, or physical realm; things related to God and the hereafter. However, Karl Marx is not the only influencer.
Darwin, Freud, and Nietzsche are all contributors of this world view. Darwin, with his “survival of the fittest/natural selection” To them, the Jews are an inferior race; annihilate them. Freud, with his reckless abandon to any sexual restraints or taboos and the emergence of a “new morality”, helped usher in such things as eugenics. Nietzsche, who viewed compassion as a weakness, had a glorification of violence, and the belief of “the evolution of a Superman who would be beyond good and evil”. (Modern Fascism, by Gene Edward Veith, 1993, p.33) What action can be judged if you go “beyond good and evil”?
Again, these things, as well as other similar secular world views, are being taught in many of our universities across America today. In essence, are we not actually engendering the antisemitism and causing a resurgence of such? The indoctrination that’s taking place on many of our college campuses is the same type of indoctrination that took place in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. If left unchallenged and unabated, it’s only logical that another Holocaust is inevitable.
Lastly, at its core, this ostensible resurgence of antisemitism is an attempt to eradicate God by getting rid of those who hold to transcendence and a belief in Mosaic scripture. Their belief both then and now is, “by killing Jews, Western culture would eradicate those who had ‘invented” God… (George Steiner) No offense to Mr. Steiner, but it goes deeper than that. This is Satan’s war with God. And that war started in Heaven and then continued on earth in the Garden of Eden. From there, via Abraham, what we’re seeing play out in the Middle East is from the warring lineage of Isaac (Jews) and Ismeal (Arabs). Unfortunately, this will not end until the Lord returns and sets up his millennial kingdom.
However, take heart, the Word of God assures us that Israel will never be wiped off the face of the earth! Israel isn’t going anywhere, regardless of the resurgence of anti-Semitism. “On that day, when all the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.” Zechariah 12:3 NIV