Remember friends, the Jews are the ONLY people group that are persecuted no matter where they go on earth.
Also remember that the higher the incidence of Islam in an area...the greater the chances are that anti-Semitism will rise.
LAST week, Twitter shut down a popular account for posting anti-Semitic messages in France. This came soon after the firing of blanks at a synagogue near Paris, the discovery of a network of radical Islamists who had thrown a hand grenade into a kosher restaurant, and the killing of a teacher and young pupils at a Jewish school in Toulouse earlier this year. The attacks were part of an escalating campaign of violence against Jews in France.
Today, a sizable section of the European left has been reluctant to take a clear stand when anti-Zionism spills over into anti-Semitism. Beginning in the 1990s, many on the European left began to view the growing Muslim minorities in their countries as a new proletariat and the Palestinian cause as a recruiting mechanism. The issue of Palestine was particularly seductive for the children of immigrants, marooned between identities.
Sometimes the left distinguishes between vulnerable European Jews who have been persecuted and latter-day “Prussians” in Israel. Yet it is often forgotten that a majority of Israelis just happen to be Jews, who fear therefore that what begins with the delegitimization of the state will end with the delegitimization of the people.
Such Israelophobia, enunciated by sections of the European left, dovetailed neatly with the rise of Islamism among Palestinians and throughout the Arab world. The Islamist obfuscation of “the Jew” mirrored the blindness of many a European Marxist. Despite the well-intentioned efforts of many Jews and Muslims to put aside their differing perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the offensive imagery of “the Jew” has persisted in many immigrant communities in Western Europe. Islamists were willing to share platforms with socialists and atheists, but not with Zionists.
The New Left’s profound opposition to American power, and the convergence of reactionary Islamists and unquestioning leftists was reflected in the million-strong London protest against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was organized by the Muslim Association of Britain, the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and the Stalinist Communist Party of Britain. When some Muslims voiced apprehension about participating in the protest with non-Muslims, the M.A.B. leadership decreed that it was religiously permissible if halal food was provided and men and women were given separate areas. Such displays of “reactionary clericalism,” as the early Bolsheviks would have called it, were happily glossed over.
We need to continue praying fervently for our Jewish neighbors and Israel. There is another holocaust coming before the Great Tribulation is over and this time 2/3 of the world's Jews will be involved.
The harvest is at hand and it is God's desire that NONE should persish but that all would come to Him.
If you know a Jew maybe you should start praying for him or her that the Lord would soften his heart and take off the blinders so that they will be open to hear the story about Jesus the Messiah and pray that YOU are the one to deliver those words.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God", said Jesus. These are the folks who bring the Gospel message to other humans and give them the opportunity to have peace with God through the atoning work of Christ on the cross.
Of course, lest anyone should boast...we ONLY bring the words and scatter the seeds. It's the Holy Spirit who accomplishes salvation.
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