{"id":56,"date":"2025-12-17T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/?p=56"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:53:30","slug":"antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism: deep historical roots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Antisemitism has deep historical roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three Abrahamic faiths, of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim Abraham as one of their forebears. Abraham\u2019s Judaic and Christian families stem from their son Isaac, but the Islamic families stem from Abraham\u2019s earlier surrogacy with his wife Sarah\u2019s Egyptian handmaid Hagar, who gave birth to Ishmael some 14 years prior to Isaac\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ishmael grew up apparently as a \u201cwild donkey of a man\u201d \u2013 a life lived malevolently against everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hatred between Isaac\u2019s and Ishmael\u2019s progeny now occupies some 3500 years of history. Today, large sections of the Arab world simply want to destroy Israel; this was evidenced in the 1948, 1967 and 1973 wars, where Israel was attacked by vastly larger Arab armies, and miraculously not only survived, but defeated their enemies. I personally saw the burned-out Jordanian tanks and military trucks in the Westbank and Negev when I visited Israel some years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The thin slice of disputed land in the centre of the Middle East is democratic Israel. It is surrounded by enemies on all sides, notably by the terrorist organisations of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, all seeking Israel\u2019s annihilation. Their stated manifesto is the destruction of Israel and to kill every Jew; the state sponsor of this terrorism is Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, following the Nova festival attack in Israel on 7 October 2023 and the two ensuing years of heightened drama, war, bloodshed and perpetuated false narrative, we again see the tentacles of antisemitism reach our own shores at Bondi Beach in Sydney this week, with 15 Jews celebrating Hanukkah shot to death by two Islamic militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How could this happen on our own shores?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This long-perpetuated hatred of just .02% of the world\u2019s population is on some levels hard to understand. This is because we in the West largely exist by the multicultural mantra of \u201clive and let live.\u201d But many other countries don\u2019t think as we do. When parents teach their children that Jews are dogs and worthy of death; when schools and mosques perpetuate this ancient hatred, we have and endless supply of jihadist combatants ready to perpetuate their hatred wherever they can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students of history will also recognise Christianity\u2019s own antisemitism \u201cskeletons in the cupboard\u201d history. Past generations labelled Jews as \u201cJesus killers.\u201d Did you also know that it was largely antisemitism in the third century that fuelled the changed day of worship for Christians from Saturday to Sunday? The Roman emperor, together with various councils, declared that people must not Judaise by resting on the Saturday Sabbath, but rather worship and rest on the first day of the week, Sunday. The theological arguments for the change to Sunday worship pale into insignificance when compared to the political expediency of rife antisemitism. Historians note that for the first two centuries, over 90 percent of practising Christians still celebrated Saturday Sabbath!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The historical rise of Islam as a religious and political entity, together with its tenets, laws and objectives, such as \u201cconvert or die,\u201d are completely incompatible with western multicultural ideals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internationally, Israel\u2019s current troubles are really a wake-up call for all of us. As one political commentator put it, \u201cIsrael is the canary in the coal mine for all of us.\u201d The war they\u2019re fighting will one day be our war for survival. What is surprising in Israel\u2019s defence, is that last year, when Iran fired some 1000 projectiles consisting of intercontinental missiles and radar evading drones, Israel shot them all out of the sky using their Iron Dome and David Sling defensive missiles. War analysists still wonder how this was possible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we end this antisemitism? Politicians, of course, are busy trying to placate an uneasy public. Australian gun laws and immigrations policies are currently in the limelight, but they\u2019ll do little while we allow mass demonstrations featuring hateful chants, fuelled by fiery, hate-filled sermons by Imams. Even if we were to in the interim deal with these dangerous ideologies, according to the Bible, these will make little difference to the brewing hatred that has existed for millennia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prophecies surrounding Jerusalem, and the Middle East in general, foretell a time of world war, with all nations gathering around Israel for battle. Antisemitism will have reached international fever pitch, and as the prophet Zechariah once conveyed, \u201cJerusalem will become a cup of staggering for all nations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Western nations are fast losing their original Judeo-Christian ethos, in favour of an identity crisis that often focusses on race and gender, then we allow history to again turn our former rise to glory into the sands of yet another vanquished and enslaved civilisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lingering antisemitic hatred doesn\u2019t look good, either now or into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The antidote is in Jesus\u2019 words: \u201cLove your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who malign you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opposite of hate is love, and this is manifested in kindness, compassion, courage and care. As a nation, our identity must return to our Christian roots. Any other platform or identity is automatically doomed to failure, attested to by the recent bloodshed on our own iconic Australian beachfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antisemitism has deep historical roots. The three Abrahamic faiths, of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim Abraham as one of their forebears. Abraham\u2019s Judaic and Christian families stem from their son Isaac, but the Islamic families stem from Abraham\u2019s earlier surrogacy with his wife Sarah\u2019s Egyptian handmaid Hagar, who gave birth to Ishmael some 14 … Continue reading “Antisemitism: deep historical roots”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,24,26,27,3,25],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abraham","tag-antisemitism","tag-bondi-beach","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.message7.org\/read\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}