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1 2 The “New” Anti-Semitism: Past, Present, and Future Why Do People Hate Israel & Jewish People So Much?
Dr. Mike Stallard
Friends of Israel3 Anti-Semitism Yesterday
Esther, Mordecai, and Haman Esther 3:1-11
4 Anti-Semitism in the Church Age • John Chrysostom (around 400 AD) • In his homilies against the Jews: “The Jewish people were driven by their drunkenness and plumpness to the ultimate evil; they kicked about, they failed to accept the yoke of Christ, nor did they pull the plow of his teaching. Another prophet hinted at this when he said: ‘Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer.’ … Although such beasts are unfit for work, they are fit for killing.”
5 Anti-Semitism in the Church Age
• Martin Luther (1483-1546) • In his On the Jews and their Lies: • “First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.” • “Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed.”
6 Abuse of Matthew 27:25
–The Jewish crowd says: “His blood be on us and on our children.” –Anti-Semitism is not justified by this idea Who Killed Christ? •The Romans (Matt. 27:35) •The Jews (Acts 2:22-23) •God the Father (Acts 2:23) •No one killed Christ (John 10:17-18) •We all killed Christ (2 Cor. 5:21) Modern Pogroms Meaning of the word pogrom
9 Came to be used of attacks upon the Jews (especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s)
Attacks mostly in Europe (especially Russia) and the Middle East
10 Pogroms Inside Russia
• Context of the Pale of Settlement (1791) • 1821 anti-Jewish riots in Odessa (Ukraine) • 1881-1884 waves of pogroms in Kiev, Warsaw, Odessa • 1903-1905 Odessa – 2500 Jews killed in 1905…and on and on 11 Pogroms Outside of Russia
Over 30 pogroms in the 1800s (some pogroms lasted for a few years) Bagdad (1828) Damascus Affair (1840) Wales (1911) Argentina (1919)
12 Kristallnacht (crystal night) “The Night of Broken Glass” • Germany and Austria • November 9-10, 1938 • Trigger was assassination of a German diplomat by a Jew • 1668 synagogues pillaged • 267 set on fire (95 in Vienna) • Close to 100 people killed on those two days
13 The results of this anti-Semitism…
1. Massive migration of Jews to the United States, mostly in New York City 2. Migration of Jews to Palestine dramatically increases 3. The rise of the modern Zionist movement
14 The Jewish Question 15 Why were/are the Jews so hated? • False views about their control of world finances • False views about their desire to take over the world • The refusal of some Jews to assimilate to the cultures they are in • The false claim of blood libel • The view of the Jews as the Christ killers • The theological reason: Satanic opposition
16 The Rise of Modern Zionism Late 1800s • Solution to the Jewish Question is a national homeland • Zionism is the belief that Israel has the right to a national land (usually in Palestine) • Effort to get European governments to support
this effort 17 The Zionist Movement • Theodore Herzl • Dreyfus Affair 1894 • Herzl writes The Jewish State (1896) • The only solution to anti-Semitism in Europe is for Jews to have their own nation
18 The Zionist Congress
19 The First Zionist Congress Basle, Switzerland 1897
20 After the conference, Herzl notes in his personal diary: “At Basel, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.”
21 The Balfour Declaration November 2, 1917 His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. 22 The Holocaust during WW2
Adolf Hitler’s answer to the Jewish Question was THE FINAL SOLUTION – The extermination of all Jewish people on planet earth
23 The Concentration & Extermination Camps 6,000,000 Jews Were Killed (that’s roughly the population of the entire state of Tennessee)
24 More Death… As many Jews may have been killed by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union during World War II
25 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Golda Meir Yasser Arafat
26 Arab-Israeli Conflict: The New Anti-Semitism • 1947 UN Partition Plan • 1948 Independence of Israel and attack from several Arab nations • 1956 Suez Canal Crisis • 1967 Six-Day War • 1972 Munich massacre of Jewish Olympic athletes • 1973 Yom Kippur war (17 days)
27 Arab-Israeli Conflict
• 1976 Entebbe rescue of Israeli airline hostages • 1981 Bombing of Iraqi Nuclear facility • 1982 First Lebanon War • 1987 First Palestinian Intifada • 1993 Hamas’ first suicide bombing • 2000 Second Palestinian Intifada • 2006 Second Lebanon War
28 Arab-Israeli Conflict
• 2008 Gaza war • 2018? Third Lebanon War on the way? • Ongoing battle with terrorists and Iran
29 Anti-Semitism Tomorrow • Revelation 12 • The woman (Gen. 37:9) • The child • The dragon • The end result
30 Genesis 12:3 is still in the Bible: “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth be blessed.”
Ask Haman, Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein if this verse is true. There is no place for racist, anti-Semitic attitudes among Bible-believing Christians.
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