Jewish Issues: A Clarification to Christians about Their Perception on the Jews
Beheadings, Crucifixions, the Inquisition, the Crusades, Pogroms, Spits and Socialism
By Julio
Severo
Sometimes,
I receive accusations from Christians, who say that I emphasize Muslim
persecution against Christians in the Middle East, but I never mention how the
Jews also persecute Christians.
The
reason for it is not omission or some attempt to hide alleged beheadings and
crucifixions the Jews would be committing against Christians.
The
reason is simple: these atrocities against Christians are never perpetrated by
Jews — unless you want to compare a spittle with beheadings and crucifixions.
Yes,
Orthodox Jews — a minority in Israel that really practices Judaism — despise
Christians, and they show this contempt by spitting. It is a nasty act, but
very far away from beheadings and crucifixions.
What
is the motivation of spits and contempt? Many of them are resentful of the Inquisition
and the Crusades, which savaged many Jews. But they do not distinguish between
Christians. They think that every Christian is responsible for the Inquisition
and for the Crusades, when in reality only the Catholic Church began and
finished these things.
In
their minds, the acts of the Catholic Church against the Jews are acts of all
Christian churches. It is a mistaken perception. Even with this mistaken
perception, they do not behead or crucify Christians in retribution for the Inquisition
and the Crusades.
Yet,
not only Jews have a mistaken perception. Christians who love Israel sometimes
exaggerate their love by worshipping everything done in Israel. In a worship
service in a large church in Brasília, Brazil, I heard a minister preaching about
the alleged wonders of kibutzes — collective farms where everybody eat in a communal
refectory and children are brought up in communal daycares. Kibutzes have no
origin in the Bible. Its origin is socialist European Jews who settled in
Israel in the early 1900s.
Yes,
there is socialism in Israel. The only nation in the Middle East having legal
abortion and gay parades is Israel.
The Israeli
military draft is compulsory for men and women. While in the U.S. conservatives
had been fighting for years to hinder their military from drafting women for
combats, Israel has followed this socialist model for years.
The
Israeli love for socialism is also despised by the Orthodox Jews. In fact, this
Israeli love for socialism has often been used by their enemies to paint the
Jews as wicked.
In
Brazil, the Jews, except the Orthodox ones, are traditional supporters of the
Left, including the ruling socialist Workers’ Party. In the United States, the
overwhelming majority of the Jews support Obama’s party — a party that has been
in the opposite direction of the interests of Israel and the real Christians.
How
explain Jews’ love for socialism? Because Karl Marx was a Jew?
One
of the explanations may be in the czarist Russia. In the late 1800s and early
1900s, the czar sanctioned laws against the Jews, and it produced the infamous
pogroms — violent attacks against the Jews and their properties.
Those
attacks were supported by leaders connected to the Orthodox Church, which was
not acting in a way different from the Inquisition and the Crusades of her sister,
the Catholic Church.
Facing
the extreme persecution from the czarist government, the Russian Jews had only
two options: 1. To flee for the U.S. (which was the largest Protestant nation
in the world). To flee for an Europe under Catholic influence was not in their
considerations. 2. To resist and fight.
For
those not fleeing for the U.S., the chosen resistance was to support Marxist
movements, which gave rise to the Soviet Union. Jews’ enemies use this episode
to try to portray the Jews as the creators of this evil empire, but this was
not the case. By an issue of sheer survival and to end pogroms, Russian Jews
gave their support to the communist revolution and the creation of the Soviet
Union.
If it
were possible for them, they would also have supported some way of resistance
to escape the Inquisition and the Crusades.
Pogroms
were a so terrifying persecution that Russian Jews did whatever was possible to
put an end to the czarist empire, even getting help from American bankers to
fund the birth of the Soviet Union. But the Jewish solution, though having
begun intended to save lives, eventually proved to be worse than the original problem.
It produced a bigger problem.
A similar
phenomenon happened in Germany in the early 1930s. With communism threatening
to win elections, even Lutheran ministers instructed their flocks to vote for
Adolf Hitler as the only ‘salvation’ against communism. However, the solution
eventually proved to be worse than the problem, especially for Jews, who
suffered the Holocaust. Despair pushes peoples to deadly ‘solutions.’
Truly,
in the Soviet Union the Jews were able to reach high posts in the government and
in the military — something mostly impossible in the Orthodox Russia or the
Catholic Europe. But the cost was very high.
Jews’
enemies enjoy emphasizing the Jewish participation in the birth of the Soviet
Union, but they conveniently cover the slaughters Jews underwent in the
Orthodox Russia. Those enemies are able to praise the Inquisition and the
Crusades without mentioning the suffering and the slaughters the Jews endured.
Jews’
traditional love for socialism is based in these historical factors and in
their fight to back movements to deliver them from intense persecutions of
political regimes connected to the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.
Orthodox
Jews have their historical reasons to spit on Christians. But they do not perceive
that their issues are only with Catholics and Orthodoxies.
Because
of these historical issues, Israel is today the only State in the Middle East
where socialism and capitalism are perfectly married.
Those
who hate Jews because of socialism should not ignore that they supported this
system because of despair and to survive from atrocious persecutions by ‘Christians’
who loved more the Inquisition, the Crusades and pogroms than they loved Jesus
Christ.
Those
who love Jews should not support kibutzes or the love of many of them for socialism.
Someday
the Jews are going to discover that the only salvation from the Inquisition,
the Crusades, pogroms, anti-Semitism and Islamic hatred is the greatest Jew
in the history — Jesus Christ.
Different
from the socialist ‘salvation,’ Jesus’ salvation has no widespread deadly side
effects.
Those
who know the salvation of this Jew should pray so that Jews around the world
may be delivered from their illusions regarding a socialist ‘salvation’ and
socialist ‘messiahs.’
Portuguese
version of this article: Questões judaicas: um esclarecimento aos
cristãos sobre sua percepção dos judeus
Source: Last Days Watchman
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