I’ve never understood anti-Semitic thought, even long before I became messianic. I think my messianic Rabbi, Stan Farr, said it best recently.

“I don’t believe you can be a real believer and hate the Jews. Yeshua was one, and Yeshua loved the Jews! The Father loved the Jews. They still do.”

And yet anti-Semitic thought does not reside solely in Iran. If anything, it’s been on the rise for the last several year, especially after September 11.

One would think that the Jews would be the last folks people would blame for an act of terrorism committed by Islamo-Fascist terrorists, but liberal logic always finds a way. Here’s the thought process:

1) We were attacked because Muslim terror extremists hate us.
2) We support Israel.
3) Muslim terror extremists hate Israel.
4) Therefore, we’re hated for our support for Israel.
5) Resolved: it’s all Israel’s fault.

Of course, there’s a simpler logic to be followed here, one that has nothing to do with anti-Semitic thought.

1) The Islamo-fascist terrorists are maybe a few hundred idiots.
2) Those few hundred idiots were looking to breed terror; they don’t need a reason, it’s what they do.
3) Resolved: It’s not Israel’s fault … the only fault lies in the hands of the terrorist idiots.

See how much simpler that is?

And truer.

Of course, it’s been a long time since anyone thought rationally about Israel and the Jews. Even within the church.

Last I checked, Martin Luther provided the theological basis, and some frighteningly prophetic descriptions, for the Holocaust Hitler enacted in the 1930s and 1940s, when between 5-7 million were locked up in steel buildings to await their extermination.

It comes to this, especially if you’re a believer in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus).

1) Yeshua WAS (and is) a Jew.

2) He LOVED the Jewish people.

3) He was crucified by Roman authorities, at the urging and manipulation of a handful of Jewish religious leaders… not the Jewish people as a whole. It was an act of individuals, not a nation or an entire race. Do you blame all white people, or at least all Germans, for the acts of Hitler and his Nazi Party Members? Or even all Muslims for the acts of al-Qaeda? Of course not.

4) Yeshua’s death was a blessing to all the world, or did a little thing called the resurrection escape your notice?

Sorry, that’s pretty much directly confronting the anti-Semites out there. Yeesh, it just makes no sense at all…