Called By Christ To Be ONE: October 2023

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The Jewish community is waking up to the dangerous left

Michael Brown cites progressive writers finally repudiating 'magical thinking' regarding Israel

In September 2021, I wrote an article titled, "Will American Jews Abandon The Democratic Party?"

I noted that, "After House Democrats, under pressure from their radical left wing, voted to remove Israel's defensive Iron Dome funding from its budget, a Christian friend messaged me, saying, 'Overwhelming Jewish support for the Democratic Party is hard to comprehend.'"

In explaining the history of that support, I stated, "It will be interesting to see what voting patterns emerge if traditional Jews continue to grow in number while the number of liberal Jews continues to drop. See, already, this prediction from 2016. And this, in turn, would likely result in a growing voting solidarity between Orthodox Jews and Christian conservatives."

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One year later, in November 2022 Rabbi Michael Barclay asked, "Are American Jews Finally Leaving the Democratic Party?"

He began his article stating, "Way back in March of 2019, I proposed the idea that, similar to the BLAXIT movement, American Jews needed to remove themselves from the Democratic Party, which no longer exemplifies Jewish values, no longer supports Israel, and is controlled by leftist extremists who are antisemitic. Although slower than hoped for, it looks like this might finally be happening."

More recently, in February 2023, Sheila Nazarian, herself an Iranian-American Jew, published an op-ed in Newsweek stating, "It's Time for American Jews to Say Goodbye to the Democratic Party."

She recognized that, "After experiencing first hand how right-wing nationalism could result in the murder of millions of their people, many Jews who came to America in the wake of that horrific event couldn't ever imagine voting for a right-wing party, and some have come to associate the Republicans with nationalism and even fascism and Nazism."

Her experience, however, as a Persian Jew was very different, and she argued, "If liberal Ashkenazi Jews think they are protecting themselves by voting for Democrats, to us, the opposite is the case: It is Republicans who most Persian Jews see as the safer bet.

And things like the anti-Israel sentiment in the Democratic Party that's always increasing, as well as former President Obama's calamitous Iran Deal, and the antisemitism from people like Congresswoman 'All about the Benjamins' Ilhan Omar, it's getting harder and harder for us to understand how so many Jewish Americans can still align themselves with the Democrats."

She closed with this passionate appeal: "If you have only voted Democratic in the past, if you could never dream of voting for a Republican candidate or policy, I urge you to reconsider. Right now, there is just too much at stake to keep repeating our old patterns.

"If we want to combat antisemitism, keep the Jewish state strong, and ensure that Jews are safe here in America, we have to do something different. Our future depends on it."

All this has been underscored in recent weeks by the reaction of some Democratic leaders to the Oct. 7 massacre and by the Jew-hating, Israel-bashing sentiments coming from the radical left, especially on college campuses.

This has resulted in a recent spate of essays basically stating that enough is enough, calling for American Jews (and even Israeli Jews) to wake up and face reality.

David Mamet's Oct. 23 op-ed for Unherd was titled, "How the Democrats betrayed the Jews. The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price."

He stated plainly that there is no more room to be a "Congenital Democrat," as he confesses he was for many years.

He wrote, "But there is no more cosy [sic] mystery in the antisemitism of the Democratic Party;

Representatives are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists and pro-Palestinians, calling for the end of the state of Israel – that is, for the death of the Jews. And Democrat Representatives repeat and refuse to retract the libel that Israel bombed a hospital, in spite of absolute proof to the contrary, and will not call out the unutterable atrocities of Hamas. The writing is on the wall. In blood."

An article in The Free Press by Konstantin Kisin on Oct. 22 was titled, "The Day the Delusions Died. A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed?"

While focusing more on leftist, liberal ideology than on the Democrats, Kisin closed his essay with these sobering words: "The truth is that we have indulged in magical thinking for too long, choosing comforting myths over harsh realities. About terrorism. About immigration. And about a host of other issues. In our hunger for progress, we have forgotten that not all change is for the better. Now the world is paying the price for that self-indulgence. Let's hope recent events are the wake-up call we so desperately need."

Enough with our delusional thinking, he argued. We have real enemies who want to kill us. Now is not the time to indulge in "magical thinking."

More bluntly still, on Oct. 24 Lilach Volach posted an article titled, "All I Want to Say to the International Left Is – Go to Hell."

But what makes her article stand out is not simply the bluntness of the title. It is the fact that it was published as an op-ed in Israel's premiere left-wing news outlet, Haaretz. That is saying a lot.

She writes, "One concept that has collapsed, just one among the flood of incredibly painful ones, is how segments of the international left have framed Hamas' murderous attack on Israel, in which 1,400 people were killed, and more than 200 kidnapped, as a legitimate Palestinian civilian uprising."

Then, speaking with real candor, she says, "As someone who deeply identifies with the Israeli left, I felt my heart dropping from where it usually is in my chest – sliding down my sleeve and fluttering on the floor in disbelief. As if this were a junior high election for student council president, every imbecile of liberalism in the world has gotten behind one of two shallow options – Israel or Palestine.

"They've quickly reached the conclusion that they're too wonderful not to identify with the underdog. After all, they tried baba ghanoush once and liked it. And now they've announced with self-importance: 'I stand with Palestine.'"

And so, she explains, "The point of all this isn't to engage in self-flagellation and self-purification in the name of the entire Israeli left. We have enough to deal with, thank you very much. But we are sobering up from the mutual embrace we thought we enjoyed with people with whom it's ostensibly still possible to hold a conversation that exceeds 280 characters."

Indeed, "When it comes to the events of Oct. 7 on the Gaza border, the international left, which can go into detail about each and every pronoun appropriate for each and every self-definition, has drowned in the academicization of the conversation and has been choked on its own ignorance and self-righteousness – in addition apparently to what preceded them."

The Israeli left, she now understands, is very different than the international left.

The painful awakening continues.

And while there is certainly dangerous right-wing antisemitism as well, it's clear that there is no refuge for the Jewish people or the nation of Israel under the shelter of the international (and American) left.

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Why Arab nations won't take Gaza refugees

Daniel McCarthy: 'The population weapon' is an effective way to blackmail Europe

It's been called the population weapon, and it's an effective way to blackmail Europe.

The late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi used it.

So has Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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And now the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is threatening to do so, if the West continues to call for Egypt to accept refugees from Gaza.

A senior Egyptian official quoted by the Financial Times put it bluntly:

"You want us to take 1 million people? Well, I am going to send them to Europe. You care about human rights so much – well, you take them."

Gadhafi was a notorious sponsor of terrorism.

But before the uprising that ended his life, the Libyan despot bribed and extorted his way back to a degree of respectability in the eyes of Europe's political elite.

His oil wealth let him buy friends – and the population weapon was a reminder even to enemies that he could hurt them.

Gadhafi could topple an Italian government simply by letting refugees and economic migrants pass through his country. He controlled the immigration spigot.

Erdogan learned from him.

The Iraq War and the civil war in Syria displaced millions of people, whom Turkey was prepared to pass through to Europe – unless the European Union and NATO heeded Erdogan's demands.

Now Egypt is ready to use the same leverage.

To many in the West, it seems puzzling that Palestinians don't migrate to other Arab countries.

But those countries will not take them.

Egypt has as little desire to rule a discontented and dangerous Palestinian population as Israel does.

Yet the result of Gaza's self-government has been the empowerment of Hamas, with the searing consequences that has inflicted upon Israel.

Even the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank does not want responsibility for Gaza and would hardly have the means to administer the territory if it wished to do so.

Egypt is the only nation other than Israel to share a border with Gaza.

However reluctant Cairo may be, it will have to accept refugees – and cooperate with Israel in establishing a firm peace after the war.

But President Sisi may think he can shirk this burdensome duty by frightening the governments of Europe into turning on Israel.

Would they like to trade places with Israel and see what it's like to have a Gaza within their borders?

Sisi can make it happen.

The U.S. is less vulnerable to such extortion – but that comparative immunity only makes liberal opinion in our country all the more naive.

The hard left simply thinks of Israel as a settler colonial state that should not exist.

More centrist liberals don't go that far, but they cannot bear to think about the conditions – in America and Europe, not just the Middle East – necessary for Israel's safety.

Those conditions include a willingness on the part of Europe to say no to a million refugees, by compelling Egypt to say yes to them instead.

When European states do take a hard line on migration, the response from American liberals is to scream "fascism!"

Elite American opinion expects Europe to be accommodating, and since Europe cannot afford that, its leaders may find it easier to appease Egypt and undercut Israel.

This is a chain reaction, and we're a part of it.

But that means we can help to stop it, too – by sending the signal to Europe that it has every right to keep displaced populations closest to their places and cultures of origin.

Geography and history, not racism, makes Egypt responsible for its neighbor.

If Egypt doesn't want the costs that come with a tide of Palestinian refugees, it will have to devote everything it possibly can to assisting Israel's eradication of Hamas and reconfiguration of Gaza.

There is a valuable precedent to be set here that will make Europe more secure in the future, the next time a Gadhafi or an Erdogan reaches for the population weapon.

And this refusal to submit to blackmail will ultimately lead to better humanitarian results as well, as refugees are kept closer to home and local powers are incentivized to keep their neighborhoods clean.

But ideology is a helluva drug, and if we want Europe to kick the habit of rewarding extortion, our leaders will have to sober up, too.

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Fox News regular breaks down: 'It's really hard to be a Jewish parent right now'

Panelist Morgan Ortagus became emotional during a segment Monday on Fox News dealing with the rising tide of anti-Semitism since the outbreak of war in Israel.

“It’s really hard to be a Jewish parent right now,” the former Trump State Department spokeswoman said on "Outnumbered," following a video clip being shown of a Muslim mob looking to attack Jews at a Russian airport.

The attack took place in Dagestan, a republic of southern Russia that's predominantly Muslim, according to National Review.

"We are here for the Jews. We came to kill them with knives and shoot at them," a member of the mob reportedly said.

Ortagus looked at "Outnumbered" co-host Harris Faulkner.

“I thought about you this weekend, too, Harris, when I saw this because your husband is Jewish," she said. "And whenever Hitler was going after the [Jews], they didn’t care if your kids were half-Jewish. And I thought about you as I was thinking about coming to 'Outnumbered,' and I thought, 'they would go after my daughter.'

"They would go after yours as quickly as they would mine. And it’s … it’s just terrifying to be a Jewish parent right now. I’m sorry,” she said, struggling to keep her composure.

The entire Fox News segment is below.

Ortagus converted to Judaism before her 2013 marriage to Jonathan Weinberger. Weinberger, a business executive and former former U.S. Treasury executive secretary, is Jewish.

Faulkner responded by saying it is clear what the mob wanted to do and "they were screaming it, proudly screaming it.”

"I have all the hope in the world it's not going to be everybody against the Jews again," she added.

Are the lives of Jews in America at risk today due to antisemitism?

Ortagus did not believe that would be the case, saying that some will stand by them. But she knew it would be difficult.

"The one thing I thought through all of this is, 'I'm going to teach her to fight,'" Ortagus said, referring to her daughter. "I'm wearing my Star of David. I'm not taking it off. I'm not going to hide, and that's what I'm going to teach my daughter."

Ortagus then referenced the protests seen on U.S. college campuses, including in New York City at Cooper Union college and Columbia University.

At Cooper Union, Jewish students barricaded themselves in a library during a pro-Palestinian protest on campus that turned violent, the New York Post reported.

Protesters came into the building where the library is located and began making their way to the seventh floor where the Jewish students had locked themselves in.

“When they started banging on the door, my heart started pounding. I was crying. I think if the doors weren’t locked — I don’t know what would have happened,” a Jewish senior at the school told the Post.

“I don’t want to speculate what would’ve happened. It just makes me too nervous. I was absolutely terrified in that moment.”

A school administrator was able to later escort the Jewish students out a back entrance of the building.

"This is happening in America," Ortagus said. "We are not protected. We are not immune from this in America... This is why we have to fight them."

Ortagus, a former Fox News contributor who still appears on the network regularly, later posted on X: "I pride myself on being able to keep my cool on tv, radio, or at the podium. Today just hit differently."

"While it’s hard to be that vulnerable in front of millions of eyeballs, it’s the reality of what Jewish parents face today."

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

Democrats use hearing on religious persecution to target U.S. Christians

'An undemocratic agenda that seeks the very opposite of what they claim to do'

Democrats in Congress are being called out for hijacking a hearing on worldwide religious persecution to put a bull's-eye on American Christians for their alleged "Christian nationalism" in a new column at the Washington Stand.

It is Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, who documented how U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Florida Democrat, "ignored the topic of global persecution entirely in his questioning of witnesses, instead pointing the finger at Christians in the United States."

Frost complained, "Christian nationalism is a form of religious extremism making its way into our policies and undermining our democracy. These extremist actors are co-opting the language of Christianity and religious freedom to push an undemocratic agenda that seeks the very opposite of what they claim to do."

Frost's blast at Christians came at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs.

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It was supposed to focus on multiple crises facing religious believes in Armenia, Nigeria, North Kroea, China and elsewhere, the column explained.

Instead, Del Turco said, "House Democrats chose to highlight the contrived problem of Christian nationalism in the United States."

Joining Frost was Amanda Tyler, of the Baptist Joint Committee, which has wanted to ban symbols of faith such as the Bladensburg Peace Cross and a WWI Veterans Memorial in Maryland.

Are Christians and their beliefs the positive force that is holding the United States together?

Tylor claimed, "The single greatest threat to religious liberty in the United States today" is what she considers "a political ideology and cultural framework that seeks to fuse American and Christian doctrines" – "Christian nationalism."

Actually, the term "is mostly used as a smear against conservative Christians who defend the role of religion in American public life," explained Gillian Richards, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation.

The column pointed out the current attacks on House Speaker Mike Johnson because he explained that the Bible is his worldview.

The agenda intends to shame Christians into "silence," according to Family Research Council's Joseph Backholm, as Democrats are pleased when Democrats invoke Bible passages to promote their agenda.

Frost complained that "Christian nationalists" are trying to strip the rights away from people.

But Del Turco explained, "It is slanderous for Frost to suggest that those who promote a true understanding of religious freedom are doing so for corrupt motives. Unfortunately, the confusion surrounding what Christian nationalism actually is and how Democrats are using the term lends itself to false accusations and misunderstandings."

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., used the same hearing to apparently link violent attacks on synagogues or grocery stores to Christian nationalism "without offering evidence of specific incidents," she wrote.

The anti-Christian ideologies appear to be surging under Joe Biden's administration, she explained, as the nation's "foreign policy has routinely overlooked international religious freedom issues."

And Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., suggested Biden's bureaucrats don't consider religious freedom significant because they're trying to make other countries less Christian, through their LGBT and abortion agendas.

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Gen. Michael Flynn: Congressmembers 'compromised by sleeping with children'

'These are real things,' says former DIA chief

By Jim Hoft

The Gateway Pundit

In a recent no-holds-barred conversation with political commentator Joy Thayer, ex-Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), General Michael Flynn, unveiled a shocking narrative surrounding the moral integrity of certain members within the U.S. legislature.

He alleged that the hold of globalist agendas over these officials stems from compromising situations they find themselves in during official overseas trips.

Former National Security Adviser and retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn

He expressed his disdain for what he described as a “totally, completely broken” House of Representatives, which he alleges is under the thumbs of corporate lobbyists and globalists. According to Flynn, these external entities have managed to ensnare some legislators through compromising situations during Congressional Delegation (CODEL) trips overseas.

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The former DIA chief’s narrative took an even darker turn as he alleged that some of these trips saw members of both the Senate and the House being compromised through sleeping with children.

General Flynn: “We have the House of Representatives right now is totally, completely broken. And they’re totally owned by the corporate lobbyists and frankly, by the globalists who own many of these people because they’ve been compromised on some of these what they call CODEL trips overseas, where these members of both the House and the Senate get compromised by sleeping with children. And they compromise. And these are real things. These are very real things, or they get them caught up in the world of big bucks, big money.”

Are some members of Congress sleeping with children?

WATCH:

The Gateway Pundit reporter, Kristinn Taylor wrote, “Members of Congress have a documented history of sleeping with underage children. Not a lot, but enough to make this plausible. Denny Hastert paid hush money to cover up child molestation. Gerry Studds plied an underage male page with intoxicants and had sex with him,” adding, “Also, over the years some Secret Service agents overseas have compromised themselves getting drunk and sleeping with hookers.”

Trump pardoned Flynn, who served as his National Security Advisor, as well as Roger Stone. Stone previously hinted that Flynn possesses sensitive information, including a list of high-profile individuals involved in pedophilia.

“Gen Flynn has a list of high level pedophiles the release of which will decimate the Deep State dons #Netherlands,” wrote Stone in 2017.

Not too long ago a US Senator Menendez from New Jersey was accused of having sex with minors outside of the US. The FBI was involved in the case.

However, Menendez was not traveling with a delegation of lawmakers in a CODEL, or congressional delegation.

You can watch the full interview below:

This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.

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