[Darris McNeely] It’s time once again to talk about something that few people like
to talk about, though we need to cover it from time to time here on Beyond Today: it’s
anti-Semitism.
Hatred of Jews and anything Jewish, and “Death to Israel” and all these other matters that
are continuing, it seems now, to be in our news, rearing its ugly head.
We, a few weeks ago, did one on the massacres of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, where
they were attacked, and some of the subsequent fallout from there in Europe, dealing with
attacks upon Jews, synagogues, and all things Jewish.
Israel has been in the news because of the Prime Minister Netanyahu coming and speaking
here in his recent reelection to another term as prime minister.
And so, the role of Israel in this world, the world of Jews, and these things, anti-Semitic,
are really being talked about a great deal.
This particular article is talking about anti-Semitism raising its head in recent days on some of
America’s most liberal college campuses, and asking the question whether or not they
are breeding anti-Semitism.
Schools like UCLA in Los Angeles, or Berkeley, or Vanderbilt down in Nashville, Tennessee
– another college that has had some cases of this.
Anti-Semitism is something people don’t like to talk about, but at times when it comes
out in some of the most polite society and circles, people will perhaps have to admit
or even express to their closest friends that they do have a problem with Jews or things
Jewish, or the State of Israel, which has become kind of the Jew of the world today
because of the policies there and the Palestinian situation and their perception of Israel in
the League of Nations and in the world of nations today.
Look, anti-Semitism has not left us.
It is alive and well, and it is something that we do need to talk about, and you and
I need to understand whether or not it resides in our hearts or minds at all and how virulent
a pathogen it really is, and even anti-Biblical for all the obvious reasons.
You know, a few years ago I was on a lecture in Canada, and I was talking about something
in regard to prophecy but someone came up afterwards during a break and he, because
I had talked about the Jews and the State of Israel in my presentation, he tried to
engage me in this story that people have that the Holocaust of World War II – the genocide
of the Nazis against the Jews – didn’t really happen, that six million Jews were
not really killed.
And I’m standing there, just aghast that someone supposedly of sane mind can believe
such an idea, and would even bring that to me in that type of setting.
I had just come back from Germany, from Berlin, and I had actually been at the Holocaust memorial
in Berlin, that the German people have erected to the Holocaust of World War II, and I told
the gentleman, “Do you think, do you really think, that modern Germany would have put
their Holocaust memorial in the near proximity – almost directly over – the spot where
Hitler’s bunker was at the end of World War II, in the heart of Berlin, its national
capital, if they didn’t believe the Holocaust was a reality that they had to live with?”
As I thought to the man, echoing the words of a line from a movie, “Go sell crazy someplace
else.
We’ve got enough of it here.”
It’s too crazy and ridiculous of an idea.
And it’s too evil of an idea for anyone to hold, but unfortunately, too many people
do today.
Something that if we’re not educated about, we need to be.
And so that’s why we tend to talk about it here on Beyond Today, for the reasons that
are important to the world scene, but also for some very, very deep spiritual reasons,
as well.
Think about that.
That’s BT Daily.
Join us next time.