Shalom to all of you from Israel. My name is Sarah
Gamesa. I'm the director of the Christian friends of
yours a shame. We're about to start the lecture, the
second lecture lecture in the series, life hating hope
that we're doing in cooperation with the ICJ.
Before we start. I want to welcome Dr. Jaime author,
the new director of the Christian friends of Yad
Vashem was so kindly joined us this evening, this
evening in Israel today in the United States and
Canada. I also want to take this opportunity to thank
our partners on this very special webinar series. That
just was in May called ICJ using director This is Donna
Holbrook, ICJ, Canada, National Executive Director,
and Reverend Merkel's ICJ, Vice President of
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to relevant heading after the lecture. Today we're
honored to have with us as our guest lecturer, Rick
Malcolm Hemingway, I think most of you if not all of
you know, who will teach us about the history of anti
semitism. Welcome heading is an ordained minister of the
Assemblies of God of South and Africa. Apart from being
a church planter in his country of birth, his
activism on behalf of Israel and inspired by the Bible,
began in 1975 when he joined Christian action. In 1980,
he became involved with the international Christian
embassy Jerusalem, and in the year of 2001, it became
the executive director of international pushing
embassy Gerson a position that he held up until the
end of 2011. He has traveled all over the world defending
Israel, in forms of all types, and with Shaya benu,
the former director of the international relations of
Yad Vashem is the co founder of the Christian desk, at
yard ocean river heading, his present present lives in
Israel. And we're very happy to have him here with us.
Reverend telling, as I'm a Jewish Israeli, they grew up
with the knowledge that a lot of the centuries there
has always been anti semitism in the fall. When
we learn history in school, we spoke and we learned
about the different anti semitic events that took
place, different places in the world, throughout the
years. But we never spoke about the why as
Christianity is origins are in Judaism, I would like to
ask you, how did Christian anti semitism come to be?
Well, thank you so much. Sorry, it's a great joy, and
Welcome, everybody. It's a great pleasure and a great
blessing to see you all many old friends. And that's a
very intriguing question. And of course, it's the
subject of our debate today the history of Christian
anti semitism. And in order to answer that question, I
would like to share my screen with you. And then we
will dive into our subject for today. And there we have
it, the history of Christian anti semitism. We get to go
through the various centuries together and build
a picture that is absolutely true. It is substantiated
historically, and everything in the lecture has been
double checked. So this is the history of Christian
anti semitism. And the reason why Israeli children
are educated and brought, as it were up to date on this
issue, and it's a very, very important one, and every
Christian should know it. We're going to begin by what
we call the seeds of discontent or the first
century and here we have to address what I call a
complex situation. In the Roman Empire dictated what
religions were legal, and which were not, the Jews of
the Empire had reached an agreement with Rome, whereby
Judaism was designated legal. They needed to
preserve the status in the interests of the well being
of the people in Israel and of course, throughout the
Empire. They were therefore considered by the Romans as
religio, Lissa TA, meaning they will legal, and then be
while they had differences with Jesus theologically.
That's true.
And we see this mirrored in the Gospel narratives time
and time again, the issue of status, their legal status
was paramount in their minds and played a major part in
their rejection of Jesus messianic credentials. This
led to the resistance of the message carried by the early
church. Paul enters the record of the growth of the
church as a zealous antagonist of its message.
And of course, as you know, the book of Acts documents,
the history of Jewish resistance against the
growing early church. But I would like to read to you
from john chapter 11. And verses 47 to 50. And it
reads like this, then the chief priests and the
Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do
for this man works many signs. If we let him alone
like this, everyone will believe in him and the
Romans. There you have this issue will come and take
away both our place and our nation. In other words, they
would lose the status of being religio Lissa TA and
one of them Caiaphas. Being High Priest that year said
to them, You know nothing at all, nor do you consider
that it is expedient for us that one man should die for
the people and not the whole nation should perish. So
this issue of Judaism's relationship with the
governing Roman authorities was clearly paramount in
their minds and in their thinking. So, while this
resistance was well organized, it was never on
the scale of mass murder, or genocide. In fact, it can be
said that the early churches biggest emerging enemy was
the Roman Empire, as the Christians were perceived as
serving a king, an emperor other than Caesar, and
therefore they were religio e Lissa TA, that is, the new
religious movement of the Christians was deemed to be
illegal. And we know the various prosecutions, which
the early church went through, at the hands of
various Caesars, beginning with Nero. Then we come to
point to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70, ce II, and
135. These events the fact that Jerusalem was laid
waste, and the Jewish people were exiled in 70, and 135.
These events reinforced Christian resentment against
the Jews in that it appeared to validate God's rejection
of them. In their minds, the Jews got what they deserved.
The idea then that they were Christ killers found freedom
to be expressed, even though it was not true from the
biblical account. Secondly, be in terms of the
destruction of Jerusalem in the two dates that are
given. These events produced a concept of having to do
with a new understanding of Kingdom. What is the kingdom
of God? That is the Jewish theological position of a
coming literal messianic kingdom was challenged and
reinterpreted in violation of the biblical text. And so
the allegorical method of expounding the Bible was
introduced by church leaders like Oregon, so any passage
of the Hebrew Scriptures Remember, the New Testament
canon had not yet been validated or even written.
But any reference then to a physical manifestation of
the kingdom of God from Jerusalem was resisted by
the church. And they said, in fact that the scriptures
didn't mean that, that you had to spiritualize that and
give it a different interpretation. We won't go
into what that means today.
30 then see Israel being totally vanquished as a
nation and sent into exile was considered a relic of
the past. And the idea that the church had replaced her
was now the new Israel of God was beginning to emerge.
So this picture of utter destruction, beginning in 70
ad, culminating at the end of the bar kokhba revolt in
135, that gave the impression to many in the
church, that the Jewish people had truly been
cursed, that they've been done away with that God had
visited judgment upon them. And that, in fact, the
church alone was now the new Israel of God. Then we have
second generation, church leaders. So the first
generation of church leaders passed off the scene. And we
have their successes. And they began to sow the seeds
of hatred for the Jews in their sermons and teachings.
This would set the stage for the acceptance of what we
now call Historically, the doctrine of contempt in
years to come by the Catholic Church. And this
doctrine of contempt, would assert that God kept the
Jews alive only as an example of his enduring
judgment, and Roth, that is essentially the doctrine of
contempt. And also, in the second generation, we see
the beginnings of preachers, vilifying synagogues, as
houses of devils, and brothels. And thirdly, the
second generation church leaders began to paint the
Jews as killers of God, they accused them of deicide, and
therefore, beyond redemption. And these are
all the seeds of what we call the doctrine of
contempt that was progressively developed from
this period onwards. And that is important for us to
understand today. And then fourthly, during this time
of the second generation of church leaders, they began
to codify the idea that the church alone was the Israel
of God. So those are the things that happened in the
second generation. Also, following on their heels and
a bit later, we have our fourth point, that anti the
anti semitic church leaders beatified by church by the
church as saints. And he said my church leaders
beatified by the church as saints. And this is a record
of just a few of them what they said, and we need to
note who they were and the statements they made. We
have Justin Martyr, in 140. asserted that the law was
given to the Jews. That is the law that is going right
back to Sinai to the Exodus. The law was given to the
Jews as a punishment. He frequently vilified them, in
his sermons to Italian, said that synagogues were
fountains of persecution, Oregon, wrote, The Jews have
committed the most abominable crimes. St.
Gregory of nicer stated that Jews are companions of the
devil, race of vipers and a Sanhedrin of demons. St.
Ambrose wrote the synagogue is a place dammed by God
Himself. St. Augustine affirmed that the church
admits and knows that Jewish people are to be cursed. Son
john Christ's atone called the synagogue, a brothel and
theater sincero of Alexandria, had Jews
expelled from his city. So these are what some of the
well known Church Fathers began to say, during the
second third century period. And the question we have to
ask ourselves then, is why did the second generation of
church fathers become so antagonistic to the Jewish
people? Interesting question.
And the answer to that question is, of course, by
that time. And given the the events that took place in
70, ad, and 135, there was the culture ized thinking in
the church, that the Jews had been thoroughly judged,
and chiefly because of the rejection of Jesus. Then the
answer to that question also lies in the fact that the
Christian scriptures, the canon of the New Testament,
had not yet been validated, or formalized, so that there
was no canon of Scripture by which these leaders could
test their statements, or their theories. And if they
had actually received the canon of Scripture, I mean,
many of the letters were circulating, but there was
no formal validation of the canon of Scripture. So if
they had been, they would not have said the things
that they had said, because many passages, in fact,
major passages of the New Testament canon, teach
otherwise. And just Romans 910 and 11, are remarkable
in the validation and the affirming that Paul gives to
Israel, the continuance of God's covenant with them,
and the statement that they are beloved of God for the
sake of their fathers. And has God rejected these
people, no, Perish the thought, he says. And
because there was no parameters by which to
regulate these people, they began to express these very
sad, anti semitic views of Jewish people. That brings
us to the fifth century onwards, by this time, Rome
had emerged as the most influential seat of the
church, and this largely because of Rome's dominant
place in the Empire. In addition, because of the
triumph of the church in 312, by the conversion, so
called, of the Emperor Constantine, the Catholic
Church became established, the canon of the New
Testament was confirmed, and a legitimate body of
theology was set in place, particularly and more
famously what we call the Nicene Creed. And to this
day, the Nicene Creed is repeated in many churches as
an act of worship. It sets out by a statement by a
creed, the basic foundational beliefs of the
Christian Church, the Nicene Creed, has nothing to say,
in fact, about the Jewish people. At this time, the
Catholic Church in no way resembled what it has become
today, as its teachings and thinking was still
primitive. But one thing remained, and that was its
antipathy toward the Jews. And this reinforced its
doctrine of contempt. So at this period, this doctrine
of contempt was beginning to get a foothold in the
Catholic Church. I just want to say this is no intention
intended address to vilify the Catholic Church in any
way. It's just historically true. These are the
historical facts of Christian anti semitism. And
then a cauterized hatred and despising of the Jews had
taken root in many communities throughout
Europe, from the fifth century onwards. This is
very important to understand because once an issue is
culture arised in a community, this is very
important folk, if we're going to challenge anti
semitism today. Once
an issue is culture arised in a community, it becomes
very hard to remove and its impact. It impacts
generations to come. You can imagine my shock of this app
actually happened in Murfreesboro. When recently
in a prayer meeting, a man got up requesting prayer.
Because as he put it, he had been Jude by a fellow
Christian businessman. So he wasn't even referring to the
Jews. And he wasn't in any way making a statement about
his interaction with the Jewish community. Indeed, he
was talking about how a fellow Christian had cheated
him. But you can see from that statement, that he
conveyed the thought that actually, if someone does
you in, you've been Jude, the Jewish people are
cheats, and crooks, and they will do you in. And this is
what he said in a prayer meeting. And when I
challenged him afterwards, in fact, he repented of it.
But when I challenged him, I found out from him and
others, that this was a fairly regular type of
proverb. In the community, it had been culture arised.
And so while this fellow actually had a real love for
Israel, he just wasn't thinking he conveyed
something.
That was awful. But he didn't think about it,
because he grew up with it.
And so we had to repent of it. And then, of course, be
in the fifth century onwards, there was a Cody
FIDE warning to desist from having any relationships
with Jews, was put in place. See, Jews began to be blamed
for natural disasters, plagues, and other
misfortunes in countries. Centuries later, the Nazis
would state the Jews are our misfortune. So previously,
they were blamed for misfortunes, whether this
that disasters plays. But by the time you get to the
Nazis, the Jews themselves are our misfortune. It just
demonstrates how these anti semitic things get rooted in
lives. And as I said, they become culture arised. So
Christians began to accuse Jews of killing their
children in Passover rituals, or poisoning the
water wells, etc. In the fifth century onwards, this
type of libel, and by the way, it continues to this
day, even concerning covid 19, can you believe it, the
Jews are somehow behind it. And it's terrible. These are
cultural things that have taken root in communities
and Christian communities. through the centuries, Jews
were limited to certain professions and herded into
designated living areas. And so the phenomenon of the
Jewish ghetto began to emerge. So that's what you
have, from the fifth century onwards, and it's not good.
And then we come to the Middle Ages, Jewish
communities actually began to flourish in the Middle
Ages, in countries like Germany, France, and
England, and Jews, by virtue of their love of books,
learning, and diligence, began to occupy places of
influence and importance, and indeed, many became
wealthy. This angered the locals who were infused with
jealousy, which in turn, ignited the age old
accusations of being Christ killers and abominable to
God. All of this inevitably led to expulsions and
restrictions. And so they were expelled from England,
in 1290, from France in 1306. And from Spain in
1492. In many places like Spain, they could avoid
expulsion, only by means of forced conversions to the
Christian faith. In some situations like that of the
Spanish Inquisition. The failure to convert was made
with torture and execution. And then we come to the
Crusades. That is, we talking from 1096 to 1188 of
the Common Era, the rise of Islam in the eighth century,
and it sweeps through the Middle East. North Africa
and Eastern Europe, along the Christian world because
the Muslims had occupied the Holy Land and began to lay
waste the holy Christian sites, including those of
Jerusalem. They were perceived as the enemies of
God, and therefore had to be removed from these
consequently, Pope Urban the second, called for an armed
resistance to the Muslims, and raised an army of 30,000
men to undertake it. This was called the First
Crusade.
Sadly, by this time, the Jews had been so vilified in
Europe and beyond that they were all perceived as the
enemies of God as well. And thus, on the way to the Holy
Land, the Crusader army planted and massacred the
Jews of peyer worms and ments in Germany and many
other places with enthusiastic help of the
local peasantry, the testimony, the testimonies,
my friends in this regard, are simply awful. And if you
read them, it's absolutely dreadful. What they did to
the Jewish communities in Europe as they moved toward
the Holy Land. When the Crusaders finally conquered
Jerusalem, they herded the Jews into the great
synagogue and burned it down. All the while they
stood outside shouting, Christ, we adore the the
First Crusade was followed by two more that took place
in 1147, and 1188. Sadly, the Jews in mind, they
target and the idea of these crusades has remained in
Christian thinking and practice up until our time,
in that many great outdoor evangelistic meetings are
advertised advertised as crusades. Now, there's
nothing wrong with these, by the way. But it's just a
leftover. It's like this culture, right thing, again,
that reaches into history reaches into the future. So
that's something that was so terrible in his destruction
of the Jewish people in Europe, in terms of the
Crusader armies that move through to the Holy Land has
been sort of taken up as a Christian way of thinking
when it comes to having great meetings, like Billy
Graham and many others, and there's nothing wrong with
that. There's nothing anti semitic in them. They just
wonderful big Christian meetings around the world,
but it's just a point that I'm making about how
something gets culture arised. And we use it easily
not thinking of its original implications. Also, it was
in 1215, that the Catholic Church came up with the idea
that the Jews should be recognized by a special
dress code. Nearly 750 years later, Hitler considered
this an appropriate manner by which to identify the
Jews. And that brings us to our eighth point in our
presentation today, and that is the Reformation. Martin
Luther his attempt to reform the Catholic Church, though
failed, that, in fact, spark and amazing revival of
biblical truth that led to the establishment of the
protesting churches, otherwise known as
Protestants. So his attempt at inwardly reforming the
Catholic Church actually failed. The Catholic Church
closed against his suggested theses that he hammered on
the door and, and forced many of the Christians who
were longing for major change. And, as we call it,
reformation, to leave the church and set up these
protesting churches, which today, we call Protestants.
This was an evangelical revival, with an emphasis on
sola scriptura. In other words, the Word of God only.
And that is that the church should only be built on what
the Bible of both testaments has to teach us and nothing
else. The Bible only the benefit to the Jewish world
in this regard should not be under estimated. That's
important. The benefit to the Jewish world in this
regard should not be underestimated, even though
Luther in his latter years became an anti Semite,
because it leaves People back to the Bible, which
placed the Jews in a very different light to that
which the Catholic Church had presented them. And a
number of things, aided this, first of all, the
invention in 1492, of the printing press. So here for
the first time,
the Bible could be placed in the hands of the common
people. So, the translation of the Bible into the
language of the common people, by people like
Wickliffe, Tyndale, and has, all of which were tortured
and killed by the Catholics. But this suddenly opened up
the Word of God, to so many people that had never read
it or even set eyes upon it before the founding of the
printing press. And this also led to the birthing of
independent evangelical churches that began to
embrace the Jews with love and appreciation. And this
is absolutely important for us to understand in the
light of Christian anti semitism, that once the Word
of God got into the hands of the common man, attitudes
began to change rapidly. Having said this, however,
Luther who was deeply indebted to Jewish rabbis,
for his expositions of the Hebrew Scriptures eventually
turned against them. And in his book against the Jews
and the lies, he advocated for their destruction,
abuse, expulsion, and vilification. Indeed, Luther
called the papacy nervous referring to the papacy to
the Pope, but the whole structure he called it the
devil's synagogue, which carried awful associations.
Concerning the Jews, of course, another culture
arised issue, you see how important this cultural
issue is, that you can refer to something else as an
abomination. But in doing so, you use anti semitic
terminology that continues to place the Jewish people
in a bad light. Naturally, these writings eventually
found their way into the Lutheran Church of Germany
and thus, again, infected the people with a disdain
and hatred of the Jews, the culture is zation of Jew
hatred continued, and would have an awful would have
awful consequences for the Jews. In the 20th century,
it's important for us to know that this issue, my
friends, of anti semitic culturalization, has to be
taken on the nation of Germany would easily accept
Hitler's rantings against the Jews, and turned a blind
eye to their abuse and murder. on an industrial
scale, that's how serious this issue became. So we
have another question. Where did Martin Luther go wrong?
Well, first of all, let's say this, that he did bring
a remarkable transformation to the churches doctrinal
positions. And he, in terms of the church, restored the
foundational teaching, which is justification by faith.
But you have to understand that contextually, he came
out of the Catholic Church, contextually, he knew of the
doctrine of contempt, contextually, he had this
whole thing of anti Jewishness and the
culturalization of that, and in repealing many false
doctrinal positions, he never went far enough. And,
in fact, it's true that he did not embrace the doctrine
of contempt eventually, but he did see the Jewish people
as a rejected nation because he bought into what we call
reformed or replacement theology. The church for him
was the Israel of God, period. So this is is where
Luther went wrong. But of course, he did ignite
something that was quite incredible. And that was
sola scriptura. And that brings us to our ninth
point, pogroms restorationists and pyatters
of the 16th century and beyond.
While Jews were still held in contempt by the Catholic
Church, and some Protestant churches, the seeds of a new
day were being sold by a, the pious artistic movements
of Germany, Scandinavia, and England. So have you ever
heard of the moravians, the Moravian Church, the
Moravian missionary church, it had more people in the
four corners of the earth than they did, actually,
eventually, in Germany, they fled from the Czech
Republic, or it's called that today. And they ended
up in Germany, and they call on the people, to love the
Jewish people and to pray for them. These are
remarkable movements. And then you have industry God,
the Puritans of England, they were responsible for
the famous King James Version of the Bible, the
most beautiful translation of the Bible, ever done, and
ever will be done, nothing will ever compare with it.
That is the King James Version of the Bible, they
actually spoke Hebrew. And once in power, they reversed
the expulsion of the Jews from the country in 1290.
They were destined to become the founding fathers of
America. And people don't know it, but it's absolutely
true. When they founded the original States of America,
the pilgrim fathers, they actually wanted the official
language of this new founding entity to be
Hebrew. They so much love the Jewish people, and the
Hebrew language, but they gave birth to a nation that
has given remarkable freedom, refuge and equal
standing to the Jewish people. So this is a
remarkable story that comes directly out of the
reformation, that birth, this idea of the Bible only.
And these groups went further, then Luther, and
rejected anti semitism, you have the wisdom and revival
that eventually would spread to all the world, which was
sympathetic to the Jewish people. And its leaders even
advocated for the restoration to the land of
Israel. Charles wisely the great hymn writer, wrote
hymns, in fact, about the return of the Jewish people
to the land of Israel, because they saw it as a
biblical truth. They understood the scriptures in
their context. They didn't spiritualize them if they
were literally in context, they took it like that. And
if they were spiritual, they took it like that, but they
were quite amazing. Then you have many of the historical
churches, however, remained entrenched in the antipathy
to the Jewish people, and asserted what had now become
replacement theology. This sadly continues until this
day, and is at the very heart of organizations like
the World Council of Churches. In their
continuing effort to disinvest the Jews from
Jerusalem and the biblical homeland. They made the most
vile anti semitic statements recently. And that brings us
to the 19th century. While the restoration of England
were calling for a Jewish state in the Holy Land, in
France, a famed French military officer who had
fought valiantly for his country, was falsely accused
in 1894 of passing military secrets to Germany, even
though everyone knew that he was innocent, but he was a
Jew. And so he became a scapegoat. And his name was
Captain Alfred Dreyfus. His straw was covered by a
Jewish journalist from piano called Theodore hurtle. And
he was so outraged that he recognized that the hatred
of the Jews in Europe was so entrenched that his
culturalization
that the Jews needed to establish a stake in Israel
as the only means by which they would find refuge
strength and continuity. Dreyfus was wrongly
convicted of treason, and given a life sentence to be
carried out on Devil's Island in French Guiana.
hertzel then wrote the you didn't start, that is the
Jewish state, and became the father of the modern day
nation of Israel. That a trial and conviction of an
innocent man could take place only because he was
Jewish, demonstrated how deeply anti semitic anti
semitism had penetrated Christian France. And being
a Catholic nation, the doctrine of contempt
perpetuated this important to know that the doctrine of
content perpetuated this idea that the Jews only
existed to be a people as an example of the judgment and
the curse of God. A disturbing part of the 19th
century 1881 1906 was the pogroms against the Jews
that erupted in Russia. These were savage and
terrible, and carried out by the Russian Orthodox Church
was willing help, again from the peasantry, on Christian
feast days after going to church, particularly on
Easter that people would rampage through Jewish
communities plundering and murdering at will. It was
shortly after this in 1919, that an anti semitic
document called the Protocols of the Elders of
Zion, appeared on the scene. It was a Russian forgery
that asserted that the Jews were behind a plan to seize
world domination. And sadly, it is thought circulated
today, ns field anti semitism in many parts of
the world, and that brings us to the 20th century. With
the arrival of the 20th century, Europe was
certainly played by systemic anti semitism. It was always
bubbling under the surface of systems of society that
appear to be modern, sophisticated, and very
cultured. This was particularly true of Germany
and Eastern Europe. Also, the hatred of nations was
real and undetected, and the events in Sarajevo whereby
arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, which led
to the outbreak of the First World War demonstrates that
so there was a real hatred between nations. At the same
time, Germany lost the war. And Hitler and his thugs
attributed this defeat to the Jews. That is
historically true, he was enraged at them, and
vilified them at every turn, openly, and in big rallies.
The German population in here this and even
enthusiastically welcomed it. The German fury spoke
openly of his hatred for the Jews, and outlined his
intentions with them in his book mine comfort, which he
wrote in 1925. say if Jabotinsky saw the writing
on the wall and went through Europe in 1936, especially
Eastern Europe, calling upon the Jews to leave and return
to Palestine. he famously said, quote, liquidate
yourselves from Europe or Europe or liquidate you.
Sadly, he was largely ignored, because the outward
sophistication of Europe was enlightened and civilized.
And people didn't believe that what he was saying was
true. Jabotinsky knew and understood that the seeds of
hatred against the Jews that had been sown for centuries
by the church would bring about a calamity of huge
proportions.
Undoubtedly, Hitler's rise to power and his
determination to exterminate the Jews of Europe, which
found expression in the Holocaust. During the Second
World War, whereby 6 million of them were murdered was a
catastrophe of huge proportions. The Nazis were
not Christians. But the church, through the
centuries provided the climate, which made the
Holocaust possible. Jews were always fair game. And
so the Christians turned a blind eye and largely did
nothing. The shockwaves of this horror were felt
throughout the world. And finally, Christians began to
recognize and awake from the awful past. And the Second
Vatican Council held in 1964, a document was
produced called nostra Tata, meaning in our time, which
finally reversed the doctrine of contempt. It
came centuries, to light. It is because of this period,
uniquely, that your shame exists today. And we need to
know that as a reminder of a memorial, to the dignity and
the lives of millions of Jewish people and children
who were murdered in the Second World War, brings me
to my last question. What is the nature of emerging anti
semitism in the church today? That is, is it
theological by nature? Or is there something else
driving? Good question. Actually, things have
changed. And there's a sort of a new anti semitism, of
course, they are churches that are still gripped in
what we call replacement theology. The idea that the
church alone constitutes the people of God, and that the
Jewish people have no destiny under God, which
Paul affirms, they do have. So there is still around,
but in fact, it is not as strong today as it was
before. And there is a new form of anti semitism
emerging. And to some degree, it's impacting the
evangelical churches, largely speaking, the
evangelical churches of the world. And the movements,
they're too attached, do not have an anti semitic record,
like those of the historical churches of Europe, but
they're all cracks in the wall. And these cracks are
getting bigger and bigger with every passing day. And
it has to do with this, the new anti semitism is growing
out of the seeds of what we call the social justice
issues. And this is overtaking churches, and
denominations who don't hold to replacement theology,
they reject it. And they may even see a future for the
Jewish people in the land of Israel, but they have taken
on board solely a Palestinian narrative of the
conflict in the region. And so you see more and more
Christian movements and churches taking on the
Palestinian cause. And,
and this has brought forth anti semitism, in many ways.
And this is increasing. And it's all being built on what
we call the social justice issues. So it's a different
theological foundation. And it essentially states that
the Jews have trampled down upon the Palestinian people.
They are the or they are the new people who are being
oppressed. And out of that comes the lie that Israel is
an apartheid state. And then you have the BDS movement
and all of these things, and they are penetrating many
Christian communities. And while we understand that
this is a long lasting conflict, and we appreciate
the sufferings of people in many respects, it is it is
true That out of this is growing an alarming anti
semitism. And it's something that will have to be
addressed urgently by people who understand the real
issues of the region. God bless you. Thank you so much
for listening
shim style today historic partnership with the global
evangelical Christian community. Tell me a little
bit about the history of how did it start, you played a
central role in that.
When I started working at the adverse shame, I came to
know where Malcolm had angry get to know each other and
we started meeting each other from time to time and
talking, we established a partnership between the
adverse shaved Christian friends of Yad Vashem, the
Christian desk of Yad Vashem and the International
Christian embassy. It's about the support that we
need to get from the Christian world, which is
very important to for me the admission to be supported by
by the Christian world, but it's also part of our common
mission to educate the world
what I see as Muslim awful to Christians and how can
Christians support your question?
So Kristin support here vishram in many different
ways, helping us to bring the soldiers we spoke about
the importance educating the soldiers, educating us, Jews
and non Jews were educating their 1000 non Jews or
coming to visit you even put a rubber seal down. Also
Branca, ARBs, Hill to educate them. We need the
support to continue with Christian seminars that we
have here. We would like to have more seminars, we would
like to bring young gay Christian leaders they to
transform in order to end where they will take a major
role in their communities that they will have
knowledge and understanding what why it's important what
is the role of follow cost in shaping the identity of
their communities. So that can be a very important way
to support the adverse shame.
You know, shy knowing you are now for all those seals
I think we know each other more than 50 years. You are
the son of Holocaust survivors who could have had
any reason to say I didn't want to have anything to do
with Christians anymore, especially chairman's like I
am and the warmth and embrace that we feel here on
this institution and the knowledge coming spirits
from Christians around the world who stand with them
and to receive their support. That's amazing. And
I really want to congratulate the adoption
and you personally, for this visionary voice that you're
doing here.
Our major role is to ensure the legacy of the survivors
that's what they wanted, they established Yad Vashem
followings all across the survivors established the
adverse shape and they want the adverse shame to be a
place that will carry on the legacy for eternity.
Cheyenne Ellison amazing passage that your boss input
on the entry and exit gate of Yad Vashem, what does it
mean for you and for Yad Vashem?
When we did this a work of building Yad Vashem yourself
or Sophie what should be the final message when someone
is coming out of the adverse shame? And we thought that
the message from the book of Zakat from the prophets of
Zakat is the right words because I will put my
breasts into you, and you shall live again, I will set
you upon your own soil. It's the right message when you
come out of the adverse shame,
Sharia. Thank you so much for having us here today.
This was an amazing day we learned so much, and thanks
for this incredible partnership.
Thank you for coming to our bar.
God bless you. God
bless you.
Bye bye. Here. We have been confronted with the Abbott's
of the human heart, but at the same time we met amazing
people that are building bridges. between Jews and
Christians. As Christians, we have the serious
responsibility to support and to speak up for Assad
and for the Jewish people. We cannot afford to be
silent again. To learn more about the ways that the ice
j is actively fighting anti semitism, and how you can be
a part of this meaningful work, go to ice j.org slash
Yad Vashem