President Trump is planning to send as many as 15,000 troops to our southern border -- far more than the 8,475 American troops deployed in Afghanistan as of May 2018. These will reinforce the 2,100 National Guard troops and 18,600 border patrol agents already there. All this military might is being deployed to stop a few thousand -- and ever shrinking numbers-- of men, women, and children seeking freedom and a safe haven. And what's behind this national emergency? According to the Pittsburgh killer, "a Jewish conspiracy."
Today in America, anti-Semitism is on the rise. 2017 showed a steep 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents over the previous year, according to Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Then there's the lingering belief among 26 percent of Americans, according to the most recent survey, that Jews collectively are responsible for the death of Jesus -- a bizarre accusation that flies in the face of the fact that virtually all of Jesus' followers were Jews and without his Jewish followers, there never would have been Christianity.
Most anti-Semites know nothing of the Jewish roots and foundation of Christianity. They are dangerously unaware or refuse to believe that the synagogue was the spiritual home of Jesus. And thus they do not understand that an attack on a synagogue is also an attack on Jesus.
With this kind of ignorance and hatred abounding, is it really a surprise that violence against Jews has resurfaced?
(Article changed on November 10, 2018 at 05:12)
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