By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
Thrive News Co.Thrive News Co.
0

No products in the cart.

Notification Show More
Font ResizerAa
  • Home
  • About
  • Church
    ChurchShow More
    divine-protection-wayne-michigan
    Gunman Shot Dead After Opening Fire Outside Michigan Church
    June 23, 2025
    Aid to the Church in Need | UK: Catholic charity shines a light on Nigeria massacres in UK Parliament Images may be subject to
    USCIRF Renews Urgent Call After Massacre at Catholic Mission
    June 21, 2025
    che-ahn-for-governor
    BREAKING: Pastor Ché Ahn Announces Run for Governor of California
    June 20, 2025
    we-the-people
    Is There a Wall of Separation Between Church and State?
    June 19, 2025
    Indiana and Iowa have joined the growing list of states mandating pro-life fetal development videos like Baby Olivia in schools. Over 3 million students will see the humanity of unborn children.
    More States Mandate ‘Baby Olivia’ and Fetal Development Videos in Schools
    June 18, 2025
  • Media
    MediaShow More
    tyler-perry-studios
    Tyler Perry Sued for $260 Million by Actor Derek Dixon Over Sexual Assault Allegations
    June 21, 2025
    arnold-the-view
    Arnold Schwarzenegger: “America Made Me”—And Immigrants Must Follow the Law
    June 18, 2025
    fake-news-issues
    Truth Hijacked: How Fake News and Political Bias Corrupted the Press
    April 30, 2025
    karoline-leavitt
    Karoline Leavitt Ignores Reporters Who Put This In Their Email Signature
    April 13, 2025
    The King of Kings, an animated biblical epic, sets a record with $14.6M in presales, poised to surpass The Prince of Egypt as the biggest opening for an animated biblical film. Featuring Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, and Oscar Isaac, it opens in 3,200+ theaters this Friday.
    ‘The King of Kings’ Poised to Break Records as Biggest Animated Biblical Film Opening Ever
    April 11, 2025
  • Government
    GovernmentShow More
    friend-to-israel
    U.S.’s Decisive Action Against Iran Solidies Trump Legacy as the Greatest Friend to Israel in Modern Times
    June 23, 2025
    iran-strikes-israel-us-nuclear-strikes
    U.S. Devastates Iran’s Nuclear Program in Precision, Historic Strike
    June 22, 2025
    Trump announces U.S. Bombed Iran’s Nuclear Sites, Declares “Fordow is Gone” and Calls for Peace in Stunning Truth Social Post
    BREAKING: U.S. Carried Out Full-Scale Bombing of Three Iranian Nuclear Sites
    June 22, 2025
    us-customs-immigration
    The Rule of Law and the Crisis of Illegal Immigration
    June 20, 2025
    gavin-newsom
    Inside the Scathing Five-Part Report on Gavin Newsom’s Contradictions
    June 17, 2025
  • Arts
    • Sports
    ArtsShow More
    beach-boys-brian-wilson
    ‘I’d Give Everything I’ve Ever Done to Know that My Dad Loved Me’
    June 16, 2025
    michael-tait-grace
    Michael Tait’s Public Confession: A Christian Music Icon Confronts His Past
    June 11, 2025
    tim-allen
    Actor Tim Allen’s Faith Journey
    June 6, 2025
    Comedian Russell Brand, recently vocal about his Christian faith, faces rape and sexual assault charges tied to alleged incidents from 1999-2005. Get the latest on the case.
    Russell Brand Charged with Sexual Crimes Amid Public Faith Journey
    April 4, 2025
    Disney’s 2025 Snow White remake, with Rachel Zegler as a self-reliant heroine and CGI-rendered magical creatures replacing the dwarfs, stumbles into a “woke” wilderness. Explore its weak box office debut and the backlash over abandoning the classic’s charm.
    Disney’s Snow White Remake: A Woke Detour from its Original Storyline
    March 23, 2025
  • Education
    EducationShow More
    california-education-sex-ed-on-notice
    Federal Officials Warn California to Cut Gender Ideology or Lose Funding
    June 23, 2025
    graduation-speech
    Valedictorian’s Faith-Filled Speech Triumphs Over Censorship Attempt
    May 28, 2025
    harvard
    DHS Revokes Harvard’s Ability To Host Foreign Students
    May 23, 2025
    oklahoma-schools-supreme-court
    Supreme Court Blocks Oklahoma’s Taxpayer-Funded Religious Charter School
    May 22, 2025
    grand-canyon-university
    Grand Canyon University Cleared of $37.7M Fine by Education Department
    May 19, 2025
  • Family
    FamilyShow More
    gender-confusion
    Child Transitioning is Not Progress, It’s a Tragedy
    June 19, 2025
    supreme-court-ruling-transgender
    Supreme Court Blocks Transgender Treatment for Minors
    June 18, 2025
    miss-north-florida
    Pageant Winner Stripped of Crown After Refusing to Redefine “Female”
    June 3, 2025
    #dontmesswithourkids
    Mayday USA Movement Presses Forward Despite Violence in Seattle, Pressure in Los Angeles
    June 3, 2025
    boys-to-men
    Raising Sons Who Won’t Be Swept Away: Forming Character in a Changing World
    May 24, 2025
  • More
    • Podcast
    • Advertising
    • Agency
    • Invest
  • Listings
    • Business Directory
    • Add Listing
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
Reading: Now is your time to denounce antisemitism
Share
Font ResizerAa
Thrive News Co.Thrive News Co.
0
  • Home
  • Church
  • Media
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Directory
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
Search
  • Home
  • About
  • Categories
    • Church
    • Media
    • Sports
    • Education
    • Family
    • Movies
    • Business
  • Join Us
  • Advertising
  • Directory
  • Donate
Have an existing account? Sign In
Follow US
  • Advertise
  • About
  • Search Home
  • Search Result
  • All Listings
  • Single Category
  • Single Location
  • Single Tag
  • Author Profile
  • Dashboard
  • Registration
  • Login
  • Checkout
  • Payment Receipt
  • Transaction Failure
  • Job Apply Form
  • Select Your Plan
  • Messaging Terms & Conditions
  • Sign up free!
  • Directory Checkout
  • Advertising
  • News Summary
  • Christian News Feed
  • Sign In
  • Sign In
  • Sign In
  • Refund and Returns Policy
  • Refund and Returns Policy
© 2024 THRIVE! News Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
Thrive News Co. > Blog > Church > Now is your time to denounce antisemitism
Church

Now is your time to denounce antisemitism

Dr. Michael Brown
Last updated: April 30, 2024 4:28 pm
By Dr. Michael Brown 10 Min Read
Share
thrive-news-israel-support
SHARE

It’s time for Christians to speak up 


As followers of Jesus, we are often grieved over the compromise and cowardice of previous generations of American Christians. With righteous indignation, we say, “Had I lived in the days of slavery or segregation, I would have taken a stand. I would have spoken up!” In the same way, we decry the compromise and cowardice of European Christians during the Holocaust, stating with deep conviction, “I would have been like Dietrich Bonhoeffer! I would have acted like Corrie Ten Boom!” In the process, we condemn our own compromise and cowardice today.

Contents
It’s time for Christians to speak up History repeating itselfHow can Christians be silent?A frontal assault on Israel is happening nowTake a stand for us

This is reminiscent of the Lord’s words to the religious hypocrites of His day, when He said, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!” (Matthew 23:29–32)

History repeating itself


Not many days later, some of these same men were complicit in the death of the Son of God, the preeminent Prophet sent to Israel. Today, when university protesters celebrate the death of Jews, shouting, “We are Hamas,” it is time for Christians across the nation to speak up on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people.

Today, as these same protesters chant, “Hamas make us proud, kill another soldier now,” Christians must shout even louder, “This must stop on our campuses, and it must stop now.” The New York Post noted that, “One Jewish Columbia University student was repeatedly kicked in the stomach during the protests, and an agitator reportedly told her to ‘kill yourself.’

“Billionaire Bill Ackman posted about the protests on X, asking, ‘How would @Columbia respond if the students took over campus in support of the KKK and called for the genocide of other ethnic minorities? Would @Columbia continue to support the demonstrations on the basis of a commitment to free speech or would the University’s code of Conduct suddenly have operative impact?’” According to the Post, another Jewish student at Columbia said that “anti-Israel protesters snatched and burned his Israeli flag, then struck him in the face with rocks during campus unrest over the weekend.”

Other Jewish students, and at least one Jewish professor, Israeli-born professor Shai Davidai, were actually blocked from entering the campus. In fact, the moment Prof. Davidai discovered his entry card had been deactivated was captured on video. He later posted on X, “Earlier today, @Columbia University refused to let me onto campus. Why? Because they cannot protect my safety as a Jewish professor. This is 1938.” Things got to the point that, on Sunday, the campus’s Orthodox rabbi issued a call for all Jewish students to leave campus for their own safety – and this, just one day before the eve of Passover. And all this, on just one of a growing number of campuses marred by ugly, anti-Jewish protests.

How can Christians be silent?


Christian friends, this is happening today, in our country, on our campuses, on our watch. How can we be silent?

Earlier this month, I was visiting some Indian Christians who live in Texas, showing them footage of the protests outside the Israeli embassy that I encountered last month.

Their son, a college student said, “That’s how my university looks.” This was in Texas!

His parents added, “This is what’s happening in our younger children’s schools too.”

I ask again: How can we be silent?

I ask the same question of my Christian friends in Europe, where your Jewish neighbors are increasingly fearing for their lives. (For documentation from England, see here. For Germany, see here. For France, see here.)

Remember that these protests are not a simple matter of fair-minded people raising concerns about the suffering of non-combatant Palestinians as Israel wages war against Hamas.

A frontal assault on Israel is happening now


No. These are frontal assaults on Israel as a nation and ugly attacks on the Jewish people as a whole. These are calls for the death of the evil occupiers and for the elimination of the wicked colonizers. These are rallies celebrating the demonic actions of Hamas.

After the Holocaust, Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, one of the few Lithuanian rabbis who survived, wrote: “Another shocking surprise for us was the position taken by the Lithuanian populace-our ‘good’ Christian neighbors. There was literally not one gentile among the Christians of Slobodka who openly defended Jew at a time when Slobodka ‘s ten thousand Jews, with whom they had lived together all their lives, were threatened with the most horrible pogrom imaginable.”

Where are these “good Christian neighbors” today?

More forcefully still, Jewish philosopher Eliezer Berkovits wrote, “After nineteen centuries of Christianity, the extermination of six million Jews, among them one-and-a-half million children, carried out in cold blood in the very heart of Christian Europe, encouraged by the criminal silence of virtually all Christendom, including that of an infallible Holy Father in Rome, was the natural culmination of this bankruptcy. A straight line leads from the first act of oppression against the Jews and Judaism in the fourth century to the holocaust in the twentieth.”

Take a stand for us


These words may sting, but they are true, at least in terms of professing Christians. Why is it only the tiniest minority who, historically, have said to their Jewish neighbors and colleagues, “If they come after you, they will have come after us as well”?

With good reason Basilea Schlink, the courageous Lutheran woman who stood up to the Nazis, penned these words after the Holocaust: “We are personally to blame. We all have to admit that if we, the entire Christian community, had stood up as one man and if, after the burning of the synagogues [on Krystallnacht, November 9, 1938], we had gone out on the streets and voiced our disapproval, rung the church bells, and somehow boycotted the actions of the S.S., the Devil’s vassals would probably not have been at such liberty to pursue their evil schemes. But we lacked the ardor of love – love that is never passive, love that cannot bear it when its fellowmen are in misery, particularly when they are subjected to such appalling treatment and tortured to death. Indeed, if we had loved God, we would not have endured seeing those houses of God set ablaze; and holy, divine wrath would have filled our souls. . . . Oh, that we as Germans and as Christians would stand aghast and cry out ever anew, ‘What have we done!’ At every further evidence of our guilt may we repeat the cry.”

It is my fervent prayer that Christians across America and around the world would not be silent today, would not lack that “ardor of love,” would not have to say in retrospect, “Why were we so indifferent in the face of such evil?”

Today, when your life is not at risk for standing with the Jewish people and when concentration camps, torture, and starvation are not awaiting you for sheltering Jews, today is the time to stand up in every way you know how, from social media to the streets and from your place of business to the campuses, raising your voices to say to the Jewish people, “You are not alone! We are standing with you! Never again!”

Can I count you in, today?

Then do whatever you can, whenever you can, wherever you can, however you can. And by all means, regardless of cost or consequence, do not be silent!

You Might Also Like

Gunman Shot Dead After Opening Fire Outside Michigan Church

U.S.’s Decisive Action Against Iran Solidies Trump Legacy as the Greatest Friend to Israel in Modern Times

USCIRF Renews Urgent Call After Massacre at Catholic Mission

BREAKING: Pastor Ché Ahn Announces Run for Governor of California

Is There a Wall of Separation Between Church and State?

TAGGED:antisemitismChristiansJews

Sign Up For Daily Newsletter

Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.

By signing up, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time.
Share This Article
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Threads Email Print
What do you think?
Love0
Sad0
Happy0
Sleepy0
Angry0
Dead0
Wink0
Surprise0
By Dr. Michael Brown
Follow:
Dr. Michael Brown is the host of the nationally syndicated The Line of Fire radio show. He is the author of over 40 books, including Can You be Gay and Christian; Our Hands are Stained with Blood; and Seizing the Moment. Dr. Brown is dedicated to equipping you with hope, engaging your faith, and empowering you to become a voice for Moral Sanity and Spiritual Clarity.
Previous Article person holding barbell The false gospel: Jesus is the quick fix, just plug in
Next Article mandisa-death Tragic loss: Singer Mandisa found deceased at home
Donate Now

Search Articles

- Advertisement -
Ad image
- Advertisement -
Ad image

Latest News

california-education-sex-ed-on-notice
Federal Officials Warn California to Cut Gender Ideology or Lose Funding
Education
iran-strikes-israel-us-nuclear-strikes
U.S. Devastates Iran’s Nuclear Program in Precision, Historic Strike
Government
Trump announces U.S. Bombed Iran’s Nuclear Sites, Declares “Fordow is Gone” and Calls for Peace in Stunning Truth Social Post
BREAKING: U.S. Carried Out Full-Scale Bombing of Three Iranian Nuclear Sites
Government
cultural-marxism
Fallen Idols and the Inversion of Virtue: How the Left Made a Religion Out of Degeneracy
Op-Ed
- Advertisement -
Ad image
Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly!

- Advertisement -
Ad image
- Advertisement -
Ad image

Stay Connected

FacebookLike
TwitterFollow
InstagramFollow
YoutubeSubscribe
LinkedInFollow
TruthFollow

You Might Also Like

Indiana and Iowa have joined the growing list of states mandating pro-life fetal development videos like Baby Olivia in schools. Over 3 million students will see the humanity of unborn children.
Church

More States Mandate ‘Baby Olivia’ and Fetal Development Videos in Schools

June 18, 2025
baptize-america-newport-beach-california
Church

Baptize America Unites Nation and World in Historic Faith Revival

June 9, 2025
A street preacher was arrested for sharing the Gospel near Broadway—but a judge’s swift dismissal of the case is being hailed as a First Amendment win and a warning to cities targeting evangelists.
Church

NYC Judge Dismisses Charges Against Street Preacher in Win for Religious Liberty

May 30, 2025
gospel-conference
Church

Europe’s Largest Evangelism Gathering in 25 Years Set to Ignite Berlin

May 27, 2025
Previous Next

Daily Report

Quick Links

About

Advertising

Subscriptions

Affiliates

Directory

Links

Linktree

Marketing

 

Thrive News Co.Thrive News Co.
Follow US
© 2024 Thrive News Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
thrive-news-studio
Subscribe Today

Subscribe to our newsletter and never miss the latest news, podcasts etc..

Zero spam, Unsubscribe at any time.
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Lost your password?