    Jews for and against Jesus
    By Israel Adam Shamir

    Jews are evil, and there is a special place in hell just for them. I’d
    say to them: Believe whatever you want. Practice whatever you preach.
    Just stay the hell away from us.

    Do not rush to denounce me, do not send this piece post-haste to your
    local branch of ADL or LICRA, do not send police to my home. I did not
    quote Adolf Hitler, no worry. This was a direct quote from Haaretz
    newspaper, from an article by the newspaper columnist Bradley Burston.
    With one omission: “for Jesus”. The evil ones, according to Haaretz, are
    only the ‘Jews for Jesus’, who should be sent to hell. ‘Jews against
    Jesus’ are perfectly loveable.

    Burston’s outburst of hate deserves to be analysed. Jews are good, he
    says; what makes some Jews evil is their love to Christ. Ergo, Christ is
    really hateful in the eyes of Burston; and apparently the most liberal
    newspaper in Israel finds nothing objectionable in this line. I bet the
    Christian supporters of Israel also will wipe the spit off their face
    and claim it was just a spot of rain. The Pope and Kofi Annan issued no
    reproach, and the Congress did not declare a day of mourning, as they do
    whenever Jews are mentioned in less than favourable context. The very
    Christian president Bush did not mention this hate talk to Prime
    Minister Olmert, when they met in the White House. The newspapers of the
    West were busy spreading lies about Iran, and paid no attention to the
    assault on the faith of their silent majorities.

    Burston dissimulates somewhat to cover his tracks. Instead of saying
    outright: “Yes, I hate Jesus and despise Christians”, he looks for
    another fault of the “Jews for Jesus”: they carry out a missionary
    activity. Proselytizing is persecution, he whines; do not preach to
    Jews. If “proselytizing is persecution”, why does the Jewish state spend
    a lot of their taxpayers’ money (and it includes taxes collected from
    Christians, too) to proselytise and convert the Christians into Jewish
    faith? There is an official state program to convert 200,000 Russian
    Christians in Israel into the faith of “Jews against Jesus”. The program
    is headed by a government official, and is quite active.

    Moreover, if “proselytizing is persecution”, why “Jews against Jesus”
    carry out their anti-Christian propaganda from New York to Moscow? If
    you do not like your beliefs being undermined, why do you undermine the
    beliefs of others? Indeed, Jews often say they do not proselytise. It is
    true up to a point: while Christians want to turn Jews into their
    brothers-Christians, the Jews do not want to turn others into
    full-fledged Jews, they are quite satisfied if others are profaned and
    turned away from Christ. And they work for it: they sue churches, spread
    horrible stories about paedophile priests, ban Christmas, propagate the
    Gospel of Judas. They do it under the cover of “secularism”, which is
    but a gentile-facing Judaism, a form of Mammon-worship. “Just stay the
    hell away from us”, calls Burston to the ‘Jews for Jesus’. Well, should
    not he give this advice to his coreligionists, ‘Jews against Jesus’, and
    march them back to ghetto?

    Burston bewails: “It's hard enough to be Jewish as it is. It's tough to
    be Jewish if you're secular, and it's no less difficult if you're
    religious. It's tough to be Jewish in the Diaspora if you live among
    non-Jews. It's tough to live there if you live among lots of Jews.”
    Well, it is tough because it is unnatural. It’s tough to live believing
    that everybody hates you and wants to kill you. It is tough to deny
    Christ because His sun warms us all. It is tough and it is unnecessary,
    like sleeping on sharp nails. People who describe themselves as “Jews”
    are also human; they also need Christ, and His denial is much more
    harmful for their souls than any denial of holocaust can be.

    “Respect this religion (of Jews against Jesus), let this religion live”,
    says Burston in his sequel. No way. Your “Jewish religion” which
    includes “secular Jews” is not a religion. “Secular Jew” is as
    impossible as “secular Christian” but its implication is much worse: if
    an observant Jew still believes in God, a secular Jew is a man who
    placed his ethnic origin in stead of God; a man whose superiority
    complex of chosenness is not mitigated by meekness required by the
    faith. Why is it not enough for a secular person to be what he is, an
    Israeli in Israel, an American in America, a Russian in Russia? Isn’t it
    just a desire to be special, when one is not? Of them, the Gospel says:
    “they claim they are Jews but they are not”. There is nothing inherently
    wrong in the descendents of Jews: after parting with their superiority
    spirit, they can become as good as any, and it is up to each one to
    decide whether to claim that one is a Jew or just an ordinary Israeli,
    American, Russian.

    In Israel, as elsewhere, more and more people stop to count themselves
    among ‘the Jews’ and join the nation they live amongst. An important
    Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua and the philosopher Menahem Brinker noticed
    that the Palestinians are part of their nation much more so than the
    Jews of Manhattan or Chicago - the connection with whom, in their eyes,
    is a thing of the past. It is a beginning of an independence movement:
    until now, the state of Israel is a colony of World Jewry, but we feel
    that this umbilical cord should be severed as it stops the development
    of the new nation, which includes all inhabitants of the Holy Land and
    excludes the Jews elsewhere.

    The Holy Land can work wonders. An American Jew cried to Lord saying: “I
    have sent my son to Jerusalem and he turned to Christ”, and the Lord
    replied: “It happened to My Son, too”. The old joke may become true on a
    large scale, as the Jewish state in Palestine proves ethical
    impossibility and undesirability of Jewish paradigm. All gloomy
    prophecies of anti-Judaic thinkers were materialised here. The goyim are
    locked up, starved and bombed in this window-case of Jewish generosity,
    Gaza strip. When the Jews do not lobby for nuking Iran, they shoot at
    Lebanon. The foreign workers have zero rights, are frequently deported
    and even their meagre salaries are often not paid to them. Israeli
    workers’ lot is not enviable, either: while landlords, usurers and stock
    exchange players operate tax-free, labour is taxed to brim. The Jewish
    state is good for dentists, money dealers and rabbis; it is not good for
    the rest, because it is a Jewish state.

    As for Burston’s request for respect, it is impossible for us to respect
    your “religion” that teaches hate to Christ and Christians. Long before
    Inquisition, in the first century, the Jews incorporated a special
    birkat haminim, Anathema to Christians in their daily prayer; it is said
    even now by pious Jews every morning. T’is better to die than to be
    healed by a Christian, ruled the Mishna. Talmud improved on it and
    allowed to kill Christians, especially ex-Jews, at any occasion, and
    turned it into a commandment. Maimonides, the great luminary of Judaism,
    turned simple hate into the whole system: a Jew should not follow
    Christians, should not bow to His image, should not make His image for
    oneself or for others, but a Jew should burn down a Christian city, and
    never allow to rebuild it. Furthermore, a Jew has to dislike an active
    Christian (a “misleader”), not to refrain from hating a Christian, not
    to save a Christian missionary from death, not to credit a missionary
    with any merits, not to refrain from doing bad to misleaders etc. To our
    luck, the Jews of our days do not follow these commandments anymore than
    they observe the ban on shaving their beards.

    Still, Burston chose “Jews for Jesus” as his favourite object of hate.
    Indeed, Jewish hatred to Christ and Christians is deeply entrenched, but
    their hatred to their former brethren who defected from the gang, takes
    the proverbial cherry. The South-Eastern corner of Temple Mount
    enclosure retains a gruesome memory of an encounter between Jews for and
    against Jesus. In year AD 65, some thirty years after the Resurrection,
    love to Christ made great inroads into the community of hate, and
    Burstons of that time decided to deal with Jews for Jesus the only way
    they know. They invited Jacob, the Brother of the Lord, (apparently he
    was a son of Joseph from an early marriage and grew up together with
    Jesus) and asked him to explain to people that Jesus was not the Messiah
    nor Son of God. Jacob agreed to appear before the people. A huge crowd
    gathered on the Temple grounds, waiting for the much publicised
    appearance of Jacob who was well-known for his saintly ways. His knees
    were like those of a camel for he knelt a lot, said the people. He
    fasted and prayed all the time for Jerusalem and its unruly folk. Jacob
    was also the bishop of the Church of Jerusalem, and a man who still
    tried to be a Jew and a Christian in the same time. The priests asked
    for quiet, and called Jacob to witness. And the old saintly bishop came
    up and witnessed: Jesus is Christ. Burstons of the time roared: these
    Jews for Jesus are evil; and dropped the old man down from the Temple
    corner. As he did not die immediately, they went down and killed him.
    That was the end of ‘Jews for Jesus’, for centuries to come.

    Since then, many, many Jews embraced Christ, but they did not try to
    seat on two chairs or dance on two weddings at once. In a way, I agree
    with Burston: let us leave the appellation of ‘Jews’ to Christ-haters
    like Burston and Steinsaltz, to war criminals like Mofaz and Wolfowitz,
    to supporters of genocide in Palestine like Elie Wiesel and Alan
    Dershowitz, to crooks like George Soros and Marc Rich. Leave this
    appellation to the small community of Neturei Karta who observe all the
    commandments and support Iran and the Palestinians, for they are the
    just men in the Jewish Sodom. But we do not have to stay in Sodom. Much
    as I sympathise with ‘Jews for Jesus’, and ready to defend them from
    Burstons, I disagree with their clinging to the past. They try to put
    new wine into old skins (Luke 5:37, Matthew 9:17). Good that they
    discovered Jesus, but it is ‘Jews’ part of them that should be
    discarded. They remind of the Talmudic adage: “tovel vesheretz beyado”,
    they baptise while not letting go of the reptile tail. If they live in
    the Holy Land, they can be Palestinian (or Israeli) Christians; if they
    live in the US, they can be Americans of any Christian denomination they
    choose. They are chosen as the members of a new chosen folk, that of the
    Church which is New Israel, and they do not need the old trappings. Let
    them follow bishops and saints of Jewish origin, who gave up the
    pretensions of Jews and accepted the crown of Christ. Nobody has to be a
    Jew, and as their crimes in Palestine multiply, it is imperative
    not to be one.

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    Why 'Jews for Jesus' is evil

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/717574.html

    By Bradley Burston

    We were driving in the Galilee, waiting for a red light to change, when
    they came up to the car. Their smiles were engagingly open as they
    wished us a fine trip. Then they offered us the flyer.

    Jews for Jesus. Who says that evil can't be imported, and delivered,
    free of charge, direct to your car door?

    Don't get me wrong. The members of Jews for Jesus are pure souls. They
    are among the most wholesome, guileless, truly well-meaning,
    fundamentally lovely people you will ever meet.

    More's the pity, therefore, that there's a special place in hell just
    for them.

    I would like to begin by saying that I have nothing personal against
    these people. But that would be a lie.

    The reason is that, grinning all the way, they want to take something
    personal from me. My history, my belief system, my ancestry. The flyers
    say they are concerned for my soul, and I believe them with all my
    heart. It's precisely my soul they're after, all right, mine and as many
    others as possible.

    They're out to harvest Jewish souls in the name of Christ. And they're
    out to do it right here.

    Make no mistake, I believe that these Christians must have every freedom
    to worship Jesus as their lord and messiah, perform every ritual,
    celebrate every holiday that they see fit. If they want to do Born-again
    Kiddush and Last Supper Kneidelach and Savior Shalosh S'eudes -
    gezunterheit.

    And if missionary activity is a commandment in their view, I wish them
    every success - just one thing:

    Leave the Jews alone.

    The world is a target-rich environment for the missionary, the
    Protestant Christian world in particular. There's no end of lapsed
    Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Baptists,
    Anabaptists, whom you're free to try to cajole into Christ.

    You don't need us. Jesus doesn't need us. Leave us alone.

    It's a safe bet that the Jews for Jesus who may be reading this are
    rolling their eyes by now, classifying me as Unbeliever Type G-639-L and
    writing me off.

    But bear with me for one brief moment, if only to read the next
    sentence, which has specifically to do with you, as well as with your
    Jewish prey, thousands of years of Jewish history, and evil:

    Proselytizing is persecution.

    Granted, it's not the same as burning us at the stake for Christ's sake,
    firebombing our homes for Christ's sake, staging apres-church pogroms
    for Christ's sake, ostracizing and terrorizing and beating our children
    for having killed Christ, lynching Jewish adults for church-distributed
    blood libels, torturing Jews to force them to convert, converting entire
    Jewish communities on point of death, deporting entire Jewish
    communities on point of death for having resisted conversion, or, after
    eliminating the conversion option, annihilating entire Jewish
    communities with the complicitous blind eye of the Holy See.

    But there's more than one way to wipe out a people, and poison, like
    gas, comes in many forms. Sometimes it looks like a leaflet. Sometimes
    it looks like the Internet. Sometimes it looks like a smile.

    It should have occurred to you by now that Jews in the post-Holocaust
    era have a mission, no less than you. We have some saving to do of our
    own. In ways which are as individual as each Jew in the world, it has
    been left to us to save Jewry itself - its faith, its culture, its
    values, its memory, its history - from extinction.

    Look around. There aren't that many of us left. There are 2 billion
    Christians in the world, and nearly a billion and a quarter Muslims.

    There are barely 14 million Jews left alive on this planet. In 1933,
    that number was 15.3 million. Leave us alone.

    The true evil of Jews for Jesus, is the movement's readiness to take
    advantages of the weaknesses of Judaism in our day, in order to further
    weaken it. Judaism's agonizing inability to reach its estranged youth is
    the stuff of Jew for Jesus dreams, the fantasy that, in the end, they
    will succeed in converting us.

    Sorry, I'm not supposed to use that word. Under the Jews for Jesus creed
    - which appears aimed at confusing its own adherents at least as much as
    it seeks to "turn" us non-believers - Jews for Jesus members do not
    convert you, they just get you to believe that Jesus Christ is the lord,
    and that only through Jesus can one be saved.

    The faithful may well be much too busy with salvation to concern
    themselves with extinction. There's clearly plenty for them to do,
    judging by some of their Websites, where I happened upon this useful
    piece of instruction from the founder of Jews for Jesus, Martin (Moishe)
    Rosen:

    "Hey, if you don't know any Jewish people, you can look in the phone
    book for surnames that are always Jewish: Cohen, Katz, Levy, Rosen (and
    anything that begins with Rosen, like Rosenberg, Rosenbloom or
    Rosenfeld)."

    And now, here in Israel, in a venture as predictable as it is indecent,
    they've set themselves a new target, Russian Jewish immigrants,
    descendants of the Jews Hitler didn't get the chance to kill.

    May they fail.

    There are those who will say, and I applaud them, that we should engage
    and embrace members of Jews for Jesus, showing openness to them rather
    than the cold shoulder that drives them further away. I applaud those
    who say this and act accordingly, but I don't have it in me.

    It really comes down to this: It's hard enough to be Jewish as it is.
    It's tough to be Jewish if you're secular, and it's no less difficult if
    you're religious. It's tough to be Jewish in the Diaspora if you live
    among non-Jews. It's tough to live there if you live among lots of Jews.
    And it's tough as nails to be Jewish in Israel, atheist, knitted kippa,
    Haredi, or fusion JUBU.

    If you're a Jew for Jesus and you're still reading this, you may well be
    thinking: This guy sounds riled. He needs a friend in Jesus.

    You're thinking wrong. This guy needs you to keep your salvation to
    yourself.

    Believe whatever you want. Practice whatever you preach.

    Just stay the hell away from us.

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    Revelation 2:9

    ..them, that say, that they be Jews, and be not, but be the synagogue of Satan.