🚨🚨 Antisemitism on the right: What to do?
All of us need to FLOOD this platform to speak against antisemitism on the right and speak for the truth instead every day.
These influencers speak lies and madness. Many of us may not be accounts with millions of followers or even thousands. But let's not forget that our American Revolution was split between fence-sitters, loyalists, and patriots. What made our Revolution historical was that we fought against the most powerful military in the world and won. As a result, we became the greatest Republic in the world: "The Great Experiment" and much of our political framework is thanks to a deep study of the Covenant at Mt. Sinai and how it could be applied in how nations are governed: not by theocracy but by consent of the governed and ordered freedom.
Truth is more powerful when we speak in defense of it and fight for what is right.
Truth reveals what is good; goodness is inherently beautiful; beauty draws us toward truth and goodness. When societies or individuals neglect one of these, the balance is lost, often leading to distortion in culture, ethics, or knowledge. Is this not what the right has largely been fighting to preserve and not neglect?
"The embrace by so many prominent voices of demented, conspiratorial, anti-Jewish voices is one of the saddest, most alarming events in my lifetime." @JeremyDBoreing wrote and I WHOLLY share that sentiment.
We are in a civilizational moment that cannot be met as fence-sitters nor loyalists. We are patriots and we need to behave like our forefathers who sacrificed so much for a vision of what they believed would bring about the greatest nation on Earth, which they did.
Please speak FOR our Jewish friends and allies in your own timelines. We are ALL Americans after all. Tribalism and identity politics is what has led to the woke left. Look at them today. We cannot be tempted to repeat those same mistakes. They are un-American and against Judeo-Christian values that are the bedrock of our great civilization.
We must never normalize nor support those influencers who masquerade as "Christian", "conservative", or "right" as they behave and speak in contradiction of these things. It is nothing short of wicked. Be warriors of the truth and do not let pride corrupt your soul.
Thank you @andrewtwalker for giving voice to this.
The fact that contempt for Jews and antisemitic sentiments are increasingly normalized within some precincts of the Right (and 'Christian' Right) is disturbing, deranged, and sinful. https://t.co/4JZeT4NSCr
Sen. Josh Hawley (R) calls for investigations into the dark money groups funding violent protests across the country.
"Who's funding these attacks? Who's funding the campus protests-- the Left's been funding all of this stuff. They ought to be accountable for all of it."
I am so overwhelmed by the amount of antisemitism I am seeing all over media, news and this platform. Overwhelmed. This cancer is absolutely everywhere and few are trying to stop it.
I honestly can’t fathom what this daily experience is like for a Jewish person.
Even in Darkness, we are here to shed the light; we can change the universe by changing one person.
A message of Purim - taken from Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Our Sages asked: Where do we find a hint in the Torah to the book of Esther? The Talmud answers with the words, v’anochi haster astir panai, “I will hide my face on that day.” Hashem’s most fearful warning had always been that there would come a time when there would be hester panim, the concealed face of God, when it would look as if, God forbid, Hashem has stopped communicating with us.
That is how our Sages found a hint of Esther. We know that Esther is one of the only two books in Tanakh which don’t contain the name of Hashem, the other one being Shir HaShirim. But where as Shir HaShirim is a book about Hashem’s love for us, Esther is a fearful book because it records the moment when it was resolved “to destroy, to slay, and to exterminate all Jews, young and old, children and women, in a single day,” when the first warrant for genocide against the Jewish people was issued. Purim is the only festival in the Jewish year set entirely in Galut, in Exile. Every other festival is either based on an event that happened in Israel or on the journey toward Israel. Purim alone is set in the place of hester panim, when we are out of Israel and where it is harder to feel the presence of God.
That is the book of Esther. It comes from an almost secularized world, where we search for the presence of God in history and we fail to find it. Yet there is one line in the megillah that cuts through me like a knife and represents the most powerful statement in Judaism I know that Hashem has not abandoned us.
Towards the end of the fourth chapter, we find Esther telling her uncle Mordechai about all the problems there might be in interceding with King Achashverosh regarding the fate of the Jewish people. Mordechai listens and then responds to her with the famous words, "If you are silent and you do nothing at this time somebody else will save the Jewish people." U’mi yodeia im l’et kazot, higa’at lamalchut? “But who knows, was it not for just this moment that you became a Queen, with access to King Achashverosh in the royal palace?"
This, for me, is the ultimate statement of hashgacha pratit, that wherever we are, sometimes Hashem is asking us to realize why He put us here, with these gifts, at this time, with these dangers, in this place. Hashgacha pratit is our fundamental belief that God never abandons us, the He puts us here with something to do. Even in the worst hiding of God, if you listen hard enough, you can hear Him calling to us as individuals, saying U’mi yodeia im l’et kazot higa’at lamalchut? "Was is not for this very challenge that you are here in this place at this time?"
I don't know exactly how Hashem writes the script of history, but it can happen to any one of us. U’mi yodeia im l’et kazot higa’at lamalchut? Hashem is calling on each of us, saying there is a reason why we are here, because He has something for us to do, something that only we can do. We can hear Hashem’s voice even when there's hester panim, when He appears hidden.
In the third chapter of Hilchot Teshuva, The Laws of We never know when an act of ours will have consequences. Did Esther, growing up with Mordechai, know that one day, the entire future of the Jewish people will rest with her? You never know what significance one friendship or one little moment might have for you and for somebody else that might just change the world.
You don't have to change the world to change the world. Let me explain. If we really believe, as the Mishna in Sandedrin, says Nefesh achat k’olam malei, that "A life is like a universe" then if you change one life, you can begin to change the universe the only way any of us can, one life at a time, one day at a time, one act at a time.
When Hashem calls, may each of us have the courage to say to Hineini, here I am, Hashem, tell me what to do and I will do it. May we go out into the world, walking tall as Jews, walking unafraid, as Jews, and may we be true to our faith and a blessing to others regardless of their faith. May we hear the call of Hashem and answer it. May we all bring blessing to the world.
🚨🚨 Antisemitism on the right: What to do?
All of us need to FLOOD this platform to speak against antisemitism on the right and speak for the truth instead every day.
These influencers speak lies and madness. Many of us may not be accounts with millions of followers or even thousands. But let's not forget that our American Revolution was split between fence-sitters, loyalists, and patriots. What made our Revolution historical was that we fought against the most powerful military in the world and won. As a result, we became the greatest Republic in the world: "The Great Experiment" and much of our political framework is thanks to a deep study of the Covenant at Mt. Sinai and how it could be applied in how nations are governed: not by theocracy but by consent of the governed and ordered freedom.
Truth is more powerful when we speak in defense of it and fight for what is right.
Truth reveals what is good; goodness is inherently beautiful; beauty draws us toward truth and goodness. When societies or individuals neglect one of these, the balance is lost, often leading to distortion in culture, ethics, or knowledge. Is this not what the right has largely been fighting to preserve and not neglect?
"The embrace by so many prominent voices of demented, conspiratorial, anti-Jewish voices is one of the saddest, most alarming events in my lifetime." @JeremyDBoreing wrote and I WHOLLY share that sentiment.
We are in a civilizational moment that cannot be met as fence-sitters nor loyalists. We are patriots and we need to behave like our forefathers who sacrificed so much for a vision of what they believed would bring about the greatest nation on Earth, which they did.
Please speak FOR our Jewish friends and allies in your own timelines. We are ALL Americans after all. Tribalism and identity politics is what has led to the woke left. Look at them today. We cannot be tempted to repeat those same mistakes. They are un-American and against Judeo-Christian values that are the bedrock of our great civilization.
We must never normalize nor support those influencers who masquerade as "Christian", "conservative", or "right" as they behave and speak in contradiction of these things. It is nothing short of wicked. Be warriors of the truth and do not let pride corrupt your soul.
Thank you @andrewtwalker for giving voice to this.
The fact that contempt for Jews and antisemitic sentiments are increasingly normalized within some precincts of the Right (and 'Christian' Right) is disturbing, deranged, and sinful. https://t.co/4JZeT4NSCr
The more we expose the antisemitic social media influencers on the right, the more we can spread the truth about how Israel and the lies waged against the Jews. CBN News is an Evangelical Christian channel. Have a listen!
It is time for the United States to send an unmistakable message: The slaughter of Christians and other religious minorities in Nigeria will not be tolerated.
Redesignate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern.
Thank you, @HouseForeignGOP for the opportunity to testify.
Coming to the United States on a visa is a privilege, not a right. The Trump Administration is determined to deny or revoke your visa if you're here to support terrorists.
CPAC to launch the 'Center to Combat Antisemitism' amid Mahmoud Khalil deportation controversy at Columbia University and a senior CPAC delegation's slated visit to Israel.
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