“…Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My Name.” (Yahweh speaking, 1 Kings 11: 36)
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Steve Apfel—Lord of the Lies reigns over BDS:
Even some card-carrying Zionists have hitched their wagon to the boycott train. Why the urge to hurt what you profess to love? Remarkably for Zionists, it may be added, their heart’s delight comes not from defending Israel, but from heaping condemnation on it, which they do with a dollop of pain and persistency that opens foundation grants, career windows, and even a door to the White House.
Ordinary condemners of Israel make do with being openly anti-Zionist. Without the enigma of their Jewish compatriots they can be tiresome. When anti-Zionists enter crying “Stop persecuting Palestinians!” or “Apartheid Israel!” or “End the occupation!” or “Halt the genocide!” or “Free Gaza!” the heart sinks. Mantras lull to sleep people they fail to mesmerize. Formula slogans and banner heads wear down patience. Outrage is not an emotion with great power of endurance; the public forgets what to be vengeful about and grows inured. Even hatred so bitter and deep as that for Israel needs cooling down breaks to preserve and prolong the potency. But the full time anti-Zionist won’t let up. A little of him goes a long way.
Yet buried deep in ancient prejudices are human oddities that hold human interest. The crowd obsessed with Israel, we find, is made up of obsessed people who think in peculiar ways and act accordingly. They create facts and labour to make them real. They’re prepared to harm the people they profess to care for. They spin yarns about a country many cannot pinpoint on a map, devoting their time to bundling it off the map. Academics discard intellect while lawyers abandon law.
Their model mission statement is layered with oddities like that. The boycott movement, if you didn’t know, has one.
“BDS is a global movement which works in peaceful ways to create economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with the stated goals of the movement, which are:
- The end of: (a) Israeli occupation; (b) colonization of Arab land; (c) Israel’s security wall.
- Full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel.
- Respect for the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Steve is absolutely right. It sickens me to see Jewish people, particularly orthodox Jewish people, slam Israel.
Katie and I spend a lot of time in Israel. This past summer while we were there, we were crossing King George Avenue at the top of Ben Yehuda. It’s a big pedestrian crossing area. During the day, large crowds gather and wait for the light to change. One afternoon while we were waiting, I was standing on the curb beside an orthodox Jew. Unexpectedly, he reached out to shake my hand. I hesitated for a moment and looked at his eyes before extending my hand.
I’m speaking very candidly. My hesitation was instinctive. I developed that conditioned response in and around the plaza at the Kotel or Western Wall of the Temple Mount. It’s a place where orthodox Jews gather to accost tourists who are on their way to the Kotel and ask them for money. They use many ploys, but the one that offends me most is the attempt to sell prayers to unsuspecting tourists and then give them a red string as a sign that they just bought a prayer.
Since Katie and I spend a lot of time in that area, we are accosted several times a day every day. We are approached by the same people sometimes several times a day. It makes me angry.
This past summer after being approached at least a couple of times in a matter or hours by the same man, I said, “Don’t you recognize me? Don’t you know that you have tried to sell me a prayer several times already?”
I wasn’t finished. “Do you recognize the Name Yahweh?”
He said, “Of course.”
“What do you think He thinks about your selling prayers to tourists?”
His response was interesting. He said, “I’m a rabbi. I like to pray for people.”
That response made me angrier. I said, “Look, I know what you are doing. You know what you are doing. If you and I know, Yahweh knows what you are doing.”
Later that day I found that rabbis business card on the pavement near the Temple Mount Plaza. It listed the things he does, things like performing Bar Mitzvahs. You don’t have to be a Bible scholar to know how offensive that is to Yahweh.
Getting back to the orthodox Jewish man that I met on the curb at King George Avenue, when I hesitated before shaking his hand, he said, “Don’t worry. I’m not hitting on you for a handout.”
I smiled and said, “A lot of orthodox Jews do, and it really bothers me. The ones who bother me most are those who make their livings by selling prayers near the Temple Mount.”
When I said that, the man burst out with this: “There shouldn’t even be an Israel.” I tuned him out after that, and I regretted shaking his hand.
When Jewish people, particularly orthodox Jews, take a stand against Israel (which is tantamount to taking a position against Yahweh) and join the chorus of nincompoop voices attacking Israel, it’s disgraceful. The BDS movement is loaded with such people. They should be ashamed.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
To see videos that explain the importance of God’s Name, click here.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
