Evangelical Anti-Semitism Only Kind Of Deadish

By
Omri Ceren
– April 24, 2007Posted in: Global Antisemitism

Lynn-B is exploring a particularly ugly strain of evangelical anti-Semitism. One of the angles you can take on this story is that evangelical anti-Semitic conspiracies are not dead:

Ed Brown, “just a regular guy” and certainly not a nutcase in the eyes of his supporters, is a tax protester who has been holed up in his New Hampshire “compound” (his own term) for three months, defending the American people against the tyranny of our government and the illegal federal income tax… Here’s a recent interview with Mr. Brown, conducted by another pair of creative thinkers, John Stoddard Klar and his wife Jackie. Klar’s website, which is all about “George W. Bush and the Desecration of Christianity in Modern America,” is here… This group, which is currently embroiled in its own legal problems and whose founders are currently serving hard time, has jumped with both feet onto the virulently anti-Israel bandwagon, as you can see here, e.g.,

This is obviously a problem. Anyone who says that they’re totally comfortable with the Israeli-evangelical alliance is either naive or ideologically obtuse (or lying).

But at worst, latent evangelical anti-Semitism is a reason to make alliances with evangelicals who are trying to fight that anti-Semitism. Now the hard question: if there are anti-Semites in both the Democratic and evangelical ranks, why do we keep advocating alliances with evangelicals of good intention but not Democrats of good intentions.

This is a critical distinction: we have yet to see compelling evidence that the Democratic party can be pulled out of their inchoate, seething swamp of self-righteous, anti-Semiticish talk of the “Israel Lobby” and “New York moneypeople”. By now they’re not just showing their fangs, they’re viciously snarling. This is the viciousness of betrayal – Democrats have taken the Jewish vote for granted for so long that they take criticism as a personal insult. It’s like a dysfunctional relationship, where the husband reacts with irrational anger to a wife who begins to show independent interests and opinions. Like we said, the divorce is going to be ugly.

Oh, and one last thing: of course we admit that there’s a healthy strain of latent evangelical anti-Semitism. We’re just not sure it’s in the Republican party.

References:
* Nuts with a vengeance
* Screw The Democratic Party
* The Democratic Party and American Jews: The Divorce Is Going To Be Ugly
* Is Jimmy Carter Just An Old-Fashioned Christian Fundamentalist, Anti-Semitic Bigot?

Previously:
* ADL Thinks Real Hard, Identifies Religious Threat to American Jews – Christians!
* USC Muslim Student Union Slips Into Open Anti-Semitism
* American Library Association: Zionism Is Racism

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