JPost Exclusive: ADL Attack on Evangelicals Not Very Smart
The Jerusalem Post has an article this morning condemning ADL Director Abraham Foxman's attack on the political designs of US Evangelicals:
ADL Director Abraham Foxman's wide-ranging attack on evangelical Christians, whom he has accused of launching a campaign to "Christianize America," is still reverberating in the United States...
Unlike other Protestant denominations evangelicals do not subscribe to replacement theology and regard Judaism as a component of the formation of Christianity rather than being replaced by it. Their attitude toward Israel also contrasts starkly with the disgraceful behavior displayed toward Jews by other Protestant churches, many of whom now lead the pack in demonizing, and even promoting, divestment from Israel...
My discussions and correspondence with evangelicals over these past years have convinced me that during this difficult time for the Jewish people, when many of our liberal friends have forsaken us, we are fortunate to have the support of such a group who strongly back Israel and seek no quid pro quo in exchange for their friendship...
These Christians pray regularly for the well-being of Israel and the Jewish people; they politically support our right to live in peace and security, including lobbying Congress to support us; and they even raise considerable funds to help Jews in distress...
In this environment, Foxman's incredible onslaught against "institutionalized Christianity in the United States," an attack that is not limited to evangelicals but blankets all Christians, is a regrettable lapse of judgment by a man who has an excellent track record of serving the interests of American Jewry with distinction.
We agree with all that (except maybe the "excellent track record" and "distinction" parts - Foxman's histrionics have been both counterproductive and even just plain stupid at times). In fact, we agree with it so much that we wrote the exact same thing three weeks ago:
We've always thought that the Anti-Defamation League is an aptly-named organization: they're not really designed to target genuine anti-Semitism as much as they're good at protecting Jewish kids from "defamation" (although not, God forbid, Jewish day schools). It's a self-esteem racket - the perfect identity politics group. And as an identity group, reflexively and myopically targets the old enemies of the Left: Institutionalized Christianity
No, what makes you think we're bitter?
ADL Director Abraham Foxman's wide-ranging attack on evangelical Christians, whom he has accused of launching a campaign to "Christianize America," is still reverberating in the United States...
Unlike other Protestant denominations evangelicals do not subscribe to replacement theology and regard Judaism as a component of the formation of Christianity rather than being replaced by it. Their attitude toward Israel also contrasts starkly with the disgraceful behavior displayed toward Jews by other Protestant churches, many of whom now lead the pack in demonizing, and even promoting, divestment from Israel...
My discussions and correspondence with evangelicals over these past years have convinced me that during this difficult time for the Jewish people, when many of our liberal friends have forsaken us, we are fortunate to have the support of such a group who strongly back Israel and seek no quid pro quo in exchange for their friendship...
These Christians pray regularly for the well-being of Israel and the Jewish people; they politically support our right to live in peace and security, including lobbying Congress to support us; and they even raise considerable funds to help Jews in distress...
In this environment, Foxman's incredible onslaught against "institutionalized Christianity in the United States," an attack that is not limited to evangelicals but blankets all Christians, is a regrettable lapse of judgment by a man who has an excellent track record of serving the interests of American Jewry with distinction.
We agree with all that (except maybe the "excellent track record" and "distinction" parts - Foxman's histrionics have been both counterproductive and even just plain stupid at times). In fact, we agree with it so much that we wrote the exact same thing three weeks ago:
We've always thought that the Anti-Defamation League is an aptly-named organization: they're not really designed to target genuine anti-Semitism as much as they're good at protecting Jewish kids from "defamation" (although not, God forbid, Jewish day schools). It's a self-esteem racket - the perfect identity politics group. And as an identity group, reflexively and myopically targets the old enemies of the Left: Institutionalized Christianity
No, what makes you think we're bitter?
