{"id":2233572,"date":"2024-04-30T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antisemitism-is-the-devils-flagpole\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:12:44","slug":"antisemitism-is-the-devils-flagpole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antisemitism-is-the-devils-flagpole\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism: The Banner of Hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fantisemitism-is-the-devils-flagpole%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2233572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The excerpt \u2064discusses the interplay between antisemitism and Christianity, \u200chighlighting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/princeton-now-offers-a-class-about-black-lives-matter-that-includes-readings-from-an-avowed-marxist\/\" title=\"Princeton Now Offers A Class About Black Lives Matter That Includes Readings From An Avowed Marxist\">historical roots<\/a> of hatred\u200d towards \u200bJews. It reflects on the complex relationship between \u200dChristian beliefs, \u2062Jewish tradition, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stimulus-update-georgia-residents-eligible-for-rebate-worth-up-to-500\/\" title=\"Georgia residents can receive a rebate of up to 0 in the latest stimulus update.\">enduring \u200dlegacy<\/a> of Christian Jew\u200c hatred. The narrative delves into the evolution of\u200d Western \u2063Christendom\u2062 and\u200b the lasting\u200c impact of historical persecutions on\u2063 the\u2064 Jewish \u2063community&#8217;s collective memory and religious identity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The following is an excerpt of the essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewjerusalem.substack.com\/p\/essay-4-antisemitism-is-the-devils\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antisemitism is the Devil\u2019s Flagpole,<\/a>\u201d taken from Andrew Klavan\u2019s new Substack \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewjerusalem.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Jerusalem.<\/a>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of my favorite Hollywood stories comes from Scott Eyman\u2019s biography \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/John-Wayne-Legend-Scott-Eyman\/dp\/1439199582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Wayne: The Life and Legend<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Wayne was lying on his death bed, a group of friends came to visit him. One friend, named Al, was Jewish. Knowing the Duke was forever being accused of bigotry, Wayne\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-shape-shifter-tucker-points-out-anti-racist-don-lemon-has-a-blackface-cookie-jar\/\" title=\"WATCH: \u2018Shape-Shifter\u2019: Tucker Points Out \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 Don Lemon Has A Blackface Cookie Jar\">son joked<\/a>, \u201cThe reason Duke didn\u2019t want to see you was because Al is a Jew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ailing Wayne smiled and pointed at the ceiling. \u201cIt\u2019s the other Jew I don\u2019t want to see,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the saying goes: It\u2019s funny because it\u2019s true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antisemitism is the Devil\u2019s Flagpole. It always marks the place where evil dwells. It adheres to no one political party, no particular race or nation. But wherever and whenever it appears, it is a signal that something is going very badly wrong in that place and time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s a simple reason this is true. The antisemites think they hate the Jew in front of them, but it\u2019s that other Jew they really hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because the soul of the West was indelibly shaped by Christianity, the God of the West is the Jewish God, the God of Abraham made incarnate in Jesus Christ. Western ideas about God \u2014 that he made both men and women in his image, that he identifies with the least among us, that his personality is centered on forgiveness and love \u2014 these ideas were all gifts of I AM to his Chosen People. So too were the laws carved on the stones of Sinai and etched over slow centuries into the animate substance of the Jewish heart. Ultimately, the ideas underpinning these laws became the ideas of everyone who followed Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is why Saint John Paul II, in his 1986 speech at the synagogue of Rome, said the Jewish religion was \u201cintrinsic\u201d to Christianity. He added to his Jewish audience: \u201cYou are our dearly beloved brothers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The process by which this natural brotherhood metamorphosed into the long and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jesuits-pledge-100-million-for-slavery-reparations\/\" title=\"Jesuits Pledge 0 Million For Slavery Reparations\">shameful history<\/a> of Christian Jew hatred is too long and complex to reconstruct fully here. It had its beginning in history. The hostility of a sclerotic first century Jewish priesthood to Jesus\u2019s preaching, their attempts to suppress the upstart Christian cult, St. Paul\u2019s mission to universalize Christian beliefs, and the destruction of the Jewish state by Rome in 70 AD, which made it dangerous for Christians to identify too closely with their origins \u2014 all these played a part. All served to drown out St. Paul\u2019s reminder that Christians were branches grafted onto the root of Judaism and they should therefore \u201cremember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In most cases, history moves on, and old rifts are mended over time. But in this instance, a different and more enduring hatred attached itself to the ancient disputes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the fall of the Roman empire, the Christian religion spread among the barbarian tribes that swept the old Latin world away. These went on to form Western Christendom, which eventually became the nations of Europe. We\u2019ve all noted that certain tribal traditions were Christianized during this process. Our Christmas tree, for instance, might well be the old Yule Tree repurposed for the new religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But of course, Christianization went far deeper than that. The primacy of love, the rights of women, the holiness of charity only gradually infiltrated the pagan mindset. The struggle between the values of the old gods and the demands of the new one became internalized in the converted heart. This struggle was then projected onto the old division between Christians and Jews. Antisemites caricatured Jews as the reflection of their own hidden selves: merciless, corrupt, the murderers of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There followed centuries of anti-Jewish brutality. Throughout Christian Europe, Jews suffered oppression, expulsion, ghettoization, hateful libels, and murderous pogroms. These left a wound on Jewish memory that has been difficult to heal. When I, born and raised a Jew, began to acknowledge Christ as my Lord and Savior, this blood-soaked history made me hesitate before I approached the baptismal font. I had to learn to separate the cruelties of Christian men from the love and forgiveness of the Christian God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, twenty years after my baptism, when my relationship with Christ has become the radiant center of my life, Jew hatred is on the rise again throughout the West. I am shocked, but not at all surprised. As long ago as 1980, I wrote a novel in which I referred to my generation as \u201choliday Jews.\u201d For decades, Western shame at the satanic evil of the Holocaust had made even the hint of antisemitism socially unacceptable. But I always knew that holiday would end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why? Because it seemed obvious to me even then that there was one Jew the Jew-haters hated most of all \u2014 that other Jew the dying John Wayne was in no hurry to see. The atavistic habits of some of the converted were at war with the Jewish God who had colonized their hearts and culture through Jesus Christ. That inconvenient deity who demands care for the weak, forgiveness for the sinful and sexual decency and fidelity for all does not settle easily into the toxic soul of fallen man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read the full essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewjerusalem.substack.com\/p\/essay-4-antisemitism-is-the-devils\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antisemitism is the Devil\u2019s Flagpole<\/a>\u201d on Andrew Klavan\u2019s new Substack \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewjerusalem.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Jerusalem,<\/a>\u201d where he and son Spencer Klavan chart an alternative path toward life in the 21st century and beyond. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew Klavan is the host of \u201cThe Andrew Klavan Show\u201d at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook\/dp\/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The House of Love and Death<\/a>,\u201d is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an excerpt from the essay &#8220;Antisemitism is the Devil\u2019s Flagpole&#8221; by Andrew Klavan in his Substack &#8220;The New Jerusalem.&#8221; A cherished Hollywood tale from Scott Eyman&#8217;s book &#8220;John Wayne: The Life and Legend&#8221; recounts how, during Wayne&#8217;s final days, a circle of friends gathered by his side<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":2233573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/09\/Klavan16x9-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/09\/Klavan16x9-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}