Under the banner of Christians United for Israel, a
petition is being sent to the UK Government expressing condemnation of
anti-Semitism and acknowledging the huge contribution of its
Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping British values.
(United Kingdom)—[Israel Today]
When the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was celebrated
this time last year, few could have imagined that anti-Semitism would
get even worse. But it has. (Photo via Israel Today)
The
past year has seen two shocking terrorist attacks on Paris, with Jews
specifically targeted on both occasions, along with the wave of
stabbings and shootings in Israel itself. One incident occurred on
Christmas Eve at Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, just yards from Christ Church,
where they were celebrating the birth of the Messiah who came to bring
peace to a troubled world and where, ironically, they steadfastly work
towards reconciling Arab and Jew through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.
But even as the UK marks Holocaust Memorial
Day later this month, we too are witnessing an ongoing rise in
anti-Semitic incidents necessitating armed guards having to be deployed
to schools in London's Jewish community. But is the Church as a whole
rallying to the support of those who are once more threatened with
genocide, as they were under the Nazis? Do they even care?
British publishing magnate Lord Weidenfeld
did indeed benefit from caring Christians who took him in after he was
rescued from Czechoslovakia through the so-called Kindertransport
project of 1938, and has launched a campaign to rescue Christians from
Syria out of gratitude for the compassion he was shown. He believes that
the Islamic State terrorists are worse even than Hitler's henchmen. The
latter were cold and calculated as they killed on an industrial scale,
but the Muslim fanatics seem to enjoy what they are doing.
Here is the stark reality of what is facing
the Jewish people at the dawn of 2016: Iran is fast developing nuclear
weapons with which to "wipe out" Israel (in the words of the Ayatollahs
and Iranian presidents). And the current spat between Shiite Iran and
Sunni Saudi Arabia only adds to the tension in the region. Meanwhile
Lebanon-based Hezbollah has once again started firing rockets into the
Jewish state, ISIS are believed to be stalking the Golan Heights near
Galilee, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority continue to incite their
people to murder and some Westerners are engaged in a boycott of Israeli
goods on the pretext that they are oppressive occupiers of land not
their own. But the truth is that most Jewish victims of persecution are
attacked simply because they are Jews, not for political or economic
reasons.
With all this in mind, UK Christians who
can see what is happening are trying to draw the attention of a
generally uncaring public to the plight of Jews everywhere. One such
event will be held on January 24 at a Sheffield church and will involve
other Holocaust escapees brought to England via the Kindertransport. One
of them, John Fieldsend, whose parents perished at Auschwitz, was also
taken in by a kind Christian couple. He became a follower of Jesus and a
full-time preacher, but it could all have been so different. On a visit
to the Children's Memorial at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in
Jerusalem, he recalls: "As we listened to the names of the children
being read out on an endlessly looping tape—which took several days to
go round—I realized that had my journey from Czechoslovakia been delayed
by only about five weeks, my name would have been on that tape! It was a
very dramatic experience..."
Among the organizers of the Sheffield
event—at the Bush Fire Church, 427 Halifax Road, Grenoside S35 8PB from 3
to 5pm—are Ginnie White, whose mother Stella was roughed up by Oswald
Mosley's fascists as a child growing up in London's East End where she
was also once jeered at as a "dirty Jew." The afternoon will also
involve the signing of the 'Shalom Declaration' promising support for
the Jewish people.
And under the banner of Christians United
for Israel, a petition is being sent to the UK Government expressing
condemnation of anti-Semitism and acknowledging the huge contribution of
its Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping British values.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's
account of his own family history, shared in a United Nations speech,
perfectly illustrates the necessity for such memorial days. After being
beaten senseless by a group of anti-Semitic hoodlums at a railway
station in the heart of Europe, his grandfather Nathan promised himself
that, if he lived, he would take his family to the Jewish homeland and
help build a future for the Jewish people.
Six million Jews perished in the gas
chambers, but the nightmares of the survivors live on while new
generations face fresh threats. When will it stop? We have so much for
which to thank them—they gave us the Bible, on the foundations of which
we have built a great civilization. And they gave us Jesus, Savior of
both Jews and Gentiles who put their trust in Him, who said: "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me." (Matthew 25.40)
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Source: www.breakingchristiannews.com/