Pro-Nazi American Bund March October 1938, 86th Street, Manhattan, NYC
Over 2,800 years ago, Jewish pilgrims would leave their farms and villages and ascend to the House of YHVH in Jerusalem. As they began to climb up the hills surrounding Mount Zion, they would sing songs called ‘Shir Hama’alot’ – the song of going up or ascents (Psalm 120-134). One of these psalms is still very fitting for current events in the Middle East:
- “Many times they have attacked me from my youth up,” let Israel say. “Many times they have attacked me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. May all who hate Zion be put to shame!” (Psalm 129:1-5)
King David describes how the Jewish people are surrounded by many enemies who seek to destroy Israel without good cause:
- “Look at my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with violent hatred!” (Psalm 25:19)
- “But my enemies are vigorous and strong, and those who wrongfully hate me are many” (Psalm 38:19)
- “They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and have fought against me without cause” (Psalm 109:3)
David’s hope for divine rescue of the Twelve Tribes of Israel continues to be relevant and irrevocable in our day as well: “Your hand will find all your enemies! Your right hand will find those who hate you!” (Psalm 21:8)
Over 2,400 years ago in ancient Persia (what is today called Iran), YHVH rescued His people from the hands of genocidal Haman and turned the tables on Israel’s enemies: “So the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying. And they did as they pleased to those who hated them” (Esther 9:5)
Five hundred years after Esther and Mordechai, Zechariah the father of Yohanan the Immerser (aka John the Baptist) followed in King David’s footsteps when he prophesied about the callings of Yohanan and Yeshua:
- And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the House of His servant David – just as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient times – salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us!” (Luke 1:67-71)
This is how the God of Israel sees Israel’s enemies, and this is His response to them.
This biblical principle is so central to YHVH’s dealing with Israel, that Moses shouted it out every time the people of Israel broke camp in the desert:
- “Then it came about when the ark set out that Moses said: ‘Rise up, YHVH, and may Your enemies be scattered!’” (Numbers 10:35).
King David commanded his choir director to echo Moses’ warrior-like intercession every day during national worship in the courts of the Jerusalem Temple:
- “For the music director. A Psalm of David. A Song. May God arise, may His enemies be scattered, and may those who hate Him flee from His presence!” (Psalm 68:1)
Isaiah spoke prophetically over all the nations of the world, warning about what their fate would be should they lift up an arm against the Jewish people and the land of Israel:
- “Oh, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas – and the rumbling of nations who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters! The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them. And they will flee far away, and be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind, or like whirling dust before a gale. At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are gone. This will be the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us” (Isaiah 17 :12-14)
Satan’s poisonous flowers
In John’s Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation), we are told that throughout history the great, fiery red dragon (that serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan) aims his persecution and his attacks on the Jewish people – “the woman who gave birth to the Male Child [i.e., Messiah Yeshua]” (Revelation 12:13).
- The world is witnessing the growth of two movements – the first stands with, defends and loves the Jewish people and their homeland; the second is exploding with demonic hatred of Israel the people and Israel the state. Both movements are growing simultaneously. It is crucial for those who have God’s heart for the sons and daughters of Jacob, to be tracking about the reality of the anti-Jewish stream – its patterns, growth, direction and strategic goals – and to be pro-active in dealing with this critical challenge.
The past twenty-five years have seen veritable sociological earthquakes on Planet Earth. Whether it be the resurgence of European fascist gangs and Antifa street thugs or Communist-led racist rioting directed against non-Black Americans (BLM), the pillars of Western (and especially American) society are trembling. The marriage of ‘Red’ (anti-Semitic communists) and ‘Green’ (anti-Semitic Islamists) has been brewing for decades. The morphing within mainstream Christian denominations to an embrace of anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist activism is now commonplace. An Evangelical stream embracing communist Palestinian Liberation Theology and a support for Islamist terrorism is also firmly established in the Western world. The spreading plague of anti-Jewish propaganda in US educational institutions, media and political narratives has significantly raised the water level of popular hatred directed against the Jewish people; the results are seen in lone wolf attacks (like Boulder and Washington D.C.) as well as in mass riots and anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist demonstrations.
I love New York
The results can also be seen in the recent election of Zohran Mamdani, a far-left anti-Zionist Arab as the Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate for New York City – the second largest Jewish community in the world. Mamdani clears states that advocacy for Palestinian/Hamas resistance is “central to his identity. He co-founded Bowdoin College’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine. In 2021, the year he was elected to the state assembly, Mamdani told a rally that he identified as an anti-Zionist and declared that there is no room in that movement for anti-Semitism (video starts at 39:30).
According to reporting in the New York Post, the epicenter of the nationwide pro-Hamas protest movement – the Columbia University encampment – was basically by three groups: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Within Our Lifetime (WOL). JVP Action have received at least $650,000 from various branches of George Soros’ philanthropic empire since 2017, $441,510 from the Kaphan Foundation (founded by early Amazon employee Sheldon Kaphan), and $340,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. SJP is an outgrowth of the Islamist networks dissolved during the U.S. government’s prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) for doing fundraising for Hamas. SJP in turn is a subsidiary of an organization called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace endorses Mamdani in his mayoral run.
Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and was their keynote speaker at their August 4, 2023 national convention in Chicago. Two months later, the DSA supported a NYC rally officially sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and the Palestinian Youth Movement in support of Hamas’ October 7 jihadi attack from Gaza. This demonstration was held on October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas’ terrorist pogrom. The New York branch of the Democratic Socialists of America advertised the event and expressed “solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist 75 years of occupation and apartheid.” Approximately 700 demonstrators turned out to rally at West 43rd Street and Broadway, shouting “Free Palestine!”, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied”, “Globalize the intifada”, “Smash the settler Zionist state”, and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” They held up signs saying, “End all US aid to Israel” and “Palestine will be free,” while waving Palestinian flags.
The pro-Hamas demonstrators’ mood was celebratory and spiteful. Demonstrators chanted ‘700,’ apparently referring to the confirmed number of Israeli fatalities in the attack so far, and held up the number seven on their hands while making throat-slitting gestures. Others flashed victory signs with their hands while shouting insults. One man held up a picture of an Israeli hostage on his phone and waved it at the Israeli crowd. Another was seen brandishing an image of a swastika. Some taunted Israelis while tearing up and stomping on an Israeli flag, or dancing with a Palestinian flag. When later interviewed, Mamdani refused to condemn the DSA’s participation in that march.
On October 8, 2023 Mamdani tweeted the following: “Statement on ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine: I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours. Netanyahu’s declaration of war, the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come. The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.” The deception involved here is clear: less than 24 hours before, the largest slaughter of Jew since the Holocaust had occurred. Mamdani sidesteps that, and calls it ‘ongoing violence; rather than jihadi Terrorism. He states that in the last 24 hours it occurred in Israel and Palestine. Actually it only occurred in Israel – over 1,200 Jews murdered at the hands of Palestinians. The fault is not jihadi Hamas carrying out their murderous Charter, but ‘Netanyahu’s declaration of war.’ Mamdani defines a ‘just and lasting peace’ as the expulsion of all Jews from Israel, referring to an ‘apartheid’ that simply does not exist.
CUNY law professor Jeffrey Lax warned that “New York is in deep trouble. This is a disaster.” Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, founder of an Upper East Side synagogue, added: “Apparently softcore antisemitism isn’t a liability for mayoral candidates – it’s an asset.” Commentator Yehuda Teitelbaum posted on X: “No clearer proof exists that the diaspora is unsafe for Jews than electing a candidate who openly vowed to ‘globalize the intifada’ in the world’s largest Jewish city outside Israel.”
Rabbi Marc Schneier (“rabbi to the stars”), declared: “Mamdani’s win is the greatest existential threat to Jews since notorious antisemite Karl Lueger’s 1897 election as Vienna’s mayor. Jewish leaders must unite to prevent a mass Jewish departure from NYC.” Lueger was a strong ideological influence on Hitler. One NYC Jewish podcaster wrote: “We had 100 beautiful years here.”
Mamdani publicly advocates for boycotting Israel and cutting off all ties between NYC and the Jewish state. When asked by The Bulwark podcast host, Tim Miller, if the phrases ‘Globalize the intifada’ and ‘From the river to the sea’ make him uncomfortable, Mamdani explained that he doesn’t support banning language, and then drew a moral equivalence between the anti-Nazi Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Uprising and Hamas’ jihadi anti-Jewish October 7 attacks: “The very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, which is a word that means ‘struggle.’”
Mamdani has vowed that if elected, he would arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit New York. However, the international court that issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu has no jurisdiction in the US.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, strongly disagreed that the term ‘intifada’ is “subject to interpretation”: “That is not only wrong, it is dangerous. At a time when we are seeing antisemitism on the rise and in fact witnessing once again violence against Jews resulting in their deaths in Washington D.C. or their burning in Denver, we know all too well that words matter. They fuel hate. They fuel murder . . .There are no two sides here.”
Elisha Wiesel, son of author and survivor of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel, stated that “globalizing the intifada is code switching for ‘kill the Jews’ . . . We need to keep antisemites out of the mayor’s office.” Jewish State Assemblymember Kalman Yeger condemned Mamdani as “one of the most vile antisemites in public office.” The Big Apple context within which Mamdani’s anti-Israel statements have been declared? Jews were targeted in 345 hate crimes in New York City last year, 54% of the 641 total hate crimes reported to the NYPD in 2024.
Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel recently commented:
- “There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I’m worried, I go around with a very heavy heart . . . Anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it’s true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it’s so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic . . . If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we’ll have to fight again, we wouldn’t have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.”
Strange and bitter fruit
In an Amoraic commentary of Numbers (Sifrei Bamidbar; circa 300-400 A.D.), there is a sobering quote about anti-Semitism: “To hate Israel is to hate God …To rise against Israel is to rise against God …To help Israel is to help God.” Many countries have their own diseased histories of Jew-hatred, and there is an international awareness of European anti-Semitism. But the rising up of new putrid pockets of hatred directed against the people of Israel, especially in America, has caught many by surprise. Here are some surprising quotes in this regard:
Britisher Roald Dahl was a world-famous author who penned Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and the film script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He has remarked: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” He referred to “those powerful American Jewish bankers” and accused the US Government of being “utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there.” He commented regarding himself: “I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.”
Auto magnate Henry Ford stated in his ‘The International Jew’: “If it is ‘anti-Semitism’ to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.”
American media commentators (including Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens) have become some of the most prolific and influential personae in spreading anti-Jewish and anti-Israel propaganda. Here are eight articles shining a spotlight on this:
- ‘How Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Berkeley and Wellesley mainstream anti-Semitism’ (October 2022)
- ‘The shameful nods to antisemitism from Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson’ (November 2023)
- ‘The Hateful Candace Owens’ (March 2024)
- ‘Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens Are Spreading False Messages About Jews’ (March 2024)
- ‘Tucker Carlson’s “pastor from Bethlehem” is “the high priest of antisemitic Christianity”’ (April 2024)
- ‘Candace Owens named “Antisemite of the Year” by Stop Antisemitism: “Poisonous hater”’ (December 2024)
- ‘Tucker Carlson Providing “Leading Platform” for Jew-Hatred, Says Israel’s Minister of Combating Antisemitism’ (December 2024)
- ‘Trump to tariff Tucker Carlson for pro-Iran post’ (April 2025)
The spread of anti-Semitic tweets, video clips and interviews – these are fanning the flames and stirring up a metastasizing growth of Jew-hatred in the USA. The poisoned words of Hitler and his top Nazi idealogue Alfred Rosenberg are sober warnings as to where these words and actions are heading:
- “Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany” (Alfred Rosenberg; Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol. 3, Nuremberg, 1947, p. 35)
- “There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. In saying this, I promise you I am quite free of all racial hatred” (The Testament of Adolf Hitler: The Hitler-Bormann Documents February-April 1945, ed. Francois Genoud. London: Icon Books, 1962 pp. 43-44, 52-53, and 70-71).
- “Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” (Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf 1925-26; p. 65)
It is sobering and crazy-making to note how the world has recently responded to the two latest massive outbreaks of anti-Semitism – by a virulent volcanic explosion of even greater anti-Semitism. Most Jews assumed that the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7, 2023 (Hamas’ jihadi pogroms out of Gaza) would result in the world showing compassion to Israel, and granting a measure of understanding to Israel’s military responses. The opposite was true, for within one week riots and anti-Jewish demonstrations made headlines across the world. Iran’s nuclear weapons preparations and ballistic missile/attack drone firings on Israel brought Israel’s self-defense responses, neutralizing most of Iran’s genocidal weapons and leaders. Rather than rejoice that one of the main obstacles to peace in the Middle East had been de-fanged, the world’s media was set ablaze with attacks on Israel and its leadership; anti-Semitism against charged into the gap with its time-tested demonic strategies. This eruption of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism may be surprising to some, upsetting to many, and tragic as well. But this is the direction where the world is heading.
Stand up and be counted – you will be heard above the noise!
Terry Talbot, of legendary Mason Proffit rock star fame, became a follower of the Jewish Messiah Yeshua, and came out with a wonderful record in 1976 produced by Al Perkins titled ‘No Longer Alone.’ My favorite song on the album is ‘Gospel Light,’ Terry sings: “Stand up and be counted! You will be heard above the noise – if you only shout it, and sing with your own voice!”
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. threw a spotlight on the underlying motives of anti-Semitic attitudes and statements when he noted, “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism” (in ‘The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel’; Seymour Martin Lipset; Encounter Magazine, December 1969).
Jack Bruce, former bassist for late Sixties rock supergroup ‘Cream’, added a wry Scottish observation: “The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges! The anti-Semite simply has to make them.”
- It is time to stand up for God’s values and for His heart for Zion, and to pray earnestly that YHVH will bring to Israel “salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us!”
How shall we then pray?
- Pray for the evil of anti-Semitism to be exposed and removed from the leaders of your country and your community
- Pray that all jihadi plans to destroy Israel and to cause great casualties to the Jewish people will be nullified
- Pray that divine wisdom, strategies and discernment be given to the leaders of Israel and the USA
- Pray that you and your family will have divinely-breathed personal courage to hold back these demonic manifestations in your sphere of reference
- Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth
Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.
In Messiah Yeshua,
Avner Boskey
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