Open Season on Jews
Open Season on Jews
By Todd Strandberg
When I was a young adult, the perceived chance of dying in a terrorist attack during a church service was equal to the chance of dying from a meteor impact. Today, violence has reached the point where we just had, during the post-Christmas weekend, two attacks that occurred on religious targets.
The second incident had a positive outcome even though two people died in the incident. The gunman opened fire in the West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas, and he was dead within six seconds. If the first guy had missed, I saw on video half a dozen other people in the church with guns aimed in the killer’s direction.
The liberal media was clearly frustrated over the use of firearms to save lives. Jack Wilson is the hero who returned fire. He used his own weapon to fatally wound the shooter, and he is a firearms instructor who has trained parishioners how to shoot at his own range.
USA Today had a negative view of the matter, “Unfortunately, that kind of split-second heroism has been turned into a PR tool by gun advocates.” The paper was terrified about “at least six other parishioners who also appeared to draw their handguns.”
Any future mass murderers now know they should avoid targeting Texas churches.
The second terrorist attack occurred at the home of a Hasidic Jewish Rabbi. There were about 100 people at the gathering to celebrate Hanukkah, and no one had a gun. The attacker was able to stab five people with a machete-type knife. One person tried to fight him off by using a chair.
If any group should feel the need to be packing a gun, it’s the Jewish community. Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise around the country, leaving Jews and their communities feeling frightened and unsafe. In New York City, anti-Semitic crimes have jumped 21% in the past year. According to the Anti-Defamation League, there were 1,879 incidents of anti-Semitism in the United States in 2018, including more than 1,000 instances of harassment. The 2019 figures are expected to meet or exceed that number.
The suspect in the Saturday night attack, Grafton Thomas, 38, was later arrested in Harlem after police traced his license plate. He had journals that made reference to conspiracies pushed by the Black Hebrew Israelites and included a drawing of a swastika. Another attack earlier last month on a kosher grocery store in New Jersey was carried out by assailants motivated by the same black supremacist ideology.
For several days, the Southern Poverty Law Center has remained completely silent about the domestic terror attack against Hasidic Jews, presumably because it was carried out by a non-white person. Despite the SPLC constantly fanning the flames of hysteria over domestic extremism, the organization has been slow to condemn attacks against Jews. When the SPLC finally issued a statement on the Hanukkah Celebration Attack, it appears to have been deliberately written to have as little meaning as possible:
“Once again we have seen innocent people violently attacked as they gather to celebrate and practice their faith. Anti-Semitism has reared its destructive head and violated members of the Jewish community. When any one of us is attacked, we are all at risk. This is a time in which the voices for good cannot be silent. Stand with the Jewish community and SPLC as we continue to challenge the rise in anti-Semitism. As Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote: ‘In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.’”
Someday a second Holocaust will sweep over the planet, and organizations like the SPLC will stand silently by as the Antichrist’s soldiers hunt down the Jewish people. What allows them to issue a hypocrite statement about the sin of remaining silent is because they are controlled by the same forces that seek to destroy the Children of Israel.
The lack of concern over the rise in anti-Semitism is especially at work in Europe. Jews are constantly being attacked by Muslims, and the authorities are completely blind to who is causing all this anti-Semitism. When we are at the point where we can’t even recognize the “time of Jacob’s trouble,” God’s final protective hand is the only thing preventing open season on Jews.
“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it” (Jeremiah 30:7).
–Todd