Editor,
Israeli soccer fans were in Amsterdam recently for a game between a club from Tel Aviv and a Dutch club. Suddenly, mobs unleashed a wave of violence against them, chasing Jews through the streets on motorbikes and beating them. According to Dutch authorities, the campaign was organized beforehand and the attackers were equipped for their onslaught.
When I read an article like this I think what if it was Jesus watching that soccer match? I think some people forget the savior of the world was a Jew also! Jesus taught love and compassion for all people. In essence, every college with an anti-Israel encampment or a campus culture where pro-Israel Jews find themselves ostracized and targeted by faculty and students. The takeover of American education by those advocating for toxic Marxist myths like critical race theory and intersectionality, which falsely label Jews and Israel as “white” oppressors who are always in the wrong and deserve whatever violence is directed at them, has led to the indoctrination of a generation that sees the barbaric atrocities of Oct. 7 as justified “resistance.” This is America, the land of the free for all people. There’s no room for hatefulness against any American and shouldn’t be tolerated. Anti-semitism, like all racism, is an affront to the God who made each of us in his image (Genesis 1:27) and “loves each of us as if there were only one of us” (St. Augustine). Even Abraham Lincoln stated prophetically in his second inaugural address that the Civil War was divine punishment for the sin of slavery, a sin in which all Americans were complicit. Please Americans let us ask almighty God to protect Jews and all other oppressed minorities around the world. Let us be an example for the rest of the world. God Bless America.
Norman Phillips
Woodland
