Living, working and studying in the tight-knit Anglo-Jewish neighborhood in French-speaking Montreal for nearly two decades, I saw human behavior that was so bizarre, it reminded me of video clips that showed animals of different species develop unexpected relationships between them, such as cats and dogs getting along as good friends, for example.
So, how about the
one I did not see happen in real life, but could easily have imagined given the
strange relationships I saw develop and dissolve between devout Christians and
fanatic Jews? Here is one scene that could easily have been produced in my
imagination: A cat plays mother to a newly hatched duck for a few days and then
eats it.
What I saw in Montreal
were not cannibalistic scenes of Christians and Jews eating each other, but
scenes that were so extreme, they suggested that the actors could live on hate
alone, nourished as they were by the power of revulsion produced with the force
of their passion.
The people acted
lovey-dovey when facing each other, using words and gestures that projected a
friendship based on the appreciation and admiration they had for each other
when in reality, it was fear of the other that motivated them to put on such
phony scenes. You would sense the extent of their phoniness when you saw them
apart from each other, and witness them spew venom about the other in
quantities that could fill the Grand Canyon.
It would have been
nearly impossible at that time to convince anyone in Montreal or elsewhere that
the love they were seeing envelop the two characters, was as real as a mirage
produced in the desert on a hot Summer day. Well, my friend, that was then but
things are different today because the truth about the loathing these two have
for each other is getting harder to hide.
You’ll know why
things are different today when you read the article that came under the title:
“A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews,” and the subtitle: “Anyone
connected to reality would be perplexed by church leaders’ campaign to blame
Israeli Jews for driving Christians out of Israel, as the country’s Christian
population actually increased last year.” The article was written by Melanie
Phillips and published on December 23, 2021 in Jewish News Syndicate.
The story is of the
kind that would be circulated sotto voce because it criticized Israel at a time
when doing so was a sacrilege that called for the immediate cancelation of the
offender. But things are different now thanks to an internet that has allowed
amateurs to act more professionally than the highly paid professionals who
would rather kiss a rear-end than be kissed goodbye and be out of a job.
The truth is that
the Jews are not only ethnic cleansing the country of Palestine which they
stole lock, stock and barrel from its indigenous population, they have also
been working on erasing the country’s Christian heritage by among other things,
chasing away Christians of every ethnicity. They do so by physically attacking Christians,
vandalizing their buildings and desecrating their monuments.
What was kept under
wraps previously is now said openly by the priests, thus forcing the Jews of
Israel and their mouthpieces in America to come out of their hiding places and
howl their distress in unison. Rather than react the way that normal thieves
do, which is to explain why they behaved the way they did, and ask for
understanding as well as forgiveness, the Jews of Israel and their
Anglo-American mouthpieces acted in the uniquely Jewish fashion of the Jew who
insults the victim he just robbed. This is the mentality that Melanie Phillips
contributed to the Jewish howling meant to respond to the complaints expressed
by Christian leaders of the various churches in Jerusalem.
What is noteworthy about
what Melanie Phillips did, is that she couched the latest verbal flare-up in
the language of mutual hatred that has characterized the Christian-Jewish split
over the past 2000 years. Here are examples of the language that she used:
“Christian churches
mark Christmas 2021 by scapegoating the Jews. A preposterous campaign was
mounted by church leaders to blame Israeli Jews for driving Christians out of
Israel. This campaign is grotesque. More disturbing, as noted by Marie van der
Zyl, was the archbishops’ reference to the Christmas story taking place
against the backdrop of a genocide of infants. ‘I found this reference
troubling, she wrote, ‘because of the linkage which could be made between
Christianity, Jews and the killing of children in any current context.’ It’s
more than just troubling. Not only does it slyly reinforce the blood libel that
the IDF willfully slaughters Palestinian children, it continues to tap into the
calumny of replacement theology, which has been revived within the church. This
doctrine, responsible for the Christian pogroms against the Jews of Europe,
held that the Christians had replaced the Jews in the eyes of God while the
Jews had become the party of the devil. Today, this doctrine has been endorsed
by many Western churches, claiming that the Palestinians have inherited the
divine promise of the land of Israel. This has created absurdities and
obscenities. The churches chose to scapegoat the Jews for crimes
against Christianity, the myth fueling Christian antisemitism. Many are
horrified by the venom of the churches towards Israel and the resurgence of
theological Christian Jew-hatred. Little has changed for the church in its
malice towards the Jewish people”.
That hate surfaces
at Christmas time as noted by Melanie Phillips, and it is no accident. It is
that before the Jews embraced what is a joyful season for the Christians, they used
to treat as a calamity the birth of the “bastard” Jesus to the “whore” that was
his mother. It was a calamity, said the Jews, because the misery that birth brought
to them happened on that day.
But while Christmas
was a day of mourning for the Jews, Good Friday was truly a good day for them
because on that day, they would have wanted to be on location centuries ago, hammering
the crown of thorns into the head of Jesus.