The New Anti-Semitism

An inflammatory sign that recently appeared on a Chicago expressway

So, who's behind the inflammatory signs that encourage folks to boycott Israel? The signs have been popping up along the interstates across the U.S. for the past several years.

The group that's paying for the signs is known as StopFundingApartheid.org (SFA), a subsidiary of an organization called the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SMAC). The SMAC says it's not anti-Semitic, but claims it merely exists to alert Americans to Israel's alleged persecution of the Palestinians, and the Jewish nation's unlawful occupation of Palestinian land. Yep, sure.

One of the SFA's signs recently appeared in the Chicago area before it was taken down when the company that put up the sign decided to remove it following an avalanche of complaints. Evidently, a lot of Chicagoans are unenlightened bigots and racists who don't agree with the SFA.

And so, what's the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign really all about? Is it truly just an educational group that believes Israel is persecuting the Palestinians? Or, is it a front group peddling Islamic propaganda for such terror organizations as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood?

According to folks such as David Horowitz, the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center that battles anti-Semitism and the spread of Islamic propaganda on college campuses, the SMAC is indeed a front group for Hamas that seeks Israel's destruction and the elimination of all the Jews from the world.

Furthermore, a group called Standwithus.com has linked Edward Mast, a leading SMAC spokesman to the International Solidarity Movement, a group with close ties to Islamic terror groups.

Who's Mast? According to Familysecuritymatters.org, Mast is a playwright who grew up in California and now resides in Seattle. And furthermore: Seven years ago, Mast was an activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and more recently he has been involved with the “Palestine Online Store.” He is a founding member of the Seattle-based Palestine Information Project which also goes under the name Palestine Solidarity Committee, which has campaigned to boycott Israeli products and produces (Islamic) propaganda.

Islamic terror groups pay puppets such as Edward Mast to spew their vile propaganda to ignorant folks who don't understand what the real agenda is. And what's the real agenda? The real agenda is the Islamic world's vehement hatred of the Jews and Israel. The Islamic world wants to destroy Israel and murder all the Jews. Why? Because that's what the Quran and the Hadith teach. Here's an example:

The last hour (Judgment Day) will not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims will kill them until the Jews will hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree will say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him. (Sahih Muslim, 6986, Hadith)

Since the call for the mass murder of world Jewry and the destruction of Israel is overt anti-Semitism, terror groups camouflage that message in the covert sophistry of "human rights."

And they use front groups such as the SFA and SMAC to deliver that message to ignorant, gullible and unsuspecting folks in order to turn them against the Jews and the nation of Israel. Tragically, too many people embrace that message without investigating its source or examining what its real motives are.

When we examine the evidence, we can easily discover what the real motives are. I've written at length on it, so there's no need to deal with it again here. Here's are some links to articles I've written on Islam, Israel and God's promises to the Jews: Israel and Islam, Isaac and Ishmael. Israel, the Jews and the World. Blissful Ignorance. Islamic Fundamentalism 101.

Why is anti-Semitism metastasizing throughout the world once again? Tragically, the Jews remain under an ancient curse that they incurred thousands of years ago because of their chronic rebellion against God.

Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Lord spoke these words to the prophet Jeremiah: "I will send the sword, famine and plague against them and I will make them like figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them. For they have not listened to my words," declares the Lord, "words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets." (Jeremiah 29:17-19)

The Bible reveals that this ancient curse will end when Jesus Christ comes back to rescue Israel and destroy her enemies at an event known as Armageddon. (Zechariah 14) But before that happens, Israel and the Jews will continue to be persecuted by both the old anti-Semites, and the new ones such as Edward Mast and his SMAC.