What You Didn't Know about Antisemitism

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There is no hatred in the world like it. It's time for the Line of Fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator, Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity. Call 866-34-TRUTH to get on the Line of Fire. And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Welcome, welcome, friends, to the Line of Fire on this thoroughly Jewish Thursday. We are back in our Mercy Culture studios in Fort Worth. We'll be here today and tomorrow coming your way live at the same phone number as always to call 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. I have a special guest that's going to be joining me at the bottom of the hour who has put together honestly the most amazing book I've ever seen on antisemitism in my life.

I have no idea how they were able to put this together. We'll tell you more about it later in the broadcast. For those watching, we just showed a clip, we'll show a little bit more later in the broadcast to give you an idea of what's in the book.

I mean, it's mind-boggling what's been compiled there and how it's been compiled. So we're going to dig into that at the bottom of the hour and talk about antisemitism and what makes it so unique and so diabolical. That means if you have a Jewish-related question, now is the time to call. I won't be taking calls in the second half of the hour, but I will be taking some calls as long as they are Jewish-related in the first half of the broadcast, 866-348-7884. That's 866-34-TRUTH.

You can call in now and I will get to some of your calls before we get to the bottom of the hour. Tomorrow evening begins Rosh Hashanah and the traditional Jewish calendar, the biblical calendar Yom Teruah, the first day of the seventh month, which launches the beginning of the High Holy Days, the most sacred, intensive season on the Jewish calendar. So what was the Feast of Trumpets or the sounding of the trumpets, this wake-up call in ancient Israel, has then subsequently developed into what became the Jewish New Year. So rather than the Jewish New Year being the time of folks getting drunk and partying and, no, it's a time of introspection, it is the beginning of the 10 days of all, yamim no ha'im. And during these 10 days of all, it is a time of deep Jewish repentance and reflection leading up to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement on this 10th day of the seventh month, followed five days after that by the great time of rejoicing sukkot tabernacles. So as we know, Messiah comes in conjunction with the Passover, dies for our sins, he rises in conjunction with firstfruits, the Spirit is poured out in conjunction with Pentecost Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, then the break of several months, and then the fall feasts. We expect the Messiah's return in conjunction with the sounding of the final trumpet and then the purging and purification of Israel and the cleansing of the nation and then the ingathering of the nations to worship in Jerusalem, the fall feasts unfolding. Okay, I want to read a couple of things to you that I hope will be of encouragement to you.

I want to read a couple of things to you. As you know, there have been more and more incidents in Israel of ultra-orthodox Jews, religious Jews, others attacking Christian clergy, vandalizing buildings, and this is something that is highly unusual within Israel. It is not reflective of the sentiments of the nation as a whole, it is not reflective of the sentiments of religious leaders as a whole, but there are growing numbers of ultra-orthodox with hateful attitudes who are living them out, and to them Christianity is an enemy and Jesus is an evil person.

They don't know what the real gospel is, they don't know who the real Jesus Yeshua is, but of course this is completely outrageous, unjustified, and has drawn major statements from leaders in Israel. I was forwarded a couple of these this week by someone working in public policy with the Israeli embassy. They sent me a couple of these things because they knew of my interest here. So I want to read you a statement that was sent to a letter that was sent to Father Jean Joseph Bergera, or Jean Joseph Bergera, who was the abbot of the Stella Maris monastery in Haifa. It is from the chief rabbi of Israel, David Lau, president of the chief rabbinic council and chief rabbi of Israel.

This is what he wrote, I am aware that in the past few weeks a conflict has unfolded in the domain of the Stella Maris monastery. Although I'm not familiar with the specific details I find it appropriate to express my opinion about the principles of this conduct. I harshly condemn causing harm to members of the clergy in particular and to any person in general due to their faith. Throughout history the Jewish religion has been injured more than any other because of its faith and this requires us even more to insist that any action that is violent by nature is forbidden. We are all obliged to protect the dignity of the other and it is strongly forbidden to damage the property of another. Hence it is unthinkable to harm religious leaders or the clergy of other faiths. All human beings are required to respect one another and to behave appropriately towards all people. We have a rule in Judaism what is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.

I assume you have turned to the authorities entrusted with upholding the law that those who have committed these wrongdoings will be punished. Let's pray to the heavens that we will live in a world of peace a world in which the words of the prophet Isaiah they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks will be realized and for days of peace and tranquility for all inhabitants of the universe. Again chief rabbi of Israel David Lau. So it's important to know how others are viewing these acts of vandalism and these attacks on clergy and other Christians. Now my hope is that this also translates out to attitudes towards messianic Jews because often Christians, gentile Christians, Catholics, Protestants, etc. they're put in one category but Jews who believe in Jesus and maintain a Jewish identity are put in another category. I pray that this same sentiment will be expressed towards messianic Jews as well.

Okay one more statement and this was for immediate release as of today Thursday September excuse me okay it says Thursday September 12 2023 but it's either Tuesday September 12th or it is Thursday September 14th so something wrong on the date here. All right this is also highly relevant because Christian Zionist organizations like International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem for years some of their leaders have been denied visas, renewing clergy visas. Remember the ICEJ has a non-proselytizing rule that if you work with them you're just involved in humanitarian work and standing with Israel and it's on record you're not doing this in order to proselytize. Now do the leaders of Christian Embassy in Jerusalem want to see Jewish people come to faith in Jesus? Yes they're Christians they do but they have a non-proselytizing policy so it'd be different than say how Israel might look at me as I'm a missionary and you know I'm a missionary to the Jewish people etc have negative views like that although I should still have complete liberty to come and go in the land etc but to signal a Christian Zionist huh they can't get their clergy visas renewed so this is a statement Mr Eyal Sisu the new director general of the population administration within the Ministry of Interior. Interior convened a meeting this week with senior leaders of three leading global Christian Zionist organizations based in Israel along with their legal counsel to discuss their recent staff visa issues. Mr Sisu assured the representatives from the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, Bridges for Peace and Christian Friends of Israel, I think all of them have a non-proselytizing policy, that there is no change in the policy of the State of Israel regarding the Christian Zionist organizations adding that their presence in the country is warmly welcomed and their support for Israel is appreciated.

It was agreed that the prior understanding from 2020 concerning visas available to the three Christian organizations would be upheld by the Ministry of Interior until any new regulations are approved that will meet the long-term staffing needs of the organizations. The Christian organizations express their gratitude to Mr Sisu for the clarification and the very positive attitude towards their work on Israel's behalf and headlineonallisrael.com announces Israeli Interior Ministry apologizes to Christian Zionist groups. So that's positive and it is keeping with the spirit of Israel.

It is keeping with some of the history of Israel in terms of relationships to Christians. So just want to report that. We report the negative when it happens, we want to report the positive as well. With that, let's go to the phones.

We'll start in South Africa. Doug, welcome to the line of fire. Hi Dr Brown, thank you so much. How are you doing? Very well, thank you.

Good, good. Dr Brown, my question is, I found out I was Jewish about six years ago. I became a Christian in high school. So I know I was Jewish through my mom's mom's mom who Jewish family and I've been struggling with the question, the mosaic and Abrahamic covenants that our ancestors cut with the Lord. Are they still relevant to us today? The reason I ask that is, it says quite a few times that these are, or that there's wording about from generation to generation, that type of stuff. So there's, are these still valid today and are we as covenantal Jews required to uphold those things that the Lord asks? Right, so the first thing is that the Abrahamic covenant was separate from the Sinai covenant, from the Mosaic covenant. So we separate that and that was simply the circumcision of sons on the eighth day and we should still carry that out.

It's part of our heritage. It's not, Paul makes clear in 1 Corinthians 7 and Galatians 6 that circumcision in itself is nothing in terms of salvation, forgiveness of sins, etc. However, it is simply a covenantal solidarity through history and if we're able to practice that, it's a good thing. The the Mosaic covenant was established as a forever covenant but we failed. We failed repeatedly because of which God made a new and better covenant which was different than the Mosaic covenant as expressed in Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 31 to 34.

So we are under a new and better covenant and that's reflected in the commands and directives that we have in the New Testament books and those things that are reiterated outside of the Torah in the rest of the Hebrew Bible. So are you obligated as a Jewish believer to keep seventh-day Sabbath? No. Are you obligated to keep dietary laws?

No. That was part of the Sinai covenant. However, all of this has meaning and relevance. We learn from it and then the Holy Spirit writes things on our hearts. So there is some level, if you were raised in a home and let 1 Corinthians 7 beginning verse 17 be your guide. If you were raised in a home and you were Sabbath observant and this is a way of life for you and you observe the dietary laws, now you come to know Jesus, Yeshua, should you stop those? Well why would you stop them?

It's not like they're evil or wrong, right? There's much beauty and grace in them, especially Sabbath, but now it comes with a new meaning and a new understanding beginning with finding rest in Yeshua. What I encourage you to do is go to my website AskDrBrown.org. AskDrBrown.org and just search for law of Moses, Sinai covenant to get more insight and how we understand Yeshua's teachings that I didn't come to abolish, to fulfill.

All these things find their full meaning in Him and then we live them out. Hey, thank you for the call and God bless. Chronic inflammation is the greatest health threat to humanity. Infections, injuries, toxins, poor diet, and chronic stress can attack your immune system and lead to chronic inflammation.

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Bottom of the hour. Bottom of the hour I'll be joined with Israel Petan talking about this amazing new book he's put out on anti-semitism and talking about the phenomenon of anti-semitism. To everyone else the Shana Tova the Hebrew greeting may you be written down for a new year for a good year.

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Hey thanks Dr. Brown. I wanted to throw a quick question at you. I've had something that's been really perplexing to me in the faith, recently return to the faith.

I have really bad OCD and sometimes when my mind will hit on something it's like I got to find the answer and I can't find the answer. Somebody had called in to you before about it Ezekiel's temple. You'd mentioned Averbeck Hebrews 9 and 10 that it's for outward cleansing and point back to Christ. So I was reading all that and there were just a few observations that I was going to throw at you.

I know you have a good memory so I was just going to mention a couple. So at one point in Hebrews 10 it says where there is forgiveness no more sacrifices needed. So I wondered about that. It says the ceremonial system existed in the Old Testament in Hebrews 9 but it doesn't mention the end times. I'm wondering where is Christ in this whole thing, why doesn't it mention Christ, and then I'm wondering why it mentions that the uncircumcised in flesh can't go into the temple, like that'd be part of the church because a lot of the church is uncircumcised in flesh, or is uncircumcised in flesh, so that's my...

I know that's a lot of things but... No no no, great questions. So number one, the larger question of Ezekiel's temple is somewhat mystifying to everyone. Regardless of whether you're a traditional Jew, a Christian who only believes in a future spiritual kingdom, a Christian who believes in a millennial earthly kingdom, it's a puzzle for everybody.

It challenges everybody. If you're a traditional Jew the problem is the dimensions are not the dimensions of the Mosaic temple and they're actually variations in some of the customs of the Mosaic temple slash tabernacle, so that's a problem for traditional Judaism. If you are one who believes in a millennial kingdom, it's a problem because why are there sacrifices at all, right, as you say, and if you just believe it's a spiritual future kingdom or something, then why such a detailed description?

So it's a question for everybody. Dr. Averbeck would say regarding Hebrews 10 that the sacrifices, for example, Day of Atonement, or this is how I would answer, I don't want to say he would answer like this, Day of Atonement, which was specifically about atonement and reconciliation, where you're not going to need that anymore. It doesn't mean you're not going to need ritual washing or things like that or sacrifices that just had to do with ritual cleansing.

Well, maybe not because those serve a different function, but the whole thing was, right, so you have the once and for all forgiveness, it's the cross, and Hebrews is even saying that's the only place that ever came from. As to why the Messiah is not mentioned, it could be similar to Isaiah 2, which is that all the nations streaming to Jerusalem to worship the God of Israel, everyone recognizes that's a messianic prophecy. Traditional Jews, traditional Christians recognize that as a messianic prophecy, but it doesn't mention Messiah.

So he doesn't always have to be mentioned. On the flip side though, it's certainly possible that it is just meant as a future vision of God's kingdom coming and God's people being blessed and those who are not part of his kingdom being excluded, and it's never going to be literally fulfilled. That it was a spiritual vision that God gave Ezekiel as to what was to happen with the return from the Babylonian exile as the people turned to God in obedience, that never happened. It remains a future vision given in priestly terms because that's who he was, he was a priest, and that's how those who would argue who don't believe in a millennial temple. So to me, I know for many, many years, Marc, I really struggled as a Jewish believer because the rabbis would challenge me with this.

The more I looked at it, I thought it's problematic for everyone. Let me drink in the spiritual meaning of it. Let me take in the spiritual reality. It's just like when I read the book of Revelation, I don't try to figure out every detail, but I do absolutely drink in the spiritual power and truths of it and live with sobriety because of it. So that's how I would approach it and say, hey, these are question marks that we may not have full answers for on this side of things, and as they unfold, they'll make sense. Hey, thank you for the call and nothing OCD about it. All right, let's go to Amy in Chicago. Welcome to the line of fire.

Thank you, Dr. Brown. I wonder if you could tell more about Sukkot or tabernacles and what you have come to see it to mean? Yes. Now that you've become a believer in Messiah? So I did not grow up in a religious home, so we didn't celebrate Sukkot in a prominent way. We went to the High Holy Day services and things, but we didn't put up a sukkah. I didn't grow up with that.

If I did, if it was part of my life, I'd probably still do it and enjoy it and remember, you know, we're just passing through this world, some of the lessons, etc. But the biggest significance it has to me in an ongoing way as a believer is that it speaks of the final ingathering of the nations. That when you look at the, as Numbers lays out the details of this and lays out the sacrifices, 13 bulls on the first day, then 12 and 11, it diminishes each day until you get to a total of 70.

And 70 was the ancient concept in the Bible of the nations of the world, the 70 nations, the rabbis were talking about the 70 nations. And in Zechariah 14, so the Messiah is revealed, Zechariah 12, cleansing for Israel, Zechariah 13. Zechariah 14, the nations now that, the survivors of the nations that attacked Jerusalem, come into Jerusalem to do what, worship God when at the Feast of Tabernacles. So this signifies to me the final ingathering of the nations, the great harvest. And as we celebrate it, there's not just the reminder that we're passing through this world, that we don't have a permanent home here, but there is the reminder that there will be the final ingathering of the nations of the world. So that has, that's the main significance. When I am able, you know, the times I've been able to celebrate this under the Sukkah with other Messianic Jews or sitting with traditional rabbis, there's something very special about it because it's kind of a set apart time and a set apart place that has significance to it. But again, it was never part of my life, if I lived in Israel, it would be part of my life more in terms of the whole nation celebrating a certain way.

But I've continued in certain ways, not trying to put other things on that weren't part of me when I came to faith, aside from growing in the Lord and His grace. So you may want to check out a book by Mitch and Sahaba Glaser, G-L-A-S-E-R, on the Fall Feasts of Israel, G-L-A-S-E-R, Mitch and Sahaba Glaser. You'll find that really, really edifying. Alright, phone lines are jammed, but I've got a guest coming on. So if you're able to call back tomorrow, let's just see, I'm looking at the names here. If you're able to call back tomorrow, please do and I will put you at the top of our list.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Welcome, welcome to the Line of Fire on thoroughly Jewish Thursday as we get into the high holiday season, holiday season on the Jewish calendar beginning with Yom Teruah, the day of the sounding of the trumpet, the blowing of the shofar and the traditional Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah. Hey, shout out to Hector, one of our torchbearers, as your son Daniel is manning the boards today. All right, I mentioned this amazing book. For those watching, we're just going to just put something up when I was in my studio with this book.

Just to give you an idea, Dan, you can run that B-roll. I was cited in the book, my book on Our Hands Are Stained with Blood, The Tragic Story of the Church and the Jewish People, about anti-Semitism in church history. I was cited in the book. That's how I found out about it. I bought the book.

I was stunned. It's like 650 pages and the exact title, hang on, the exact title is, let me make sure I get it right, a brief, oh yeah, brief, 670 pages brief, A Brief and Visual History of Anti-Semitism by Israel Biton, B-I-T-T-O-N. I've never seen anything like it. I have no idea how this thing was produced. It's a $50 hardcover book.

We're not selling it to our ministry. I have no idea how it was produced. It must have been underwritten left and right, every page with visuals and graphics.

I think there's 75 different sections in it where you have an app and you just scan and they'll take you, okay, here's archival footage or here's more illustrations or here's lectures. I'm stunned by it. It is an incredible compilation and I reached out to Mr. Biton and asked if he'd come on there and join us. There may have been an error in scheduling. So tell you what, tell you what, I'm not sure what happened. It appears we had a scheduling error on his end, one way or another.

So I want to mention the book and I'm going to talk to you about anti-Semitism in a moment. If he is caught up on another call and getting back to us now, we'll bring him on immediately. But Isaac, stay where you are. I may have time to take some calls after all. So we dropped everybody, but I may have time to take some calls after all. We shall see. But let me just comment on the uniqueness of anti-Semitism, the uniqueness of Jew hatred and what sets it apart from other hatreds.

Now please hear me. Different people have suffered through history terribly, different groups. There have been genocides, there have been atrocities, there has been enslavement. There have been horrible things suffered by different groups of people over the centuries that are terrible, that are barbaric, that are barbaric, that are unjustifiable, that show the very, very worst of Jewish nature.

The very, very worst of human nature. The reality is Jew hatred, hatred of the Jewish people is unique. It has been pointed out that it is the world's longest hatred.

In other words, to single out a particular group and for them to be singled out as a people and hated as such through history is unprecedented. And you can go back, you can go back to the, you can go back to in the Bible, the book of Esther, the hatred of Jews, but even outside of the Bible. About 2,300 years ago in the Greco-Roman world where Jews were hated because they were different.

And it's not just the longest hatred, but it's the most widespread hatred. If you think of it, radical Islam hates Jews and much of Islam through history as hating the Jews. There's been anti-Semitism in church history. Some of the most vile things ever written have been written by Christian leaders against Jewish people. And you go through, there's atheistic hatred of Jews.

You think, why is anti-Semitism so incredibly pervasive? Well, we do have on the line with us, Israel Biton. Israel, thanks so much for joining us today on the Line of Fire. Thank you so much, Dr. Brown, for having me. It's a pleasure to be here and to be talking about this important topic with you and your audience. All right, so you are a leader of an organization, Americans Against Anti-Semitism, and you put together this book. Before you came on, I was just singing the praises of the book. Honestly, I've never seen anything like it. I mean, I can't imagine the amount of research went into it, but this must have been heavily underwritten to be able to publish this book.

I mean, I know it goes into putting on a book. So this, I mean, it has this introduction by the president of Israel, the endorsements behind it. So how did you get this collaborative effort even to happen?

Sure. So really this project was born of the creation of this grassroots startup organization itself, Americans Against Anti-Semitism, which was created in 2019 in response to what we, you know, the people I work with right away identified as a very serious spike for a lot of different factors that obviously go into creating such things. But we noticed the spike. We noticed that other organizations already legacy orgs were not really understanding the issue or responding to the issue for a variety of reasons. And therefore we set out to not duplicate efforts, but say, what can we do to make a dent of the difference in some kind of measurable and meaningful way, not just, you know, do a campaign, get a lot of attention and, you know, hope that somehow seeing an ad that might be, even if it's compelling is just going to radically change the picture and, you know, thousands of years of this type of a phenomenon. So one of the things we noticed right away was, and obviously the starting point in almost any corrective for hatred, social hatreds and, you know, intercommunal interfaith animosity is ignorance. When there's ignorance, it's the perfect breeding ground for both indulging in hatred as well as for Jews who don't know their own history, especially young Jews who are going out and, you know, university campuses across the country and are being challenged in ways that they've never been challenged before with lies and just really grotesque conspiracies that are thrown at them. And that if they don't know their history, they don't know the truth, the simple truth, the, you know, not, not based on Jewish sources, but as, as it's always been out there based on, you know, the sources themselves, whatever, wherever it came from. So it was important to address that gap. We noticed that antisemitism, although there's a lot written about Jewish history and there's a lot written about antisemitism, antisemitism as a subject had never been treated curricular. You know, it had never been given and translated into a textbook. There's Holocaust, there's Israel, you know, Israeli history, Zionism, Jewish history, but there isn't this focus because it's kind of in the past, it's been looked at as well.

It shows up in different episodes, but it's not really its own thing. And now with antisemitism obviously skyrocketing, there's interest and understanding this and this phenomenon, and more importantly for young people of all backgrounds, uh, young and old, but especially young people who are going to be in these, uh, uh, very high pressure environments where, you know, it's okay to encounter differing opinions, but when it's a maliciousness and, and, you know, people coming at you with blood libels and saying, you know, you murdered Israel, Israel murders the Palestinian children. Like it's a, it's a fact of life.

Like they, they take apples off the tree, you know, and, uh, that's very stunning for people who are on the receiving end. It's not so clear and simple as to how to respond, especially when people are speaking in the name of justice, in the name of humanitarian principles. Anyone who has a heart would be like, you know, if you're going to see an image of a, of a child in Gaza whose house was demolished, anyone, you know, you just don't have to be Palestinian.

Jewish makes no difference. You should feel something. But obviously that's not the complete picture, not the full story. So really the book came about as simply seeing an opportunity, doing something about it. Um, and it was a very big undertaking.

It took about two years of nonstop work. Um, and the only reason why it was really feasible is because I did research the writing and the design and the layout, uh, the full range of content, uh, the videos that are popping up on augmented reality, all of that. That's what made it, uh, cost effective if you will. Otherwise no other organization would put together the team ordinarily or the budget, which would have been three, four, five times the amount that it actually took. So thankfully people did see the value. It was underwritten by, uh, you know, the names are in the beginning of the book of various, uh, uh, you know, individuals and families who, uh, we saw the need and responded. And, uh, I'm grateful for that.

Yeah. I, I saw it, I bought it for myself immediately. And when I got, I thought, what in the world? I mean the weight of it, the physical and then, and then flipping through when I brought it in to show my producers, uh, uh, day before yesterday, one of them, their, his first comment was just like a school textbook because of the, the constant illustrations and pictures.

The fact you did this in two years is still mind boggling in terms of the amount of research work content on every single page. But this is really a 21st century book and that there's an app, you download a free app and then you have 75 or so different places in the book where it says scan me and the book actually comes alive. So, so what's, what's some of what, and I want to talk about it, the phenomenon of antisemitism in a moment, but first the phenomenon of the book. So what, what are some of the things that come alive when you, when you just scan with your phone and now the book is talking to you?

Sure. So, you know, there's this thing of augmented reality where, and virtual reality, which in applications such as these and books, especially in education, it can very well veer into gimmicks and you know, just kind of having it cause it's cool. In this scenario, note the title of the book is a brief and visual history. That is, it would not be the same book if it was only text, not only cause it would be boring, but because there is, if one really seeks to understand antisemitism, it can not only be the literature and the pure text because there's a, a trove of, and there's this long legacy of the visual depictions and understanding how, uh, you know, Jews, you know, we're called shape shifters, but we're morphed according to the projections of, you know, each time in place, if they needed, if it needed to be about finance, it would be about finance.

If it needed to be about race, it was about race and being a vermin class, whatever it might've been. Uh, so yeah, it's obviously that's something that, uh, has evolved, uh, over time. But, uh, what we're seeing with the AR in this case is that there's a need. Also the other side is that some of these, uh, propositions that antisemites have made over the generations is especially where there's a video evidence in the last hundred years is mind boggling. And in some cases, like almost unbelievable. So there's an aspect of, see it for yourself, hear it for yourself, be, have your mind boggled.

Like for example, I mean, when I first discovered it, it still boggles my mind that Hitler actually got up. Hey, hang on. Right. Hang on right there, sir. We'll come back on the other side of the break and, and hear more, get into this very illustration. And so I don't forget the Shana Tova Israel.

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I've got no connection to the publisher. I'm just saying this as someone that's combated antisemitism for many, many years. It's a must. And for the whole family, different ages, you dig into this. Scholars want to research, just find tons of stuff in one place. And then again, the visual elements. It really is an extraordinary book. A brief and visual history of antisemitism.

It's worth five or 10 times what you pay for it because of the production values there. And then everything that will come alive in the book for you. And Israel, as you know, I mentioned it to you. Early on in my own faith journey, the local rabbi gave me a book on antisemitism in church history. And as I've talked to professors at seminaries over the years, church historians, and I said, when do you teach on this in your classes? Or when do you talk about the sermons of Christastom and God hates the Jews? Or when do you talk about Luther's antisemitic writings? And they've looked at me shamefully and said, we don't. And it reminds me of what Edward Flannery said, the Catholic scholar, that the pages of history Jews have memorized, Christians have torn out of their history books.

So we can never be reminded too much. But right before the break, you were giving one of the illustrations, which is impossible to believe this without seeing it, about Hitler. So please, back to you. Thank you. Well, first of all, thank you for that, you know, vote of confidence and support and, you know, the book and what you saw. And it's greatly appreciated.

I don't either stand to gain from it despite what I put. I did it because I believed in it and, you know, it'll get as far as it gets and, you know, hopefully it makes that impact. In terms of what I was saying earlier, I'll just finish on that very quickly is, is just, you know, the visual and the aspect is really to, to illustrate the full scale, the full dimension of this issue, because to discount the visual element to discount the fact that the most outlandish things have been said, it's also important. And there's reason why, you know, it's a history. The point is for people to understand that there is absolutely nothing in the antisemites and antisemitism canon that has not already been said by whoever, you know, originated it 2500 years ago about money, about gold, about, you know, disease, about taking over plotting, whatever it might be, there's no originality. So, you know, for me personally, having experienced antisemitism growing up and, you know, kind of hits you at a left field, that was very important to help me understand that, in a sense, don't take it personally, it's got nothing to do with me, I didn't do anything. Those people, you know, individuals who engage in such activity obviously have some kind of problem and they're projecting that and taking it out on, you know, someone who just happens to be fitting a certain scapegoat's description. So that's obviously rather unfortunate. But yeah, that was just to complete that point that, you know, it is not, in fact, a gimmick and it is important to look and to see and to hear and to, with one's own eyes and one's own ears, you know, there's a point of having that impression, especially on younger people who are, you know, not being exposed to this stuff or being exposed to things in 15-second bits and whatnot.

Yeah. So what would be an example then of something that Hitler said or did that's like, oh, that never happens, like, okay, let's look, here, here, look with your own eyes. Yeah, it's not almost that it never happened, it's just it would have found anyone that when we talk about it after the fact that six million Jews were killed, you know, millions of people from every nationality, Poles, Russians, Germans themselves, you know, civilians, children, women were also killed, and that scale of death would be unimaginable, yet we look at 1939 and there's video of Hitler proclaiming at the Reichstag that, you know, if there's a world war looming and if it starts, the world should know that it's the Jews who are going to be destroyed and pay the price. So, wow, wait, what?

He actually got on the stage and said he was going to do what he did and still the world didn't believe it for six years as he was perpetuating this brutal genocide. That's astounding. That's a lesson in and of itself. So, and that's just one little video that, you know, makes the page come alive. Basically, you'll see the image and then it converts, you scan, you hold the phone over the page and that just turns into the video, actual archival video of, you know, that moment, 15, 20, 30 seconds, whatever it might be, and it's the same thing with other seminal moments. The other thing is there are 3D models of different landmarks such as the Second Temple, such as the Kaaba in Mecca and others where, you know, the user can kind of manipulate it, turn it around, basically explore it as a 3D model.

So there are items like that as well that make it a little more interactive and immersive than simply, you know, text on a page. And the whole point of it, as I write in the book, is not to create debaters and let's engage and just honor people to go out there with facts and, you know, and debate. The whole point was that it should let the people, you know, any good intentioned person know that they don't need to debate their life. You know, Israel, the fact that it's like seeking legitimacy for its existence, that's a problem. You know, nobody as a matter of existential fact has to prove their right to exist. The fact that you exist, you have the right to exist, it's that simple.

You know, that's the rule of nature and that's why it's a crime to kill somebody because who is… and take that existence from someone else. And yet, this is a double standard that has long been applied to Jews and now to the state of Israel. Yeah, again, friends, the book, A Brief and Visual History of Antisemitism, Israel B. Bitton, B-I-T-T-O-N.

So, you've immersed yourself in this, you experienced this growing up, you've immersed yourself in the subject, you've looked at the academic literature, you also have some philosophical studies in your background. We've just got a couple of minutes but if someone said to you why, why antisemitism? Because you can't connect all the disparate threads through history and different, you know, the accusations and everything. You said they repeat themselves but when you try to connect all the dots it becomes very difficult, you know, when Jews are influential, they're hated. When they're at the bottom of society, they're hated. When they're religious, they're hated. When they're secular, they're hated. So, if someone says why antisemitism, what's your ultimate answer?

So, I would say it comes down to really three things. It's storytelling, the phenomenon of hatred as a human, in the human condition, and then the fact that Judaism is the only religion in the history of the world and the evolution of religions to give birth to outgrowth religions. And that in of itself, unfortunately, has never really been examined, appreciated, and looked at and say, how do we go back to that source and correct where that, you know, because well, if you're coming as an outgrowth and there's animosity, there's, and for reasons, because at first, before Christianity became, you know, the religion of the Roman Empire, they were actually persecuted by the Roman Empire for centuries. And there was, you know, considerable acrimony between this group that was coming from, you know, a Jewish core. And then there was confusion in beliefs on both sides. Both sides would then castigate and say, hey, you know, don't go next to the Christians. They would tell Jews, they would tell Christians, don't go next to the Jews, vice versa. From there, the fact is that it's Judaism that gave birth to Christianity, gave birth to Islam, that is now a faith for nearly 4 billion people or more in the world today.

So that's a very different trajectory than almost any other group and the world's interest in them. Now, what preceded that moment of getting off on the wrong foot as, as the, you know, there was a divergence between Christianity and Judaism is the idea that, well, where does hate come from? What, what is hatred? We look at, if you look at the Bible, the Torah, the Old Testament, the, the first instance of this type of hatred and what it leads to is Cain and Abel. And, and why is Cain killed his brother?

Because he's jealous. And what is jealousy? It's a story that means that hatred, that hate that leads someone to do something, love something as taking someone's life is based on a story. Now, in most cases, that story is corrupted. Of course, if somebody does a horrible thing to, to another person, we can understand why they may hate that individual. It would still not be, it would still not be logical to expand that hatred to that, you know, every association that that person may have. So what we have with Judaism, what we have with this legacy of antisemitism is the fact that, well, going back a second, what are, what makes humans really different than all other animals is that we're storytellers who can actually record media and pass that on transgenerationally in ways that say whales, which can do a lot transgenerationally, still cannot.

They can't record a, a physical media picture of the, you know, their great ancestor and pass that information down in a direct way. But when it comes to humanity and society, we can't, we can make up ancient books that say horrible things about Jews that will survive over the generations that will proliferate, that will take on new words, new meanings, new contexts, et cetera. But now we have the storytelling problem because behind any hatred, we say antisemitism and some will say, no, I'm not antisemitism anti-Zionist. No, I don't hate Jews. I just don't like that they control the world.

I don't like hate Jews. All of that type of stuff at the end of the day. Uh, you know, it's, it's, uh, literally it's, it's, it's constant, it's repeated.

There's nothing, uh, uh, novel in that. But yeah, the point being that these are corrupted stories. The idea is that as a society collectively, we're all responsible and the corruption is the corruption of the golden law. Whereas nobody would accept the treatment, whether it's to Jews, whether it's to a black person or to a Christian, if you're a Christian being persecuted throughout the world, there's one standard. I have the persecution, uh, people for their identity or their beliefs or their physical characteristics, whatever it might be is either society writ large is against it and they're adamant and they're consistent or not.

Yeah. Hey, listen, I've got to jump in. We are, we're actually out of time already, but thank you sir for coming on the air and thank you for putting this, this book together. I really urge everybody that can do it, especially as we come into the high holy days, get this book, share it, let truth disseminate and push back against the darkness, a brief and visual history of antisemitism. Another program powered by the truth network.