Hey, @andragoras-in-vanity ...

You are the problem. You are blaming the victims of a terrorist attack for their own murders. You are the reason this happened.

Look at what you're saying. "These Jews weren't good people. These people were ZiOnIsTs¹. I don't feel bad about these genocidal fucks."

A ten year old child was murdered for being Jewish, you ghoul. She was celebrating a holiday with her family. She's not even buried yet and you're excusing her death.

You are directly contributing to hate crimes like this. You are encouraging people like these terrorists, because Jews celebrating our own holidays can't be good people. Because you don't believe children or Holocaust survivors can be good people. Because you don't believe good Jews exist.

You're comparing US to Nazis, the same people who want to wipe us out. Now either you understand what a Nazi is and you're using the comparison to be intentional hurtful (comparing a Holocaust survivor to a Nazi is a new low), or you genuinely don't know what Nazism is and you're using it as shorthand for "unspeakable evil". Frankly, I don't know which one is worse.

You will find any reason to excuse our murders. We can't be victims. We're not allowed to mourn. Instead we all have to be punished because of Israel. All Jews are definitely responsible for the war there, right? You're no different from Inquisitors who held all Jews guilty for killing Jesus, or Nazis who held Jews responsible for destroying Germany. And your evil rhetoric has the same lethal outcome.

You are evil, and you are to blame for antisemitic hate crimes. You are a bad person, and I don't want you to forget that. May all your teeth fall out except one to give you a toothache. I hope every time your mouth hurts, you think of me. I hope you remember how you excused and minimized mass murder. I hope you feel guilty, but you'd need a conscience for that.

1 You can't even define Zionism. You're just using it as code for "Jews I don't like."

It's times like these I am reminded of a friend who told me "I would never be friends with someone who's been to Israel".

Or when I introduced myself to a friend of a friend, a stranger, who when after I said "I teach art and holidays to kindergartners at my synagogue", said "you're still okay with being Jewish?" And "those poor children don't understand you're brainwashing them"

I am reminded of when I watched my Israeli friend get kicked from his online gaming community when they found out where he was from. No questions or anything, just immediate ban. He'd been there for 10 years.

Or when a gentile friend started referring to Shabbat as "Friday night dinner with friends" for fear of looking Jewish.

It's times like these I am reminded who my real friends are. I mourn with my community. I know no matter where we all are and what we believe, we jews will come together as one. Please hold my hands. We will get through these times, we have to.

A reminder this season that Jesus was a Judean Jew, not Palestinian nor a Palestinian Jew.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which, when Jesus was born, was located in the Jewish Kingdom of Judea. Jesus was born to two jewish parents. Yes, Bethlehem is in Modern Day Palestine. However, Jesus was not born in the modern day.

If Jesus was born today, he likely would not have been born in Palestine, he would have been born in Israel. This is due to the vast majority of jews living in Israel or elsewhere in the diaspora. If he was born in Bethlehem today, he would've been born to Israeli Settlers since Bethlehem is in the West Bank.

Jesus being born to jewish parents is not something you can erase or skip over in the hypothetical of if he was born today

You do not need to re-write jewish history to care about Palestinians. You do not need to erase jesus being jewish to care about Palestinians.

Caring about Palestine and Palestinians is not antisemitic. Erasing jewishness and rewriting jewish history is antisemitic.

It's times like these I am reminded of a friend who told me "I would never be friends with someone who's been to Israel".

Or when I introduced myself to a friend of a friend, a stranger, who when after I said "I teach art and holidays to kindergartners at my synagogue", said "you're still okay with being Jewish?" And "those poor children don't understand you're brainwashing them"

I am reminded of when I watched my Israeli friend get kicked from his online gaming community when they found out where he was from. No questions or anything, just immediate ban. He'd been there for 10 years.

Or when a gentile friend started referring to Shabbat as "Friday night dinner with friends" for fear of looking Jewish.

It's times like these I am reminded who my real friends are. I mourn with my community. I know no matter where we all are and what we believe, we jews will come together as one. Please hold my hands. We will get through these times, we have to.

Christians and Jews are on the same team? That is not theology. That is sentimental hallucination.

Scripture could not be clearer. Jesus told the Jews of His day, “If you knew My Father, you would know Me.” He told them they neither knew Him nor His Father. John 8 says those who reject the Son do not have God. First John 2 says, “No one who denies the Son has the Father.” That's a line in the sand, drawn by the anthropomorphic toe of God.

Jesus Himself said to the Jewish leaders, “You are of your father the devil.” That was not a compliment and it was not ecumenism. He did not say they worshiped the same God with a slightly outdated covenant. He said their rejection of Him proved they did not know the God they claimed to honor.

And Jesus made the point even sharper when He said, “If you believed Moses, you would believe Me.” He anchored His entire identity in the writings of Moses. He did not say Judaism without Christ is a sincere parallel faith. He said unbelieving Jews do not even believe their own Scriptures. According to Jesus, rejecting Him is proof that someone does not truly believe the Torah they claim to defend. Moses points to Christ. If you refuse Christ, you are refusing Moses.

Jesus said, “He who is not for Me is against Me.” There is no neutral lane. No shared foundation. No parallel covenant. No separate-but-equal faith. If you are not for Christ, you are against Christ. If you reject the Son, you oppose the Father. That is the standard Jesus gave, and He did not carve out exceptions for American politics.

The New Testament does not teach two parallel faiths waving at each other across history. It teaches one God, one covenant, one Mediator, one Name under heaven by which we must be saved. If you deny the Son, you do not have the Father. If you reject Christ, you reject God. Judaism without Christ is not incomplete Christianity. It is defiant unbelief.

Stop pretending we are on the same team. The team is Christ or nothing. - JD

A reminder this season that Jesus was a Judean Jew, not Palestinian nor a Palestinian Jew.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which, when Jesus was born, was located in the Jewish Kingdom of Judea. Jesus was born to two jewish parents. Yes, Bethlehem is in Modern Day Palestine. However, Jesus was not born in the modern day.

If Jesus was born today, he likely would not have been born in Palestine, he would have been born in Israel. This is due to the vast majority of jews living in Israel or elsewhere in the diaspora. If he was born in Bethlehem today, he would've been born to Israeli Settlers since Bethlehem is in the West Bank.

Jesus being born to jewish parents is not something you can erase or skip over in the hypothetical of if he was born today

You do not need to re-write jewish history to care about Palestinians. You do not need to erase jesus being jewish to care about Palestinians.

Caring about Palestine and Palestinians is not antisemitic. Erasing jewishness and rewriting jewish history is antisemitic.

Christians and Jews are on the same team? That is not theology. That is sentimental hallucination.

Scripture could not be clearer. Jesus told the Jews of His day, “If you knew My Father, you would know Me.” He told them they neither knew Him nor His Father. John 8 says those who reject the Son do not have God. First John 2 says, “No one who denies the Son has the Father.” That's a line in the sand, drawn by the anthropomorphic toe of God.

Jesus Himself said to the Jewish leaders, “You are of your father the devil.” That was not a compliment and it was not ecumenism. He did not say they worshiped the same God with a slightly outdated covenant. He said their rejection of Him proved they did not know the God they claimed to honor.

And Jesus made the point even sharper when He said, “If you believed Moses, you would believe Me.” He anchored His entire identity in the writings of Moses. He did not say Judaism without Christ is a sincere parallel faith. He said unbelieving Jews do not even believe their own Scriptures. According to Jesus, rejecting Him is proof that someone does not truly believe the Torah they claim to defend. Moses points to Christ. If you refuse Christ, you are refusing Moses.

Jesus said, “He who is not for Me is against Me.” There is no neutral lane. No shared foundation. No parallel covenant. No separate-but-equal faith. If you are not for Christ, you are against Christ. If you reject the Son, you oppose the Father. That is the standard Jesus gave, and He did not carve out exceptions for American politics.

The New Testament does not teach two parallel faiths waving at each other across history. It teaches one God, one covenant, one Mediator, one Name under heaven by which we must be saved. If you deny the Son, you do not have the Father. If you reject Christ, you reject God. Judaism without Christ is not incomplete Christianity. It is defiant unbelief.

Stop pretending we are on the same team. The team is Christ or nothing. - JD