OPINION:
Last week, I posted a comment on Facebook from Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, whereby he said there is a growing concern among Israeli leaders that people in the West don’t understand we are undergoing the same existential threat that his country is facing, but just in a much more subtle way.
“I think it is very important for Americans to understand,” he said, “that there is a plan by the Muslim Brotherhood [and its proxy organizations such as CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations] to make America a Muslim state.”
Mr. Chikli went on: “If you want to see where it is already successful, take a look at what’s happening in Belgium. Take a look at what is happening in Britain. The situation in Great Britain is a disaster. They are already in control of London. … And they are already in control of other major cities [across the country.]”
The minister concluded: “[In Europe,] you now have an alliance between the left and the [Islamists] … and you can see the same pattern in the Democratic Party in the United States. People need to be aware of the danger that is coming from … political Islam, [and its use of open borders, cultural agitation, and left/right partnerships to take over your land].”
Now you would think that any half-intelligent American voter who fancies himself even remotely informed and who has taken more than five minutes to read the daily news coming out Columbia University or Dearborn, Michigan, or anyone who has read more than two sentences about the mayoral races in Minneapolis and New York City would immediately take Mr. Chikli’s warning to heart.
But this is not so.
Consider the example of one of my followers (I’ll call him Mark) who reacted to my Facebook post and Mr. Chikli’s words by saying the following: “If Israel’s lips are moving, they’re lying.”
When I responded to Mark by telling him his comment was blatantly antisemitic, he fired back by ironically quoting from the prophet Amos, a Jew by the way, to try to make his anti-Jewish point. “Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom. … I will destroy it from off the face of the earth” (Amos 9:8), he said.
Unfortunately, Mark wasn’t done. While totally ignoring the second half of this Bible verse where God literally says, “Save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” my Facebook pal concluded by stunningly (and I would argue blasphemously) declaring: “Jehovah is the original antisemite. I’m in good company, and I won’t be judged by you or anyone else.”
I am not kidding. This “conservative” voter literally just said that God — the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob — the God of both the Old Testament and New Testament, and that by inference, Jesus Christ himself, was the original antisemite.
This kind of uneducated rhetoric is one of the most disturbing things taking place right now in the broader political debate. It is frightening to its core, and the fact that it is being parroted by certain people who call themselves “conservatives” is shameful. No thoughtful human being should tolerate it.
I don’t care how much you align with me against the Democrats and the lunacy of their broader agenda. If you spew nonsense like this on my Facebook page, I will first confront you, and then I’ll remove you.
The people of Israel have the right and obligation to defend themselves against the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and anyone else invading their borders, bombing their cities, killing men, women and children, and pledging the utter destruction of their nation.
Any “conservative” (especially if you claim to be Christian) parroting a message that could essentially be a verbatim quote of the 1930s is not welcome on my social media, in my house or at any of my events. No, my tent is not big enough for you.
All Republicans, i.e., all true constitutional conservatives, should be quick to condemn this asinine talk and foolish bigotry. It shouldn’t take us five seconds to say, “This is my ‘house,’ and you will not enjoy my hospitality if you are this misguided, rude, wrong and stupid. Leave of your own volition, or I will remove you myself.”
If anyone is so blinded by their hatred of the Jewish people that they can’t see they are being played big time by a caliphate that seeks the ultimate destruction of everything we pretend to stand for and everything we claim to believe, they are either mentally deranged or just deluded racists who should have no place at any political table. It’s time for true conservatives to say so and tell them to get out.
• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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