THE MASK ALWAYS SLIPS

By Kelleigh Nelson

The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. Rabbi Jonathan Sachs

After the horrifying Hamas atrocities, I was disgusted with the moral relativism and clear antisemitism being displayed around the world in so many of our institutions, particularly the media, elite academia, the UN, and tragically in the US House of Representatives. Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter John Ondrasik

If I am to understand that you are inquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.  My great-great grandfather came to England from Germany in the Eighteenth Century…. of impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride…  I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully, J.R.R. Tolkien. This was written in a letter to his British publisher, Stanley Unwin, refusing to work with the German publishing house.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. William Howard Taft

If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia. Victor Orban

They may fool us for a while, but eventually antisemites say or write words that give them away and allow us to see them for what they are, not what they pretend to be. 

The mask slips when someone cloaks their antisemitism in political criticism of Israel, or by holding all Jews collectively responsible for the State of Israel. There may well be hidden motives such as the annihilation of the Jewish state which are stated clearly in chants and protests.

College youth scream, “From the River to the Sea,” and can’t name what river or sea they’re even screeching about. They’ve never looked at the map of Israel or the total amount of land deeded to them for eternity by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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Trigger Words

We know the trigger words and they’re just as poisonous as a cobra. Centuries of hatred against the Lord’s people Israel have culminated time and again in unspeakable barbaric slaughters. Some say the Jews are too sensitive, but had gentiles lived through the same history as the Jewish people, outrage would be a mild response.

In a recent article that exposed hackers who claimed to have broken into the government’s chief data-collection firm, Palantir, owned by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, the writer mentioned two words that immediately caught my attention. He wrote, “He (Trump) has managed to put virtually every one of his supporting constituencies (except the Zionist imperialists) at odds with his administration. Who is steering the ship of state?” After two of my comments, these words were removed.

In referring to Palantir’s AI technology, the author also wrote, “It has also been used to create “kill lists” for Israel’s IDF to use against the Palestinians in Gaza…” I searched the internet for facts on this statement. The websites I found who stated this falsehood were either written by Islamists or by known antisemite sites.

Both statements by the writer are patently false.

A Business and Human Rights Centre article entitled, Palantir response to allegations over its complicity in war crimes amid Israel’s war in Gaza clarifies, “1. specific claims about Palantir’s work in Israel and Gaza, and 2. how they approach broader human rights due diligence and incorporate a deep respect for fundamental rights into our business practices and product design.”

The article included Palantir’s response, “This unfounded and inflammatory claim reveals more about the author’s rhetorical objectives than it does about any substantiated evidence or facts on the ground and should not be dignified with a response. However, as noted, Palantir’s presence in Israel predates the October 7th attack, and to baselessly allege that our solidarity with Israel following the terrorist attack, in which innocent civilian women and children were butchered, is all to train AI models in order to kill further civilians with abandon, signals the contempt for facts and due diligence contained in these reports.”

(I am certainly no fan of Palantir and their surveillance systems, especially the Gotham program.)

Articles falsely accusing Israel of killing Palestinian citizens were obviously written by members of the Qatar Carlson (Qatarlson) and Candace Owens camp aligned with Jihadists. Due diligence by the authors was never done.

How can these treacherous and duplicitous statements exist in our America where 416,800 lost their lives in WWII with Germany and Japan? 

In Irwin J. Mansdorf’s recent article, The Tucker Carlson effect, he writes that, “Almost half of young Republicans surveyed see Jews as a threat to the American way of life. That’s not the biggest problem facing pro-Israel candidates.”

Historians often note that a society’s treatment of Jews is an early indicator of its overall health. Hatred that starts with Jews rarely ends there; it eventually expands to target other groups and corrodes the legal and moral fabric of the nation.

What is a Zionist Imperialist?

I had to ask the author, “What is your definition of a ‘Zionist imperialist’?  Or are you using the United Nation’s pejorative terms for Zion and Zionist?  Do you actually believe the lie that Israel established a settler state in Palestine through the displacement of the indigenous population?  If you do, again you do not know the true history of Israel or the Hebrew or Christian Bibles.” 

The United Nations has a documented history of using “Zionism” in a pejorative manner, most notably with the 1975 General Assembly Resolution 3379, which declared that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” This resolution, which was supported by various nations, was eventually revoked in 1991 by Resolution 46/86. Despite the revocation, the damage was done, remains unabated and is growing exponentially in today’s America.

There are far too many lies concerning Zionism; much of it is guilty of distortion and misinformation.  In fact, anti-Zionism has become merely a new term of old-fashioned anti-Semitism.

What is Zion?  “Zion” is mentioned over 150 times in the Bible, with most counts placing it around 152 to 164 times, predominantly in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), and about 7 times in the Christian Bible (New Testament).

In the Old Testament, Zion appears most frequently in the Books of Psalms, Isaiah, and Lamentations, often referring to Jerusalem, the City of David, or the Temple Mount.

In the New Testament, the term shifts toward a spiritual meaning, symbolizing the heavenly Jerusalem.

The word is also used poetically and prophetically, including phrases like “Daughter of Zion” (26 instances), which personifies Jerusalem or its people.

The first mention is in 2 Samuel 5:7, where David captures the Jebusite fortress known as Zion, later becoming the City of David.

Zionism is the desire of all descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to have and to be in their homeland, Israel.  The deed to the land was given to them by our Creator and it encompassed much more than the land Israel has today.

When the Arab states on four occasions failed to defeat Israel with the force of arms, they began a propaganda campaign to equate Zionism with racism.  Thanks to Arab oil power to bribe and to intimidate the nations, the victims of racism are now accused of being racist themselves.  The United Nations was never an organization seeking justice and peace for the world.  It is and always has been a tool for the destruction of existing nations.  By condemning Zionism’s right to exist, they have condemned Israel’s right to exist.  It is impossible to separate Zionism from Israel. 

Zionism is concerned with the land of Zion and with its capital of Jerusalem.

Zionism is an expression of the longing and yearning that the Jewish people have had in the past and still have for their homeland.  Zionism existed during the Egyptian bondage.  It existed during the Babylonian captivity.  It exists in these days of the dispersion which began in 70 A.D. 

As soon as any Jew expressed a desire to go back to his land, regardless of his reason, he was expressing Zionism.  Any Jew who looked toward and identified himself with the promised land, whether he knew it or not, whether he admitted it or not, was a Zionist.

Zionism is neither a conspiracy nor racism.  It is an expression of a yearning placed into every Jewish heart by the Lord Himself.  Unfulfilled Zionism is being outside the land of Israel.  Fulfilled Zionism is being and living in the land.

It is expressed in Psalm 137:1-6, “1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.”

So, when the author says, “Zionist imperialists,” what is his definition of those terms…because he is aligning himself with the United Nations by using the very terms.  The term “Zionist imperialists” is a critical framework linking Zionism to Western colonialism, positioning Israel as an extension or “watchdog” of US imperialism in the Middle East. Most Zionists view the term as a misdiagnosis of Jewish history and, in some cases, as an antisemitic effort to delegitimize the State of Israel’s right to exist. 

And, if you think Trump has favored Israel consistently, you are again wrong.  He put a stop to their finishing the war and eliminating Hamas after the bloody slaughter by barbaric Hamas savages on Oct 7^th, 2023.

The land belongs to Israel alone, given to them by the Lord.  No one else has a right to one square foot of it but Israel.

Conclusion

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks famously described antisemitism as a mutating virus that adapts its “reasons” to fit the culture of the time—religious, racial, or political—yet always retains the same core irrationality. 

One person responded to my challenge to the author of the piece, not only with gutter language, but with the statement, “Israel hasn’t done one positive thing for us.”

The following words were my answer to her:

“We owe quite a bit to Israel. Have you never noticed that when there is a tragedy in America, Israel is the first to help? And they do far more than that. We actually rely on them for many things.

“Israel acts as a key U.S. strategic ally by providing critical intelligence, advanced defense technologies, and regional stability in the Middle East. Through joint military exercises, counterterrorism collaboration, and intelligence sharing, Israel protects American interests while contributing to technology, health, and economic growth.

“Their medical advances alone have saved millions upon millions of lives.

“These actions form a mutually beneficial partnership, where U.S. support for Israel enhances, in turn, U.S. national security and technological capabilities.

“As for people criticizing Israel or her leadership, every time you look under the reasons for their criticism it becomes obvious, they hate the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.

“In Genesis 12:1-3, ‘Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee: 2 and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing; 3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

“If you were to go through world history and take a look at those who have hurt Israel, you’ll see the correlation to the Lord’s promises.

“Throughout scripture, both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, the Lord makes sure we know how He feels about His people.

“In Isaiah 49:16, He tells us He engraved Israel in the palms of His Hands.

In Zechariah 2:8 He said, ‘He who touches you toucheth the Apple of His eye.’ In the first two chapters of Romans He states, ‘To the Jew first and also to the Greek.’ In Romans 11:1 Paul states, ‘I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.’

“Our founders took our liberties and freedoms from Hebrew Scriptures. That is why we are called a Judeo-Christian society.

“I stand only on the Word of God, and like every other people on earth, there are good and bad within the groups of people…including the Jewish people. Those who have murdered the most people throughout history are gentiles. Gentiles include anyone not Jewish. Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceaucescu, Leopold II, Saddam Hussein, Mussolini and so many more were responsible for over 100 million deaths.

Heed the Words of the Lord and look for the blessings from Him, not the curses.

To love God and His Word also involves naturally loving Israel.