by Gerald A. Honigman
Erin Molan is an Aussie who’s not afraid to call it as she sees it, and thus ticked off her Australian employer a while back, especially regarding not accepting the anti-Israel bias she frequently encountered.
When you listen to the videos featuring Erin, VP JD Vance, and Israel near the end of this analysis, among other things, you’ll note Vance is best buddies with the blatant antisemite who gets upset when called out on this, Tucker Carlson, and decides to discuss the theological differences between Jews and Christians during one the major programs happening in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Here’s some very important background especially pertinent considering Carlson’s now capitalizing on his close friendship with the martyred Charlie Kirk to win over huge numbers of mostly innocently ignorant youth to his anti-Israel and antisemitic beliefs…which will add to his own personal bank account nicely as well.
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During the first video near the end you’ll hear Vance spelling out what he and too many others like him claim to be the main difference between Jews and Christians: rejection or acceptance of Yehoshua/Jesus as the Messiah.
WRONG…
The main problem Jews have is the deification of man…no matter how great he is. In any other pagan society, for example, Moses would have been deified, and King David too.
Instead, the Hebrew sages bent over backwards to make sure people understood that no human—regardless of any hocus pocus mistranslations or interpretations of their own sacred scriptures—could ever be equated to G_d.
This idea distinguished the Hebrews from the pagans surrounding them.
And pagan influences indeed came into play centuries after Jesus’s execution when huge numbers of pagan peoples, used to demigods like Hercules, or deifying kings like some ancient Greeks, became Christian converts.
Rather than deification, Moses and King David, instead, were shown to be mortal sinners, and each paid a penalty for their shortcomings.
The envisioned Hebrew Messiah of the Hebrew Bible will be a very special human king and descendant of King David who will, with G_d’s direction, bring about amazing things in this beautiful world to come.
Jews can’t recognize Vance’s Yehoshua/Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah because NOTHING that was supposed to occur in the Messianic age happened during his lifetime… no swords being beaten into plowshares, no lions lying down with lambs “ (figuratively speaking), no universal peace, etc.
Early Christianity realized this problem so came up with the concept of the Parousia, involving a second coming of, NOT of a Hebraic Messiah, but a very different man-god/divine Christ—very different from the Prophetic vision of ?he human implement for G_d’s special work during the Messianic Age.
The Hebraic Messiah of Isaiah, Zechariah, Jeremiah, Micah, and Ezekiel do not demand humans to worship him in order to be able to reach G_d and Heaven.
There is no “original sin” in Hebraic monotheistic beliefs. Human sins are indeed very real, but can be forgiven if true and earnest attempts are made to atone for them—involving both G_d and man.
The Hebrew Meshiach/Messiah doesn’t—Judaism doesn’t—condemn all who do not worship anyone else except G_d Himself (for lack of a better way to describe our spiritual Father) to eternal damnation because that person’s religious beliefs differ from its own.
Unfortunately, Christianity does indeed do this very thing, at least too many of its denominations.
Undoubtedly, the road to Auschwitz was paved with such “love,” and highly respected scholars have estimated that the number of Jews massacred because of it prior to the Holocaust was equivalent to it.
Here’s some useful background regarding the effects of such teachings courtesy of the Roman Catholic Church…
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Regarding the various branches of Protestant Evangelical denominations, there are basically two mindsets regarding Jews…
Replacement Theology advocates and those who aren’t determined to cram their own changes to the Jews’s original monotheistic beliefs down Hebrew throats.
See these differences next, because that’s where Tucker Carlson and many/most of Charlie Kirk’s followers fit into:
Conservative Replacement Theology personality Ann Coulter, of similar mindset of Carlson & Co. can be seen indulging in this next, which includes my response sent to Ann personally as well…
Back to Vance…
You’ll find in Erin’s first video Vance engaging in this same troubling theological discussion which resulted in countless numbers of Jews being exterminated over the past two millennia because they refused to accept Christianity’s claims of supplanting the very faith that, ironically, the Judaean teacher, Yehoshua, whom they came to worship as G_d, believed in and practiced himself.
Vance needs to know of such important background information before engaging in such conversation.
America is home to many people from diverse backgrounds who should not be made to feel inferior or somehow out of place in this great country of ours.
The next links get into these theological issues in great detail, which Vance only gave short shrift to when he spoke of Jews and Judaism.
Here’s what ancient contemporary Roman historians had to say about the Jews’s unique and strange religious beliefs which involved honoring the One and only Divine Being who is purely Spirit in nature, Ruach Kodesh, and never worshipping any human leaders. They quotes from Tacitus and Cassius Dio are in the second half:
https://share.google/N90r8RiRsDGb7czs9
And for further elaboration…
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Earlier trepidations regarding Vance became finalized when he threatened Israel about sovereignty in the Jewish People’s 4,000 year old, historically much corroborated ancestral homeland, and also going after Iran’s nuclear and other conventional weapons systems.
Iran had already blasted Israel with numerous, powerful, conventional ballistic missiles and got its Arab proxies to bombard Israel as well, and the other was coming down the home stretch to developing nuclear warheads for those abundant missiles it possessed.
Finally, here’s an earlier, pre-last minute Trump decision analysis regarding American involvement in the Iranian nuke problem, followed by more recent assessments.
Recall that a very isolationist Vance, who lives in a nation 3,000 miles wide, separated from most enemies by two vast oceans, repeatedly made very serious threats to a 9-15 mile wide Israel, which requires a magnifying glass to find on a world globe, both during the very week of the 2024 presidential election, when some of us were trying desperately to get more Jews to vote for The Donald, and afterwards as seen here…
https://share.google/EKkLHeY05EpwW6jus
Vance poured additional nasty fuel on the fire when he repeatedly dictated additional warnings on the sovereignty issue during his late October 2025 visit to Israel:
“Trump forced Israel to relinquish its military advantage in Gaza”
https://share.google/4WhDzoIXM4LYJY85n
Lastly, here’s the amazing Erin Molan videos regarding Vance and Israel…
“We Have A JD Vance Problem”
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“The War on Truth: Australia’s Erin Molan on Israel, Journalism & Standing Up to Hate”
https://share.google/vAipJ5y5F5qHJzIkw
The biggest problem is that like many others, Vance has no idea about the nature of Yehoshua. I won’t get into why I say this, but if Vance is a Roman Catholic then what he says is pure bunk.
I have my own views on the Roman Catholic church and these are not in the least positive. What Vance is displaying is the smugness (call it hubris) of the church itself. This hubris is not in any way based on “spiritual” teachings; only on church dogma.
Tucker Carlson’s son works for Vance. Vance has not fired him.
Do they see eye to eye? That is Tucker and JD?
Governor Ron DeSantis is a far better choice for president.
I trust Trump but am wary of Vance. I mean Vance did call Trump Hitler Just like all the other Democrats.
A brilliant essay and grave warning of the peril confronting Israel from VP Vance.
A very worthy and truthful article that deserves much praise for its content, breadth and scope.
I am going to play “Devil’s Advocate” for a moment. When researching the founding documents of the United States, comparable in many ways to all Western nations, is the fact that America was never supposed to be the country it has become today. Socialism with all its plotting and subversive elements since the, say, 1890s, has transformed America into something it was never supposed to be.
America, like Canada and most Western “Judeo-Christian” countries were intended to be overwhelmingly pluralistic Christian nations functioning under the rule of law. America, similarly to South Africa or Lebanon, was supposed to be a haven for Christians seeking freedom from various tyrannical governments or kingdoms promoting a state, or theocracy, different to those that fled.
America’s, like Canada’s, original idea of “multiculturalism” was all the various Christian sects – with some Jewish spicing – would live freely and productively under the rule of law preventing a ‘Northern Ireland’ situation.
Enter Socialism/Communism. Even the Socialist Emma Lazarus “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” was of Socialist origins however prior and during that time the VAST majority of immigrants came from various Christian countries of Europe.
Because of Socialism’s “Divide and Rule” or Dialectical progress agenda “Multiculturalism”, like “Diversity”, became a tactic toward the dismantling of Western “Judeo-Christian” Civilization.
By allowing multitudes of un, non or anti-Christian – or “Judeo-Christian” – cultures, religious or political constructs to pour in en-masse the outcome of this Balkanization always comes true and will be the downfall of all Western Democracies.
Christians should really be firm allies with the Jews and supporter of Israel simply for the base cultural and civilization similarities that are based on the Bible. It is beyond doubt that most Christians have never read the Hebrew Bible without any of the translation errors etc. but continue to read from the Septuagint translation. Then enter in everything this fabulous author wrote which was put there to bring Rome closer to Jerusalem and not the other way round….