The New Passover of the Judeo-Christian West
Too many conservatives refuse to criticize the state of Israel, letting the blood of Palestinian children protect them from being cancelled.
Hopefully by now you’ve heard that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are confirmed dead in Israel’s defensive Gaza war. That’s just since October of last year, and it’s just the number of confirmed child deaths in Gaza, excluding civilian women and men. The full number of dead children is surely much higher. Their violent deaths are so regular that my team and I at the Vulnerable People Project are unable to keep up-to-date, despite our close monitoring of the situation.
I say you’ve hopefully heard of these deaths. But you haven’t spoken of them. Why?
I’ll tell you why.
It’s because you have chosen to live under the authority of a new religious faith. It’s not Jewish or Christian, but it wears the skin of the Judeo-Christian West. And unlike the authentic old Christendom or the faith of the People of God, this new religion claims no personal sacrifices on the part of its adherents.
All it requires is that you participate in one ritual: support the current regime of the state of Israel. Profess—if not vocally then at least tacitly, as you probably do—that Israel’s every action is morally right.
For free Americans, with all our bold “diversity of opinion,” that one commandment can seem hard at first. But especially for beleaguered conservatives, so often excluded and ridiculed, the benefits are hard to resist.
For a lefty, sure, it’s uncomfortable accepting a confessional ethnostate that doesn’t recognize interfaith marriages.
But for a social conservative, it’s even more difficult to ignore any number of things about Israel:
Its recognition of “gay marriage” in 2006, almost as soon as it was proposed.
The country’s celebration of “Pride,” so ostentatious that Out Magazine referred to Tel Aviv as “the gay capital of the Middle East” as early as 2007.
More recently, in 2020, the fact that the country bought a mega-load of the Pfizer Covid shot and pushed it on citizens with such draconian force that Israel quickly became the “most vaccinated” country on earth. (The state tracked people via their personal healthcare information, and once a person was subjected to the shot, they got to wear a little “green pass.”)
Even today, Israeli officials are telling the family of a Christian immigrant to the state who served as a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and died in Gaza that they are forbidden to put a cross on his grave.
And it was enough to make anyone squeamish when Israel forcibly sterilized Ethiopian Jewish immigrants to the state. (I’m not talking about some outlandish post-war experiment from the ’50s or ’60s. The story is from about ten years ago.)
In the past, criticism of Israel, for the most part at least, seemed murky despite all this. Why wade into the business of another state, albeit one we heavily fund, if you could be accused of anti-Semitism? For decades, you could even convince yourself that any critical thoughts you had about Israel might be rooted in some deep-seated, undue suspicion of Jews that you should repent of rather than entertain.
But now, over 20,000 children in and with zero accountability or sign of change in sight, the new religion has taken on a more unmistakable structure—requiring you to commit more formally than ever before to its one demand.
So what has now arisen is a New Passover: You smear the blood of Palestinian children across your lintel, and the spirit of cancel culture passes you by unharmed.So what has now arisen is a New Passover: You smear the blood of Palestinian children across your lintel, and the spirit of cancel culture passes you by unharmed.Tweet This
It may sound gruesome, but keep in mind that the new religion provides freedom for its subjects to hold a tremendous variety of beliefs, each to his tastes, and even to fight among themselves about those beliefs.
In fact, the main benefit of this religion is that it allows you—despite how much flack you might take for your stances as a pro-lifer, an opponent of “same-sex marriage,” or an adherent of any other controversial cause—to find yourself in agreement, for once, with everyone who might otherwise hate and hurt you.
For just a single coat of Palestinian blood on your door, every powerful person in the world is suddenly on your side.
The career politicians in the GOP currently doing their best to steer the Trump-Vance ticket?
On your side.
Kamala Harris and the deep-state machine she represents (though I repeat myself)?
On your side.
LGBTQ+ lobbyists? They agree with you as well.
The guests on Epstein Island? You’re with them too.
And all you had to do was spread that one splotch of blood on the lintel. All you had to do was pretend to ignore the fallibility—the humanity—of the politicians, generals, and military strategists of Israel, and the cries of their powerless victims.
It might make you feel a little dirty sometimes. Maybe now more than ever.
But to a coward with no convictions, there is no better religion than the one that gives you free rein to spout bold convictions without any real risk—and without ever truly getting on the bad side of those with power over you.
Of course, that’s the trick of the whole thing though. Because a coward with no convictions is incapable of true religion.
And true religion is this: “to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world” (James 1:26-27).
You see, we old-fashioned members of the real Judeo-Christian West participate in the Passover of Jesus Christ.
And you know what? It’s never too late. You can still choose to join us in doing so as well.
But understand the choice.
Through the blood of Palestinian children, you bind yourself with the powers and principalities of this world—all to ward off the spirit of cancel culture.
Through the blood of Jesus, you will join yourself in solidarity with the “least of these brethren,” whom He commanded us to treat as Himself.
And doing that never wards off the spirit of cancel culture. In fact, it invites it.
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GEORGE DORAZIO
Although it is clear that Israel has the right to exist, and therefore the right to defend itself, there is no right of Israel to exterminate the Palestinians. What is the difference between Hitler’s “Final Solution” and Netenyahu’s “Solution”?
Many are the Jews who oppose Netenyahu. Are they anti-Semitic? I am no holocaust denier, and I well remember 1967 and 1973. I know the meaning of “from the River to the Sea…” and I reject those who propose this.
But the policy followed by the current Israeli government (and enabled by the U.S.) is guaranteed to create a new generation of “Jew haters” in the middle east.
I ask AF Cieszkiewicz and Patrick P Christle: whose best interest does such a policy serve?
This is a complex situation. It will never be resolved – only perpetuated – by blood-thirsty revenge.AF Cieszkiewicz
As graciously as possible permit me to share, with the caveat of St Thomas taught that our greatest charity (our love in action) is sharing the truth.
Mr Jones willfully, perhaps maliciously choses to ignore the vitriolic animosity historically perpetuated against Israel by the Hamas terrorists whom among the most devoted of Islamic followers.
The Hamas terrorists abuse the Gazan peoples whom elected them to rule Gaza by holding them hostage, as mere pawns whom they hide behind when launching deadly and indiscriminate attacks again the citizens with contemptuous disregard for the children of Israel whom also live between the river and the sea. Golda noted to the effect that there will be no peace until the they love their children as much as the Israelis love their children.Patrick P Christle
Mr. Jones is wrong. This “blood of Palestinian children” that he talks about, such as it is, is not on the hands of Israel. It is on the hands of those determined to destroy Israel.