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Yeshua says, “You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved” (Matthew 10:22). When Yeshua says, “You will be hated by everyone because of me,” that includes “because of Israel,” because the Messiah of Israel, the King of the Jews, is inseparable from his people. It’s fair to say, “You will be hated by all people because of Israel.”
A December 2023 survey called the Harvard-Harris Poll indicates that 60 percent of American adults ages 18–24 consider the October 7 attack on Israel as justified, 67 percent consider Jews to be oppressors, and 51 percent believe the long-term answer to the Israel-Palestinian conflict is for “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.” It’s an alarming demographic shift. If the trend continues, imagine what will happen when Gen Z takes over the political landscape. The balance of power in the United States will shift from support for Israel to condemnation of Israel and from support for the Jewish people to baseline anti-Semitism. How did this happen?
The Moral Inversion
That anti-Israel dogma is only one symptom of a larger inversion of morality that our secular culture has experienced over the last several decades. I do not say that the secular culture is immoral. Instead, the culture today is more concerned with morality than ever before, but it’s an inverted morality that calls good evil and evil good. One of the most fundamental, unquestioned social norms and self-evident truths of this new morality holds that the State of Israel is the embodiment of evil and must be condemned by every thinking, rational, moral person. This new tenet of morality has spread unchecked among progressive opinion-makers and celebrity voices until it shamelessly dominates media coverage of the Middle East.
The rhetoric comes not just from the universities but also from the United Nations, which has consistently condemned Israel for alleged human rights violations while belligerently giving a pass to the actual violators of human rights, such as Russia, China, Turkey, and corrupt pariah governments in Africa and the Middle East. Iran and Pakistan laugh into their sleeves. All these bad actors agree on two common themes: hatred for the West and condemnation for Israel.
It’s not difficult to understand the Muslim perspective on Israel. Like us, they have an apocalyptic and messianic worldview. They are looking forward to a future utopian world order. Islam believes that only a Jihad against Israel and the West can usher in that future utopia.
Moreover, it’s well-known that, during World War II, Hitler saturated the Arab world with anti-Jewish propaganda, which still circulates in Arabic today. But that’s not why students on Harvard’s campus are chanting, with reference to Hitler’s Final Solution, “There is no other solution. Intifada revolution. Intifada, intifada. Globalize the Intifada.” How did we get to this point where young Americans openly glorify Hitler’s attempt to eradicate Jews from the world and praise communist revolutionary heroes of the past while fawning over the likes of Osama bin Laden, just twenty-two years after 9/11?
Social Justice and the New Moral Order
To understand today’s social justice movement, we need to understand what is meant by “justice” in the term “social justice.” It’s a definition of “justice” derived directly from a Marxist ideology originally engineered to create class warfare by dividing the world into two groups: the oppressor and the oppressed. According to the Marxist worldview, disparities between cultures or segments of a society occur when an oppressor victimizes another group: the oppressed.
The call for social justice sounds similar to biblical sentiments that always adjure us to show compassion for the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the stranger, the poor, the widow, and the orphan—to identify with the lowly and the needy, to uphold the cause of the poor and champion the weak. Who isn’t against racism, bigotry, and sexism? Who isn’t for helping the poor, the downtrodden, and the disenfranchised? It sounds like our Master’s teachings, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” but that’s not what’s being espoused by the social justice movement now championing Hamas and calling for the dismantling of the Jewish state. Instead, it’s an ideology that erases distinction, penalizes excellence, and punishes progress as tools of oppression. It also erases moral absolutes because objective standards of right and wrong do not correlate well with an ideology that weighs right and wrong solely on the basis of victimhood, materialism, and social empowerment. In the new moral order, the successful are always wrong and need to be disempowered and toppled from power.
The cause of the “underprivileged” is always right (regardless of how those scales tipped out of balance in the first place), and they need to be empowered.
According to this worldview, justice happens when the oppressed revolt against the oppressor and disempower them. For example, the social movements to defund the police and decriminalize crime are based on the same paradigm where law enforcement is seen as the oppressor, and criminals are the victims of that oppression. Objective standards of justice become irrelevant because every conflict and relationship is viewed through this dualism.
Objective standards of right and wrong do not correlate well with an ideology that weighs right and wrong solely on the basis of victimhood, materialism, and social empowerment.