THE JEWS: CAMPUS CHAOS PART III

 The tide of Jew hatred keeps crashing onto the shores of American institutions of lower learning which go by the names of "University" and "College." The Jew hatred evidences itself in the destruction, defacing, and commandeering of buildings, forcefully prohibiting Jewish students and professors from their classes, opposing police, threatening Jews, and, in one case, killing a Jew.

"A California Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that there is enough evidence for Moorpark College professor/pro-Hamas agitator Loay Alnaji to go to trial on charges of manslaughter in the death of Paul Kessler, a Jewish man who was involved in a counterprotest on November 5, 2023. Alnaji was involved in a confrontation with Kessler on that Sunday afternoon when he allegedly hit Kessler in the face with a bullhorn, causing Kessler to fall and fracture his skull. Kessler died approximately seven hours after the altercation."

There is an aspect of Jew hatred ("antisemitism" is a euphemism) that's going unnoticed which is clearly explained in the most neglected section of the Bible--the 12 Minor Prophets. (Jonah is the rare exception of this neglect.)

Look at Obadiah. Yes, Obadiah. Who among us has heard a sermon or even a quote from the prophet who seems to be the most minor of the Minor Prophets? Obadiah, under divine inspiration, presents the overlooked factor in Jew hatred in its 21 verses. In verses 11-12, we see the iceberg toward which our uneducated and biblically illiterate elites are steering their ship of hate.

I quote from Obadiah as God directs His anger at Edom, a once powerful nation now in history's  boneyard: 

"On the day that you stood aloof,
On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
And foreigners entered his gate
And cast lots for Jerusalem—
You too were as one of them.
¹² “Do not gloat over your brother’s day,
The day of his misfortune.
And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Yes, do not boast
In the day of their distress."

There were two sins involved in their hatred of the pupil of God's eye, Israel. The first is in verse 11: "You stood aloof" when the enemy came against Israel. The nation of Edom, the descendants of Esau, didn't come to the aid of their "brother" Israel, the descendants of Jacob. By not rendering aid and comfort to the Jews, they "were as one of [the enemy]." Not to render aid to Israel in a time of her distress is a punishable factor of Jew hatred.

Then there was the matter of Edom's gloating over Israel's defeat and rejoicing in the day of her destruction. Gloating over Israel's misfortunes is another aspect of Jew hatred, an action of which God takes note.

When we turn our attention to students and outside agitators involved in the campus chaos, it astounds us that their deluded minds gloated over and made heroes out of the savages, who in an early October attack, killed men, women, children, and babies, slaughtering, burning, kidnapping, and beheading as many as possible. 

In the gloating, the students and agitators used their bodies to express the jubilation of their Jew hatred as their arms carried the flag of the depraved and their necks bore the scarves of the barbaric.To them, their dress was their sartorial splendor, their badges of honor in their gloating. 

But it wasn't merely that. When we listened or read of their interviews, we noted a blatant tone of arrogance, the arrogance of the know-it-all-attitude-of-youth. Obadiah sounds an alarm about the arrogance that goes hand in hand Jew hatred. They speak with the dogmatic tongue. The prophet wrote : "The arrogance of your heart has deceived you . . . You say, 'Who will  bring me down?'" Obadiah brings the terrifying answer, "God will!" (vss. 3-4). Romans 3:18 is the divine evaluation of their arrogance: "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 

An employee of the White Star Line, at the launch of the Titanic on May 31, 1911, said, "Not even God Himself can sink this ship." One year later, when the British ship Titanic steamed out of Southampton on April 10, 1912, bound for New York , unbeknownst to the watching world, the captain and crew were on a collision course steering the largest man made object on earth straight toward her destruction. 

Obadiah warned us.