When the affair of V15 and the left-wing organizations emerged, I said that it was not a matter of criminal offenses, rather one of obscuring true political intentions. The important result of the affair's exposure is that it is now clear that these are political organizations with decidedly leftist agendas. One of the organizations is "Molad -- The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy," which is supported by the New Israel Fund to the tune of several million shekels, and its leaders belong to the radical Left. Recently, a piece of "research" was published against evangelical Christians who love Israel. It seems that their great sin is not in their faith or their apocalyptic visions, but in their support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and of settlement in Judea and Samaria. Among other things, Molad repeated the false accusation that influential Pastor John Hagee allegedly supported Hitler. The excuse for making this accusation was slandering Netanyahu (of course) under the title "Our Best Friends." How foolish must one be to direct such a horrible accusation at one of the greatest lovers of Israel and the Jewish people? Enough with quoting the old Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, who wondered how many Jews would have been saved if there were Christians like Hagee in 1930s Europe. * * * This accusation was launched when the Im Tirzu movement was in the midst of a struggle with the New Israel Fund after it was found that organizations supported by the latter had contributed to the Goldstone Report and to accusing Israel of "war crimes." In response to having this exposed, officials from the Left accused Im Tirzu of receiving donations from the "anti-Semitic Pastor John Hagee" who said that "Hitler carried out God's will." Broadcast journalist Raviv Drucker repeated the lie on his program, and more recently, so did Labor party candidate Eldad Yaniv. I published an article in response to them, titled "Who are you calling an anti-Semite-" Channel 2's Friday night news panel "Ulpan Shishi" accepted Molad's conclusions and broadcast a segment against evangelicals that was in line with the "research," without broadcasting any opposing views. Why? Afterall, they could have easily found articles in Israel Hayom that contradict Molad's foolish "findings." Even the experts who appeared in the segment provided the message that Molad wanted to transmit about the Christian organizations' "malicious intentions." They did not differentiate between the organizations or the different (and contradictory!) theological premises, and they certainly did not speak about the theological earthquake underway in evangelical Christianity. The overriding principle of Christianity's nearly 2,000-year history is based on "replacement theology," according to which, when the Jews rejected Jesus as the Messiah (and God), God broke His covenant with them and chose Christianity instead. Since then, the Christians have been the chosen people and the Jews are now only the biological descendants of the biblical people of Israel. That is how they read the Bible retroactively: Everywhere that "Israel" is mentioned now refers to the church. Among other things, anti-Semitism flourished on the basis of this theological principle. * * * The evangelical denomination of Christianity, in which Hagee is a central leader, rejected replacement theology a long time ago. Hagee has said this clearly several times, including recently in an interview I published that deals with "false doctrine." It is not just another statement -- it is an essential shift: It fundamentally changes the theological relationship between Christians and the Jewish people. This is where the deep motivation to support the Jewish people and the land of Israel comes from. Not from the desire to fulfill some imaginary apocalyptic vision, but from the belief in God's words to the first Hebrew, Abraham: "I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse," (Genesis 12:3). They see it as a command: Whoever blesses the Jews and helps them will be blessed himself, and the opposite. It's true that there are missionary Christians who are yearning for a world war, but that differs between various denominations. Moreover, religious Jews believe in the coming of the Messiah and the war of Gog and Magog. We read that chapter in the book of Ezekiel during the Sukkot holiday in all synagogues. What does this belief have to do with their desire to help the nation of Israel? According to left-wing organizations, whoever thinks that the land of Israel belongs only to the Jewish people is an "extremist" with anti-Semitic intentions. It's unbelievable. According to that same logic, the millions in funding that European bodies are giving to Israeli left-wing organizations is not given out of the desire to promote peace and to help the Jews manage in their land, rather out of the desire to help the Palestinians damage the justice of our claim to the land and to essentially atone for the Holocaust by presenting the Jews as behaving toward the Palestinians in the same manner that they were treated by the Europeans. This lie is well known and described in detail in Tuvia Tenenbom's book "Catch the Jew." If we are talking about anti-Semitism, we should point our fingers at its true supporters.
