Lessons From the Past: Forgotten

Monday, May 21, 2007

Jim Fell

The head a pro-Israel ministry says she's not surprised at the results of a recent poll conducted in Europe that supports her contention that anti-Semitism is rampant in Europe and much of the rest of the world.

Conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, the poll showed that 51 percent of respondents in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland believe Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the countries in which they live. The survey also revealed that about half of Europeans believe Jews dictate U.S. policy in the Mideast, wield disproportionate global economic influence, and talk too much about the Holocaust.

Messianic Jewish activist Jan Markell is founder of Olive Tree Ministries in Minnesota. “The rise in anti-Semitism around the world is just alarming,” she says. “It is epidemic in Europe and other parts of the world — a little less so in North America.”

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When asked what was the greatest commandment Jesus answered, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). We are to love the LORD God with our entire mind! That means we are to exercise the intellect He has given to each of us. Of course, study God's spoken Word, the Bible, but also study history. The proverb is true: those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Germany has forgotten their past. They have forgotten what happens when a country turns fascist. This has lead to the horrific persecution of the homeschooling families there, children being torn away from their parents and forced into state re-education facilities attempting to turn the hearts of the children away from their parents. This is but a taste of what is to come, if we forget happened the last time we allowed anti-Semitism to take root in our lands.

Original contribution by Jim Fell for Correctness Commentary.
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