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By Greg Denham<\/span><\/span>, Op-ed contributor Tuesday, December 02, 2025<\/span>People participate in a Jewish solidarity march on January 5, 2020, in New York City. The march was held in response to a recent rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the greater New York metropolitan area. <\/span> | Jeenah Moon\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re watching a toxic lie race across the globe, infecting hearts and minds with astonishing speed. It claims humanity\u2019s problems can be traced to one people: the Jews. And its so-called \u201ccure\u201d? Cut them off, cripple Israel, and turn Zionism into a crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interesting thing about Jew-haters,\u201d Russian author, Uri Kurlianchik observed, \u201cis that they don’t hate Jews for something in particular; they hate them for everything: capitalism and communism, fanaticism and atheism, nationalism and globalism, insularity and meddling. They pin literally all the sins of the world on Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

The great Charlie Kirk said, \u201cThere is a corner of the internet of people who want to point and blame the Jews for all their problems\u2026 Everybody, this is demonic, and it\u2019s from the pit of Hell, and it should not be tolerated, period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirk described it perfectly as \u201chyper-online brain rot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large at Newsweek and author of the 2025 book Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West<\/em>, noted after Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination that Charlie had been \u201cholding back some really nasty stuff\u201d brewing in very young, far-right online circles – including increasingly open antisemitism. He said Kirk was doing \u201cmore than maybe anyone in the country\u201d to contain it. And now, Hammer admitted, he \u201cworries\u2026 what that energy does from here in his absence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Make no mistake: antisemitism is the smokescreen of Hell. It\u2019s cover-fire for evil to advance. And, as surprising as this may sound, it actually undermines the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That is precisely why Christians must be the first to expose it and the loudest to oppose it.<\/p>\n

What Christians must know to confront lies<\/strong><\/p>\n

To confront it clearly, Christians must understand six essential truths.<\/p>\n

First:<\/strong>\u00a0Antisemitism is not just prejudice and racist \u2014 it is antithetical to the Gospel. It attacks the very truth the Cross reveals about God, humanity and redemption. The Gospel says, \u201cMankind is separate from God in sin\u201d. Antisemitism says, \u201cThe problem is\u00a0them <\/em>\u2014 the Jews!\u201d<\/p>\n

Second:<\/strong>\u00a0It is Satan\u2019s cover-fire. Pointing at \u201cthem\u201d allows humanity to avoid looking in the mirror and confronting their own sin. \u201cThe problem is the Jews\u201d becomes a shield against the truth: \u201cThe real problem is me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Third:<\/strong>\u00a0Antisemitism is the ultimate anti-Gospel. It denies the universality of sin, resurrects ancient blame-shifting, refuses God\u2019s grace, and even weaponizes Jesus \u2014 the most influential Jew in history \u2014 against His own people. It is a counterfeit ideology that violently rejects the truth of the Gospel and stands opposed to everything Christ revealed<\/p>\n

Fourth:\u00a0<\/strong>Antisemitism is an affront to Jesus Himself \u2014 after all, Jesus was a Jew, and He is returning as a Jew. Theologian Karl Barth rightly said, \u201cHe who rejects and persecutes the Jews rejects and persecutes Him who died for the sins of the Jews \u2026 He who is a radical enemy of the Jews \u2026 shows himself \u2026 to be a radical enemy of Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifth:<\/strong>\u00a0Antisemitism provides ideological cover for Jihadism and Anti-Zionism because it fuels the lie that Jews \u2014 and the Jewish state \u2014 are \u201coppressors\u201d who inhabit \u201coccupied Arab land,\u201d a lie that becomes the fertilizer for the false narrative that violence against Jews is a justified response.<\/p>\n

Sixth:<\/strong>\u00a0It thrives on lazy, brain-rotting \u201cTHEY\u201d thinking. \u201cThey control the banks.\u201d \u201cThey own the media.\u201d \u201cThey control the government.\u201d \u201cThey start all the wars.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re greedy.\u201d \u201cThey hate Christians.\u201d \u201cThey exaggerate the Holocaust.\u201d \u201cThey run the world\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Insane!<\/p>\n

But the deadliest \u201cthey\u201d of all is the claim that \u201cthe Jews killed Jesus.\u201d This lie has smeared an entire people for centuries, staining a whole ethnicity with a crime they didn\u2019t have the power to commit, but the lie is still repeated over and over again today.<\/p>\n

The truth about Jesus\u2019 death<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear: Jesus was sentenced to be crucified by Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor of Judea. Only Rome had the power to crucify, and crucifixion was a Roman execution. Yes, the High Priest Caiaphas was involved in Jesus\u2019 arrest and in sending Him to Pilate \u2014 and yes, Caiaphas was a Jew. But his sin was his own! And one corrupt leader does not indict an entire nation, much less an entire people, for thousands of years.<\/p>\n

Even though some Jews cried out, \u201ccrucify Him,\u201d that does not take into account that Jesus was not killed by anyone. As He Himself said, \u201cNo one takes My life from Me; I lay it down of My own accord.\u201d In this, God demonstrated His love toward us: at the Cross, the perfectly just God turned unjust men into righteous ones, simply by paying the debt of sin Himself \u2014 \u00a0a gift offered to those who repent and believe!<\/p>\n

So, the claim that \u201cthe Jews killed Jesus\u201d is not only historically ignorant \u2014 it is a demonic slander from the pit of Hell!<\/p>\n

God\u2019s diagnosis and prescription<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s God\u2019s authoritative diagnosis of the human condition: every tribe, every tongue, every nation is separated from God by sin.<\/p>\n

But God doesn\u2019t just diagnose \u2014 He prescribes. The prescription is the Cross. At the Cross Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world on Passover and opened the way for peace between God and man.<\/p>\n

But hear this \u2014 the Cross doesn\u2019t stop at bringing us into a right relationship with God. The Cross is the only<\/em> hope for peace with one another. At the Cross, God shatters the hostilities that fuel the inhumanity of man against man, starting with the arrogance of man toward God Himself. The Cross declares: \u201cThere is a God, and you are not Him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cross kills racism because Jesus shed His blood for all nations, gathering every tribe, language, and people into ONE new humanity (Revelation 7:9).<\/p>\n

The Cross kills pride and arrogance because at the foot of the Cross, every one of us stands on level ground: sinners in need of the same Savior, broken people in need of the same grace.<\/p>\n

You can better understand why Paul then said, \u201cMay I never glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d (Galatians 6:14). Jeremiah understood it too: \u201cLet not the wise boast in wisdom, or the mighty in strength, or the rich in riches. But let the one who boasts boast in this: that he knows and understands Me\u201d (Jeremiah 9:23\u201324).<\/p>\n

When the glory of a person is their ethnicity, intellect, strength, wealth, or family, superiority rises, humility dies, and peace vanishes. But when the glory of a person rests in the divine peace plan of the Gospel of Jesus Christ at the Cross, peace is made.<\/p>\n

Our call to Christian leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n

C.S. Lewis said, \u201cThere is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n

This means that the smokescreen of Hell \u2014 antisemitism \u2014 will not vanish on its own.<\/p>\n

Every born-again Christian has a responsibility to stand firmly against the\u00a0insidious lies that are manufactured and disseminated by the Father of Lies whose sole purpose is to destroy what God has planned \u2014 world redemption for all, through an unfolding plan in and thru Israel and the Messiah of Israel, who is the savior of the world.<\/p>\n

Remember, a Christian\u2019s identity is rooted in Passover, the master plan of God\u2019s redemption: from the first Exodus, where God shattered the oppression of the Jews to set Israel free for His divine purpose, to Jesus\u2019 first coming, when, during the Passover meal, He said, \u201cDo this in remembrance of Me\u201d and then, on that same day gave His life on the Cross for the sins of the world, and ultimately to His return, when He will judge the nations in a final confrontation with antisemitism and evil and establish His Kingdom in Jerusalem, with His law going forth from Zion to the ends of the earth (Isaiah 2).<\/p>\n

Because this is our future, Christians are called to live as citizens of that Kingdom, now \u2014 and that means standing against evil, resisting antisemitism, loving the Jewish people, blessing Israel and proclaiming \u201cthe Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek\u201d (Romans 1:16-17).<\/p>\n

This is the call of Christians. This is the responsibility of Christians \u2014 not someday, but today!<\/p>\n

Greg Denham is the Senior Pastor of Rise Church in San Marcos, Ca. He is the founder of \u201cThe Context Movement\u201d and spearheads yearly \u201cFriends of Israel Weekends\u201d to fight anti-Semitism and champion friendships between Christians and Jews. He is the author of the new book, Rediscovering the Original Jesus Movement<\/em> (How 1st Century Context Clarifies God\u2019s Will & Course-Corrects the Church Today!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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