Case in point...
...two men [reportedly in their 40s] assaulted and threatened a 12-year-old Jewish boy waiting at a bus stop in Paris. The men hit the boy repeatedly with a belt and hurled insults at him in Arabic.
A day later, a Hungarian mob burned an Israeli flag in front of a synagogue in Budapest. The inflammatory and threatening act was perpetrated by Hungarian ultra-nationalists.
But anti-semitism is hardly confined to Europe:
this week, a Nazi swastika was found spray-painted in an elevator in a Jewish neighborhood in New York City. Police viewed the incident as part of an ongoing campaign of anti-Jewish vandalism. In the most serious incident to date, police found the following threat spray-painted in a New York subway:
"The world would be much better off if all the Jews were lampshades."
“I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good
to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who
spitefully use you. To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other
also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.
Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not
ask them back. And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them
likewise.
“...if you love those who love you, what
credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you
do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even
sinners do the same. ... But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for
nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the
Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful,
just as your Father also is merciful.
“Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.
“Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.
“...And why do you look at the speck in your
brother’s eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?" Luke 6:27-41
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