Where is Justice?
This week the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, remembering with horror Hitler’s attempted extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany and Europe in WW2. In the Fuhrer’s quest to achieve racial purity, 6,000,000 Jews were systematically murdered in the death camps. There, living in the most appalling conditions, with little food and no medical care, many were subjected to sadistic, brutal and inhumane experimentation, while others were sent straight to the gas chambers, or lined up before firing squads and shot. It is difficult to imagine the horror of what men, women and children were forced to endure – difficult to imagine that any human being could subject another to such evil.
When British forces entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in mid-April, 1945, they found piles of unburied corpses, but, miraculously, 55,000 emaciated prisoners were still alive – walking skeletons, many suffering from the effects of typhus that had recently broken out, and for which they had no treatment. Within three months of their liberation, another 13,000 had died from the effects of malnutrition or disease. Of the 42,000 who survived, the psychological wounds and horror of what they’d had to endure, together with the anguished memories of those they’d lost, would stay with them for life.
A disbelieving world was appalled at such manifest evil – and vowed that such atrocities would never happen again.
Yet, fast forward to 2025, and once again we see the blood lusting spirit of ‘Jew-hate’ rearing its feral head. Iran and its satellite terror groups have openly vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the map, and were seen euphorically celebrating the murder of ‘Jews’ after the October 7 attack. And even here in the UK, which down the years has provided a safe haven and refuge for the persecuted and dispossessed, we see today a rising tide of antisemitism and hatred, with almost routine attacks on synagogues and Jewish schools, and Jewish people afraid to walk openly on our streets.
Why is there so much irrational hatred for the Jewish people? Their behaviour can, admittedly, sometimes appear a little challenging, but the same can be said of all ‘tribal’ groups when mixing with others – witness the fights that erupt at football stadiums between rival groups of fans. Or consider the uneasy relationship between British nationals and the rest of Europe! But the hatred for Jews seems something else again. It appears visceral … primeval … a spiritual loathing written deep into the psyche that wants only to destroy.
Why are the Jews hated so much? Perhaps because they were the people chosen by God to be the instrument of His redemption for a world under bondage to evil. Perhaps because Israel is the land given to them for their eternal possession. And perhaps because Jesus Christ, who by His death on the Cross went head-to-head with Satan and set us free … was born a Jew.
Ahead of Christ’s return, the world is caught in a spiritual battle between good and evil, between God and the devil. It is a battle that started in Eden and has continued unabated down the centuries. But, as final judgement draws near, the battle intensifies. Evil is trying to take possession of our streets, and to destroy as many as it can in the process. The rise in antisemitism is both a part and manifestation of that. We must not allow evil ever again to gain control.
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