For Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, there is no turning of the other cheek when the Pope spreads blood libels against the Jewish state.
The Pope has accused Israel of “cruelty,” of “machine-gunning children,” and of possibly committing “genocide.” Chikli’s furious response can be found here: “‘The Vatican was silent during the Holocaust, now it spreads modern blood libels’: MK Chikli,” Jerusalem Post, December 24, 2024:
Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli has accused the Vatican of spreading “modern blood libels” against Israel and condemned the Canadian and Australian governments for policies he claimed have emboldened a surge in global antisemitism.
Speaking in the Knesset on Tuesday to mark Jewish Diaspora Week, Chikli directed sharp criticism at Pope Francis, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Australia’s Labor government.
“It is deeply disheartening to see the Pope – leader of an institution that was silent during the Holocaust – now promoting modern blood libels against the Jewish state,” Chikli declared.
He specifically referenced Pope Francis’s claims that Israeli soldiers target Palestinian children, which Chikli described as “lies with no foundation in reality.” “The claim that Israel commits genocide is not just false – it is a blood libel of the worst kind,” he added.
Chikli also condemned the Pope’s participation in displays portraying Jesus as a Palestinian nationalist wrapped in a keffiyeh. “Jesus was born to a Jewish mother, lived as a Jew, and died as a Jew,” he said, emphasizing that the portrayal erases historical truth.
Fortunately, outrage forced the Pope to have the offending crèche removed from public view.
It’s a well-deserved rebuke delivered to the addlepated Pope, whose anti-Israel animus and farcical charges leveled at Israel — his claim that the IDF machine-guns children in Gaza, and may well be guilty of “genocide” — have now been exposed. And so has the Pope’s apparent acceptance of the rewriting of both Jewish and Christian history by allowing the infant Jesus to be displayed as a keffiyeh-draped “Palestinian,” rather than as the Jew he was.
As Chikli reminds the world, the Jews now have a state, and that state has a voice. There will be no more Jewish silence in the face of blood libels.
somehistory says
If only more people were willing to speak the Truth.
OT “Trump’s WARNING to Terrorists: Daughter of Americans Held Hostage Reacts”
““Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk, and no action,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Dec. 2.
Trump pledged that “there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity” if the hostages are not released by Jan. 20, the day he is sworn into office.
“Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW,” Trump wrote. ”
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Cynthia says
We are counting on Trump to keep his promise against those holding hostages.
This pope is a far left, indoctrinated man who is causing more harm in the world with his pronouncements. Doesn’t he know that Islam can’t wait to conquer Rome?
James Lincoln says
Cynthia,
With Pres. Trump: promises made, promises kept.
Andrew Blackadder says
This wee Popey dude is living large behind a massive wall built to keep out the islamic warriors of centuries gone by and now he is inviting them in the front door so he can wash and kiss the feet of savages from the religion of Piss.
What could possibly go wrong… go wrong… go wrong… go wrong…
Geof Barrington says
My answer to the anti Jewish anti Israel comments are …HAMAS can surrender anytime.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Fortunately, outrage forced the Pope to have the offending crèche removed from public view.”
Shows what some “pushback” can accomplish…
C. Stone-King says
How can folks *conveniently* forget Jesus was a Jew? (Rhetorical question
… mostly.) For centuries the Romans preached that the Jews “killed Christ.” Even though that doctrine has been repudiated in the last decades, the anti-semitism lingers on. I do find it tragic that Pope Francis has become a dottering old man.