Is antisemitism part of Israeli-Palestinian war?

There has been an increase in antisemitism since Hamas committed its criminal incursion into Israel, murdering 1,200 people, including children, and raping women. Why the increase?

Part of it is Israel’s overwhelming response where more than 30,000 people have died, many being “collateral deaths.” But underlying all this is a 2,000-year history of the oppression of the Jewish people for rejecting Jesus as the savior, or as a convenient scapegoat for societal failings, or being a “Christ killer.”

It may have started because of Matthew 27:22-25: “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.

They all answered, “Crucify him!” “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd.

“I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said, “It is your responsibility!”

All the people answered, “His blood is on us and our children!”

Mark Perakh in his book “Unintelligent Design” questions the credibility of the Gospel account of the arrest of Jesus.

If the man named Yeshua (Jesus) preached his version of faith in the temple, this would hardly cause such a harsh reaction from other Jews. An offender would hardly be taken to the Sanhedrin since the case against Jesus was not serious enough to merit a hearing at the supreme court of the land. If, contrary to historical evidence, the Sanhedrin conducted a hearing of Yeshua’s case, it is implausible that they would transfer a Jew to the Roman authorities for punishment. Jewish religious law quite forbids extraditing a Jew to Gentiles for trial and punishment. It is also implausible that a crowd of Jews would demand a crucifixion of one of their own and would cry, “let his blood be on us and our children.” For Jews, the Roman custom of crucifying people was an abomination.

It makes no sense to hold the Jews, or any other group, in contempt for the crucifixion of Jesus since he was supposed to die for the salvation of those who accept his sacrifice. That is God’s plan for the world. And it’s an injustice to apply the sins of the parents onto their children and subsequent generations. Suppose Jesus wasn’t crucified and died in old age. Christianity wouldn’t exist today, at least not in its present form of “total depravity” as espoused by John Calvin. Christian orthodoxy centers around the sacrificial death of Jesus as a substitute provided by a wrathful god to redeem believers from their deserved punishment for their sin and depraved ways.

Is antisemitism involved in the Israeli-Palestinian war?

There have been a profusion of demonstrations, newspaper articles and online blogs in support of the Palestinian cause and against the ravages caused by the Israelis. But they fail to adequately condemn the savage rape and killings by the vicious Hamas insurgents that started the war in the first place. Thirty-thousand people would be alive today if it wasn’t for that criminal invasion.

The claim is that the Israelis are wounding and killing too many noncombatants and need to scale back the war. But how many are too many? At what point in the continuum do you decide that too many are being killed — at one, or 10, or 100, or 1,000, or 10,000, or 30,000? There is no single, definitive international-law answer to the question of how much collateral damage renders a strike disproportionate to its military objective.

All proposals for a two-state solution have been consistently rejected by Palestinian leaders. This is because Hamas is dedicated to the complete elimination of the country of Israel, and they intend to fight to the last man since martyrdom brings glory in heaven. Cease-fires and talks would only delay their ultimate goal.

Where is the corresponding outrage over Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine where hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded, including women and children? If Putin succeeds, other countries bordering on Russia would be next on the list for invasion.

Is the discrepancy above indicative of an element of antisemitism?