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May 28, 2021

A Christian’s Account of Standing with the Jews against an Anti-Israel Protest

Obadiah’s message in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Last Saturday afternoon, about 100 anti-Israel demonstrators gathered in Teaneck, New Jersey, home to a large and thriving Orthodox Jewish community. After a week of anti-Israel protests that frequently degenerated into the harassment of Jews, and in several instances into violent attacks, Luke Moon, a Christian, decided to be present at the location of the protest in a show of solidarity with the Jewish people. The experience brought to his mind a verse from the book of Obadiah: “On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off [Israel’s] wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.”

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