{"id":727,"date":"2024-06-10T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/anti-semitism-in-john-chrysostom\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:58:46","slug":"anti-semitism-in-john-chrysostom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/anti-semitism-in-john-chrysostom\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism in John Chrysostom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Eight Homilies against the Jews<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laits.utexas.edu\/bodian\/la-johnChrysostom.html\">Homily I<\/a>. Some historical background to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-foundation-of-american-folly?skip=1\">this<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s November 2023, and, following the October 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that killed some 1,400 Israelis and at least 31 Americans, thousands of demonstrators march through New York City, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Chants of \u201cfrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201d echo through the streets, along with \u201cthere is only one solution: intifada revolution.\u201d Among the crowd is the infamous Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, who&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/canarymission\/status\/1723755033609515324\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warns<\/a>&#0160;through a megaphone that a cabal of wily Jews has conspired to place \u201ctheir little posters\u201d (of kidnapped Israeli civilians) across the city, seeking to entice people to rip them down. While many onlookers might look like \u201cordinary people,\u201d she says, the Jews have \u201ctheir little people all around the city,\u201d surveilling others. Sarsour is there to deliver such rhetoric in part because she\u2019s been paid to be there: her nonprofit, MPower Change,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordfoundation.org\/work\/our-grants\/awarded-grants\/grants-database\/?search=mpower\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has received<\/a>&#0160;$300,000 in grant funding from the Ford Foundation \u201cto build grassroots Muslim power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Homilies against the Jews, Homily I. Some historical background to this: It\u2019s November 2023, and, following the October 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that killed some 1,400 Israelis and at least 31 Americans, thousands of demonstrators march through New York City, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Chants of \u201cfrom the river &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/anti-semitism-in-john-chrysostom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-Semitism in John Chrysostom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-fathers","category-jewish-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}