Lamentations, Mourning And Doom : A Response To “Competing Trends In Messianic Judaism

A few years ago a group from the local Jewish community met with the president (an evangelical Christian) of my university and demanded that he fire me from my position in Jewish Studies. The charge, repeated in a subsequent meeting with the group, with myself and the provost present, was anti-Semitism. How could I be seen as anti-Semitic? Easy. I have and continue to defend the rights of the Palestinians to be free in their own homeland. I remember the meeting well. Fifteen affluent southern Jews, including a recent convert to Judaism, were seated around the table. They grilled me, charged