As re-reported by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jews make up about 2% of the US population, but the reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes were 16% of all reported hate crimes. This makes up about 70% of religious-based hate crimes.
Over 16,000 agencies, covering 95.1% of the US population, participated in submitting incident reports to the Hate Crime collection, shows the FBI report. Out of all hate crimes across the country, 50% were motivated by race, ethnicity, or national origin.
Bible teacher and best-selling author Joel Richardson joined Washington Watch to talk about how Christians should respond to this.
"So obviously, we're seeing actual hate crimes. We're seeing violent attacks. We saw that young couple murdered in cold blood in Washington a few months ago, but far beyond that, beyond the hate crimes, it's the national discourse," says Richardson.
He pointed out that people who were just recently 'darlings of the right' are expressing anti-Israel sentiment.
"We're not talking about radical leftists. We're talking about people like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson. They're going off the rails embracing, not just mild forms of criticism of Israel or this type of thing, but embracing full-blown, some of the most lurid, based, ridiculous, disproven, intellectually bankrupt forms of anti-Semitism," Richardson criticizes.
Richardson believes Satan is to blame. He references the Olivet discourse in Matthew 24, where Jesus said that all nations will hate you because of my name.
"Christians debate that… They go, well, he was talking to Jews, he was talking to Christians, but the context of what he was talking about was a time of unparalleled tribulation, specifically in Israel in Judea,” explains Richardson. "This is fulfillment of biblical prophecy. So, what's behind it is Satan. It's very simple.”
