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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAvi Lipkin: Jews Will Soon 'Face Death' In America, Must 'Flee To Israel'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/avi-lipkin-jews-will-soon-face-death-america-must-flee-israelAmerica is going to get spanked by ISIS, Lipkin warned, there will be terrorist attacks. Such violence, however, may end up doing some good, he said, because it will lead to a revival in this country in all Christian denominations.
And also Im hoping the Jews will have a revival but actually Im afraid that most Jews are going to have to flee to Israel or face death here, Lipkin said, before returning to more encouraging news: The Christians are going to stay here, the Christians are going to fight for their country, the pendulum will swing back to the right and America will remain the greatest country on earth if it chooses to be Christian.
Earlier in the same interview, Lipkin shared with Markell the latest birther conspiracy theory about President Obama, this one involving a mailman.
Dear Avi: a) You're a nutjob , and b) there are as many Jews in the U.S. as there are in Israel. Are you seriously suggesting that Israel double its population overnight?
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Now, if you were asking whether Avi Lipkin himself is a joke...
ladjf
(17,320 posts)is safe.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Disturbing echoes of the past are starting to rumble across the pond.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)And the thing he is trying to accomplish is fire up those fundie Christians about "the end times,' and against Democrats.
Y'see, a core fundamentalist belief is a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation (plus some pseudo-canonical Rapture bullshit from Cotton Mather and Tim LaHaye.) A major feature of this is an epic apocalyptic showdown between Israel and "Gog and Magog." And for this to happen, ALL THE JEWS have to be in Israel. And so, dipshits like this guy spend a surprising amount of time pumping fundie christians up about how bad things are for Jews and how they'll all be fleeing to Israel any day now and blah blah blah.
And if you're curious? Yes, this weird-ass theology is a major factor in the US relationship with Israel
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I suppose it will come as no surprise to anyone that he is good buds with James David Manning, the homophobic and race-baiting pastor of the Atlah church in Harlem that many of us have been trying to get shut down.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,988 posts)The flaw in his thinking is if "somebody" wanted to kill us all it would make sense to get us all in one place.
Behind the Aegis
(54,671 posts)I don't think I have ever met a Jew, even among the most devout and orthodox, who was engrossed in the Christian version of the end times. He sounds positively nutty.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)of his beliefs.
I mentioned my father was a survivor of the shoah and then all the crazy came out of him that Liberals and Democrats were trying to allow that to happen here, etc. He didn't realize I was a Democrat.
Behind the Aegis
(54,671 posts)I have noticed an increase in the Holocaust references from all quarters of late; rather creepy in my opinion. Given the state of the US, I highly doubt it would be an issue here, even among liberals and democrats. Now, if the cards were stacked in favor of the conservatives and republicans, that's another story.
Since I have never heard of him, I googled his name and read some of his "articles" and listened, briefly, to a few of his "talks". This man is seriously deluded. I also couldn't get over the fact that at sites where he is being "praised", they constantly refer to his wife as a "Jewess." Has that term ever been a positive description of a female Jewish person?
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)He wanted to come on my show and talk about this. I know the Rude One and I would have a lot of fun with him but I just don't think it would have been good for the show.
And no, I have never heard of "Jewess" used other than in Nazi/neoNazi references to Jewish women.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I know of a family who followed End Times to the letter. They were told that if they join Jews for Jesus and study & practice as the Jewish people do, they would be able to use their knowledge of Christianity to then convert Jews to Christianity.
It's an odd concept but there are many who have followed that thinking and this family I knew, did just that.
They went from full cult End Timers to speaking, studying and supporting all Jewish holidays, functions, and attire, within a two week time frame.
It was the craziest thing I have seen.
Have you heard of this conversion of End Timers to Jewish?
ck4829
(35,597 posts)And he's suggesting to flee to a country that not only has ISIS around it's borders, but also is apparently fighting rising aggression from it's own extremist settler population?
Just stick to the birther stuff, dude. That sounds slightly less crazy by comparison.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)well, not Trump, who's leaning toward Caribou Barbie.
He'd be like a repuke version of LIEberman.
Behind the Aegis
(54,671 posts)Sounds like he is a lunatic. Jews will face the same anti-Semitic bullshit we always have, more if the economy tanks, but it is highly unlikely we will be "facing death" here. Looking at some of his other "musings", he seems to be engulfed in Christian mythology, especially concerning the "end times" and Satan. It almost appears as if he is carrying water for the end-timers. Very strange.
Journeyman
(15,122 posts)This postman told the birther website WorldNetDaily that the parents of Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground member who later became a University of Illinois professor with a passing acquaintance to the future president, regularly hosted a black foreign-exchange student who was from either Kenya or Indonesia with a strange name back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He told me he had taken the train out from Chicago and had come to thank the Ayers family personally for having helped him with his education, the mailman recalled. He looked right at me and told me he was going to be president of the United States . It came across as if this young black male was telling me he was going to be president, almost as if it were the statement of a scientific fact that had already been determined, as if his being president had been already pre-arranged.
As it turned out, Lipkin met the very same postman: He said to me, he was there every day and he saw this black man there every day. Who are you? Oh, I am going to be president of the United States. Lipkin cited this postmans story as proof that Obama is part of a greater agenda to socialize America and make it a Muslim country.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/avi-lipkin-mystery-mailman-knows-obama-communist-muslim-plant#sthash.QY4hyEed.dpuf
So I'm confused: Is Obama a successful Manchurian Candidate, or a Stepford President?
ck4829
(35,597 posts)It must be similar to DMT, where people report seeing the 'machine elves' telling them various things about the nature of life and the universe.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Funny shit.
COLGATE4
(14,791 posts)In the words of the great Mel Brooks in Spaceballs, he 'needs to go back to the golf course and work on his putz.'