Latest / Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo / Olivier Melnick: BDS and the Three D’s of Antisemitism
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- 0:00Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
- 0:10defending biblical Christianity, no topic, off limits.
- 0:16And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
- 0:19Hey, friends.
- 0:20Welcome back another day.
- 0:22But part two of our interview with Olivier Melnick, his website, if you missed the first
- 0:27show, is newantisemitism.com, that's newantisemitism.com.
- 0:35His books are available on Amazon.
- 0:37We'll be talking about several of them today.
- 0:40And also his YouTube channel.
- 0:41Make sure to check out Shalom in Messiah Ministries.
- 0:45And at YouTube, you can just search Olivier Melnick if you're not already following him.
- 0:50So in the first program, we talked about the cancer of anti-semitism.
- 0:55And he defined it for us, we're going to touch on that a bit again.
- 1:00Talked a little bit about replacement theology, dual covenant theology.
- 1:04We talked about the source of anti-semitism.
- 1:07And we even connected some dots on what's going on today in our government and our college
- 1:12campuses and universities.
- 1:14And we did all that in just one show.
- 1:16So here's part two.
- 1:17I want to bring back Olivier Melnick, brother.
- 1:21Thanks for extending this for us.
- 1:24Well, thank you for having me again.
- 1:25I mean, we did cover quite a bit in the first program,
- 1:28but we can definitely do another show in probably more than one.
- 1:31Oh, my goodness.
- 1:32So much we can pack in this one.
- 1:34Well, we could do six shows on just this one book.
- 1:36But anyway, to go back, if you're just watching this guys and you didn't see part one,
- 1:42Olivier, would you please just give us that definition of anti-semitism for them.
- 1:48Anti-semitism is the irrational and demonic hatred of the Jewish people in Israel characterized
- 1:55by thoughts, words, and or deeds against them.
- 1:59And again, in the first show, I emphasize that it is demonic, satanic.
- 2:05And because it's demonic, it's irrational because you see what's happening in the world.
- 2:12And in Satan can very easily make something look rational when it is irrational.
- 2:19I'll give you an example when you have the radical left joining forces with radical Islam
- 2:25against Israel when really you put a liberal leftist and the radical Muslim in the same
- 2:33room, they'll kill each other.
- 2:34But when it comes to go after Israel, they'll work together in a mixed sense.
- 2:38Exactly.
- 2:39It's a strange bedfellows.
- 2:42So you know, Satan's behind some of this.
- 2:45So let's talk about what a lot of people don't understand.
- 2:48We hear BDS.
- 2:49We hear these, you know, our, whether it's our government or policy wise, BDS.
- 2:55And you write a lot in your book and times anti-semitism.
- 3:00And on page 264, you talk about boycott, divestment, and sanction.
- 3:07What the heck is that?
- 3:09And you mentioned also three bullet points about this and what the co-founder for BDS, how
- 3:16he explained it.
- 3:17So please tell us what that is and what we need to understand about that.
- 3:21Okay.
- 3:22BDS is very pernicious.
- 3:23It's a movement that has been going on since 2005.
- 3:27I mean, actually it's older than that from the, from the standpoint of being a boycott
- 3:34of Israel and Jewish people.
- 3:36You can go back to the 30s and 40s, really, when you started seeing, you know, during
- 3:40Crystal Knock, when they were boycott businesses and put big Jewish stars on, on the front
- 3:45of businesses in Berlin and in Burnt Synagogues and killed Jewish people, which, by the way,
- 3:49was the November 1938 was the start of the Holocaust, Crystal Knock was that day.
- 3:55So you can go back that way.
- 3:57But looking at today, the modern iteration of BDS started in 2005.
- 4:05It was co-founded by Omar Barguiti and Palestinian guy and Mahmoud Abbas.
- 4:12And basically, it's the model, their philosophy.
- 4:18So they say on the, what happened in South Africa to boycott South Africa when it was going,
- 4:25you know, when they, when they had the issues of racism that some of that boycott in South
- 4:30Africa worked.
- 4:33So they said, we're going to do the same thing, but it's only against Israel.
- 4:36It's boycotting Israeli products, boycotting Israeli artists, personalities, movies, books,
- 4:44or divesting from people that basically have business in Israel or even businesses in
- 4:53America or parts of the world who partner with Israeli companies.
- 4:59So they say, we don't want to support that.
- 5:01So we divest, we boycott, and we sanction all those things.
- 5:06And what's interesting to me is that they're so inconsistent.
- 5:12There's no ethical, nothing's not ethical at all.
- 5:16They're so inconsistent.
- 5:18They will boycott anything that's Israeli.
- 5:21So my question is, should you stop using a cell phone because cell phone technology was
- 5:26invented by Israel?
- 5:28Should you stop using an Intel computer because the Intel chip was invented by Israel?
- 5:33Should you not use a thumb drive because they were invented by Jewish people by Israel?
- 5:39And then what's interesting to me also is that Mr. Bargootie has a PhD from Tel Aviv University.
- 5:48That's Israel.
- 5:49So should he return his PhD because it really is not valid.
- 5:53It's an Israeli school.
- 5:54So they're not consistent.
- 5:57They're just, but the world is going like, oh, again, not checking on historical accuracy,
- 6:05not checking on facts.
- 6:06The world is going, this is a good way to promote social justice and to do good.
- 6:11So I'm going to boycott Israel.
- 6:14So did I misunderstand while I was reading your book on that section on boycott divestment
- 6:21and sanction?
- 6:22And you said there are some in the evangelical church that for some somehow this is appealing
- 6:28to them or they're supportive of this.
- 6:30Can you explain that?
- 6:31Well, it's going to be appealing to some in the evangelical church simply because again,
- 6:36Christians, the vast majority of Christians today, you know that they do not read their
- 6:41Bible.
- 6:42They do not understand the place of Israel and the plan of God.
- 6:46They do not understand that that the Palestinian narrative is a false narrative based on an
- 6:55agenda of a destructive agenda for the Jewish people.
- 6:59So they go like, well, the Jewish people in Israel, the Israelis have colonized and have
- 7:05occupied and to stop that, we have to boycott.
- 7:10And there are people within the church and those are the churches.
- 7:13There are some condemnation within Christendom that will promote BDS because they think it's
- 7:21the right way to stop the occupier, the colonizer that Israel is when in fact Israel is not
- 7:27an occupier.
- 7:28You do not occupy a land that you own.
- 7:31Okay.
- 7:32Go ahead.
- 7:34No, no, it doesn't answer your question.
- 7:38Yes, yes.
- 7:39I wanted to, I didn't mention in this part two, the titles of a couple of the books we're
- 7:43talking about.
- 7:44I just want to do that briefly.
- 7:45The BDS section that we're talking about is in this book called End Times Anti-Semitism.
- 7:51We're also talking about the time is now.
- 7:53We talked about that in our first program with Olivier Melnik.
- 7:56And the most recent book, The Normalization of Anti-Semitism when the oldest hatred becomes
- 8:04the new normal and we are in a scary place globally because of that truth and it's become
- 8:11normalized.
- 8:12I want to go to the three points on page 265 claims that Israel must meet these three
- 8:19obligations and get your response if you want to explain them further.
- 8:23Number one, ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling
- 8:31the wall.
- 8:33Number two, recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab, Palestinian citizens of Israel
- 8:38to full equality and number three, respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian
- 8:45refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
- 8:53And we know that UN has been anti-Israel for as long as I can remember so many resolutions
- 8:58against Israel.
- 8:59If you want to expand on any one of those three or share whatever you'd like Olivier to
- 9:03help us out with.
- 9:04Again, looking at those three points that Omar Barguiti made basically is trying to, they
- 9:17rest on a false narrative saying that you have to return the land, you have to stop the
- 9:24enemy reread, respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees, Palestinian
- 9:30refugees are Arabs who were forced to stay in the land of Israel when Israel became a nation.
- 9:37They were forced by their own people all around Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt.
- 9:43They were forced to stay and they became refugees by default because they were not a lot to
- 9:51go back to their own countries and then they became stuck in Israel.
- 9:57But the reality, David, is that inside Israel, Arabs, inside Israel are treated very well.
- 10:06And what's interesting when the world is joining forces with the people like Omar Barguiti
- 10:13and Mahmoud Abbas and the haters of Israel, they're joining forces to say, you know what,
- 10:19Israel is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing, let me set the record here.
- 10:25And I think I put it in one of my books, I forgot which one it is.
- 10:28But let me set the record, there are two million Arabs today in living inside Israel.
- 10:36I'm not talking about the disputed territories, I don't call them occupied, I call them disputed.
- 10:42I don't call, you know, I'm not talking about Judea, I'm not talking about Gaza, Arabs living
- 10:46inside Israeli territory, recognized, you know, by that name, two million Arabs,
- 10:52that's about 1.5 million more than in 1948.
- 10:56That is the opposite of ethnic cleansing, my friend.
- 10:59Now, look at the Jews killed in the Holocaust, 18 million Jews, 6 million died, 12 million left.
- 11:07We have 15 million Jews in the world today.
- 11:10Still, 3 million short of what we had before the Holocaust, that is ethnic cleansing.
- 11:16Yep.
- 11:17And by the way, we've talked about this on the previous programs with other guests,
- 11:22but I want to get your take on their talking point that Israel is colonizing.
- 11:28And what's the other word, their occupiers, we've showed the map of Israel and all the surrounding nations.
- 11:35And a lot of us don't understand how they can get away with putting out that talking point.
- 11:41Can you help us understand that?
- 11:43Well, and the Israel is right now is the size of New Jersey.
- 11:48And you look at the map of the Arab world, it's, I don't even know what percent it is,
- 11:52but when you put, when you scan the whole, the map of the Arab world,
- 11:57and you look for Israel, a little red sliver, it's hard to find it.
- 12:01Yes.
- 12:02It's hard to find it.
- 12:03And as nothing to do with them being occupiers, it has all to do with, again,
- 12:08the satanic desire to destroy all the Jews.
- 12:13I don't care if Israel is in the Middle East, or if all the Jews lived in a different place of the world.
- 12:19You know, before they were given the biblical land of Israel in 1948, rightfully so,
- 12:28there were two proposals to move all the Jews back to either Uganda, in Africa,
- 12:34or the island of Madagascar.
- 12:36And they both said, you know, they said, no, it's not going to work.
- 12:38We're going back to the land of Israel.
- 12:40But it would not matter if all the Jews were in the land of, on the island of Madagascar,
- 12:47Southeast of Africa, they would still be an agenda, a global agenda today,
- 12:51to destroy all of them because they're a thorn in the flesh of Satan,
- 12:56and he wants to get all gone.
- 12:59So the false acquisition of colonization and occupation, you know, based on, you know,
- 13:07you look at what's happening in Gaza right now.
- 13:10The Jews are the Israelis are accused of occupation.
- 13:15There was not one Jew in Gaza.
- 13:20There's no occupation.
- 13:21Gaza is ruled by the Palestinian Authority, by Hamas, actually.
- 13:25So the Jewish people are not even allowed there.
- 13:27They don't go there.
- 13:28They're not, I mean, just, just that little strip of Gaza.
- 13:31They're not occupying anything.
- 13:32They're not there.
- 13:33And so staying into occupation is wrong.
- 13:36Calling for a ceasefire.
- 13:38You didn't ask that question, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
- 13:40Calling for ceasefire is wrong as well because guess what?
- 13:43There was a ceasefire until October 6th.
- 13:47And then Hamas broke the ceasefire on October 7th.
- 13:50Wow.
- 13:52Wow.
- 13:53We heard the quote paraphrase quite a bit if they put down their weapons.
- 13:58There will be peace.
- 13:59If Israel puts down her weapons, there will be no more Israel.
- 14:02We've got to take a very quick break.
- 14:03We're with Olivier Melnick.
- 14:05And when we come back on World View Matters, we're going to be talking about the three
- 14:08Ds of anti-Semitism.
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- 14:23And friends, as we talked about in the first program with Olivier that there is an irrational
- 14:34hatred.
- 14:35It is demonic.
- 14:36That's what's driving all this.
- 14:38So it helps you understand why some people can hate the Jews and they might not even understand
- 14:43themselves why they hate the Jews.
- 14:45It is irrational.
- 14:47It is demonic.
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- 15:18So Olivier, before we get into the three D's of anti-semitism in your book, your latest
- 15:24book, the normalization of anti-semitism, you ask different pastors and church leaders,
- 15:30which I absolutely love how you did this.
- 15:33Four different questions for and you asked each one of them the same four questions.
- 15:38Could you explain just their answers were almost almost unified or similar in some way,
- 15:45but they all gave us a slightly different take.
- 15:48How did you decide those are the four biggest questions you could ask all of these influential
- 15:52people in the evangelical and Christian community?
- 15:55Well, you know, they were, you know, in the questions, you know, we've, you know, to put
- 16:00a little context in this, that one question was, do you think the church relationship
- 16:05with the Jewish people was a factor in the Holocaust and how, and the next one was, what
- 16:10should Christians do differently today to bridge the gap between the Jewish community
- 16:13and the Christian community?
- 16:15Third one was, what do you think is the number one reason for the lack of Christian support
- 16:19of Israel and fourth, what is to you the most convicting verse or passage of the Bible
- 16:24validating God's plan for Israel and the Jewish people?
- 16:27Right.
- 16:28What I said is that to those four questions and I asked, and all these wonderful Bible
- 16:32teachers, they're all friends, I wanted Gentile believers, that's why I didn't ask any
- 16:40Jewish believers.
- 16:41I have, you know, a few people I wanted to ask, but they're Jewish believers like myself.
- 16:45I wanted to ask Gentile believers who understand the Bible, who love Israel, who love the Jewish
- 16:50people to give me their take on this, on those four questions to, and they all came up
- 16:57with, you know, their own version of the fact that, you know, if anybody reads the Bible
- 17:03properly, they'll find out that Israel is all throughout the pages of the Bible.
- 17:08God has not finished with Israel.
- 17:10God has a great plan for Israel that's going to kind of reconvene and finish its plan
- 17:16for Israel throughout the seven year tribulation, the time of Jacob's trouble, and that doing
- 17:21anything against the Jewish people is working against God and against his covenants.
- 17:25So I wanted, the reason why I put those guys in there, I'm hoping that if Jewish person
- 17:31who doesn't know Yeshua, who doesn't know Jesus, put, you know, get this book in their hands
- 17:35and go like, oh, wow, there's a bunch of Bible teachers, they're Christians and they actually
- 17:40love Israel and the Jews.
- 17:41Right now, we need, and this is why I did that, really, we need to tell our Jewish friends,
- 17:48our Jewish co-workers, neighbors, family members, maybe, we need to let them know, I've got
- 17:53your back, because right now globally, the Jewish community is very, very scared of what's
- 17:59happening, and they fear for their lives.
- 18:03I got a lot of family from France, and life is becoming miserable for Jewish people.
- 18:11The numbers for Al-Yah for making, you know, the law of return in Israel are, you know,
- 18:18spiking again, because a lot of Jewish people in Europe are going like, we're done, it's
- 18:22even though there's a war in Israel right now, it's still safer to live in Israel than
- 18:27to live in the world.
- 18:29That says a lot.
- 18:30That says a lot right there.
- 18:32And friends, I just want to mention who Olivier reached out to for these questions, David
- 18:36Reagan, Mike Spalding, Mando Gonzalez, Mark Hitchcock, Todd Hamps, and Tommy Ice, Brandon
- 18:41House, Brandon Holthouse, Andy Woods, Don Perkins, Tom Hughes, William Canig and Billy Crone.
- 18:48So Olivier, before we go on to the three Ds of anti-Semitism, I want to go to question
- 18:53number three and get your brief response.
- 18:56What do you, Olivier Melnick, think, is the number one reason for the lack of Christian
- 19:01support of Israel?
- 19:05My, when I look at, you know, I've been doing this for 23 years, and I think it's the
- 19:12illiteracy of Christians, they do not read their Bible.
- 19:17We have failed.
- 19:18This current generation of the younger generation, not interested in churches, not interested
- 19:22in going to church or anything Christian, we, as in our generation and older, we have
- 19:28failed in discipling them and excited about being believers.
- 19:33So now they're walking away from the church.
- 19:35And alongside that, of course, you've got this postmodern view of everybody has to,
- 19:44you know, we all have to get along and the, what I'm looking for is, I can't, can't think
- 19:52of the word right now, but, you know, lack of education is, is probably the number one.
- 19:57They don't know what they're talking about.
- 19:59They're not interested.
- 20:01So anything that sounds good, that sounds like it's going to be bringing justice, they
- 20:04jump on it.
- 20:05And of course, again, the irrational aspect of social justice for the Palestinians, we have
- 20:11not become under the new anti-Semitism, the new victims and the Jews have become the
- 20:17new Nazis of the Middle East.
- 20:19I just did a message at a church last Sunday on, you know, on what's happening since
- 20:26October 7th, and I showed a series of cartoons that have been published, especially by Arab
- 20:32cartoonists.
- 20:33And everything on those cartoons portrays Israel in a way that is exactly what is being
- 20:40done to the Jews, you know, the Jews control the press, which is one of the oldest tropes.
- 20:46But it's not true.
- 20:47The world is going against, you know, the press is spreading lies against Israel and
- 20:52against the Jewish people.
- 20:53And so all those different cartoons, they show exactly what the enemy is trying to do.
- 20:59And they're like, they're painting Israel as being the enemy.
- 21:03But Israel, when you look at how Israel is handling the war and every war they've had, what
- 21:09that country in the world, according to conventional war methods, would drop leaflets hours before
- 21:20they bomb and say, tomorrow, at this address, we are going to drop a bomb, get out, run for
- 21:27your life.
- 21:28This is not conventional warfare.
- 21:30This is skincare of human beings.
- 21:33I mean, there is another cartoon I saw when you have an Israeli soldier on, you know,
- 21:38on this knees with a gun like this, and behind him is a little baby being protected.
- 21:43And then you have on the other side of Palestinian soldier putting a baby in front of him as
- 21:47a shield.
- 21:48And that is, that's what's happening.
- 21:50I mean, I think for those who are really interested in the truth, if they look at what's
- 21:57happening with the United Nations organization, the UNRAW, right now that was actually millions
- 22:05were funneled into that organization to help humanitarian crisis and with the Palestinians.
- 22:11And some of the people over there actually, you know, sponsored by the United Nations ended
- 22:17up being actors in October 7th or terrorist attack against Israel.
- 22:24That's how bad it is and the world is not paying attention.
- 22:27Yeah, exactly.
- 22:28Well, one of the reasons is the propaganda is off the charts because the left controls
- 22:33the narrative that the Jews don't run the press in the media.
- 22:36Oh, my goodness.
- 22:37I mean, just look at what's coming out of there.
- 22:39And anyway, we've got to move on to the three Ds of anti-Semitism before we run out
- 22:43of time.
- 22:44Okay.
- 22:45By the way, if you run the press, we would, we would make sure that we look better for
- 22:48the world.
- 22:49Yeah.
- 22:50Exactly.
- 22:51So the three Ds of anti-Semitism, that's, I haven't found in all my research in all
- 22:57the years, a better way to just to determine if something is anti-Semitic or not.
- 23:03And this was originally written and explained by Natan Shoransky, who is a Soviet refusenic
- 23:13who came to Israel.
- 23:14And he worked a lot with the Leah program bringing Jews to the land.
- 23:18And he said, if anything falls under those three Ds, any event or a person or a statement
- 23:24of any of those three Ds, it is anti-Semitic.
- 23:26And they are demonization, delegitimization, and double standards, demonizing the Jews,
- 23:33saying that the Jews are evil people that kill, that kill poor Palestinians.
- 23:40During the Middle Ages, the Jews were accused of killing Christian babies to draw their blood,
- 23:46to mix in the unleavened bread for Passover, which is ridiculous, because under kosher
- 23:50law, the first thing we get rid of is the blood.
- 23:53Ignoring the facts and just a big lie about the Jews, that's demonization.
- 23:58Delegitimization is basically saying the Jews do not belong in Israel, they do not,
- 24:04the land is not theirs, so it's not legitimate for them to live there, they have to get out,
- 24:11they have nowhere to go, so we're going to get rid of them.
- 24:14And then D, double standard, well, just look at the United Nations and tell me, you do
- 24:21not see a double standard, all those propositions, the resolution that I've been asked against Israel,
- 24:29they, the number of those against one little country as opposed to the rest of the world,
- 24:34like Sudan and China and Iran, nobody talks about those people killing their own people,
- 24:40but Israel, focal point, that's double standard.
- 24:43Yeah, all tons of resolutions against Israel, and this is a history that goes back,
- 24:48but before we run out of time and we're, we are, it's getting close Olivier,
- 24:52what can true biblical Christians do other than, of course, keeping an out for our Jewish
- 24:59friends and neighbors and sharing the truth of the Messiah of Jesus with them?
- 25:03What else can biblical Christians do speak up maybe on social media? Go ahead.
- 25:09Oh, man, David, I wish we can do another show on this, maybe we should.
- 25:14Let's do it. I am part of a network that started being developed three and a half years ago.
- 25:21Now, it's not a ministry. It's a secret network like an underground railroad for Jewish people.
- 25:27And we've been organizing Christian, like-minded Christians in America, but also in the rest of the
- 25:33world, to prepare themselves to rescue and shelter Jewish people was way before October 7th.
- 25:42And what's happening is that right now, I get a lot of Christians reaching out to me saying,
- 25:47Olivier, count me in. My house will be open for a Jewish person or a Jewish family.
- 25:53And that network is, if people want to be part of it, again, it's a secret network. We are not
- 25:59on the web. We don't advertise. We don't raise money, but it's called Bridges to Zion.
- 26:03So if people go to Bridges, number two, Zion, Bridges to Zion.com, they can sign up for that network.
- 26:12It is no fee. We don't charge money. We don't take money. It just like-minded Christians saying,
- 26:18it's time to redeem the past and really do better than some Christians 80 years ago did not
- 26:26when they became bystanders. And I could explain this in great detail if we may do another show.
- 26:32But I'm not trying to push myself on your show. No, I want you to promise. I want to get you on
- 26:36record that we're going to do another show on this. Okay, I promise.
- 26:42Well, friends, make sure to go to newantisemitism.com. And this is a short read. This book is the
- 26:50most recent, the normalization of anti-Semitism. Make sure you check that out. It's on Amazon.
- 26:57And we're just so thankful for the work and the years of research that we can glean from as
- 27:03true biblical Christians and evangelicals. And from Olivier, we just thank you for your time.
- 27:08What a blessing today. We'll do another show down the road a little bit in the near future. But
- 27:14brother, God bless you. May he enlarge your territory and continue to give you good success.
- 27:19Thank you, Shalom. All right. Thank you. Shalom. Shalom. All right. Olivier Melnick,
- 27:24the books are great. Again, they're available on Amazon friends. Who do we have tomorrow? Where's
- 27:28the list here? Pastor Claude Stoffer has got a book out. He did an extensive study on the book
- 27:34of Romans and chapters 9 through 11 are in there. I'm sure. So that's tomorrow. We'll be talking with
- 27:40him and then Mark and Amber Archer of fearless features. They've got a phenomenal documentary
- 27:47called dysphoria. I watched it yesterday. It is eye opening and we'll talk to them on Thursday.
- 27:56God bless you guys. And as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.