Sunday, July 22, 2007

Israeli cable wants to yank Christian station

Israel's Hot Cable TV is planning on pulling a Christian station that runs 15-minute infomercials that try to reach Jews with the message of Jesus, causing, of course, an international brouhaha. Jerusalem city councilwoman Mina Fenton, an anti-missionary activist, told the Jerusalem Post:
"The State of Israel must safeguard its Jewish existence which means preventing any non-Jewish authority that plans to wipe out the Jewish Nation spiritually from operating in the Jewish State."
This is similar logic to why Jewish newspapers don't run ads from Jews for Jesus or, I can only imagine, why Christianity Today wouldn't publish a Muslim missionary's call to Islam. What's wrong with it?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So Brad, Jewish (sic) Journal's contribution to Yiddishkeit, now objects to an Israeli cable network yanking a Xtian missionary effort off its channel. Brad, since you seem to want to Xtianize Jews and the world, why don't you show some cojones, make your pitch to some Muslim organization, see the results.

Brad A. Greenberg said...

Thanks for the comment, George. But my point was the Israeli cable station's action seemed justified, just as it is for Jewish newspapers to not take the advertisements of Jews for Jesus.