Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Bad Wiring

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Imagine an Orthodox Jew hiring a devout Catholic to work on his major media network. He pays this man generously and gives him a platform that reaches millions upon millions of viewers every single day. According to his wiki page he has over 1.3 billion views.

In my opinion, this individual is an antisemite—but that's just my view. What is undeniable fact is that he openly promotes ideas like these:

The "Old Testament" [as they call it] is not authoritative.

Only the "New Testament" holds true authority.

God once promised the Land of Israel to the Jews, but then rejected them.

The "New Israel" is the Christian Church.

Therefore, Jews have no biblical right to the land today.

He is extremely vocal about his Christian beliefs in general (what we might call his "Yoshke" views). A J' Freak if there ever was one. For an observant Jew, employing someone who holds such positions—views that border on or even cross into yehareg v'al ya'avor territory (a level where one should rather die than transgress)—would normally be unthinkable. No genuinely Orthodox Jew would ever do such a thing.

Except that he does.

And the problem doesn't stop there. The other people he employs are no better. They include an apostate Jew—someone who has abandoned core Jewish faith and practice, yet is given a prominent role amplifying the network's message.

Remarkably, almost no one in the broader Jewish community is raising serious objections. People seem so enamored with his unabashed pro-Israel political stance that they overlook—or deliberately ignore—the profoundly troubling theology his media platform promotes and normalizes daily.

This is a glaring inconsistency: loud support for Israel on geopolitical grounds, while quietly (or not so quietly) empowering voices that erode the biblical and theological basis for Jewish connection to the land itself.