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Shades of Wright on Right: Jews peeved about Palin's pastor and his pulpit preachers

http://israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2018399%3ABlogPost%3A5506

Just over two weeks ago, on August 17, Sarah Palin’s spiritual home, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep distrust by most Jews and Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus, a cult-like group that aggressively seeks to convert Jews to its own variation of Christianity.

The Anti-Defamation League has accused Jews for Jesus “aggressive proselytizing with a deceptive message: that Jews who accept Jesus as the son of God and their savior remain Jewish” and “targeting Jews for conversion with subterfuge and deception.”
Senior Pastor Larry Kroon, the church's Senior pastor and longtime associate of Brickner, told JTA: “I don't feel it's deceptive,” . “Look at Paul and Peter and the others -- they were Jews and believed in Jesus as the messiah. There’s gentile believers and there’s Jewish believers that acknowledge Jesus as messiah. There’s Swedish believers."

Brickner, for his part, justified his organization's purpose with the claim that Jesus and his disciples were themselves Jewish. “The Jewish community, in particular, has a difficult time understanding this reality,” he said, as if this "historical" claim is the source of Jews' animosity toward his mission.
In Wasilla, with Sarah Palin present in the pews, Brickner spoke for about 30 minutes about his group’s successful effort to introduce Israelis to Jesus. Here he describes playing music in Jerusalem with his evangelical band The Liberated Wailing Wall:

Now, most Israelis are secular. And they were drawn by the music, and we had t-shirts on that said “Yehudim L’man Yeshua” (Jews for Jesus), so they knew who we were; but that was ok. They were enjoying the music; some were clapping. There were some that were even dancing off to the side. I thought to myself, “Boy, this is great! We’re preachin’ the gospel right here on the streets of Jerusalem.”


Brickner implied that terrorism was the result of the Jews' rejection of Jesus as God: