By declaring Israel to be Pharaoh, the ayatollahs strip the Jewish state of its humanity. It is the ultimate form of antisemitism. It is no longer just about disputing Israel’s land; it is about declaring us the enemies of our own God. This is no longer a political dispute; it is spiritual warfare.
The Iranian regime’s instrumentalization of biblical motifs is a deliberate strategy of rhetorical inversion, in which Israel is deprived of the moral and religious identity it claims for itself. A central element of this tactic is the portrayal of Israel as the re-embodiment of those ancient powers that the Holy Scriptures depict as the epitome of evil and idolatry. Just as recent depictions of the “Baal” statue draw connections to pagan sacrificial practices and religious seduction, the Iranian regime consistently uses the image of Pharaoh to brand Israel as a tyrannical oppressor, while casting the Palestinians in the role of the persecuted faithful.
At demonstrations in Iran yesterday, to mark the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, a statue was burned that was presented as...
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This deliberate inversion of truth and lies, good and evil, is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that Jesus warned us about. It will bring a terrible judgement on those who promote it and upon those who believe it.