“Recently, I reported exciting news about a series of Hebrew-language testimonies promoting faith in Jesus by Messianic Jews on the front page of the popular Walla! News, one of Israel’s largest news corporations. With sadness, I must now report that the video series about Jesus has been cancelled, and all references to Jesus and Messianic Jews have been removed from the site. Walla! had taken a bold and calculated risk broadcasting a Messianic campaign that promotes interest in Jesus to their massive Israeli audience. We expected that there would be serious resistance to the unprecedented promotional by Messianic Jews on mainstream Israeli media. ... According to Erez Soref, president of the Israel College of the Bible and one of the project’s initiators, here’s what happened: ‘Walla! News received intense threats from some within the Ultra-Orthodox community, which banded together threatening to sue the company because of the exposure Walla! News provided to the name of Yeshua and to Messianic Jews. Walla! News received additional threats from Ultra-Orthodox representatives, threatening a major consumer boycott … Walla! News decided to remove the interviews from the site on Friday, the 25th of December.” “Jesus Removed from Headlines in Israel,” Israel Today, Jan. 4, 2016 Comments are closed.
|
Archives
February 2020
|