As Christians, keeping the sad history of Christian antisemitism in mind when responding to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the present is extremely crucial. My must respond with compassion and understanding. Keeping the unpleasant history will allow us to be appropriately sensitive to the subject, acknowledge the wrong doings, and prevent Christians from making the same mistakes. The only way that we can have any progress in the conflict is by trying to understand how the other side feels and approach the matter with humility. The Jewish people were victims to horrible treatment and as Christians, we cannot be okay with this despite our difference in beliefs. The last lesson spoke about how Christians are tied to the Jewish people and experience a sort of bias in their favor because they are a representation of humanity. We can more easily agree then that we should protect them and extend compassion towards them.
