Do You Stand for Truth and a Better World?

According to Star Parker, a press conference was held last week on October 7 to express solidarity with Israel and to commemorate October 7, 2023. More than 50 pastors with Michigan Lighthouse Ministries joined with Parker’s Center for Urban Renewal and Education to hold the press conference. 

The press conference was held at a church in Michigan “because the state is home to the largest Arab American population in the country.” Michigan is also home to Democrat Representative Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in the U.S. House of Representatives and “one of the nation’s most strident voices against Israel.”

The clergy, mostly black, were not there to oppose Arab Americans. They were there to support the Jewish state of Israel and its values and to express “support for the welfare and betterment of all mankind.”

Parker explained that the clergy are concerned about “the cloud of darkness spreading and enveloping so much of our world today.” She continued:

The miraculous return of the Jewish people to their historical homeland after 2,000 years in dispersion and their transformation of desert and swamp into a thriving modern state, with per capita income higher than most European countries, shines laser-like light into the thick dark cloud of evil around us.

Hamas terrorists noted the first anniversary of their Oct. 7 attack by firing missiles into Israel, saying that, given the opportunity, they would commit the same atrocities again and again.

By atrocities, we’re talking about murder, rape, beheadings, burning of babies, mutilation of corpses.

How is it that there is sympathy for this depravity?

Iran, which provides the billions financing Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations, had a gross domestic product of just $5,740 per capita in 2023, according to tradingeconomics.com. This is only 13.5% of Israel’s $42,674 per capita GD, despite Iran having the fourth-largest holdings of oil reserves in the world.

The difference is that Israel is about choosing life and personal responsibility and creativity, and Iran is about a government stealing the wealth of its citizens to finance a hateful, destructive ideology.

Similarly, the Hamas terrorists. The billions infused into Gaza over the years from Iran, but also from European countries and America, was used to fund terror rather than build a country and create wealth.

Parker explained that she visited Israel and saw similarities between the Palestinians and the people causing so much destruction in the inner cities of America. She noticed that both places had corrupt leaders who were “exploiting the worst tendencies in people by attributing their suffering to others, fostering a culture of blame, rather than taking personal responsibility for their own lives.

In comparison, the black clergy gathered in Michigan to “stand for truth and to stand for a better world….. The appeal of our pastors is unwavering support for the one Jewish state, for the Bible we have received from the Jewish nation, and to end, everywhere, the sick and evil culture of blame.”