Yad L’Achim Takes Battle Against Missionaries to the Internet With Breakthrough Video
July 18, 2019
For some time now, the struggle between Yad L’Achim and the missionaries has been waged over the internet. The missionaries, finding that their activities on the streets were stymied by Yad L’Achim activists warning off passersby, decided that the net was an easier place for them to operate.
But Yad L’Achim is battling them there, as well. It has recruited experts in the field to return fire and faced off against the internet companies and the web. This week saw a major advance in Yad L’Achim’s efforts with the distribution of a film on the web that exposes the public to the tactics of the missionaries.
In the film, attached here, an actor is seen dressed in a Christian priest’s garb. He removes the outer clothing, which causes the public to keep its distance, and casts himself in a more appealing light, challenging viewers to “open the head and heart, and to speak openly about important subjects” – as if we weren’t talking about a devious deception.
These Yad L’Achim productions are meant to warn the public away from films being distributed on the web, in which missionaries posing as “innocents” preach against Judaism and against “Rabbis of a dark age.” They transmit blatantly Christian messages, distort the Tenach and Gemara, and pepper their words with anti-Semitic incitement. The fact that the missionaries aren’t dressed in Christian themes that give away their identity and true intentions, has succeeded, to our great sorrow, in causing people to fall into their net, without realizing it.
Yad L’Achim officials note that the missionaries take advantage of the web to transgress a law in Israel that gives prison time to those who preach to minors to get them to leave their religion. They know that the police drag their feet in enforcing this law, and that it is harder to catch them when they are hiding behind a computer and not out among public.
The missionary Eitan Bar, who stars in these films, wrote explicitly in an internal document that even though “preaching to minors [below 18] is illegal in Israel… the internet is the best way for them [the minors] to check things out for themselves and also a place where young believers can send their friends.”
An interesting anecdote connected to the preparation of this film illustrates the attitude of the public toward missionary activity on the
net. A person who defines himself as non-religious who happened to be present during the filming of the video told the actor and the film crew: “What you’re doing is very good. You must deliver a blow to the missionaries on the internet. They are tormenting the public and trying to reach people via deceptive means. The public must be made aware that we are talking about a Christian ruse.”
An informational film by Yad L’Achim exposes the missionary bluff.
