Jewish Voice

{{hatnote|Not to be confused with {{wpl|The Jewish Voice}}, a New York-based, weekly conservative newspaper}}
[[File:JVMI-Logo.jpg|right|thumb|165px|Jewish Voice logo]]
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'''Jewish Voice''' is a [[Messianic Judaism|Messianic "Jewish"]] group dedicated to converting Jews to [[Christianity]]. The leader of the group is Louis Kaplan; an Assemblies of God minister. Jewish Voice started in 1968 in Phoenix, Arizona. Much like [[Jews for Jesus]], the Jewish Voice organization engages in high pressure missionary tactics. <ref>[https://culteducation.com/group/1049-messianic-jews/13420-the-jewish-voice-broadcast.html Cult Education Institute], Retrieved on January 20, 2024.</ref> Jewish Voice also works to destroy indigenous cultures worldwide by converting people to their brand of Christianity. <ref>[https://www.jewishvoice.org/reaching-lost-tribes Jewish Voice, Reaching Lost Tribes], Retrieved on January 20, 2024.</ref> The only television networks that show programs from Jewish Voice are Christian TV networks. <ref>[https://lifechristian.tv/shows/jewish-voice-with-jonathan-bernis/ Christian Broadcast Network], January 20, 2024.</ref> <ref>[https://www.tbn.org/programs/jewish-voice-jonathan-bernis Trinity Broadcast Network], Retrieved on January 20, 2024.</ref> Jewish Voice Ministries is registered with the Canadian Centre for Christian Charities. <ref>[https://giveconfidently.ca/accredited-member/jewish-voice-ministries-canada/ Canadian Centre for Christian Charities], Retrieved on January 23, 2024.</ref>

==Racism==

===Promotion of military occupation===

Jewish Voice has a collection of books for sale that encourages the occupation of [[Palestine|Palestinian]] territory. Books such as ''A Lasting Peace'' by Jonathan Bernis encourages ignoring [[Israel]]i war crimes against the Palestinian people and only focus on Palestinian militant groups.<ref>[https://shop.jewishvoice.org/a-lasting-peace/ Jewish Voice Shop], Retrieved on January 20, 2024.</ref> Since the October 7th 2023 terrorist attack in Israel and the beginning of the Israeli-Hamas War, which is a tragedy for people on both sides, Jewish Voice is adamantly against a ceasefire that could bring the hostages back to Israel and save lives. They accuse nations of whitewashing terrorism.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20231203152003/https://www.jewishvoice.org/israel-crisis Jewish Voice], Retrieved on January 20, 2024.</ref> They also imply that they support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs under the far right excuse of "the land was given to the Jews by God", while ignoring the fact that the Jews and Palestinians are related genetically.<ref>[https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/identifying-israels-enemies Identifying Israel's enemies], Retrieved on January 20, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/#:~:text=Archaeologic%20and%20genetic%20data%20support,but%20not%20in%20genetic%2C%20differences. Link PubMed], Retrieved on January 20, 2024.</ref>

===Targeting African Jews===

In the country of [[Nigeria]] there are a community of the Igbo ethnic group that practice Judaism in the religious sense but largely not in the ethnic sense.<ref>[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/lost-jews-of-nigeria-igbo-judaism-israel The Guardian], Retrieved on January 23, 2024.</ref> Now this was mentioned for context as the Jewish Voice organization went to Nigeria to prove that Igbo Jews were not really Jews. They did genetic testing on this group of African Jews and outright told them that they were not Jews, despite the fact that the rest of the global Jewish community doesn't recognize that Messianic Jews are Jews.<ref>[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/messianic-jews-to-nigerians-youre-not-real-jews/amp/ Times of Israel], Retrieved on January 23, 2024.</ref> <ref>[https://m.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/are-messianic-jews-jews-562443#google_vignette Jerusalem Post], Retrieved on January 23, 2024.</ref> The purpose of this poorly carried out genetic testing was to convince the so-called lost tribes to go to Israel in an effort to fulfill Bible prophecy. This stunt was met with harsh criticism from the global Jewish community.<ref>[https://forward.com/news/380398/irresponsible-jewish-dna-test-sparks-backlash-in-nigeria/ Forward Magazine], Retrieved on January 23, 2024.</ref>

==Theological beliefs==

As it is known [[Messianic Judaism]] is accepted as a form of Christianity, not Judaism.<ref>[https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/messianic-judaism/ My Jewish Learning], Retrieved on January 24, 2024.</ref> Jewish Voice, like every other form of fundamentalist Christianity, focuses on the apocalypse and end times. They engage in aggressive missionary tactics.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905114348/http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1853376616.html Christian News Wire], Retrieved on January 24, 2024.</ref> JVMI does church planting and creates Bible schools around the world as well as provide humanitarian relief to countries torn by war. Additionally Jewish Voice accepts cryptocurrency as donations for their organization. Their group also heavily supports [[Israel]] as part of the end times theology.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/company/jewish-voice-ministries-international LinkedIn], Retrieved on January 24, 2024.</ref>

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