What does ancient Bible prophecy reveal about global rise in Jew-hatred – and what’s coming next? - THE ROSENBERG REPORT
Joel Rosenberg puts the latest violent attacks in Boulder, CO and Washington DC. into prophetic context
As antisemitism reaches record highs in the United States and around the world, ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg dedicated the latest episode of THE ROSENBERG REPORT on TBN to putting recent violent attacks into prophetic context.
“We are seeing an explosion of hatred against Jewish people. A tsunami of hatred against Israel. Almost unprecedented, certainly in the United States' history,” Rosenberg said in the opening remarks of his weekly program.
Rosenberg cited a new Anti-Defamation League report showing that antisemitic incidents in the U.S. rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2024, reaching a record 9,354 cases – the highest number ever recorded in the ADL’s 46-year history of tracking such incidents.
Two particularly brutal attacks in recent weeks underscore the crisis.
In Boulder, Colorado, an illegal Egyptian immigrant injured a dozen people attending a rally calling for the release of Israeli hostages from Hamas in Gaza. According to the FBI, the attacker had been planning the assault for over a year and expressed a desire to “kill all Zionist people.”
Just one week earlier, two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., were murdered at close range while attending an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee at the Capital Jewish Museum.
“A 30-year-old left-wing radical from Chicago got on a plane, packed on a loaded weapon and came to Washington and gunned down Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim at this event. He shot more than 20 bullets. Yaron was killed almost instantly, but Sarah was not killed instantly. And he kept firing, reloaded, as she was trying to crawl away and murdered her,” Rosenberg described.
The murders were deeply personal for him and his team.
“We are all grieving. All Jews in America, in Washington, in Israel and the community are grieving. But we're also grieving at ALL ISRAEL NEWS because we have a personal connection to this situation,” Rosenberg told viewers.
“Hanan Lischinsky is the brother of Yaron Lischinsky. Hanan works for ALL ISRAEL NEWS. He’s a great journalist. He came to ALL ISRAEL NEWS from The Jerusalem Post and became our news desk manager and a great writer.”
Rosenberg added that Yaron was a strong follower of Jesus and was preparing to bring Sarah home to meet his parents.
“He'd bought an engagement ring, and he was about to propose,” Rosenberg shared. “This was a wonderful life ahead of them. All kinds of dreams, all kinds of excitement. And those dreams got brutally snuffed out, when this sick murderer gunned them down at a Jewish event.”
Rosenberg said the surge in global antisemitic violence is not only alarming – it is prophetic.
“The reason I say it is because outside of Israel, most Jews in the world live in the United States, and Bible prophecy tells us that all Jews will return to Israel in the last days,” he explained.
Citing the Book of Ezekiel, Rosenberg pointed to prophecies about the regathering of the Jewish people to their homeland and the rebirth of the State of Israel, followed by a coalition of nations rising against her in the war of Gog and Magog:
“When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Then they will know that I am the LORD their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then I gathered them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer.” (Ezekiel 39: 27–28)
Rosenberg suggested that rising persecution may ultimately compel Jews in the diaspora to return to Israel, helping fulfill biblical prophecy.
He pointed to the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s as a precedent.
“There was a 25% increase in the population of Israel after the Soviet Union imploded, because people wanted to leave the Soviet Union, as it was economically and politically collapsing. Jews had no freedom. They were persecuted. They experienced anti-Semitism, and most decided to come to Israel,” he said.
“In countries where Jews are in danger, they decide to leave. God uses this to draw them – or maybe even push them – back into the land of Israel, because he's going to fulfill these prophecies.”
But what about the 5.5 to 6 million Jews currently living in the United States?
“I don't think most Jews in the United States are going to voluntarily say, ‘okay, the Lord is telling me to move to Israel.’ I think that the situation in the United States is going to get worse and worse and worse,” Rosenberg warned.
“Now, I hope things get better for a while. I encourage you as a follower of Jesus Christ, stand with the Jewish people, defend the Jewish people, defend Israel and fight against antisemitism,” he urged.
Watch Joel Rosenberg’s full analysis on the TBN website.
THE ROSENBERG REPORT airs Thursday nights at 9 p.m. EST and Saturday nights at 10 p.m. EST on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the most-watched Christian television network in the United States.
Tal Heinrich is a senior correspondent for both ALL ISRAEL NEWS and ALL ARAB NEWS. She is currently based in New York City. Tal also provides reports and analysis for Israeli Hebrew media Channel 14 News.
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