http://www.haaretz.com/...
Excerpt:
"Proselytizing is persecution.
Granted, it's not the same as burning us at the stake for Christ's sake, firebombing our homes for Christ's sake, staging apres-church pogroms for Christ's sake, ostracizing and terrorizing and beating our children for having killed Christ, lynching Jewish adults for church-distributed blood libels, torturing Jews to force them to convert, converting entire Jewish communities on point of death, deporting entire Jewish communities on point of death for having resisted conversion, or, after eliminating the conversion option, annihilating entire Jewish communities with the complicitous blind eye of the Holy See.
But there's more than one way to wipe out a people, and poison, like gas, comes in many forms. Sometimes it looks like a leaflet. Sometimes it looks like the Internet. Sometimes it looks like a smile."
This article gets it exactly right. For a lot of Jews, evangelism is, by its very nature, racist and genocidal. Evangelists say that my religion and my people are inferior and must be "fixed" through conversion and sublimation of my religious identity, lest I go to Hell. Thankfully, most evangelists can be written off as well-meaning but misguided souls who are just genuinely concerned that everyone get to the right place after death. And most Jews can argue their way past a Christian missionary any day of the week.
"Jews for Jesus" is the most insidious, dangerous and offensive cult of all. This group co-opts our symbols and traditions and twists them into something aimed not at celebrating and engaging in Judaism, but rather in distorting Judaism and trying to stuff Christianity into it. Quite frankly, I'd be fine with the Jews for Jesus if they'd just keep to themselves. But they insist on active evangelism of Jews, which is what makes them both extremely offensive and very dangerous.