EDIT 10/09/2026 12:55 AM EST: Why not?
I think that taking a stand against antisemitism certainly counts toward doing good.
Here is the post that I had taken down a few days ago:
I debated about whether to post this. Truth be told apart from some mad comment left on a previous post I’d forgotten about Connor Heggie, the owner of Facebook group The SW Geek Hub and the extremist LGBT stalker who accused me of bigotry because of my convictions about the homosexual lifestyle and how it is not only wrong, but it’s dangerous.
There have been too many great things in my life lately than to be concerned about a twit and his fellow goons on Facebook. Things like new friendship, well-paying new job, new car, my book selling well and I’ve begun writing another… God has been very good to me in the past few months. I’m extremely thankful for what has been happening in my life. More than I can possibly convey.
There are far better blessings to appreciate than to let cowards on Facebook come into mind. There have been others like he and his cohorts before and I’ve largely forgotten about them too. They can stay in their own little realm, isolated from the rest of the world. Nobody serious cares about their circle-jerk (if I might be allowed to use crude language).
But when it comes to antisemitism, that’s where matters do become too severe than to not address.
A reader of this blog who has been watching Heggie’s “SW Geek Hub” Facebook page (I blocked Hegggie so I can’t see his activity anymore, and I don’t care to either) sent along the following screenshot of a recent post that our least favorite loon made:
Ed Sheeran is the singer-songwriter who kicked Macklemore off his current tour because the rapper expressed political opinions during a recent show. Something that no responsible musical artist should do with people who paid for him to perform, not to insult his audience (as Michael Jordan said when asked why he didn’t use his stardom to promote political agendas, “Republicans buy shoes too.”)
Macklemore used his platform to express his longstanding belief that the Palestinians are the victims of a “genocide” by the Israelis. It is a notion that is shared by many who are against Israel. Who are against the Jewish people and their right to occupy a homeland that they have had for four thousand years. To claim to be pro-Palestinian is far less a statement of solidarity with an ethnicity that only came about in the past century or so, than it does with being antisemitic: harboring a hatred of the Jewish people and everything about them.
I know something about anti-Judaism. I’ve studied history for most of my life. It’s led to a lot of understanding about what the Jews have been through over the millennia. I’ve also met too many survivors of the Holocaust than to not be bothered by the kind of hatred that led six million innocent people to the “showers” of places like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
That is the kind of hatred that is now in our present day. “From the river to the sea” is the chant of many in the Middle East and abroad who want to wipe out the Jews and their country. It is the madness that has resulted in the very real atrocities against modern Israelis for going on eighty years.
Atrocities like what happened on October 7th, 2023. When the Palestinian group Hamas massacred more than a thousand innocent Israelis, wounded many thousands more and took captive hundreds of Jews who were attending an outdoor concert.
The Israeli government has reciprocated against Hamas, including targeting those lunatics’ infrastructure and ability to wage further war and commit more acts of deadly violence.
The Israeli government has also gone out of its way to not involve non-combatants. Indeed, what they are doing in this conflict is perhaps the most cautious that any armed force in the history of the world has been to not bring harm to those who are not with the belligerents.
And despite all of this, many if not most of the leaders of countries of the world dare to claim that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians.
What Israel is doing is not genocide. It is self-defense. It is breaking the ability of an enemy to make sure that it never hurts the Jews and Christians, and even some Muslims living within Israel’s borders, ever again.
Yet the claims of genocide continue. Perpetuated by antisemitic leaders and celebrities and the media.
And people like Connor Heggie fall for it.
Show me a person who is “pro Palestine” and against “genocide” of Palestinians, and I will show you a person who is not only anti-Israel, but is strongly anti-Jewish. They’ll deny it up and down but in their hearts they can barely contain their loathing of the race and religion of Judaism.
These people are but a few steps removed from the Nazi mentality that almost completely wiped out the Jewish people from the European continent. The people who saw Jews as vermin “life unworthy of life”.
That is what I see when I look at Heggie’s pro-Palestinian remarks, however brief they are. It also dovetails too much with the hatred of Christianity that he has expressed on numerous occasions.
Antisemitism is something that can’t go unaddressed. And for all of Heggie’s ravings that others are bigoted, he is demonstrating to the world that HE is a far greater and more true bigot than is anyone who expresses disagreement about a lifestyle that is physically and spiritually self-destructive.
When Heggie aligns himself with those who claim that Israel is committing genocide, he is aligning himself with the very worst of racists. Oh, he’s concerned with genocide all right. Genocide against the Jewish people, that is.
He is not a good example of what alleges to be a decent human being. He is certainly a poor example of an alleged Star Wars fan.
For all his calling other people he doesn’t like “bigots”, Connor Heggie is apparently a bigot in general and an antisemite in particular.
And he should be called out on it.
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