Bob Fishman, executive director of the Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut (JFACT) in Hartford, sent an email to me and others late Friday with an invitation to watch an interview on ABC local news affiliate WNTH TV 8 in New Haven. The email from Fishman and the story on WNTH TV-8 was about a "cultural exchange" by a Palestinian Folklore dance troupe, Al-Ghad. The dance troupe is composed of Christians from the Beit Sahour district on the West Bank. The performance at a Connecticut high school ‘backfired' on their political handlers and radical supporters in Connecticut. It also was an indictment of how far some liberal Protestant church leaders have gone as proponents of replacement theology substituting the icon of Palestinians as the ‘new' crucified Christ figure.  The heroes in stopping this latest episode were a grandmother, a retired school teacher, whose frightened grandchildren witnessed the agit-prop theater performance along with an angry...(Read Full Post)