The primordial struggle between True Israel and the Synagogue predates the New Testament epoch. Discussions within this forum are centered upon the covert, subversive, relentless, aggressive tactics of the Synagogue of Satan towards the Chosen People of God, the Elect, the One True Israel, His Holy Church.

“The Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus, and have persecuted us, and please not God, are enemies to all men.”
—1 Thess. 2:14, 15.

“Many respect the Jews and think that their present way of life is a venerable one. This is why I hasten to uproot and tear out this deadly opinion. Where a harlot has set herself up, that place is a brothel. But the synagogue is not only a brothel, it also is a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts. Jeremiah said: ‘I have abandoned my house, I have cast off my inheritance’. But when God forsakes a people, what hope of salvation is left? When God forsakes a place, that place becomes the dwelling of demons.
“But at any rate the Jews say that they, too, adore God. God forbid that I say that. No Jew adores God! Who say so? The Son of God say so. For he said: ‘If you were to know my Father, you would also know me. But you neither know me nor do you know my Father’. Could I produce a witness more trustworthy than the Son of God?
“If, then, the Jews fail to know the Father, if they crucified the Son, if they thrust off the help of the Spirit, who should not make bold to declare plainly that the synagogue is a dwelling of demons? God is not worshiped there. From now on it remains a place of idolatry.
“The Jews themselves are demons. The godlessness of the Jews and the pagans is on a par, but the Jews practice a deceit which is more dangerous. In their synagogue stands an invisible altar of deceit on which they sacrifice not sheep and calves but the souls of men.
“Demons dwell in the synagogue, not only in the place itself but also in the souls of the Jews. As Christ said: ‘When an unclean spirit is gone out, he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter into him and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this generation.’ Do you see that demons dwell in their souls and that these demons are more dangerous than the ones of old? And this is very reasonable. In the old days the Jews acted impiously toward the prophets; now they outrage the Master of the prophets.
“Must you not turn away from them since they are the common disgrace and infection of the whole world? Have they not come to every form of wickedness? Have not all the prophets spent themselves making many and long speeches of accusation against them? What tragedy, what manner of lawlessness have they not eclipsed by their blood-guiltiness? They sacrificed their own sons and daughters to demons. They refused to recognize nature, they overturned from their foundations the laws of kingship, they became more savage than any wild beast.
“What else do you wish me to tell you? Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade? The whole day long will not be enough to give you an account of these things.”
—St. John Chrysostom, Adversus Judaeos, Homily 1, A.D. 386.

“And the apostles departed from the presence of the council [of the Jews], rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach [at their hands] for the name of Jesus Christ.”
—Acts 5:41.

Artwork: The Fountain of Grace, Ecclesia v Synagoga, by Jan van Eyck, ca. 1445 A.D.