Covenant First: When America First Becomes a Weapon

In this episode of The Roar of Judah: Chronicles in the Storm, I speak as an American Jew who is covenant first, Hashem first, therefore Israel first. I served the United States as a United States Army officer, a medical platoon leader attached to an air and tank cavalry, and I put boots on the ground where duty is real and slogans are cheap. I have also served Americans for thirty years as a physician associate, caring for sick patients in the ICU, the emergency department, and medical wards, treating Jew, Christian, Muslim, white, Black, Hispanic, it does not matter, with equal dignity and profoundly excellent care. I confront how “America first” becomes a loyalty test aimed at Jews, an old antisemitic trope of Jewish disloyalty in modern clothing, and why it is painful from non Jews, and a knife in the heart when it comes from Jews. This is not about borders, it is about Hashem, Torah, covenant, and the duty of a people who refuse to be reordered by anyone’s slogan.Sources: ADL, “Myth: Jews Are Disloyal,” https://antisemitism.adl.org/disloyalty/ Encyclopaedia Britannica, “America First Committee,” https://www.britannica.com/topic/America-First-Committee United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Text of Lindbergh’s Address in Des Moines Coliseum,” https://newspapers.ushmm.org/historical-article/1941-the-text-of-lindberghs-address-in-des-moines-coliseum-35757 Time, “The Long History Behind Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy,” https://time.com/4273812/america-first-donald-trump-history/ . (ADL Anti-Semitism Resource Center)