Jeremy Boreing, Scripture Twisting Stupidity, and the Ameri-Migrant Dream.
The people who want to exploit American workers are trying to convince you it's God's plan. The problem is, that's retarded.
Regular readers of NXR will remember that we recently took Jeremy Boreing apart piece by piece over his twenty-six-minute monologue defending Israeli influence in American politics, a monologue we demonstrated was structurally identical, argument by argument, to a piece produced by Josh Hammer of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, the same Israeli-funded institution where Boreing built his early career. That piece ran in April; it is now May, and Boreing is back to bashing Tucker Carlson and contorting the Holy Bible to make what might possibly be the most retarded effort at Scripture twisting ever attempted.
Tucker had called it “evil” when Ben Shapiro suggested last year that Americans who cannot find work in their hometowns should simply leave and stop being babies about it. Shapiro’s framing, in Tucker’s paraphrase, was that if you cannot make it where your parents are buried and where you spent your whole life, that is on you, and you should become a migrant. What Shapiro actually said was, “Nobody has a right to live in the town where they grew up.”
We know what you're thinking. A member of the Jewish diaspora, whose chief loyalty is to Israel, is telling the nation he lives in primarily for the economic benefit it affords him, is telling its Citizens to just shut up and take their exploitation like men, and that by doing so, he fulfills all the Jewish stereotypes. Stereotypes exist for a reason, and Shapiro’s economic messaging has been to repeatedly lambaste Heritage Americans for not wanting the United States to become a borderless economic zone, and to signal that if you complain about the international banking industry, depressed wages, worthless fiat currency, or the growing unfeasibility of buying a home, you’re some kind of loser.
Apparently running out of Israeli talking points on his program, Boreing decided to attempt a reframe of Genesis 12:1 and inform his audience that leaving your homeland to find a job is “one of the most biblical and one of the most American things a person can do.”
It is a bold move on Boreing’s part. Pointing to a Mesopotamian man and patriarch of ancient Israel as the epitome of the American Dream is either borderline retarded or genius in a way that no one but Boreing is smart enough to understand. On the face of it, it seems stupid. But when you look deeper…nope. It’s still stupid. Boreing’s Scripture-twisting logic collapses under the weight of about four minutes of actual Bible reading, and the irony buried inside it is rich enough to mine for an NXR post.
THE COVENANT IS NOT A CAREER SEMINAR
Let us begin with the Bible itself, because the Text does not say what Boreing needs it to say. Genesis 12:1 reads:
“Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”
This is presented by Boreing as a timeless principle of personal agency and economic mobility. In reality, this command was the start of 400 years of slavery for Arbaham’s descendants, who, because of their relentless disobedience and propensity to murder the prophets and God’s own Son, have led to two thousand more years of perpetual wandering without a homeland. Treating it as motivational content for labor market flexibility requires a level of hermeneutical violence that should embarrass anyone who claims to take Scripture seriously.
Genesis 12:1 is not God dispensing career advice. This is God initiating the Abrahamic covenant, the singular, unrepeatable, unilateral covenant that forms the theological backbone of every subsequent act of redemptive history. The command to leave is inseparable from everything that follows it. God does not stop at “go from your country.” God follows it immediately with a sevenfold promise: I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you. I will curse those who dishonor you. In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. The “go” and the covenant are one utterance. You cannot quote the first three words and pretend the rest does not exist, unless you are not doing exegesis at all.
This is also the same passage quoted by Christian Zionists to validate their support for a desert war cult inhabited by Europeans cosplaying as ancient Hebrews, which is done in defiance of the New Testament explaining in Galatians 3 that this promise was given to Abraham’s Seed, who is explicitly named as Jesus rather than the Jewish people, and explicitly says that Christians are the exclusive heirs of this promise. Not to be outdone by Ted Cruz’s twisting of this passage, Boreing has a “hold my beer” moment and twists it even further out of context than the Senator who says he got elected to represent Israel in Washington. And anyone who can beat Cruz at his own game is a next-level Bible twister.
It’s one thing to read Genesis 12 and think it’s about a modern body politic. It’s quite another to think it’s about career advice for modern Americans.
What Boreing is doing is called eisegesis, which is reading your predetermined conclusion into the Bible rather than drawing meaning from the Bible. You decide what you want the Bible to say, you find a verse that contains words that sound roughly adjacent to your point, and you present the fragment with enough confidence that no one in the audience has time to check the context. It is the oldest trick in the pundit playbook, and it is especially rich coming from a man whose media empire was built on the premise that his side, unlike the other side, takes ideas seriously.
THE WANDERING HEBREW
Here is the irony that Boreing, in his enthusiasm for the Abraham parallel, appears not to have noticed. The call of Abraham did not produce a people of stable, rooted, flourishing communities planted in their God-given homeland. It produced Hebrews. The word itself, “Ivri,” derives from a root meaning to cross over, to pass through, to traverse. The surrounding nations used it as a descriptor for a people defined by their displacement. The Hebrews were wanderers. That was the name they were given because they didn’t have a country to call home. And the wandering was not celebrated in the Scripture as a feature. It was lamented as a condition needing resolution.
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