Zionism is the new Anti-Semitism
The holy land has become defiled and turned into a "homeland". All the crimes start there - the belief that Israel is a Jewish state.
“The eyes and ears are bad witnesses for men, for the belong to men whose souls cannot understand their language.” - Herakleitos
Last week, I finished my epic bike ride across the whole north-south of Korea. I was putting my feet up in a coffee shop in Busan, Korea’s southern port/beach city. Beside me were 3 American backpackers and we got chatting. I told them some things about Korea, my trip, etc …
One thing led to the next and we ended up discussing briefly, superficially, what was going on in Palestine. We all started with the usual shaking of our heads and echoing notes of saddness. “A travesty.” Then, one of the backpackers said, “It’s a pity, this has been going on in that part of the world for 1,000s of years.”
It was a teachable moment and the teacher in me came out. My socratic method. I replied, “Could you elaborate, what is the history of the region leading to this conflict, today?”
The young man proceeded to explain and provide what he believed the history truly was. It went something like this … I’m paraphrasing.
“Well, the Jewish people with Moses had been there in the holy land forever. But constantly under attack from Egyptians, from Greeks, from Romans. However, they survived and fought back bravely. The there was the rise of violent Islam and again, Jews barely survived the maniacal onslaught of first Islam and then the Turks. And then there was the horrible Holocaust and the Jews and the world both decided never again and supported Jews to return to their homeland and brothers, sisters already there, to build an Israel to protect all Jews in the world. Yet still, Israel is in danger, attacked and threatened. History continues in this circle.”
It’s typical and I wasn’t surprised. Netanyahu, the leader of Israel has even more whitewashed, dumbed down, propagandistic version of Jewish history. Listen to him with the idiot light-weight, pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson. It’s like Fred Flintstone and Archie Bunker sat down and discussed metaphysics.
What I’m getting at is that this story that is told, along with so many others, is a lie. All part of the core problem of the current, ongoing conflict in Palestine, the lie - that Israel is a savior nation and protector of all Jews and that the “holy land” is rightfully Jewish in origin and title.
Years ago, I set off on a journey to learn about Judaism, understand it and learn from it. Mostly because I so admired Talmudic scholars, the emphasis in Judaism of the mind and its value. Intellectualism was of the highest value. I knew instinctively, I had a lot to learn from these scholars. At the time, I almost went to divinity school in Halifax - taking a trip there to visit the school. But life turns on a dime, sometime.
Watch the video I posted, no better scholar of the position of Judaism regarding Israel than rabbi Shapiro. Rabbi Weiss - another on that same list. He makes the same argument that I do - Israel needs to become a proper state, abandon its false theocratic pretentions and discrimination. The problem all starts there - with this ideology of Zionism blending statehood with religious supremacy.
He exposes all the lies and contradictions and phony referencing of biblical scripture that Zionists make. He also right outlines what and who is a Jew - following the mitzvahs being primary - something Netanyahu certainly doesn’t do. Rabbi Shapiro also correctly outlines that Jews after the destruction of the second temple were to await the Messiah - not build a state or create their own flag. This is clearly written and commanded. To live in peace with all peoples of the world.
There never was any problem with the Arabs and Jews. They lived together, they wanted to live together, in harmony. There has never been a problem until Zionism started massacring, assassinating and even killing the Arab Jews that existed in Palestine. All in an effort to create a biblical apartheid theme park called Israel.
This article really is a fine piece of work. About a man, a Dutch Jew, assassinated because he saw where Zionism was heading - he was an envoy of the esteemed Rabbi Sonnenfeld. His Salmas Chaim is an astounding intellectual work. Jacob de Haan, his murder, represent to me, the start of the true terror of the Zionists. Ground zero. Often history turns on the small events, on a dime.
All the current death and destruction derives from a false (but so well marketed) belief that Israel = Judaism. It does not. It’s flag of David is a fabrication. The use of Hebrew a lie - Jews hadn’t spoke Hebrew for 1,000s of years. It’s discrimination inside Israel, over 60 laws favoring those deemed “Jewish” - a travesty. Like the young man that this piece started with - we’ve all been sold a bill of goods that the “holy land” is a “Jewish homeland”. Not.
The terror, massacres, the apartheid, the violence, daily, minute by minute violence of Israel is born of its false belief it is protecting its religion - that Israel is “Jewish”. Rub that false idea out, return back to the true teaching of rabbinical scholars and perhaps peace could be made. But first, this religious fanaticism that is Israeli, must be eliminated.
Why can’t Palestine by a home for all peoples, of all religions? A place where civil rights are enforced and each individual no matter their faith, language, skin color and beliefs are valued and protected? Why? Because the Zionist is racist, it is the new anti-semitism. It is against Judaism, wholly and completely. As much as the mullahs twist and dirty Islam for their own ends - so too Netanyahu and his clique. This commentator’s thoughts on this I find revealing.
The only salavation in this all are those Jews who see the light - that Judaism is not a place, a homeland, it is a way of being. At home, anywhere in this world.
By Jove! You've got it! The nation/state of modern Israel has NOTHING to do with Biblical Israel. It was founded by, and is populated primarily by, Khazarian Jews, who are Europeans who converted to Judaism at the point of the sword around 1100 AD.
They chose the name "Israel" knowing full well that many Christians would make the leap that they are "God's chosen people".