The Pete Quiñones Show - Pete Reads 'Jewish History, Jewish Religion' by Israel Shahak Part 2

Episode Date: June 13, 2024

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Before we get into that, I have a couple announcements. One, this is coming out at a time when I would normally have an interview. That will be coming out tomorrow, specifically because it is with Taylor from Antelope Hill, and we're talking about their newest book, Paleface by Wyndham Lewis. And, yeah, it doesn't come out until tomorrow, so I didn't want people, we didn't want people flooding the website if they hear it on Thursday night, but it will be out tomorrow. and you'll hear the episode tomorrow.

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was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust Savoyer, an intellectual of liberal political events, and a civil rights advocate and activists on behalf of both Jews and Gentiles. For 20 years, he headed the Israel League for Human and Civil Rights, 1970, and was a public critic of the policies of the governments of Israel. As a public intellectual, Shah Hoc's work works about Judaism proved controversial, especially the book that we're reading now. He was born in Warsaw, part of the ghettos, Nazi Jews, Nazi occupation of Poland. They interned his family in the Warsaw Ghetto. His brother escaped from Poland to the UK, joined the RAF, the Royal Air Force. Shahak's mother paid a Roman Catholic

family to hide Israel, whom they returned when they couldn't keep him safe anymore. Forty-three, they sent Shahok to Puneatoa concentration camp to the west of Lubin. His father died there. Fortuitously, the 10-year-old and his mother escaped from the camp, returned to Warsaw, yet within a year. They were recaptured sent to Bergen-Belsen. They survived there two years until it was liberated. At age 13, he re-examined the idea of God's existence, included the evidence there was lacking.

So they, as displaced persons, they emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, where Shah's application and Joanna Kabuts was denied because he was judged to physically slender. So this is someone who knows what he talks about. He served in the IDF, and he got a doctorate in chemistry from Hebrew University. So, yep, this is someone who knows, knows that which he speaks. So at the end of the episode yesterday, I looked at this and I was like, prevarication. What does that even mean?

Interesting little definition on vocabulary.com says that prevarication is when someone tells a lie, especially in a sneaky way. No judgments. All right. Chapter 2. Prejudice and Prevarication. The first difficulty in writing about this subject is that the term Jew has been used during the last 150 years with two rather different meanings. To understand this, let us imagine ourselves in the year 1780. then the universally accepted meaning of the term Jew basically coincided with what the Jews themselves understood as constituting their own identity.

This identity was primarily religious, but the precepts of religion governed the details of daily behavior in all aspects of life, both social and private, among the Jews themselves, as well as in their relation to non-Jews. It was then literally true that a Jew could not even drink a glass of water in the home of a non-Jew. And the same basic laws of behavior toward non-Jews were equally valid from Yemen to New York. Whatever the term by which the Jews of 1780 may be described, and I do not wish to enter into a metaphysical dispute about terms like nation and people, it is clear that all Jewish communities at that time were separate from the non-Jewish societies in the midst of which they were living. However, all this changed by two parallel process, beginning in Holland and England, continuing in Roald,

Revolutionary France, and in countries which followed the examples of the French Revolution, and that in the modern monarchies of the 19th century, the Jews gained a significant level of individual rights, in some cases full legal equality, and the legal power of the Jewish community over its members was destroyed. It should be noted that both developments were simultaneous, and that the latter is even more important, albeit less widely known than the former. Since the time of the late Roman Empire, Jewish communities had considerable legal powers over their members. Not only powers which arise through voluntary mobilization of social pressure, for example, refusal to have anything dealing whatsoever with an excommunicated Jew or even to bury his body, but a power of naked coercion to flog to imprison to expel. All this could be inflicted quite legally on an individual Jew by the rabbinical courts for all kinds of effects.

offenses. Solchonisan talks about this in 200 years together, in which Solzhenesa makes a claim that the Jewish leadership and Jewish elite was much crueler to its members than host countries ever were. In many countries, Spain and Poland are notable examples. Even capital punishment could be and was inflicted, sometimes using particularly cruel methods, such as flogging to death. All this was not only permitted, but positively encouraged by the state authorities in both Christian and Muslim countries, who, besides their general interest in preserving law and order, had in some cases a more direct financial interest as well. For example, in Spanish archives dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, there are records of many detailed orders issued by those most devout Catholic kings of Castile and Aragon, instructing their no less devout officials to cooperate with the rabbis in enforcing observance of the Sabbath by the Jews.

Why? Because whenever a Jew was fined by rabbinical court for violating the Sabbath, the rabbis had to hand nine-tenths of the fine over to the king, a very profitable and effective arrangement, and a very stupid one. That was my commentary. Similarly, one can quote from the responsea, written shortly before 18. by the famous Rabbi Moshe Sofer of Presbyberg, now Bratislava, in what was then the autonomous Hungarian kingdom in the Austrian Empire and addressed to Vienna in Austria proper, where the Jews had already been granted some considerable individual rights. He laments the fact that since the Jewish congregation in Vienna lost its powers to punish offenders, the Jews there have become lax in matters

of religious observance and ads here in Pressburg, when I am told that a Jewish shopkeeper dared to open his shop during the lesser holidays, I immediately send a policeman to imprison him. This was the most important social fact of Jewish existence before the advent of the modern state. Observance of the religious laws of Judaism, as well as their inculcation through education, were enforced on Jews by physical coercion from which one could only escape by convictive. version to the religion of the majority, amounting in the circumstances to a total social break, and for that reason, very impracticable,

except during a religious crisis. However, once the modern state to come into existence, the Jewish community lost its power to punish or intimidate the individual Jew. The bonds of one of the most closed societies, one of the most totalitarian societies in the whole history of mankind, were snapped. Listen to what he's saying there. saying that those little Jewish enclaves within our countries in Europe, Asia, they were the most

totalitarian and to their own people. It may make you think about something that would happen in the future, well, our past, the future of this. The act of liberation came most. from outside, although there were some Jews who helped it from within, these were at first, very few. This form of liberation had very grave consequences for the future. Just as in the case of Germany, according to the masterly analysis of A.J. Pete Taylor, it was easy to ally the cause of reaction with patriotism, because in actual fact, individual rights and equality before the law were brought into Germany by the armies of the French Revolution and of Napoleon. and one could brand liberty as un-German, exactly so it turned out to be very easy among the Jews,

particularly in Israel, to mount a very effective attack against all the notions and ideals of humanism and the rule of law, not to say democracy, as something un-Jewish or anti-Jewish. Don't let foot pain or discomfort hold you back. At foot solutions, we specialize in high-quality supportive footwear, and use the The latest scanning technology to custom-make orthotics, designed for your unique feet. If you want to free your feet in joints from pain, improve balance or correct alignment, book a free foot assessment at footsolutions.com or pop-in store today. Food Solutions, the first step towards pain-free feet.

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but which have no validity against the Jewish interest. For example, when Arabs invoke these same principles. This is also led, again, just as in Germany and other nations of Middle Europa, to a deceitful, sentimental, and ultra-romantic Jewish historiography, historiography, from which all inconvenient facts have been espioning. So what's he saying here? He's saying that basically trying to find information about the way Jews treated each other, how badly they treated each other during these times is impossible because they kept their own records.

they would have spong it. So one will not find in Hannah Arendt's numinous writings, whether on totalitarianism, or on Jews, or on both, the smallest hint as to what Jewish society in

Germany was really like in the 18th century. Burning of books, persecution of writers, disputes about the magic powers of amulets, bans on the most elementary non-Jewish education, such as the teaching of correct German or indeed German written in the Latin alphabet.

Nor can we find in the numerous English language Jewish histories the elementary facts about the attitude of Jewish mysticism, so fashionable at present in certain quarters. Kabbalism to non-Jew, so fashionable in certain quarters to non-Jews, that they are considered to be, literally, limbs of Satan, and that the few non-Satanic individuals among them, that is, those who convert to Judaism, are in reality Jewish souls who got lost when Satan violated the Holy Land, Shikina or Metronit, one of the female components of the godhead, sister and wife of the younger male God, according to the Kabbalah, in her heavenly abode. the great authorities such as Gersham Sholem have lent their authority to a system of

deceptions in all the sensitive areas, the more popular ones being the most dishonest and misleading. But the social consequence of this process of liberalization was that, for the first time since about 80, 200, 200 AD, a Jew could be free to do what he liked within the bounds of his country's civil law, without having to pay for this freedom by converting to another religion. The freedom to learn and read books in modern languages, the freedom to read and write books in Hebrew, not approved by the rabbis, as any Hebrew or Yiddish book previously had to be, the freedom to eat non-coacher foods, the freedom to ignore the numerous absurd taboos regulating sexual life, even the freedom to think, for forbidden thoughts are among the most serious sins.

all these were granted to the Jews of Europe and subsequently of other countries by modern or even absolutist European regimes, although the latter were at the same time anti-Semitic and oppressive. Nicholas I of Russia was a notorious anti-Semite and issued many laws against the Jews of his state, but he also strengthened the forces of law and order in Russia, not only the secret police, but also the regular police and the gendarme. with the consequence that it became difficult to murder Jews on the order of their rabbis, whereas in pre-1795 Poland, it had been quite easy. Official Jewish history condemns him on both counts.

For example, in the late 1830s, a holy rabbi, Zadik, in a small Jewish town in the Ukraine, ordered the murder of a heretic by throwing him into the boiling water of the town baths and contemporary Jewish sources note with astonishment and horror that bribery was no longer effective and that not only the actual perpetrators but also the holy men were severely punished the metternich regime of the pre of pre 19th of pre 1848 austria was notoriously actionary and quite unfriendly to jews but it did not allow people even liberal jewish rabbis to be poisoned During 1848, when the regime's power was temporarily weakened, the first thing the leaders of the Jewish community in the Galatian city of Lemberg, Nalov, did with their newly regained freedom was to poison the liberal rabbi of the city whom the tiny non-Orthodox Jewish group in the city had imported from Germany. One of his greatest heresies, by the way, was the advocacy and actual performance of the Bamizvizs ceremony.

which had recently been invented. Hmm. Did you know that? I think painting the picture of what they're willing to do to each other is, you know, helping him to build his argument. New heading, liberation from outside.

In the last 150 years, the term Jew has therefore acquired a dual meaning to the great confusion of some well-meaning people, particularly in English-speaking countries, who imagine that the Jews they meet socially are representative of Jews in general. In the countries of East Europe, as well as in the Arab world, the Jews were liberated from the tyranny of their own religion and of their own communities by outside forces too late

and in circumstances too unfavorable for generalized social change. In most cases, in particular in Israel, the old concept of society, the same ideology, especially as directed toward non-Jews, and the same utterly false conception of history have been preserved. This applies even to some of the Jews who join the progressive or leftist movements. Don't let foot pain or discomfort hold you back. At foot solutions, we specialize in high-quality supportive footwear.

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An examination of radical socialist and communist parties can provide many examples of disguised Jewish chauvinists and racist who join these parties merely for reasons of Jewish interests and are in Israel in favor of anti-Gentile discrimination. One need only check how many Jewish socialists have managed to write about the kibbutz without taking the trouble to mention that it is a racist institution from which non-Jewish citizens of Israel are rigorously excluded to see that the phenomena we are alluding to is by no means uncommon. Avoiding labels based on ignorance or hypocrisy, we thus see that the word jury

and its cognates describe two different even and even contrasting social groups and because of current Israeli politics, the continuum between the two is disappearing fast. On the one hand, there is a traditional totalitarian meaning discussed above. Above, on the other hand, there are Jews by dissent who have internalized the complex of ideas which Carl Popper has called the open society. There are also some, particularly in the USA, who have not internalized the ideas, but try to make a show of acceptance. It is important to note that all the supposedly Jewish characteristics, by which I mean the traits which vulgar so-called intellectuals in the West, attribute to the Jews, are modern characteristics, quite unknown during most of Jewish history, and appeared only when the totalitarian Jewish community began to lose its power.

Take, for example, the famous Jewish sense of humor. Not only is humor very rare in Hebrew literature before the 19th century, and this is in parentheses, and is only found during few periods in countries where the Jewish upper class was relatively free from the rabbinical yoke, much as Italy between the 14th and 17th century or Muslim Spain. But humor and jokes are strictly forbidden by the Jewish religion, except significantly jokes against other religions. Satire against rabbis and leaders of the community was never internalized by Judaism, not even to a small extent, as it was in Latin Christianity. There were no Jewish comedies, just as there are no comedies in Sparta, and for a similar reason. Or take the love of learning,

except for a purely religious learning, which was itself in a debased and degenerate state, the Jews of Europe, and to a somewhat lesser extent also of the Arab countries, were dominated before about 1780 by a supreme contempt and hate for all learning, excluding the Talmud and Jewish mysticism. Sounds like a group I know now. I'll leave that alone. Large parts of the Old Testament, all non-liturgical Hebrew poetry, most books on Jewish philosophy, were not read, and their very names were often anathematized. Study of all language was strictly forbidden, as was the study of mathematics and science.

Geography, history, even Jewish history, were completely unknown. The critical sense, which was supposedly so characteristic of Jews, was totally absent, and nothing was so forbidden, feared, and therefore persecuted as the more modest innovation or the most innocent criticism. In a world sunk in the most abject superstition, fanaticism, and ignorance, a world in which the preface to the first work on geography in Hebrew. Let me say that again. When I first read this, this floored me here. It was a world sunk in the most abject superstition, fanaticism, and ignorance.

A world in which the preface to the first work on geography that was written in Hebrew, published in 1803 in Russian, Russia could complain that very many great rabbis were denying the existence of the American continent and saying that it was impossible. In 1803, geography books were being written in Hebrew that denied the American continent existed. Okay? Is this the high IQ? What's going on here? Between that world and what is often taken in the world. to characterize Jews, there is nothing in common except the mistaken name. However, a great many

present-day Jews are nostalgic for that world, their lost paradise, the comfortable-closed society from which they were not so much liberated as expelled. A large part of the Zionist movement always wanted to restore it, and this part has gained the upper hand. Many of the motives behind Israeli politics, which so bewilder the poor-confused Western friends of Israel are perfectly explicable once they are seen simply as reaction, reaction in the political sense which this word has had for the last 200 years, a force and in many respects innovative and therefore illusory returns to the closed society of the Jewish part. Let the reader understand what he's saying. It is quite possible when you say. It is quite possible when you

see what Israel is doing now. It is their goal to alienate every Jew in the world and to drive them to Israel so that they would go back to being on the Stedel. They would go back to being under the governance, the totalitarian governance of their Jewish, secular and religious leaders. or if not driven back to Israel, that they would flock and that they would somehow do that recreate a stettel in modern countries. It's very interesting if you think about it. New heading. Obstacles to Understanding.

Historically can be shown that a closed society is not interested in a description of itself. No doubt because any description is in part a form of critical analysis and so may encourage critical, forbidden thoughts. The more a society becomes open, the more it is interested in reflecting, at first descriptively, and then critically, upon itself, its present working as well as its past. But what happens when a faction of intellectuals desires to drag a society, which has already opened up to a considerable extent, back to its previous totalitarian closed condition? Then the very means of the former progress, philosophy, the sciences, history, and especially sociology, become the most effective instruments of the treason of the intellectuals. They are perverted in order to serve as

devices of deception, and in the process, they degenerate. Degenerate. Classical Judaism has little interest in describing or explaining itself to the members of its own community, whether educated in Talmudic studies or not. It is significant that the writing of Jewish history, even in the driest analystic sense ceased completely from the time of Josephus Flavius end of the first century until the Renaissance, when it was revived for a short time in Italy and in other countries where the Jews were under strong Italian influence. Characteristically, the rabbis feared Jewish even more than general history, and the first modern book on history published in Hebrew in the 16th century was entitled, history of the kings of France and of the Ottoman kings. It was followed by some histories

dealing only with the persecutions that Jews had been subjected to. The first book on Jewish history proper, dealing with ancient times, was promptly banned and suppressed by the highest rabbinical authorities and did not reappear before the 19th century. The rabbinical authorities of East Europe, furthermore, decreed that all non-Talmudic studies are to be forbidden, even when nothing specific could be found in them, which merits anathema, because they encroach on the time that should be employed either in studying the Talmud or in making money, which should be used to subsidize Talmudic scholars. Only one loophole was left, namely the time that even a pious Jew must perforce spend in the privy. In that unclean place, sacred studies are forbidden,

and it was therefore permitted to read history there, provided it was written in Hebrew and was completely secular, which in effect meant that it must be exclusively devoted to non-Jewish subjects. This is in parenthesis. One can imagine that those few Jews at that time, who, no doubt tempted by Satan, developed an interest in the history of the French kings, were constantly complaining to their neighbors about the constipation they were suffering from. Closed, parentheses. As a consequence, 200 years ago, the vast majority of Jews were totally in the dark, not only about the existence of America, but also about Jewish history and jury's contemporary state, and they were quite content remains. So in the book, The Ordeal of Civility by, is it Garrity? Irishman. He talks about this.

He talks about how, if you're only off the story. for 200 years basically, how they just had a problem. And you were kept in the dark about all these things. And you didn't even know your own history that you would have a crisis of modernity. That modernity would be, you would either embrace it or it would somehow, in some way, it's going to do this to different people. but a group that is supposed to be tight-knit, that crisis of modernity where you're basically stepping out of, it's like somebody from the year 1000 stepping out into the year 2000.

That's very interesting that that's, it could be argued that that's what they went through. New heading. A totalitarian history. There was, however, one area in which they were not allowed to remain self-rength. contented. The area of Christian attacks against those passages in the Talmud and the Talmudic literature, which are specifically anti-Christian or more generally anti-gentile. It is important to note that this challenge developed relatively late in the history of Christian-Jewish relations, only from this 13th century on. This is in parentheses. Before that time, the Christian authorities attacked Judaism using either

biblical or general arguments, but seemed to be quite ignorant as to the content of the Talmud. Close parenthesis. The Christian campaign against the Talmud was apparently brought on by the conversion to Christianity of Jews who were well-versed in Talmud and who were in many cases attracted by the development of Christian philosophy with a strong Aristotelian and thus universal character. It must be admitted at the outset that the Talmud and the Talmudic literature, quite apart from the general anti-gentile streak that runs through them, which will be discussed in greater detail in chapter 5, contain very offensive statements and precepts directed specifically against Christianity.

For example, in addition to a series of scurrilous sexual allegations against Jesus, the Talmud states that his punishment in hell is to be immersed in boiling excrement. A statement not exactly calculated to endear the Talmud to devout Christians. Or no one can quote the precept according to which Jews are instructed to burn, publicly, if possible, any copy of the New Testament that comes into their hands. This is not only still in force, but actually practiced today. Thus, on 23rd March 1980, hundreds of copies of the New Testament were publicly and ceremonially burnt in Jerusalem under the auspices of Yed Lahim, a Jewish religious organization subsidized

by the Israeli Ministry of Religions. anyway, a powerful attack, well-based in many points, against Talmudic Judaism developed in Europe from the 13th century. We are not referring here to ignorant calumnies, such as the blood libel propagated by benighted monks in small provincial cities, but to serious disputations held before the best European universities of the time, and on the whole conducted as fairly as was possible, any evil circumstances. What was the Jewish, or rather the rabbinical, response? The simplest one was the ancient weapon of bribery and string pulling.

In most European countries during most of the time, anything could be fixed by a bribe. Nowhere was to Maxa more true than in Rome of the Renaissance popes. The adityo preinceps of the complete code of Talmudic law, Maimonides' Mishnah Torah, replete not only with the most offensive precepts against all Gentiles, but also with explicit attacks on Christianity and on Jesus. This is in parentheses, after whose name the author adds piously, may the name of the wicked parish, close parentheses, was published, expurgated in Rome in the year 1480, under 6th, the 4th, politically a very active pope who had a constant and urgent need for money.

parenthesis again. A few years earlier, the only older edition of the golden ass by Apulis, from which the violent attack on Christianity had not been removed, was also published in Rome. Alexander the 6th Borgia was also very liberal in this respect. Even during that period, as well as before it, there were always countries in which a time, for a time, a wave of anti-Talmetic persecution set in, but a more consistent and wide spread onslaught came with the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, which induced a higher standard of intellectual honesty, as well as a better knowledge of Hebrew among Christian scholars. From the 16th century, all the Talmudic literature, including the Talmud itself, was subjected

to Christian censorship in various countries. In Russia, this went on until 1917. Wonder what would have happened that year? Some sense, but, you know, as the book that is being promoted on Twitter is, say, is claiming that the Brits created communism and blamed it on the Jews. Do I have to say what possible religion the person who wrote that book is? What his background might be? I'm going to fight your crazy conspiracy theory with an even crazier conspiracy theory. Some censors, such as in Holland, were more lax, while others were more severe, and the offensive passages were expunged or modified.

All modern studies on Judaism, particularly by Jews, have evolved from that conflict, and to this day they bear the unmistakable marks of their origin, deception, apologetics, or hostile polemics, indifference, or even active hostility to the pursuit of truth. Almost all the so-called Jewish, it's amazing, huh? It's like we're told that all Jews care about. about is the truth. That's why they're so intellectual. That's why they're in academia. That's why. Okay. Almost all the so-called Jewish studies in Judaism from that time to this very day are polemics against an external enemy rather than an internal debate. It is important to note that this was initially the character of historiography in all known societies except ancient Greece, whose early liberal historians were attacked by later Sophos for their insufficient patriotism. This was true of the early Catholic and Protestant historians who polemicized against each other.

Similarly, the earliest European national histories are imbued with the crudest nationalism and scorned for all other neighboring nations. But sooner or later, there comes a time when an attempt is made to understand one's national and religious adversary at the same time to criticize certain deep and important aspects of the history of one's own group, and both these developments go to. together, only when historiography becomes, as Pider Gale put in so well, a debate without end, rather than a continuation of war by historiography, historiographic means, only then does a humane historiography, which strives for both accuracy and fairness, become possible. And it then turns into one of the most powerful instruments of humanism and self-education. It is for this reason that Modern totalitarian regimes rewrite history or punish historians. When whole society tries to return to totalitarianism, a totalitarian history is written,

not because of the compulsion from above, but under pressure from below, which is much more effective. This is what happened in Jewish history, and this is, and this constitutes the first obstacle we have to surmount. New heading. Defense Mechanisms What were the detailed mechanisms other than bribery employed by Jewish communities, in cooperation with outside forces in order to ward off the attack on the Talmud and other religious literature? Several methods can be distinguished,

all of them having important political consequences reflected in current Israeli policies. Very interesting, huh? They could look at methods from 700 years ago and see it in Israeli policy today. Although it would be tedious to supply in each case the paganistic or labor Zionist parallel. I am sure the readers who are somewhat familiar

with the details of Middle Eastern politics will themselves be able to notice a resemblance. The first mechanism I shall discuss is that of surreptitious defiance combined with outward compliance. As explained above, Talmudic passages directed against Christianity or against non-Jews had to go or to be modified.

The pressure was just, strong. This is what was done. A few of the most offensive passages were bodily removed from all editions printed in Europe after the mid-16th century. In all other passages, the expressions Gentile, non-Jew, Stranger, that's a Goy, I know Yehudi, Nohri, which appear in all early manuscripts and printings, as well as in all editions published in Islamic countries. were replaced by terms such as idolater, heathen, or even Canaanite or Samaritan, terms which could be explained away, but which a Jewish reader could recognize as euphemisms for the old expressions.

As the attack mounted, so the defense became more elaborate, sometimes with lasting tragic results. During certain periods, the Tsarist Russian censorship became stricter, and seeing the above-mentioned euphemisms for what they were forbade them too. Thereupon, the rabbinical authority substituted the terms Arab or Muslim. In Hebrew, Yashma Ali, Yishma Eli, which means both, or occasionally Egyptian, correctly calculating that the Tsarist authorities would not object to this kind of abuse. At the same time, lists of Talmudic omissions were circulated in manuscript form, which explained all the new terms and pointed out all the emissions. At times, a general disclaimer was printed before the title page of each each.

volume of Talmudic literature, solemnly declaring, sometimes on oath, that all hostile expressions in that volume are intended only against idolaters of antiquity or even against the long vanquished Canaanites, rather than against the people in whose land we live. After the British conquest of India, some rabbis hit on the subterfuge of claiming that any particularly outrageous derogatory expression used by them is only intended against the Indians. Occasionally the Aborigines of Australia were also added as whipping boys. Needless to say, all this was a calculated lie from beginning to end and following the establishment of the state of Israel, once the rabbis felt secure, all the offensive passages and expressions were restored without hesitation in all new additions.

This is in parenthesis. Because of the enormous cost which a new edition is, involves, a considerable part of the Talmudic literature, including the Talmud itself, is still being reprinted from the old editions. For this reason, the above-mentioned Talmudic omissions have now been published in Israel in a cheap printed edition under the title, Hezhranaut Shas. Close parentheses. So now one can read quite freely, and Jewish children are actually taught passages such as that, which commands every Jew, whenever passing near a cemetery, to utter a blessing if the cemetery is Jewish, but to curse the mothers of the dead if it is non-Jewish.

In the old editions, the curse was omitted, or one of the euphemisms was substituted for Gentiles. But in the new Israeli edition of Rabbi Adensteinsalz, complete with Hebrew explanations and glosses to the Aramaic parts of the text, so that the schoolchildren should be in no doubt, should be in no doubt as to what they are supposed to say, the unambiguous words, Gentiles, and strangers, have been restored. So when you see videos of children spitting at Christians,

and you wonder why, well, under external pressure, the rabbi is deceptively eliminated or modified certain passages, but not the actual practices which are prescribed in them. It is a fact which must be remembered, not least by Jews themselves, that for centuries our totalitarian society has employed barbaric and inhumane customs to poison the minds of its members, and it is still doing so. Parenthesis again, these inhumane customs cannot be explained away as mere reaction to anti-Semitism or persecution of Jews. They are gratuitous barbarities directed against each and every human being.

A pious Jew arriving for the first time in Australia, say, enchanting to pass near an Aboriginal graveyard, must, as an act of worship of God, curse the mothers of the dead buried there. close parenthesis without facing this real social fact we all become parties to the deception and accomplices and accomplices to the process of poisoning the present and future generations with all the consequences of this process new heading the deception continues modern scholars of judaism have not only continued the deception but have actually improved upon the old rabbinical methods both in impudence and in mendacity I omit here the various histories of anti-Semitism as unworthy of serious consideration and shall give just three particular examples and one general example of the more modern scholarly deceptions. In 1962, a part of the Maimonidian code referred to above the so-called Book of Knowledge, which contains the most basic rules of Jewish faith and practice, was published in Jerusalem in a bilingual edition.

with the English translation facing the Hebrew text. The latter had been restored to its original purity, and the command to exterminate Jewish infidels appears in its full. It is a duty to exterminate them with one's own hands. That's quoted. In the English translation, this is somewhat softened to, it is a duty to take active measures to destroy them. But then the Hebrew text goes on to specify the prime examples of infidels,

who must be exterminated. Quote, such as Jesus of Nazareth and his pupils, and Zadok and Baitos and their pupils, may the name of the wicked rot. Not one word of this appears in the English text on the facing page, and he gives the page number 78A. And even more significant, in spite of the wide circulation of this book

among scholars in the English-speaking countries, not one of them has, as far as I know, protested against this glaring deception. The second example comes for the USA, again from an English translation of a book by Momonides. Apart from his work on the codification of the Talmud, he was also a philosopher, and his guide to the perplexed is justly considered to be the greatest work of Jewish religious philosophy and is widely read and used even today. Unfortunately, in addition to his attitude towards non-Jews generally and Christians in particular,

Maimonides was also an anti-black racist. Towards the end of the guide, in a crucial chapter, book 3, chapter 51, he discusses how various sections of humanity can attain the supreme religious value, the true worship of God, among those who are incapable of even approaching this, are quoting right now. Some of the Turks, i.e. the Mongol race and the nomads in the north, and the blacks and the nomads in the South and those who resemble them in our climates. And their nature is like the nature of mute animals. And according to my opinion, they are not on the level of human beings.

And their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey. Because they have the image and resemblance of a man more than a monkey does. End quote. Now, what does one do with such a passage in a most important and necessary work of Judaism? face the truth and its consequences, God forbid. Admit, this is parenthesis, as so many Christian scholars, for example, have done in similar circumstances, that a very important Jewish authority held also rabid anti-black views, and by this admission make an attempt at self-education and real humanity? Perish to thought. I can almost imagine Jewish scholars in the USA consulting amongst themselves.

What is to be done? For the book has to be translated to the decline in the knowledge of Hebrew among American Jews, whether by consultation or by individual inspiration, a happy solution was found. In the popular American translation of the guide by one Freelander first published as far back as 1925, and since then reprinted in many editions, including several in paperback, the Hebrew word Cusham, which means blacks, was simply transliterated and appears as Cushites, a word which means nothing to those who have no knowledge of Hebrew or to whom an obliging rabbi will not give an oral explanation. During all these years, not a word has been said to point out the initial deception of the social facts underlying its continuation. And this throughout the excitement of Martin Luther King's campaigns, which were supported by so many rabbis, not to mention other Jewish figures,

some of whom must have been aware of the anti-black racist attitude which forms part of their Jewish heritage. Surely one is driven to the hypothesis that quite a few of Martin Luther's rabbinical supporters were either anti-black racists who supported him for tactical reasons of Jewish interests, wishing to win black support for American Jewry and for Israel policies,

or were accomplished hypocrites to the point of schizophrenia, capable of passing very rapidly from a hidden enjoyment of rabid racism to a proclaimed attachment to an anti-racist struggle and back. And back again. The third example comes from a work which has a far less serious scholarly intent, but is all the more popular for that. The Joys of Yiddish by Leah Rostin. This lighthearted work first published in the USA in 1968 and reprinted in many editions,

including several times as a penguin paperback, is a kind of glossary of Yiddish words often used by Jews or even non-Jews in English-speaking countries. For each entry, in addition to a detailed definition and more or less amusing anecdotes, illustrating its use, there is also an etymology stating quite accurately on the whole the language from which the word came into Yiddish and its meaning in that language. The entry Shaggats, whose main meaning is a Gentile boy or young man, is an exception. There the etymology cryptically states Hebrew origin, without giving the former meaning of the original Hebrew word. However, under the entry Shixa, the feminine form of Shaggats, the author does give the original Hebrew word Shiketz, or in his transliteration, Shiks, and defines its Hebrew

meaning as blemish. This is a bare-faced lie, as every speaker of Hebrew knows. The Megito, modern Hebrew English dictionary published in Israel, correctly defined Shikets as follows. unclean animal, loathsome creature, abomination, colloquial pronounced against, wretch, unruly youngster, gentile youngster. My final, more general example is, if possible, even more shocking than the others. It concerns the attitude of the Hasidic movement towards non-Jews. Hesitim, a continuation and debasement of Jewish mysticism, is still a living movement with hundreds of thousands of active adherents who are fanatically devoted to their

holy rabbis, some of whom have acquired a very considerable political influence in Israel, among the leaders of most parties and even more so in the higher echelons of the army. What then are the views of this movement concerning non-Jews? As an example, let's take the most famous Hatania, fundamental book of the Havad movement, one of the most important branches of Hasidism. According to this book, all non-Jews are totally satanic creatures, quoting, in whom there is absolutely nothing good. Unquote.

Even a non-Jewish embryo is qualitatively different from a Jewish one. The very existence of a non-Jew is inessential, whereas all of creation was created solely for the sake of the Jews. This book is circulated in countless editions, and its ideas are further propagated in the numerous discourses of the present hereditary Fuhrer of Havad, the so-called Lubavichur Rabbi, M.M. Schneerson, who leads this powerful worldwide organization from his New York headquarters.

If you're wondering, yes, because I know some of you were thinking it. In Israel, these ideas are widely disseminated among the public at large in the schools and in the army. This is in parentheses. According to the testimony of Shulamit Aloni, member of the Knesset, the Savad propaganda, was particularly stepped up before Israel's invasion of Lebanon in March 1978 in order to induce military doctors and nurses to withhold medical help from Gentile wounded. This Nazi-like advice did not refer specifically to Arabs or Palestinians, but simply to Gentiles,

Goyim. A former Israeli president, Shazar, was an ardent adherent of Habad and many top Israeli and American politicians headed by Prime Minister Begin, publicly courted and supported it. This, in spite of the considerable unpopularity of the Lubavitur rabbi, in Israel, he is widely criticized because he refuses to come to the Holy Land even for a visit and keeps himself in New York for obscure messianic reasons, while in New York his anti-black attitude is notorious. The fact that despite these pragmatic difficulties, Havad can be publicly supported by so many top political figures owes much to the thoroughly disingenuous and misleading treatment by almost all scholars who have written about the Hasidic movement and its Havad branch. This applies particularly to

all who have written or are writing about it in English. They suppress the glaring evidence of the old Hasidic tests as well as the latter-day political implications that follow from them, which stare in the face of even a casual reader of the Israeli Hebrew press in whose pages the Lubavie Rabi and other Hasidic leaders constantly published the most rabid, bloodthirsty statements and exhortations against all Arabs. A chief deceiver in this case, and a good example of the power of deception was Martin Buber. His numerous works eulogizing the whole Hasidic movement, including Habab, never so much as hints at the real doctrines of Hasidim concerning non-Jews. The crime of deception is all the greater in view of the fact that Boobber's eulogies of Hasidism

were first published in German during the period of the rise of German nationalism and the ascension of Nazism to power. But while ostensibly opposing Nazism, Boomer glorified a movement holding and actually teaching doctrines about non-Jews, not unlike the Nazi doctrines about Jews. One could, of course, argue that the Hasidic Jews of 70 or 50 years ago were the victims, and a white lie favoring a victim is excusable. But the consequences of deception are incalculable. Buber's work were translated into Hebrew,

were made a powerful element of the Hebrew education in Israel, have greatly increased the power of the bloodthirsty Hasidic leaders, and have thus been an important factor in the rise of Israeli chauvinism and hate of all non-Jews. If we think about the many human beings who died of their wounds because Israeli army nurses incited by Hasidic propaganda refused to send them, then a heavy onus for their blood lies on the head of Martin Buber. I must mention here that in his adulation of Hasidim, Buber far surpassed other Jewish scholars, particularly those writing in Hebrew or formerly in Yiddish, or even in European languages, but purely for a Jewish audience. In questions of internal Jewish interests, there had once been a great deal of justified criticism of the Hasidic movement. Their misogynism, much more extreme than that common to all Jewish orthodoxy, their indulgence in alcohol, their fanatical cult of their hereditary holy rabbis who extorted money from them, the numerous superstitions peculiar to them. These and many other negative traits were critically commented upon, but Boobber's sentiment or,

and deceitful romanticism has won the day, especially in the USA and Israel, because it was in tune with the totalitarian admiration of anything genuinely Jewish, and because certain left Jewish circles in which Buber had a particularly great influence had adopted this position. Nor was Boobber alone in his attitude, although, in my opinion, he was by far the worst in the evil he propagated and the influence he left behind him. There was the very influential sociologist and biblical scholar, Yehese, Kyle Kaufman, an advocate of genocide on the model of the book of Joshua, the idealist philosopher Hugo Schmul Bergman, who, as far back as 1914 to 1915, advocated the expulsion of all Palestinians to Iraq and many others. all were outwardly dovish, but employed formulas which could be manipulated in the most extreme anti-Arab sense, all had tendencies to that religious mysticism which encourages the propagation of deceptions,

and all seemed to be gentle persons who, even when advocating expulsion, racism, and genocide, seemed incapable of hurting a fly. And just for this reason, the effect of their deceptions was the greater. It is against the glorification of inhumanity, proclaimed not only by the rabbis, but by those who are supposed to be the greatest and certainly the most influential scholars of Judaism that we have to struggle. And it is against those modern successors of the false prophets and dishonest priests that we have to repeat. even in the face of an almost unanimous opinion within Israel and among the majority of Jews and countries such as the USA, Lucretius warns against surrending one's judgment to the declamations of religious leaders, tantam religio, potuette, swadere malorum. To such heights of evil are men driven by religion. Religion is not always, as Mark said, the opium of the masses, but it can often be so, and when it is used in this sense by prevaricating, and misrepresenting its true nature, the scholars and intellectuals who perform the task

take on the character of opium smugglers. But we can derive from the... I hope everybody understands that where opium smugglers would hide opium in amongst everything else in the linings of things or anything. That's what he's talking about.

They're hiding... They're seeking to keep hidden their true opinions of Gentiles, of non-Jews. Yet they all learn them, especially if they go to Yeshiva, which is in the United States, it's where they learn the Talmud. But we can derive from this analysis another more general conclusion about the most effective and horrific means of expulsion to do evil, to cheat, and to deceive, and while keeping one's hands quite clean of violence to corrupt whole peoples and drive them to oppression and murder. For there can no longer be any doubt that the most horrifying acts of oppression in the West Bank

are motivated by Jewish religious fanaticism. You can change that to Gaza. Most people seem to assume that the worst to tell, and what I will say is, it doesn't mean that they have to believe, they have to be Jewish, that they have to believe in metaphysics. Just means that they're following the Bible. You've heard of Amalek, right? Most people seem to assume that the worst totalitarianism employs physical coercion and would refer to the imagery of Orwell's

1984 for a model illustrating such a regime. But it seems to me that this common view is greatly mistaken and that the intuition of Isaac Asimov in whose science fiction the worst depression is always internalized is the more true to the dangers of human nature. Unlike Stalin's tame scholars, the rabbis, and even more so the scholars attacked here, and with them the whole mob of the equally silent middle brows,

such as writers, journalists, public figures who lie and deceive more than them, are not facing the danger of death or concentration camp, but only social pressure. They lie out of patriotism because they believe that it is their duty to lie for what they conceive to be the Jewish interest. They are patriotic liars, and it is the same patriotism which reduces them to silence, when confronted with the discrimination and oppression of the Palestinians.

In the present case, we are also faced with another group loyalty, but one which comes from outside the group and which is sometimes even more mischievous. Very many non-Jews, including Christian clergy and religious laymen, as well as some Marxists from all Marxist groups, hold the curious opinion that the one way to atone for the persecution of the Jews is not to speak out against evil perpetrated by Jews, but to participate in white lies about them. The crude accusation of anti-Semitism, or in the case of the Jews, self-hate,

against anybody who protests at the discrimination of Palestinians or who points out any fact about the Jewish religion or the Jewish past which conflicts with the approved version comes with greater hostility in force from non-Jewish friends of the Jews than from Jews. It is the existence and great influence of this group In all Western countries, let me get back to this, sorry, in all Western countries, and particularly in the USA, as well as other English-speaking countries, which has allowed the rabbis and scholars of Judaism to propagate their lies, not only without opposition, but with considerable help. It's not like they're ignoring it. They're enabling it.

In fact, many professed anti-Stalinists have merely substituted another idol for their work. worship and tend to support Jewish racism and fanaticism with even greater ardor and dishonesty than were found among the most devoted Stalinists in the past. Although this phenomenon of blind and Stalinistic support for any evil, so long as it is Jewish, it's particularly strong from 1945, when the truth about the extermination of European jury became known, it is a mistake to suppose that it began only then. On the contrary, it dates far back, particularly in social democratic circles. One of Marx's early friends, Moses Hess, widely known and respected as one of the first socialists in Germany,

subsequently revealed himself as an extreme Jewish racist, whose views about the pure Jewish race published in 1858, were not unlike comparable bilge about the pure Aryan race. But the German socialists who struggled against German racism remained silent, about their Jewish racism. In 1944, during the actual struggling against Hitler, the British Labor Party approved a plan for the expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine, which was similar to Hitler's early plans up to about 1941 for the Jews. This plan was approved under the pressure of Jewish members of the party's leadership, many

of whom displayed a stronger kith and kin attitude to every Israeli policy than the conservative Kith and Kinn supporters of Ian Smith ever did. But Stalinistic taboos on the left are stronger in Britain than on the right, and there is virtually no discussion even when the Labor Party supports Began's government. In the USA, a similar situation prevails, and again, the American liberals are the worst. This is not the place to explore all the political consequences of this situation, but we must face reality. In our struggle against the racism and fanaticism of the Jewish religion, our greatest enemies will not only be the Jewish racists and users of racism, but also these non-Jews who in other areas are known falsely, in my opinion, as progressives.

All right. Chapter 2. I think these are speaking for themselves, don't you? He's doing a really good job. I think he writes very concisely. I think he lays everything out. I don't feel like I have to do much commentary on it, although I want to because some of this is just completely outrageous and stuff that I've been saying for a while.

I'm just like, here, this is where I got it from. But yeah, next we'll be getting into, start getting into what they believe, what these rabbis believe, what they're teaching. and some of the methods they use, some of the things they do that I find utterly repugnant. Just, we'll get to that. All right, you noticed that there were ads during this. If you'd like to get the episodes early in ad-free, go to freemami on the wall.com forward slash support. You can support me there on my website, substack, Gumroad,

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