Settlers Pelt Girls Leaving School in Hebron With Rocks, April 24, 2005. Anti-Semitism or Anti-Gentilism — Which Is It?
by Donald Robert Clasen
Jan. 26, 2014
“As much as Jewish intelligencia wants to break the host nation, to dismantle its cohesive narrative, and debase the patriotic impetus, the Jewish State is committed to Jewish interests that represent the complete opposite of the ideology it espouses. Israel defines itself as the Jewish State and it subscribes to a racist, expansionist, nationalist and patriotic ideology. This may seem to be a discrepancy, but in fact it isn’t.
The above dual ethic is actually engraved in Jewish emancipation philosophy. The Jewish Haskala (enlightenment) motto that is mistakenly attributed to Moses Mendelssohn instructs the Jew- ”be a Jew in your tent and a man on the street.” It teaches the Israelite to behave as a Jew at home but, while in the street to pretend to be a goy.
This perplexing dishonest dualism (one lies to God at home while misleading the Goy in the street) explains the contradiction between the Jewish intelligencia call for diversity in the West, on the one hand, and the adherence to hard core patriotism in the Jewish State, on the other hand. The Jewish Haskala dual existential mode allows a clear distinction between the ‘Goyim universe’ and the ‘Jewish ghetto.’ In practice, Jewish intellectuals would teach the Goyim about diversity and tolerance, yet defend vile Judeo-centrism at home, i.e., Israel.”
-Gilad Atzmon, former Israeli citizen, activist[1]
The reality Gilad is revealing about this glaring double standard is true enough, but the reason for it is even more damning than how he’s so delicately putting it. Both the Jewish German haskala (enlightenment) and the older, more foundational halakah (legal) tradition indeed claim to “allow a clear distinction between” the Jewish and Gentile universes, but the truth is it’s a warfare mindset. From its inception the Jewish religion has been at war with the rest of mankind (and with itself one could argue), and it’s a point of real enlightenment for everyone’s benefit to understand why that is.
Note here the rabbinic use of such a passive voice to express such an aggressive attitude. “A clear distinction” between the Jewish and Gentile worlds “is allowed.” What the Talmud does however is establish a justification for Jewish superiority and entitlement, declares the rest of the world to be in their way on the road to inheriting the earth, and debates effective strategies for accomplishing this. The employment of a double standard in the example above is just one of them.
No Such Thing As A Judeo-Christian Tradition
These are the kinds of things the average mistaught Christian does not understand. Judaism is not the study of what we call the Old Testament while not seeing or wanting to see Christ in its prophecies, but the literal religion of the Pharisees, the closest thing to a nemesis Jesus Christ had. According to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, one of the few authoritative works for this faith:
“The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees…Their leading ideas and methods found expression in a literature of enormous extent, of which a very great deal is still in existence. The Talmud is the largest and most important single member of that literature, and round it are gathered a number of Midrashim, partly legal (Halachic) and partly works of edification (Haggadic).”[3]
Furthermore, the hostility the Pharisees showed toward Christ and His ministry did not abate after His day but got only worse. The oral traditions they developed that Christ derided as the mere “doctrines and commandments of men” were not put into written form as the Mishnah until almost two centuries after His birth. That was the formal start of the religion of Judaism, something that only existed as a corruption of the Mosaic tradition given on Mt. Sinai previously. By then they had had a lot of time to embellish and distort His life with wild and slanderous tall tales.
Throughout the expansion of rabbinic writings over the ensuing centuries, these spiritual leaders of non-Messianic Jews made no bones about this theme of victimhood. They cynically inculcated this rubric about perpetual and inevitable Gentilic “anti-semitism” within their people in order to preserve national unity and provide a convenient explanation for any opposition or resentment they may encounter. It is a classical characteristic of a cult to instill in your people paranoia about the outside world and suspicion of everything it represents.
How This All Came About
To echo the question in the sub-title, “Who started this fight then?”—is the problem truly anti-Semitism or anti-Gentilism? As best I can divine the logic here (if one can indeed make sense of the intellectual muddle that is rabbinic logic), it all starts with a dispute over the meaning of the term “chosen people.”
We Christians freely acknowledge that the Jews—(actually the Hebrew people as there were originally 12 tribes plus the Levites)—were chosen by God. But it’s in the Biblical sense of chosen for a purpose. The operative terms here are excellence and inspiration (character), not entitlement and privilege (race). The purpose was that Israel would be such an exemplary people modeling God’s superior laws (Deut 4:5-8), that they would be a “Light To The Nations,” drawing them to the God of Israel and His Messiah (Isa 49:6), that all the world might be saved (Isa 45:22). In fact, to this day many Jewish circles see their obligation to humanity in this way.
This is the proper meaning of the promise made to Abram when he was told he and his seed would “bless all the families of the earth” (Gen 12:3). If the chosen-ness of Israel had been based in their first being created out of nothing (through the promise of Isaac), there would have been no place or need for the Gentiles to be ultimately included in the covenant.
The rabbinic movement however came to define the term “chosen” differently though, as in a famous rabbinic axiom, “God gave the covenant to us, not to them [the goys].” The meaning conveyed was one of entitlement, separation and exclusiveness—the original “Exceptional Nation.” They may as well have added, “At any rate we’ve kept it and we’re not about to share it with anyone else.” Yet the covenant was clearly conditional, and God had warned them that He would break it or bring severe judgment upon them if they did not keep their part (Deut 28:15-68).
Those conditions were that they would not run after the idolatrous rites and superstitions of the Canaanite nations nor depend upon political alliances for protection. Instead, God would be their protection. The histories of Israel along with the Prophets and their writings document in detail how they did neither of these things of course, causing the complete loss of the 10 northern tribes to the Assyrians. Eventually even Judah (and Benjamin) in the south were also carried off into the famous 70 year Babylonian Captivity (ca. 606-536 B.C.). It was after the end of all this and Judah’s return under Ezra, Nehemiah et al., that the rabbinic movement arose.
Origins of the Rabbinic Movement
What eventually became rabbinism was originally a reform movement for real restoration begun by Ezra the “ready scribe” (faithful, diligent) who revived a commandment to read the entire Law to the people once every seven years at the Feast of Tabernacles (Neh 8; Deut 31:10,11). In fact, he may have ordained it be read every year until the people got back on track. After Ezra passed on, other scribes kept up the tradition with the best being called by the 1st Century AD rabbis [Heb. rav, “great one” or “master”]. Remember, it was around 536 BC that the Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem, so you had here five centuries of a slow evolution (or devolution I would argue) before the arrival of Jesus of Nazareth.
This decline was marked by a number of trends that all led to the development of an Oral Law that came to compete with the Written Law of Moses. These trends included a tendency to rule on hypothetical legal cases and make them more and more obligatory, and with time more important than the original Mosaic statutes. They also included a goal of “building a hedge” around the Law, the “logic” being that if someone was dedicated enough to keep their plethora of obligations then they must be dedicated enough to keep what Moses wrote.
But this was but an elaborate form of self-justification of their own customs and rulings, especially in light of the fact that the Mosaic Law explicitly forbade them from doing that:
“Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them… Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.” -(Deut 4:1,2).
Jesus later on called them to task for this: “For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers” (Mt 23:4). In time, male competition also seemed to take over as they strove to outdo one another in “heavy revies” (insights). This was especially true in their speculations about what happened in Biblical history “between the lines” of the bare-bones Scriptural stories and enhances a present-day misleading reputation for being especially knowledgable of the Scriptures.
As a final capstone they retroactively declared the origin of their traditions to have come from the Mt. Sinai event itself and to be actually more authoritative than the recorded Law. This long process represented effectively a subversion of the authoritative basis of the Written Law of Moses as Jesus endlessly kept pointing out to them (Lu 11:46; Mark 7:13; Mt 23:14,23, etc).
From One Extreme To The Other
Thus, in contrast to their first five centuries in the land marked by licentiousness, running after the Canaanite religions and unwise political alliances, now they fell into the opposite ditch—legalism and a radical separation from the Gentiles, especially those hated half-breed Samaritans (Jn 4:9).
Two incidents recorded in the New Testament show the degree to which even the common people had been infected by this radically-separatist and racist attitude towards the Gentiles. In the first (Lu 4:25-29), Jesus’ own hometown synagogue became so incensed—not that He had just declared Himself to be the Messiah, but that He dared to imply He was about to offer the covenant to the Gentiles as well—that they attempted to throw Him off a cliff! In the second (Acts 22:21-23), the Apostle Paul nearly suffered the same fate when the mob politely listened to his testimony until he got to the point where the risen Christ told him He was going to send him far away to the Gentiles, God forbid!
Romanticizing the success of the Maccabean revolt a century and a half earlier probably super-charged this independence fever in Judea, epitomized by the emergence of the Zealots, willing to assassinate Roman soldiers. All these things tempted the rabbi/Pharisee movement to redefine chosenness according to this radically race-based definition. Jesus occasionally ministering to Gentiles now and then and implying He was going to offer the Covenant to all the world on a personal, faith basis was but one more strike against Him that sealed His fate.
Yet the Hebrew Scriptures imply that God’s plan had always been that when the Messiah came, all the Gentiles would be invited into the Covenant (Isa 19:25; 49:6; 60:3; Hos 2:23, etc). This is what the Gospel is, taking the Covenant to the ends of the earth while we await His return (Mk 4:29).
From False Premise To “Logic”
From this definition of chosen came three steps of “logic,” and I paraphrase here: “Since the Gentiles are shut out, they must be extremely resentful and jealous of the Jew, leading to an inbred hatred in every one of them that can never be eradicated. This is seething just below the surface no matter how ‘nice’ they may seem and makes them unpredictable and barbaric.”
This is summed up in an axiom drilled into the heads of young Orthodox children: “It is a given law, it is known; that Esau hates Jacob,” with Esau, Jacob’s twin brother no less, representative of all Gentiles.[4] The fact that Christians don’t feel excluded from the covenant at all nor that most Gentiles are hardly even aware of the Jews’ beliefs and couldn’t care less in any event, is not a problem to the rabbinic mind. This is a Jewish thing and you have no part nor lot in the matter.
Then comes step three. How can the Jews bless the families of the earth when the latter are so hostile and so many of them idolaters (i.e., worship a man, Jesus Christ)? The only way is to reduce them down to complete subservience (the seven ‘Noahide Laws’ for ‘righteous’ Gentiles) or maybe even eliminate them (as Kabbalistic cosmology implies). You may think that a strange kind of “blessing,” perhaps more like a raped victim being told she’s been “made a better woman” for the experience. You’d be right.
Step four. “Since we Jews are so few in number compared to them and since they may get alarmed at discovering what our attitude really is, we are justified in deceiving them by any means in order to subdue them.” This is the origin of the now highly-perfected strategy of deception enshrined in the Mossad slogan, ‘Through deception thou shalt wage war.”
But war against whom? Why the whole world of course. That is why Israel is so contemptuous of the United Nations and international law. It’s also explains their justification of false flags and dirty tricks used by them and their Masonic disciples in covert intel circles of various nations (especially the U.S., Britain and Russia).
The Deleterious Effects Upon World Epistemology
That this kind of atmosphere leads to a complete collapse of civilization eventually since no one can tell who’s telling the truth anymore and when, again is only a problem among bigots and “self-hating” Jews who can’t seem to appreciate the “Jewish genius” at work here. But working hard at dividing and manipulating the Gentiles, funding extremism on both ends of the political spectrum while hiding in the background etc., is not a plan that’s going to leave them unscathed (Isa 28:15, 18).
Most contemporary Jews are of course as much repelled by this kind of mentality as anyone else (if they’ve even figured it out themselves), but they pay a high price for bucking it. It can destroy your career or put it in a dead end, and God help you if you believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Your family will probably hold a funeral for you and you may end up hounded from nation to nation.[5] But among hard core Zionists, this is the reckless thinking.
Others don’t want another holocaust to come on their people, and others are seduced by the superior or flattering status that sometimes comes. Indeed, according to Jewish professor Yuri Slezkine at UC Berkeley, author of The Jewish Century, Jews usually become “hostile elites” in the societies they’ve settled in as Atzmon mentioned, and when they’ve accumulated enough power all this resentment for centuries of perceived persecution, real or imagined starts to surface.
This is the biggest reason they’ve been forcibly expelled from at least 109 countries and cities in their Disapora history. It usually only happened when they reached that stage of critical mass resentment. Indeed, a Jewish ideologue can feel like he never fits, and eventually a society may come to agree with him.
Making Everyone Pay For What The Egyptians Did
This kind of climatic boiling point may be coming very soon to the United States too but when it does, Gentile Americans will be on the receiving end this time, given the power of Zionist hasbara (propaganda) here and the mindless, one-sided support of its ignorant Christians. Especially if the fanatical Antichrist becomes the head of America as well as Israel, ritual revenge for centuries of “anti-Semitism” will follow. That includes the John Hagees and most everyone else in this psy-opped and dumbed-down nation. The ten horns “shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire” (Rev 17:16).
The word “anti-Semitism” is itself a mindless, empty word, a weapon in a war of words. It was coined by a critic of growing Jewish power in 19th Century Germany but picked up by Jewish ideologues and adopted. I call it mindless because a Semite refers to a descendant of Sem or Shem, one of the three sons of Noah. There are about 27 Semitic nations listed in Genesis 10:21-31 and they refer mostly to Middle Eastern peoples such as the Persians (today’s hated Iranians). Even the hated Esau was a full-blooded Semite though a Gentile, in spite of the fact that he was not just Jacob’s brother but his twin! In fact, are Abraham and Isaac Gentiles too, since they aren’t descendants of Jacob (Israel)? How about Adam?
Don’t expect clarity of thought from the Talmudic mind. It is not intended to clarify but to confuse. This is a war after all. The fact that the Jewish people themselves, even the rabbis, are the victims of this kind of illogical and soupy consciousness is rarely ever discussed. The last thing they want is the light of day on their doctrine. Besides, you have no part nor lot in this matter. It’s a Jewish thing.
So who started this fight anyway?
