Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Wikimedia Commons)
While the image of the “mad mullah” and swarming masses of fanatical Muslims poised to rend asunder Western Civilization is an image that has been resurrected from prior centuries and is propagated by the apologists for Israel with increasing vigor, the mythic spectre has served to obscure the anti-Christian foundations of the Zionist state. Hence, the spectacle of “Christian Zionists” as among the most fanatical defenders of Israel is an historical travesty that is as odd as would have been Christian Fundamentalists supporting the League of Militant Atheists in the USSR. Indeed, there is an analogy: The League of Militant Atheists avidly sought the obliteration of Christianity in the Soviet state; Zionists, and Orthodox believers in the Talmud who have a major presence in Israel, are as zealous in obliterating Christianity from the Holy Land as their Bolshevik counterparts of yesteryear. Yet, how widely realized is it that Israel is a state where Christianity is repressed and despised?
This month a hint of the situation was publicly exposed by two events: (1) the vandalizing of the Protestant Cemetery of Mount Zion in what Christian leaders in Israel state is the latest in “a string of relentless attacks on church properties and religious sites”; and (2) the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Unsurprisingly, the news does not seem to have been featured in the manner by which the desecration of a Jewish site would receive from then world’s mass media. In particular, there have been no worldwide protests and street parades demonstrating outrage, of the type that takes place when even minor vandalism is inflicted on Jewish sites, when such actions are treated with such gravity as to inspire calls for new laws to stop the “rise of anti-Semitism.”
While New Zealand’s Dominion Post newspaper, serving the capital region, devoted two sentences to the subject,[1] the most detailed report seems to have been written by Daniel Estrin of the Associated Press. Estrin reports that four Israeli youths were arrested but were released without charge until further questioning. Two of the youths were affiliated with “Hilltop Youth,” a group responsible for attacks in recent years on Christian and Muslim sites, and Israeli army property in protest at Israeli government policy; and two youths who were students at a Jewish seminary.
There have been many high profile sites vandalized over the past year, including a Trappist monastery in Latrun, outside Jerusalem, where vandals burned a door and spray-painted “Jesus is a monkey” on the century-old building, a Baptist church in Jerusalem, and other monasteries. “Clergymen often speak of being spat at by ultra-Orthodox religious students while walking around Jerusalem’s Old City wearing frocks and crosses.” Search for Common Ground (SCG), an NGO that monitors news reports of attacks on religious sites, states that 17 Christian sites have been reported vandalized over the past three years. However, a police detective in charge of Christian affairs told SCG the number of vandalized sites is higher, but Christian leaders did not report many of the attacks to the media. Additionally, SCG does not include vandalism in the Old City of Jerusalem in its survey, because many of the sites are in dispute and the organization wants to be seen as neutral. Hana Bendcowsky of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, states that Christian leaders often do not file complaints with police because many are in Israel on special visas and want to maintain good relations with authorities. She states that there is a strong feeling that police are not really interested in the problem, although police spokesmen claim otherwise.[2]
The Najran Massacre: A Christian Holocaust by Jews
Zionism was created around the fiction that “anti-Semitism” is inherent within the “goyim” psyche, and that Jews must therefore remove themselves from goy society. It was therefore necessary to contrive a history of Gentile-Jewish relations that depicted the Jews as constantly facing persecution through the entirety of their history. This also necessitates the portrayal of Jews as at all times sinless victims of that inherent goy psychosis of “anti-Semitism.” Another perspective is that the perpetrators of the ages old persecution myth are suffering from paranoid psychosis. Certainly, when it has been Jews with the upper hand they have been none too charitable towards their defeated enemies, as the Torah and other books of the Old Testament quickly show. One of the most famous, recorded in the “Book of Esther,” is the slaughter of 75,000 Persians by Jews once they got the upper hand, a slaughter that continues to be celebrated today at the Feast of Purim, where “Haman cakes” are eaten, Haman being one of history’s first “anti-Semites,” and there is much boisterous rejoicing.
In 500 AD, the inhabitants of Najran in southern Arabia converted to Christianity, but in 522 the Jewish Himyarite king of Yemen began the persecution of Christians, who asked for the Ethiopian assistance. With the Himyarite defeat of the Ethiopians in 523 the Najran Christians were massacred. Najran had been the first place in South Arabia where Christianity was established, and had a large community with the seat of a Bishopric.
The Jewish King of Yemen, Yusuf As’ar Dhu Nuwas, aimed to create a “Davidic” kingdom, but Christian Najran was an important trade route in the way. When the Najran Christians refused to abandon their faith 20,000 were said to have been burned alive, or beheaded and their bodies thrown into flaming pits. A document by Bishop Simeon of Beth Arsham on the Najran holocaust records that a Najran noblewoman named Ruhm brought her daughter before Dhu Nuwas and defiantly stated: “Cut off our heads, so that we may go join our brothers and my daughter’s father.” The daughter and a granddaughter were decapitated and Ruhm was forced to drink the blood. King Dhu Nuwas then asked, “How does your daughter’s blood taste to you?” to which Ruhm replied: “Like a pure spotless offering: that is what it tasted like in my mouth and in my soul.”
A difference between Islam and Judaism is that whereas the Koran honors Jesus as a prophet and his mother Mary, the Orthodox Jewish Talmud, or religious codex, describes them in what we might call less than flattering terms. Hence, Islam honors the Christian martyrs of Najran, the Koran stating of them: “…slain were the men of the pit, the fire abounding in fuel, when they were seated over it, and were themselves witnesses of what they did with the believers. They took revenge on them because they believed in God the All-mighty, the All-laudable…”[3]
As word spread of the Jewish holocaust on the Najran Christians, Najran became a center of pilgrimage that rivalled Mecca. Al-Harith, the leader of the Christian Arabs at Najran, who had been killed, was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as St. Aretas. The Catholic Church honors the Christian martyrs of this Jewish holocaust on October 24. A Catholic periodical states of the atrocity:
The leader of these ancient Christians was a certain ‘Abd Allah ibn Harith (who became St. Aretas in the Roman martyrology). He and his soldiers were beheaded. Priests, deacons, nuns and laymen were thrown into a ditch filled with burning fuel. Four thousand [4] men, women, and children were slain, including a boy of five who jumped into the flames to be with his mother.[5]
I cite this example to show that the tales of persecution of Jews by the goyim since ancient items are one-dimensional and have been made into both a religion and a political doctrine that has become central to Jewish thinking and the foundations of the Zionist state; while Jewish persecution of Christians or Muslims cannot even be acknowledged by Jewish Officialdom on any level. It is the religious zealots of Orthodox Judaism who, however, blow the cover on the pathological hatred some influential sections of Judaism and Zionism have towards Christianity, while Zionist lobbyists and politicians court self-styled “Christian Zionists.”
The Zionist Record
When Zionists went blundering over the Holy Land, this broadly termed collection of “Jews” ranged from religious zealots to communistic atheists. Despite those differences what they had in common was an ancient legacy of contempt for the goyim and hatred for Christianity and Islam. From the first arrivals of Zionist terrorists of Stern, Irgun, Palmach and others, therefore, Christians and Muslims were not going to fare well in the “Holy Land.”
Monsignor Thomas MacMahon, secretary of the Catholic Near East Association of New York, wrote to the United Nations on August 20, 1948, “there have been constantly some violations and desecrations of Catholic holy places. The associated Press report of August 19, 1948 confirmed that Jewish forces perpetrated criminal acts against 12 Roman Catholic institutions in Northern Palestine… Seven churches, convents and hospitals have been looted by Jews and others seized by force.”[6]
Mosignor Vergani, general vicar of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem for Galilee reported that, “the chapel was profaned. The altar overturned, the statues of the holy Virgin, Saint Francis and Saint Anthony were broken.”[7]
At the Church and Hospice in Tabakam, “the chapel profaned, the door broken open, the statues in pieces, sacred vestments torn and thrown to the floor, the tabernacle opened by force, the chalice stolen, crosses broken.”[8]
According to Father Pascal St. Jean, Superior of Our Lady of France Hostel, valuables were stolen, archives plundered, and “both chapels, were desecrated, figures of Christ unfastened from crosses and taken away. In the great chapel we came upon Jewish soldiers of both sexes dancing in the sanctuary to the music of the harmonium. Benches were taken outside and used for profane purposes. We have seen mattresses in the great chapel and Jewish soldiers have certainly been sleeping there. I protest against these acts in particular. They are sins committed on the premises of holy worship.”[9]
When the Stern Gang went into Jerusalem, breaking a ceasefire in May 1948, the Christian Union of Palestine reported that churches, convents, religious and charitable institutions were destroyed, injuring many women, children, priests and nuns. The Christian Union listed the outages against Christian holy places, including: occupation of the convent of St. George of the Greek Orthodox Church, on May 14, 1948; occupation and fortifying of the Hospice Notre Dame de France of the Assumptionist Fathers on May 15, using it as a main base to attack Jerusalem; occupation of the Convent of the Reparatrice Sisters, used as a base, May 15; occupation of the French Hospital run by the Sisters of St. Joseph, under the protection of the Flags of the Red Cross and of France; The Apostolic Delegation under the protection of the Flag of the Holy See, occupied May 18; occupation of the monastery of the German Benedictine Fathers, used as one of the main bases against the Holy City; the Convent of St. John of the Greek Orthodox Church.[10]
Holy places damaged by the Zionist forces during this time included: the Hospice Notre Dame de France; Convent of the Reparatrice Sisters, set on fire; church of the Monastery of the Benedictine Fathers; Seiminary of St. Anne hit by two mortar shells, wounding sheltering refugees; Church of St. Constantin and Helena of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, bomb fragments also damaging the Dome of the Holy Sepulchre; Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate hit by about 100 mortar mobs fired from Zionists occupying the Monastery of the Benedictine Fathers on Mount Zion, the bombs also damaging St. Jacob’s Convent, the Archangels Convent, and their two elementary schools, library and churches, killing eight and wounding 120 refugees; entrance to the Church of St. Mark of the Syrian Orthodox Church shelled, killing the monk Peter Saymy, secretary to the Bishop, and wounding two others; Convent of St. George of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the Greek Catholic Cathedral, hit by a mortar shell; Convent of the Archangel of the Coptic Patriarchate, situated over the grotto of the Holy Cross, part of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, shelled May 23; Greek Orthodox Patriarchate shelled wounding many refugees; Latin Patriarchate hit by mortar bombs, damaging the Cathedral; Greek Catholic Patriarchate shelled May 16 and 29.[11]
Among those killed by the Zionist forces, the above named monk Peter Saymy; Father Mammert Vionnet of the Assumptionist fathers and Judge of the Latin Ecclesiastical Court, killed by Zionist forces when they occupied the convent; Father John Salah of the Passioniste Fathers, killed when entering his church to celebrate Mass; and Brothers Sigismond and Cyrille of the Christian Brothers, wounded inside their school.[12]
On April 16, 1954, Zionists attacked the Greek Catholic Community cemetery in Haifa, and danced on the graves, threw out the human remains of many tombs, and smashed 73 crosses and 50 statues of angels.[13] Several months later in Haifa a procession led by the Carmelite Fathers was attacked near the cave of St. Elijah on Mt. Carmel.[14]
Father Rezk of the Greek Orthodox Church, Jaffa, reported on August 4, 1956, “armed Jewish soldiers broke through the Church door. Chalices and sacred vases containing the Holy Host were stolen, along with other religious items. They threw away the icons of Jesus Christ and the holy Virgin in a garden next door.”[15]
In January 1963, 70 mostly Yeshiva students attacked the Finnish Christian Mission School in Jerusalem, and beat the school pastor, Risto Santala. The mob was incited by an editorial in the newspaper Yediot Aharoot, December 23, 1962, which stated that the Christian Mission was converting Jews.[16]
When Zionist forces occupied Jerusalem in 1967, Nancy Nolan, wife of Dr Abu Haydar of the American University Hospital of Beirut, witnessed Israeli soldiers and youths throwing stink bombs at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Church of St. Anne, whose crypt marks the birthplace of Mary, and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem were vandalized. The Warden of the Garden Tomb, Reverend S J Mattar, was shot, and shots were fired randomly into the Tomb in an attempt to kill the Warden’s wife. Jews went into the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, smoking, littering and bringing in dogs.[17]
On the murder of the Warden at the Garden Tomb, Reverend Mattar, Mrs Sigrid W Proft of Switzerland was an eye-witness, stating that Reverend and Mrs Proft and herself went to the Tomb for shelter from bombing and shooting when the Zionist forces attacked on June 5. The following morning Rev. Mattar went out to go to the house to get some food. Soon afterward soldiers broke down the gate. Mattar responded by stating “good morning” “in a kindly and friendly manner.” Immediately there were several shots, and shots into the Tomb. When Mrs Proft and Mrs Mattar went up to the house, Rev. Mattar was laying dead with bullets in his head.[18]
In 1968, His Beatitude Maximos V Hakim, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, stated in New York that he feared Christianity could not survive in the Holy Land, and related what he had witnessed, stating that the Melchite Church had lost churches in Damoun, Somata, Kafr-Bur’om and Ikret, the last a completely Catholic village that the Israelis destroyed on Christmas Day, 1952. He stated that many churches were damaged in the 1967 war, and that many churches were desecrated by male and female soldiers entering the Holy Places “indecently dressed and with their dogs.”
When Zionists seized Convents and Churches on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem in 1968, they looted gold and silver ornaments. An eyewitness account states that the interior of the Church of St. Saviour had its altar wrecked, and an altar painting destroyed. The valuable collection of church vestments was missing. Armenian and Greek Orthodox cemeteries were desecrated on Mt. Zion, including 14 tombs of Christian patriarchs. Practically every tomb at the Greek Orthodox cemetery was smashed.[19] Likewise with the Catholic cemetery. The Very Reverend Father Andres, Procureua-General in the Holy Land, stated in an article in the Catholic journal, La Terra Sainte, March 1968, that “the Jews actually dragged the corpses out of the tombs and scattered the coffins and remains of the dead all around the cemetery.”[20]
In 1970, Archbishop Diodoros of Hierapolis, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Amman, Jordan, issued a statement to the United Nations Human Rights Commission on the desecration of the Holy Land. The Greek Orthodox Church at Ein Kerem, near Jerusalem, had been vandalized, the tombs unearthed, and the corpses of the parish priest and others scattered in the streets among garbage, and “the place had been made into a public lavatory.” The Saint Michael Church, Jaffa, was set on fire and cabarets and nightclubs, whose patrons used the courtyard for immoral purposes, surrounded the remnants. Bisan Creek Orthodox Church, Beit-Shean had been made into a public lavatory. Israeli authorities had destroyed the Greek Orthodox cemetery on Mt. Zion and the bodies were unearthed. Many Bishops, clergymen and nuns routinely had their crucifixes spat on in the streets, something that has not abated over the years. [21]
Ongoing
When four Jewish youths desecrated Christian graves and others spray-painted that “Jesus is a monkey,” these were not isolated incidences but part of an ongoing process of eradicating Christianity from the Holy Land. They are manifestations of a politicised religious tradition that Orthodox rabbis proudly trace back to the Pharisees of Jesus’ time. As Dr Israel Shahak has shown, the fanatical hatred against goyim and Christianity is intrinsic to certain types of Judaism, which have much influence in both Israel and among Diaspora Jewry.[22] As noted above, a habitual sign of hatred that the influential Orthodox Jews show towards Christians continues to be spitting. In 2011 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported:
Clergymen in the Armenian Church in Jerusalem say they are victims of harassment, from senior cardinals to priesthood students; when they do complain, the police don’t usually find the perpetrators.
Ultra-Orthodox young men curse and spit at Christian clergymen in the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City as a matter of routine. In most cases the clergymen ignore the attacks, but sometimes they strike back. Last week the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court quashed the indictment against an Armenian priesthood student who had punched the man who spat at him.
Johannes Martarsian was walking in the Old City in May 2008 when a young ultra-Orthodox Jew spat at him. Maratersian punched the spitter in the face, making him bleed, and was charged for assault. But Judge Dov Pollock, who unexpectedly annulled the indictment, wrote in his verdict that “putting the defendant on trial for a single blow at a man who spat at his face, after suffering the degradation of being spat on for years while walking around in his church robes is a fundamental contravention of the principles of justice and decency.” When Narek Garabedian came to Israel to study in the Armenian Seminary in Jerusalem half a year ago, he did not expect the insults, curses and spitting he would be subjected to daily by ultra-Orthodox Jews in the streets of the Old City.
…Other clergymen in the Armenian Church in Jerusalem say they are all victims of harassment, from the senior cardinals to the priesthood students. Mostly they ignore these incidents. When they do complain, the police don’t usually find the perpetrators. The Greek Patriarchy’s clergymen have been cursed and spat on by ultra-Orthodox men in the street for many years. “They walk past me and spit,” says Father Gabriel Bador, 78, a senior priest in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. “Mostly I ignore it, but it’s difficult.” … “It happens a lot,” says Archbishop Aristarchos, the chief secretary of the patriarchate. “You walk down the street and suddenly they spit at you for no reason. I admit sometimes it makes me furious, but we have been taught to restrain ourselves, so I do so.”
…A few weeks ago four ultra-Orthodox men spat at clergymen in the funeral procession of Father Alberto of the Armenian Church. “They came in a pack, out of nowhere,” said Father Goosan. “I know there are fanatical Haredi groups that don’t represent the general public but it’s still enraging. It all begins with education. It’s the responsibility of these men’s yeshiva heads to teach them not to behave this way,” he says.[23]
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Perhaps Father Goosan is being facetious; he surely knows that it is precisely such contempt for Christians that is taught in the yeshiva. Ultra-Orthodox Jews do not recognize goyim as being fully human. While Reform Jews do not follow such teachings, Orthodoxy, as Shahak showed in his Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, is a major political force. The ultra-Orthodox do not attempt to obscure the true teachings of the Talmud, while other Jewish apologists attempt to obfuscate the anti-Gentile and anti-Christian passages, claiming that these are “anti-Semitic” forgeries, or that they are taken out of context, or outdated.[24] While Shahak showed in both is books on Judaism that the allegations in regard to Talmudic hatred are indeed correct, and moreover form the basis of influential political sentiments in Israel, Evelyn Kaye, from the perspective of a Jewish woman raised in an ultra-Orthodox community, confirms the anti-Gentile and anti-Christian fanaticism of Orthodox Judaism, and also shows that while the West’s a attention is drawn to the repression of women (both real and imagined) in Islamic states, the role of women under Orthodox Judaism is analogous.[25]
When Rabbi Yosef, leader of the Sephardic Jews in Israel, and founder of the Shas Party, died in October, his funeral attracted 700,000 mourners. While this bizarre figure seemed to be from another time, Israel’s leaders paid tribute to him. The New York Times reported:
Under Rabbi Yosef’s leadership, Shas became a major player in governing coalitions, and Israeli leaders of all stripes made pilgrimages to his home in Jerusalem seeking his support. As a Sephardic Torah scholar and arbiter of Halakha, or Jewish law, he was often described by followers as “the greatest of the generation.” In 1970, he was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for rabbinical literature.[26]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “The Jewish people have lost one of the wisest men of this generation. Rabbi Ovadia was a giant in Torah and Jewish law and a teacher for tens of thousands.” Israeli President Shimon Peres said he had been at the rabbi’s bedside hours before his death. “When I pressed his hand, I felt I was touching history, and when I kissed his head, it was as though I kissed the very greatness of Israel.” The Rabbi’s curses were directed at Ariel Sharon when he announced plans to withdraw from Gaza; and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2010 he called on God to strike “these Ishmaelites and Palestinians with a plague, these evil haters of Israel.”
In 2010 Rabbi Yosef was reported in the media on his views regarding non-Jews, which reflect the true character of Orthodox Judaism despite the disingenuous efforts of apologists to claim otherwise. Reporting on one of his weekly, televised, Saturday night sermons the JTA reported that Yosef said:
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat,” he said to some laughter. “With gentiles, it will be like any person: They need to die, but God will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant. That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.”[27]
Such frankness as to actual Orthodox teachings drew embarrassed criticism from mainstream Jewish lobbyists such as the American Jewish Committee, who prefer to embrace their agendas behind the façade of “human rights,” and to portray Israel as a bastion of “democracy” among religious fanatics. Just who the religious fanatics are in the region occasionally and passingly comes to light in the mainstream Western media when incidents take place such as the vandalism of graves or the passing of Rabbi Yosef. While everyone should have the liberty to worship as they choose, the question becomes something more when that worship takes on a sociopathic character and more so when it impacts upon an entire region and even the entire world.
References
1. “Church Target,” Dominion Post, Wellington, New Zealand, October 10, 2013.
2. Daniel Estrin, “Attack on Jerusalem Graves Unnerves Christians,” Associated Press, October 9, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/attack-jerusalem-graves-unnerves-christians
3. Koran, Surah LXXXV, al-Buruj.
For a present -day Islamic account see “Dhu Nuwas and the Najan Massacre,” Islamic Research Foundation International, http://www.irfi.org/articles4/articles_5001_6000/dhu%20nuwas%20and%20the%20najran%20massacrehtml.htm
It is notable that Zionists and Jewish lobbyists cannot even tolerate the mention of Najran. On a recent BBC2 documentary about the frankincense trail, a complaint was made by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the BBC because the Najran holocaust was briefly alluded to. Is this “Najran Holocaust Denial”?
4. Estimates of the death rate vary.
5. William Mulligan, “The Martyrs of Najran,” Catholic Near East Magazine, Fall 1977, http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=101&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=us&pageno=1
6. Statement of the Committee of the Christian Union of Palestine, (representing the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate, Latin Patriarchate, Greek Catholic Patriarchate, and the Latin Parishes of the Holy Land), Jerusalem, May 31, 1948.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Hon. Issa Nakhleh, Jews Eradicating Christianity from the Holy Land (New York: Palestine Arab Delegation, ca. 1970).
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Statement of the Committee of the Christian Union of Palestine, op. cit.
16. Hon. Issa Nakhleh, op. cit.
17. Ibid., 10.
18. Ibid., 11.
19. Ibid., 8.
20. Ibid.
21. Archbishop Diodoros of Hierapolis, April 14, 1970.
22. Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (London: Pluto Press, 1994); Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (London: Pluto Press, 1999).
23. Oz Rosenberg, Haaretz, November 4, 2011 http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ultra-orthodox-spitting-attacks-on-old-city-clergymen-becoming-daily-1.393669
24. See for example David I Kertzer, Unholy War: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism (London: Pan Books, 2003), 140.
25. Evelyn Kaye, The Hole in the Sheet: A Modern Woman Looks at Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism (Seaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1987.
26. Isabel Kershner, “Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Spiritual Leader of Israel’s Sephardic Jews, Dies at 93,” The New York Times, October 7, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/world/middleeast/rabbi-ovadia-yosef-influential-spiritual-leader-in-israel-dies-at-93.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
27. Marcy Oster, “ Sephardi leader Yosef: Non-Jews Exist to Serve Jews,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October 18, 2010, http://www.jta.org/2010/10/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sephardi-leader-yosef-non-jews-exist-to-serve-jews
Excellent article. Thank you for helping to bring to light the anti-Christian sentiment, violence and discrimination suffered in the past and today, still, in Israel.
Winston Churchill said “A lie can run half way around the world before the truth can get it`s pants on!”
Zionist have, for at least 100 years, propagated lies and misinformation, to a Western world`s population who readily accepted Zionist conditioning without question, after all accepting statements on face value is a normal human reaction, certainly for people without a direct interest.
A Zionist master stroke, was the expression “Anti Semite” which inaccurately replaces the more specific and correct definition of “Anti Jewish”.
The definition of Semite is “Of Middle Eastern Origin” it did not define religious beliefs, simply ethnic origins, used as it commonly is, “Anti Semite” neatly disenfranchises Christian and Islamic beliefs, dismissed as though Jesus and Mohammed have no relevance as prophets of God.
Like Anthony Davis, I too am thankful that The Foreign Policy Journal has got it`s pant`s on, and allows contributors such as Mr Bolton, to do a bit of running.
The definition of “Semite” is not “Of Middle Eastern origin.” The word, which was coined in the 19th century, refers to a family of languages and its speakers. Its popular misunderstanding and misuse by people like yourself made it very easy to turn it into a term of opprobrium aimed at Jews. A better term would be Jew hatred. Jew hatred, however, is not a social or historical phenomenon. It is a pathological phenomenon that is the product of the scarred and twisted psyche of the Jew hater, reinforced nowadays by Israel hatred, which is a respectable form of Jew hatred in a
time when Jew hatred as such has become unfashionable.
The languages were all “Of Middle Eastern Origin” Fred, Semite never had a religious connotation, it was as you say, a word to describe a “family of (Middle East) languages”.
My point was the use of “Anti Semite” instead of “Anti Jewish” disenfranchises Christian and Moslem religions.
The British Community Security Trust, a Jewish organisation that records anti Jewish acts and publishes the figures annually, uses the expression Ant Semite, yet It does not record anti Moslem (or Christian) acts.
I have observed in debates such as this one, people like yourself eventually resort to statements claiming Jew Hatred (or Nazi lover) in an attempt to reinforce their beliefs, then refuse to debate further, claiming righteous indignation.
With the greatest respect Fred, you have taken the first step in a childish reaction. .
I am grateful for truthful information such as this. Thank you Mr. Bolton! Apart from helping the World, you just may help a Jew or two to break free of the insane system they live under – which is completely materialistic and a terribel dead end for any human being. Perhaps there are some who are intellligent enough and brave enough to escape their monstrously cruel leaders!
–“Jesus is a monkey” — Spray painted at the door of Trappist monastery in Latrun outside Jerusalem — quoted by K R Bolton
Despite these blasphemous remarks against the dignity of a recognised prophet (peace be upon him) by the Israeli Jews, the Christian world so blindly defends Israel and its atrocities over the Palestinians.
ithe jewish (convert) king Dhu Nuwas wiped out the christians of najran the koran is the only source for this tale(somewhat biased source for jewish history) As a Jew of Yemeni descent I deny that such an event ever took place it is neither found or discussed in any way in the Yemenite Jewish community. The Muslims who wiped out the supposed “jewish” tribes of nothern Arabia, again there is no mention of the existence of such communities in the anals of Jewish history have a koran which is a book replete with the most vile ugly attacks against Jews so as a “PHD” mr. bolton I’m surprised that such an obviously biased unsubstantiated source could be trusted. the Catholic which has been behind the wonton murder of jews for millena including propogating the most vile false blood libel accusations
simon of trent and hugh of lincoln amongst tens of thousands of other examples are sufficent to disqualify them as an unbaised historical source. Bolton you seem to have an axe to grind I would suggest you get a real phd not one that you obviously got from a cracker jack box
Dhu Nawas was a NOMINAL CONVERT TO JUDAISM
You either convert to Judaism, or you don`t, a “Nominal Conversion” is a totally meaningless expression.
As for your claim that the history of Dhu Nuwas is limited to the Koran, I`m sorry to tell you that you are in serious error. Several references to this massacre can be found in Roman inscriptions.
Your automatic denial is quite standard when it comes to shady dealings of historical Jews, In a BBC TV broadcast the Dhu Nuwas murders were mentioned, as an aside, The Board of deputies of British Jews, immediately demanded a BBC apology for “This Lie” only to quickly withdraw that demand, with an acceptance that Dhu Nuwas did indeed murder some 20 thousand simply because they were Christian.
In Tel Aviv there is a Dhu Nuwas Street, there he is regarded as a hero for his actions.
You can deny history, you cannot change it.
Well, Mike, you are going off half-cocked again. By “Roman” inscriptions, I assume you mean Byzantine inscriptions, though I doubt if you know what you mean yourself. I don’t pretend to be a scholar of the period, but I know of no such inscriptions. If you do, by all means translate them for us so we’ll all be wiser.
Christian sources all quote John of Ephesus for these events. The earliest figure for the number of dead in these sources is 200, a number that became inflated in the course of time.
I’m sure you know how things get distorted in the course of time. Take the rumor that 4,000 Jews didn’t show up for work at the World Trade Center on 9/11. This came from a Jerusalem Post article stating: “The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attacks.” Al-Manar transformed this unremarkable figure into the false claim that 4,000 Israelis had not reported for work at the World Trade
Center on September 11. Because the claim that the 4,000 allegedly missing workers were Jews rather than Israelis sounded slightly more plausible, this soon became the dominant form of the rumor. And in this way an original figure of 200 was inflated to 20,000 and then 70,000.
Actually, what you refer to as Byzantine, should more correctly be referred to as The Holy Roman Empire in the East.
However at the time of Dhu Nuwas massacre there was only The Roman Empire, and it is naive in the extreme to claim Dhu Nuwas did not commit the massacre(s) that are well documented, that was the way it was in those days.
Possibly the worlds greatest mass murdered was Genrikh Yagoda, a Russian Jew, I don`t for a moment think had he been Christian he would have murdered less, his religious beliefs had no bearing on his crimes, he was simply a man for his time, doing Stalin`s bidding.
It`s utterly pointless to deny history.
You still seem to be getting your historical information from comic books. The division of the Roman Empire took place in the fourth century. The Roman Empire in the West ended in the beginning of the fifth century. Perhaps you don’t even know when Dhu Nuwas lived. No one refers to 6th century Byzantine inscriptions as “Roman.” But you are of course avoiding the issue. Quote us one of these inscriptions. Show us real documentation for the massacre of 20,000 and not 200 people. And what does the fact that Yagoda was Jewish have to do with anything? Why do you even think to mention it? To prove what?
And a propos of your remark about the “shady dealings of historical Jews,” that is precisely the kind of remark that the Jew haters habitually make. That is the way the Nazis used to talk about the Jews. Remember? Jewish bankers controlling the world, Jewish conspiracies, well poisoning, Host desecration, ritual murder. Maybe you’re so used to talking about Jews in a certain way that you’re not even aware of what you’re saying. But that’s your problem.
Well Fred, you are following the well trodden path of all who are out of their depth and unwilling to accept an apposing view, by prefacing your comments with insults, then to put words into the other parties mouth, why do you need to do that?
Pope Urban in 1095 called for a Crusade to aid “The Holy Roman Empire in the East”. Alexios Komnenos of Constantinople deferred to Rome as the ultimate power.
A written source by the Bishop of Beth Arsham, still exists, dated 524CE, it describes a massacre of 20,000 Christian souls by King Dhu Nuwas.
Jon Benjamin, the Chief Executive of the British Board of Deputies, who accused the BBC of “Anti Semitism” when the Dhu Nuwas massacre was mentioned, apologised saying;
“Initial research showed Dhu Nuwas was a “Renogade convert” and not a real Jew”, this is the version you clearly wish to believe.
However Professor Dan Shapira of Bar-Iilan University, a specialist in that field, commenting on Benjamin`s accusations said: “It seems to me there is nothing to complain about, it was a historical episode – there are people from the Jewish Kingdom
of Himyar among those buried at Beit-she`arin in Israel”.
My comments regarding Genrikh Yagoda was to show that religion has no relevance, Yagoda was a murderer of Russian Christiand and Russian Jews, his religion was not a factor, I made that very clear, why you should find it difficult to understand is baffling.
I could list thousands of historical massacres committed by one religion on another, or between one religion, it`s not so long ago in Britain Catholics were burning Protestants, then Protestants were burning Catholics, all for the Love of God.
But to deny Dhu Nuwas was pretty good at showing his “love of God” is pointless, as are your Hitler jibes, not only pointless but childish.
Going off on a dozen tangents won’t obscure the fact that you are faking it again. Simeon did not speak of 20,000 deaths. He actually spoke of 2,000. Johannes Psaltes, on the other hand, reports only 200 deaths. The number kept going up and up. All you have to do is add a zero.
You are confusing the papal designation of Byzantium and relations between the two churches with the period before the barbarian conquest of Rome. But never mind. Your sense of history is so confused that it is pointless to correct you. You can go right on calling Byzantine inscriptions Roman but I notice that you haven’t quoted any.
I mentioned that your remark about the “shady dealings of historical Jews,” is precisely the kind of remark that the Jew haters habitually make and that this is the way the Nazis used to talk about the Jews. I notice that you don’t have anything to say about that either.
I addressed every point you attempted to make Fred, yet you insist on stating “going off on a dozen tangents” what`s the point in doing that?
It seems you are the only one who believes only what suits, is your only references the Virtual Jewish Lie-brary? I`m forced to that conclusion.
Personally I don`t have a belief in God, and I certainly don`t believe those who claim they speak “the word of God”, but all power to the elbows of those who have strong monoethist beliefs irrespective of the Prophet they prefer.
That said, I`m not convinced with your underlying insistence that anyone converting to judaism suddenly becomes perfect in every way, and also bestowed with a belief that all Goyim are quite evil.
R ovadia yosef clearly said afterwards he neant Arab Terrorists and not simply “non jews” There is anti religious bias in Haaretz. For decades.
Old Hack “Israel Shahak” has been debunked for many years including twisting around context of texts.
You quote a major portion from your hate article that unreliable source Issa Nakhleh, who said in Nov.14.1972 that Hitler didn’t kill Jews… he also participated in holocaust deniers IHR in 1981-2 and his “work” is quoted by all neo nazis.