Anti-Judaism

Yeah,

and I know because there's been so much work being done on Marcion right now, some people are pulling back a little bit on Marcion's anti-Judaism, saying more that it was that he saw it as being fulfilled or something.

But it really...

Yeah, like understanding, as you said, the guts it takes to kind of spell out this, like, get rid of the Septuagint.

W- what will it take for the world...

You know, I, I developed this teaching tool of the three era framework, anti-Judaism, antisemitism, and anti-Zionism, three eras.

And what it took for the, for the moral realignment from antisemitism to anti-Zionism was the h- catastrophe, was the Holocaust.

For the, for the secular world to look back and shudder at what they had committed, um, as a result of a utopia, also another utopian, you know.

So one of the points that I make over and over again, and one of the reasons why I say that the original intention was not to say, "Oh look, Jews are this and this and that," but, "Oh look, there are various ways to do this and this and that, and we don't wanna do it that way, we wanna do it this way." Um, so they're almost always contrasting.

And when people ask me was medieval Christian anti-Judaism, was it racist, was it racialized, was it what we would call antisemitic? I'm not really sure how to answer that.

I mean, people seem very invested in something being racist or not racist, and, and I think how to answer that depends on you, how you define it and what you're invested in.

But I think it's sort of a helpful question to ask because it helps you see the similarities and the differences.

[laughs] That forced my ancestors to flee many times.

I'm not apologizing for it.

But I do want to explain to people who are not familiar with Christian anti-Judaism that whereas the Nazis insisted that Aryans, whatever that's supposed to mean, were the master race, medieval Catholic theologians were not at all positive about the moral status of themselves.

Medieval Christian theology says all humankind is tainted with original sin.

And look, it is hard to say things and soundbite being somebody who studies this professionally, but I will tell you that in all forms of Jew hatred, and I use the universal term Jew hatred, but there are distinct forms of Jew hatred.

So for instance, today's Jew hatred is anti-Zionism, whereas these Jew hatreds of the 19th and early 20th centuries, anti-Semitism, but before that is anti-Judaism.

So these three really eras of Jew hatred, and each one, I would say, casts the Jew as this moral villain, a cosmic villain.

And so it takes on a...

That makes it very difficult to confront and fight Because once this virus invades the mind of a human being or a civilization or a government society, it often takes, unfortunately, a massive catastrophe to compel a moral realignment.

And so this, again, dates back way before Marx, this idea that Jews pose a threat to world order.

whether that world order be, you know, communism or that world order be capitalism or Christianity during the era of anti-Judaism.

The issue is that once this virus invades the brain, it totally rocks civilization.

At least we can admit that interpretation has led in an anti-Semitic direction." Um, as I've gotten older, I'm more inclined to, uh, lay some of the blame for this in the text itself.

Um, a number of scholars will also distinguish between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, with anti-Semitism, which wasn't coined until the 19th century, um, as a racial thing.

Uh, and the New Testament is not so much that.

I mean, the New Testament's perfectly happy if you're a Jewish person, um, and then you decide to follow Jesus.

And there were anti-Jewish movements all over.

The exile movement was very anti-Judaic and for very good reason.

And I guarantee you that they laughed at these numbers at the time.

Solomon Schwartz, using data from the work of Lev Singer, maintained that the percentage of Jews in the Soviet government was about the same as their percentage of the urban population, and it was significantly lower in the Bolshevik Party itself.

The rot is now becoming the foundation.

It is anti-Israel, anti-Judaism, anti-Zionism, whatever you want to call it, is no longer a side issue for them.

It is an organizational requirement.

Being okay with Jews being hurt, killed, disappeared from society, disappeared from every walk of society is now something that is required for you to be allowed within the party.

Maher said, my vote in 2028, and this is his quote, is quote, in play.

He was very specific about it.

And he marked obsession with Israel, anti-Israel, anti-Judaism, Zionism, anti-Semitism, and socialism and all the other stuff.

But he specifically started from a point of And in this last episode, he gave one of his best closing rules.