Much is being said about anti-Semitism these days. We often hear US politicians from both major political parties warning us about the dangers of anti-Semitism. The US State Department has a special department dedicated solely to combating anti-Semitism around the globe, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

This department of the US State Department is paying $2 million to fight anti-Semitism in Europe and in Central Asia. Recently, when Democrat US Representative Ilhan Omar made a factual statement about the wealthy Israel lobby and its most powerful branch, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), using money to influence US politicians to support the Jewish state of Israel, she was attacked, not only by Republicans, but also by her own Democrat Party, as being anti-Semitic.

Trying to answer the title question of this article, we first need to define the word Semitic. Semitic is defined as “relating to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.” This definition of Semitic includes both Jews and Arabs. Therefore, when the US State Department combats “anti-Semitism” they are really combating anti-Jewish ideas, people and organizations.



Likewise, when people criticize Omar for telling the truth about the Israel lobby, instead of labeling her as being “anti-Semitic”, her critics should have accused her of being anti-Jewish, as her statement that the Israel lobby and AIPAC use money to influence US politicians to support the Jewish state of Israel was limited to Jews and the Jewish state and did not include all Semitic people.

The Jewish founder of the war-mongering and Hebrew Bible/Old Testament based neoconservative movement, Leo Strauss, pointed out in his speech Progress or Return: The Contemporary Crisis in Western Civilization the fact that the word anti-Semitism is a misnomer. Strauss said,

Once progress was indeed achieved, hatred of the Jews could no longer present itself among educated or half-educated people as hatred of the Jews. It had to disguise itself as “anti-Semitism,” a term invented by some bashful German or French pedant of the nineteenth century. It is certainly a most improper term.

Unfortunately, by consistent misuse over the centuries, anti-Semitism now is generally accepted as meaning anti-Jewish.

With these facts in mind, and using the popular definition of anti-Semitic to mean anti-Jewish, one of the most commonly used methods of spreading anti-Semitism since the early days of Christianity, was to portray the Jews as Christ killers, responsible for the brutal killing of the person Christians see as their savior, the Jew, Jesus Christ.

Judaism has two primary sources of religious teachings, the Hebrew Bible, what Christians refer to as the Old Testament, and the Talmud.

The Hebrew Bible primarily consists of what is alleged to be teachings and commands from God to the Hebrews/Jews. In essence, the teachings and commands in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament are about promoting Jews and their Jewish state of Israel over everyone and everything else on Earth. In short, they strongly promote intense Jewish superiority.

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The Talmud “is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.” Its 6,200 pages consist of a collection of rabbinic writings from the second century CE known as the Jerusalem Talmud, but which many scholars prefer to call the Palestinian Talmud because in the second century CE there were  no Jews living in Jerusalem (contrary to false claims made by modern Israel and Israeli PM Netanyahu that Jerusalem has always been the Jewish state’s undivided eternal capital). The Talmud also consists of the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), which is a compilation of rabbinic writings and teachings completed in 500 CE.

The Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) teaches, and makes claims, that in today’s world would be labeled as anti-Semitic. The Babylonian Talmud teaches that it was the Jews who killed Jesus Christ.

The four Gospels in the Christian Bible all claim that the Jewish priests had their fellow Jew, Jesus, arrested for blasphemy, which was punishable under Jewish law by death (Matthew 26:62-65; Mark 14:61-64; Luke 22:66-71; John 19:7).

Though the anonymously written four Gospels differ on when Jesus was crucified, with the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke claiming it was after Passover and that the last supper was the Passover meal, while the Gospel of John claims the last supper was not the Passover meal, but that it took place prior to Passover, they all claim it was the Romans who killed Jesus by crucifixion.

The Babylonian Talmud teaches that Jesus was a Jew who was a heretic (the Deist Thomas Jefferson had interesting ideas about Jesus being a Deist who tried to correct the Jews in their beliefs about God) and who committed blasphemy by falsely claiming he was the Jewish Messiah and the son of God.

The Talmud also teaches that Jesus practiced sorcery and was an idolater who was guilty not only of idolatry himself, but of leading other individual Jews, and of attempting to lead all of Israel, to idolatry. (This recent article shows that in the modern Jewish state of Israel, idolatry is still taken very seriously and that Christian churches are considered a form of idolatry.) According to halakhah/Jewish law, these crimes Jesus was found guilty of by the Jewish priests were punishable by death.

The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament teaches at Deuteronomy 21:21-23 that God commanded that people executed under halakhah/Jewish law be stoned to death, and then that their corpse be hung on a tree. It also demands that the corpse is to be removed from the tree before nightfall. According to the Babylonian Talmud, it was the Jews who executed Jesus in this way, and not the Romans who executed Jesus through crucifixion (maybe Christians should wear a stone around their necks instead of a crucifix or cross).

The Talmud also teaches, as the Gospel of John does, that Jesus was executed on the first day of Passover, with Passover beginning that evening, and not after Passover, as the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke claim.

In the important and interesting book Jesus In the Talmud, Peter Schäfer summarizes the Talmud’s teachings on the worldly fate of Jesus. He wrote:

What we then have here in the Bavli is a powerful confirmation of the New Testament Passion narrative, a creative rereading, however, that not only knows some of its distinct details but proudly proclaims Jewish responsibility for Jesus’ execution. Ultimately and more precisely, therefore, it turns out to be a complete reversal of the New Testament’s message of shame and guilt: we do accept, it argues, responsibility for this heretic’s death, but there is no reason to be ashamed of it and feel guilty for it.

We are not the murderers of the Messiah and Son of God, nor of the king of the Jews as Pilate wanted to have it. Rather, we are the rightful executioners of a blasphemer and idolater, who was sentenced according to the full weight, but also the fair procedure, of our law. If this interpretation is correct, we are confronted here with a message that boldly and even aggressively challenges the Christian charges against the Jews as the killers of Christ. For the first time in history, we encounter Jews who, instead of reacting defensively, raise their voice and speak out against what would become the perennial story of the triumphant Church.

Since religions and their clergy aren’t satisfied with inflicting solely Earthly suffering and punishments against people who disagree with them, the eternal fate of Jesus is an ungodly and repulsive punishment. According to the Talmud, Jesus is spending eternity living in boiling excrement.

This sick and twisted religious teaching that is found in the original and foundational Abrahamic “revealed” religion of Judaism, is one example of many of why we need to make a clean break from the man-made “revealed” Abrahamic religions. Our love and respect for The Supreme Intelligence/God and for ourselves, demands that we leave the Abrahamic “revealed” religions behind and move on to reason and Nature based Deism.

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  1. Yet you hold your swami in the highest regards like a god. So it seems to me that you practice a religion with all the writings and dos and don’ts. Self Actualization requires no esoteric or religious followings although many folks do broaden their minds with the works of others.

  2. It is not only the Abrahamic religions that are problematic Mr Johnson. All hierarchical religious institutions that have written or oral doctrine guarded and promoted by a priest/priestess class claiming to proffer an exclusive access path to any higher god/goddess figure are nothing more than spiritual control systems. The soul path to an individual’s creator should never be obstructed by a third party and individuals that think it is are not in touch with their own souls nor with a divine creator of this universe.

    That said, I do find the Abrahamic religions particularly onerous because the top human hierarchy of those religions are obviously not content with spiritual control. No….they want control over everything and use economic measures (usury) to inflict misery and endless wars fought in the name of a false god to achieve their dream of theocratic planetary control. All of the Abrahamic religions are sects of Judaism originating in Babylon as forms of prescribed worship for a panoply of Sumerian gods and goddesses. In other words; the “god” of Judaism is actually based on a cult perception of the power of one god over another god. This statement is based on historical fact which is easily verified by an objective researcher.

    The soul, heart, and mind intuitively know the difference between good and evil. Each individual has free will to make their own choice. No human or governmental can or should be given the power to dictate that choice. Governments can establish laws that punish certain types of undesirable behavior but in no case is it acceptable for any governmental body to define, or enact laws which force worship of any one god or goddess. That is the foundation of freedom for the United States and that, is what must be enforced.

  3. The Gospels say that nobody could have killed Jesus, as Jesus himself mentions ‘nobody is taking away my life from me, I am offering it freely’ and when warned of the peril of sudden death he sends away those closest warning him and compares them to the devil. If Jesus is a permanent mortal then there is no religion of Christianity whatsoever, and it doesn’t matter whose votes, hands, laws or tools he died from, be it Jewish, Roman, mine, yours, if Jesus is dead then all of Christianity doesn’t matter nor the principles and human rights it proclaims. The Christianity is based on the renewal of life through imitation of Jesus, not on mortals reflections of his 3-day death, if there are those within Christianity who blame certain people or groups for Jesus death then those are heretics no doubt.

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