Jewish Religions and the Prospect of Dissent (by Gilad Atzmon)

http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.ro/2016/01/great-new-article-by-gilad-atzmon.html

December 31, 2015

“The Jewish religion is a religion of Mitzvoth (commandments) and without this religious idiom, the Jewish religion doesn’t exist at all.”

~ Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz

While Islam and Christianity can be easily understood as belief systems, Judaism actually defies the notion of belief all together. Judaism is an obedience regulative system. The Judaic universe is ruled by ‘mitzvoth’ (commandment), a set of 613 precepts and directives ordered by God. In opposition to Christianity and Islam that build from spiritual and heavenly precepts in worship to a transcendental God, the Judaic subject subscribes to strict earthly and material observance. While the Islamo-Christian is wrapped in God’s loving and the spirituality of the sublime and divinity, the follower of Judaism is judged by his or her ability to adhere to hundreds of rigorous earthly orders.

A brief look at the Judaic Sabbath common prayer reveals the nature of Judaism as an obedience regulatory system. As we can see below, in Judaism, even God-loving is not an involuntary act:

“You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart,?with all your soul, and with all your might.?Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.

…Thus you shall remember to observe all My commandments?and to be holy to your God.?I am Adonai, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God:?I am Adonai your God.”

(Common Prayers for Shabbat Evening From Deuteronomy and Numbers)

For the Jew, belief and God-loving are not subject to either rational discretion or spiritual impulse. God loving, as we read above, is a strict “charge”, an order. But if Judaism is not a belief system, what kind of system is it?  Does the Judaic subject believe in anything at all?

The answer is yes: the Jew believes in ‘The Jews’ and the Jews believe in ‘The Jew.’ This mode of mutual affirmation establishes a solid and forceful tribal continuum that serves the collective as well as the singular subject.  Accordingly, the subject adheres to the collective and vice versa. In pragmatic terms, the Jew sticks to the ‘chosen people’ and, together the ‘chosenites’ uphold a collective sense of choseness.

In Judaism, ‘choseness’ is the belief that the Jewish people were singularly chosen to enter into a covenant with God.  For religious Jews, being chosen is realised as a duty. According to Judaic belief, the Jews have been placed on earth to fulfill a certain purpose. This purpose is bestowed upon the Jews and they pass it from father to son.[1]

In reality, the first Jews invented a God who chose them over all other people. For some reason this God is occasionally cruel, often non-ethical and as if this were not enough, not exactly a nice father. The Jewish God doesn’t even allow his people to call him by name. One may wonder what led the first Jews to invent such a horrid father figure. One may further question what led the Jews to sustain their ‘relationship’ with such an obnoxious father. The answer is surprisingly simple. They don’t.

The Jews don’t believe in God, they are observant of God. They believe in themselves- the Jews believe in ‘The Jew’ and vice versa. Within this peculiar troubled family affair, the Jew is free to dump God, as an author can freely re-write or at least re-shape his or her own narrative.  But the Jew can never dump the Jews as much as the Jews can’t allow ‘The Jew’ to go free. And what about God, can he be emancipated, can he choose another people? Certainly not. Unlike the Jew who is free to dump God while clinging to a Jewish identity, the Jewish God is merely a Jewish protagonist, he can’t go anywhere, he is stuck with ‘his’ chosen people forever.

Choseness, so it seems, is hardly a heavenly gift, it is in fact a curse. It confines the Jew in a realm of self-imposed commandment and materiality. Instead of beauty, holiness and the pursuit of the divine and the sublime, the rabbinical Jew is left with an earthly obedience scheme that is sustained by a rigid tribal setting. ‘The Jew’ and ‘The Jews’ are bound in a set of mutual affirmations in which God serves an instrumental role.

Some may rightly argue that this spectacular bond between the Jews and ‘The Jew’ is essential for an understanding of the dichotomy between Judaic tribalism and the universal appeal of Islamo-Christian beliefs.

The Judaic crude intolerance towards dissent serves as an example of the above. Throughout their history, Jews have proven themselves hostile toward their nonconformists; now we are ready to grasp why.  For the Islamo-Christian, secularization, for instance, entails a rejection of a transcendental affair. But for the rabbinical Judaic subject, failure to conform constitutes a rejection of the Jews. It interferes crudely with the fragile relationship between ‘The Jew’ and the Jews. It shatters the self-affirmation mechanism. While in the case of Christianity and Islam dumping God suggests turning one’s back on a remote supernatural entity, in the case of Judaism, such an act is interpreted as a disbelief in the tribe.

This interpretation may help illuminate Jesus’ plight. It may explain the reasoning behind the brutal Rabbinical Herem (excommunication) against Spinoza and Uriel Da Costa. And it also explains why the secular and the so-called ‘progressive’ Jew is equally obnoxious towards dissent or any form of criticism from within. If Judaism is not a belief system but rather a system of obedience regulation, then Jewish identity politics is merely an extension of the above regulatory philosophy.

Jews often drop their God, simply to invent a different God who ‘facilitates’   subscription to a new regulatory system. The new system, like the old outlines a new set of strict commandments, a manner of speech and rigorous boundaries of ‘kosher’ conduct.

In the beginning of the 20th century, for instance, Bolshevism appealed to many Eastern European Jews. It provided a sense of self-righteousness in addition to regulating a strict form of obedience. As we know, it didn’t take long for Bolshevism to mature into a genocidal doctrine that made Old Testament barbarism look like a juvenile fairytale. The Holocaust, that seems to be the most popular Jewish religion at present, may be the ultimate and final stage in Jewish historical development. According to the Holocaust religion, ‘God died in Auschwitz.’  Within the context of the Holocaust religion, ‘The Jew’ is the new Jewish God. The Holocaust religion has finally united ‘The Jew’ and the Jews into a self-sufficient comprehensive and independent ‘God-less’ religious narrative. Both were about to be eradicated. But, not only were they both saved: they have prevailed and each did so independently. In the Holocaust religion, Jews are both victims and oppressors – they have transformed slavery into empowerment and they did it all alone, in spite of being dumped by their treacherous God.   The Holocaust religion, like Judaism, prescribes a manner of speech and a strict set of commandments. Most crucially, like more traditional Judaism, it is totally and disgracefully intolerant toward dissent.

Due to the lack of a divine transcendental entity, Jewish religions have always regarded criticism as rejection of the tribe. Jewish religions, whether Judaism, Bolshevism or Holocaust, are equally intolerant towards criticism and dissent. Jewish religions treat opposition as a vile attempt at ‘delegitimization’ on the verge of genocidal inclination.

Jewish religions can be defined as different templates that facilitate a sense of choseness. They affirm a bond between an imaginary marginal ‘collective’ and a phantasmal ‘archetype’: the Bolshevists and ‘The Bolshevik’, the Survivours and ‘The Survivour’, the Jews and ‘The Jew,’ and so on.  The bond between the collective and the idea of an archetypical singularity is always maintained by a set of rigid commandments, a correct manner of speech, some strict regulatory guidelines for behavior and vile opposition to dissent.

Tragically enough, intolerance of dissent has become a universal Western political symptom. Incidentally, Christianity, Islam, religion and divinity in general are also under attack within the context of contemporary Western discourse. Is this a symptom of the Jerusalemification of our Western universe? Is the emergence of the tyranny of political correctness a coincidence? And if we are becoming Jews, is there any room for the hope that our universe may, at some stage, embrace a universal ethos once again? Can we once again believe in something?   Or do we have to wait for a new Jesus figure to resurrect our trust in the human spirit and humanity in general?  Or have we been re-designed to self-destruct as soon as we come close to such a lucid awareness?

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[1] As God himself suggests in the Book of Genesis: “And I (God) will establish My covenant between Me and you (the Jews) and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.”  (Book of Genesis, Chapter 17).

NTS Notes: A most excellent piece of work by Gilad Atzom indeed.... It does answer a lot of questions as to how this "tribe" is so unified and how and why they work so closely together......

It is indeed so tragic that in this day and age that such a "cult" exists that has such a hate for the rest of mankind....And is wanting to basically either destroy every other person on this planet or subjugate them to their very whim...... That is why, hopefully, this article does answer some questions about the mindset of this "tribe" and again once we understand how they think and operate, then we can indeed have a chance to end their tyranny....

The West spreading terrorism all over the world ( Occidentul răspândeste terorismul peste tot în lume)

A Philosopher, writer, filmmaker and investigative journalist says the west is constantly talking about terrorism and is defending its actions against independent countries all over the world based on its fear of terrorism.

“But in fact it is spreading terrorism all over the world because of its interest and its imperialist essence,” said Andre Vltchek addressing the opening ceremony of the Second International Congress of 17000 Iranian Terror Victims.

Following is the full transcript of Vltchek’s presentation:

The last three years I spent travelling all over the world basically trying to defined what is the policy and what are the actions of the imperialist countries, the countries of the west, US and Europe. I covered dozens of conflicts, I went to all continents of the world, where the west is actually trying to ostracize, attack and often destroy the countries that are standing all its way to the total global domination. The result was a one-thousand-page book called “Exposing Lies of the Empire”. Why is Iran a target of terrorist attacks sponsored by the west? My conclusion is, it is because it is obviously doing many things right.

Today each and every country in the world that resists western imperialism is on the hit list, is being ostracized, isolated and even attacked and of course Iran is no exception. What is really terrorism? Terrorist actions are mostly targeted against the common people. Common people are those who are suffering. Common people in the countries that are proud, that stand on their own, that stand by their own principles.

Terrorism has many faces. One of the ugliest of them is colonialism. Iran is most of the countries around the world experienced colonialism, western colonialism, on its turf. Iran also suffered from other forms of terrorism. In 1953 its president Mosaddeq was overthrown by western conspiracy. It is because Mosaddeq’s government and its progressive social and socialist ideals were not acceptable to the west. Then the west was supporting the war, invasion of Iraq to Iran. The enormous cost was to human lives to soldiers but also to civilians. Hundreds of thousands of people vanished. After the revolution Iran was suffering from sanctions, from blockades and finally from the sponsored terrorisms. Terrorism sponsored by the west, in which as was mentioned by your honorable president 17000 people vanished.

The west is constantly talking about terrorism. It is defending its actions against independent countries all over the world based on its fear of terrorism. But in fact it is spreading terrorism all over the world because of its interest and its imperialist essence. Islam is a peaceful religion and it is also very social, very socialist religion in fact

After the Second World War, actually most of Muslim countries were on the course of very moderate, very accepting, very socially oriented development. It goes for Iran, it goes for Egypt, and it goes for the largest Muslim country on Earth Indonesia. Let’s see what the west did. They overthrew Mossadeq’s government in Iran. We know what happened in Egypt. And in Indonesia in 1965, between 2 and 3 million people died during the western sponsored military coup against President Sukarno which brought to power military regime of general Suharto. The west basically created almost all terrorist organization in the Muslim world. It used groups mujahedin in Afghanistan during its war with Soviet Union.

And we know what happened with ISIL, with Daesh. I covered Daesh on the borders between Turkey and Syria and on the borders between Jordan and Syria. Basically Daesh was created in so-called refugee camps in Syria close to the city of Hatay in one of the refugee camps called Apaydın. But also in RAF and US air Force based in Kadena. In Zakhari camps in Jordan. Other investigative journalists we tracked with the Turkish colleagues the movement of early Daesh between the border and the camps they were bringing injured people from the fighting in Syria and they were bringing weapons back to the battlefield in Syria; All this at the full knowledge of Turkish government that of course sponsored by the NATO countries.

And then in Iraq I witnessed just as 6 or 7 kilometers to the city of Mosul, I witnessed three powers that were fighting in the region destroying basically Iraq all three traceable to the US and to the UK. One was Daesh, as we determined supported by the west, one was Kurdish army which was actually directly trained by the UK and the US and the third was the US Air Force itself which was bombing the Iraqi villages. But it is Iran which is accused of terrorism and supporting terrorism by the west. I came here from Lebanon and Lebanon as we know is a new battlefield now where the opposition movements that began fighting for social changes is being infiltrated by the groups that are again very close to the western interests. One of the reasons is because of Hezbollah. And everybody in Lebanon knows it is the only social force which is actually reaching even to non-Muslim groups in this highly divided group. And the only reason why there is attempt to destabilize Lebanon or one of the main reasons is that Hezbollah is closely allied with Iran and Iran is seen by the west as one of the main enemies.

But why is Iran seen as one of the main enemies of the west?  It is because Iran is a proud member of the group of countries, very important countries all over the world which is resisting western imperialism.

My adopted continent is Latin America. That’s where I lived for many years. That’s where we fought for our revolutions and for the changes. And in Latin America, Iran is seen as a close ally, as a brother, in the fight against the western terrorism that is being spread all over the world including Latin America where so many leaders were assassinated where so many coups against democratically elected governments were performed.

Iran is a fraternal country to all the nations, be it in Latin America, be it Africa, Russia, China, that said enough. Enough of this rule of one group of nations that were for centuries dominating and destroying the world. In my book and the film the great American opposition philosopher, Noam Chomsky, we determined that the world is not afraid of Iran. When the research was done and the people of the Middle East were asked what the most dangerous country on earth is, Iran didn’t make it anywhere to top five. The number one and number two where the United States and Israel. But the reality is being twisted. As my great Indian friend Arundhati Roy once wrote, the western propaganda defines black as a white and it defies war as peace. The truth is that Iran is a part of the group of nations that proudly stands and proudly fights for survival of humanity.

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