Meshuggeneh, murderous, Jewish fundamentalism unveiled
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In a chilling account of the fundamentalist philosophy that is increasingly driving the settler movement, Motti Inbari dissects the thinking of highly influential Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh.
Mainstream religious Zionism sees the Land of Israel as holy, given to the Jews in the Torah. Likewise, it sees the State of Israel as holy because God decided to bring about redemption through the State in 1967.
But what if the state goes against the concept of the Holy Land by agreeing to territorial compromise?
In this situation, affirms Ginsburgh, loyalty must go to the Holy Land and not the state.
It is he who provides inspiration for the “hilltop youth”, the young generation of settlers in the territories, who are in revolt against what they see as the accommodationist worldview of the original settlers.
It is a theocratic fundamentalism which the ayatollahs will have no difficulty in recognising…
This article was originally published by Haaretz on Fri 24 Mar 2023. Read the original here.
The Influential Rabbi Who Wants to Turn Israel Into an Iran-style Fundamentalist State
The radical theocratic vision of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh aims to uproot secular Zionism, crush the courts, subjugate the army and, in general, bring down the State of Israel as we know it, warns Prof. Motti Inbari, a scholar of Jewish fundamentalism
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This is horrifying!
Yes, horrifying. Ginsburg seems to be promoting in Israel what the Nazis promoted on the the jews in the 1930s. Only the language and motives sound different but the principles are not, in essence. Both were about superiority of some humans over inferiority of the rest. Both advocated without conscience, cruelty and indifference to human beings they had decided were expendable because of their inferiority, for their beliefs, or their position in society. Isn’t it ironic! But also, I am thinking of the majority of Israelis (many of them British people living there) who are now seeing a very dangerous collapse of civil society and wondering what they will do.
Excellent illustration of the state of the radical movements shaping Israel’s politics and a wake up call to all those who genuinely want a two state solution for the sake of all in the region. The comparison with Iran is particularly shocking in its logic, leading to the horrifying prospect of two theocratic and opposing nuclear armed states vying for control at the expense of everything else.
I am not Jewish, I am a Catholic who, in my youth studied my vocation to be a Catholic priest. I always struggled to understand the precise difference between what may be defined as ‘evil’, as opposed to ‘good’and vice versa. I never became a priest, but I now have more understanding of what is evil and I have just read one classic example.
People will use anything to prove anything. An lifetime spend hair splitting and picking over religious texts seems to be the most common prerequisite for this. Funny how they all seem to focus on the harsh, decontextualising it and dismissing all that may mediate it, even if the proofs for a different view are so overwhelming that their dismissal may in fact constitute disbelief.
Laughable that ‘adults’ can believe that jahweh was an estate agent enabled to give away land for free. They’ll be believing in the virgin birth and ressurection next.