This is zionism: The 'chosen people' are the oppressed

Monday 28 January 2013

The 'chosen people' are the oppressed

By Mike Rivage-Seul

In the ongoing debate about former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel's nomination for secretary of defense, the phrase "unconditional support for Israel" surfaced as the expressed or implied criterion for Senate approval of Hagel.

Individuals like Elliot Abrams and organizations such as the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee implicitly used that criterion to criticize the nominee for failing to offer such support, despite Hagel's unblemished record of voting for Israel's interests.

In doing so, the AIPAC and its allies were evidently hoping to find receptive ears in the conservative Christian community which typically constitutes Israel's strongest support-group on the grounds that the Jews are God's "chosen people."

However, even passing acquaintance with the Bible shows that God himself never offered "unconditional support" of Israel, nor did the prophets or Jesus of Nazareth.

In fact, the Bible's stories are largely accounts of Israel's infidelities, of prophetic criticism of those failures, of their severe punishment by God.

Usually that punishment came in response to neglect and mistreatment of those who arguably represent God's real "chosen people" — the poor and oppressed, the widows, orphans and resident immigrants.

In fact, it might be argued that the Jews were God's chosen people only insofar as they made up a paradigm of the poor and oppressed when Jacob's descendents were enslaved in Egypt and exiles in Babylon.
Given that understanding, the Palestinians today far better fit the profile of "chosen people" than do Zionist Jews.

Imagine the changes that would take place in U.S. domestic and international politics if Christians adopted the understanding of chosen people as the country's and world's poor and oppressed.

Imagine if they demanded that nominees for secretary of defense or president show evidence of unconditional support for inner-city children, the homeless, LGBTQs, AIDS victims and the billions on our planet living on less than $2 a day.

Imagine if they recognized Mother Earth herself as oppressed by U.S. consumption patterns and demanded the reforms necessary for her unconditional support.

If Christians made such demands (as we should), our country, our world would be an immeasurably better place. Because we do not, but concentrate instead on a nationalistic understanding of chosen people,

Christians end up aggravating the world's problems rather than pointing the way to solutions.
It's time to change, read the Bible through the eyes of the poor and oppressed, and make demands accordingly.

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BLOOD PASSOVER

At the dawn of civilization, the blood rite, in which human blood is drunk from the body of a still-living victim, was known to many tribes. However, only one people, that has never progressed beyond the Stone Age, has continued to practice the blood rite and ritual murder. This people are known to the world as Jews.

The author of this book is not Christian, Muslim or Hindu but a Jew and is the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, and a professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv.

The following translation was performed free of charge to protest an injustice: the destruction by the ADL of Ariel Toaff’s BLOOD PASSOVER on Jewish ritual murder.

They cut this Palestinian kid's arms for "throwing Stones" before murdering him

Repeat: The author is the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, and a professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv.

Dr. Toaff is uniquely qualified to write this book, being thoroughly familiar with the derivative literature in English, French, German and Italian, as well as the original documentary sources in Latin, Medieval Italian, Hebrew and Yiddish. This is not something he worked on in secret. On the contrary, he worked on it openly with his university students and colleagues in Israel for several years; one of his students was even going to publish a paper on the subject. The author is extremely careful about what he says, and his conclusions must be taken seriously. It reads like a detective story.

If it had been published in Israel, in Hebrew, no one would have cared. There are large bodies of literature in Hebrew that Jews do not wish Gentiles to know about. But Dr. Toaff’s announcement of its publication in Italy, in Italian, raised a worldwide firestorm of fury. Under unbearable pressure, the book was withdrawn from publication, and is not to be re-issued.

You can strike a blow against censorship by circulating this text by e-mail or posting in on the Internet. No one can sue hundreds of people.

If the text is all over the Internet, and everybody has it and everybody knows what is in it, the cat will be out of the bag, and it will have to be published – sooner or later.

Come in out of the darkness, and strike a blow for the light.

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Monday 28 January 2013

The 'chosen people' are the oppressed

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