What are your thoughts about on this aspect of modern Jewish history?
Dr. Israel Shahak is a Holocaust survivor (Belsen camp, an emeritus professor of
organic chemistry at Hebrew University, a resident of Israel since 1945, and a longtime
human rights activist. A seasoned student of Jewish scripture and tradition, Shahak
candidly discusses the roots of the Judeo-Christian conflict from the Judaic side.
Shahak believes that the state of Israel's prevailing ethnic and religious discrimination is a
threat to its own moral legitimacy, and ultimately to its very existence. Dr. Shahak
concludes from his studies that.......Judaism is imbued with a very deep hatred toward
Christianity, combined with an ignorance about it. This attitude was clearly aggravated
by the Christian persecutions of Jews, but is largely independent of them. In fact, it dates
from the time when Christianity was still weak and was persecuted (not least by the
Jews), and it was shared by Jews who had never been persecuted by Christians, or
who were even helped by them.
Shahak has studied the Talmud critically, and regards it as a defining document of the
Judeao-Christian conflict. He finds within the Talmud two major strands of bigotry
against Christians and Christianity. The first strand consists of "hatred and malicious
slanders against Jesus" Himself;The second indicts Christianity as a form of idolatry and
accuses Christians of being idolators.
To say the Talmud reviles and despises Jesus would be an understatement. It depicts
Jesus as a bastard, a black magician, and a blasphemer. The Talmudic judgment on
Jesus can be summed up in a litany of scandalous accusations: He was the illegitimate
son of a Jewish whore (Mary)by a Roman soldier named Pandira. Jesus learned sorcery
and black magic, and by their means deceived many. He falsely claimed to be the
Messiah promised by God, and thereby led his followers to spiritual destruction.
"According to the Talmud, Jesus was executed by a proper rabbinical court for idolatry,
inciting other Jews to idolatry and contempt of rabbinical authority. In punishment for his
blasphemy, his eternal fate is to be immersed in boiling excrement forever.
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