Powerful synthesis of Shahak's work and its relevance today. The part about how classical Judaism operates as a closed totalitarian system really crystalizes why so many outsiders struggle to understand Israeli policy contradictions. What stuck with me most was Shahak's point that the need for internal Jewish reformation got bypassed when statehood was achieved thru external imperial backing instead. I've always wondered why thiscritique stays so marginalized in mainstream discourse when it comes from insiders like Shahak who lived the history firsthand.
Thanks, Neural Foundry, for your comment. I think because of Christian Zionists in America, who as the ideo-theological progeny of Judas Iscariot betraying Jesus have drowned the voices of anti-Zionist and-Talmudic Jews thus most Americans have no idea that "Israel-ism" (if I may coin a word) is metaphorically the daily ritual murder of Jesus's followers and lovers, Christians and Muslims, in Palestine by warmongering nation of fake Jews.
Thank you for keeping Israel Shahak’s wisdom alive and in service to humanity in 2025- a truth teller who was burnished in the hellish Polish Holocaust- a man who stood up for truth as he saw it and his legacy lives in his testaments within his writings.
Thank you, Karla, for sharing your thoughts. Israel Shahak was prophetic as he embraced humanity given his childhood experience and repudiated the narrow, exclusive, indeed racist idea of the "chosen people" that is the core message of Talmudism by which Israelis live and Christian Zionists in America have sold their blasphemous ideo-theology to their compatriots.
People no longer read or seek alternate facts - The Zionist propaganda machine is so strong and now when universities have sold out and now try to control free speech amongst their students we face even more barriers.
I have followed the Israeli debacle since childhood and am at a loss as to how anyone can be willing to accept the visual genocide (I am now 80) we are all witnessing without an outcry. I remind people that we are all Palestinians when governments commit democide via the Covid vaccine as well. It boggles my mind how people can be so blind and accepting to this horrendous suffering. However keep in mind our airways are controlled by media pushing the Israeli agenda - we have all been captured in this regard.
All institutions to defend against this horror have been totally corrupted- the UN and the International Court of Justice. Some African countries are presenting a United appeal for action- humanity does exist in some parts of the world.
So thanks again for keeping the wisdom of Israel Shahak alive when we need him most.
I wasn't that familiar with Israel Shahak and found your account quite moving, Salim. Also, the parts comparing Nazi supremacy and Jewish supremacy are both daring and hard to dismiss
If you are interested in the subject and want to explore more, I'd suggest you read the "new historians" I mentioned in my essay and their documentation of Zionist/Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing/genocide right from the outset of the migration of European Jews into Palestine. This history is not reported or censored in the Western media and academia, and the fake narrative of Arab armies invading the newly birthed Israel in May 1948; it is as fake as the narrative by which the boomer generation in America and the collective West was raised, the narrative of Leon Uris's novel The Exodus turned into Hollywood movie with Paul Newman as the lead actor. These narratives are cracking and therefore the accelerated effort by Zionists in America to throttle and suffocate the First Amendment rights, of the campaign against Tucker Carlson, Owen Candace et al, the unsolved assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the orchestrated wars to provide the pretext for wrecking constitutional governments in the West. If you can get hold of the January 2026 issue of the Harper magazine where you reside, the cover story is a glimpse of what is possibly reshaping the Republican coalition ahead of the November midterm election with the younger under 40 generation in revolt against the Zionist takeover of their country which the mainstream media will not address.
The Charlie Kirk assassination is certainly a strange one, timing-wise and how it intertwines with Israel. The problems with the assassination footage and the behaviour of his bizarre wife make it all so murky. There seems to be powerful forces focused on confusing. E.g. was Kirk killed for turning on Israel or is he still alive and it's all a distraction?
A good essay, though I do have a few points to make.
Shahak correctly saw the contradictions and nonsensical gaps in the principles of "israel", incl. its deeply racist politico-religious ideology. Given the uncompromising stance of the "leadership" and the people, it is clear that the allochthonous Jews do NOT want a peaceful co-existence. Did Shahak ever call for the dismantlement of the illegitimate entity? I doubt it because he lived in the ziofascist entity for most of his public life.
Shahak was a survivor of the Nazi terror against the Jews, which he referred to as the "holocaust". It is odd that a scholar with his perspicacity did not see, or want to see that the Jews were not exterminated during WW2. "Extermination" suggests industrial scale mass murder, which was not the case here. Yes, many Jews died, yes many Jews were killed, but not by gassing and not 6 million of them.
Shahak, like many/most others, refers to the Jews around the world as the Diaspora.
"Diaspora" indicates a dispersal from a central location, presumably meant to be ancient Judah. However, 90%+ of Jews around the world are Ashkenazi, i.e. Khazar, i.e. of Eastern European origin. They have nothing to do with what was Judah, now Palestine, beyond perhaps a spiritual bond with Jerusalem, at most.
Furthermore, there are Ethiopian Jews, East Indian Jews, Chinese Jews, Afro-American Jews, etc. Did all those come from Judah? Of course not. Again, I find it odd he did not realize that the only Jewish diaspora in the world is the "israeli" diaspora, which consists of "israeli" Jews who fled "israel" in disgust or in fear, though Shahak himself was not among them.
Then there is this phrase in the article:
>... ahead of the making of Israel on the basis of the UN Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947, partitioning Palestine into two states, Arab and Jewish.
Let it be clear that Res. 181 was NOT an authorization of the partitioning for the simple reason that the UN does not have such authority. Res. 181 was a RECOMMENDATION.
Last but not least, it is no longer possible nor desirable to frantically keep referring to Jews and zionists as 2 separate entities, groups. The genocide in Gaza has revealed that 90%+ of the "israeli" Jews, and a lower proportion but still a majority of Jews support the existence of "israel".
Support for "israel" means support for zionism = support for a deeply racist political ideaology = support for the genocide. That means the majority of Jews in "israel" and elsewhere are, in effect, ziofascists.
Thanks, Ngungu. Much appreciate your comments and agree with you. About Shahak, and then the "new historians" working with the Israeli archival documents from 1948, it is not a mystery why they did not go far enough to say what you state about dismantling Israel as an "illegitimate entity", even more so as "cancerous" metastasizing into a genocidal state that requires dismantlement as was the Third Reich at the end of the war or Cambodia ruled by genocidal Khmer Rouge and dismantled by Vietnam or Pakistan that was dismantled by India in the 1971 war in the midst of a genocide in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, that I witnessed and survived with my immediate family when I was a teenager. The closest Shahak came to suggesting this is his statement I quoted in the last paragraph of my essay. It is the failure of the UN because of the Zionist Anglo-American powers that installed a fake Jewish state in Palestine and nourished it all the way to become the monster that the whole world has now witnessed for what it is without taking any measure to hold it accountable. If it would be any other state, there would be certainly the call for accountability and more.
Hi Salim, those other genocides don't get mentioned anymore, not even when Gaza is mentioned. I know some people from Bangladesh, albeit the generations that came after the independence, and they confirmed it based on what they were told by their parents and grandparents.
I think the West remains quiet/imprisons protesters about the Gaza genocide because "israel" serves the West's agenda: divide, rule and plunder the resources.
I am pessimistic about the outlook for the Palestinians there and in the West Bank because I don't see any improvement in their situation, nor even the slightest glimmer of hope.
Since 33AD the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN has persecuted Christ-followers who by LOVE inspire followers to see by faith that Jesus Christ is the only way to Father God by the Spirit. John 14:6.
Revelation 3:7-11. Expanded Bible. To the Church in Philadelphia
7 “Write this to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia [Roman city in Lydia W Asia Minor]: “This is what the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David [ the resurrected Jesus; holding the key of David signifies access to the king; Is. 22:22], says. When he opens a door, no one can close it. And when he closes it, no one can open it [Jesus controls access to God].
8 I know what you do. I have put an open door before you, which no one can close. I know you have little strength, but you have obeyed my teaching and were not afraid to speak [ have not denied] my name.
9 Those in the synagogue that belongs to [of] Satan, say they are Jews, but they are not true Jews; they are liars. I will make them come before you and bow at your feet, and they will know [acknowledge; learn] that I have loved you.
10 You have obeyed my teaching about not giving up your faith [endurance; perseverance]. So I will keep you from the time [hour] of trouble that will come to the whole world to test those who live on earth.
11 I am coming *soon*. Continue strong in your faith so no one will take away your crown [ wreath indicating honor or victory; 2:10].
*SOON* Father God has been waiting 2000 years to host the Rev 19 Wedding Supper of the Lamb. He alone knows the essence of this Bridal vessel - the reward (Ephesians 1:18) for His Son the Lamb of God Who sacrificed His life so that God-blood would be poured out to purchase a Bride from EVERY RACE. NO "CHOSEN BLOOD LINES". Since 300AD most of the church sold their birthright to be co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8) and bows to the Babylon Rev 17 harlot of counterfeit religion that is drunk with blood of prophets & saints.
Insert Palestinian Christians in here: Church of Smyrna suffered extreme slander, persecution, imprisonment, torture, murder by the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN.
Revelation 2:8-11. Expanded Bible. Christ's Spirit of Prophesy through Apostle John to Smyrna:
8 “Write this to the ·angel [or messenger; see 1:20] of the church in Smyrna [C a major city in western Asia Minor, identified with present-day Izmir, Turkey]:
“The One who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again [ the resurrected Jesus], says ·this:
9 I know your ·troubles [persecution; affliction] and that you are poor, but really you are rich! I know the ·bad things [slander; blasphemy] some people say about you. They say they are Jews, but they are not true Jews. They are a synagogue ·that belongs to [of] Satan.
10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will ·suffer [be persecuted/afflicted] for ten days [perhaps a symbolic number meaning a significant and definite time]. But be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the ·crown [ a wreath worn to indicate high status or as a reward] of life.
11 “Everyone who has ears should ·listen to [hear; obey] what the Spirit says to the churches. Those who ·win the victory [overcome; conquer] will not be hurt by the second death [ the spiritual death after physical death; 20:6, 14; 21:8].
Powerful synthesis of Shahak's work and its relevance today. The part about how classical Judaism operates as a closed totalitarian system really crystalizes why so many outsiders struggle to understand Israeli policy contradictions. What stuck with me most was Shahak's point that the need for internal Jewish reformation got bypassed when statehood was achieved thru external imperial backing instead. I've always wondered why thiscritique stays so marginalized in mainstream discourse when it comes from insiders like Shahak who lived the history firsthand.
Thanks, Neural Foundry, for your comment. I think because of Christian Zionists in America, who as the ideo-theological progeny of Judas Iscariot betraying Jesus have drowned the voices of anti-Zionist and-Talmudic Jews thus most Americans have no idea that "Israel-ism" (if I may coin a word) is metaphorically the daily ritual murder of Jesus's followers and lovers, Christians and Muslims, in Palestine by warmongering nation of fake Jews.
Thank you for keeping Israel Shahak’s wisdom alive and in service to humanity in 2025- a truth teller who was burnished in the hellish Polish Holocaust- a man who stood up for truth as he saw it and his legacy lives in his testaments within his writings.
Thank you, Karla, for sharing your thoughts. Israel Shahak was prophetic as he embraced humanity given his childhood experience and repudiated the narrow, exclusive, indeed racist idea of the "chosen people" that is the core message of Talmudism by which Israelis live and Christian Zionists in America have sold their blasphemous ideo-theology to their compatriots.
Hello Salim,
People no longer read or seek alternate facts - The Zionist propaganda machine is so strong and now when universities have sold out and now try to control free speech amongst their students we face even more barriers.
I have followed the Israeli debacle since childhood and am at a loss as to how anyone can be willing to accept the visual genocide (I am now 80) we are all witnessing without an outcry. I remind people that we are all Palestinians when governments commit democide via the Covid vaccine as well. It boggles my mind how people can be so blind and accepting to this horrendous suffering. However keep in mind our airways are controlled by media pushing the Israeli agenda - we have all been captured in this regard.
All institutions to defend against this horror have been totally corrupted- the UN and the International Court of Justice. Some African countries are presenting a United appeal for action- humanity does exist in some parts of the world.
So thanks again for keeping the wisdom of Israel Shahak alive when we need him most.
To the power of the pen,
Karla
I wasn't that familiar with Israel Shahak and found your account quite moving, Salim. Also, the parts comparing Nazi supremacy and Jewish supremacy are both daring and hard to dismiss
Thanks, John.
If you are interested in the subject and want to explore more, I'd suggest you read the "new historians" I mentioned in my essay and their documentation of Zionist/Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing/genocide right from the outset of the migration of European Jews into Palestine. This history is not reported or censored in the Western media and academia, and the fake narrative of Arab armies invading the newly birthed Israel in May 1948; it is as fake as the narrative by which the boomer generation in America and the collective West was raised, the narrative of Leon Uris's novel The Exodus turned into Hollywood movie with Paul Newman as the lead actor. These narratives are cracking and therefore the accelerated effort by Zionists in America to throttle and suffocate the First Amendment rights, of the campaign against Tucker Carlson, Owen Candace et al, the unsolved assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the orchestrated wars to provide the pretext for wrecking constitutional governments in the West. If you can get hold of the January 2026 issue of the Harper magazine where you reside, the cover story is a glimpse of what is possibly reshaping the Republican coalition ahead of the November midterm election with the younger under 40 generation in revolt against the Zionist takeover of their country which the mainstream media will not address.
The Charlie Kirk assassination is certainly a strange one, timing-wise and how it intertwines with Israel. The problems with the assassination footage and the behaviour of his bizarre wife make it all so murky. There seems to be powerful forces focused on confusing. E.g. was Kirk killed for turning on Israel or is he still alive and it's all a distraction?
A good essay, though I do have a few points to make.
Shahak correctly saw the contradictions and nonsensical gaps in the principles of "israel", incl. its deeply racist politico-religious ideology. Given the uncompromising stance of the "leadership" and the people, it is clear that the allochthonous Jews do NOT want a peaceful co-existence. Did Shahak ever call for the dismantlement of the illegitimate entity? I doubt it because he lived in the ziofascist entity for most of his public life.
Shahak was a survivor of the Nazi terror against the Jews, which he referred to as the "holocaust". It is odd that a scholar with his perspicacity did not see, or want to see that the Jews were not exterminated during WW2. "Extermination" suggests industrial scale mass murder, which was not the case here. Yes, many Jews died, yes many Jews were killed, but not by gassing and not 6 million of them.
Shahak, like many/most others, refers to the Jews around the world as the Diaspora.
"Diaspora" indicates a dispersal from a central location, presumably meant to be ancient Judah. However, 90%+ of Jews around the world are Ashkenazi, i.e. Khazar, i.e. of Eastern European origin. They have nothing to do with what was Judah, now Palestine, beyond perhaps a spiritual bond with Jerusalem, at most.
Furthermore, there are Ethiopian Jews, East Indian Jews, Chinese Jews, Afro-American Jews, etc. Did all those come from Judah? Of course not. Again, I find it odd he did not realize that the only Jewish diaspora in the world is the "israeli" diaspora, which consists of "israeli" Jews who fled "israel" in disgust or in fear, though Shahak himself was not among them.
Then there is this phrase in the article:
>... ahead of the making of Israel on the basis of the UN Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947, partitioning Palestine into two states, Arab and Jewish.
Let it be clear that Res. 181 was NOT an authorization of the partitioning for the simple reason that the UN does not have such authority. Res. 181 was a RECOMMENDATION.
Last but not least, it is no longer possible nor desirable to frantically keep referring to Jews and zionists as 2 separate entities, groups. The genocide in Gaza has revealed that 90%+ of the "israeli" Jews, and a lower proportion but still a majority of Jews support the existence of "israel".
Support for "israel" means support for zionism = support for a deeply racist political ideaology = support for the genocide. That means the majority of Jews in "israel" and elsewhere are, in effect, ziofascists.
Thanks, Ngungu. Much appreciate your comments and agree with you. About Shahak, and then the "new historians" working with the Israeli archival documents from 1948, it is not a mystery why they did not go far enough to say what you state about dismantling Israel as an "illegitimate entity", even more so as "cancerous" metastasizing into a genocidal state that requires dismantlement as was the Third Reich at the end of the war or Cambodia ruled by genocidal Khmer Rouge and dismantled by Vietnam or Pakistan that was dismantled by India in the 1971 war in the midst of a genocide in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, that I witnessed and survived with my immediate family when I was a teenager. The closest Shahak came to suggesting this is his statement I quoted in the last paragraph of my essay. It is the failure of the UN because of the Zionist Anglo-American powers that installed a fake Jewish state in Palestine and nourished it all the way to become the monster that the whole world has now witnessed for what it is without taking any measure to hold it accountable. If it would be any other state, there would be certainly the call for accountability and more.
Hi Salim, those other genocides don't get mentioned anymore, not even when Gaza is mentioned. I know some people from Bangladesh, albeit the generations that came after the independence, and they confirmed it based on what they were told by their parents and grandparents.
I think the West remains quiet/imprisons protesters about the Gaza genocide because "israel" serves the West's agenda: divide, rule and plunder the resources.
I am pessimistic about the outlook for the Palestinians there and in the West Bank because I don't see any improvement in their situation, nor even the slightest glimmer of hope.
Since 33AD the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN has persecuted Christ-followers who by LOVE inspire followers to see by faith that Jesus Christ is the only way to Father God by the Spirit. John 14:6.
Revelation 3:7-11. Expanded Bible. To the Church in Philadelphia
7 “Write this to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia [Roman city in Lydia W Asia Minor]: “This is what the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David [ the resurrected Jesus; holding the key of David signifies access to the king; Is. 22:22], says. When he opens a door, no one can close it. And when he closes it, no one can open it [Jesus controls access to God].
8 I know what you do. I have put an open door before you, which no one can close. I know you have little strength, but you have obeyed my teaching and were not afraid to speak [ have not denied] my name.
9 Those in the synagogue that belongs to [of] Satan, say they are Jews, but they are not true Jews; they are liars. I will make them come before you and bow at your feet, and they will know [acknowledge; learn] that I have loved you.
10 You have obeyed my teaching about not giving up your faith [endurance; perseverance]. So I will keep you from the time [hour] of trouble that will come to the whole world to test those who live on earth.
11 I am coming *soon*. Continue strong in your faith so no one will take away your crown [ wreath indicating honor or victory; 2:10].
*SOON* Father God has been waiting 2000 years to host the Rev 19 Wedding Supper of the Lamb. He alone knows the essence of this Bridal vessel - the reward (Ephesians 1:18) for His Son the Lamb of God Who sacrificed His life so that God-blood would be poured out to purchase a Bride from EVERY RACE. NO "CHOSEN BLOOD LINES". Since 300AD most of the church sold their birthright to be co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8) and bows to the Babylon Rev 17 harlot of counterfeit religion that is drunk with blood of prophets & saints.
Insert Palestinian Christians in here: Church of Smyrna suffered extreme slander, persecution, imprisonment, torture, murder by the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN.
Revelation 2:8-11. Expanded Bible. Christ's Spirit of Prophesy through Apostle John to Smyrna:
8 “Write this to the ·angel [or messenger; see 1:20] of the church in Smyrna [C a major city in western Asia Minor, identified with present-day Izmir, Turkey]:
“The One who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again [ the resurrected Jesus], says ·this:
9 I know your ·troubles [persecution; affliction] and that you are poor, but really you are rich! I know the ·bad things [slander; blasphemy] some people say about you. They say they are Jews, but they are not true Jews. They are a synagogue ·that belongs to [of] Satan.
10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will ·suffer [be persecuted/afflicted] for ten days [perhaps a symbolic number meaning a significant and definite time]. But be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the ·crown [ a wreath worn to indicate high status or as a reward] of life.
11 “Everyone who has ears should ·listen to [hear; obey] what the Spirit says to the churches. Those who ·win the victory [overcome; conquer] will not be hurt by the second death [ the spiritual death after physical death; 20:6, 14; 21:8].