Saker interviews Michael Hoffman - definitive JQ author - [MINISTRY] [WAR]
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Sat Jun 23 18:38:04 PDT 2018
A most interesting insight from this historian, Hoffman:
The Saker: I am often told that Zionism is secular and that its
leaders were all secular, primarily, socialist, intellectuals and
that there is no continuity between the small shtetls controlled by
rabbis in eastern Europe and modern Israel because Zionism is
essentially a Jewish version of 19th century European secular
nationalism and, far from having its roots in Yiddish speaking
religious communities, Zionism represents a secular emancipation
from this self-enclosed and religion-centered world. What do you
think, is there are continuity between modern “secular” Zionism
(from Ahad Ha’am and Hertzl to modern Likudniks) and Pharisaic
Judaism or not? And, if yes, could you please describe it?
Hoffman: The bridge between not only Talmudic Judaism and Zionism,
but Bolshevism as well, is personified by Moses Hess, who Karl Marx
termed, “My Communist rabbi.” Hess was not a rabbi in a formal
sense, but he was enamored of the Talmud, as well as Communist and
Zionist ideology. Hess recognized that what unites all three, their
common bond, is Judaic self-worship.
The controversies and rivalries arise in the debate over which
vehicle is best for the supremacy of the Judaic people over
humanity: Judaism, Bolshevism or Zionism? Hess argued that
depending on the zeitgeist, any one of the three would prove
suitable.
Yes indeed, the founders of the Israeli state were secularists and
Socialists who had little regard for the Talmud as a way of
ordering the life of a modern nation. They viewed its code of
conduct as a relic from a superstitious past. They were modern and
“progressive.” Moreover, the pioneering Zionists had violated a
fundamental tenet of Orthodox Judaism, which held that only the
Messiah himself could initiate the founding of a reborn Israeli
nation. Until the appearance of the Messiah, the Jews could not
engage in armed struggle to achieve that end.
That was the view of the majority of Talmudic rabbis in 1948.
Seventy years later it is the view of only a minority, mostly among
certain Hasidic sects, such as the Satmar. Voila, in seven decades
Orthodox Judaism has become a pillar of the Israeli state. The
fanatical Israeli “settlers” are comprised of “religious Zionists.”
The Talmud is their inspiration for using violence to steal what is
left of Palestine in order to build “Eretz Israel.” How did this
transformation occur?
Orthodox Judaism is a religion of situation ethics. There are few
beliefs that are not negotiable. What is non-negotiable is the
supremacy of the Judaic people and whatever aids that supremacy.
Nothing else counts. Look at Gershom Scholem, the German-Israeli
scholar who helped to bring the Kabbalah into respectability and
prominence in the Israeli state.
Scholem and Judaic-American intellectual Hannah Arendt, the
one-time girlfriend of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, had
been friends in Paris before World War II. Arendt published a
fair-minded book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, which infuriated Scholem.
But not because she erred in her facts. He was incensed at her
allegedly “heartless, downright malicious tone” regarding the
Nazis’ mass murders of Judaics, and he cast aspersions on her in
the pages ofEncounter magazine.
Arendt had transgressed, according to Scholem, because she had
failed to write in deference to the supreme criterion that must be
the idol of every Judaic person: “ahavath Israel” (“love for the
Jews”). The truths that Arendt had written were utterly beside the
point.
If it turns out that Zionism is the best vehicle in our time for
advancing Judaic supremacy, then most of the gedolei (rabbinic
elite) of Orthodox Judaism will continue to cooperate with it. In
his novel Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens portrayed the Judaic
arch-criminal Fagin donning innumerable costumes and disguises.
Talmudism, Bolshevism and Zionism are the garments that Judaic
megalomania dons and discards as it marches through the corridors
of time.
Hoffman also covered the Ernst Zündel 1985 show trial, (and we note
the Zundel now has a few of his old interviews and orations on
YouTube):
As a Spotlight reporter I covered the spectacular “Holocaust” show
trial of German-Canadian activist Ernst Zündel in 1985 in Toronto,
Canada and wrote a book about it,
http://a.co/in6oCsV
which was published by the Institute for Historical Review (IHR) in
California, where I became assistant director. The trial took nine
weeks and in the course of it I became acquainted with Zündel’s
defense team and witnesses, among them revisionist historians like
Robert Faurisson and David Irving, and German veterans of Word War
II, from a grunt who drove a tank in Rommel’s Afrika Corps, to
General Otto Ernst Remer, the commander of Berlin when the attempt
was made on Hitler’s life.
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:34:18AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> ** 'Orthodox Judaism Is a Religion of Lying and Deceit' - The Saker
> Interviews Michael Hoffman
>
> http://www.unz.com/tsaker/an-interview-with-michael-a-hoffman-ii/
>
> https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=d3b71de342&e=5110f4b440
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> by Michael Hoffman Unz Review (1,109 views) on Fri, Jun 22, 2018
>
> Hoffman is author of the academic work 'Judaism's Strange Gods',
> amongst other books.
>
> Introduction by the Saker: I have always had a passion for theology
> in general and the studies of religions in general. Several years
> ago I discovered, quite by chance, a book written by Michael A.
> Hoffman II entitled Judaism’s Strange Gods
> https://www.amazon.com/Judaisms-Strange-Gods-Revised-Expanded/dp/0970378483/?tag=unco037-20
> which I found most interesting and thought provoking.
>
> Reading that book, I felt that I wanted to find out much more and I
> ended up ordering and reading Michael A. Hoffman II’s magnum opus
> Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism,
> Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit
> https://www.amazon.com/Judaism-Discovered-Anti-Biblical-Self-Worship-Superstition/dp/0970378459
> which absolutely amazed me: over 1000 pages packed with information,
> sources and most interesting analyses. Needless to say, the book was
> also very controversial and elicited all sorts of negative reactions
> from various reviewers.
>
> Here I need to immediately begin by a disclaimer: while the topic of
> “Rabbinical Phariseism” (modern “Judaism” should be called something
> like “Rabbinical Phariseism” since all modern Judaic denomination
> are descendants of the sect of the Pharisees; furthermore, this
> religion is dramatically different from the religion of Abraham,
> Isaac and Jacob: it is the religion of Maimonides, Karo, Luria and
> others) has always fascinated me and while I do have a graduate
> degree in theology, I am absolutely not qualified to endorse or
> refute the views of Hoffman.
>
> What I can say is that his books are very well written, well
> researched, fully sourced and that I see no contradictions between
> what he wrote and the little I personally know about this topic. As
> for his critique of the religion of the Rabbinical Pharisees (from
> which all form of modern “Orthodox Judaism” stem from), it is not
> “racist” in any way: unlike ethnicity, a ---religion is a personal
> choice and thus a legitimate target for scrutiny and criticism---
> and Hoffman’s condemnation of Rabbinical Phariseism is in no way
> harsher than the writings of Church Fathers like Saint Justin
> Martyr, Saint John Chrysostome, Saint Cyprian of Carthage or Saint
> Ephrem the Syrian.
>
> Hoffman recently published another amazing book, the 700 pages long
> “The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome”
> https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Renaissance-Church-Rome/dp/0990954722/?tag=unco037-20
> which I began reading (I am about 1/3rd through) with, again, rapt
> interest. Yet again, here was a very well researched and beautifully
> controversial book which gave me as strong desire to speak with the
> author and, luckily for me, Michael A. Hoffman II has kindly agree
> to replies to my questions to him on his life and research. The
> following is the full unedited Q&A with I had with him.
>
> …
>
>
>
> Enjoy...
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