The level of psychotic ranting coming out of Zionistan continues unabated. Mostly from politicians and media shills who are either very well paid to lie and spout vile bigotry, or whose positions of power depend on pandering to their arrogant and bigoted constituents.
This is to be expected, and is just Zionism being Zionism — a political ideology of racism, bigotry, arrogance, exceptionalism, privilege, and delusion, founded by, and much practiced by, mostly secular atheists (Christian fundamentalist Zionists notwithstanding) who use the cover of Judaism to maintain the "poor victim" pose and deflect any legit criticism of their beliefs, policies, or actions.
So I can usually treat Zionist mouth-foaming as something that doesn't impinge on my anti-Zionist Judaic sentiments, because I can distinguish between the two very different ideologies.
The trouble is that I have lately been seeing the same level of insane psychopathic ravings coming directly from supposed Jewish leaders, supposed religious teachers and torch-bearers for a millennias-old tradition of tolerance and humility. Rabbis sounding like Notsees.
For example, here is what Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe Yeshiva in Tel Aviv (occupied Jaffa) said:
"Kill everyone in Gaza, even the babies..."
Then there is Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safad, who justified the rape of non-Jewish women and the mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians during war. Thus, a prominent Israeli rabbi known to have advocated genocide in Gaza, also advising that soldiers may rape during wartime.
A New Jersey imam has accused the chief rabbi of the Israeli army of condoning the rape of Palestinian women.
In a February sermon at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, NJ, Baker Assaf said Muslims should not direct their hatred at Jews but at Zionism.
"There is a statement that a lot of Arabs say: May Allah curse the Jewish people. Where does it come from? It is not in the Quran," Assaf said, in comments provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). "There is a misunderstanding of where to direct that hate, and it is towards Zionism — not the Jewish religion."
He went on: "Just look at the quotes that you get from this kind of theology and practice. You have the chief rabbi of the IDF having a statement that says the following… He issued a religious verdict, a fatwa. He said that if you wanted to boost the morale of the soldiers… 'have them rape the Palestinian women to boost morale.' That is a fatwa from the high priest, the high rabbi."
Assaf was referring to a controversy that came to light during the nomination process of current IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim, over comments he once made that appeared to condone soldiers' rape of women during wartime.
Zionism was bad enough; Zionism took the worst aspects of settler-colonialism, Notseeism, collaboration with racist thugs, South African apartheid, and playing the victim card while using terrorism and propaganda against the real victims of terrorism, and created a monster that hijacked Judaism while trashing the very tenets OF Judaism.
Now we have to deal with monster psychopaths like these supposed rabbis, who, in a sane world, would be institutionalized in a rubber room for their own safety and the safety of their intended victims.
As for me, it's left me in a quandary. Either these men are heretics, apostates, traitors, and a shanda to Judaism, and its long tradition of justice, mercy, benevolence, tolerance, and humility, and they, and all that they say and represent, must be denounced and repudiated, by every Jew, as barbaric and unrepresentative of the essence of Judaism, and that Judaism must be taken back from these thugs and barbarians by both the Torah Jews (who have never abandoned the core tenets and teachings of traditional Judaism), and more "modern," secular, "cultural" Jews (who don't hew so much to the old rituals and trappings of shtetl Judaism, but who still consider themselves part of the larger tradition)...
OR this IS the new and current face, voice, and hands of Judaism today, and any decent person who has ever identified AS a Jew, or been labeled one, or has ancestors who considered themselves Jewish, must renounce any connection to Judaism itself, and distance oneself from this insanity and any supposed Biblical interpretation or traditional Talmudic justification for it.
I have already, publicly, gone on record as distancing myself from the barbarity and murder spree of the government and forces of the USA around the world, so that, should there be any international court tribunal holding the USA guilty of crimes against humanity, I would be on record as having opposed such policies and actions.
I have gone on record in various posts, articles, essays, and statements as opposing Zionism, Israeli policies and actions, and insisting that the apartheid settler-colonial entity known as "Israel" that has illegally occupied the area otherwise known as "Palestine" and displaced, murdered, degraded, segregated, and otherwise penalized the original inhabitants of that land for over seven decades, be dismantled as a failed experiment.
Now, I may have to distance myself from the Judaism of today, a Judaism of bigotry, intolerance, inhumanity, and all the worst vile aspects of the Zionism that has hijacked it for its own purposes, and has inverted it from a religion of humility and wisdom to one of arrogance and psychosis.
I certainly would want to keep, and keep integrated in my life, the teachings and wisdom of traditional Judaism that have always been positive and worthy of emulation by any persons of decency and good will, but only in the same way I integrate into my life the wisdom found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, or any other religious or spiritual tradition, or ethical philosophy, that, stripped of dogma or exceptionalism, hews to universal principles of love, humility, justice, mercy, and doing what is right and good.
But it will have to go by some other name. And I will have to leave unchecked any boxes that ask for my "religion" because I can't allow my own good name to be tarnished by association with any organized cult whose self-proclaimed "leaders" are blood-thirsty thugs and psychopathic bigots.