kenny's sideshow: Garry Trudeau 'Maligns Judaism' Says ADL

The blog entry Garry Trudeau 'Maligns Judaism' Says ADL along with the associated discussion shows a new and welcome willingness on the part of American non-Jews to contest Jewish control of discourse about Jesus, the Gospels, the ancient world, and the history of Jews during the Middle ages.

For the record (in response to the original blog entry and its comments),

• lending to non-Jews at interest is a positive commandment of Rabbinic Judaism,
• the Khazars did not covert to Judaism in order to get into money-lending or banking although such business was probably connected with the primary trade in which the Khazars were engaged, and
• 2nd Temple money-changers almost certainly engaged in lending and borrowing as part of the currency exchange business.

Because practically all the people Jesus encountered were Judeans, Jesus was simply castigating a predatory stratum in his society, and Reverend Sloan deduced a critical message that applies to a comparable predatory stratum that exists in modern America.

While Foxman and the ADL seem rather ridiculously and unethically to demand that banking receive immunity from such criticism because the profession is disproportionately Jewish, the attack on Trudeau is just another instance of longstanding Zionist objection to any interpretation of scripture, which fails to conform to Zionist ideology.

In this particular case a careful reading of the Gospels discloses the division or factionalization of 2nd Temple Judaism into intellectual currents that eventually crystallized as Christianity and Islam.

A minor historical extrapolation of such scriptural interpretation leads one to conclude that the ancestors of modern Palestinians belong to those Judaic subpopulations

• that were native to the Holy Land and
• whose practices and beliefs transformed themselves into Christianity and Islam long before the convert ancestors of Eastern European ethnic Ashkenzim assimilated to Medieval Rabbinic Judaism.

Foxman and the ADL are simply hysterical with fear lest Americans realize

• that Israeli Zionists are usurpers and
• that the USA has allied itself with the bad guys in the conflict over Palestine.

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