What a load of anti-Semitic shit! Given that the Web site linked to also has anti-Catholic rants about a “wafer-god”, I’d say this is just an Antipodean version of Jack Chick.
Well, that link didn’t work. Where does (or did) this Shahak fellow teach? Is there any evidence that this is anything but the invention of some Jew-baiting asswipe, like the OP?
“Israel Shahak, who has died aged 68 from complications caused by diabetes, was for 25 years a highly popular professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” There you go, gobear.
Israel Shahak was a Chemistry professor in Israel. He decided that the Palestinians were being oppressed and blamed Judaism for it, and became convinced that Israel was a theocratic state and that Judaism was inherently hostile to non-Jews, so he started writing books about that. Shahak wasn’t religious, didn’t come from a religious family, and never studied religion. To write his book “Jewish History, Jewish Religion : The Weight of Three Thousand Years”, he selectively quoted, took passages in the Torah, Talmud, and commentaries out of context, mistranslated words, etc. Nobody who knows anything about Judaism would support his book, and it was pretty universally criticized by religious leaders, theologians, and all other sources of scholarly opinion you could think of. Shahak died in July.
I personally like link from the home page entitled “Boy Raised from The Dead in Finland”. How could they tell? :rimshot:
I’m gonna fix your links, snip the OP quote and provide just the link to the article. As beag said, quoting an entire article isn’t a good idea. Copyright stuff. Makes Reader potantially liable. blah blah.
Yes, he was real. Bergen Belsen Class of '45. Apparently an atheist. And an “old fashioned liberal.” Yes, one can be a liberal and find the actions of the Israeli government repugnant. Yes, one can be a liberal and quote documents selectively. It looks like one can even be a liberal and get quoted extensively by conservative Christians.
to quote an entire published piece without permission…it ain’t exactly “fair use”.