‘Silence in today’s circumstances is complicity,’ say over 600 rabbis and educators following the killing of a Palestinian and a Palestinian-American last Friday, warning that religious leaders’ silence has emboldened settlers to commit violence under the guise of divine command
ed note–as always, lots of ‘must knows’ that every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, since Oct. 7th, there have been upwards of 100,000 Palestinians murdered in Gaza, and as many as another 1,000 murdered by terrorist Jews in the West Bank. The slaughter has been unrelenting and ceaseless, going on now for over 600 days.
And yet, now, out of the freaking blue, 600 ‘Jews of conscience’ scribe and sign a public letter decrying this genocidal violence, saying that it runs ‘contrary’ to the ‘morality’ taught by the Torah, after all that has happened?
The clue to all of this, ladies and Gentile-men, lies in the particulars of just WHOSE death has now ‘roused’ the consciousness of these ‘Jews of conscience’ to come out of the closet, loudly and proudly, and say, ‘Not in OUR name…’
A Palestinian who holds US citizenship, ladies and Gentile-men, meaning AN AMERICAN.
The deaths of hundreds of thousands of those OTHER Palestinians wasn’t enough to cause the kind of ‘indigestion’ that spawned this BUUURP in the form of this protest letter, but one Palestinian AMERICAN, well, that changes things a bit, n’est-ce pas?
This is about optics, fellow Gentiles, pure and simple, as well as it being YET ANOTHER manifestation of that tried-and-true truism that appears here on this humble little informational endeavor on a regular basis, which is that–
FISH SWIM, BIRDS FLY, AND JEWS LIE...
Now, besides their feigned moral outrage, there is something even more galling (and dangerous) about all of it as well, and it is that ‘contrary to Torah morality’ thingy…
As usual, the Jews involved in all of this are doing what they do best, which is of course doing murder to the truth, otherwise known as lying. The same Torah which they purport to defend, the same ‘morality’ of that Torah which they say PROHIBITS the kind of murder and mayhem taking place at the hands of their co-religionists is VERY CLEAR on the subject, to wit–
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess and drives out the many nations larger and stronger than you, and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not save alive anything that breathes, for you are a people holy to the Lord your God who has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession…’ –Book of Deuteronomy
As well as–
‘Now go and attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them…Do not spare them, but put to death the men and the women, the children, including the suckling infants, as well as all the cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ 1 Samuel
As well as a million other citations we could list, but won’t for reasons of brevity.
The bottom line, L&G, and it is an existentially important ‘bottom line’, is that ‘they’, meaning the ‘Children of Israel’, including those ‘Jews of conscience’ featured in the story below, are exactly what they were described being by the one man they hate more than anything or anyone, Jesus of Nazareth, who very clearly and without ONCE using the term ‘Zionist’, characterized them as–
‘CHILDREN OF THEIR FATHER, THE DEVIL, WHO WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING AND THE FATHER OF LIES…’
Haaretz
More than 600 rabbis, educators, and Jewish communal leaders from the United States and Israel have signed a public letter condemning settler violence following the murder of an American citizen last Friday near the West Bank town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
The deadly assault, carried out by religious terrorist settlers, took the lives of two young Palestinians – Saif Mussallet, 21, an American citizen, and Mohammad Razek Hussein al-Shalabi, 23 – in an area that had recently been seized by settlers who had previously carried out attacks there.
The letter, organized by the U.S. branch of Smol Emuni (Religious Left) – an organization of observant Jews focused on ending the occupation and promoting human rights and equality – comes amid a sharp rise in settler violence across the West Bank since the outbreak of war in Gaza.
The signatories describe what they call a pattern of violent attacks on Palestinian civilians, including arson and the forced displacement of families from their homes.
‘These actions are contrary to the morality of the Torah,’ the letter reads.
The letter refers to the perpetrators who ‘believe they are fulfilling God’s commandment to conquer the land’ and rejects the use of religious justification for violence against civilians. ‘We realize that among those committing these violent crimes are confused young people who are searching for the truth,’ the letter reads. ‘As parents, rabbis, educators and communal leaders, we must help them find ethical ways to serve God and protect their souls from cruelty and sin.’
Esther Sperber, a Manhattan-based architect and Israeli-born activist, told Haaretz, ‘I fear that our Jewish religious tradition is being ‘Smotriched’ from us by extremists who speak a language of revenge, power, and Jewish supremacy, laced with disdain for diaspora Jews and Western values.’
The attack near Sinjil is among a growing number of documented settler assaults since October 7, most of which have resulted in no arrests – a pattern that has intensified in recent years. These incidents are part of a broader effort to displace Palestinians from areas such as Masafer Yatta, a cluster of villages in the southern West Bank long targeted by Israeli military demolitions and settler expansion.
The letter urges rabbis and community leaders not to remain silent. ‘Silence in today’s circumstances is complicity,’ Sperber said. ‘Silence has emboldened the settlers to act increasingly violently against Palestinians, protected by the army and motivated by some religious and political leaders.’
The letter also comes amid a broader rightward shift in U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prominent Trump ally and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, in the closest thing resembling a condemnation from a U.S. diplomat, called on Israel ‘to aggressively investigate the murder of Saif Mussallet’, but did not mention Mohammed Razek Hussein al-Shalabi, who was killed alongside him.
Among the signatories are prominent Jewish leaders from a wide spectrum of religious and educational institutions, including Rabbi Donniel Hartman and Yehuda Kurtzer of the Shalom Hartman Institute, Rabbi Yosef Blau of Yeshiva University, Rabbi Daniel Sperber of Bar-Ilan University, and Rabbi Sharon Brous of the Los Angeles-based community IKAR. Others include Rabbanit Leah Shakdiel, Rabbi Herzl Hefter, and Rabbi Naama Kelman, the first woman ordained as a Reform rabbi in Israel, alongside dozens of rabbis affiliated with Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and progressive institutions in both Israel and the U.S.
Organizers say the letter is meant to signal an ‘alternative Jewish moral and spiritual leadership’. ‘This letter demonstrates that there is a community and leadership that rejects these extreme and violent views and affirms a Judaism in which all people are created in the image of God and have the right to equality and safety, based on love, care, and humility,’ Sperber said.