BY DR. KEVIN BARRETT – So who did it? Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, who ministers to a flock of fanatical settlers in the occupied West Bank, blames someone named Yahweh. The good rabbi thinks Yahweh was angry because “the first big Talmud burning was in Paris, there in the plaza of the Notre Dame Cathedral.” Yahweh might also have been ticked off because Notre Dame, the Zionist newspaper JTA tells us, is a monument to anti-Semitism, its Jew-hatred literally “carved in stone.”
So who is this Yahweh who nurses a grudge for eight centuries before resorting to arson? (Apparently even fiery revenge is a dish best served cold.) Laurent Guyénot’s From Yahweh to Zion explains that “Yahweh” has always been a stand-in for the Jewish tribal priesthood, who disguise their own self-interest as the will of God. So in essence Rabbi Schlomo blames the Elders of Zion for torching Notre Dame. CONTINUE READING
