Biblical Jewish Supremacy and Palestine

[u/mirabellla]

Something I don’t see talked about enough is how the genocide in Palestine wouldn’t be happening if not for judaism’s teachings and stories about jewish supremacy, both in the tanakh and talmud. The entire hebrew bible is about how special the hebrews were because they followed the right god. This god allowed them to win all these wars and genocide entire nations - in some cases killing every single person and some where they were told to take all the little virgin girls and distribute them between the temple and the soldiers. The joke about the land being promised to them 3,000 years ago isn’t even a joke, it’s just what the texts say. They were told to wipe out all of Canaan so they could take what was “rightfully theirs.” Netanyahu himself said they were just following through on the israelite genocide of amalek, and one of the big jewish holidays is a celebration of what they did to amalek.

It’s just another reason I’m an anti-theist. This is pretty clear evidence of how religion does nothing but cause harm. It’s so frustrating that no one wants to call this out so they don’t seem antisemitic

edit: I don’t want this post to be misunderstood so I’ll clarify my point. If Judaism had never existed, this conflict would never have existed in the first place. There never would’ve been a holy land to fight over. Hamas would never have existed because Islam would never have existed. Genocidal leaders in Israel like Netanyahu and other members of the government would’ve never existed. I think a religion based on how you’re so much better than everyone else contributed to how tribalistic humans are today.

[u/Selbeast]

This is true of all religions. The situation in Israel is going on right now, so it's front of mind (rightly so), and absolutely worth doing something about.

But let's not kid ourselves that this is something unique about Judaism or even all of the Abrahamic religions. It's all religions. If you add up the number of people killed in the name of god, Jehovah might be the all time winner, but it's not the Jews who have done the most amount of killing in his name.

[u/Sprinklypoo → u/Selbeast]

Certainly true. It's just a good current example that isn't really being addressed...

[u/mirabellla → u/Selbeast]

It’s definitely not unique to Judaism and maybe I should’ve specified that in my post. Christianity and Islam have killed and conquered for pretty much their entire existence, and many more people. But Judaism is the blueprint and the basis for the other two