Abraham H. Foxman, head of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League,
couldn’t agree more with the State Department. His organization
is the prime mover behind hate laws worldwide and the Office of
Global Anti-Semitism. Foxman asserts that Jews of Jesus’ time
were innocent of the crucifixion; it was entirely the work of
Romans. Foxman says New Testament writers concocted the vicious
anti-Semitic lie that Jewish leaders and people goaded Pilate to
condemn Christ. He says this falsehood — that Jews are “Christ
killers”—fanned into flame nearly two millennia of anti-Semitism
and led to the Holocaust. He also says it creates “new anti-
Semitism” which he warns is rapidly escalating worldwide. 3
ADL’s “anti-hate” laws have already been used in dozens of
western nations to infringe on the freedom of Christians.
Foxman, as an Orthodox Jew, knows plenty about another book
whose vitriol is far darker than that of the Bible. The highest
religious and ethical authority of modern Judaism, the
Babylonian Talmud, states that Jewish leaders did have Christ
condemned to death. In fact, the Talmud says they did it
entirely without the Romans’ help! Jewish authorities killed
Christ not by crucifixion (illegal in Jewish law) but by the
legal methods prescribed by Talmudic law.
The Talmud says:
On Passover Eve, they hanged Jesus of Nazareth. And the
herald went before him forty days, and proclaimed ‘Jesus of
Nazareth is going out to be stoned because he practiced sorcery,
incited and led Israel astray. Whoever knows of an argument that
may be proposed in his favor should come present that argument
on his behalf.’ But the judges did not find an argument in his
favor, and so they hanged him on Passover Eve.
The Talmud describes torture inflicted on Jesus before His
death. “All four legal methods of execution – stoning, burning,
decapitation and strangling were employed”. The Talmud
elaborates on “burning.” It involved Jesus being:
“lowered in dung up to his armpits, then a hard cloth was
placed within a soft one, wound around his neck and the two ends
pulled in opposite directions until he was dead, forcing him to
open his mouth. A wick was then lit, and thrown into his mouth,
so that it descended into his body, burning his bowels.”
Jesus–says the Talmud–was excommunicated for the thought of
seducing a woman. In His ensuing grief and confusion, He fell
down and wor****pped a brick.
The Talmud says Jesus “…was a
fool and we do not pay attention to what fools do.” 8 According
to the Talmud, Jesus is now in hell, writhing in eternal agony.
The Talmud asks: “‘What is your punishment?’ He replied, ‘With
boiling hot semen…’”
The Talmud defends the Jewish rulers who it says righteously
executed four of Christ’s disciples: Matthew, Luke, Nicodemus,
and Thaddaeus. It considers His followers to be wor****ppers
of a false prophet and worthy of death. References in the Talmud
to Christ and Christians are often veiled by terms not
understood by Christian censors in previous centuries. Two of
the most common are “Minim” and “Minith.”
The footnote to the
Talmud in Abodah Zarah 16b (pg. 84) says that “Minith” refers to
“…heresy with special reference to Christianity.”
Brotherly love did not extend to the Minim: Christians may be
legally thrown into a pit to die. As Abodah Zarah 26b says:
“…‘idolaters and [Jewish] Shepherds of small cattle need not be
brought up, though they must not be cast in, but Minim,
informers, and apostates may be cast in and need not be brought
up.’”
In Shabbethai 116, Rabbi Tarbon says, “The writings of the
Minim [New Testament] deserve to be burned, even though the holy
name of God occurs therein, for paganism is less dangerous than
Minith [Christianity]…”
According to the Talmud “…Those who deny the Torah and the
prophets of Israel [giving loyalty to the “false prophet” Jesus
and the New Testament], the law is that they should be killed
and those who have the power of life and death should have them
killed. And if this cannot be done, they should be led to their
death by deceptive methods.
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