“When someone answers your charge of genocide with ‘You’re an antisemite,’ they are not denying the charge, but declaring that, in their upside-down moral universe, slaughter is perfectly acceptable as long as the right tribe pulls the trigger.”
In the Islamic tradition, after the creation of the first man, Adam ‘alayhi asalam, Iblīs (Satan) refuses God’s command to bow before him. He declares his reasons for doing so, “I am better than he. You created me from fire and him from clay.”[1]
To Iblis, the fact God created him and Adam, knowing the latter’s worthiness of being bowed down to was inconsequential. His argument is that the Truth, God-forbid, made a misjudgement, egoistically putting himself not only above Adam, but beyond blame, even if it comes from God.
Modern ideological Jewish supremacism promotes the idea that Jewish identity, however defined (or left undefined), confers righteousness, superseding all other standards. Criticising anything done in the name of Jewishness is reflexively dismissed as ‘antisemitism.’ The result is a theology of infallibility, usually hidden under victimhood.
Some have taken this “we are better; we answer to no one” narcissistic Jewish supremacist ideology so far as to suggest God Himself could be an ‘antisemite’, much like Iblis’ insinuation.[2] Here we show how Jewish supremacy and the weaponisation of antisemitism is inherently godless and satanic.
Israel and the Undefined Catch-All of ‘Antisemitism’
‘Semitic’ properly refers to a family of peoples and languages – including Arabs, Assyrians, Arameans, and Jews.[3] Over time, ‘antisemitism’ came “by a circuitous route to refer more narrowly” to hatred of Jews specifically.[4]
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopts this narrowed meaning: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.”[5] Many world governments adopt this definition despite it being remarkably vague. It is not only a “certain perception” but of an already fluid group. Who exactly is a ‘Jew’? Depending on context, Jewishness could be defined as a religion, an ethnicity, a culture, a genetic lineage and so on. None are specific, and hardly any are possible.
In effect, the IHRA redefinition protects a moving target, a tribal identity that can be alternately claimed as race or religion as convenient. Meanwhile, other Semitic peoples (like Arabs) get no such protection.[6] An Arab can face virulent hatred -often at the hands of Jewish supremacists- yet never trigger the label ‘antisemitic.’ This is entirely deliberate. In another article, the IHRA insists that the spelling of the term is ‘antisemitism’, not ‘anti-Semitism’, apparently fearing that the hyphenated spelling allows for the possibility of something called ‘Semitism’ which it dismisses as pseudo-science.[7]
Of course, this also produces the desired effect of allegorising ‘antisemitism’ (having stated that it is not to do with a Semitic group, but ‘Jews’) and making it a catch all shield covering a moving target. Criticism of anyone or anything associated with Jewish identity can be dismissed as antisemitism, even if criticising genocide. No one else enjoys such an amorphous immunity.
But it gets craftier. Seven of the eleven IHRA illustrative examples of antisemitism relate to criticism of Israel.[8] This means that by design, Israel is supposed to be an amorphous, immune state. As such, the definition allegorises Semitism, arguing that literalising ‘Semitism’ is some form of Nazi pseudo-science, fails to define ‘Jew’ completely, only to literalise and censor the criticism of Israel.
In practice, resisting or opposing genocide, land theft, apartheid and massacres, if by Israel alone, are all antisemitic sins. Victims of Israel are, by design, the terrorists and aggressors while Israel is perpetually the victim. The IHRA’s Israel-centric definition creates an Orwellian ‘truth’ that nothing Jews or the Jewish state do can ever be fundamentally wrong.
Does Jewishness Excuse Sin?
Even if we falsely accept that contemporary Jews are in some way the children of the ancient Israelites, the Hebrew Bible contains endless instances of God and the prophets fiercely condemning the Israelites. Many passages even append divine aversion (or ‘hatred’) to such evildoers: “All their wickedness is in Gilgal; there I hated them,” says God in Hosea 9:15, “Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more.” According to the Book of Psalms, 5:5 God “hates all evildoers” alike.
In Malachi 1:3, God openly says, “I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated.” Here, there is no ethnoreligious blank check, even among the literal sons of Isaac.
Time and again, biblical prophets rebuked the Israelites for oppression, idolatry, and bloodshed – from Prophet Amos thundering against wealthy women of Samaria, the fat “cows of Bashan” those “who oppress the poor and crush the needy”[9] to Prophet Jeremiah lamenting the Israelites’ shedding of innocent blood.[10] If spoken today, such fulminations would be condemned under the IHRA rules as ‘antisemitic tropes’.
Rabbinic Will Over God: The Oven of Akhnai
In this tale, according to Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia 59b, Rabbi Eliezer debates a group of sages over a point of Jewish law. When he fails to convince them, he calls upon miracles: a carob tree uproots itself, a stream flows backward, the very walls of the study hall bend. These provide as signs from God, vindicating Rabbi Eliezer. Finally, a bat kol (heavenly voice) booms: “Why do you dispute with Rabbi Eliezer, seeing that in all matters the law is as he says?” But his colleagues – the majority of rabbis – still refuse to yield.
Rabbi Joshua rises and declares, “Lo bashamayim hi” – the Torah is not in heaven! In other words, God does not get the last word in this legal debate; the interpretation of the Torah is now our province instead, “If the Torah is not in heaven, then even God’s own opinion on the law in question has no standing. Human debate is all that counts.”[11]
According to the epilogue, God laughs approvingly, saying (exalted is God above such blasphemy), “My children have defeated Me!” – a blasphemous image of the Creator ostensibly pleased to be overruled by His creatures.
The perilous lesson of this story is that rabbinic authority can, God forbid, even force God to acquiesce His own judgement. The divine laws prohibiting injustice and the shedding of innocent blood can have no weight if Jewish debate can determine that genocide in Gaza is necessary. In a letter to war criminal Netanyahu, dozens of rabbis stated that even when enemies are found between civilians, there is no halakhic or moral preclusion from bombing them.[12]
Rabbi Dov Lior issued a ruling in 2014 permitting the killing of civilians to protect Israeli soldiers.[13] In March 2024, Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva in Jaffa, explicitly called for the killing of all Palestinians in Gaza, including women and children.[14] Similarly, Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, a Rabbinical Court Judge serving with the Givati Brigade and hailed a ‘hero’ in Israel[15], boasted in a televised interview about destroying ‘50 homes a week’ and expressed support for killing Palestinian non-combatants.[16]
This may be because man’s will, according to this Talmudic profanity can trump God’s will. After all, “the Torah is not heaven”, but with these barbaric heathens, who mimic the original satanic impulse: “I am better than he”, even if you, God determine otherwise.
Satanism as a Mirror to Jewish Supremacism
Far from the caricatures of devil-worship, Satanic philosophies (LaVeyan Satanism, the Temple of Set, Luciferianism), like Jewish supremacism revolve around one idea: the exaltation of self-will above all else. Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan, for instance, is an atheistic creed that “stresses dependence on the self rather than reliance on any outside power,” encouraging individualism, hedonism, ego and self-determinism.[17]
LaVeyan Satanists symbolically chant “Hail Satan!” which, according to interpreters “is really saying ‘Hail me!’” as it “exalts the self and rejects the self-denying lessons” of traditional religion.[18] The Temple of Set (a theistic Satanic sect) similarly centres on self-deification – the individual’s apotheosis as the ultimate goal.[19] Luciferianism too venerates the archetype of Lucifer not as a literal demon but as the symbol of rebellion against the supreme authority – “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven,” as Milton’s Satan famously proclaimed.
While LaVeyan Satanism rejects the ‘self-denying lessons’ of religion (e.g. humility, compassion, universality), Jewish supremacism rejects the self-denying lessons of Judaism’s own ethics – “Love thy neighbor,” “Thou shalt not murder,” and so on. In both cases, pride and power enthrone themselves. Jewish supremacism and the corresponding weaponisation of antisemitism is therefore a Satanistic ritual of self-justification that sacrifices truth and morality on the altar of tribal ego. It tells the adherent that nothing you do can be wrong, because you are you, in Iblis’ insinuation, “I can rebel because I am from fire, I can sin because I am me.”
The idolatry of Jewish identity could help understand the verse that decries the Jews for taking their rabbis and monks as ‘lords besides Allah.’ Adi b. Hatim rady Allahu ‘anhu reported:
“I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) while I had a cross of gold around my neck. He said: ‘O Adi! Remove this idol from yourself!’ And I heard him reciting from Surah Bara’ah: ‘They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah’ (9:31). I said: ‘They did not worship them.’ He replied: ‘Yes, they did. They (rabbis and monks) prohibited the allowed for them and allowed the prohibited, and they obeyed them. This is how they worshipped them.'”[20]
Jewish Supremacy in Practice
In 2009, Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur published Torat HaMelekh, a handbook purporting to outline when Jewish law permits killing non-Jews. The book unabashedly taught that under certain conditions, “it is permissible for Jews to kill non-Jews (including children) who threaten Israel.” Rabbi Shapira wrote that “hurting small children makes sense if it’s clear that they’ll grow up to harm us.” In an interview, he elaborates that if killing an enemy’s children will save Jewish lives in war, then “killing the enemy’s children is the right thing to do.” This was endorsed by prominent Rabbis Dov Lior and Yaakov Yosef.[21] Shapira is a Rabbi in the West Bank, stolen Palestinian settlement of Yitzhar, and Rabbi Lior was the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba (Hebron) before taking a stint at politics. When Israeli police briefly detained Rabbi Lior over the book, thousands protested in his support. Shapira himself expressed no regrets, defending his work as divinely inspired and merely in need of clearer wording for a mass audience.[22]
Genocide is thus ‘permissible,’ even righteous, so long as it serves Am Yisrael (the people of Israel), inverting what is divinely and universally recognised as evil – slaughtering children –into a virtue under the cloak of Jewish supremacism. Unsurprisingly, Torat HaMelekh heavily cites classical halakhic sources wherein, as Israel Shahak noted, “a Gentile is not thy fellow” and saving a gentile’s life (any non-Jew), whether he be drowning at sea or stuck in a well is prohibited.[23] The goyim (non-Jews) fundamentally have no worth. Their lives, their rights, their suffering mean nothing next to the glorification of Jewish survival and rings with Satanism’s war on man because the latter was made of clay.
The Hilltop Youth –gangs of messianic settler extremists who terrorise Palestinians in the occupied West Bank- often educated in the vein of Shapira and Lior, have taken the doctrine of Jewish supremacy from theory to practice. Even the United States government recently sanctioned the Hilltop Youth as an “extremist settler group”, noting that Hilltop Youth “has carried out killings and mass arson,” and rights groups say they are behind ongoing “price tag” attacks.[24] Price tag attacks mean that any move to constrain illegal settlement expansion or any Palestinian resistance will pay a ‘price’ in the form of terror – burning fields, destroying mosques or murdering women and children.
After the 2015 Duma firebomb attack by Jewish settlers that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, some within these circles celebrated the act as doing God’s work, referring to non-Jews as Amalek (invoking the biblical command to exterminate Amalekites). This was the same reference used by Netanyahu to justify the genocide on Gaza.[25] Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security, served as attorney for the suspects, defending those accused of burning children alive. Bezalel Smotrich, now Finance Minister, publicly criticised the proceedings against the perpetrators. These defenders of human arsonists, formally shape the post-2023 incineration of Gaza. Under the IHRA’s pernicious shield, to point out this virulent Jewish supremacy is somehow ‘antisemitic.’
Satanistic, Jewish supremacist ideas even seep into mainstream Israeli discourse. Israel Shahak, the Holocaust survivor turned human-rights activist, spent years translating Hebrew media for foreign audiences to expose what he called the “extreme and racist rhetoric about Arabs, Palestinians and Jewish supremacy that characterizes much of mainstream discourse in Israel.”[26] In his words, “It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin.”[27]
A prominent Chief Rabbi (Ovadia Yosef) once likened non-Jews to donkeys created to serve Jews. Former IDF Chief Rabbi Avichai Rontzki reportedly told soldiers that showing mercy in war is “terribly immoral” if it risks Jewish lives. Exposing some of the mainstream sentiments, opposition party leader Yair Golan’s recently accused his state of“killing babies ‘as a hobby,’” “expelling a population” and “fighting against civilians.”[28] Of course, his statements were brushed off by Netanyahu as “antisemitic blood libels”. On observing that Israel is committing genocide and sexual violence in Gaza, Amnesty International was likewise brushed away as antisemitic,[29] as well as the UNHRC.[30] Such was also the response to the ICC arrest warrants for Israeli war criminals.[31]
The disciples of Iblīs have crafted the script: invert reality, let evil masquerade as good, it is right, so long as we do it, regardless of what you, or God in that matter say or decree. ‘Jewishness,’ is before which all truth and justice must bow. It is a free pass – a license to kill, to steal, to lie without consequence –the self-worshipping path of Satan.[32]
References:
[1] Qur’an 38:88
[2] JPost Editorial. (2024, April 16). The antisemitism definition debate. The Jerusalem Post. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-809171
[3] Anidjar, Gil (2008). Semites: Race, Religion, Literature. Stanford University Press.
[4] Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Anti-Semitism. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Semitism
[5] International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. (n.d.). What is antisemitism? Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
[6] Oxford University Press. (n.d.). Anti-Semitism. In Oxford Reference. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095417471
[7] International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. (n.d.). Spelling of antisemitism. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/spelling-antisemitism
[8] The Guardian. (2016, December 28). Britain’s antisemitism definition is too broad. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/28/britain-definition-antisemitism-british-jews-jewish-people
[9] Amos 4:1
[10] Jeremiah 22:17
[11] Levisohn, J. A. (2024). Rereading the story of the oven of Akhnai: From interpretive rights to interpretive responsibilities. Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, Fall/Winter 2024. Retrieved from https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/rereading-the-story-of-the-oven-of-akhnai-from-interpretive-rights-to-interpretive-responsibilities
[12] Dims, S. (2023, October 22). הריסת כל הבניינים בעזה היא צורך מבצעי הכרחי [The demolition of all buildings in Gaza is an operational necessity]. עולם קטן. https://www.c14.co.il/article/866284
[13] Jewish Telegraphic Agency. (2014, July 24). West Bank Rabbi Dov Lior: Jewish law permits destruction of Gaza. Retrieved from https://www.jta.org/2014/07/24/israel/west-bank-rabbi-dov-lior-jewish-law-permits-destruction-of-gaza
[14] Anadolu Agency. (2024, March 9). Jewish rabbi encourages killing Gazans, even children. Retrieved from https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/jewish-rabbi-encourages-killing-gazans-even-children/3159767
[15] JFeed. (2025, May 20). Heroic rabbi’s name becomes a verb of war: Gaza terror buildings demolished. Retrieved from https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/gaza-heroic-rabbi-demolition-expert
[16] Haaretz. (2025, May 22). ‘We need to flatten Gaza’: Rabbinical court judge serving in Gaza boasts of its destruction. Retrieved from https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-22/ty-article/.premium/rabbinical-court-judge-serving-in-gaza-boasts-of-its-destruction-and-calls-to-flatten-it/00000196-f86d-db1f-a7b6-faedf8820000
[17] Lewis, J. R. (n.d.). LaVeyan Satanism and the Church of Satan. Learn Religions. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://www.learnreligions.com/laveyan-satanism-church-of-satan-95697
[18] Ibid
[19] New Religious Movements. (n.d.). Temple of Set. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://newreligiousmovements.org/t/temple-of-set/
[20] Imam Ahmad, At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Jarir At-Tabari recorded a Hadith via several chains of narration, from `Adi bin Hatim, may Allah be pleased with him
[21] Nahshoni, K. (2011, July 5). ‘King’s Torah’ writer has no regrets. Ynetnews. Retrieved from https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4090992,00.html
[22] Ibid
[23] Shahak, I. (n.d.). The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews: Part 2. Libcom.org. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://libcom.org/article/jewish-religion-and-its-attitude-non-jews-part-2-israel-shahak
[24] U.S. Department of the Treasury. (2024, October 1). U.S. sanctions extremist West Bank settlers for violence against Palestinians. PBS NewsHour. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-sanctions-extremist-west-bank-settlers-for-violence-against-palestinians
[25] Mideast Journal. (2023, October 29). What Amalek represents to Bibi Netanyahu. https://www.mideastjournal.org/post/amalek-netyanhu
[26] American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. (n.d.). ADC mourns death of Israel Shahak. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://adc.org/adc-mourns-death-of-israel-shahak
[27] Jews Against Racist Zionism. (n.d.). Shahak: Israel – Racist nature of Zionism and the Zionist state of Israel. Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/shahak-israel-racist-nature-of-zionism-and-the-zionist-state-of-israel
[28] Associated Press. (2024, December 5). Israel-Gaza war criticism: Netanyahu faces backlash. https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-criticism-netanyahu-af22ee826be05daa37a73cac737f4e0c
[29] OPB. (2024, December 5). Amnesty International accuses Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/05/amnesty-international-accuses-israel-of-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
[30] Foundation for Defense of Democracies. (2025, March 13). Anti-Israel circus: Jerusalem slams new UN report accusing Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/03/13/anti-israel-circus-jerusalem-slams-new-un-report-accusing-israel-of-genocidal-acts-and-sexual-violence/
[31] BBC News. (2025, May 24). Israel-Gaza conflict: International criticism mounts over civilian casualties. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2exvx944o
[32] The analysis draws on critical commentary and reports including the Muslim Skeptic’s critique of Judaic narcissism
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