Ayelet Shaked, former Netanyahu aide and founding figure of “My Israel”, a Greater Israel propaganda project thinly (very thinly) disguised as an all-Israeli advocacy platform, seems to be in Beijing right now. She has some fascinating insights to share on facebook (in translation):
As I was being squeezed, along with 1 billion Chinese people, inside the Beijing subway, I thought to myself: Had there been no destruction of the temple or exile (let’s ignore the pogroms and the Holocaust, because the Chinese too annihilated millions on their part, during Communist purges), we could have been [as numerous] as the Chinese today.
I asked myself why? And when I looked at my computer I got an answer. Prof. Emanuel Sivan of the Hebrew University wrote this to his colleagues:
“We can use our international connections to prevent publications by researchers from Ariel [the settler “university”]. We simply need to avoid discussing their proposals for research and publication, especially in the periodicals where we serve as members… In addition we should not present papers, not take part in conferences and not give lectures together with lecturers from that supposed university.”
Ayelet, Judaism has not been a very missionary religion, throughout the ages.
Mathematically, geographically, historically and culturally – complete incoherent rubbish. Along with delusions of grandeur.
“…Ayelet, Judaism has not been a very missionary religion, throughout the ages.”
Shlomo Sand, among others, would argue otherwise. How else would one account for the enormous geographical and ethnic diversity of Judaism?
anyone who would ally themselves with Netanyahu probably has some failings in the moral character dept.
If the quote from that professor were authentic (very doubtful…) it would be almost as crazy as the first part: A boycott target boycotting an even lower-status boycott target.
“Had there been no destruction of the temple or exile (let’s ignore the pogroms and the Holocaust, because the Chinese too annihilated millions on their part, during Communist purges), we could have been [as numerous] as the Chinese today.”
First off, the ancient Greeks and ancient Israelites had similar sized populations, didn’t they then? Don’t they have similar sized populations today? Couldn’t something similar be said about Georgians and Armenians, who are ancient too?
Second, alot of people stayed and became Christians and Muslims without going into Exile. Today they are called Palestinians.