From Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land...Clash of Civilizations

420 Pages·2018·2.52 MB·English

by  Laurent Guyénot

Advance Praise for
FROM YAHWEH TO ZION

There is no question of the extraordinary gifts and achievements of the Jewish people and of their enormous
contribution to American culture and intellectual life. Also, we all know that Zionists play a large role in
United States in the media, in finance, and in international policy. In addition we know that there is rather
tight censorship with respect to what may be said about these matters without ad hominen response. The
fact of Gentile crimes against Jews throughout history is used to justify this censorship, much, but not all, of
which is self-imposed. In my view, through their role in this censorship, Jews are paving the way for the
rise of anti-Jewish feeling and perhaps much worse.
This book may be simply dismissed as anti-Jewish, but it would be far better to engage it in a scholarly,
rather than an ad hominem, way. Instead of discouraging scholars from considering the evidence of Jewish
crimes, I wish that Jewish scholars would support freedom of inquiry and explain their reasons for
disagreeing in open discussion. Otherwise those of us who seek uncensored truth may be misled by errors
and exaggerations in what is usually hidden from us and is presented only at the margins of our society.
Much in this book is offensive to Christians and Muslims as well as to Jews. As a Christian, however, I
find the offense to be a stimulus to fresh thinking and repentance. What is selected to be said about us is
certainly not the inclusive truth. But it has its truth, and the truth it has should not be neglected.
–John B. Cobb, Jr., founding co-director, Center for Process Studies

Cutting against the grain of today’s Judeo-Christian confusion, which is so emblematic of our fearful,
submissive era, Laurent Guyenot dares to take up the Jewish question, complex and explosive as it is, from
the perspective of a conscientious yet fearless historian.
–Alain Soral, founder, Égalité et Réconcilation

A profound historical study of Judaic exceptionalism. It identifies the cultural and religious roots of Jewish
power and Zionist hegemony. Laurent Guyénot’s understanding of Jewish religion is mind blowing. This
book is essential for the understanding of Jewish politics.
–Gilad Atzmon, author, The Wandering Who?
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data From Yahweh to Zion:
Three Thousand Years of Exile: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land . .
.
Clash of Civilizations By Laurent Guyénot,
Translated and edited by Kevin Barrett ISBN 978-0-9961430-4-2

1. Judaism, History of. 2. Zionism 3. Old Testament, History of 4. Israel, History
of
Cover design by Sandra Taylor, The Graphic Page
The translator-editor gratefully acknowledges proofreading and editing help by
Chuck Millar and Cat McGuire.
F Y Z :
ROM AHWEH TO ION

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF EXILE

Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land . . .
Clash of Civilizations

Laurent Guyénot

translated from French by
Kevin Barrett
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: THE PEOPLE OF SETH
The Birth of Israel
Ezra the Proto-Zionist
Hasmonean Literary Production
Kenites, Midianites, and Arabs
Cain and Abel as mirror images of Seth and Osiris
Osirism versus Judaism
Chapter 2: THE THEOCLASTIC GOD
Jealousy and Narcissistic Hubris
No Goddess for Yahweh
From Deicide to Genocide
The Plunder of the Nations
The Levitic Tyranny
Endogamy and Monotheism
Chapter 3: THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD
Death and Culture in the Antique World
Biblical Materialism
Biblical versus Heroic Cultures
The Eternal People
Chapter 4: THE LAST HERO
Jews, Greeks, and Romans
Jesus, Rome, and Jerusalem
Anastasis
The Return of Osiris and Isis
The Return of Yahweh
The Miracle of Constantine
The Levitical Vatican
Chapter 5: THE WANDERING CRYPTO-JEW
The Jews and Europe in the Middle Ages
Forced Conversions in Spain and Portugal
The Marrano Dispersion
Marranos and the Church
Assimilation or Dissimulation?
Chapter 6: THE IMPERIAL MATRIX
The Two Sides of Albion
The Triumph of Puritanism
The Disraeli Enigma
The Gestation of Zionism
The Balfour-Rothschild Declaration
The Treaty of Versailles
Chapter 7: THE BIRTH PANGS OF ZION
Marxism and Zionism
Russia and the Jews
Zionism and Nazism
Hitler’s Prophecy
“Judea Declares War on Germany”
“An old Zionist like [Churchill]”
Birth of the “Jewish State”
The “Human Material”
The Soviet Union and Israel
Nasser, the Useful Enemy
Chapter 8: THE INVISIBLE COUP
John F. Kennedy, the Lobby, and the Bomb
Who Killed Kennedy?
The Hijacked Conspiracy
Johnson, a “Jewish President”?
Serial Assassinations
The Triumph of Zionist Propaganda
Chapter 9: THE VICIOUS CABAL
Neoconned
The Hijacking of the Republican Party
Setting the Stage for the Clash of Civilizations
The “New Pearl Harbor”
The Controlled Opposition
The Fourth World War
Chapter 10: THE GREAT GAME OF ZION
Darwinism, Racism, and Supremacism
Judaism as Darwinian Strategy
Blood, Race, and Genes
Nomads and Refugees
Assimilation, Dissimulation
The Mission Theory
Hijacking Christianity
Reshaping the Cultural Environment
Chapter 11: CHILDREN OF THE MAD GOD
Yahweh, the Levites, and the People
What Is a Psychopath?
The Psychopathic God
Killing Yahweh
Jewishness and Selective Empathy
Universalism and the Chosenness Complex
The Holocaust Attitude
The Sociopathic State
ENDNOTES
PREFACE

The book you are about to read is a major contribution not only to that
overspecialized field known as the History of Religions, but also to its more
generalized sibling, the History of Ideas. It is cultural critique of the first order.
It is timely, of such relevance to current events as can hardly be overstated. And
yet it could never be published by a major publishing house in any English-
speaking country.
Why not? After all, in our Brave New World, destructive criticism of almost
everything under the sun is permissible, if not encouraged or even required.
Brutal, not particularly sophisticated attacks on Islam, Christianity, religion in
general, the Pope, Mother Theresa, public decency, and indeed almost every
traditional value are ubiquitous, regularly appearing in publishers’ catalogues
and bestseller lists, and assigned as required reading in universities and book
clubs. How, in such an anything-goes atmosphere, can a scholarly interpretation
of ideological history be so controversial as to be virtually unpublishable? How
can a book about the history of the idea of God pose such problems in the year
of our Lord 2018?
The answer is simple: This book traces the evolution of the concept of God
through its relationship to Jewish tribal power. And the rulers of our Western
world have made one thing abundantly clear: though God may be criticized,
Jewish power must not be.
But what is Yahweh, the earliest known God of the Abrahamic monotheists
and their descendants, if not an embodiment and representation of Jewish tribal
power in general, and that of Jewish elites in particular? How can we think about
what monotheism means in the era of the clash of civilizations without
considering this foundational question?
In From Yahweh to Zion, Laurent Guyénot uncovers a mind-virus endemic to
Judaism, yet present to greater or lesser degrees in Christianity and Islam as
well: a conception of God that stubbornly clings to tribalism and all that it
entails, rather than surrendering absolutely to universalism. This misconception
of God as tribal shibboleth provides a powerful weapon in the ideological
arsenals of unscrupulous elites, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. And it
may have mutated and hidden itself inside the secularist fundamentalisms that
are substitute religions for the modern educated classes.
When an Iraqi Muslim bombs innocent civilians in a mosque or market, an
American Christian flies a drone bomb into a wedding party in Afghanistan, or a
secular French policeman forces a Muslim woman to remove her one-piece
bathing suit, we may detect an atavistic tribalism driving the perpetrators of
these acts to defile, subjugate, or destroy other peoples and their gods, as per the
orders of the Old Testament god Yahweh. For though not all ethnocentric
intolerance derives from Yahweh—such episodes have occurred in the histories
of all peoples—the Yahwist cult has left its mark on the Jewish, Christian, and
Islamic worlds, and thereby on the world at large, in an especially destructive
way. Outbreaks of Old Testament fundamentalism have correlated with many of
our worst conquests, subjugations, and genocides—from the Wars of Religion to
the Native American holocaust to the settler colonial annihilations and
subjugations of the peoples of Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and (more
recently) Palestine. And in today’s postreligious age—unofficially inaugurated
by what National Medal of Science winner Lynn Margolis called the “most
successful and most perverse publicity stunt in the history of public relations” on
September 11, 2001—a hidden Yahwism seems to guide the hands of allegedly
secular elites as they plot their new crusades.
Recognizing our own implication in such ideas and events can be difficult,
even painful. But it may also be necessary. Having come to Islam in 1993, and
adopted its revisionist account of Old Testament folklore and mythology as my
own, I find Guyénot’s critique of Yahwism disquieting and challenging. But I
also find it useful, especially in understanding my coreligionists’ lapses into
tribalism and intolerance. ISIS, which lashes out at other religious approaches
and their adherents as if they were false gods and idolaters, is a facile example.
But many mainstream Muslims who would never dream of joining ISIS
sometimes act as though fellow Muslims who take a slightly different path to
God are mushrikîn (idol worshippers) rather than coreligionists and fellow
human beings. The takfiris of ISIS and similar groups mirror the self-righteous,
Yahwistic sides of ourselves.
Though Guyénot’s argument could easily be caricatured as simplistically
antimonotheistic and propolytheistic, I would not subscribe to that reading.
Guyénot draws a portrait of Yahweh as psychopathic father whose war on
idolatry amounts to an amoral, self-aggrandizing extinction of the other. Though
such a reading may be largely warranted by the Old Testament and the Talmud, I
don’t think it applies to the monotheistic religions of Christianity or Islam, at
least not to the same degree. And there are aspects of Biblical tradition that cut
in the opposite direction, notably those highlighted by René Girard in numerous
writings such as The Scapegoat (1986).
Girard suggests that monotheism’s anti-idolatry impetus stems largely from
its half-conscious understanding that polytheistic “religions” are, in the final
analysis, cults of human sacrifice. Thus, according to the Girardian reading, the
story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his son is less about inculcating blind
obedience to Yahweh than about ending the polytheistic pagan practice of
sacrificing one’s own children to the likes of Moloch. We could extend Girard’s
insight to encompass Muhammad’s war on Meccan idolaters who buried their
baby girls alive and sacrificed to monstrous gods around a defiled Kaaba in
search of wealth and power for themselves and their cronies.
Such practices still exist, though they are no longer widespread. In today’s
North and West Africa, the practice of human sacrifice to gods or jinn by people
seeking wealth and power continues on the margins of society, where it has been
consigned by the reigning monotheism. Similar abominations apparently persist
among so-called dark shamans in parts of Latin America as well as in the satanic
cults of Europe and America. Such are the “idol worshippers” denigrated in the
most reliable monotheistic scripture, in my view, the Holy Qur’an.
But if there is a positive or at least defensible side to monotheism’s hostility
to polytheism and idolatry, it does not form part of Guyénot’s analysis in this
book—which could be accused of one-sidedness in other ways as well. For
example: Where, one may ask, are the countless examples of noble, selfless
Jewish behavior? What about all the wonderful Jewish high achievers in science
and the arts? Where are the standard accounts of the endless gratuitous
persecutions Jews have suffered everywhere they have settled? Is there not at
least some truth to the stereotype of the Jew as eternal victim?
The answer to such objections is simple: Those stories have been endlessly
told and retold in all the dominant media of the postwar West. Yet nowhere are
they questioned; nowhere are alternative accounts proposed; nowhere are the
viewpoints of those who found themselves in conflict with Jewish tribalism
given fair consideration. Every historical conflict between Jews and goyim is
assumed to be the fault of the goyim. If a man quarrels with everyone in his life
—his neighbors, his boss, his coworkers, those he meets on the street—and then
insists that all of those people are persecuting him for no reason whatsoever, few
of us would take him at his word. Yet we unquestioningly accept such
interpretations of interactions between Jewish and non-Jewish communities,
whether due to lack of curiosity or fear: fear of being called names, of being