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Adam Green of KnowMoreNews discusses the video “Rabbis Explain the Abrahamic Judeo Takeover Conspiracy.” I think Adam paints with a way-too-broad brush and his analysis lacks nuance and balance. But he’s right to identify “Jewish” messianic millenarian madness, chosenness, and “Jewish power” as real problems. For a good historical analysis see Guyenot’s From Yahweh to Zion.

Transcript of Adam Green's “Rabbis Explain the Abrahamic Judeo Takeover Conspiracy"  with commentary by Kevin Barrett in boldface

Rabbi: Maybe you shouldn't tell anybody that I said this, but you know all those tropes about Jews controlling the world or at least wanting to control the world. They're actually true. Our goal as Jewish people for the last 3300 years, since the revelation at Sinai, has been to control the world. *Is this clip taken out of context? Did the rabbi use this "confession" as an attention-getter, then proceed to offer a relatively benign explication of the "Jewish world takeover project"?

Yehuda Glick: The vision is that Jerusalem should become a center of the world, a political center, but more important, a center of the Word of God and a center of the connection made between humanity and God. *This messianic view of Jersualem-al Quds is of course problematic, since it has contributed to inspiring the Zionist movement to commit genocide in Palestine, and since it implies that messianic Jews like Rabbi Glick want to run the "political center" of the world. But we shouldn't forget that Israel is primarily the project of secularists and atheists, not religious Jews.

Rabbi: We will rebuild the Third Temple. We will do animal sacrifices again. And God will give us the whole of of Israel all the way up to the Euphrates River and down to the Nile River. We'll have the greater Israel that we've always dreamed of, and we won't have to believe in Jesus to get it. That's what you guys are— Maybe you'll be alive. Hopefully you'll be alive to see it. But that's the truth. *This quote is even more problematic, since it implies that the genocidal state of Israel, if controlled by the likes of this rabbi, would seek to destroy the Islamic world's oldest and greatest architectural monument, the al-Aqsa mosque, in order to build a blood sacrifice temple on its ruins—and then invade its neighbors and steal a vast amount of territory, which would exact a price of millions if not billions of lives.

Rabbi: To return the temple to its glory. Rebuild the temple, restore the sacrificial service. It will be a daily offering in the morning, a daily offering in the afternoon, special offerings on the Sabbath and holidays, the Passover sacrifice. All of this will be brought again. And the future temple will stand forever. *See previous comment.

Rabbi: At the end times these Christians will, because they've been exposed to the Bible and because they know the Bible, they know the God of Israel. They know all the stories. They know all the content of the Bible that will lay the groundwork for them to be with us at the end times. It's basically what he says. And that and really that's what the redemption of the world is all about. It's everyone serving the God of Israel together. *As Laurent Guyénot's book title puts it, Our God is Your God Too, But He Has Chosen Us. Adam Green takes this to mean that Jews invented Christianity to dupe Christians into submitting to Yahweh, who is ultimately a stand-in for the Jewish elite. But that ignores the stark differences between the Torah (Old Testament) and the New Testament. When this rabbi speaks of "the Bible" he means the Torah. And i