Has Judaism ever perpetrated anything like the Inquisition / witch burnings or the current Islamic law?

Question

Jews didn't crucify Jesus, the Romans did.

Israel is defending itself against the Palestinians. There were barely any people living there until they heard the Jews were going to live there.

I have never heard of a Jew walking into a Pizza parlor in a Muslim country and blowing up Muslims, and then celebrating.

Answer 1

They sure did instigate alot and get others to do their dirty work...In Palestine and Lebanon, they do their own murdering...

Answer 2

If you mean massacring people who were under there protection, then no.

Corrosion EAC. you have proven yourself to not only have failed every history class you were in, you are a racist. If you ever been to the Al-Sham region (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel) then you would know that everyone there looks white, Israel is the darkest country in the region.

Most Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians look as white as any European, the queen of Jordan looks white, as does does Syria's Asad and the every Lebanese president and prime minister since the nation was founded.

Most Israelis are Mizrahi and Sephardic. Ashkenazi who you refer to as European converts even though they have Semitic blood according to DNA, are a minority in Israel.

Answer 3

The Crusades, witch burnings and Inquisitions (there have been 5) were no longer Christian. They were about skill over individuals, and that is not any longer Christian. do not settle for each thing as "christian" basically because someone or some team says this is. undergo in concepts, Hitler change into technically a Christian as he change into in sturdy status with the RCC till his lack of life. Being a Christian ability following Christ and his teachings and education and rejecting what he rejected, one in all which change into the killing our fellow guy. undergo in concepts he instructed Pilate his kingdom change into no area of this international, or his followers might want to have fought that he no longer be presented as a lot because the non secular and political authorities to be placed to lack of life.

Answer 4

Not for at least 2,500 years. The closest thing I can tihnk of historically would be the Jewish conquest of the Promised Land (so called because of G-d's promise to Abraham, but at the time, inhabited by the Canaanites). Their orders were to take the land and drive out the inhabitants. But Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike would have to agree that, as it is written in scripture, these orders came from on high, otherwise their own religious beliefs are undermined.

The divine imperatives incumbent upon the Jews in those days regarding the land were to drive them out, and not to intermarry with them nor make treaties with them, for if they would, it was prophesized that those peoples would lead them astray morally and spiritually, and divine wrath would then be visited upon them. The Jews it seems didn't have it in them to be as ruthless as, unfortunately, the situation called for, didn't follow those commands to the letter, and took a slightly more relaxed approach to dealing with the Canaanites. Our people suffered immensely as those prophecies ultimately came to pass, and eventually, we were exiled from our land.

Puritan-style witch hunting/burning probably takes as its inspiration a commandment in the Jewish scriptures, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Witchcraft and divination are forbidden in Judaism, but without a proper Sanhedrin, we've no way to physically enforce our laws. Even when there was a Sanhedrin, the death penalty was only carried out in extreme circumstances, and very rarely. A court that put more than one person to death in 70 years was referred to as a "murderous court."

If you're asking like, post-biblical, have the Jews ever pulled any crap like that? I'd have to say no. Some people hold that since the Jews have never historically been in power, they have simply lacked the wherewithal for such wanton brutality, but in fact they are just as savage as the rest of mankind and were they the dominant force in society (as Christianity or Islam), they would have committed acts just as heinous. I would argue that, regardless of whose religion is the majority faith, the only way your average Jew could possibly kill someone would be if he sued them to death. ;)

But I think my bias here is pretty obvious.

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Answer 5

The question is not definite about the object.
Islamic laws are differentby islamic countries, and their trend about religion., and so .
In Saddam Hussein's "republic" liberated woman suffered silicosis that is by moderated means mentioned by other religious trends, including Judaism .
In the US it is the same by using the McMurphy's law about the above mentioned object, but that is a correlate to anything else including Judeism, further than identical.

Answer 6

Massacre of Palestinians that's going on right now, and has been going on for over 50 years. But I don't blame it on Judaism, I don't stoop low enough to blame it on the religion. I blame it on the racist government of Israel. In Israel, non-European Jews are treated as low class citizens, for eg. Ethiopian Jews, Arab Jews, Arab Christians and Muslims, and etc. They refuse for it to be a multi ethnic state with equal rights given to all citizens, At the very least that's what they should be doing after stealing the land and displacing millions of Palestinians from their homeland. This is why the suicide bombers are pissed off, they're being thrown out of their homes. I even know Jews who do NOT support Israel. Infact, here's a link to these wonderful people of the Jewish faith.


I guess it's true the media brainwashes people :) Corrosion EAC made some strong points there...and everyone else, stop dumping everything on the Muslims or the Arabs. Today's Zionism is fuelled by secular politics and racism...it is not the Zionism stated in the Torah, and there are Jews out there who would back me up in this matter.

PS. Suppose you're black, how would you feel if you were a US citizen 50 years ago?? How about 200 years ago? I asked my Jewish friends the same thing about their Holocaust and they understand my point...would you allow the injustice of the past to repeat itself? Just because the media lies to you it doesn't mean people are not suffering, Palestine is not a land just full of suicide bombers. Palestine has women, children, and most of them are people struggling to make it through the day. Only a tiny percentage are extremists, and some Palestinians are Christian even.

Answer 7

Roman rulers crucified him but his death is meaningless unless they represented all of mankind.
The problem with this question (and the ignorance of the second answer) is that the Old Testament is the record of Jewish rule when they were dominant and the victors tend to report victories in a positive light. (Just as the Turks reject the Armenian slaughter as genocide but say deaths were the result of battles and suicides.) There is a fair amount of slaughter in the OT and when Jews lost, they were portrayed as heroes. Of course, the modern nation has been pretty good at going in and taking out enemies in war and one by one.

Answer 8

Khomeini's massacres of democracy groups following the Shah's overthrow by all of the Iranian people would qualify. That's how they were able to rename it The Islamic Revolution when it was an entire nation that rose up.

Many factions were involved in the revolution of 1978-79. Not all were Islamic.

Now, moving to Zionism, in the name of Judaism its actions in creating the state of Israel involved measures similar to jihadists. Menachim Begin was among the original car bombers, attacking British troops. Then, the new government ordered mass removals of Arabs and Palestinians. If killing was neccessary, it was done. It continues to this day.

The 1967 war involved Israel attacking Egypt first, then attacking Jordan and Syria. The 1973 Yom Kippur war with Egypt was a stalemate but Israel discovered they were not as invincible as they thought.

Attacking Lebanon recently further exposed the weaknesses of Zionist aggression. Unprepared and arrogant, they resorted to bombing parts of Lebanon that had nothing to do with the south.

This makes Israel and Bush's sabre-rattling toward Iran a scary prospect. A much larger, united populace if attacked, just as Americans were all united after 9/11 (which Bush squandered).

I wish to make this clear that this is in the name of Zionism, a school of political thought, and not Judaism. There are many dissident Israelis which are known by few Americans, such as Uri Avnery.

ADDENDUM: You're forgetting the state of Israel is another set of false borders in the Middle East, largely populated by the descendents of European converts. They hardly look Semitic to me. They wedged themselves into a strange land to which they had no connection and play victims. Fifi is right about the racism. The Sephardic Jew Amir Pertez is roundly mocked in the rightwing press of Israel for his Semitic looks. The cartoons they make of him are similar to those from Islamic papers.

Answer 9

Jews have usually been on the wrong end of the whole persecution thing...you know, with the millions who died in the Inquisition and Holocaust and all...maybe you should go ask Mel Gibson. He'd know.

Answer 10

I don't think so. The Jews have always been more of an underdog than a perpetrator.

Well, unless you consider modern-day Israel... they're downright terrorists to the Palestinians. But that's a political thing, not a religious mandate.

Answer 11

Ancient Jews, no. Jews up to the 1950s were usually the victims of pogroms (religious cleansings - i.e. attempts to wipe all of them out). Afterwards, its open to debate which side is worse in the Arab/Israeli conflicts.