Professor israel shahak talmud

I write here what I think is true, for the stories of the Greeks are numerous and in my opinion ridiculous. (Hecateus of Miletus, as quoted by Herodotus)

 

Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas – Plato is a friend but truth is a greater friend. (Traditional paraphrase of a passage of Aristotle&#;s Ethics)

 

In a free state every man can think what he wants and say what he thinks. (Spinoza)

The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews

Part Prejudice and Prevarications

Definition of terms: liberation from outside

The first difficulty in writing about this subject is that the term &#;Jew&#; has been used during the last years with two rather different mean­ings. To understand this, let us imagine ourselves in the year Then the universally accepted meaning of the term &#;Jew&#; basically coincided with what the Jews themselves understood as constituting their own