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Do you speak Hebrew?”
The captain of a Syrian Air Force transport flying over the Mediterranean sends out a MAYDAY message: “This is Syrian Air Force # 174 announcing we have lost one engine and want to land at any airport in the Middle East OTHER than Israel!”
No answer.
A while later he announces, “This is Syrian Air Force # 174 again. We have now lost two engines and need to land at any airport in the Middle East OTHER than Israel!”
Silence.
A short while later the captain announces, “This is Syrian Air Force #174. We are desperate. We have now lost THREE engines an urgently ask permission to land at any airport in the Middle East OTHER than Israel!”
Still no answer.
Finally the captain calls out, “Help! This is Syrian Air Force #174. We have only one engine left and it is rapidly failing. Unless we can land we are going to crash. We need permission to land at ANY airport in the Middle East INCLUDING Israel!”
Shortly thereafter, a voice is heard in the Syrian cockpit: “Shalom Syrian Air Force # 174. This is Tel Aviv approach control. We would like to help. “
“Allah is praised,” says the Syrian pilot. “Please give me instructions.”
“Do you speak Hebrew?”
“No”
“Ok, then please repeat after me: Yitgadal Viyitkadash Shimay Rabbah…… ya ben zona”
More and more Judaens around the world are getting tattoos on their bodies despite the clear Biblical prohibition against getting them. One of the most popular designs among Jews are are Judaic symbols like the Magen David or designs that incorporate the star because the symbol represents being Jewish to them. These tattoos are not done out of spite but rather out of love and the desire to affiliate with their identity intimately. The funny thing or the sad thing about this phenomenon depending on who you ask, is that while the Magen David represents being Jewish and the State of Israel in this modern time in Israelite history, the fact of the matter is that the Magen David has very little to do with the Nation of Israel and the Tribes of Israel historically. There is very little reference of the Magen David in Rabbinic literature and nothing in the Tanach. There is no archeological evidence whatsoever that the Star of David had anything remotely to do with King David even.
How the Star became Judaicized to the level that it has and how it came to even be called the Shield of David, is a similar story to how the name of the exiles from the State of Judea, Judaens, over two millenia came to be called Jews, and Jew-ish. It wasn’t by choice as much as as it happened slowly over time because of external forces. The problem is that Judaens themselves have institutionalized the symbol and myth of the Magen David and words like Jew and Jewish, therefore perpetuating the problem and the myth, instead of using our proper names .
The Magen David is not a very Judaic symbol at all in contrast to the many specific Judaic images that we do have such as the Menorah, the shape of the ten commandments, angels and the symbols of the tribes of Israel, just to name a few better ideas for tattoos. Jews are not supposed to have tattoos however if you are going to get a Judaic tattoo, then get a truly Judaic image.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven… a time for war and a time for peace… He has made everything beautiful in its time.”
King Solomon in Eccles. 3:1,8,11:
At some point between the time of Joshua and the Twelve Tribe’s entry into the land of Israel three millenia ago and the Roman occupation of Judea in the first hundred years BCE, the leaders of our nation developed and implimented a fighting art and fighting style among the Tribes, very much how Israel’s IDF today has a fighting doctrine. Very little is written about Judean battle theory and fighting theory for circumstantial and historical reasons and it can be presumed lost until further Rabbincal notice.
Judaism was sanitized of it’s militant and fighting spirit and tradition almost entirely during the last 2000 years. Very little is ever mentioned about how a Jew must become tough and how and when to fight and when not to fight, but all is not lost, there are breadcrumbs of authenticity for those who seek it. One classic example of Jewish fighting spirit is located in our Passover Haggada which we read every Passover.
“It happened that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarphon were reclining (at a Seder) in Benei Berak. They were discussing the Exodus all that night, until their students came and told them: “Rabbis! It is time for the morning prayer “Shma!”
From simply reading this paragraph one does not read any allusions to militancy or violence at all and it can be easily and justifibly interpereted to mean all sorts of nice things, that was the point behind how it was written, to satiate the dreamers and the lazy thinkers among the nation. Every letter, sentence and paragraph in Torah and in Rabbinic-traditional-Talmudic Judaism are valuable and deliberate and cannot be taken at simple face value. One must open the Talmud to find the answers to know what a Jew is and how a Jew behaves and what is Jewish and not Jewish, one goes to a yeshiva to learn.
The obvious questions which you may have asked one seder night was: How could the rabbis not have paid attention by themselves that the time for the reading of the “Shma” had arrived? In addition, what were these rabbis doing sitting together on Seder night, when each had a family and a Yeshiva of his own in different parts of the country? Why were they sitting in Bnei Berak, the place of (the student) Rabbi Akiva?
Before giving the answer, some historical background is necessary: Only a few years had passed since the Destruction of the Second Temple, and the Land of Israel was under complete political and military control by the Romans, we were a nation under a suffocating occupation coincidentily much like what the so called Palestinians accuse us Jews of doing to them today; but wait, were there even Palestinains back then? Nope because they are a mythical, fake people created by the Arab League in the nine-teen-fifties, but that is another article for another day.
The answer as to why the Rabbis needed to be notified of the morning prayers was because they were secretly planning a revolution – a violent, militant revolution which saw Rabbi Akiva play a central role as the “armsbearer” of Bar-Cochba (see Rambam, Hilchot Milachim). The rest of the Rabbis were also quite active in the rebellion, as the Rambam writes: “and he (Rabbi Akiva)and ALL THE RABBIS OF HIS GENERATION thought that he (Bar-Cochba) was the Messiah”. The rabbis understood that the purpose of the Seder night was not just to retell a story that once was but rather they sat on the Seder night to plan the tactics and natural stages of the redemption, which they hoped would come through a planned rebellion.
Some of you reading this are probally freaking out at the assertion that violence is acceptable and Jewish and I wage the argument that to not use violence in the proper time is without a doubt immoral and unethical and un-Jewish and by not enforcing justice in situations by means of violence, breeds injustice and contempt, just as much as using violence in the improper time results in the same destructive results.
Furthermore, any assertions that violence and war and being a tough Jew is somehow un-Jewish has no basis in Judaism whatsoever and anyone who makes such absurd, fanatical statements do not have Jewish legal sources to prove their opinion on what is Judaism; because if peace is so important so much as to stop any kind of violent manifestation, we must ask why Scripture recorded all the wars of righteous judges and kings. And in general, why is there a mitzvah, an obligation to go to war, i.e., milchemet mitzvah, the compulsory war?
The answer is provided by wise King Solomon in Eccles. 3:1,8,11: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven… a time for war and a time for peace… He has made everything beautiful in its time.”
In Tanchuma, Shoftim 15 it says: “‘When you go forth to battle against your enemies’ (Deut. 20:1)… What is meant by ‘against your enemies‘? G-d said, ‘Confront them as enemies. Just as they show you no mercy, so should you not show them mercy.’” We have to realize that the non-Jew who goes to war against Israel is our enemy and not our friend. How unaware people are nowadays of this simple yet profound principle! Our sages also said (Sifri, Shoftim 192): “You are going to war against your enemies and not against your brethren. It is not Judah against Simeon or Simeon against Judah such that if you fall captive they will have mercy on you… It is against your ENEMIES that you are waging war. If you fall into their hands, they will show you no mercy.”
I would like to introduce you to Rav Yehoshua Sofer. He is one of the few Jews in the world whose family kept some of our fighting traditions from the days of old alive over the millennia in his family’s exile in Yemen. Yehoshua represents a part of authentic Torah Judaism that your parents or your Jewish leaders never knew even existed.
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Interview by Lucas Wisenthal
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This is a mad-old interview that Montreal based journalist Lucas Wisenthal did with Underground Hip-hop / Rap artist Ill Bill back in 2005, for Jewish Mayhem but we have never used it because it was lost in our archives and we have been looking for it since.
A lot has changed for Bill since 2005 but because this is a good interview that has never been read before, we’ve decided to run it. We will be featuring Bill again in the next issue with all of the updates with what’s new with Bill.
JM: Let’s start with the basics on Ill Bill. IB: I’m a member of Non-Phixion. I also run, own and operate Uncle Howie Records. I put out a solo album this year through Psycho+Logical records, which is my brother’s label. I worked on the Non-Phixion Green DVD, which I directed. For the most part, people know me as being an MC in Non-Phixion, but we’re branching out now and starting to do solo stuff. I’ve been around forever. I mean, Non-Phixion, next year’ll be our tenth anniversary as a group. I’ve been rhyming for years. I’ve also been in bands.
JM: I read that you and Necro played in hardcore bands. IB: All that shit. Whatever makes you want to jump out of a plane, that’s what I’m about.
JM: Who would you rather have appear on one of your albums: Jackie Mason, Andrew Dice Clay or Larry David? IB: Absolutely Larry David. That’s me in about 25 years. I’m a mess, you know? On one hand I’ve got it together, but on another hand I’m a neurotic mess.
JM: Why are you a neurotic mess? IB: I think it just might the fact of growing up in a Jewish household. It’s just something that kind of comes with the territory of being a Jewish kid from Brooklyn.
JM: Ill Bill, why are there no Jewish skateboarders? I mean, the ollie was invented by a Jew from Hollywood, Florida named Allan Gelfand. IB: I don’t even know! My boy Vinnie Ponte, he’s an honorary Jew. He just operates like a Jew. He walks, talks – he thugs it like a Jew.
JM: How does a Jew thug it? IB: I don’t know, I mean, just the way the way we do it. I don’t think there’s an actual blueprint to it; it’s kind of the way we do it. It’s kind of the way we wear our hat kind of to the side, the way we sag our pants a little bit, the way we lace up our sneakers.
JM: In the song Black Helicopters, your fellow Non-Phixion member Goretex mentions “golden showers on the poor shiksa.” How often do non-Jewish women get pissed on during Non-Phixion tours? IB: Probably just as often as Jewish women do! We don’t discriminate, we have golden showers for all women – shapes, sizes, colors, creeds, religions, race, earth and space, it doesn’t matter. We piss on everyone who we get a chance to piss on.
JM: A friend of mine suggested that there’s a Holy Trinity of Jews. This Trinity, he says, is comprised of Howard Stern, the neurotic Jew; David Lee Roth, the comedian Jew; and Gene Simmons, the medieval sorcerer Jew who makes matzah out of Gentile baby blood. In your opinion, who should be added to or removed from the Trinity and why? IB: (Laughter) I wouldn’t remove anybody! I think that’s pretty much damn on point!
JM: Being that you feel this Trinity is so on point, how much Gentile blood do you think should be used in the making of your matzah? IB: Probably a gallon per pound. It also depends if we’re talking about square matzah or the round schmoor matzah. I definitely prefer the schmoor matzah, the Lubavitcher matzah. I like my food well done, and the schmoor matzah comes well done.
JM: They deliver that to my house every year, Bill. IB: You know what? I’ve never had ‘em delivered, actually. We actually go to the matzah factory and pick them up ourselves. Part of the reason is because when you buy those matzahs, they’re pretty costly. They charge a lot for those matzahs. So you have to make sure that they’re whole, because when you go for the afikomen, you wanna be able to break it. You wanna have solid pieces of matzah to break in half so the children can get what they gotta get.
JM: I once read an interview with MC Serch where he said that he didn’t know that you were Jewish. Why, in spite of the fact that he obviously knew you at the time, would he make such a claim? IB: Oh shit, I don’t know. That I don’t know. He absolutely, definitely broke bread at the Shabbos table with me many a time. You’d have to ask him, I have no idea. He absolutely knew.
JM: Regarding hip-hop, Ras Kass once said, “Jews run it; niggAS run around it.” As both an artist and a businessman, where do you stand with respect to a statement like that? IB: I wonder what Puffy would think about that statement. He’s absolutely running things himself.
JM:Is Puffy a black Jew? IB: (Laughter) Maybe he is! That’s what I’m saying. Then again, Madonna’s name is Esther now and she’s a Kaballah scholar! I read that Britney is a Jew now, too.
JM: But did you ever feel any type of animosity from anyone in regard to your own Jewishness? IB: Absolutely. There’s definitely animosity coming from the realm of just being a business person and the level of competition. And yeah, there’s animosity coming from every angle, certainly. I felt animosity growing up being a Jew. I felt animosity in the business. It’s hard to really say for sure what’s the real reason. Is it because they’re jealous? Is it because of the fact that I’m Jewish? Is that like, really an issue? I don’t really know. I hope that the hate isn’t being thrown at me because I’m a Jew. I mean, that would really suck.
JM: Have you gotten ahead at all on account of being Jewish?
IB: Absolutely not. No way. Definitely not. I don’t believe it’s worked for me or against me. It’s a non-issue in terms of my success.
JM:Why are so many rappers that we like – arguably the best rappers right now – anti-Semitic? I’ve read interviews with you where you say you’re a huge Ghostface fan, and some of his lyrics contain anti-Semitic sentiment. IB: You think that Ghostface is anti-Semitic?
JM: Some of what he says definitely is. IB: Give me an example. I love Ghostface.
JM: I love Ghostface too. What about on the Ironman album where he says, “Yo they got a hit placed on my head, what should the God do? Max out in Spain and do business with the Jews. Never that.”? That’s anti-Semitic. IB: But didn’t he sign to Def Jam?
JM: Def Jam might be run by Jews, but you can’t tell me that that line isn’t anti-Semitic. IB: I think overall in America today it’s starting to become cool again to hate the Jew. I absolutely see that. I just think that people are always looking for a scapegoat, and what’s been a major scapegoat in world history: The Jew. He’s been an easy person to point the finger at, saying, “And they got all the money!” I know a lot of Jews that have shit, that have nothing.
The way I think that as an individual you’re able to really disprove things like this and really reflect your own personal views is actually by coming in contact individually with people. I think that one advantage I have being an artist and having the ability to reach a lot of people is that I’m able to kind of like let people know what time it is. I don’t even think that my music is overtly quote unquote Jewish. It’s not something I’m shooting for and not shooting for; I’m just doing what I’m doing. I think you’ll find elements in there if you’re looking for them. I think overall there’s a lot of anti-Semitism, but there’s also a lot of anti-black, anti everything. Everywhere you go, there’s racism, segregation. And everybody has a problem with everybody at one point or another.
At the end of the day, ain’t nobody gonna stop me – you know what I’m sayin’? – from doin’ what I’m doin’, whether it be someone who doesn’t who doesn’t like Jews, or whatever, ‘cause I’ll go out shootin’. I don’t give a fuck. I ain’t havin’ it. I’m one of those. I’m one of the Jews that ain’t havin’ it, you know what I’m sayin’? My brother Necro ain’t havin’ it! Come up to me poppin’ that Jew shit, poppin’ that Jewboy shit – It never did get popped, nor do I believe it ever will, because of the fact that I ain’t havin’ it, and I feel like people can sense that, you know what I’m sayin’? It hasn’t been a problem, in all honesty.
Then again, we’re not from Austin, Texas, man; we’re from Brooklyn, New York, which is probably the biggest melting pot in the world, you know, in terms of just a lot of different cultures coming together. Sure there’s beef. If you wanna take it back to grade school, everybody called each other a dumb spic, dumb wop, dumb kike, dumb nigga. We’ve heard all that shit, people that are within my circle. Dumb chink, whatever. It’s all been said, you know what I’m sayin’? But at the end of the day, as adults, as grown men, ain’t nobody steppin’ to me with that shit. That ain’t happenin’. I’ll go AWOL.
JM:How do you feel about Jewish rappers who draw parallels between the respective plights of black and Jewish people in order to appear authentically hip-hop, when in reality, in America today, these two groups stand at opposite ends of the socio-economic spectrum? IB: I mean, that’s all relative, then. Go to Crown Heights, there’s no divide between blacks and Jews.
JM: But there was in 1991. IB: No, there was. But you know what? Shit happens. That’s like saying that there’s a divide between Italian-Americans and blacks because some kid got hurt up in Howard Beach. But if you look at the entire Wu-Tang mythology and what was going on within let’s say the last seven years of hip-hop, everybody wants to be an Italian gangster. Where’s the separation? Where’s the beef? Where’s the drama?
JM:Do you think black kids really want to be Italian, or that they just want to be gangsters? IB: No, because they might also want to be Jewish gangsters. Shit, Vegas was built by Bugsy, Myer Lansky. It’s all tied together. So I just think gangsterism played a part in it.
I think there’s a lot of love/hate relationships, man. And I think that blacks and Jews have had a love/hate relationship throughout American history, and let’s say really within the last 50 or 60 years. And I think at the end of the day there are a lot of similarities. Just the overall struggle in of just being considered a second-class citizen. And not just Jews, we’re talking about the Irish, we’re talking about the Italian-Americans that came here and had to make their bones. 15:30.
Lucas grew up in a goyish area of Montreal’s West Island where he seriously tore up curbs and rails skateboarding, and listened to hip-hop and rap voraciously. He finished his English Literature degree at Mcgill University in 2003 and is currently enrolled at Concordia University and writes on the side for prestigious publications such as Jewish Mayhem.
The section on Palestinians and Palestine was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
The conflict here in Israel is not over land, it is over the inability of our Arabs/Muslim neighbors to recognize that Jews and Christians have any claim, religious or historical, to the land of Israel.
The conflict between Jews and Arabs in the land of Israel predates the settlement of Judea and Samaria and it pre-dates Israel’s re-establishment as an independent state in 1948. In fact there were pogroms against thousands of Jews and their properties going back to the middle of the 19th century, before there was anIsraeli state, settlements, or so called “occupation” of an Arab people called Palestinians. What did Arabs and Muslims want in 1929 when they initiated a vicious massive lynching of Jews in Hebron, the occupied territories of 1967? Absurd to the point of ridiculousness.
The conflict here in Israel is not over land, it is over the inability of our Arabs/Muslim neighbors to recognize that Jews and Christians have any claim, religious or historical, to the land of Israel.
The term “Palestine” came from the Roman Procurator in charge of the Judean-Israel territories was so angry at the Jews for revolting in 135 CE that he called for his historians and asked them who were the worst enemies of the Jews in their past history. The scribes said, “the Philistines.” Thus, the Procurator declared that Land of Israel would from then forward be called “Philistia” [further bastardized into "Palaistina"] to dishonor the Jews and obliterate their history. Hence the name “Palestine.” Before then it was known as Judea, which was the southern kingdom of ancient Israel.
The conflict here in Israel is not over land, it is over the inability of our Arabs/Muslim neighbors to recognize that Jews and Christians have any claim, religious or historical, to the land of Israel.
The word “Palestine” has no meaning in Arabic – every word in Arabic has some meaning deriving from the Koran, but the word “Palestine” does not. Even the term “Palestinian people” is rather ironic since the letter “P” is non-existent in the Arab language. If anything, the name “Palestine” was associated with Jews. In the years leading up to the rebirth of Israel in 1948, those who spoke of “Palestinians” were nearly always referring to the region\’s Jewish residents. For example, the “Palestine Post” [forerunner of today\'s Jerusalem Post] newspaper and the Palestine Symphony Orchestra were all-Jewish. The “Palestine Brigade Regiment” was composed exclusively of Jewish volunteers in the British World War II Army. In fact, Arab leaders rejected the notion of a unique “Palestinian Arab” identity, insisting that Palestine was merely a part of “Greater Syria.”
The conflict here in Israel is not over land, it is over the inability of our Arabs/Muslim neighbors to recognize that Jews and Christians have any claim, religious or historical, to the land of Israel.
There never was a Palestine, there is no Palestine, and there will never will be a Palestine.
JM: Regarding hip-hop, Ras Kass once said, “Jews run it; niggAS run around it.” As both an artist and a businessman, where do you stand with respect to a statement like that?
JM: I love Ghostface too. What about on the Ironman album where he says, “Yo they got a hit placed on my head, what should the God do? Max out in Spain and do business with the Jews. Never that.”? That’s anti-Semitic.
The conflict here in Israel is not over land, it is over the inability of our Arabs/Muslim neighbors to recognize that Jews and Christians have any claim, religious or historical, to the land of Israel. 