The Bar Kokhba War and the Creation of Palestine

Inspired by the commemoration, in this year MMXXIV, of Jesus’ Last Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection from the dead, I want to examine, prior to the founding of the Israeli state, the last period in history, 1,889 years ago, when Jews controlled what is today Palestine. After which, in the historical chasm, the Roman empire, and then Arab, Muslim and briefly Christian forces, had control over the territory.

Zionism asserts that all those previous inhabitants extending back to the second century A.D., have no claim to the land and that modern persons self-identifying as the direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob possess the exclusive right to it.

The Genetic Masquerade

The allegation that contemporary European-descended “Jews” are the people of Old Testament Israel has been heavily contested. Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteen Tribe is mandatory reading for students of this subject. This is the book that was the inspiration for Israeli geneticist Dr. Eran Elhaik (Associate Professor of Genetics, Lund University, Sweden), in beginning to research the genetics of people claiming to be the descendants of the ancient Jews. He is currently the best source on the lineage of the Ashkenazic (Khazar) people.

This is one of his statements: "Ashkenazic Jews cluster with Southern Europeans (i.e. they are genetically indistinguishable from them)…”

—"Conclusions About Ancient Populations May be Drastically Wrong Due to Dodgy Method,” Sept. 1, 2022.

He has written an easy-to-understand report outlining his basic Khazar thesis with some links to his scientific papers. It is highly recommended

Dr. Elhaik is a defiant, heretical geneticist who regards genetic analysis founded on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as a joke. PCA is one of the principal tools the masqueraders employ to make Turkic-Caucasian Khazars into the progeny of ancient Jews.

Moreover, he recommends this study by Amy Pullman-Sheffield.

Other sources for understanding the dynamic at work in the Israeli state’s claims of genetic descent from the Biblical patriarchs include Paul Wexler’s linguistic sleuthing, The Ashkenazic Jews: A Slavo-Turkic People in Search of a Jewish Identity, and Israeli scholar Shlomo Sand’s sociological and cultural deconstruction, The Invention of the Jewish People.

The Bar Kokhba War

An image of Bar Kokhba engraved on an Israeli menorah and installed in the headquarters of the Zionist government in Palestine

“Bar Kokhba” (“Son of the Star,” cf. Numbers 24:17), was the nom de guerre of a Judean revoltionary:  Simeon ben Kosiba Nasi Yisrael. He was a proto-Zionist, more specifically a “zealot” who attempted to prove Jesus wrong by overthrowing the Romans and rebuilding the Temple of Solomon. He failed miserably. The central religious authority of that time and place, “Rabbi Akiva” insinuated that Bar Kokhba was the messiah.

The revolt commenced in 132 A.D. Kokhba had control over the Transjordan (the Roman province of Arabia) and Judea, but not the city of Jerusalem, which he never captured and which remained in Roman hands throughout the conflict.

There can be no two opinions about the strength of the Judean forces arrayed against Rome. To suppress the revolt Romans found it necessary to dispatch a large force. Between ten and eleven legions were required to do the job, including the II, III, VI, X, XII and the XXII. These were stationed in Judea for the duration of the war. Nearly a half dozen additional legions served intermittently. To get an idea of the size of this force consider that at this time a legion was comprised of 6000 soldiers along with cavalry and archers numbering between 400 and 800. The combined Roman force at its full strength would have represented close to 70,000 troops.

It is not known precisely how many fighters were in Bar Kokhba’s army. Some estimates are in “the tens of thousands.”

Late in the war, Hadrian, the Roman emperor, appointed Sextus Julius Severus, the governor of Roman Britain, commander of the legions fighting in the expeditio Judaica. He was assisted by  two of Hadrian’s best generals, Haterius Nepos and Certus Publicus Marcellus. Prior to that, troops were under the direction of the governor of Judea, the consul Q. Tineius Rufus. It is a matter of debate whether Rome’s forces were so heavily besieged that the emperor Hadrian himself assumed command at one point; the consensus is that he did.

The war ended with the Judeans utterly destroyed. Every one of their villages was laid waste. Thousands were killed and more thousands were sold into slavery. Beginning in the fall of A.D. 135 Jews were no longer the majority in Judea. The name of the province was changed to “Syria Palestina”; thus was Palestine founded, close to 2,000 years ago.

Imposters arose, beginning in the 19th century, pretending to be Israel and claiming a land Judeans had not occupied to any settled extent in one thousand eight hundred years. Due to the unseen impact of Talmudic doctrine on masonic British Gentiles, beginning with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and culminating at the United Nations in 1948, it was decided that the masqueraders had more claim to the land than the ancient Palestinian inhabitants.

The defeat of Bar Kokhba was a disaster which the Talmud of Babylon never forgot. After Bar Kokhba, the Talmud stipulated that Jews were to confine themselves to scholarly, diplomatic and economic endeavors and organize no military army until the coming of the Moshiach (Messiah). The title of Nasi, which had been Bar Kokba’s moniker, became a name reserved solely for Talmid chacham (“Talmud scholars”). The first learned person to bear that title was Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, the editor of the Pharisees’ sacred legal book, the Mishnah.

Communists, atheists and secularists in Palestine in the 20th century founded “Israel” on the Zionist notion that the Judaic people were their own messiah. The sensibilities of the religious faction were salved under the influence of Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. With a few exceptions, the Zionist heresy gradually became the reigning theology of Talmudism itself.

Phariseeism being what it is, this was a heresy that was not entirely heretical —a seeming paradox which actually is not. Talmudism is a theology of situation ethics. It was determined by their soothsayers that in the atomic age the situation had altered, and a recovery from the Bar Kokhba hangover was at last at hand.

His ideology could now be resurrected from the smoldering ashes of the second century. In the twentieth century it had no enemies other than weak and oppressed Arab nations. Ancient Rome was via col vento, and the Rome of the early and medieval Church had been mostly neutralized by popes of the Renaissance under the sway of Neoplatonic-Hermetic-Kabbalism (cf. The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome).

“The One Who Accuses You is Moses”

According to British journalist Jonathan Cook, H.A. Hazony,  “a postdoctoral student at Notre Dame university in the US echoes Netanyahu and makes a theological case for the genocide of Palestinians as ‘Amalekites.”

Hazony wrote on X (Twitter): “ Most know that in the Old Testament, God chose one people as his own: Israel.  It's less well-known that God also chose one nation to be his sworn enemy: Amalek.”

Hazony is speaking from a Talmudic praxis, not a biblical one. Examine Psalm 119:63 where King David says to Yahweh: “ I am a friend to all your loyal followers, and to those who keep your precepts.”

All means all.

David acknowledges brotherhood with all Yahweh-faithful humans predicated on their belief, not their race. All those who believe Yahweh and observe His laws are the friends of David.

This is inimical to Talmudism. The uncensored rabbinic halacha, founded on the Mishnah, the first portion of what would become the Talmud of Babylon, teaches that Jews have a divine nefesh (soul) which non-Jews do not possess. From this racist double standard, repeatedly denied by media and academia, emanates violence and oppression toward gentiles.

Any notion that racist Talmudists teach, understand or practice the Bible according to the will of God, was dispelled by Jesus addressing the Pharisees in John 5:

“You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me, but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life…Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me…”

The followers of Moses believe in Jesus. No one who denies Jesus has any claim to being faithful to Moses or to real estate of the “Holy Land.”

There is no Scriptural justification for treating the Palestinians like Amalek, whose memory God erased according to His command (Exodus 17:14, I Chronicles 4:41-43).

Abraham’s posterity is defined as those who believe in Jesus (John 8:39).

There is no Biblical claim to the “Holy Land” on the basis of genetic descent. If that were the case Palestinians would have as much claim as Judeans because in many instances Palestinians are genetic descendants of ancient Israel who have been present there since the advent of “Palestina.”

It is in the Talmud of Babylon not the Bible, where racial supremacy and permissible oppression prevail as formal theology with the force of law, as I’ve demonstrated in my textbook, Judaism Discovered (1,102 pp.)

The Talmud Bavli teaches that prophet Isaiah got when he deserved when he was executed after stating that “Israel has unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5).

The Talmud is a document of racial megalomania. The Bible is certainly not—as witnessed by Isaiah’s humble truth.

It is in the Talmud Bavli where it is declared that Ham was black and eternally consigned to enslavement. The Old Testament makes no such racial identification.

There are literally thousands of examples of Talmudic contradiction, nullification and overthrow of the Old Testament. Many Jews have documented this fact, including the Karaites, as well as Eitan Bar in his book, The New Kings of Israel: A Theological Survey & Critique of Rabbinic Judaism.

Talmudism is the written version of the oral “traditions of the elders” theology of the Pharisees. It has no claim to biblical comprehension, fidelity to Moses or obedience to Yahweh, as Jesus affirmed in John 5: 45-47, Matthew 15:3 and Mark 7:6-9.

The Talmudists use the Bible as a prop to justify their unscriptural dogma of genocide. They bring Yahweh’s Word into disrepute.

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Michael Hoffman is the author of the banned 2008 textbook Judaism Discovered (1,102 pages), and nine other volumes of history and literature, including Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare and its sequel, Twilight Language. Also: The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome, and Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People, as well as 122 issues of the periodical, Revisionist History®.

Michael is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press and a former paid consultant to the news department of the New York Times. His books have been published in translation in Japan and France. Listen to his broadcasts on his Revisionist History® podcast, and find him on X (Twitter). He resides with his family in Idaho.

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