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Jesus was NOT a Jew -- Benjamin Freedman
December 2, 2009

Excerpts from a long letter from Benjamin Freedman (left) to David
Goldstein, LL.D. dated October 10, 1954. Freedman (1890-1984) had been
part of the American Zionist inner circle but, like Goldstein,
converted to Christianity. The complete letter appeared in a pamphlet
entitled "Facts are Facts."

(Excerpts by Henry Makow)


The utterance by the Christian clergy which confuses Christians the
most is the constantly repeated utterance that "Jesus was a Jew." ...
That misrepresentation and distortion of an incontestable historic
fact is uttered by the Christian clergy upon the slightest pretext....

Jesus Christ was not a so-called or self-styled "Jew". During His
lifetime Jesus was known as a "Judean" by His contemporaries and not
as a "Jew", and Jesus referred to Himself as a "Judean" and not as a
"Jew".

....Except for His few followers at that time in Judea, all other
Judeans abhorred Jesus and detested His teachings and the things for
which He stood.

At the time of the Crucifixion of Jesus Pontius Pilate was the
administrator in Judea for the Roman Empire. As far as he was
concerned officially or personally, the inhabitants of Judea were
"Judeans" and not so- called "Jews" as they have been styled since the
18th century. In the time of Pontius Pilate, there was no religious,
racial or national group in Judea known as "Jews" nor had there been
any group so identified anywhere else in the world prior to that time.

Pontius Pilate expressed little interest as the administrator of the
Roman Empire officially or personally in the wide variety of forms of
religious worship then practiced in Judea. These forms of religious
worship extended from phallic worship and other forms of idolatry to
the emerging spiritual philosophy of an eternal, omnipotent and
invisible Divine deity, the emerging Yahve (Jehovah) concept which
predated Abraham of Bible fame by approximately 2000 years. ...

As I have explained, when the word "Jew" was first introduced into the
English language in the 18th century, its one and only implication,
inference and innuendo was "Judean". However during the 18th, 19th and
20th centuries a well-organized and well- financed international
"pressure group" created a so-called "secondary meaning" for the word
"Jew" among the English- speaking peoples of the world. This so-called
"secondary meaning" for the word "Jew" bears no relation whatsoever
tothe 18th century original connotation of the word "Jew". It is a
misrepresentation.

.... The United States Supreme Court has recognized the "secondary
meaning" of words. The highest court in the land has established as
basic law that "secondary meanings" can acquire priority rights to the
use of any dictionary word. Well-planned and well-financed world-wide
publicity through every available media by well-organized groups of so-
called or self-styled "Jews" for three centuries has created a
"secondary meaning" for the word "Jew" which has completely "blacked
out" the original and correct meaning of the word "Jew". There can be
no doubt about that.

There is not a person in the whole English-speaking world today who
regards a "Jew" as a "Judean" in the literal sense of the word. That
was the correct and only meaning inthe 18th century . The generally
accepted "secondary meaning" of the word "Jew" today with practically
no exceptions is made up of four almost universally-believed theories.
These four theories are that a so- called or self-styled "Jew" is (1)
a person who today professes the form of religious worship known as
"Judaism", (2) a person who claims to belong to a racial group
associated with the ancient Semites, (3) a person directly the
descendant of an ancient nation which thrived in Palestine in Bible
history, (4) a person blessed by Divine intentional design with
certain superior cultural characteristics denied to other racial,
religious or national groups, all rolled into one.

The present generally accepted "secondary meaning" of the word "Jew"
is fundamentally responsible for the confusion in the minds
ofChristians regarding elementary tenets of the Christian faith. It is
likewise responsible today to a very great extent for the dilution of
the devotion of countlessChristians for their Christian faith. The
implications, inferences and innuendos of the word "Jew" today, to the
preponderant majority of intelligent and informedChristians, is
contradictory and in complete conflict with incontestable historic
fact. Christians who cannot be fooled any longer are suspect of the
Christian clergy who continue to repeat, and repeat, and repeat ad
nauseam their pet theme song "Jesus was a Jew". It actually now
approaches a psychosis.

Countless Christians know today that they were "brainwashed" by the
Christian clergy on the subject "Jesus was a Jew". ..

Countless intelligent and informed Christians no longer accept
unchallenged assertions by the Christian clergy that Jesus in His
lifetime was a Member of a group in Judea which practiced a religious
form of worship then which is today called "Judaism", or that Jesus in
His lifetime here on earth was a Member of the racial group which
today includes the preponderant majority of all so- called or self-
styled "Jews" in the world, or that the so-called or self-styled
"Jews" throughout the world today are the lineal descendants of the
nation in Judea of which Jesus was a national in His lifetimehere on
earth , or that the cultural characteristics of so- called or self-
styled "Jews" throughout the world today correspond with the cultural
characteristics of Jesus during His lifetimehere on earth and His
teachings while He was here on earth for a brief stay. Christians will
no longer believe that the race, religion, nationality and culture of
Jesus and the race, religion, nationality and culture of so-called or
self-styled "Jews" today or their ancestors have a common origin or
character.

The resentment by Christians is more ominous than the Christian clergy
suspect. Under existing conditions the Christian clergy will find that
ignorance is not bliss, nor wisdom folly.Christians everywhere today
are seeking to learn the authentic relationship between the so-called
or self-styled "Jews" through-out the world today and the "Judeans"
who populated "Judea" before, during and after the time of
Jesus.Christians now insist that they be told correctly by the
Christian clergy about the racial, religious, national and cultural
background of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world
today and the basis for associating these backgrounds with the racial,
religious, national and cultural background of Jesus in His lifetime
in Judea. The intelligent and informed Christian are alerted to the
exploded myth that the so- called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the
world today are the direct descendants of the "Judeans" amongst whom
Jesus lived during His lifetimehere on earth.

Christians are becoming more and more aware day by day of all the
economic and political advantages accruing to the so-called or self-
styled "Jews" as a direct result of their success in makingChristians
believe that "Jesus was a Jew" in the "secondary meaning" they have
created for the 18th century word "Jew". The so-called or self-styled
"Jews" throughout the world today represent themselves to Christians
as "Jews" only in the "secondary meaning" of the word "Jew". They seek
to thereby prove their kinship with Jesus. They emphasize this fiction
toChristians constantly. That fable is fast fading and losing its
former grip upon the imaginations of Christians.

To allege that "Jesus was a Jew" in the sense that during His lifetime
Jesus professed and practiced the form of religious worship known and
practiced under the modern name of "Judaism" is false and fiction of
the most blasphemous nature.

If to be a so- called or self-styled "Jew" then or now the practice of
"Judaism" was a requirement, then Jesus certainly was not a so-called
"Jew". Jesus abhorred and denounced the form of religious worship
practiced in Judea in His lifetime and which is known and practiced
today under its new name "Judaism". That religious belief was then
known as "Pharisaism". The Christian clergy learned that in their
theological seminary days but they have never made any attempt to make
that clear to Christians.