Here's Why Those "Coexist" Bumper Stickers Aren't Very Popular in Israel

Is there a single church anywhere with the courage, intelligence, integrity, and compassion to denounce YHWH?

If you have a friend with one of those “Coexist” bumper stickers on their car, you should warn them that, if they are going to plaster antisemitic hate speech on the outside of their vehicle, they need to avoid driving in Florida. In Florida, that sticker could get your friend a third degree felony conviction with a ten year prison sentence if a Jew sees it and tells a cop he feels threatened by its message.

Antisemitic hate speech

And, yes, the “Coexist” slogan is antisemitic and here’s why:

As you know, Jews have a reputation (what Jews call “the world’s oldest hate”) for being perverse, clannish, and disloyal. This isn’t something we’re just now noticing. That reputation goes back centuries. The 2nd Century Roman senator and historian, Tacitus, wrote:

Among the Jews all things are profane that we hold sacred; on the other hand they regard as permissible what seems to us immoral.” They show a “stubborn loyalty and ready benevolence towards brother Jews. But the rest of the world they confront with the hatred reserved for enemies. […] Those who come over to their religion adopt the practice [of circumcision], and have this lesson first instilled into them, to despise all gods, to disown their country, and set at naught parents, children, and brethren.¹

Despise all gods…

And the Jewish reputation for subversion and warmongering is ancient as well. The Roman Emperor Claudius issued an edict dated 41 AD concerning “the spirit of civil war fomented by the Alexandrian Jews” and compared it to “public sickness” infecting the whole Roman world (oikoumene).”² Subsequently, Claudius issued another edict directed to all the Jewish communities in the empire asking them not to “behave with contempt towards the gods of other peoples.”³

It’s that contempt for the gods of other peoples that sets Judaism apart and resonates down to the present day in the self-alienating Jew and in the pathological tribalism of his genocidal political expression, Zionism.

As early humans organized themselves into the first civilizations and became aware of themselves as such, they all developed myths to explain themselves and their place in the cosmos. The myths produced heroes and the cosmos—nature—produced gods. These first deities were local (for example, they might live on a nearby mountain), ethnocentric (they spoke the tribe’s language), embodied in nature (the river god, the thunder god, and so on), and numerous (all early peoples were polytheistic). And there were certain similarities between the various pantheons. For example, all ancient peoples had a sun god.⁴

As these civilizations developed and grew, they came into contact with each other. That contact could be either peaceful or violent.

To the extent the contact was peaceful, both civilizations benefited through the exchange of ideas, technology, and goods. To the extent the contact was violent, since violence consumes the talent, effort, and art of the people in the useless cause of destruction, the only benefit to be realized, if any, was in territory and spoils won by whichever group was able to inflict the most violence and destruction on the other.

Peaceful relations between civilizations always raises the sum total of human well-being, while violent relations never add and can only subtract from it.

The ancient civilizations had various methods of establishing and maintaining peaceful relations between themselves. Intermarriage, for example, was an effective way to establish a peaceful coexistence built on family ties.

Another method of establishing peaceful relations was through treaties. Treaties involved the swearing of oaths, and the weightiest, most solemn oaths were those sworn in the names of the gods. Two civilizations might each have its own myths and heroes, its own language, history, and culture, but they worshipped the same sun. Since they had their sun god (and, likely, several other gods) in common, they could stake their honor in the same currency. Thus, the syncretic properties of their two distinct pantheons facilitated the blessings of peace, warded off the evils of war, and emphasized something mysterious and powerful “above” them—their common humanity. This was likely our first conception of the divine.

Certainly it was a great leap forward for humanity the first time two groups of humans coexisted peacefully on the basis of their shared humanity—on the understanding that they cohabited the same place in the cosmos, in a position of equality before the divine.⁵

The Hebrew god, YHWH, too, began, not as the creator of the universe, but as an ethnic tribal god—just one among many. “For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.”⁶

But, as tribal gods go, YHWH was a particularly nasty one, “demonstrating his superiority over all other gods and demanding the exclusive worship of the Israelites.”⁷ Almighty YHWH, in all his majesty, tells his beloved chosen people: when you swear an oath, it better be in my name or I’ll fucking destroy you.

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.⁸

YHWH’s role in the outside world is the opposite of the peace-making role of other gods. YHWH commands the Jews to genocide children and block humanitarian aid.

And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:⁹

To ensure there’s no possibility of Jews living in peace with their neighbors, Yahweh forbids intermarriage—the law today in Israel.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.¹⁰

And rather than finding compatibility with other gods with the goal of peace on earth, the primitive, evil, blood-soaked anti-God, YHWH commands his terrified chosen slaves:

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.¹¹

So, that’s why the Coexist bumper sticker is antisemitic. Nothing could be more offensive to Judaism than placing it on an equal footing to the other gods. And coexist? You are denying YHWH his very essence, hater.

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writes:

“Why are Israeli soldiers sharing snuff videos from their genocide in Gaza?“ (Hawari). I’m sorry, but is it possible that the Jews are just a uniquely rotten group of demons? Common Jewish behavior is literally inconceivable to every other group of people in the world. We’re at the point where we are asked to accept increasingly elaborate excuses for completely inexcusable behavior, behavior which is exhibited over the entire range of the population, at amazing levels of popularity, both in Israel and elsewhere. It is all rooted in group supremacism, which has metastasized once the Jews were allowed to steal a state.

This is the abominable anti-god to which Christianity—thus, the West—has hitched its wagon. As I wrote on November 11, addressing Christians:

Just think about this blatant absurdity as an example: you claim to worship a loving God and, at the same time, you support the slaughter of innocent children in Gaza because it’s part of “God’s plan.” Your beliefs are just clearly wrong.

Is there a single church anywhere with the courage, intelligence, integrity, and compassion to denounce the imposter anti-god, YHWH? to redeem Christianity by bringing aid to the Palestinians? to proclaim Palestinians the children of God, not, in the language of the Jews, animals?

1. Tacitus, Histories V.3–5 (as quoted in Laurent Guyenot’s From Yahweh to Zion)

2. Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski, The Jews of Egypt, From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian, Princeton University Press, 1995, p. 183 (as quoted in Laurent Guyenot’s From Yahweh to Zion)

3. Quoted in Michael Grant, Jews in the Roman World, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011, pp. 134–135 (as quoted in Laurent Guyenot’s From Yahweh to Zion)

4. Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, “Ancient Sun Cults: Understanding Religious Rites in Terms of Developmental Psychology,” Mankind Quarterly, Volume XLVIII Number 1, Fall 2007, p. 101

5. The next time someone informs you that religion has caused more wars than anything else has, tell them that’s not true. Religion has caused more peace—at least until the world was afflicted with YHWH.

6. Micah 4:5

7. Laurent Guyenot, From Yahweh to Zion, p. 55

8. Deuteronomy 6:13-15

9. Ibid., 7:2-3

10. Ibid., 7:3-4

11. Ibid., 7:5-6