YAIR ROSENBERG, writing in the Jewish Tablet, recently accused black poet Alice Walker of vicious anti-Semitism because of her poem on the Talmud. Jeepers, you know things are bad when even a star like Walker needs to be ripped to shreds.

Michael Hofffman replies to the accusations. He writes:

Mockery is a stratagem that the Talmudic mentality puts forth as a substitute for truth.  That’s one “answer” — mocking Alice Walker as a myopic blunderer so sloppy she is seduced by tiresome and hateful libels. How do we know they are libels? The media tells us so. If we doubt the media, then we are cast as demons inhabiting an anti-Semitic hell.

The other tried and true tactic is censorship and suppression, lest there be a reckoning, which would consist in the realization of the concealed truth that Orthodox Judaism’s holiest book (far-surpassing the written Torah in authority) — the Mishnah and Gemara, i.e. the Torah sheBeal peh, a.k.a. the Talmud of Babylon —  is most definitely a book of ferocious racism, savage hatred and scurrilous pornography.

But rather than face those inconvenient truths and deal with them forthrightly, Yair Rosenberg and a thousand hacks of greater and lesser hack-aptitude almost always parrot, by way of reply, something along the lines of:

Slanders of the Talmud are as old as the Talmud.

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