"What is happening right now in Israel could basically, I think, destroy, void 2000 years of Jewish thinking and culture and existence."
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari warned that if Israel continues on its present path such a trajectory would bring a “spiritual catastrophe” for Judaism itself.
Speaking during a conversation shared on the Unholy Podcast, he said the worst-case scenario could see an ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, the expulsion of millions of Palestinians, the disintegration of Israeli democracy and the rise of a greater Israel built on Jewish supremacy.
Harari compared the moment to the fall of the Second Temple in 70 CE, calling it one of the most significant turning points in Jewish history.
He said the danger is that this new reality would redefine Judaism worldwide, leaving Jews everywhere forced to grapple with an identity rooted in “the worship of power and violence” instead of values developed over two millennia.
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