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hoffman-judaism-strange-gods   Review of Michael Hoffman   Judaism's Strange Gods   (2011; revised 2017, 2022. Hoffman's book self-published by Independent History and Research, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho)

Note: Nov 11 2022:– Another of Hoffman's books, which I failed to notice, is Judaism Discovered: a Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition, and Deceit but I haven't ordered a copy from Hoffman. Both this book and the one reviewed here appear to have been banned by Amazon.
      Hoffman includes material on Medici Popes and printed publication of the Talmud in Italy while translation of the Bible into English was given capital punishment. This suggests the Medici were (or thought they were) Jews.
      Listening to a talk with Hoffman, it's clear he thinks 'usury' is the same as "renting money". He hasn't thought of long-term loans for political or racial ends. The loans from Jews to both sides in a war, with the winner also liable for the loans to the loser is absent from his ideas. This of course is a fatal flaw.
      Hoffman, pleased with himself, says that some rabbi said that Hoffman is a 'student of the Talmud'. He may have meant that Hoffman was aceptable to Jews, being insufficiently perceptive.
- RW
Note: ten years after this review:– I noticed that Hoffman has published a book called Twilight Language. It seems to be the same type as his pre-9/11 book supposedly on secret societies. Actual solid identifiable content seems to be lacking. Here's his visual advert for Twilight Language. He looks older, more beaten-down, and not technically competent, as he reads from a screen to a videocam mounted above his head. After ten minutes or so of euphemisms and routine phrases aimed at simple people, before a couple of bookcases which perhaps themselves broadcast a message, he invokes Jesus Christ. This is very sad. And now I recall that (for example) he never discussed the Kahal system in his earlier books. Or other operational methods.
      I suspect ruthlessness is the Jewish distinctive method: presumably, group A of people who feel pity vs group B who genuinely prefer to kill their opponents will generally result in expansion of the killer Bs.
- RW



The title Judaism's Strange Gods is taken from an English version of Exodus 20:2-3.   I am Yahweh your God who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no strange gods before me. The book therefore examines gods, presumably from Judaism, given preference over ‘Yahweh’.

And here we have a problem, as Michael Hoffman is convinced not only that ‘Jesus Christ’ once existed, but also that he was fathered by ‘God’—presumably ‘Yahweh’. Hoffman is also convinced that Christianity's principles and doctrines make up some sort of complete prescription for life, the ‘true Church’.

But 'Judaics' are fixated on writings which don't accept the priority of Jesus Christ. This is (one assumes) why Hoffman spent many years over Johan Eisenmenger and McCaul and learning to read ancient scripts—but it's not clear to me how, or if, the meanings of their words are definitely known—and carrying out careful processes of exegesis. If the texts have survived accurately, and if they are the words of some superior being, all well and good; if not, they are human products, aimed at persuasion, bias, control, information, and resulting from human psychology of learning processes. Hoffman claims, and his claim appears true, to have burrowed deeply enough to guarantee the accuracy of his quotations. He pleads that readers who oppose him 'do so on solid ground, disputing our facts, details and data.'

Another problem is that the Old Testament has a great deal of vicious material (the Torah is the first five books of the O.T., in the usual meaning at least) and it's not clear to me that the Talmud has much additional stuff, apart from relatively chronologically new material, padding, amplified unpleasantness, Rabbinical hair-splitting and confusion. I suspect Catholics of all types shy away from the absurdly non-Christian O.T. because of this. So, a few but not many, tackle the Talmud

      '... God grant you the grace to understand that it is the rabbis who are the world's most flagrant and virulent Jew-haters.'

Why can it be important to know Talmudic backgrounds, beliefs, 'holy days', et al?   Consider for example this comment on the executions of Germans after the Second World War:
      It was a ritual sacrifice of the ten sons of Haman being executed. Ten "sons" (colleagues) of Hitler. That's the most important aspect relating to the Nuremburg tribunals. It was also a performance of the 'Rule by Revenge' methods of the Soviets.
    On Purim, too.
Note by RW

I'm afraid his book is somewhat amateurish in its layout, with paste-ups, a great deal of centred text in place of the usual left-justified text, little in the way of helpful emphasis, and no running chapter headings. To find a chapter, you have to look up the starting page number in the contents—for example, p 62 starts his list of 'Principal Sources of the Divine Law of ... Orthodox Judaism', of which there appear to be about twenty, arranged chronologically in five eras. It's somewhat pathless and confusing—though this is unlikely to be entirely his fault. His introduction is a rather dismaying assemblage of extracts whose significance is unclear.
      It occurs to me, in fact, that Hoffman has considerable experience with both modern and ancient books, and with booklets and online material; maybe the dismaying layout is intentional? Perhaps Jews who want to kill people with the temerity to read their stuff are put off by lack of clarity? Who knows.

Here are the Contents: Author's Preface / Caveat (omitted from the Contents table) / Introductions, including to the General, Judaic, and Christian / Principal Sources of the Divine Law of Judaism / Judaism's Attack on the Prophets and Patriarchs / Judaism's Bible Code Nullifies the Word of God / Loopholes and Escape clauses / Lying / Bribery / Contents of the Babylonian Talmud / Warrant for the Murder of Gentiles / Groundwork for Talmudic Courts / Anti-Black Racism / Christians in the Talmud [which includes the duping delight Maimonides 'Guide of the Perplexed']/ Judaism and Reincarnation / Star of Bohemia, Not David / Judaism and Menstruation / Judaism and Abortion / Calendar and Holy Days / Yom Kippur and the Kol Nidrei Nullification of Vows / Birkat HaMinim: The Curse on Christians / Child Molestation and Homosexuality / Priestcraft in the Synagogue / Glossary & Index.
      The glossary (c. 130 words and short phrases, are Anglicized, presumably from Hebrew. I don't know if the words are transliterated in French, German, and other European languages. Thus ‘Ladino The language of the Iberian Sephardim’. The glossary in many cases needs expansion: for example, ‘Kohen: Priest’ presumably includes only 'Judaics', but what about grades? And who says some person is a 'Kohen'?
      ‘Mamzer: Bastard’ has similar problems of definition. Hoffman's longest glossary entries give explanatory detail: Khazars and Yichus; movements and schisms; details of compilations; legalisms. The longest entry is Shiksa. There is no entry for 'gentile'.
      The Glossary doesn't mention important details outlined in the rest of the text, for example the Eruv [wired area considered Jewish, by Jews], the Hanukkah hoax, Kol Nidre, 'Noahide Laws', and Purim.
      The 8-page index has subsections on BIBLE, GENTILES, JUDAISM, RABBIS, and TALMUD. Almost all these entries are anti-Gentile or pro-Judaic. For some reason, ‘God's word’ is not indexed. Nor is ‘pagan’. Unfortunately, complicated references are only give a string of page numbers; does Hoffman really expect readers to look at twenty or so entries on 'nullification of its [the Bible's] laws and words'?


  The Importance of Sophistication

The Caveat forewarns readers that   there is a 'death penalty for critics of Judaism who study the Talmud.' Very few non-Jews know this, and Jews are careful to avoid the topic.   Hoffman quotes a number of rabbis (I'm not sure he, or anyone, states just exactly who counts as a Rabbi—there seem to be large numbers of them). It's not clear to me whether reading such non-Jewish authors as Hoffman counts as 'study of the Talmud'. I expect an exponent of pilpul might argue that it doesn't; after all, endless apologetics for Judaics would never have been considered liable for death.

I'm not particularly attracted by Hoffman's presentation. But he makes an extremely important point: bookshop shelves groan under the weight of books against Islam (and, he refrains from pointing out, books against Christianity, and pro-vulgarised and wrong religion) but books giving facts on Judaism are all but non-existent. For that reason, his book (and the longer version from which this is condensed) may be the only book of its type that you will ever see. And it could be censored soon enough. So I have to recommend it on grounds of importance; hence my star rating, which is not a very honest assessment compared with similar, but non-existent, books.

Unfortunately, modern features emerging from Judaic woodwork aren't historically important enough for Hoffman. The word 'shiksa', more or less calling all non-Jew women whores, isn't explored much by Hoffman, though it must have had effects—Leo Frank, and 'Jack the Ripper' come to mind. The implausible matrilineal inheritance belief isn't (I believe) dated. The invention or co-option of such groups as Freemasons and Common Purpose, and structures such as Supreme Courts and company law, aren't looked into; neither are the fanatical groups which emerge from time to time.

Let me outline some disparate topics here, so far as I've found them.

I think I detect a distinctive feature in some passages, of Judaics pleading for money. The writers are generally what might be called scholarly types, whose brains react to texts placed before them, and who respond to repeated applications of similar material. Destroyers of other people's libraries, interested solely in topics they have been accustomed to, anxious that women with money will selectively marry them, wanting their flocks to be timid and scared, concerned that their expertises, however thin, should be valued. Perhaps the Jewish century will crumble as the real value of their absurd rubbish is perceived.

Hoffman takes many of his premisses from Christianity. One of them is love. His Introduction to Judaics assures them he loves them. And hopes to find a Judaic wanting to convert, with co-operative work in mind. Does he love Jews who mass murdered Russian Orthodox priests, for example? Well, who knows. But he is clear on 'Nazis' (National Socialists) who he abominates. So the love seems unevenly distributed. Hoffman's reasons for disliking 'Nazis' seems to be their 'racism'—his word, which seems truly odd, since it is a Jewish neologism not even 100 years old. It's also one of his reasons for disliking 'Jews': '... Judaic souls enslaved to racial nationalism ... an absurdity when it is applied to a conglomerate of disparate people and races today classed generically and falsely under the heading of “Jew”'. We also have a chapter-and-a-bit on 'Anti-Black Racism'. Jewish or Judaic (or Pharisaic?) writings express dislike for blacks, but Hoffman doesn't seem to realise they had more contact with them than the white Europeans later persecuted to convert to Christianity. Maybe they knew what they were talking about, and felt a difference which Christianity had no need to know of. Hoffman writes on abortion and other aspects of Jewish tampering with bodies; he takes what seems to most whites a common-sense view of approximate equality taken from times in which societies were more homogeneous, versus the Rabbinical view that only Jews count. The chapter Christians in the Talmud is Hoffman's longest.

Judaic obsessions with toilets, menstruation, non-Jew women as whores, child molestation make rather disgusting material for Hoffman's pen. The chicken twirling thing is amusing and suggests a hypnotic inbred tendency to do whatever the victim is told when young.

I have to say there is some unrevisionist information from modern times. Hoffman's treatment of false flags, the 'Holocaust', First and Second World Wars, US war crimes suppression, for example seem over-conventional to me and not in the spirit of revisionism.

Hoffman looks at the calendar, the six-pointed star, but not (I think) the number system, defects in which may help explain absurdities such as the '6 million' repetitions, the 600 cubit penis, etc. It's striking how unoriginal the Judaic mind seems to be: the calendar, star, number system, alphabet, hanukkah through to Bernstein, Boas, Einstein, Freud, are impressive more by their failings than achievements.
      Hoffman devoted many pages to halachic observance, and menstruating Judaic women, who are niddah—goyim women, if that's the right word, are always 'niddah'. Parents of disabled or retarded children, it seems, blame this rubbish above genetics.
      On 'The Hebrew Calendar' (pp 330-337) we have two diagrams, showing 12 months with of 30 days and 29. This of course falls short of a year, and a system of leap months at 2 or 3 years intervals makes some sort of correction, apparently repeating every 19 years. What happens to the remaining quarter of a day isn't explained. Annoyingly, Hoffman explains that the Judaics to some extent plan by their calendar. A table of significant dates—such as Tisha b'Av—for the next (say) forty years, to watch for Judaic crimes, wars etc, might have been handy. Hoffman divides the past into pagan times and then times illuminated by the transcendent splendours and wonders of Christianity. This weakens his writings—he seems to think achievements of Babylonians and others were evil, damaging, or negligible. Hoffman underrates the importance of observations and calendars. All this is perhaps typical of human parasitism: let others do the work. Then we may deign to mimic it.
      Six pointed star. Page 291 has a scan of a 'medieval rabbinic text of magic spells and incantations', showing simple small circles linked with lines. Bequeathed, says Hoffman, in the 14th century by Charles IV of Bohemia'. Taken from a 1991 edition of a book by 'Rabbi Gunther Plaut'. (Hoffman does not provide a bibliography; references are in the text).
      Hoax of Hannukah (pp 344-345). Rather disappointingly (I'd expected this to have an identifiable date of fakery) Hoffman is concerned with interpretations, such as a sign of God's continuing adoration of the Jewish people!
      Purim. The 14th of Adar beginning the evening before. Religious customs 'include a host of primitive revenge motifs'. Including George W Bush launching an invasion of Iraq on Purim, March 19, 2003.

Notre Dame picNotre Dame commentNotre Dame denial
First Facebook comment describes a Jewish technique: warn people, and take indifference as proof Jews can go ahead, in this case burn Notre Dame.
  The second comment states the image was not genuine, which of course is hard to check without trawling through Simpsons cartoons. It shows why sources are helpful.
  Something urgently needed is a concordance of Jewish techniques of deception, derived from, but not spelt out, in the Talmud.
    People of Hoffman's mentality seem to assume that 'sacred' books are reliable indicators of activity. But it's obvious enough that the activities of Christians often, or usually, haven't and don't follow their bookish ideas. And no doubt the same is true of the Talmud.
What's missing is a sense of Judaic techniques to parasitise and damage. Hoffman's topics are like descriptions of bones and organs, but do not explain how they work together. (Hoffman's admired Scottish predecessor, Alexander McCaul, has the same approach, in my view unhelpful in decoding 'Judaic' behaviour). Judging by Hoffman's textual evidence, these people could never have achieved anything: they would have died out through wasting time on pointless debates about unimportant subjects, and through lack of science, and inbreeding, and opposition. Kevin MacDonald, and Solzhenitsyn, go some way to supplying greater completeness, but the basis of laws, rents, money, control of countries, control of daily lives, secret language groups remains unexplored.
      Here's an example of what's missing. Someone online wrote that Jews usually or always support, in their secretive, covert, way, the weaker party of two. There are therefore several issues: (1) When do they decide to start such a scheme? (2) Is the summary an accurate statement of what they do? (3) Is it in fact 'Talmudic', since there must have been some limit to additions to the Talmud. (4) What are the results of such policies in practice?

Other conspicuous omissions include Jewish destructiveness, commemorated in their real or claimed complete destruction of enemies' buildings, animals, and men—but not female sex slaves. In practice, Jews have destroyed large chunks of Russia, China, central/eastern Europe, and central and South America—which had civilisations which had developed in isolation for the longest time, and which Roman Catholics and other proxies for Jews destroyed on a huge scale. Notre Dame's destruction points the same way. Another example is the British Empire, which in 1900 had more shipping than the rest of the world, now almost erased from historical memory. The spoliation of Vietnam and its people is another example. The ancient world is still a target: the Ziggurats in Iraq having been mostly demolished.

Much of this seems to be a pre-literacy attitude. Jews seem to assume that survivors or observers or rediscoverers of atrocities can simply be forgotten.

I expect Hoffman's work to take its place with other modern critical types, such as Kevin MacDonald, who do not go as far as they should. And the CODOH people systematically dismantling the Holohoax fraud. But it's nowhere near as useful as it might have been.

RW 2018-01-16 | Enlarged 2018-12-23 & 2019-04-20


Disappointingly, Hoffman is unable to face examination of facts about Jews and the so-called Holocaust, and Jews and 20th-century wars. This 'affirmation' is copied from his website in December 2020, but was certainly there a long time previously.
rerevisionist | October 19, 2018
Nobody here (I think; checked quite carefully) has considered the idea that WW2 was orchestrated by Jews. The British (saturated with the Jewish BBC radio, the Jewish press (both the Times and down to the Daily Mirror), the Jewish-based Church of (((England))) etc had been primed to be anti-German. The Germans, whatever Hitler lovers think, were saturated with Jew media including the 'Social Democrats', so-called Nazis, German churches etc and ideas of 'perfidious Albion' etc. The fact is Jews controlled the USA, the USSR, the UK, and no doubt France, Turkey, China—and Germany. Jews unfortunately had a worldwide overview and could direct propaganda wherever they wanted, in different versions for different countries. Jewish motivation was as per the Talmud aimed to kill as many 'enemies' as they could. Hitler was not a single agent acting on his own any more than Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin et al. Jews arranged Japan to fight Russia; then China. The whole thing was Jew money and propaganda vs a bunch of peoples in disarray—as we still are. I’ve made notes in big-lies.org/how-master-race-won-ww2/ which is incomplete, but imho needs at least to be understood and debated. Hitler knew what he was doing and so did his financiers and backers and writers.

Note added 20 Oct 2018: In an online commentary on Hitler, Hoffman includes this: ... it is difficult to believe that Hitler was so steeped in the occult that he was more of a practicing magician than a statesman or military prodigy. ...

I don't know if Hoffman will read this; if so, I'd advise him to prepare himself by first relaxing in a comfortable chair, drinking something comforting and non-alcoholic, bracing himself, and reminding himself of good experiences in his past life. Now, please take a deep breath, and read on. The comment I must make is (wait for it; calm yourself; open your mind to a safe and secure extent)—wait for it: Mr Hoffman, there is no such thing as magic! Shocking, I know. Terrifying. Horrifying. Hitler more of a 'practicing magician'? Ridiculous and saddening stuff from Hoffman.


26 Nov 2018. Searching for Jewish practical algorithms to explain the state of world. Michael Hoffman's replies convince me his interest in Judaics begins and ends with religion.

Dear Michael Hoffman II -----
'Talmud' treated as a rule book - what can be inferred?
I'd like some help from a non-Judaic scholar of the Talmud. The question I have is: how does the Talmudic book of rules explain activities of Judaics through the ages? The point being to try to identify patterns which have repeated in the past, and which presumably may reappear in future. And to try to decode whether events are consistent with Judaic authorship. This of course is difficult--it may be difficult to reliably identify Judaics, and it may be difficult to find reliable evidence--for example, events of 9/11, start of the 'Great War', how the 'Fed' really works.

You give 18 Talmudic quotations in a video, about half being about deaths of 'Goyim', plus the reasons (mostly I think the 'animal nature'), and material on lies, oaths, and sex. But there are more complex instructions, or recommendations, of this type (apologies for the non-technical accounts):
      'Goyim' should be warned of future acts by Jews, in coded form, so they can't claim not to have been warned
      Jews should act as separate groups if they attack separate groups of Goy(s). I.e. one fraud somewhere should be regarded as the business of only one group of Jews. E.g. Japan and Russia finances to be considered separately from Britain and Germany
      Priests are to be paid by their underlings/congregation/whatever for specifically laid-down activities; I believe getting the best cuts of 'burnt offerings', fees for checking a body is in fact dead
      Maternal descent, although in defiance of genetics, rules out males Jewish descent with 'Goyim'
      Kol nidre is a way to bypass even the most solemn oaths, once a year
      Usury seems to include complete ruin of a defaulter, e.g. not just selling an asset of 'Goyim' but seizing the entire assets, even if far greater than the loan
      Judaics seem to go for people at the top of hierarchies. And this seems to include support for pretenders where feasible; perhaps agitating for nations, so one national leader might replace many local leaders of smaller geographical areas
      Supporting two rival sides financially, while ensuring both loans are honored, is recommended
      Identifying splits and rivalries is part of their policy.
      Their skill in lying and deception might be genetically descended. It seems very common in them

I've given a lot of possible examples, wondering whether a process of deduction from the Talmud (or other writings) allows such things to be predicted as likely activities for Judaics. On the face of it, since life is short and intense logical study is not for everyone, activities to be followed by all would appear to be fairly simple. For example, Barbara Spectre and many others like her need a fairly simple logical chain to come out with their non-forward-thinking repetitive aphorisms.
If you've read this far, I hope you can see what I'm trying to deduce/infer from the Talmud(s). Surely some historical dots can be connected. And I'd hope some opposition devised.
Rae West


revisionisthistory.org has many articles by Michael Hoffman. One is www.revisionisthistory.org/page1/page12/page12.html “The Complete Guide to Killing Non-Jews” a review of a 2009 newspaper piece on a book Torat ha-Melekh, of which the ‘principal anti-goyimite author is Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira.’
      Hoffman seems innocent of mathematical logic. The book mentioned seems to be a collection of large numbers of extracts from the, or a, Talmud, I think with interleaved material written in modern Hebrew. It appears to be on such lines as: If the probability of a non-Jew harming a Jew (to some specified extent) exceeds the probability that non-Jewish reaction will cause equal harm, then the non-Jew may be killed. It's an amusing idea that the 'Torah' could be represented by Venn diagrams. I suppose military action operates on the same sort of lines: Christian attitudes to war, in practice, must have some such formulation. The Jewish idea is simply that it's at war with all other communities.