{"id":199031,"date":"2019-12-09T08:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199031"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:26:58","slug":"corbyn-uriel-da-costa-and-the-meaning-of-real-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199031","title":{"rendered":"Corbyn, Uriel Da Costa and the Meaning of \u2018Real Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Dec 8, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-199032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Corbyn-Uriel-de-Costa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Corbyn-Uriel-de-Costa.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Corbyn-Uriel-de-Costa-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>\u00a0Once every day, a Labour official offers a grovelling apology to the Jewish community, but for some peculiar reason its leaders <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/272721\">seem unforgiving<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 They don\u2019t take Corbyn\u2018s expressions of remorse seriously. Today\u2019s attempt to appease his party\u2019s detractors was made by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on Andrew Marr\u2019s show, it was: \u201cwe\u2019ve done everything, I think, we can possibly do. We\u2019ve apologised to the Jewish community&#8221;.<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve done everything, I think, we can possibly do. We\u2019ve apologised to the Jewish community\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marr?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Marr<\/a> asks Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X0aR3j9iz6\">https:\/\/t.co\/X0aR3j9iz6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9CVbcX2pqg\">pic.twitter.com\/9CVbcX2pqg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCPolitics\/status\/1203619810749239296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h5>So far, nothing seems to have worked. If the Labour party is to be forgiven by the \u2018Jewish community,\u2019 it must perform an authentic act of total humiliation and the sooner it occurs, the better, as electionday is just a few days away.<\/h5>\n<h5>Therefore,\u00a0 I suggest that Corbyn, his shadow chancellor and any other person who contemplates becoming involved in British politics learn some basic Jewish history and in particular. the horrendous and tragic story\u00a0 of Jewish philosopher Uriel Da Costa .<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bh.org.il\/blog-items\/uriel-da-costa-the-story-of-a-nonbeliever\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Uriel Da Costa<\/span>,<\/a> (born in 1585-1590), was a Jewish rationalist who became a symbol among Jews and others of one martyred by the intolerance of rabbinical zeal.<\/h5>\n<h5>Da Costa was the scion of an aristocratic family of <em>Marranos<\/em> (Spanish and Portuguese Jews forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism). Initially, he studied canon law and became the treasurer of a collegiate church. Da Costa questioned the salvation depicted by the Roman Catholic church. In his search for authentic meaning and spirit, he turned to the Old Testament. He then converted to Judaism and convinced his close family to adopt his new\/old religion. At the age of 22, Da Costa fled with his family from Porto, Portugal to Amsterdam.<\/h5>\n<h5>Da Costa soon found that the form of Judaism that prevailed in Amsterdam had little to do with the Bible or with rational or analytical thinking and had much to do with an elaborate structure based on rabbinic legislation (Talmud). Being philosophically inclined, he formulated 11 theses (1616) attacking Rabbinic Judaism as non-biblical, for which he was excommunicated by the Rabbinical institutions.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/urieldacosta.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/urieldacosta.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/urieldacosta-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Da Costa next composed a larger work condemning rabbinic Judaism and denying the immortality of the soul (1623\u201324). In a path that may remind some of life in contemporary Orwellian Britain, the Amsterdam magistracy arrested Da Costa, fined him and deprived him of his books.<\/h5>\n<h5>In 1640, after years of ostracism which he could hardly bear,\u00a0 Da Costa made a public recantation. In response, the community\u2019s leaders choreographed an exceptionally cruel and humiliating rite. As described by the Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bh.org.il\/blog-items\/uriel-da-costa-the-story-of-a-nonbeliever\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Museum of the Jewish People<\/span><\/a>: \u201cIn a ceremony in the Great Synagogue of Amsterdam, da Costa was first forced to confess his sins, then endure 39 lashes, and finally to lie on the (synagogue) threshold and let the entire crowd step over his body.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Da Costa never recovered from the barbarian ritual. A few months later he shot himself in the head in the middle of the street.<\/h5>\n<h5>If Corbyn, his shadow cabinet or anyone else within the Labour party is interested in forgiveness,\u00a0the road is open for them to undergo Urial Da Costa\u2019s experience.<\/h5>\n<h5>However, some major categorical differences between Da Costa and Labour politicians must be examined before such a development matures into a televised spectacle. While Da Costa was an exquisite free thinker who served as an inspiration to the great Baruch Spinoza (who was subjected to similar Rabbinical malevolence just a few years later), Labour\u2019s leadership isn\u2019t exactly an intellectual collective. Their contribution to authentic thinking and freedom of thought is currently in the red.\u00a0 Unlike the sensitive Da Costa who couldn\u2019t bear the humiliation and ended his life under tragic circumstances, Corbyn and the Labour elite are more than likely to survive such a humiliating scenario, they may even enjoy it. Like most British politicians, they long ago lost contact with the \u00a0concepts of dignity and pride.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gilad.online\/writings\/2019\/12\/8\/corbyn-uriel-da-costa-and-the-meaning-of-real-apology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Corbyn or anyone else within the Labour party is interested in forgiveness from the Jewish community they should heed the fate of Uriel Da Costa. 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