וַיֹּאמֶר, נָקֵל מִהְיוֹתְךָ לִי עֶבֶד, לְהָקִים אֶת-שִׁבְטֵי יַעֲקֹב, ונצירי (וּנְצוּרֵי) יִשְׂרָאֵל לְהָשִׁיב; וּנְתַתִּיךָ לְאוֹר גּוֹיִם, לִהְיוֹת יְשׁוּעָתִי עַד-קְצֵה הָאָרֶץ

“Universal Jewish national liberation is the beginning of universal emancipation.”

Isaiah 49:6 (translation by means of abstract terminology which did not exist in pre-modern Hebrew)

What is Pan-Jewish nationhood? This is certainly an important question to ask considering the existence of so many different Crypto-Jewish peoples in the broader Middle East and indeed around the world. While there is clearly an openly and proudly Jewish nation that has restored its Hebrew national heritage idiom and indigenous-sovereign independence, who else is also Jewish and whose preserved Jewish national status therefore remains to be officially restored?

Israel's Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948

The Pan-Jewish nation includes both (1) historically overt Jews (overt Ethiopian Jewry, Karaites, Samaritans and Talmudic Jewry) and (2) a tremendous ethnic diversity of historically Crypto-Jewish peoples around the world as Crypto-Jewish peoples outside the Middle East and North Africa have in the past 64 years of renewed, restored Jewish independence in the land of Israel tended to become increasingly less secretive and more assertive identity-wise about their own respective Pan-Jewish ethnological status.

Although it is true that there are certainly such things as many different cognitively distinctive Pan-Jewish subspecies (both overtly Jewish ones and Crypto-Jewish ones) that historically developed higher average intelligence than surrounding historical populations and usually primarily so as an evolutionary response to persecution & discrimination – yet there is no such thing as non-miscegenated Israelites living today although the ancient Israelites seem to have been quite genetically distinctive and may possibly have constituted one cognitively distinctive human taxon.

This is so as the Homo genus despite pervasive contemporary prejudicial Eurocentric diversity denial (simplistically pretending that all humans are idealized cognitive Europeans) even today constitutes so many different human species & human subspecies. That diversity should be a source of pan-human pride & mutual appreciation and certainly not one of inter-taxonomic stigmatization & derogation. The main underlying contemporary structural problem is not racism or average cognitive differences in measured intelligence quotient between different human taxa but rather civilizational oppression/derogation more generally against persons with “comparably low” intelligence - whether they are non-human or human - as eurocentrically compared to normative Europeans. The strategic political challenge for global open society is thus to accommodate & embrace the value of cognitive diversity more broadly among persons generally irrespective of taxa since cognitive diversity is in fact the very foundation of open society.

Many Jewish/Crypto-Jewish ethnic groups have in part shared common Israelite ancestry, yet other Pan-Jewish ethnic groups have very little Israelite ancestry if any at all. However, even those Jewish/Crypto-Jewish ethnic groups with more or less noteworthy, shared Israelite genetic ancestry are also in part descendants of converts to Judaism as ancient Judaism generally welcomed converts to Judaism. While there are many specifically Jewish/Crypto-Jewish subspecies, other Pan-Jewish ethnic groups do not belong to statistically cognitively distinctive Jewish/Crypto-Jewish subspecies, yet of course this does not in any way whatsoever make them any less Jewish.

The Pan-Jewish nation is not one single subspecies but a rainbow nation of various Jewish/Crypto-Jewish peoples around the world, including in pigmented Africa as Pan-Jewish nationhood is very much about national inclusion of Pan-Jewish cognitive, cultural, ethnic, genetic and religious diversity.

In fact, there is no other country in the world where contemporary domestic miscegenation is more prevalent than in liberal-democratic, sovereign-indigenous Israel. This is not only increasingly common between Israeli Ashkenazi Jews and other Talmudic Jews in Israel but even to a much larger degree between various genetically distinctive Israeli communities of non-Ashkenazi Talmudic Jews, many of whom like the Ashkenazi subspecies historically constitute various cognitively distinctive Jewish subspecies. Ashkenazi ethnicity therefore is not demographically limited to the Ashkenazi subspecies – and the same is true of the various other Talmudically Jewish ethnicities in both Israel & Diaspora.

Continuing immigration to Israel of Ethiopian Crypto-Jews as well as continuing arrival of immigrants from the former Soviet Union of often mixed genetic origins along with also often non-Jewish spouses – are adding significantly to this dynamic, genetic melting pot that is multicultural & multiethnic, liberal-democratic, sovereign-indigenous Israel.

There is absolutely nothing shameful about becoming ethnically initiated into a tribal people, on the contrary so, it should always be regarded as a great honor for both those initiated and for those who initiate them. Furthermore, it is indeed very normal in human genetic history for neighboring human populations to in fact exchange genes to at least some degree. This is so despite the fact that taxonomic endogamy where easily socially accessible does mostly remain a universal human procreative norm except for xeno-rape which instead tends to be mostly inter-taxonomic in more taxonomically diverse human societies.

However, only an Anti-Jewish racist would presume that historical descent from converts to Judaism makes a Jew non-Jewish. Only Anti-Jewish racists of the worst kind hold the view that non-miscegenated Israelite “genetic purity” is a requirement for sharing in Jewish nationality. Rather, all Jews/Crypto-Jews of noteworthy shared Israelite genetic descent have in fact mixed ancestry as a result of very legitimately welcoming converts to Judaism throughout much of Jewish history. In fact, even the first Israelites must have originally been descended from ethnic non-Israelites prior to the first ancient Israelite ethnogenesis as well as indeed prior to the ultimate evolutionary historical development of what may have been the ancient human Israelitic taxon.

Arabist Anti-Jewish polemicists often claim that contemporary Talmudic Jewry is “non-Jewish” due to Jewish ancestors having in fact welcomed converts to Judaism where Talmudic Jewry resided in Diaspora for generations away from the land of Israel. Islamist Anti-Jewish polemicists add to that very racist libel by claiming that Biblical Jewry and prominent Jewish historical figures like King David, King Solomon and Jesus were actually Muslims (sic!) to which Arabist Anti-Jewish polemicists further add the equally absurd libel that Ashkenazi Jews are actually Christian European imposters! While it is certainly true that Ashkenazi Jewry is genetically most prominently of Israelite & Italian descent, having historically welcomed Italian converts (or their descendants) into this particular Jewish tribe should be a badge of tremendous pride & honor for Israeli-Italian and Israeli-European relations. This should certainly not be a source of shame as contemporary Anti-Jewish racist bigots would have it, following in the path of Nazi Germany in trying to racially stigmatize Jewish genetic origins.

The Pan-Jewish nation is a tribal federation and was so already in ancient Israelite times. Most indigenous peoples around the world are also tribal so the Pan-Jewish nation is in very good company indeed. In fact, sovereign-indigenous, liberal-democratic Israel is internationally still very much discriminated & semiotically oppressed by third world nations for in fact constituting a tribal fourth world nation – i.e. the historical & contemporary structural untouchables of Islamdom. The contemporary (1) Augustinian notion of diverse urbanizing (2) multiethnic society is one based on embracing (3) societal pluralism and is obviously originally derived from (4) Jewish prophetic vision of the future of the city of Jerusalem as contemporary Jewish democratic Israel is so eminently emblematic of all four ideas.

Although the fanciful notion of non-miscegenated so called “lost” Israelite tribes with intact endogamous Israelite tribal divisions still being around there somewhere – does remain a source of fascination – Pan-Jewish peoples have all historically welcomed & married converts to Judaism and so did Jewish descendants generally of the original twelve tribes of Israel. Even King David is described in the Hebrew Bible as a great-grandson of the Moabite Ruth who chose to join the Israelite tribal federation.

Jewish nationality is carried and maintained through Jewish/Crypto-Jewish ethnicity and while a non-Jew may practice Judaism, s/he becomes Jewish only when s/he becomes part of an existing Jewish/Crypto-Jewish ethnicity or even forms a new Jewish ethnicity! S/he thus becomes part of the tribes of Israel by adding to its multicognitive, multicultural, multiethnic, multigenetic and multireligious rainbow human diversity. However, when a particular people make an apparently somewhat substantiated claim about being “the lost Israelite tribes”, this tends to rather be an exoteric sign of Crypto-Jewish ethnological esotericism.

Alevi Judaism is certainly a demographically important and very interesting case, where Hellenist Judaism forms the inner envelope of its esoteric core, while many popular exoteric – often syncretistic – Alevi practices have developed over the ages, often in response to intrusive religious imperialism.

Bektashi Temple in Vlorë, Albania. "Kuz-Baba is the patron Saint of the city of Vlorë and is revered by all inhabitants both Christian and Bektashi. Christians refer to the place as Saint Kozma, after a pre-Ottoman period Christian saint, although there are others who maintain that a pagan temple and god worship on the site existed even before Christian times."

Although Alevism & Alawism are quite distinctive from each other in exoteric popular practice; the Hellenist Jewish inner envelope that contains the core esoteric teachings is essentially the same as that very envelope has not changed that much since Antiquity.

Alevis of hereditary priestly lineage are recognized in Alevi esoteric tradition as having ancient Pan-Jewish patrilineage which in the case of a minority of these Priestly Alevi families is esoterically recognized as proper Levitic patrilineage from the priestly Israelite tribe of Levi. The patrilineage of Common Alevis is in contrast considered in Alevi esoteric tradition to be derived from descendants of mostly Greek-speaking Hellenist converts to ancient rural Hellenist Judaism – including particularly under Byzantine rule – many of whom were originally non-Jewish fellow sincere practitioners of Hellenist Judaism.

Common Alevis are obviously no less Jewish than are Priestly Alevis, having been Jewish for many, many generations as Alevi-identified Alevis generally have in fact long been oppressed as Jews – i.e. as the structural untouchables of Islamdom – by Muslim religious imperialism. In addition and even aside from the traditional prominent societal functions of Alevi hereditary priests (dedes), there is also secretive hierarchic initiation into Alevi Judaism both within and beyond the open Bektashi denomination of Alevi Judaism and this is not entirely closed to Common Alevis. This form of Hellenist Judaism that is Alevism also remains structurally similar to the historical Judaism of the Pharisees in the land of Israel in the sense of being largely rural & decentralized, yet also structurally similar to the historical Judaism of the Sadducees in Jerusalem in the sense of prominent community leadership by hereditary patrilineal Jewish priesthood.

The designation Alevi/Alawi is strictly speaking an historical misnomer, yet according to Alevi esoteric tradition, this designation emerged as Priestly Hellenist Jewish religious officials in Antiquity were often publically referred to as Halevi/Levite in the slightly incorrect sense as “Jewish priests” (as opposed to the proper meaning of patrilineal Jewish descendants of the priestly Israelite tribe of Levi) and this designation eventually came to denote what became the Alevi-identified Alawi/Alevi/Bektashi Crypto-Jewish community.

Yet, there is no question that those closely related Near Eastern Crypto-Jewish denominations functionally very much founded on hereditary priesthood do in fact constitute Priestly Judaism in the same sense that Talmudic Judaism constitutes Rabbinical Judaism. Ancient Priestly Judaism generally, including what eventually became the Druze, the Kaka’i, the Shabak, the Yarsans and the Yezidis, with functionally very prominent hereditary priesthood leadership – generally used to warmly welcome converts to Judaism in Antiquity.

A fusion of Priestly Judaism & Hellenist Judaism that became Alevi Judaism became integrated as a popular low-status predominant cultural substratum of Greek Christianity in Byzantine Anatolia, the northern Levant and the southwestern Balkans at a time when Asia Minor was mostly Greek-speaking, yet Priestly Judaism later had to struggle immensely to existentially survive the historically subsequent, yet in contrast extremely hostile Muslim religious imperialism.

There are many Jewish traces & clues in exoteric practices of esoteric Alevi Judaism that have been deliberately left to those Alevis who are sufficiently curious to know what to look for. Alevi Hellenist Judaism is primarily a life-embracing philosophy where (1) continuous historical (re-)appearances of human angelic avatars, (2) transmigration of souls and (3) bi-gender divinity form the main pillars of its cosmology outside eschatology. The Torah & the Quran are for learned Alevis purely esoteric, human-made text collections where only esoteric interpretations have valid philosophical meaning. Neither the Torah, nor the Quran is considered to have validity as historical narratives and Moses & Muhammad are therefore both regarded as belonging to the realm of exoteric mythology. The rest of the Hebrew Bible is in contrast acknowledged as both esoteric and in large parts historical in narrating the early Canaanite history of the Pan-Jewish nation.

It may perhaps surprise some that the structurally very similar Crypto-Jewish Ismailis are virtually indistinguishable from Alevi Judaism in esoteric teachings, despite like Alevis being outwardly a special kind of purported “Shia Muslims”. Ismailism (which actually is really “Israelism”) is thus another form of esoteric Hellenist Judaism. Ismaili Judaism warmly welcomes non-Jews into its ethnic fold who upon community integration subsequently become no less ethnically Jewish than natively born Jews/Crypto-Jews – whether Talmudic, Alevi, Ismaili, Judeo-Christian Aramean, Samaritan or otherwise. However, the historical, contemporary and future task of the open Bektashi denomination of Alevi Judaism is primarily to welcome back Islamized descendants in Crypto-Jewish ethnicities (especially Islamized descendants of Alevi/Hellenist Jews) more or less forcibly converted by Muslim religious imperialism.

There are a number of very important Jewish loose threads in the history of religion of Turkey & Kurdistan. Both the deported ten Israelite tribes and Hellenist Jewry are supposed to have somehow disappeared from the history of this part of the world, yet there is of course no evidence of this purported disappearance or even ancient collective migration elsewhere. The contemporary Crypto-Jewish communities of Alawism, Alevism, Bektashism, Druzism, Yarsanism (including Kaka’i & Shabak) and Yezidism are all led by hereditary priests and the shared historico-religious origins of these denominations prior to intrusive religious imperialism is supposedly unknown. These important historical dots have thus for far too long remained unconnected. However, Hellenist Judaism and the ten deported Israelite tribes certainly did not disappear.

The Judaism of the ten tribes welcomed converts to Judaism in very large numbers in the Median Empire, primarily in eastern and western sections of the Median Empire as according to the respective esoteric historical narratives of Priestly Judaism and Pashtunwali Judaism. While Median culture had a tremendous influence on Priestly Judaism which gradually became increasingly influential in the Median Empire, Priestly Judaism with time also came to develop a certain cultural flexibility of esoteric dissimulation whereby Priestly Judaism later came to learn to co-exist within predominant state-supported religious traditions from Zoroastrism to Islam.

Pasthunwali Judaism developed from the eastern branch of Median Judaism and has remained openly Pan-Jewish for much of its history, not only in very important ancient Jewish practices but also in exoterically claiming to constitute the ten deported Israelite tribes.

That ancient Judaism that is Priestly Judaism did survive by pragmatically adapting to religious imperialism as at least nominal Christians within the Byzantine Empire and subsequently within Islamdom as purportedly “Ghulat” denominations. Alevi Judaism & Byzantine Christianity emerged from within ancient Hellenist Judaism in a parallel competition that ultimately became symbiotic in Anatolia between Hellenist Judaism & Hellenist Christianity. The Judeo-Christian Melkite Arameans who traditionally use Greek as their main idiom of liturgy even today remain as ethnic survivors of such Hellenist Judeo-Christian cultural symbiosis. Furthermore, the additional fusion of Hellenist Judaism & Priestly Judaism that became Alawism/Alevism/Bektashism thus survived, spread and prospered in Byzantine times as what became the tolerated and even increasingly predominant – yet low-status – rural Alevi folk religion of Byzantine Anatolia (which was mostly Greek-speaking), the northern Levant and the southwestern Balkans.

However, the situation did turn distinctly for the worse during Muslim rule due to enforced Islamization as conversion to Alevi Judaism subsequently remained possible mainly through the open Bektashi denomination of Alevi Judaism. Even so, Alevi Judaism partly managed to demographically survive by exoterically adapting to Muslim religious imperialism. However, it is particularly important to profoundly understand that restrictions & prohibitions on conversion to various forms of Judaism & Crypto-Judaism have historically very tragically emerged due to imposed, enforced religious imperialist prohibitions on conversion to Judaism & Crypto-Judaism.

Rather than a simplistic ethnological dichotomy between either historically overt Jews & Crypto-Jews or between Jews & non-Jews, the Pan-Jewish exponential logic of eschatological Pan-Jewish national re-unification as indeed long since prophetically envisioned in esoteric Alevi Judaism may be quite appropriately described as follows:

Welcomes > Welcomed

Talmudic Jewry > Priestly Alevi Jewry

Priestly Alevi Jewry > Common Alevi Jewry

Common Alevi Jewry > Priestly Bektashi Alevi Jewry

Priestly Bektashi Alevi Jewry > Bektashi Alevi Jewry

Bektashi Alevi Jewry > Islamized Alevi Jewry

Islamized Alevi Jewry > Israeli Jewry

Even so, a prospective Israeli federal member state could nevertheless in principle be established in the east-west geographic cluster of Alevi-identified Alevi (i.e. both Bektashi and other Alevi) villages in central Anatolia primarily speaking the Turkish literary dialect of the Oghuz idiom. An Israeli Alevistan would crucially include neighboring fellow Crypto-Jewish Kurdish-speaking enclaves that are certainly not geographically contiguous with Pan-Jewish Kurdistan in terms of Kurdish settlement as the addition of Kurdish territorial enclaves would ensure far more territorial continuity for Pan-Jewish Alevistan.

However, while Turkish Hanafis use the same Turkish literary dialect of the Oghuz idiom as do Turkish Alevis – Turkish Hanafis are predominantly descendants of more or less involuntarily Islamized Crypto-Jewish denominations in Anatolia and primarily so historically Judeo-Christian Alevis as Alevi/Yezidi etc. cultural elements very much remain in rural culture & Sufi practices in genetically diverse Anatolia. While Alawism, Alevism, Bektashism, Druzism, Yarsanism (including Kaka’i & Shabak) and Yezidism have survived as overt denominations of Priestly Judaism, many other much less documented Crypto-Jewish denominations remain in Crypto-form in West Asia & the Balkans as secretive rural societies & rural Crypto-Jewish communities locally retaining various Crypto-Jewish traditions.

Obviously, any profound discussion of the history of religion & ethnicity of such phenomena has remained an almost complete taboo in the brutal dictatorship that is the Republic of Turkey – as have indeed so many other aspects of the history of Turkey & Northern Kurdistan. Thus, elements of this very ancient Judaism – parts of which became contemporary Alevi Judaism – is still practiced as part of rural culture & Sufism in many more or less involuntarily Islamized rural communities of West Asia and the Balkans.

Contrary to the heavily censored & deliberately forged official Turkish historiographical regime narrative; Central Asian descent is not a predominant or even prominent genetic factor in the gene pool of the major constituent ethnic groups of Turkey & Northern Kurdistan. Turkey’s Anti-Christian historical genocide is certainly not the only thing swept under the official Turkish historical carpet. Most human beings do change or amend their respective prior ethnic identity when they receive evidence of having a different origin, descent or ethnological status that has been deliberately hidden away from them and this tends to be particularly so with rediscovery of either Jewish descent or Crypto-Jewish ethnological status as seen already with so many Crypto-Jewish communities outside the Middle East and North Africa.

Therefore, Plan A should certainly be for a unified Israeli Turkey (minus unified Israeli Kurdistan) to become an Alevi democracy as part of an increasingly integrated federal-democratic Israel, albeit obviously this ultimately requires Turkish Hanafis to at some point collectively, publically and very officially so re-appropriate their very own Pan-Jewish nationality by themselves, of themselves and for themselves. The prospect of Turkish Hanafis generally – among whom Bektashi Alevi Judaism to this day remains popular – ultimately embracing Pan-Jewish nationality & Alevi-Bektashi cultural heritage subsequent to learning of their real history prior to Islamization, a history that has indeed been deliberately hidden away from them by tyrants of the republic – may seem quite remote to some observers, particularly after a decade of Saudi-engineered AKP Islamization policies and especially considering the deep inter-ethnic hatred mutually maintained by some Turkish Hanafis and some Turkish Alevis.

Yet, it certainly remains very important to keep in mind that not only Crypto-Jewish Turkey but also Crypto-Jewish Albania recognized Israel as early as in 1949. The current Saudi-owned slave regime in Ankara with its increasingly waning administrative structural influence, yet at the same time trying to very publically reassert Sultan Erdoğan’s comical image as The Dictator is thus for Qutbist motivations very much committed to causing a permanent rift between the peoples of Israel & Turkey (and not just diplomatically between the two governments) by means of regime-sponsored “de-Judaization” such as Anti-Alevi Islamization and structurally discriminatory Anti-Zionism through mass dissemination of systemic Anti-Jewish prejudice.

What began with AKP-instigated trumped-up charges against journalists & high-ranking military officers in the Turkish republic did later lead to similarly AKP-instigated trumped-up charges against senior Israeli military officers and even against one pianist in the Turkish republic who happened to wittily paraphrase medieval Persian poetry on Twitter!

Now perhaps we should all expect AKP-instigated, trumped-up charges against not only Israeli journalists who happen to disagree with the Saudi-owned Slave Sultan in Ankara but perhaps also against any Israeli musician – Jewish, Muslim or otherwise – daring to paraphrase on Twitter the purported “Jahiliyyah” of artistically particularly advanced pre-Islamic Arabic poetry. Perhaps the post-Kemalist Qutbist regime in Ankara will then decide to boycott Twitter for “recognizing” Turkey’s Anti-Christian genocide! Clearly as during the 2011 Gaza territorial waters crisis between Jerusalem & the Saudi slave regime in Ankara – a crisis which actually never militarily materialized – the Saudi-owned AKP slave regime now seeks to reassert long lost former Ottoman sovereignty over areas that clearly were never part of the Republic of Turkey.

Now is the time for Turkey’s real friends in the international community of responsible governments to very seriously pressure Sultan Erdoğan & his no less criminal accomplices so as to end all trumped-up charges, drop the charges against Fazıl Say and release all imprisoned journalists & military officers in the Republic of Turkey. The democratic world of open society must not give up on promoting responsible democratization in Turkey & Northern Kurdistan because the consequences of deeper Qutbist Islamization could become very serious indeed.

Yet, – Turkey is not Syria and Turkish Hanafis should certainly like all other Crypto-Jewish peoples have the political opportunity to re-appropriate their ancient Pan-Jewish nationality and specifically in the case of Turkish Hanafis also embracing their own Alevi-Bektashi, historical, cultural heritage. However, there is and must definitely be a very realistic alternative Plan B involving instead establishment of an Israeli Alevistan in much of the territorial interior of Anatolia that would also include adjacent fellow Crypto-Jewish Kurdish enclaves. As Turkish Hanafis like all other Crypto-Jewish peoples are entitled to make their own decisions in this regard once they learn the historical truth, so are also Turkish Alevis perfectly entitled to make their own independent decision pertaining to public, collective re-appropriation of Pan-Jewish nationality and indeed wholly independently so of any option chosen by Turkish Hanafis.

If Dmili/Zaza Kurds (who are still 60% Alevi-Bektashi) who speak the northern Dmili literary dialect of the Zazaki (Dmili-Gorani) idiom would so prefer – they could rather than being part of Israeli Kurdistan have a Dmili/Zaza Israeli member state of their own (i.e. Israeli Zazaistan) that would neighbor Israeli Kurdistan and also a potential Israeli Alevistan. Both these two Alevi-majority Israeli member states (Alevistan & Zazaistan) would under such respective political scenarios be established in addition to an Israeli Alawi state that definitely needs to be re-established in current western Syria, southern Turkey and northern Grand Liban. There would thus accordingly be several Israeli federal member states with civic majorities of Alevi-identified communities – Alawis, Alevis and Bektashis. Certain Oghuz-speaking Alevi communities in the Republic of Turkey would under Plan B hence also be part of neighboring Israeli Kurdistan & potentially also neighboring Israeli Zazaistan rather than what could be non-Israeli unified federal Oghuzistan due to such areas of Oghuz-speaking Alevis certainly not being geographically contiguous with Israeli Alevistan.

The point I seek to make here is that not only should every human nation (including the Pan-Jewish nation) be entitled be to universal self-determination through unified idiomatic statehood, but every Crypto-Jewish people will need to themselves decide on the matter of restoring Pan-Jewish nationality of themselves, by themselves and for themselves. There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the vast majority of Alevis & Kurds (including Kurds still speaking Zazaki i.e. Dmili-Gorani) will want to join in Pan-Jewish national re-unification as part of an increasingly integrated federal-democratic Israel. However, it certainly remains something to be very much hoped for that Turkish Hanafis will want to join as well upon learning the historical truths about their heavily censored history and non-Turkic Pan-Jewish descent from Greek-speaking Judeo-Christian Hellenist Anatolians. Furthermore, Crypto-Jewish speakers of Oghuz are certainly not the only Crypto-Jewish communities speaking a Turkic idiom as do the very genuinely Crypto-Jewish Khazar-speaking Balkar-Karachay-Kumyk Crypto-Jewish people of northern Caucasia. Again, historical descent from converts to Judaism does certainly not ever make a Jew/Crypto-Jew any less Jewish.

Although many Talmudic Jews are certainly not aware of these beliefs; traditional Talmudic Judaism is somewhat superficially open about its otherwise mostly esoteric beliefs in angels, transmigration of souls and bi-gender divinity. In Talmudic Judaism as in Alevi Judaism there are both (a) core esoteric teachings and (b) exoteric lifestyle teachings. Alevi Judaism and Talmudic Judaism each have extensive and very impressive written religious literary canons, yet other forms of esoteric Judaism are not that different in maintaining popular exoteric lifestyle practices around a Pan-Jewish esoteric core. However, there are forms of esoteric Judaism whose religious literature is mostly or entirely oral.

The very good news of course, is that there are not just one Jewish people but indeed a plural number of various distinctive Jewish peoples who are quite geographically dispersed around the region & the world, whether as intra-human majorities or as intra-human minorities. Indeed, there are also a plural number of various majority Pan-Jewish countries with various different respective historical Pan-Jewish regional ethnogenesis. While perhaps difficult to accept for some who ethnocentrically identify as the very lone center of universe, various Pan-Jewish peoples emerged in different historical eras, in different geographic locations and under different political conditions.

Esoteric Judaism was not invented as a reaction to religious imperialism which it historically preceded; yet resisting culturally intrusive oppression under religious imperialism has been a major historical force for Pan-Jewish survival. Although there were many forms of Judaism in Antiquity, Alevi Priestly Hellenist Judaism survived under religious imperialism as both (1) religious elitist esotericism and (2) as low-status folk religion.

Pan-Jewish geopolitical re-unification thus ultimately requires publically redeeming both Pan-Jewish nationality & Pan-Jewish identity for concerned Crypto-Jewish peoples around the region & the world. Before Jewish sovereignty inside the land of Israel was re-established in 1948, the world knew little of Crypto-Jews, mostly except for some Sephardic (i.e. historically Catalan/Portuguese/Spanish) Crypto-Jews.

Yet, since 1948, more and more Crypto-Jewish peoples outside the Middle East and North Africa have become increasingly open about their own Pan-Jewish ethnological status and many are increasingly adopting quite public Pan-Jewish communal identities. E.g. the six million Judeo-Christian Arameans of the state of Kerala in southwestern India have increasingly and rather publically so re-adopted overtly Jewish communal identity. Nevertheless, such public identification still very much remains taboo for their oppressed Crypto-Jewish Aramean kin – both Mandean and Judeo-Christian – in and of the Middle East who even so like many other fellow Crypto-Jewish peoples in the region & around the world tend to privately and communally strongly identify with Israel in general and Israeli defense policies in particular.

So the public reclamation of Pan-Jewish nationality – as denied & negated by religious imperialism – has increasingly so already been in the process now for over six decades. The inclusive term Pan-Jewish (which literally includes all Jewish peoples) is therefore increasingly more and more appropriate than the Jewishly excluding term Crypto-Jewish, not least as pertaining to historically Crypto-Jewish peoples whom like the Kerala Judeo-Christian Arameans are no longer particularly secretive about their very own Pan-Jewish ethnological status! Yet at the same time, it is crucial to properly understand how Crypto-Jewish peoples in the Middle East and North Africa still tend to remain much more secretive about their respective Pan-Jewish ethnological status than do generally & increasingly so many Crypto-Jewish peoples outside the Middle East and North Africa. The difference is mostly due to both pre-modern & modern stigmatization of Jewish communality in the Middle East and North Africa as the structural untouchables of Islamdom.

Pan-Jewish emancipation does not require making public all the secrets of esoteric Judaism, but it certainly requires publically & collectively redeeming Pan-Jewish nationality. Keeping far too many things far too secret, for far too long as pertaining to Pan-Jewish nationality and Pan-Jewish ethnological status of Crypto-Jewish peoples in the Middle East and North Africa – has since 1948 mostly benefitted existential regime adversaries of democratic, unified Jewish nationhood. This is so considering that there are such regimes whose intelligence services have now closely studied Crypto-Jewish esoteric Judaism for half a century already.

Once both Jewish identity & Pan-Jewish nationality are collectively & overtly redeemed among the Crypto-Jewish peoples of the Middle East and North Africa – as already increasingly happens to a very significant extent among Crypto-Jewish peoples outside the Middle East and North Africa – many things are then likely to begin to change politically in the broader region and shall I add in some cases rather rapidly so. However, this is both a political and a cultural process and we are still not at that point yet in the Middle East and North Africa. When Pan-Jewish peoples geographically closer to Jewish democratic Israel also begin to officially reclaim Jewish nationality of themselves, by themselves and for themselves – then that should indeed help begin the political process of closing the Pan-Jewish ethnological circle in beginning the geopolitical re-unification of the Pan-Jewish nation.

The various exoteric popular lifestyles of esoteric Judaism – Alawi, Alevi, Bektashi, Beta Avraham, Beta Israel, Druze, Dönmeh, Ismaili, Judeo-Christian Aramean, Kaka’i, Karaite, Khazaric, Lemba, Mandean Aramean, Odinani Igbo, Pashtunwali, Samaritan, Shabak, Talmudic, Yarsan, Yezidi, Zaydi, Zikri and others – are all about ensuring Jewish/Crypto-Jewish ethnological survival so that the Jewish nation as a whole can then eschatologically redeem the entire world from oppression when the envisioned appropriate era arrives. There are so many different Pan-Jewish (Jewish and Crypto-Jewish) religious and/or ethnic exoteric lifestyles, all of which religiously serve the underlying teleological & eschatological imperative of ethnically surviving culturally intrusive religious imperialism by maintaining, preserving and indeed preparing the nation of Israel for its coming role in redemptive history.

While Talmudic Judaism until modern times was all about politically waiting, waiting and waiting for the absolute other to arrive, Zionism is precisely about not waiting for “someone else” to come to redeem the Jewish nation but rather to do this ourselves. Yet, in order for the entire Pan-Jewish nation to liberate itself from the shackles of religious imperialism – Zionism needs to take seriously the universal eschatological mission of the entire Pan-Jewish nation as do in fact so many passionate Talmudic Jews in the United States of different Talmudic denominations. This universally Jewish eschatological task is widely known among North American Talmudic Jewry through the concept of tikkun olam or Jews eschatologically literally repairing the world. However, this pivotal, eschatological Nietzschean political task of comprehensive reinvention of morals & organizations involving comprehensive conceptual revolution (PMO transcript) must certainly not repeat or endorse the many serious structural mistakes as committed by both historical & contemporary religious imperialism – secular and religious – of various civilizations.

In order for universal Pan-Jewish liberation to indeed universally succeed, this emancipatory project needs to be part of a broader universal emancipation that must certainly not be reducible to the metaphysical moral prejudice of contemporary modern religious imperialism such as Fascism, Islamism, Liberalism, Marxism and the imperialist metaphysics of intensely oppressive humanist idealization which they all tragically share. What is truly hopeful about Zionism is its firmly Nietzschean, ethico-political rejection of Master-Slave Morality in relation to fellow human peoples & nations. This is an intrinsic rejection which indeed is a crucial condition for universal emancipation to indeed politically succeed and not solely so in relation to fellow human persons as Master-Slave Morality – the wicked morality of religious imperialism – is indeed the hallmark of civilizational oppression all around this suffering planet.

The responsibly democratic quest for universal Jewish national liberation can therefore not be realistically separated from its much broader universal redemptive mission of what I prefer to refer to as universal emancipation, including universally established, unified idiomatic statehood. A comprehensively Pan-Jewish Zionism should thus serve to bring liberation & democratic peace in the region & the world by also truly embracing its broader universal Jewish eschatological mission – as Nietzsche following upon his fellow Hebrew prophets indeed very prophetically indeed envisioned – rather than merely patiently wait for “someone else” to come to do the job in our stead.

Clearly, the task is not to simplistically once more re-introduce another slightly modified form of prejudicial religious imperialism of oppressive humanist idealization which affects very negatively Earthling persons generally subject to secular/religious imperialism – since no person of any taxon fits the idealizing description. Rather, the task is to deconstructively scandalize such prejudicial elements of civilization more generally while at the same time politically paving the way towards carefully considered, responsibly ethico-political universal emancipation founded on embracing the value of cognitive diversity more generally among persons of various more or less canonized & non-canonized bio-categories.

The fossil-fuel-funded & particularly well-oiled global Saudi/PLO propaganda machine and its systemically deployed Anti-Jewish discursive discrimination against the sovereign-indigenous, liberal-democratic Jewish nation as well as against Israel’s Talmudically Jewish Diaspora is meant to not only strategically, literally destroy this liberal-democratic open society in West Asia that is Jewish democratic Israel though structurally Anti-Jewish defamation, denial and discrimination. The political purpose is certainly also very much tactically to divide Pan-Jewish peoples within & between ourselves and distract Jews (meaning all Jewish peoples) from our universal ethico-political mission in both contemporary politics and indeed very much the future politics to come.

http://jewishideas.net/2012/07/02/explaining-pan-jewish-nationhood/