By Amal Zadok
Benjamin Netanyahu does not wear black robes. He carries no scythe. But within synagogues, on university campuses and at Holocaust memorials, a chilling accusation is repeated, that “Netanyahu has become the Angel of Death for Judaism itself”. Not by killing Jews, but by gutting Jewish morality, fracturing Jewish unity and harnessing Jewish trauma to enable the indefensible.
Thousands of Holocaust survivors echoed Gabor Klein outside of Israel’s Knesset – with a rain-smeared sign reading “Netanyahu You Bury Our Morals With Gaza’s Children”. Behind him was being shouted by young Israelis the truth in Hebrew: “Mal’ach hamavet l’Yahadut!” (Angel of Death to Judaism).
Theirs fury was not about security lapses. It was about the systemic unravelling of Jewish morality in the reign of Netanyahu.
The Poison in the Cup
How Netanyahu Destroys Judaism
The Angel of Death operates not in grandeur, but decay:
1. He Turns Covenant Into Conquest
“Tikkun Olam” (repairing the world) and “Love the stranger, for you were strangers in Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19). Netanyahu inverts this.
When settlers set Palestinian olive groves on fire while singing Am Yisrael Chai (“The People of Israel Live”), he praises them as “patriots.”
When soldiers demolish Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem to make room for “biblical parks,” he sprinkles the rubble with holy water. It’s sacrilege pretending to be sovereignty — consecrated words into deeds to the land, written in blood.
2. He Exterminates Justice From the Temple.
Israel’s Supreme Court was once an international symbol of democratic rectitude. Netanyahu sought to gut it not for reform, but to escape his corruption trials.
As rabbis took to the sidewalk to protest, wearing prayer shawls stained with fake blood, he smeared them as “anarchists.” The warning of the Talmud — that without justice there is no Torah — is worthless when power is the only text.
3. He Turns Synagogues Into Battlegrounds.
Jewish identity in diaspora communities now bleeds from self-inflicted wounds:
-One student covers up her Star of David when casualty reports in Gaza flash on her phone.
-A Holocaust survivor storms out of services when a rabbi defends bombing Rafah.
Hostage families cry, “Netanyahu, you’re letting him live!” outside PM’s residence.
Hostage families scream at Netanyahu’s gate: ”You left our children to die on October 7!”
This is spiritual collapse. When Zionism gets defined as 52,000+ dead Gaza residents (70 percent of whom are women and children) in their very homes, near schools, hospitals and places of worship.
Netanyahu Does Not Stand Up for Jews. He’s turned Judaism into a moral leper colony.
Why “Angel of Death” Fits
The Mal’ach Hamavet, in Jewish legend, is not evil, but is simply an agent of divine will. That’s the tragedy. Netanyahu weaponizes Jewish trauma to morally euthanize Judaism:
– He uses the Holocaust in generating Gaza’s famine.
- He shouts: “Never Again!” and empowers ministers who shout:“Wipe Gaza off the map!”
-He draws the flag around himself while slicing Jewishness from justice.
-He exploits Jewish survival to kill Jewish conscience.
The Resistance: Judaism’s Heart Still Beats
In the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw — the tombstones there incised with names of people murdered for their faith — there is a saying: “The Angel of Death never succeeds to strike the living who refuse to turn themselves into ghosts.”
And the refusal has begun:
Israeli commanders could be court-martialed for disobeying orders in the West Bank.
Orthodox mothers chain themselves to strollers to stop settler violence.
Diaspora rabbis organize “Talmud study vigils” bearing demands for ceasefires.
Netanyahu may have mortgaged the soul of Judaism for power.
“But in the wreckage of his despair, the light still breaks through: justice, memory, and the unkillable sense that Jewishness amounts to more than any ruler’s genocidal rage.”
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