Amit Arad's Blog - Posts Tagged "chanukah"

The phrase "fake news" has taken hold in reality today, but long before leaders used "fake history". Chanukah for example was originally set by the Hasmoneans in memory of the Maccabees victory and the purification of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. For political reasons, Jewish leaders in the later centuries wanted to dwarf and even extinguish the historical part of the Maccabees, and this resulted in the addition of the story of the miracle of the oil can and the lamp.


Thanks to Christianity which sanctified and preserved the Maccabean books, we now know the facts about the Maccabees and their heroic and courageous story, and especially about Judah the Maccabee, who was a legendary warrior but most of all a great warlord and visionary national leader.


Without detracting from the wonderful and just words of Prime Minister Boris Johnson today, it is interesting to see and hear how different politicians today use the Chanukah holiday for political purposes.

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