It does seem the basis of antisemitism, ie Jewish otherness, is the religious core is built around the trials and tribulations of a Bronze Age tribe. Consequently it is organically tribal.
Humanity evolved up from the apes, for millions of years in such societies, so anything tribe based goes to the core of human nature.
The problem is that in the last several thousand years, there has been a need to network beyond that paradigm, as the globe became nations of many millions of people.
Which Judaism seems to be stumbling over.
What if all tribes had a messianic vision of themselves, that they needed to remain separate?
There would be no Anglo-Saxons, only Angles and Saxons.
To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Ideals.
Gods of love, war, motherhood, fatherhood, spring, even a god of self absorption.
Basically a necessary part of the evolution of human cognition.
In this stage, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.
Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.
Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many ideas, ideals, beliefs, metaphors, factions forces interacting. Competition and cooperation.
The origins of the Christian Trinity go to fertility rites. The young god born in the spring, to the old sky god and earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. The old wouldn't make way for the young. Basically a very elemental tension.
Which provided fertile ground for the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus to take root.
Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of Rome, it too had started to calcify, so the monotheism served to validate the Empire and finally bury any hints of the Republic.
The Big Guy Rules.
So the Catholic Church was the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings. As opposed to consent of the governed.
When the West int back to more populist forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics. the state became separate from its moral foundations. Though we still have, "In God we Trust," on the money.
The problem with the absolutist interpretation of monotheism, the Catholic "all-knowing absolute," is that ideals are not absolutes. It is a category error.
Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.
The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.
Morality is not an absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.
Morals are the ideals, beliefs, habits, relations, tradition, etc. that enable a healthy society.
Back in the tribal days, that one's status be a function of what one adds, not what one can extract.
Collective responsibility, with rights as reward. Not rights ordained and responsibility optional.
Which is why modern culture is so often necrotic.
In evolutionary terms, the last few thousand years has been a fairly short interval, compared to the millions of years prior.
So it would seem Zionism is trying to re-litigate the issue the Maccabees had with the Romans. That their tribal god didn't have to acknowledge any other power.
Given Plan B seems to be the Samson option, it would seem Israel is trying to become history's largest suicide cult.
