It is the Land of Palestine. There was no “Land of Israel”

“israel” is literally a man, not a land. “Israel” is the name of the prophet Yaqub/Jacob.

And “Jews” are not even mentioned in the Bible.

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The Fraud of “Judaism” and the Hidden History

Most people are never told how the religion now called “Judaism” actually emerged. The record was buried under centuries of distortions, retrofits, and political reinventions.

1) The Hebrew religion was polytheism

Early Hebrews practiced Yahwism, a tribal cult where Yahweh was worshipped alongside Asherah, El, Baal, and other deities.
Archaeology literally records “Yahweh and his Asherah.” Even their own scripture admits it: Asherah poles and altars to Baal fill the text (e.g., Judges 2:11–13; 3:7; 2 Kings 23).
This was not pure monotheism. It was a warrior cult obsessed with tribal supremacy, conquest, and violence against outsiders.

2) Imperial cover-ups and rewrites

As Rome Christianized, it censored and standardized textual traditions, destroyed or sidelined manuscripts, and retro-framed the Hebrew past as if it had always been respectable, linear, and strictly monotheist. Surviving codices and later canon processes reflect a curated past, not a neutral archive. The result: a sanitised “ancient Judaism” presented to sit neatly beside imperial Christianity.

3) Invented terminology

Neither the Quran nor the original-language Aramaic/Greek/proto-Arabic scriptures use the words “Jew” or “Judaism.”

The medieval English word “Jew” is a later translation choice, not a word any prophet used for himself or his community. The Quran speaks of Bani Yaqub and Ahl al-Kitab; the Hebrew texts speak of descendants of Yaqub and tribal names, not a modern ethno-religious identity.

4) Khazaria and medieval religion-building

In the 7th–8th centuries, the Khazar polity in the Black Sea–Caspian steppe adopted a Talmud-based religion, centuries after the prophets. Pagan elites grafted fragments of late Hebrew lore onto their own matrix, producing a hybrid medieval religion later retro-marketed as ancient.

5) The Talmud’s timeline and late manuscripts

The so-called Babylonian Talmud has no surviving manuscripts before the 8th century; extant copies are medieval (9th–11th c.). The oldest complete Hebrew Bible is the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE).
Conclusion: what is now called Talmudic Judaism is medieval, not prophetic-era.

6) Kabbalah, Shekhinah, and later mutations

In 13th-century Spain, Kabbalah and the Zohar recast belief into esoteric systems.
By the 16th century (Safed), Lurianic currents turned this into apocalyptic, world-reordering mysticism (tikkun) with metaphysical gendered schemata (a distorted and sexualized Shekhinah). Modern movements later instrumentalized these ideas in messianic-political projects and exclusionary supremacist ideologies.

7) Zionism as the final political mask

Zionism fuses:
•A medieval Talmudic religion and its later mystic overlays
•European nationalism and racial theory
•Colonial cartography and imperial patronage
•Apocalyptic supremacist currents that sacralize domination
This is not the faith of the prophets. It is a modern political project built on medieval religion-making and imperial engineering.

Jesus (Isa), identity, and Palestine
•Isa (Jesus) was from Bani Yaqub, born in Bethlehem, Palestine, under Roman occupation.
•He never called himself by a medieval English term or a later sectarian label.
•In Islam, Isa will return, unite with the Mahdi, and kill the Dajjal at Ludd (Lydda, Palestine), then rule as a righteous leader, restoring truth and justice.

“Ancient Israel” is a modern scholarly label for traditions recorded in late-compiled texts.

By contrast, Canaan/Palestine is firmly attested:
•Egyptian records speak of Peleset (12th c. BCE).
•Herodotus names Palaistine (5th c. BCE).