The growing hostility that Jews have faced in a world that increasingly rejects them, coupled with the development of artificial intelligence that allows everyone to become familiar with terms from Jewish tradition that for centuries were known only to high-level Jewish sages, is creating an ever-increasing danger for the Jewish community and the individual Jew. At the center of the new danger is now the word golem.
New narratives have included accusations that Jewish communities that study Kabbalah and Israeli intelligence services are using "supernatural units" and "genie devils" (jinn) for warfare, framing the people of Israel as a hidden force driving foreign policy of the superpowers.
The new anti-Jewish theory suggests that the Jewish world has created a "monster" (a modern golem) that has run amok, a classic antisemitic trope, utilizing imagery of a malevolent, artificial force to blame Jewish people for the evil.
According Jewish tradition, the golem - Psalm 139:16 - is an animated anthropomorphic being, typically formed from mud or clay, to protect the Jewish community from deadly enemies. He comes to life when his creator places a shem (a piece of parchment with a divine name) in their mouth and inscribes the word emet (Hebrew for "truth") on their forehead. The golem's function is to purify the world by God's justice.
To "kill" the golem, his creator removes the parchment and erases the first letter of emet, leaving met (Hebrew for "death"). This has to be done in time... Jewish history has demonstrated that the golem can become unstoppable. Golem possesses great physical strength and interprets commands with a dangerous literalness, as experimented by Maharal Judah Loew ben Bezalel in Prague, who created a golem only to protect the Jews and yet he decided targeting practically everyone in the city and surrounding areas, including the innocent.
