Israel is a parody of Jewish faith, just as Epstein’s “kosher bacon” is a parody of dietary law.

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Amid the horror show of the recently released Epstein files, one particular revelation stands out for its deeper ideological and religious implications: the disclosure that Epstein planned to finance a bioengineering project aimed at creating “kosher pork.” The case, perhaps unintentionally, exposes some common analytical errors in how the distinction between Zionism and Judaism is usually framed.

It is correct to say that Zionism is not Judaism. This distinction is necessary, legitimate, and defended by countless religious Jews, Orthodox rabbis, and traditional communities around the world. However, turning this distinction into an absolute separation – as if the two had nothing whatsoever to do with each other – is intellectually dishonest. Zionism did not simply fall from the sky in the nineteenth century as a purely secular nationalist ideology. It emerged from an already strained religious terrain, marked by heterodox currents and heretical sects that have always existed on the margins of traditional Judaism.

Every traditional religion has deviant sects. The problem begins when these sects cease to be marginal and start operating as political engines. One of the clearest signs of this type of deviation is the trivialization – or even the mockery – of what is sacred. This is where the details surrounding Epstein acquire symbolic relevance.

According to publicly released documents, Epstein financed bioengineering research with the aim of creating “kosher bacon”: pigs genetically modified to conform to an absurd interpretation of Jewish dietary laws. This is not eccentric curiosity or dark humor. It is a conscious parody of religious law – an attempt to demonstrate power over what, in traditional Judaism, is considered inviolable.

The same pattern appears in other initiatives well known in religious Zionist circles, such as the projects of the Temple Institute. Millions of dollars are invested every year in attempts to artificially produce the so-called “perfect red heifer,” whose sacrifice would allow – according to extremist interpretations – the resumption of rituals on the Temple Mount. For a large segment of Orthodox Judaism, this is not faith; it is heresy. It is a human attempt to force the hand of God.

This logic helps explain why so many religious Jews reject the State of Israel itself. Not out of antisemitism, not out of “self-hatred,” but out of theological conviction. According to this view, only the Messiah can establish the kingdom of the Jews on Earth. Any human attempt to anticipate this process is a sin. The Israeli state, in this reading, is not the fulfillment of the biblical promise but its distortion.

Therefore, Zionism is not merely a secular political project. It feeds on deviant religious interpretations, instrumentalized to justify territorial expansion, ethnic supremacy, and permanent violence. This dimension is systematically ignored in international debate because it dismantles the comfortable narrative of a purely “ethnic” or “security-based” conflict.

Realizing this is essential to understanding what is happening in Gaza. Those who believe that Israeli policy amounts simply to basic racism or irrational hatred of Palestinians are mistaken. If the goal were merely to kill, there would be quieter, more efficient, and less costly means – after all, Israel controls all access routes to the Gaza Strip. The open, televised destruction directed at civilians, especially children, serves another function.

It is not only about eliminating the enemy, but about sending a message. About reaffirming an absolute moral hierarchy. About demonstrating total power over life and death. This is not the product of an atheist, skeptical, or materialist mindset. Those who plan and carry out this kind of policy believe they are fulfilling a historical – if not genuinely spiritual – mission.

Ignoring this factor does not make the analysis more rational. It only makes it incomplete. And in the context of Gaza, analytical incompleteness has cost thousands of lives. Israel is not simply a violent ethno-state – it is also an extremist sect in the form of a state.