Notes on Synthetic-Lazarusian Kahanite Wombfare

“The State of Israel is not a ‘political’ creation. It is a religious creation. No force in the world could have prevented its establishment, nor is there a power that can destroy it. It is the commencement of divine wrath, His vengeance against the nations that had ignored His existence, despised and defamed Him, minimized His importance, ‘did not know’ Him.”¹

On Wombfare

There is a famous, now almost apocryphal quotation, ascribed to the late Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, which many will be familiar with:

“The womb of the woman will be our strongest weapon against the Zionists!”²

It speaks to the underlying demographic pressures driving the aggressive expansion of the Zionist project of various hues. The term “wombfare,” coined by international relations scholar Monica Toft, is a queasy but nevertheless accurate depiction of this ongoing struggle connecting the battle for reproductive-demographic supremacy to control of land, resources, and ultimately, sovereignty.³

Of course, to the Ishmaelite who is brought up with Muhammadi sensibilities, referring to the womb as a tool for revolution and war — geared towards a specific political project — can be incredibly jarring. Muhammadi conceptions of the womb tie its linguistic roots in Arabic to the broader nature of God’s mercy, as seen in the hadith literature:

“Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Verily, the womb derives its name from the Merciful. Allah said: I will keep good relations with one who keeps good relations with your relatives, and I will sever relations with one who severs relations with your relatives.”⁴

However, this article is more interested in identifying how Israelis responded to the Palestinian demographic challenge — the Arafatian call to wombfare (whether the statement is real or not, Israelis certainly take its implications dead seriously). What results, I contend, is a form of national mobilization with radical religious utilitarianism, utilizing the loophole elasticity of Tamuldic legal commentary in combination with synthetic biotech to create an unparalleled reproductive strategy of national survival. 

Let us begin with the ideology of Kahanism, which is today ascendant, the de facto political theology of contemporary Zionism driving the current Gaza Genocide, its ambitions for regional supremacy and an expanded Zionist lebensraum along the (allegedly) biblical borders of “Greater Israel.”

On Kahanism

Meir Kahane (1932-1990) is the rabbi architect of the political theology which has realized the logical endpoint of Zionism. Many argue that Zionism is a type of secular nationalism for Jews, born out of the horrors of 20th-century Europe, and perhaps there is some truth to that. However, Kahane took the thread that started with the early formative secular, left-leaning — perhaps even socialist — strands of Zionist political theology and hammered into it a clear and uncompromising clarity.

Zionism is not just a clarion call for a secular homeland of an embattled ethnic minority. It is a project for the complete religious and theological realization of Jewish political power: derived explicitly from the Law of Moses (allegedly) with an undying devotion to its Scripture. There is nothing really metaphorical about Judaism — it is a concrete package, in other words, a blueprint for running the modern state. Jews who diverge from this are not only sinful in front of God, but a threat to the future of global Jewry itself. The call for the Torah to be front and center in national life, for a Jewish supremacy that is not based on a repackaging of Enlightenment ideals around liberal or secular governance, cements itself as a force that today motivates significant coalition partners in Netanyahu’s government.⁵ It is also what forms the background to mounting calls for waging Deuteronomic wars of annihilation referred to as herem amongst Kahanite religious scholarship⁶ against the Palestinian people.

Although Kahane is dead, his legacy is cemented through various works and lectures such as “They Must Go” and “Never Again.” These publications outline his vision for perpetual warfare against the Arabs, in efforts to realize the borders of Greater Israel and to establish an Israeli state that does away with its formative influences in exchange for complete Talmudic supremacy. Kahane was obsessed with the demographic question, proposing large-scale population exchanges/transfers, bribing local Arab populations to leave and gradually annexing lands that he considered biblically promised holy lebensraum to the Jewish people.

This impulse continues to guide national conversation amongst Israelis, driving the rampant sentiment amongst the vast majority of Israeli civil society and media⁷ — operations in Gaza undertaken by Netanyahu’s government are not harsh enough, not deadly enough, and not decisive enough. In fact, Netanyahu’s own coalition consists of leading members of government who are fierce Kahanist loyalists such as Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Segal and Green’s impressive database of statements from Israeli high-ranking officials shows clear intent for total annihilation as political parties ride the wave for tribal Talmudic revenge.⁸

From Settler Colonialism to PSR

For decades, it has been known that the Israelis, through various political measures, instruments and machinations of war have tried to alter the demographic equation in their favor. By engaging Kahanists and like-minded movements, the Zionist project deploys the settler movement as the primary mechanism to accomplish this goal. This Zio-biolenninism shows its face from time to time in the international media, peeking through the Hasbara firewall that carefully curates and protects its international image as the “startup state” and a hub of Enlightenment values in the region, most notably in the recent viral New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss.⁹

While settler-colonialism is the analog and traditional means that the Israelis have deployed in their quest to match the Arafatian declaration, it is quickly growing exhausted. I suspect we are presently at an inflection point that will soon yield to a radical new policy of nationally subsidized biotechnology, unleashing a reproduction arms race.

To provide context, the fact that rapidly modernizing societies often experience declining fertility rates and face a form of demographic exhaustion for a variety of complex reasons is assumed common knowledge. Curiously, however, the Israelis are an exception to this rule, currently maintaining a fertility rate of 2.9. This is higher than the Turkish fertility rate, despite the two decades or so of the cultural soft power of Erdoganism, which notwithstanding notable successes, has largely failed in quelling and stemming the unstoppable tide of cultural Americanism. (Or perhaps we are all doomed to the inevitable consequences of dense urbanization as a humanity-shredder.)¹⁰

How is this possible? Marko Jukic, from the political advisory group Bismarck Analysis, offers what I think is a compelling explanation:

“‘Wow, how is Israel the only developed country to achieve a 2.9 fertility rate?’

Well, for one thing, they are willing to legalize and religiously justify bizarre, quasi-eugenic cyberpunk measures like IVF with sperm from dead soldiers. That’s in their Overton Window.”¹¹

Granted, a lot of the demographic rear-guard is driven by Orthodox communities who are essentially subsidized by the State with a generous package of welfare benefits (almost bordering on a type of Universal Basic Income that many Gulf countries use as part of their “social contract” with the indigenous citizenry) to have large families. In exchange, they are exempt from much of the national obligations that other secular citizens within the project are expected to perform (although this is now recently being challenged in the courts).¹² However, the point remains, Zionist leaders will consider any and all options on the table — a tactic that does not come so readily to other nations.

What Jukic aptly referred to as cyberpunk measures can include the bizarre technology of posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR). To chart how they got there, we should begin by acknowledging Israel’s position as a global leader in in-vitro fertilization technology (IVF). Following the successful introduction of IVF by Israeli medics locally in the 80s, the Zionist project quickly recognized its potential benefits and boldly moved to mandate that assisted reproductive technologies would be funded for every Israeli woman (aged 18-45), with no limits on rationing.¹³ This funding ensures that Israelis have access to all the latest modalities of reproductive technology, even those like intracytoplasmic sperm injection; in most surveys and studies Israeli women are either at the top or near the top in terms of usage of IVF.¹⁴ Israeli IVF supremacy¹⁵ also forms a large part of its attraction as a regional leader in medical tourism.¹⁶ Today, the Zionist project aims to leverage the biological and medical applications of Artificial Intelligence in aspirations to further optimize its IVF project.¹⁷

The approach of the Israeli state has been to legally enshrine forms of reproductive technology that allow and facilitate “biogenetic relatedness.”¹³ In other words, it is legislating the utilization of technology to help couples who are married and already part of a family unit have children. Technology enhances state and ultimately religiously recognized forms of familial formation, which is crucial given the matrilineal nature of Jewish religious inheritance.

Going beyond IVF, the Israeli state, recognizing the liquidations of its forces in the many theaters of war it occupies, has found another way of balancing out the equation. Enter posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR).¹⁸ As the name suggests, the Israeli state steps in bravely to extract sperm from liquidated soldiers in an effort to continue the genetic legacy of the fallen and prevent any hindrance in the quest for demographic supremacy. As one Israeli academic puts it:

“When you retrieve sperm from a dead man, you are trying to restore something lost under tragic circumstances,” he continued. “It’s like erecting a living monument.

Thus, posthumous sperm retrieval paves way for a state-sanctioned policy of Nationalised Lazarusian Masturbation Eugenics: extracting sperm from the dead to animate in Lazarus-style fashion a new generation born to undead patriarchs, ensuring the continuation of the Chosen People. Now, the line no longer ends in death, it is drawn out beyond the grave to continue in service of Zionist lebensraum.

On Synthetic Wombfare

So far, we have charted the journey of how designing the Zionist State around ensuring demographic supremacy in an effort to safeguard inter-generational Sovereignty quickly exhausted the possibilities of organic meatspace (better known as the real world, as opposed to “cyberspace”) and has now settled on existing reproductive technologies such as IVF and PSR. It does not end there however, lurking beyond is the possibility of synthetic wombfare. In typical fashion, the Israelis have already started experimenting on animal models:

“According to a scientific group in Israel, which took the picture, the researchers have grown mice in an artificial womb for as long as 11 or 12 days, about half the animal’s natural gestation period. It’s record for development of a mammal outside the womb, and according to the research team, human embryos could be next—raising huge new ethical questions.”¹⁹

On a global level, the Americans and several vassal-state partners are already progressing towards human trials²⁰ which will be introduced initially in a therapeutic capacity, priming populations to even consider utilizing it before likely switching to a war-like footing.

Synthetic wombs could accelerate the production of a new posthuman species of a serf-warrior underclass, ready for deployment by states that are looking to expand borders quickly, particularly against foes that have long been considered reservoirs of demographic vitalism. Perhaps it would function as the great equalizer between hyper-modern societies and the rest in terms of demographic power. In the years to come, the wielding of biology and technology — transhumanist synthetic promethean design — will pose a significant challenge to the way we think about war and the means used to wage it.

The purpose of this article was to offer a glimpse and snapshot into a formidable node of American Empire that is in many ways, a playground and laboratory experiment²¹ of abominable technologies leveraged in the pursuit of victory and Sovereignty. 

Technology is the fundamental question of the age, and this will grow apparent across countless domains and fields. With Israel, we see the fusion of a theocratic Zionism, pairing the comical elasticity of its own halakhic fiqh-making with technocratic sensibilities in ruthless pursuit of its strategic goals. 

The lesson here, of course, is that none of the enemies surrounding the Ishmaelite are pausing for thoughtful concern or moral restraint — everyone is accelerating.

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1. Quotation taken from Roots of Kahanism, https://archive.ph/20130109080000/http://members.tripod.com/alabasters_archive/roots_of_kahanism.html [↩]
2. Now, there is much debate about the authenticity of the statement, but it has informed the impetus and work of several pro-Palestinian feminist actors that approach the conflict from the topic of reproductive ethics and justice. See for instance The Womb As a Weapon in Palestine, https://feminism-mena.fes.de/e/the-womb-as-a-weapon-in-palestine.html, and Wombs of the Revolution, https://www.newarab.com/features/how-palestinian-women-are-womb-national-project [↩]
3. See Wombfare: The Religious Basis of Fertility Politics, https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/wombfare-religious-basis-fertility-politics [↩]
4. See https://www.abuaminaelias.com/dailyhadithonline/2011/01/28/womb-rahm-mercy-allah/ for more detailed referencing of the hadith and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf’s explanation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70nWGzTyNg8 [↩]
5. For an excellent introduction to Kahanism see the lecture [Kahanistan], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMlt9Si9Ti8&pp=ygUKa2FoYW5pc3Rhbg%3D%3D). There is also an excellent work detailing the efforts and work of Kahanists to forge a coalition of political allies with [American], https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1654274) lawmakers. [↩]
6. See Dr. Ali Ataie’s commentary on how the biblical doctrine of [herem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J212L4w7O-g) is being deployed today by Israel in its genocide against the Palestinian Gazans [↩]
7. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/enduring-pain-keeps-public-support-gaza-war-strong-israel-2024-01-18/ [↩]
8. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/14/intent-in-the-genocide-case-against-israel-is-not-hard-to-prove [↩]
9. The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers, https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers [↩]
10. See this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVQ1kK-6Yk) discussing Spandrell’s and Nick Land’s work on dense cities as sites of “IQ shredding” [↩]
11. https://x.com/mmjukic/status/1712797598602469581 [↩]
12. Israeli court rules ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service, https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/25/israeli-court-rules-ultra-orthodox-men-can-be-drafted-for-military-service [↩]
13. Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5991881/#bb0020 [↩] [↩]
14. For example, see International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ICMART) world report: assisted reproductive technology 2004, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23442757/ [↩]
15. Israel is leading the world in In-Vitro-Fertilisation, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/world/middleeast/18israel.html [↩]
16. Israeli medical tourism industry slowly forges ahead, http://www.timesofisrael.com/expert-israeli-medical-tourism-industry-slowly-forges-ahead/ [↩]
17. Israeli Startup Uses AI to Boost IVF Effectiveness by Selecting Viable Eggs, https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-startup-uses-ai-to-boost-ivf-effectiveness-by-selecting-viable-eggs/ [↩]
18. Israel Extracting Sperm from Dead Soldiers and Using It To Create Children, https://futurism.com/neoscope/israel-extracting-sperm-dead-soldiers [↩]
19. A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb—humans could be next, https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020969/mouse-embryo-grown-in-a-jar-humans-next/ [↩]
20. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-womb-trials-in-humans-could-start-soon/ [↩]
21. See the [Palestine Laboratory], https://www.versobooks.com/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory, for more [↩]