The Book
Pre-publication summary of the foundational work behind Covenant Judaism.
Antisemitism
Western Law, Sacred Power, and the Rise of a False Doctrine
by Darrell Hubbard
Jesus and His twelve apostles were Jews living fully within Israel’s covenantal obedience. They did not found a religion detached from Israel. They embodied covenant faithfulness within it. The earliest Jesus movement was a Jewish covenant movement rooted in Torah, prophecy, and messianic expectation. It did not begin as a rupture from Israel, but as its fulfillment within history.
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ stands as the most consequential act of antisemitic violence in human history. It was the state-sanctioned execution of a Jew, carried out by imperial authority, and it inaugurated centuries of persecution that followed.
After Christ’s death, the Roman Empire and successive imperial regimes systematically persecuted Jews who confessed Jesus as Messiah. Yet Yeshua (Jesus), His Apostles, their Jewish lineage, and the covenantal communities that followed Him have been politically and historically excluded from modern antisemitism discourse.
This exclusion represents not a correction of history, but its erasure—severing the most foundational Jewish victims of imperial antisemitism from the very category they gave their lives to bear witness to.
This book examines antisemitism not only as a moral evil to be opposed, but as a doctrine that has evolved into a governing legal and institutional framework—shaping identity, speech boundaries, and moral accountability.
What this book is
- A theological analysis grounded in covenant theology
- A historical account of doctrine formation through empire and post-1945 governance
- A legal critique of definitional enforcement and institutional authority
- A framework for opposing hatred while preserving conscience, truth, and universal accountability
The core argument
The book argues that modern antisemitism doctrine has moved through institutional phases—emergence as moral prohibition, consolidation through legal and educational systems, expansion through civil-society enforcement, and a present-day encounter with structural tension. The question is not whether antisemitism is real; it is whether the doctrine’s scope and enforcement can remain legitimate without reassessment of limits and unintended consequences.
ABSTRACT
By Darrell Hubbard, A Child of God, M.S. Computer Science, M.B.A. Harvard University
This book examines the contemporary global governance of antisemitism through a historical, legal, and theological framework that traces its evolution across distinct institutional phases. Rather than treating antisemitism solely as a recurring social prejudice or moral pathology, the work analyzes it as a historically contingent doctrine that has moved through identifiable stages: emergence as a moral prohibition, consolidation through legal and educational systems, expansion into civil-society enforcement, and present-day encounter with structural tension and contestation.
Grounded in biblical covenantal theology, imperial history, and post-1945 international law, the book situates modern antisemitism doctrine within a broader transition from divine, conditional accountability to secular, unconditional identity protection. It argues that this transition—accelerated by the Holocaust and institutionalized through the United Nations human-rights framework—redefined protection in ways that are procedurally necessary yet theologically and morally discontinuous with earlier covenantal models. Antisemitism emerges in this analysis not merely as hatred to be prevented, but as a governing category that increasingly shapes discourse boundaries, political legitimacy, and institutional authority.
The book does not deny the reality or danger of antisemitism. Instead, it interrogates how its global institutionalization functions in practice: how definitions operate as regulatory instruments; how protection mechanisms interact with political power; and how enforcement can, in certain contexts, generate asymmetries of accountability that challenge principles of universality, proportionality, and free inquiry central to human-rights law itself.
By mapping antisemitism’s lifecycle across theology, empire, and international governance, the book asks a critical but constructive question: whether a doctrine born of moral necessity can remain effective and legitimate without continual reassessment of its scope, limits, and unintended consequences. The work is intended for scholars, policymakers, civil-society actors, international institutions, journalists, and engaged members of the public concerned with human-rights protection, religious freedom, and conflict prevention, offering a framework for safeguarding against antisemitism while preserving moral coherence, institutional credibility, and universal accountability.