Pax Judaica

/ˌpæks d͡ʒuˈdeɪ̯.ɪ.kə/

proper noun

A hypothetical period of international peace based on submission to prospective Israeli dominance over international affairs.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. offensivesometimesA hypothetical period of international peace based on submission to prospective Israeli dominance over international affairs.

    Jews had traditionally views the Messiah as ones whose actions would be this-worldly. One who would re-establish the Golden Era of David and Solomon for the Jews, and reign over a global Pax Judaica where all, Jew and gentile, served the G-d of Israel.

    1996 September 26, Micha Berger <micha@aishdas.org>, “Re: Faith - is it important?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 23 May 2026
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    Have we been struggling these tragic years to blow up and extirpate the secret organization of German world dominion only to find beneath it another more dangerous because more secret? Have we, by straining every fibre of our national body, escaped a “Pax Germanica” only to fall into a “Pax Judæica”?

    1920 May 8, ““The Jewish Peril.”: A Disturbing Pamphlet”, in The Times, number 42,405, London, page 15

    Lacking your “English Phlegm” to take delight / In Apemantus’ “coil,” “serving of becks” / And all the rest; I was ordained to vex / This “Pax Judaica”, the parasite / Of base assent, this oily sea whose might / O’er-swells the gorged loot of a million wrecks.

    1924, Lord Alfred Douglas, canto XVI, in In Excelsis, London: Martin Secker, page 43

    Other thinkers interpreted the envisions international structure as a kind of Pax Judaica, a single central government in Zion to which all peoples would be subject: “There would remain no nation that was not under the rule of Israel” (Saadiah Gaon, Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, 8:8).

    1987, Aviezer Ravitzky, “Peace”, in Arthur A. Cohen, Paul Menes-Flohr, editors, Jewish Religious Thought: Original Essays on Critical Concepts, Movement, and Beliefs, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, page 696

    When Sheikh Imran Hosein gave a lecture at Moscow State University in July of 2013 and invited [Aleksandr] Dugin to respond, Dugin repeatedly resorted to a classic anti-Semitic depiction of the contemporary world as “Pax Judaica,” namely a globalist cabal for which Jews serve as the all-powerful puppet-masters.

    2026 April 29, Ronald Beiner, “Alexander Dugin: philosopher or ideologue?”, in Studies in East European Thought, volume 78, number 1/2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 240

Origin

From Latin pāx (“peace”) + Iūdaica (“Jewish”), modelled after Pax Romana, Pax Germanica, etc.

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