Alex Jones has a new villain: a group of former churchgoers who keep the seven commandments given to Noah. “They’re going to have Noahide laws, and you’re going to have to pledge allegiance to it, and the world government’s going to be out of Jerusalem with the Antichrist on the throne, and you’ve got to renounce Jesus, or they’ll chop your head off,” the conspiracy broadcaster told his audience in a recent clip. Jones blamed Israel’s president for “pushing this” and called it megalomania. “The red heifer thing, but we’re going to make God come back. We’re going to make the Messiah manifest,” he said. “Why on earth would you be playing this card when everybody hates you?”
Jones has built a career on claims like this one. For years he told his audience that the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 first graders and six educators were murdered, was staged with “crisis actors.” Victims’ families who sued him for defamation testified that his followers stalked and harassed them for years. A Connecticut jury awarded $964 million in damages, and the judge added $473 million in punitive damages against Jones and Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal in October 2025. He still faces a $1.25 billion judgment in Connecticut, and the Sandy Hook families have yet to collect any money from him, according to the Associated Press. Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022, and he gave up the Infowars brand in April, moving his shows to new websites and his personal X account. Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting +4
Sandy Hook is one entry in a long catalog. Jones has called the September 11 attacks an inside job carried out by the U.S. government. In 2015 he told viewers that government chemicals in the water supply “turn the friggin’ frogs gay.” He promoted the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory claiming a Washington pizzeria hid a child-trafficking ring run by Democratic officials, and in 2017 he issued a public apology to the restaurant’s owner after a gunman fired a rifle inside the building. In 2018, Apple, YouTube, Facebook and Spotify removed his content from their platforms.
The Noahide clip spread as delegates and community leaders representing Noahide communities across six continents gathered in Jerusalem for the First International Congress of Noahides, held November 2 to 6. Participants represented Noahide communities operating in more than 70 countries. The event was organized by Brit Olam, the Noahide World Center headed by Rabbi Oury Cherki, and Israel365 News reported that on the final day, six continental representatives were scheduled to convene at the official residence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to read the founding declaration in their own languages. The congress drew sharp criticism online, particularly among some conservative evangelical and independent Christian commentators. article 913866 +3
Rabbi Aron Sokol played the Jones clip for Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff on his YouTube program Parsha Inspired, in an episode titled “ALERT: ISAIAH 53 Is HAPPENING NOW… Something Is Very, Very Wrong!” Hajioff, a British-born educator who has taught college in the United States for 25 years, answered Jones with the one chapter of the Hebrew Bible most often turned against the Jewish people.
Who is the despised servant of Isaiah 53, and why does a rabbi say the chapter is being fulfilled in this week’s headlines?
“Nothing He Is Saying Is True”
Hajioff opened with the facts. “We have to clear this up so our viewers can understand, first of all, how insane his words are, how anti-Bible they are,” he said. “Nothing he is saying is true. It’s the exact opposite.”
“No one’s going to chop anyone else’s head off,” he continued. “There is no historical reality of Jewish people chopping anyone else’s heads off. If you want to see that, I would visit other religions who have that habit among them.”
The Noahides, Hajioff said, are among Israel’s closest allies. “They are the people who’ve left the church and decided that they don’t want to become Jewish, which we as Jews say is absolutely fine. You don’t need to be Jewish in order to have a connection to the one true God of Israel.”
Jewish law places such people at the summit of the nations. The Rambam (Maimonides) rules that a non-Jew who accepts the seven commandments because God commanded them in the Bible is one of the chasidei umot ha’olam, the pious of the nations, with a share in the World to Come (Hilchot Melachim 8:11). The Talmud goes further, quoting Rabbi Meir that a non-Jew who studies the laws that apply to him is equal to the kohen gadol, the High Priest (Sanhedrin 59a).
As for the red heifer that so alarms Jones, Hajioff said its purpose is purification. “That’s going to be there to purify people so they can come up and worship the one true God, not create some weird government that this person is inventing.”
Sokol, who said he spoke with congress participants after praying on the Temple Mount that morning, added that Judaism has never sought converts by force. “Our goal is not to persuade anybody to become a Noahide,” he said. “People should be taught the values of this, and they can choose if they want to live by this.”
Read Chapter 52 First
Isaiah 53 is the chapter Hajioff says fills his comment sections. Christian readers have long applied it to Jesus. Hajioff insists the chapter must be read in sequence. “In order to read chapter 53, you have to read chapter 52, because that precedes it. And you can’t just look at one verse.”
Read in order, the passage opens with the nations stunned by what they see. The prophet introduces the servant at the end of chapter 52 and describes the reaction of the world’s rulers:
“So shall he startle many nations, kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which had not been told them shall they see, and that which they had not heard shall they perceive.” (Isaiah 52:15)
Chapter 53 then gives the confession of those same nations, who look back on the servant they mocked:
“He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease; and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (Isaiah 53:3)
Isaiah names the servant himself, repeatedly, in the chapters leading up to it. “But thou, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend” (Isaiah 41:8). “Thou art My servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified” (Isaiah 49:3). Rashi, the great 11th-century French commentator, reads chapter 53 the same way, explaining the servant as Jacob, the Jewish people, at the end of days.
“Chapter 53 of Isaiah opens up with how much the Jewish people as a nation, as a unified whole, are going to be despised around the entire world,” Hajioff said. “It’s not referring to an individual. It’s us as a nation.”
He tied the prophecy directly to the present. “Right now, in the throes of probably the most antisemitic time that I’ve ever known in my lifetime, Isaiah the prophet tells us in chapter 53 that the Jewish people are going to be despised,” he said. “The reason is it’s meant to bring us as a nation closer to Hashem [God]. It’s painful. It’s difficult. Hashem is our only rescuer. No man, no government, only the one true God of Israel can bring us back.”
Sokol acknowledged that a minority of Jewish sources apply the chapter to a messianic figure, and Hajioff addressed it. “The generation is going to suffer, and the Messiah is part of that generation, so he’s going to be suffering too,” he said. “He’s a political and military leader. The messianic promises must occur while the Messiah is alive. There is no second coming. It’s not mentioned anywhere in Jewish scriptures.”
The Punchline
Hajioff compared the current moment to the structure of a joke. “There’s got to be a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning is the setup. The middle is where all the action takes place. Then you have the punchline, which is what makes the joke funny. It all turns around. That is exactly where we are right now.”
His model is Isaac, whose Hebrew name, Yitzchak, means “he will laugh.” Sarah was barren into old age, and when her son was born she declared, “God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me” (Genesis 21:6).
“Look at his life. It’s not funny,” Hajioff said. “He has to go up to the Akeidah [the Binding of Isaac], ready to give his life up for God. Laughter comes out from the most difficult, challenging time.”
The same reversal runs through the Book of Esther, where a decree to destroy the Jews became the day of their victory, v’nahafoch hu, “and it was turned to the contrary” (Esther 9:1). “It’s going to take a lot of faith,” Hajioff said. “It’s all going to turn around, and the redemption is going to happen in the blink of an eye.”
He described the moment the kings of Isaiah 52 finally shut their mouths. “The nations of the world are going to say, ‘We got it wrong. We hated you, but really this was God doing this, and you are the catalyst that is going to bring the Messiah and world peace.’”
Hooks in the Jaw of Gog
Hajioff placed Iran inside the same prophetic sequence. “Iran is Gog. I get a lot of pushback from other people on this, but I know this for a fact,” he said. “God is going to pull them in like a fish is pulled in by a hook.”
The image comes from Ezekiel, where God tells Gog, “I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army” (Ezekiel 38:4). Hajioff called the Iranian regime a “death cult” beyond negotiation, and he said its ideology has reached American campuses. “The whole free Palestine movement is an Iranian invention,” he said, naming Qatar as a partner in “a longer-term strategy that’s been in play for decades.”
As Long as the Sun Rises
Against the flood of hatred, Hajioff pointed his audience to the end of Jeremiah 31. “Thus saith the LORD, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is His name: If these ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever” (Jeremiah 31:34–35; Jeremiah 31:35–36 in Christian Bibles).
“Going against that is like not believing the sun’s going to come up tomorrow,” Hajioff said. “That’s the given. That’s the guarantee. No matter what kind of replacement theory you want to buy into, whether it’s the jihadi one or the Christian one, we are here forever.”
That guarantee, he said, carries an obligation to be or lagoyim, a light to the nations (Isaiah 49:6). “It’s not a flashlight. It’s a candle,” he said. “A light is something that shines, and if you want it, you can come to it.” The Noahides, he said, are living proof of the prophecy that ki mitzion tetzei Torah, “out of Zion shall go forth the law” (Isaiah 2:3).
Hajioff closed with a warning taken from the Sages, who taught that the generation before the Messiah lives in an alma d’shikra, a world of falsehood. “Don’t believe every small comment you hear online,” he said. “Open the books yourselves. Read the prophets. Don’t wake up too late. This is the time.”
Alex Jones sees a sinister plot in Jerusalem. Isaiah saw the same scene twenty-seven centuries ago and described its ending: the kings who mocked the servant standing silent, finally seeing what they had never been told.