Antiochus was a cultural imperialist, which is bad enough. The IDF’s enemies are genocidal, which is even worse. In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid Empire was regional.

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... in the part alotted to Seleucus and his heirs. Generations later, Antiochus IV Epiphanes rules the Seleucid Empire 175-164 BC.

which they say is the first physical proof that Jews fled to the Judean Desert during the upheaval and persecution under Hanukkah villain Antiochus IV Epiphanes. As told in I Maccabees 2:29 ...

Indeed, Maccabees 1 and 2 are hyper-nationalistic texts, principally concerned with the patriarch Mattathias and his five sons, who rose against Antiochus, the Hellenic king who desecrated the ...

The second and fourth Books of the Maccabees describe how, during Antiochus’ repressions, an old man named Eleazar, and a Judean mother and her seven sons, chose death by elaborate torture over ...

Finally, around 164 B.C., the Maccabees, as they were called, defeated King Antiochus and his troops. When the Maccabees returned to their ransacked temple, they found only one jar of oil—just ...

Hanukkah commemorates the victory of Jewish revolutionaries, the Maccabees, over the tyrant Antiochus, who outlawed Judaism in 167 B.C. Tradition holds that when the Maccabees restored the temple ...