Shirk in Judaism

Ash Maiz and R. Tobias Singer, title-fight! The issue here is the extent to which Christianity violates tawhid. Singer proposes, to a Muslim, that Jews don't. It's important to Jews that Muslims don't see Jews as mushriks on account that G-d Himself has told Muslims as much in sura 9.

Maiz points out that Jews do in fact venerate saints. (So have most Muslims, historically. Speaking as an ex-Algerian.) And not just at the Tomb of Rachel or the Tomb of Abraham (or the tomb of 'Alî Reza); but at the Tomb of Schneerson. Visitors leave written notes for this Rabbi. Maiz further points out, whether it's to exonerate these pilgrims or no, that Jews had been doing this since the "first century" which to Maiz means A.D. (Maiz is a converso, like me).

The Jewish attack on shirk by contrast might be more recent. Their term as vocalised is שִׁתּוּף so shitûph in Aramaised Hebrew. I do not find it to predate the commentaries on the Babylonian Talmud; so it looks to postdate [Madinan] Islam, likely 'Abd al-Malik. That Talmud extends into the Islamic era, and was not much adhered until then (probably because it wasn't fixed). Even so שִׁתּוּף does not exist in the text, or at least is not explained.

None of this is to condemn nor to condone sura 9, which I'll leave to others, others as might still think sura 9 is worth defending or opposing. This is to point out that (1) Judaism calls upon Saints for intercession and (2) Judaism's שִׁתּוּף against others is opportunistic and not core to that faith. 2-0 to Maiz.