This 1993 book by Jack Nelson is a classic. It hits all of the Jewish themes of Kevin MacDonald but gives them a different spin.
From Publishers Weekly: “Ku Klux Klansmen, claiming that Jews were the driving force behind the civil rights movement, bombed two synagogues and a rabbi’s house in Jackson and in Meridian, Miss., in 1967-68. A Klan hit list targeted Jewish business leaders for assassination. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who covered the South in the civil rights era, discovered evidence that the FBI and the Meridian police, using funds supplied by the Jewish community, paid informants to set a trap that left Klan hit man Thomas Tarrants III wounded and his fanatically anti-Semitic bomb-maker girlfriend Kathy Ainsworth dead. This absorbing true-crime tale is a time capsule to the civil rights movement’s heyday. Using FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Nelson recreates the case and illuminates the FBI’s long vendetta against him for his reportage.”
Here are some random notes on the book:
* Regarding the PW review, Jews were the driving force behind America’s civil rights movement as well as the force behind opening up immigration to non-whites.
* Samuel Holloway Bowers, the imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan (membership was about 6,000), believed Jews were behind the Civil Rights movement that was destroying the Southern way of life and he wanted to fight back. So this KKK group shifted from fighting blacks to fighting Jews, believing that blacks were too stupid to be effective in their own cause without Jewish help.
* Author Jack Nelson repeatedly labels groups and literature in the cause of white identity to be filled with hate while Torah literature, which contains as much hate, is of course sacred text.
* Almost nobody liked Reform Rabbi Perry Nussbaum of Beth Israel. He needled everyone with frequently inappropriate remarks but what really irritated his congregants and the wider community was Nussbaum’s work against desegregation (the Southern way of life). When Jews try to destroy the customs of the people around them, Jews can expect to get hurt.
* Rabbi Perry Nussbaum pledged to his congregation to never do anything to put them in danger but he pursued his left-wing anti-segregationist beliefs over his congregation’s interests and put them all in grave danger. But he knew better because he was for civil rights.
* Jews have lived comfortably in the South for centuries. They fought on its side in the Civil War. They were “aliens in a land of fundamentalist Protestantism” but they were not disturbed as long as Jews did not disturb the Southern goyim. The German Jews assimilated to Southern norms as much as possible while the Jews of East European origins were more separatist and defiant of community mores. Jews were often regarded more positively than Roman Catholics and blacks.
* Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, were fine until 1961 when radical Jews and blacks from the North came to town as “Freedom Riders” to recruit blacks into voting. Southern whites suddenly woke up to the menace that many northern Jews posed for their segregationist culture and they started looking more critically at all Jews.
* Most of the Jews in in Jackson supported segregation, but as in South Africa and most places, Jews were overall more left-wing on matters of race than white Christians.
* Temple Beth Israel started hosting black non-Jews and anti-segregation events. The goyim noticed and did not approve. The KKK got angry and exploded a bomb in the temple. Nobody was hurt.
* While many black churches had been bombed and law enforcement paid little mind, once the Jewish temple was bombed, the FBI and law enforcement poured in resources. Why? Because Jews are organized, intelligent, educated, affluent and influential.
* The Jews got angry and demanded that the goyim condemn the bombers from the pulpit. Some of the goyim did not enjoy getting yelled at by intense Jews. Some Jews wanted to hire Mafia hitmen to kill their enemies.
* The Jews, their temple, and their rabbi got more involved in civil rights for blacks and so the rabbi’s home was bombed and nobody was seriously hurt. The rabbi summoned goyisha clergy to his home and screamed at them for not speaking out against the bombings. The goyim preachers sat quietly and took the abuse. Goyisha bystanders were shocked at the vehemence of the rabbi. The rabbi told one goy, “You’re a white Christian — a Baptist, the worst kind for Jews. You’ve got a responsibility for what happened.”
* The Jews in Jackson got intense and organized and the goyim took steps to alleviate their concerns. Goyisha clergy felt bad about the bombings and spoke out against it from their pulpits.
* The FBI descends in force on the KKK and makes their lives miserable.
* Jews raise money as a reward for information about the bombers. The FBI tells the Jews that the FBI would have more success against the KKK if the Jews would fund them but it would all need to be kept off the books and hush-hush.
* Some members of the temple realize that the rabbi’s work against segregation has put them in danger but most members rally around the rabbi who gets increasedly heated and sure of his own righteousness.
* Jews in Jackson felt their only friend was the FBI.
* One Klansman told the FBI that “Jews are the biggest nigger-loving people in the world”, which might be true.
* Jewish money buys Klan informers who set up the bombers to be killed by law enforcement.
