Here is Evelyn Rich’s story in her own words. She has a PhD from Boston University in Sociology and African-American Studies (with her dissertation on the ideology of the modern KKK).
A summary from Occidental Dissent:
Jared Taylor is a long time friend of Mark Weber of IHR and Don Black of Stormfront. As Jobling and Raymond note, he has invited well known anti-Semites to speak at the AR conferences (where anti-Semites are always prominent in the audience). In response to inquiries about the Holocaust, Taylor has expressed his lack of interest in the subject. Tellingly, Taylor has never spoken out against anti-Semitism. He also criticized Israel in a series of articles for The Last Ditch.
Guy White gleefully notes (without much forethought) that Taylor says white ethnomasochism has a life of its own, that Jewish influence isn’t exclusively the cause, and that Whites have repeatedly shown themselves (without Jewish assistance) to be capable of egalitarian excesses. In other words, his position on the Single Jewish Cause is virtually identical to the one taken by this website.
Jared Taylor’s stance on the Jewish Question is a stratagem. AR’s mission is to revive white racial consciousness. It has a definite logic to it: if you don’t care about your race, why would you care about the Jews who are trashing it?
The Jewish Question is a distraction from Taylor’s primary goal, the restoration of white racial consciousness, and so he naturally prefers to avoid discussing the issue. Besides, as Taylor himself has noted, there are any number of other websites (such as this one) that address the matter. There is no shortage of anti-Semitism in the AR community.
Jared Taylor isn’t our enemy. Unlike Ian Jobling, Lawrence Auster, or Guy White, he has never once attacked us. Perhaps the anti-anti-Semite race realists are so desperate, isolated, and few in number that they feel compelled to imagine their situation were otherwise.
In its dossier on Taylor, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Review speculates that his conspicuous lack of antisemitism “may be related to his wife, who some in the movement have said is Jewish.” The Atlanta-based organization, which monitors hate groups, has described Taylor as “the race hater.”
“What kind of ‘intelligence’ is that?” Taylor asked. He said that his wife, Evelyn Rich, is not Jewish.
According to the Intelligence Review: “Evelyn Rich became well known because of her 1985 and 1986 interviews of Duke, conducted as part of her dissertation research… [which] were used by anti-Duke forces to make radio ads attacking Duke during his run for Louisiana governor in 1991.” This may help explain the wary relationship between Duke and Taylor, opposites in many ways.
