J. Philippe Rushton gave this talk at the 1998 American Renaissance conference. He discussed the Bnai Menashe, a group in Indian who claim to be Jews and have the Right of Return to Israel.
Radio Australia reported in 2012:
ROSENBAUM: The 500 Bene Menashe in Kiryat Arba have cast aside most of their old rituals, and taken on a more mainstream approach to Judaism. They dress much like the other orthodox Jewish settlers; women in long skirts, and men in skullcaps, known as a kippahs. But Rabbi Gangte says the community still struggles to find acceptance in Israel.
GANGTE: Every time we go somewhere new we have to deal with a lot of silly and stupid questions ‘Where are you from, Indonesia? Thailand? Are you Jewish? Why do you have that kippah? Do you know what being Jewish is? Are you a convert? Are you related to Bruce Lee?’ It’s crazy.
ROSENBAUM: He says there’s growing resentment in the community.
GANGTE: When you come here people view you on a different spectrum, as someone trying to escape their poverty in India, so it hurts us a lot, and there’s a lot of anger among my community. A lot of people try to suppress that and on Yom Kippur it really comes out, when you ask for forgiveness and atone for your sins. A lot of people do remember these things.
ROSENBAUM: There are about 1,400 Bene Menashe Jews in Israel and most of them live on settlements. They’ve come under fire from politicians who want to return the occupied territories to the Palestinians.
GANGTE: The settlers offered us to live here because they’re often looking to strengthen their settlements. That’s one of the reasons. The second reason is economically it makes more sense, because it’s much cheaper to live out here. The Indian rupee is not very strong, so even if we come with a lot of money, when we convert it into Israeli shekels we only get about one tenth of what we had. So most of us can’t afford to live in the big cities.
ROSENBAUM: About 7,000 Bnei Menashe still in India want to settle in Israel. The government acknowledges that they’re of Jewish descent, but it doesn’t class them as Jewish. This means that they can’t become Israelis under the right of return law, which give citizenship to anyone who can prove they’re Jewish.
Most of the Bene Menashe in Israel have got around the problem by converting formally to Judaism. Yair Lotjem, who works as a cleaner in Kiryat Arba, hopes Israel’s government will help the Bnei Menashe to immigrate.
LOTJEM: I still have family in India and one of the main reasons I’m still working is so that I can bring them over here. I want to bring them over here even if the government can’t help me. The community here is lobbying to bring to Bene Menashe. I hope it succeeds.
Phil Rushton: “If 1.5 million Indians [Bnai Menashe] decide to go to Israel, this would provide a major problem of absorption. Lost Tribes are now springing up in South Africa, Ethiopia and many other places because Israel’s standard of living is rising to the levels of other European peoples and third world peoples want to come in.”
Question: “How do you explain the dysgenic practice of our own kind? How can people behave in such a suicidal manner?”
Rushton: “We have evolved to follow the leader. We want to be liked and we don’t want to be disliked. We live in social groups. We’re a social animal. We learn many of our social attitudes. We want to do what is good and right and we don’t really know always what is good and right. So we look at people who are genetically similar to ourselves, people who look like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton…the TV anchorman… We look at these people and say, there’s somebody who looks like me and he’s telling me such and such. That’s powerful. It’s difficult for us to tell our leaders, that’s BS. That’s nonsense.
“When we also hear from the other sources of importance, the media, the pulpit, the schools, our peer group, the same story, it is difficult to say no. For the majority of people, what is right and wrong is what their neighbors are doing.”
“If Hitler comes to power and says go to wars, then Germans being good followers, all go to war. If the leaders say, practice democracy and let many immigrants in, then the Germans, being good followers, practice democracy and let the foreigners in.”
“The Japanese are doing half of what we’re doing. They’re not having any children. China had a one-child policy. They are not behaving in a simple socio-biological maximizing process of having trillions of children and taking over the world.”
“These pathological ideas come and go.”
David Duke: “Do you have any ideas on how to trigger that ethnic identification?”
Rushton: “Joseph Goebbels had complete control of the media in Germany and the German birth rate shot up and German nationalism shot up and ethnic solidarity increased and out-group hatred increased. The reason was because of the images displayed. If you saw today on television, which I am sure you will not, lots and lots of nice blue-eyed blonde babies being born and women who had lots of these babies being happy having babies and wanting to stay at home and not to work, then you would increase the number of women who would want to have babies and stay at home. If the media showed attractive people standing up to drive the drug dealers out of their neighborhood and to not care what race they were, then I think many more people in suburban neighborhoods would rally together to drive out the alien drug dealers. And so what you see on TV portrayed by role models who look like you… Advertisers know this. Politicians know this. If you are running for Congress, you get black workers to go knock on black neighborhoods. You get Hispanic voters to knock on Hispanic doors… We know the ethnic person you are interacting helps sell the product. People trust someone who looks like their cousin more than someone who looks different, on average.”
On another topic, Rushton says: “As to why the Palestinian people are fighting and why they are having so many children, I don’t think it has anything to do with evolutionary selection pressures quite so much as the kind of social learning… All of live in a peer group… What they think is what’s important.”
“The difference between German Protestants and Italian Catholics is the peer groups… Italians still live in peer groups where being an Italian and a Catholic is still important to the family while to German Protestants, it is not even important to the grandparents.”
On another topic, Rushton said: “Why do men rape the women of out-groups? Evolution. Ducks do it. Chimpanzees do it. If you can kill the males of the rival group and impregnate their female, you will replicate your genes more effectively. Rape is an evolved strategy.”
Chaim Amalek writes: Speaking of images on advertising and its power, whites will never even begin to recover their bearings until they understand the power of collective action, e.g., begin boycotting the sponsors of programs that offend them, either through the content of the programs or the ads being run. Corporate America has a deep dread of the White Boycott and will do anything to crush it, but in the end will yield. Because they value money above all other things. GOYIM! In these words I am the Jewish Prometheus, providing you Goyim with the gift of political fire.
GOYIM! Be intelligent about how you use this gift or you will get burned. Target ads that seek to mock or diminish Fathers and Fatherhood and you accomplish much without showing your hand.
Whenever I try to give advice to a goy on how to survive in a multicultural world, I feel as though I am lecturing to small children who have yet to learn to read. Perhaps what the gentile needs is to have this explained in terms that his debased self can understand: comic books, video games, pornography.
It may be that the goy just does not have the brainpower to figure these things out on his own.
