Is This New Book Good For The Jews?

Heeb magazine writes: There’s an old joke about two Jews stuck on a desert island. They had three synagogues. One that the first Jew attended, one that the second Jew attended, and the one neither would set foot in even if it killed them. But there’s Jews, and there’s hasidim. And there’s hasidim, and then there’s New Square, the gated fundamentalist community where attending the wrong synagogue can prove hazardous to your health. Shulem Deen had the privilege of living in New Square, and he celebrated the release of his tell-all memoir about his experiences in, “All Who Go Do Not Return.”

This is the newest title in the growing library of memoirs detailing the experiences of formerly-Orthodox and anti-Orthodox writers, including Shalom Auslander, Deborah Feldman, and Leah Vincent. Is this part of a new haskalah? Will this genre continue to prove interesting to the non-Orthodox?

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Paul Gottfried: The American Right Should Respect Bibi

Paul Gottfried writes: For Bibi there is no realistic choice in negotiating with the Palestinians but to allow a two-state solution. Neither he and his party nor presumably those who belong to what is counterfactually called “the Zionist Union Left” want to deal with an eventual Arab Muslim majority, which may well develop in Israel, unless Israeli Jews, and not just the ultra-Orthodox, start producing large families. Although Netanyahu in an eleventh-hour bid for votes nixed any support for a Palestinian state, once assured of an electoral victory, he immediately backtracked and explained that he only opposed such a political entity because its present leadership would endanger his country.

Netanyahu, also in the heat of battle, accused the opposition of “busing Arabs to the polls,” an accusation that greatly disturbed the Obama administration. Needless to say, the GOP and the employees of the Murdoch media had absolutely no moral problem with Netanyahu’s insensitive statement. Of course if a Republican politician were to accuse the Democrats of enticing blacks to the polls, that remark would spell the end of that hapless creature. Both his colleagues and the “conservative” press would demand the head of this “racist” Republican, even before Fox-News’ erstwhile friend Al Sharpton began grousing.

I also have no doubt that many who voted for Likud or who are willing to coalesce with it believe that Israel should expand to include the West Bank (and perhaps a lot more) and that the Israeli Palestinians should be stripped of all political rights. After all, Netanyahu and his family come from the right-nationalist wing of the Zionist movement, and the Revisionist Zionists, starting with their founder Zeev Jabotinsky, called for an Israel “on both sides of the Jordan.” This was to be achieved while subjecting the native Arab population to Jewish colonial rule. Jabotinsky was an effusive admirer of Mussolini and was truly shocked when the Duce went over to the dark side by allying himself with Nazi Germany. Despite the quasi-fascist genesis of the Zionist tradition from whence the Likud (and its predecessor Heirut) emerged, Netanyahu has shown himself to be more interested in Israeli security than Israeli expansion. If he’s unfortunately allowed the building of settlements on the West Bank that will likely result in escalated tensions, that’s the price he’s had to pay to form and preserve a parliamentary coalition. He needed the support of the Orthodox parties, which has brought in its wake an unwise settlement policy.

Almost involuntarily I am drawn to Netanyahu as a figure of stature. Despite the nonstop announcement by Republican politicians and Fox-news lackeys that Bibi is “another Churchill,” as a person of the Right, I can warm up to this patriot. Indeed I respect Bibi more than Winnie, who was a frenetic war-monger, ordered terror-bombing in Central Europe during the last sixteen months of World War Two and did more than FDR to appease and flatter Stalin. I believe that Netanyahu is telling us the truth when he says he is concerned first and foremost with the survival of his country, and I never mistake the global democratic drivel that I hear him spewing on Fox-news with his sense of organic nationhood and his love for his own people.

I also can’t help contrasting this Israeli leader who takes bold stands in defiance of “world opinion” to the pygmy politicians who now abound in the US and in much of Western Europe. With the exceptions of Jeff Sessions, Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orban, I find no Western leader whom I would want to see running a state in which I happened to live. In contrast to Bam, Hillary, Jeb, Romney, Merkel and the rest of this fatuous, largely indistinguishable crew, Netanyahu devotes his life to his people and its continued existence as a cultural and historic as well as political nation. Whether or not one agrees that Iran poses an “existential threat” to Israel, I have never met an Israeli who didn’t believe this was the case. Israelis may have a nuclear arsenal with which they could respond to an Iranian attack, but they have no interest in engaging in such a devastating struggle. They would rather nip the threat in the bud. Moreover, as I explained to the surprise of the editor of a German nationalist publication who was interviewing me, if I were living in Israel, I would favor the destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities before my enemies tried to make good on their promise to destroy me.

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The Eternal Jew

According to Wikipedia: “The Eternal Jew (1940) is an antisemitic[1] German Nazi propaganda film,[2] presented as a documentary. It has been characterized as “[s]urely the most hideous success of the anti-Semitic films” made during the Nazi era.[3] The film’s title in German is Der Ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the “Wandering Jew” in medieval folklore. At the insistence of Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the film was directed by Fritz Hippler. The screenplay is credited to Eberhard Taubert. The film consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time Poland’s Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population. Actor Harry Giese (1903–1991) narrated.”

Here are the bits that grab me.

* “Within ten minutes of the German occupation [of Poland], the Jews return to business.”

* “Untroubled by their surroundings, they go right on with their prayers. The bobbing motion is part of the ritual for reading Jewish scriptures.”

* “The main part of Jewish community life takes place in the street.”

* “For Jews, doing business is something holy. That is something incomprehensible to non-Jews.”

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Jewish Identity & American Identity

This morning I read a comment that every time a Jew sees a Christmas tree, he sees a potential Holocaust.

That hit me hard. Initially, I hoped that if I rewrote it to specify a certain type of Jew, I could deal with it more easily, but there’s no getting around the fact that the stronger your in-group identity, whether it as white, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, black, Chinese, Zoroastrian, Armenian, the more likely you are to have hostility towards outsiders.

Now, most Jews I know like Christmas, and they don’t think of the Holocaust when they see a Christmas tree. How non-Jews behave affects how Jews relate to them and American non-Jews have treated Jews well.

Prior to converting to Judaism in 1993, I never saw the Christmas tree as representing anything but a benign symbol of light and goodness (though I may have been infected earlier in my life by a strain of Seventh-Day Adventism that regards Christmas and Christmas trees as pagan).

I became interested in Judaism in 1988 through listening to the pro-Christian Jewish talk show host Dennis Prager. Prager was the dominant prism through which I related to Judaism until about 2000 when I went whole hog Orthodox.

The stronger I’ve grown in my Jewish identity, the more tempted I feel to slur out-groups, including Christians. I no longer even say “Merry Christmas” because it implies that there is some religious validity to Christmas. Not only do I abstain from that blessing, I also like to explain to goyim that I can’t say “Merry Christmas” because it might come across that I think there’s religious truth to Christianity.

I’m obnoxious when I feel righteous.

Christmas is an American holiday, not just a Christian one, which puts the Jew in a pickle. To the extent the Jew is hostile to Christmas (and most Jews are not), he is also likely to be hostile to America and to goyim in general.

Where Jews feel insecure, they’re going to hide their hostility to outsiders. In America today, Jews feel as secure as they have ever felt in history, and so they are more apt to make movies like “Bad Santa.”

Steve Sailer writes in 2005:

And, strange as it may seem during today`s War Against Christmas, a very large fraction of the best Christmas songs were written by Jews.

For example, looking at a fairly recent ASCAP list of the most played Christmas pop tunes, it appears to me that of the top ten songs, Jews wrote five and co-wrote two more. Out of the top 25 songs, Jews were involved with at least 11 and possibly more…

The Christmas songs that Jews wrote seldom involved religion, and some were simply ditties about cold weather, but nobody thought to label them generic “Holiday” tunes…

So it`s hard to tell whether Jews are still willing to write Christmas songs since nobody at all is writing Christmas songs that catch on anymore…

It will be interesting to see if Jews continue to make Christmas movies.

Going back to the 19th Century, German-Jewish department store owners played a significant role in promoting several modern Christmas traditions in America. Some of our more prominent customs, such as the Christmas tree, came from Germany (Franklin Pierce in the 1850s was the first President to have a Christmas tree), and Jews were important purveyors of German culture in America.

But this long, amiable tradition of Jews helping to enliven a Christian feast day seems, sadly, to be drawing to an end. American Jews, those exemplars of successful assimilation now seem to be de-assimilating emotionally, becoming increasingly resentful, at this late date, of their fellow Americans for celebrating Christmas.

Veteran TV writer Burt Prelutsky wrote a column last week entitled “The Jewish Grinch who Stole Christmas:”

“I never thought I`d live to see the day that Christmas would become a dirty word… And I blame my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the American Civil Liberties Union, at the forefront.

“Being Jewish, I should report, Christmas was never celebrated by my family. But what was there not to like about the holiday? To begin with, it provided a welcome two-week break from school. The decorated trees were nice, the lights were beautiful, “It`s a Wonderful Life” was a great movie, and some of the best Christmas songs were even written by Jews.

“But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society—it`s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity.”

There`s nothing uniquely Jewish about ethnic groups de-assimilating. Human beings compete for status, and the most natural way to organize groups in this struggle is along lines of family relationship.

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Should We Shackle Ourselves To Reality?

Returning to the gold standard is a favorite conspiracy theory among low-achieving Orthodox Jews.

Paul Johnson writes in his book Modern Times: The evidence of industrial decay was omnipresent too. After a brief post-war recovery, the fundamental weakness of Britain’s traditional export industries – coal, cotton and textiles, shipbuilding, engineering – all of which had old equipment, old animosities and old work-practices, combining to produce low productivity, was reflected in chronically high unemployment. This was attributed in great part to the decision of Winston Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer to return Britain to the gold standard in 1925. Keynes argued fiercely against it as a form of ‘contemporary mercantilism’. We were ‘shackling ourselves to gold’. Churchill replied we were ‘shackling ourselves to reality’, which was true, the reality of Britain’s antiquated industrial economy. 87 The effects of the move balanced out: higher export prices, cheaper imported food and raw materials. As Churchill said, it was primarily a political move, designed to restore Britain’s financial prestige to its pre-war level. It was necessarily deflationary and so had the unforeseen effect of making it easier for the government to defeat the General Strike, the ultimate weapon of the Sorelians, talked about since 1902, which finally took place in May 1926. There had been dress-rehearsals in 1920 and 1922, from which the Tory Party had profited more than the union leaders. When it became inevitable, Stanley Baldwin
craftily manoeuvred the leaders of the transport, railway and mining
unions into fighting the battle at the end instead of the beginning of
winter. It collapsed ignominiously after a week

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Are You Anti-Semitic?

Comment: Here is the poll, with 6+ yes answers making you an “antisemite” according to ADL:

Jews stick together more than other Americans.
Jews always like to be at the head of things.
Jews are more loyal to Israel than America.
Jews have too much power in the U.S. today.
Jews have too much control and influence on Wall Street.
Jews have too much power in the business world.
Jews have a lot of irritating faults.
Jews are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want.
Jewish business people are so shrewd that others don’t have a fair chance at competition.
Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind.
Jews are (not) just as honest as other business people

Chaim Amalek writes: “We Jews may stick together, but is it our fault you goyim so often extol the virtues of the “lone wolf” off by himself? Silly goyim don’t seem to realize that the lone wolf is the loser of the animal kingdom. Of course, I don’t trust groups of goyim unless they have first been sprayed with social teflon to keep them from sticking together.”

Every time a certain type of Jew sees a Christmas tree, he sees a potential Holocaust.

Chaim Amalek writes: “This is true only of a very small fraction of Jews over all. My sense is that a gentile man is more likely to want to be sodomized by a swarthy Muselman than a Jew is to think “holocaust” when he sees a Christmas tree. That said, whenever I see an egg I think of Easter and the Passion of the Goyim who want to kill me for taking their God from them. This is why Yidden are afraid of eggs.”

I want to Jew-down Time Warner over my bill but my goyisha genes won’t let me bargain and I am too ashamed to ask a Jew to do this for me.

Chaim Amalek: “I’ll bet you end up goy-upping your bill every time.”

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Blood & Soil Nationalism

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The USA can no longer be described as real blood and soil nation founded by a real genetic homogenous population. The Wasps gave up the ghost years ago, the Act of 1924 was their last hurrah and attempt to hang on to their country. Thus came Hart-Cellar and the utter ruination of Kennedy/Johnson. There’s just no getting away from that, it’s a done deal. Time to grow up and face up to it. The chance to do anything about it passed with the old jowlhound himself.
Look, the forces arranged against you are just too massive, too powerful and too overwhelming. The fact that ‘Hispanics’ multiplied their numbers 20 fold in 60 years should tell you that – and subcontinental immigration to the USA has only now started in earnest. Believe you me, *that* will make the mex deluge look like the proverbial vicarage tea party, complete with bucktoothed, absurd, buffoon C of E parson, the old bag blue rinse brigade, crust less cucumber sandwiches, Earl Grey and Battenberg cake. And then *will* come the sub Saharans, what? All 9 billion of them.
Now, let’s all link arms for another round of Berkeley kumbaya, denounce the white privilege, and praise the yoni.

* A massive long run problem for America is that American gentiles are far more zealous defenders of Jews and Israel than they are of America and Americans. If people like Walter Russell Mead were even half as concerned about the American people as they are about the Jewish people, then it simply would not matter what positions American Jews had.

* It’s a depressing idea that the great mass of whites out there have to go searching for allies to enable them to do what they’re supposed to be doing for themselves in the first place.

* What about the white elites who all seem to support open borders. From the Chambers of Commerce, major economists, think tanks, service industry and small business owners. It’s really hard to find anyone who is in business who doesn’t support illegal immigration.

And about “free trade” – NAFTA and PNTR with China, these pacts have devastated the country economically and socially. Not to mention creating a class of permanent and underemployed unemployed whites that number into the millions. And oh yeah, making sure kids out of college can’t find decent paying jobs because we shipped them to China or imported a bunch of Bombay specials to take their jobs.

In short before we start hammering the Jews we better damn well start hammering the white business and money classes who are backing this traitorous crap.

* Jewish Democrats do not care about Israel. All rhetoric to the contrary is just that – rhetoric, which is mostly intended to reassure out of touch elderly Jews who still care fervently about Israel. Even now, it is reported that Senate Democrats – no doubt including Schumer, Feinstein, the washed up comedian from Minnesota, the phony war hero from Connecticut, and other Senators supposedly of the Mosaic persuasion – are blocking a NON-BINDING resolution that would call for re-imposition of sanctions on Iran in the event Iran CHEATS on the deal Obama is negotiating with them now. In other words, the deal being done is not even intended to be enforceable, and Senate Democrats, no doubt including most of the Jews among them, are just fine with that.

Even after his serial blow-ups with Israel during his first term, Obama got just under 70% of the Jewish vote in 2012. Of course, some might say that was because he dialed back his rage at Israel and went on a “charm” offensive toward Jewish voters, but what if he hadn’t? My guess is, his support from Jews would have dropped . . . to about 65%.

FWIW, I applaud you for noticing that there’s no logical connection between supporting Israel and wanting open borders for the US. I myself strongly support both Israel (I mean, the part of Israeli society that is not suicidal, namely, the Israeli Right) and restricting immigration to the US. Unfortunately, the deal you propose is of no interest to the people you propose addressing it to.

* Now, let’s suppose the hypothetical white conservative offer — white con support for Israel in exchange for Jewish opposition to immigration — is accepted by Neocons but not Jewish Libs. Will that be enough to enact change? Most of the Jewish power and wealth is with Jewish Libs, not with Neocons. Neocons can do a lot but that not nearly as much as Jewish Libs. Indeed, if the Jewish Lib-dominated media hadn’t favored Neocons as the new face of Conservatism, Neocons wouldn’t be so influential.

This is why Jews promote the homo agenda. Homos are reliably pro-Jewish because they tend to be un-tribal about most issues. Homos all around the world feel estranged from their tribal cultures since most people are not homo and most cultures feel strange about homos. So, homos feel as homonomads. They are the ideal proxies, accomplices, and collaborators of Jews who are cosmopolitan, rootless, and global. Also, homos fear Arabs and Muslims.

Also, homos make the culture of rich and privilege seem cool and hip. So, even though ‘white privilege’ is bad, ‘homo privilege’ is wonderful, and via the justification of homo privilege, Jewish and white privilege can find a backdoor entrance of justification-by-association. White privilege as white privilege is bad… but white privilege associated with ‘homo privilege’ is good. So, in big rich gentrified cities, you got homo ‘rainbow’ flags to send the message, ‘this is progressive zone; don’t hate or boycott us’.

Homo agenda neutralizes not only conservatism but leftism. Many leftists stand for the Third World, but the Third World is anti-’gay’. As long as Israel is seen more pro-homo than the Muslim world is, most white ‘progressives’ will feel closer to Jews and Israel.
And as homos are so chummy with rich Jews in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Las Vegas, fashion industry, media, and etc. they will foremost be loyal to Jews and will not join some grubby BDS movement filled with swarthy ‘losers’.

* Here is what I believe what powerful Jews see as much more likely:

The Neocons and Israel are only a couple of years away from engineering the US into a war with Iran regardless of what party wins the election in 2016, but especially if any Republican is elected. The best trigger for that war will be another major domestic terrorist attack that can conveniently blamed on Tehran. The goal here is simply spreading further chaos in the middle east requiring a permanent US boots on the ground presence and a no questions asked climate of patriotism at home. Meanwhile the US and European borders must remain open so as to facilitate the flood of more potential terrorists and refugees.

Since Two State Solution is officially dead, the next move is to officially annex the West Bank while giving Palestinians every financial incentive to leave Israel while the getting is good. The Arabs and Christians who don’t take the hint are going to be forcefully pressured to leave the West Bank and Israel proper a few years down the road. Once the Arab numbers significantly decline the remainder will be simply expelled Again the US and European borders must remain open so as to facilitate the flood of Palestinian emigrants and later refugees. Sure left wing Jews will make a minor fuss that Israel will become outwardly ethnocentric and the pretense to being a liberal Democracy will have evaporated. But it is taken as a given they will quickly fall into line if it ultimately means an expanded Israel that controls it own borders and is more demographically secure. Nothing I am stating here has not been promulgated as Likud party platform goals.

In the meantime Jews in Europe and USA have every intention of passing hate speech and hate crime laws that they believe will effectively neuter the BDS movement. While Jews will be granted “super citizenship” that will make life for them more than tolerable until increasingly more Zionist territory is acquired. Conditions for Non-Jewish white Europeans and Americans may decline significantly but Jews don’t care about them as long as the Jews will be protected. Once again keeping the borders open is key to making this happen.

Whites are only a 3-4 election cycles from being permanently rendered minorities in their homelands and in the countries they settled. That is what Jews on both the left and right want and they are not going to just let anybody simply “demand” that they change their plans. Besides Open Borders are making Jews super rich at the expense of their only possible opposition the educated middle class that identifies with the historical American nation. For this to happen the Borders must remain Open!!!

Last, Jews look at how easy it has been for them to manipulate the Christian Dispensationalist Goyim and laugh at the idea that NAMs can ever cause them trouble. They already fund NAACP and La Raza and hundreds of other Open Borders and identity politics groups. They have no reason to fear a Democratic coalition of the fringes as long as they are the puppet masters and control the media. The more NAMs the better, they are after all the best cudgel to keep the white Christian goyim in line. The Borders will remain Open!!!

In short everything is going the Jews way, and 90%+ of whites in the USA and Europe are clueless as to who is pulling the strings.

In short being polite and simply asking or even “demanding” some change in course from TWMNBN will accomplish nothing except still getting you labeled an anti-semite.

* Jews are much more supportive of open borders and mass immigration than whites are, and the opposition to same is much more white than Jewish. There’s a pair of links I keep handy that give a survey of how US senators and reps voted some years back, breaking them down into Euro and Jewish categories, but Steve doesn’t like me dropping it here. Short version, Euros voted about 45/55 for open borders, while Jews were like 90/10, or something.

* I like a lot of what Steve writes, but he suffers, in a peculiar and idiosyncratic way, from the same thing that the American Renaissance people do: The Great White Hope that organized Jewry can somehow be prevailed on to accept a “bargain” of some kind that preserves the primacy of European/Christian/Classical culture. Such a grand bargain could never be deemed to be “good for the Jews.” Any meaningful preservation of European/Christian traditional culture will never be acceptable from the perspective of aggressive organized Jewry. Pursuing such a bargain is sheer delusion.

* The newspaper of Mapam (the ancestor of Meretz, the furthest left Zionist party in the Knesset today), even published racist articles in the 1980s that wouldn’t be out of place here, including one that explained why blacks and Arabs are genetically inferior to whites and Jews, which is why Jewish fighter pilots are the best in the world, and blacks in the US are only good for short-distance running.

* Kevin MacDonald made a Grand Bargain offer straight-up to Organized Jewry that if they’d knock it off with the mass immigration agitating, he himself would advocate for U.S. support of Israel, even if at some cost to ourselves.

Did it accomplish anything? Did Org Jewry agree to this good deal? Did it even get the Jews to stop bashing him as the Most Horrible Person in America? Nope.

Getting an Immigration Moratorium is just going to have to be a job that us American-Americans will have to do ourselves.

* Israel is not nearly as determined to get its own illegal immigration under control, as you seem to think. There are about 70,000 Eritreans, Somalis and Sudanese firmly ensconced now in south Tel Aviv. (Scaled for population that would be like having 3.5 million of those guys in the USA.) Netanyahu would like them gone, the mayor of Tel Aviv would like them gone, most of all the majority of the citizenry would like them gone. And yet they stick around thanks to “civil rights” lawyers, European Union pressure, and a sympathetic Israeli Supreme Court.

The best thing going for Israel on this front is that the fence has almost totally eliminated the inflow of illegals.

* Okay, so there’s the big negotiating sit-down over Immigration and Israel in the back room of a restaurant between the key players: Sheldon Adelson, Haim Saban, and Peter Brimelow. Tough bargaining aimed at maybe closing a “Feasible Zionist-Gentile Grand Bargain”

Adelson: “If you give me what I want, I can deliver the Republican Party.”

Saban: “If you give me what I want, I can deliver the Democratic Party.”

Brimelow: “And if you give me what I want, I can deliver VDare.com…plus I’ll even throw in Kevin MacDonald’s endorsement!”

* Steve probably meant that as a proposal for the anti-immigrationist wing of the Republican Party. Steve’s influence might not be too large, but some people do notice him. Ann Coulter reads him, and if you followed the UVA rape hysteria, his influence might have been even larger – probably some mainstream journalists are also reading him. But in any event this idea was more of a thought experiment.

As to MacDonald, he didn’t think it was realistic to begin with, and he’s quite conscious of his limited influence. He was only giving a theoretical reason why he doesn’t support Israel, i.e. also a thought experiment. That’s important because some people accused him that he’s critical of Jews in the US and elsewhere (so he doesn’t want Jews in the Galut), but that he’s also critical of Israel, i.e. he doesn’t want Jews in Israel either. In other words, he was accused of proposing the extermination of Jews. Obviously he perceives that the organized Jewish community (i.e. Jewish organizations) leave no room for him, pushing for both destructive wars and unlimited immigration. This in turns leaves him under no obligation not to criticize Jews both here and in Israel. (His critique of Israel always seemed to me an exposition of double standards – he never really cared for Palestinians, but he always wanted to destroy any moral high ground pro-Israel “Liberals” might have enjoyed vis-à-vis White ethnonationalists like himself.)

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Will Jews Always Have Europe?

Comment to Steve Sailer:

Seems to me that Jewish elites think that indoctrination will solve the problem:

The other episode took place in Lebanon. Hezbollah, the radical Muslim militia that dominates that country, has been working to keep The Diary of Anne Frank out of Lebanese schools. This kind of denialism, perpetrated in the Middle East, makes people susceptible to anti-Semitism when they grow up and emigrate to Europe. If you don’t grow up in a place that experienced the Holocaust, and if you don’t learn about the Holocaust in some other way, you’ll behave like somebody who doesn’t get it.”

In other words, use the Holocaust (Hitler’s great gift to the Zionist project) to full advantage.

Of course, some Jews have noticed that certain groups (Blacks, Muslims, etc) seem oddly immune to the spectre of the Holocaust. Indeed, in some cases they actually seem downright hostile. A colleague of mine (she teaches an undergrad class on literature and racism) has noted to me that Blacks in her class get rather surly when the Holocaust totems are introduced: Anne Frank, Schindler’s List, Wiesel’s Night, etc. To them, the Holocaust narrative is White Privilege in action. White corpses in Europe are enduring symbols of martyrdom, while POC corpses are footnotes.

Take this famous scene from Schindler’s List, the girl in the red coat.

After viewing the film, the Black students responded with real anger to the scene. They noted that no one cared about Black children being slaughtered….But show one cute little White girl, and White people collapse in heaps of tears. According to her, they deployed the full arsenal of theory on the scene, noting how the girl’s fair skin and Caucasoid hair made her an image of White racial perfection.Black children, in contrast, with their dark skin and kinky hair, were the “Other” (Hegel has much to answer for), permanently excluded from sympathy, etc.

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WP: “Entrenched anti-Semitic views” very rare among whites and Asian Americans, common among blacks and Latinos

David Bernstein writes in 2014: According this article, ADL surveys show that “approximately 12 percent of Americans hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views.” However, over 30% of African Americans and Latinos hold such views. Given that they are almost 30% of the population, this suggests that of the 12% of Americans who hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, 9% or so are African Americans or Latinos. This means, in turn, of the 70% or so of the population that is not African American or Latino, only 3% hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views. Put another way, less than 5% of whites, Asians, and “others” (including Native Americans) combined hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, compared to over 30% of African Americans and Latinos–or at least that’s the difference in percentages of those willing to express anti-Semitic attitudes to pollsters. Regardless, it seems odd given these numbers that Jews seem especially concerned about mostly phantom anti-Semitism emanating from white evangelical Christians, while being less concerned about anti-Semitism in core Democratic constituencies. But, as Ilya pointed out a few years back, “many studies show that people tend to devalue or ignore any information that makes their political adversaries look good, while overvaluing anything that looks bad.”

The article adds: “[Retiring ADL President Abe] Foxman attributes the persistence of anti-Semitism among African-Americans to denial of the problem and a dearth of black leaders speaking out against anti-Semitism. Among Latinos, the attitudes are seen as a holdover from Latin America, where traditional Catholic anti-Semitism persists and anti-Semitic attitudes are higher than in America. Once they acculturate to the United States, Latino anti-Semitism declines: Among first-generation immigrants, about 40 percent hold anti-Semitic attitudes; among those born here, the number falls to 20 percent. ”

UPDATE: A reader points me to the most recent ADL survey, from 2013, which shows a lower rate of black (22%) and Latino (36% foreign-born, 14% native-born) anti-Semitism than the article states. The 2011 data comes closer to matching the author’s assertion, but the overall figure there was not 12% but 15% overall, and 29% (not over 30%) for African Americans and 42 and 20% for foreign and native-born Latinos, respectively. The rates for whites were 8% and 9% in 2013 and 2011. So I’m not sure if the author is looking at different data, or just got his facts wrong. Nevertheless, the basic point, that “entrenched anti-Semitic views” are far more common among African Americans and Latinos than among others, still holds.

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Earl Raab: Multiculturalist in America, Zionist in Israel

Highlights:

“The Census Bureau has just reported that about half of the American population will soon be non-white or non-European. And they will all be American citizens. We have tipped beyond the point where a Nazi-Aryan party will be able to prevail in this country. We have been nourishing the American climate of opposition to bigotry for about half a century. That climate has not yet been perfected, but the heterogeneous nature of our population tends to make it irreversible — and makes our constitutional constraints against bigotry more practical than ever. (Earl Raab, Jewish Bulletin, February 19, p. 23)

“It was only after World War II that immigration law was drastically changed … In one of the first pieces of evidence of its political coming-of-age, the Jewish community had a leadership role in effecting those changes.” (Earl Raab, Jewish Bulletin, July 23, 1993, p. 17)

“For me, just being in Jerusalem is spiritual. From the appearance of the sky, which seems to me to curve over the city, to the ancient kind of evidence that is there. I felt that way the first time I was there, and I’ve had that feeling on occasions since. The first time was in the 60’s. I had a sense I was in a different place, a spiritual place that stretched back to the beginning of history, of Jewish history. If I sat down and tried to figure out exactly what it is that gave me that feeling, I don’t think I could. It was just a sensation I felt right away.” (Earl Raab, online Hadassah Magazine)

“If America is losing its leadership edge and resolve [to protect Israel], then we are all in trouble. This is where and why America’s Jews must remain focused on Israel.” (Earl Raab, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, October 30, 1998)

The ADL’s Earl Raab served for thirty-five years as Executive Director of the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council and is currently Director of the Perlmutter Institute for Jewish Advocacy at Brandeis University. Raab, like most Jews and all Jewish organizations, promotes multiracialism and Third World immigration in the United States and other majority-White nations, while supporting Jewish racialism (aka Zionism) and a Jews-only immigration policy in Israel.

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