Rabbi Jill Zimmerman: ‘I got hate mail: Anti-Semitism on Twitter’

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Wow, rabbi dedicated to destroying white cohesion gets a backlash. Who would have thought? Shocking, isn’t it. She thought she could seek to diversify gentiles countries with no consequences.

Rabbi Zimmerman along with a thousand other rabbis signed a petition for America to bring in more Muslim refugees. Are these refugees in my best interests or are these rabbis seeking to fill my home with poisonous snakes? I don’t like people who seek to fill my home with poisonous snakes. I don’t get mad at the snakes. I get mad at the people who want to fill my home with poisonous snakes.

I love how she thinks that because she was triggered into tears by Trump’s speech that that’s a powerful argument.

I wonder if she has ever read the Torah. Plenty of anti-Amalek sentiment in there. Is that hate speech? Has she ever studied Talmud and its rabbinic commentaries? Plenty of anti-Gentile, anti-Christian sentiment in there. Does that bother her? Just as Jews naturally incline to negative views of gentiles, so too gentiles naturally incline to negative views of Jews. All in-groups naturally incline to fear and dislike out-groups.

It seems like some white people in America are starting to notice that they have group interests that are sometimes in conflict with the interests of other groups. Stunning!

I don’t get upset by the rise of ocean tides and I don’t get upset by the rise of gentile nationalisms. I say, good for them for standing up for themselves. They have interests that are often different from the interests of my group. We all have to compete for scarce resources.

If this rabbi calls Trump’s speech as filled with “racist xenophobic slurs and fear-mongering,” then she would have to say the same thing about Torah which seeks the death penalty for any Jewish-gentile sex and has no concept of gentile citizenship in the Jewish state.

Rabbi Jill Zimmerman says she does not accept Twitter friends who are “racist or sexist or lurid.” I guess she can’t accept Torah as her friend.

And there’s no such category as “Twitter friends.” Maybe this rabbi’s got whatever is ailing Hillary Clinton.

This rabbi hates white supremacists. Isn’t that hate? Does she hate Jewish supremacists? Does she ever tweet against Jewish supremacy? Judaism is Jewish supremacy. It holds that the Jews are God’s Chosen People. How can you get more supremacist than that? Judaism holds that the Jewish soul is completely different and far superior to the gentile soul. Is that Jewish supremacy? Is it bad?

COMMENTS AT JEWISHJOURNAL:

* Jill Berkson Zimmerman, that is your emotional problem! Don’t project that on us. There are no female rabbis. You are about as Jewish as bacon! If you are feeling so generous spend only your own money, not ours. Take a few families into your own home. We don’t want any more invaders here.

* Try thinking like an American instead. As a Jew, I’m with Trump!

* My understanding is that the Torah teaches us to be kind to the strangers among us, not that it demands that we welcome anyone who seeks to come in. We have a right to have borders just as the ancient Israelites had national borders. Surely borders and immigration laws do not violate halachic law.

* To be fair, you are assuming that Trump’s candidacy has made the racist psycho freaks of the world more bold. Trump is just one potential reason for the rise of anti-semitism. Israel’s policies. Overt militarism in the “occupation”, Jewish economic sucess, etc., etc., etc. all are contributors. His rhetoric is far less inflamatory than any true hate group. You take his statements out of context and you trivalize Hitler (yemach shemo) when you compare or connect Trump to a Nazi. There is no comparison between the things Trump says and Hitler’s attitudes, both before and during the Shoah. I am sorry, but it is like crying wolf. What do you expect will happen if a true Nazi would attract public interest? I dislike Trump intensely, but I listen to all of what he says, not just the stuff the Democrats repeat. I will not connect him with the Nazis or any true hate groups. When he actually endorses a hate group, I will be the first to publicize it. Calm down already. Doesn’t anybody want to talk about the actual policies he advances?

* Your characterization of Trump’s speech in Phoenix, on the other hand, ignores the relatively simply substance of his speech. What is wrong with securing our borders and implementing e-verify? So we really want open borders and visa overstays by the millions? What could any responsible citizen have against quickly deporting criminal aliens, be they legal or illegal? Kate Steinle’s family has something to say about that, as did the many parents of children killed by illegal aliens who Trump brought up on stage. They certainly deserved your tears. Why should be allow “sanctuary cities” to thumb their noses at the Federal government? Again, just ask Kate Steinle’s family. And if you were paying attention near the end of the speech, Trump has backed of the call for massive deportation. Instead, it is clear that he wants to find appropriate solutions for “dreamers”, illegal aliens who wish to serve in the military and illegal aliens who have been here without engaging in criminal activity or living off the dole. Makes sense to me.

* I didn’t hear what you heard because he’s trying to protect our people Jew, Asian, Hispanic, and Heinz 57, like my family (black, jew, and caucasion.) What you are referring to is protecting who we already have the responsibility to protect first. Your version is so off base. Please open your mind and heart to what France, one of the more liberal countries has now had to do. How much death do people need on our home soil to realize, like France and Great Britain have learned the hard way. Are you willing to risk your home and family members? Words from those who want to through them like bombs, are NOT BOMBS. I would much rather deal with words than terrorists on our home turf.

* I, like many of my associates , am a Christian Zionist.

This administration is particularly hostile to officers who they believe may be sympathetic, in any way, to the problems of the state of Israel.

Our training is that our oath is to the nation and that we are duty-bound to tell the truth as we see it. Thus, in the briefing to Donald Trump the military and intelligence professionals first gave the official administration line, then when asked they gave their personal opinions as to facts and policies.

in regard to Hillary Clinton’s self “pro-Israel credentials”, her condemnation of Donald Trump as an anti-semite, and as to Clinton’s and Trump’s relative support of Israel I am attaching an article :”Politicizing Anti-Semitism on the campaign trail” by Matthew M. Hausman, 05/09/16 —. “Where does the truth lie with regard to Clinton and Trump’s attitudes towards Jews and Israel?”

Recently, 88 outstanding retired American military officers endorsed Donald Trump. Every member ofn this list is impressive. [There are approximately 400 additional names in process.] In particular I’m impressed by the wholehearted endorsement of Donald Trump by Major General Sidney Shachnow, US Army, Retired.

Shachnow, is a Holocaust survivor, faced the horrors of the Soviet Union as an occupying power and then had a distinguished career including combat in Vietnam; special forces leadership; and confronting the Soviet military in Europe.

He was the one who first alerted the office of net assessment as to the plans of the supreme leader and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Shachnow’s support and the support of the others on this list of Donald Trump neutralizes doubts as to Trumps credentials to be commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces.

Campaigns raise fear of bigotry and anti-Semitism. Where does the truth lie with regard to Clinton and Trump’s attitudes towards Jews and Israel?By Matthew Hausman, INN

As the 2016 presidential season heats up, Jewish Democrats are elevating partisan politics over concern for Israel and distorting their party’s and Hillary Clinton’s record on the Jewish State. They dismiss Donald Trump as unqualified, and in order to dissuade Jews from voting Republican have accused him of arousing populist anti-Semitism.

Trump’s bombast and lack of experience may be legitimate concerns, but Democrats who accuse him of anti-Semitism conveniently ignore the hatred for Jews and Israel that has become common on the left and in their own party. Those who defend BDS activism as political speech and indulge false accusations of Israeli apartheid should look in the mirror before wielding the fear of anti-Semitism as a political weapon.

Progressive Jews are oblivious to anti-Semitism when it comes from the left, and sometimes they are complicit. During the Democratic National Convention they tolerated the presence of BDS supporters – including Cornell West and James Zogby – on the platform committee, ignored chants of “the intifada lives” by hostile crowds who burned Israeli flags just outside the convention center, and overlooked anti-Israel comments by Palestinian flag-wavers.

None of this should be surprising given their unwavering support for Barack Obama – a president who’s had longstanding relationships with anti-Semites, who has shamelessly demonized Prime Minister Netanyahu using classical tropes, and whose policies have empowered Islamists, undermined Israel and enabled Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Partisan blindness has compromised their moral authority to accuse anyone of anti-Semitism by association.

Yes, some outlying Trump supporters have posted anti-Semitic drivel on social media, and it’s despicable and inexcusable. But is it any more so than the malevolent comments found over the years on progressive websites like the Daily Kos or the anti-Israel fanaticism displayed at the DNC? Or the Jew-hatred fueling the BDS and Israel Apartheid Week movements? Or the Democrats’ embrace of a revisionist Palestinian narrative that repudiates Jewish history and denies the Temple ever stood in Jerusalem?

It seems ironic that liberals who accuse Trump of bigotry would overlook the rampant, sometimes violent anti-Semitism roiling the progressive movement. They are certainly free to attack Trump’s candidacy, but it is disingenuous to claim they are motivated by fear of anti-Semitism or concern for Israel.

Progressives who assert their Jewishness tout the Democratic Party as a friend of Israel despite the hateful ranting and flag burning at the DNC. And they claim to be guardians against all forms of prejudice while validating the Palestinian Authority, which promotes racist Jew-hatred, and activist groups like Black Lives Matter, which have proclaimed anti-Semitic views.

Democratic support for Israel, according to a recent Gallup poll stands at only 48%. The same poll shows an 80% approval rating for Israel among Republicans and 70% among Americans generally. Pew Research shows similar trends, with 75% of conservative Republicans supporting Israel over Palestinians compared to only 33% of liberal Democrats.

In presidential politics, liberal Jews reflexively tend to support Democratic candidates . They did so with Obama, despite his long history of consorting with anti-Semites and Israel-bashers, and they do so now with Hillary Clinton, whose record on Israel is dubious at best.

Clinton’s Jewish backers claim to be guided by traditional values However, those that justify their support by claiming she has an affinity for Israel or Jewish tradition, cannot explain away her record, which is very troubling.

Although Hillary often says, especially to Jewish audiences ,what liberal Jewish audiences want to hear, her statements do not match her actions or the company she keeps.

For four years she served as Secretary of State for a president who is openly hostile to Israel. She exacerbated the 2010 Ramat Shlomo crisis by claiming that historically Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem are “settlements” and then condemning the issuance of building permits there. And she wrongfully chastised Israel for the breakdown in negotiations when the Palestinians walked away from the table.

She and Obama have ignored the PA’s anti-Semitic incitement, as well as its policies of making payments to terrorist families, naming public squares after dead terrorists, and publicly opposing the concept of permanent peace with a Jewish nation. Likewise, they ignore language in the Palestinian National Charter that delegitimizes Israel, denies Jewish national character, and claims all land between the Jordan River and Mediterranean as “Palestine.”

Clinton has ignored Israel’s unrequited concessions, publicly claiming instead that Israel lacks “generosity” and “empathy” towards Palestinians, and morally equating the murders of Israelis with the deaths of terrorists. Such comments are disingenuous, but consistent with Obama’s revisionist endorsement of Palestinian historicity and portrayal of the PA as moderate.

Clinton has also misrepresented Obama’s supposed commitment to preventing the nuclearization of Iran. As Secretary of State, she helped lay the groundwork for a deal under which Iran is continuing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and using billions of dollars in unfrozen funds to subsidize terrorism – much of it directed at Israel through Hezbollah and Hamas.

During her tenure, Clinton also shouldered Obama’s policy of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its proxies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. Her conduct in Libya enabled the overthrow of Qaddafi and the assumption of power by the very Islamists who overran the Benghazi consulate and killed four Americans.

Furthermore, as shown in some recently released emails, Clinton endorsed public assaults against Israel by Max Blumenthal (son of Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal and known opponent of Israel). Blumenthal wrote referencing the Jewish State as a country “…that privileges its ethnic majority above all others to the point that it systematically humiliates and dispossesses the swarthy racial outclass.” Rather than contest this outrageous characterization, Clinton’s comment “A very smart piece – as usual.”

Clinton has also been known to politically embrace individuals with extreme views. In 2000, for example, she kissed Suha Arafat after a speech in which Arafat accused Israel of polluting Palestinian-Arab land and water with poison gas.

And the Clinton Foundation, which is being scrutinized amid claims of corruption, has reportedly taken large donations from Mideast regimes with poor human rights records.

Perhaps more troubling, she has in the past voiced support for UN Resolution 16/18, a proposed law that would render criticism of Islam illegal (in contravention of the First Amendment).

Clinton’s campaign misdirects by painting Trump as a bigot, aided by a supportive media that portrays every wave as a Nazi salute and pushes the false narrative of Republican anti-Semitism. While reporters should investigate any claims of anti-Semitism, they should be equally vested in exposing the hyperbole in allegations disseminated by a candidate whose actions and associations implicate her own biases.

Prospective voters may have legitimate concerns about Trump, but fear for Israel and anxiety over his supposed anti-Semitism should not be among them – particularly as Hillary and the Democrats have more troubling records on both counts.

Those who end up voting for Hillary should at least admit they are doing so out of party loyalty, not genuine concern for Israel.

Rabbi Jill Zimmerman: “I have no problem at all with disagreeing about politics or candidates. I do have a problem with the disrespect and shaming fellow Jews have aimed at me for speaking about my OWN experience. Telling me I’m not a rabbi? Having spent 5 years in one of the most prestigious seminaries in the world? Telling me to keep my mouth shut? That is what makes me sad for our people. That kind of disgusting vitriol is what is now making up so many comment feeds in the jewish world – it’s shocking. It has to stop colleagues of mine have received death threats from fellow Jews!”

* I had hoped this curse had been eliminated when it was exposed in WWII. May the almighty do so now. Never again.

* It will most likely happen again and on a much greater scale. The same tensions between Nationalism (secure borders, limited immigration) and Globalism (open borders, unrestricted and even encouraged Third World immigration) still exist. Natives tend to favor Nationalism, and diasporas Globalism. Had the entire Jewish diaspora migrated to Israel and developed an independent economy there, all tensions would have been relieved. But that didn’t happen. Many Jews remained in Western countries, and many of them got involved in activism favorable to immigrants and minorities.

The problem is, now a great number of immigrants (from Muslim or sub-Saharan countries) are making Europe extremely unsafe, with rapes and murder becoming a daily phenomenon, and thus Europeans are starting to resent those pro-immigration activists who, they find out, are often Jewish.

I see it happening again and again, here in Europe: individuals are first pissed off about Islamic terrorism, but then after some time get pissed off about open border activism as well, and through that become “anti-Semitic”.

I wish it was different, but the very mantra of “Never again” is making it happen again.

Jews and Jewish organizations would do well vocally supporting Trump’s very moderate approach, and also support those supposedly “far right” (but actually very moderate) anti-immigration parties in Europe. Make it clear that not all Jews support the rape and displacement of White Europeans.

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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman writes:

On Aug. 31, I sat and listened to Donald Trump’s eagerly anticipated immigration speech in Phoenix. And tears began streaming down my face.
Trump’s speech was filled with racist, xenophobic slurs and fear-mongering. It was counter to the founding values of our country. It was also contrary to the primary teachings and values of Judaism. Providing welcome to the stranger (because we were once strangers) is mentioned more than 36 times in the Torah.
“The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself” (Leviticus 19:34).
I needed to speak out as a human being, as an American and as a Jew.
I went to Twitter, where I began to “live tweet.”
For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, a “tweet” is a comment of a maximum of 140 characters. To “live tweet” means that you are commenting on an event currently in progress. It’s like having a huge group of people discussing together from all over the world. It’s usually awesome.
Your tweets show on your Twitter friends’ “feed” and evidently, they are also public. I am uncertain about the algorithms of Twitter.
I’m conscious about who I accept as “Twitter friends.” I check to make sure someone is not racist or sexist or lurid. If so, I decline.
By the end of the night, I had begun to receive, from people I do not know, and with whom I am not “Twitter friends,” hateful messages that stunned me. I tweeted, sarcastically:
“Well that was fun. Just blocked 10 ppl with Hitler/racist/white supremacist/ views.”
I went to bed after posting a beautiful photo with the words, “I can’t go to bed without putting love & beauty out into the world,” because I didn’t want the ugliness of the evening to be how I ended the day.
By the next morning, my Twitter wall was littered with hundreds of messages, many accompanied by photos of Hitler, crematoriums, swastikas, caricatures of Jews, and transport trains.
These messages were not from friends. I don’t know these people.

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It was landslide of enormous hatred. Even though I was tweeting about immigrants and refugees from around the world, what was directed at me was about being a Jew. Maybe because my twitter handle is @RabbiJill. Maybe because Donald Trump’s candidacy has emboldened a sick undercurrent of hatred to emerge.
In my entire life, I have never experienced this volume of anti-Semitism. I grew up in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago. However, as an adult, we lived in places where we were the only Jews on the block.
At first, I literally felt sick to my stomach.
And then, I got angry.
These people, who don’t even know me, wanted to silence me.
And it’s not going to happen.
My husband and family were concerned. My grown kids checked my privacy settings to be sure our home address or phone numbers were not public. A few of the messages were absolutely threatening (like the one where someone took my profile photo and superimposed “Jewish Propaganda” on it.)
After some research, I had a plan. I took screenshots of each tweet. I blocked people and I reported many to Twitter. If a tweet is offensive or harmful, you can ask Twitter to investigate. If the user is found to be violating Twitter decency rules, the account can be closed.
I reported more than 60 people. I haven’t heard a word from Twitter (yet.) Its employees might be busy. There is an uptick in the amount of hate speech being reported. I’m not alone.
Some friends advised me to ignore the tweets and to not give them any attention.
I don’t agree.
I believe it is our duty to expose this hate.
People need to know that Donald Trump’s candidacy has made it legitimate to spew this vileness. He has made it acceptable to be “politically incorrect.” The dike has broken and it’s ugly. Better that it be out in the open.
We say in Jewish circles, “Never again.”
It’s not only “never again” for the slaughter of millions.
It is also “never again” to let this kind of hate spill over without comment.
Here are a few other gleanings from this experience: 1) Facebook is a love-fest compared with Twitter. When I posted about this situation on Facebook, I received so much loving support it made me cry (with gratitude).
I’m not quitting Twitter. I have made friends — Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists from all over the world. Good, kind, funny people. I’m not going to be chased away from relationships that give me hope and make me laugh. I also learn things on Twitter that I don’t elsewhere. Why let them win?
Except for Native Americans, we are all immigrants. The prosperity we enjoy in this country is only possible because our ancestors were able to come here and thrive.
When I see the pictures of the children of Aleppo, Syria, and other refugees wandering, looking for a safe place, my heart opens. It is my deep belief that we are better because of our diversity.
Our job on planet Earth is to build bridges, not walls. The country that I want to be in, is one that welcomes all, and where love is stronger than fear.

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Make America Great Again

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Just saw Trump at a rally in Ohio tonight. What I was most struck with was his vigor. He is amazing for 70. He spoke for an hour, his voice was strong throughout. He used a teleprompter, but ad libbed cleverly. He has really improved in a short time. It was clear to me he is very smart, a quick study. And the message: America first in all things. Incredible! Also, even though he has an ego, he was sincere and even showed some humility. It explains why he connects so well with average folk. He is real. He is actually becoming quite a formidable candidate. The juxtaposition with Hillary at debates will likely be striking, both physically and emotionally. His leadership vibe was off the charts. It was as if everything in his whole life has prepared him for this moment. I realize this is effusive, but he was quite impressive in person.

* More to the point the media needs to admit, “That bastard Trump has cost us more than a Billion Dollars during the primaries and another Billion during the main camaign by not needing to spend anything on advertising! One more election like this and we’ll have to sell our homes in Malibu and the Hamptons.”

Seriously, they hate Trump even more because he has turned off the cash spigots to the consultants and the media players … this is some serious bi-partisan retribution. Our elections have become the biggest money laundering scam on the planet.

* Mark Zuckerberg: I think you need to do more immigration stories. There needs to be stories touting the benefits and glories of comprehensive immigration reform.

You see, I come here to iSteve on most days, and all you people do is whine and bellyache about your own selfish petty little concerns. My country, my heritage, my people, my future, my children, my grandchildren, my parents, my grandparents, my first cousins six times removed, my racial purity, my cartoon frog memes, my border security, my personal security, my quality livable neighborhoods, my affordable family formation, my community social altruism, my country’s economic well being, my fair and equitable distribution of income and wealth, me me me me me. What a bunch of cockypop!

Not a one of you have the consideration to think about what I need, what I want. And it’s not like it would hurt — I think about me all the time, and it certainly hasn’t hurt me! Me thinking about me for the last 32 years 4 months has resulted in me accumulating a $50 billion fortune. If you people would take the time to think about me, my fortune would be far larger. And that would be good for me.

Which is why I say:

Make my immigration reform comprehensive, please!

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Jonah Hill canceled all further interviews after ridiculing from French ‘local weather girl’

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Business Insider: Hill, 32, was ridiculed during an appearance on France’s Le Grand Journal to promote his latest film, War Dogs, when host Ornella Fleury described her perfect sexual fantasy – which pointedly excluded the actor.

Fleury said: “It’s when I saw you get sodomised by a 3-meter tall demon in This Is The End that I told myself THAT is the man of my dreams.”

An unimpressed Hill replied: “And you? I hear you get sodomised pretty often.”

Fleury continued: “My sexual fantasy would be that we would meet up in a hotel room at night. We would chat, you’d make me laugh, you’d make me laugh a lot.

“And then all of a sudden you’d bring your friends Leo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt… and then you would leave.”

Clearly irritated by the remark, Hill replied: “I’m glad I came on here to be mocked by a local weather girl.”

Hill went on to cancel the rest of his interviews, according to French news outlet BFMTV

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Are There Any Sports Not Pozzed?

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* As a conservative, watching college football will be more difficult now that the NCAA has sided with homosexuals and cross-dressers over traditional common sense. The bullying of North Carolina is disgusting. NBA, fine, mostly Democrat fans anyway. But the NCAA? Their knife in Gov. McCrory’s back two months before the election will assuredly seal his fate.

Are there any sports leagues, except maybe auto racing, not infected by the left?

* Reminder that the Left never stops. Whatever deference, concessions you give them are never enough. Now, baseball is inherently racist because it has too many Afro-Caribbeans instead of Afro-Americans. Then it will be lacrosse, rugby, and wherever else suburban whites go to carve out cultural space from their increasingly militant and resentful Afro-American fellow citizens.

* The American Matt Centrowitz won the Olympic 1500m in Rio by running a super strategic race, controlling the pace from the front and then outsprinting everybody to the finish line. So, it was a very slow time but Mr. Centrowitz is very happy with his gold medal. The 1500m is like that: it’s probably the most cunning running race. It’s likely not a coincidence that Jim Ryan, who won the silver medal in 1968 in Mexico City, served six terms in Congress.

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The Loophole by Garfunkel and Oates

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

When I watched this sacrilegious video, I prayed, “Please God, let them not be Jewish!” and Baruch HaShem! A Google search reveals not Jewish!

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When Your Husband Gets Called a ‘Filthy Kike’ On Twitter

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Wow! There are consequences for anti-white bigotry. Shocking!

Diane Webber writes: It was bracing to learn on Monday that my husband, Glenn Thrush, had been called a “filthy kike” on Twitter. He is the chief political correspondent for Politico, and his run-in with the “alt right” American fascist movement stemmed from a roundtable with academics, of all things.

His editor, Susan Glasser, convened a half-dozen experts for a feature in Politico — a Q&A discussion of the declines in life expectancy and income that whites without college educations have seen in the last decade or so.

The article itself is about what you might expect from a cadre of economists, historians and the stray memoirist: measured, deliberate, thoughtful. But the initial headline on the piece, “What’s Wrong With America’s White People?” was a Twitter siren that quickly answered itself in part. A few of America’s white people are angry, bitter, racist anti-Semites who aren’t ashamed to spew hate all over social media.

Glasser and Thrush were called “Jewish supremacists” by @FashNova (fash, as in fascist) and “two kikes pretending to be white” by someone with the charming screen name AdolfJoeBiden. There’s more, but you get the gist. Thrush tangled with some, let most slide and reported the person who combed his podcast transcripts looking for the places he had mentioned his Jewishness.

For him, it was basically another workday in this most unusual 2016 election cycle. But for me, it pointed to something I had imagined, but hoped I would never see.

I am Catholic, not Jewish (“race mixing,” to use a term I picked up on one of these hateful feeds). And we have raised our twins in the Jewish faith’s Reform movement.

I know that many Jews do not consider my sons “real” Jews. But I also know they are real enough Jews in the eyes of bigots.

When our boys started Jewish preschool, though, this specter of them being attacked for their heritage was theoretical, off in a distant, hazy, maybe future. I never imagined that their dad and other Jewish journalists would be targets of persistent hate speech in 2016, just a few months after our boys’ b’nai mitzvah.

I wanted my kids to have a Jewish education for two reasons. First, with six million people wiped out two generations ago, Jewish identity shouldn’t be thrown away. Second, there is so much to know: Hebrew language, midrash, Mel Brooks movies, and the long, sad history of persecution.

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If Hillary Wins…

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments: If Hillary gets to appoint the next Supreme Court justice, there will be speech codes, etc. There would be 5 extremely leftist justices.

Illegals and so-called refugees will continue to pour in, thus hastening our demographic decline. Unfortunately, I don’t see how a Trump-like insurgency could work next time. The numbers will be even worse in four or eight years. Also, who is the next Trump? Of course the Republicans will have a nominee to go against Hillary (or whoever if she is not able to run for re-election). But I can’t see anyone like a Trump. There are no other independently wealthy celebrities to fit the bill. Certainly, there are none who would advance anything like the Trump agenda. If Hillary wins, the next Republican nominee is going to come from the Republican establishment. It’s hard to see how someone like that would win in 2020 after the U.S. becomes even less white. Even if the establishment candidate did somehow manage to win, all we will get is immigration reform (amnesty) a little less enthusiastically.

If Hillary wins, it’s hard to see why she would feel any need to moderate. There really is no risk. Would she have the political capital to pull off going all out? Sure, because it doesn’t take much. It’s not like she has to worry about working with Congress. She will just do what Obama has been doing by swamping us with immigrants. It doesn’t matter that Congress wouldn’t pass any kind of immigration laws to authorize what Obama has been doing. He just does it anyway. The only way to stop it might be impeachment. That will never happen. Hillary can tell the immigrants to keep on coming. There is some law that says that they can’t come in or can’t stay. So what? Don’t enforce the law. Congress can pass or refuse to pass any law that they please. It makes no difference. Democrats use openly illegal aliens as campaign props.

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REPORT: DHS Buried Damning Immigration Study Because It Would ‘Help Elect Donald Trump’

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Daily Caller: The Department of Homeland Security is allegedly refusing to release the results of an immigration study that could “help elect Donald Trump.”

According to Fox News, the study was commissioned in 2015 by members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, “seeking to pinpoint the number of illegal immigrants who successfully sneak across the southern border.”

DHS claims that the study is still ongoing, yet sources close to the situation tell Fox News that it was actually completed in November 2015 and yielded results that would hurt the current administration’s immigration agenda.
Fox’s sources claim that the study showed that 50 percent of the adults attempting to illegally enter the United States at its southern border succeed, resulting in roughly 250,000 successful border crossings a year, and is being withheld for “political reasons.”

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Trump and the Alt-Right: Pepe and the stormtroopers

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: “Do you ever get the feeling the Establishment is suffering a collective nervous breakdown as its projections about “rantings” and “hateful” become every more obvious?”

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* This article or editorial or whatever you want to call it is absolutely priceless, not only for the haughty and condescending rhetoric but for the absolute obliviousness that lies behind it. They simply have no clue to the extent to which they have been taken in.

* I’ve subscribed to The Economist for many years. I found it to be the last bastion of sanity among Establishment media, long after the NYT, Wash. Post, CNN, etc. jumped the shark.

But, its coverage of Trump and Brexit is completely loopy. This is very disappointing.

I’m a firm believer in the benefits of free trade, globalization and liberal immigration policies. But, that doesn’t mean I believe in the insane, absolutist, literally no borders policy now supported by the Global Establishment, including The Economist. If you truly believe in the benefits of an open world, you have to acknowledge there are reasonable limits. Otherwise you risk killing the golden goose.

Free movement of goods and people between western European nations, with similar economies and a cultural background that goes back millennia, isn’t a bad idea (although the serious problems the EU is now experiencing shows even that even this has its problems). To propose unlimited immigration from Middle Eastern and African nations is insanity, and will kill the liberal global order. What else was Brexit about? Does anyone really think the Brits were worried about Polish plumbers?

* I’m at a loss as to how these writers and publications think they’re going to benefit by acting as Digital Cannon Fodder on behalf of Hillary Inc.

At even, or perhaps especially, prestige media there are so many who have volunteered for this duty the payoff must be all of a glass of wine at Happy Hour (only) at this point.

* When Jerry Falwell said that Tinky Winky on the toddlers’ show Teletubbies was there to soften people’s perception of homosexuals with Tinky’s eternally happy disposition and niceness (the triangle antenna and purse were the tells so people would know he’s gay), the public laughed and laughed, then laughed some more, egged on by the media. A grown man with a huge in-person congregation and millions watching on t.v., who leads an influential section of the electorate, takes a silly cartoon character soooo seriously, how beneath his station. What a clown he makes himself, giving the ridiculous so much power by calling his, and the nation’s, attention to it.

A candidate for President calls out a meme figure, a badly drawn frog named Pepe of all things, as the symbol of all bad. The candidate can get no more mileage out of attacking the rival candidate, either personally or based on policy, so let’s go after a cartoon that 10,000 haven seen and up until now maybe 300 thought was an alt-right shill, 250 of that 300 being in the candidate’s organization.

If this candidate is so bothered by a meme frog, how on earth will this person take real, live, people who have malice beforehand when dealing on behalf the U.S.?

The question the rival should ask at any debate, to immolate any and all credibility of this candidate’s qualification for top office as thoroughly as a can of Aqua Net and a BBQ lighter can napalm a hornet’s nest is, “If Madam Secretary treats a temporary internet meme as a credible threat to the nation, what does this say about her ability to discern the true threats and serious concerns we all face? And we make fun of fellow candidate Vermin Supreme for the boot on his head? At least he knows he’s parody. She’s not even dialed in to that.”

The ultimate answer to this progressive tyrant is a belly laugh. Laugh, laugh, then laugh some more. People laugh at Trump and he laughs right along, the schtick that is he. Laugh at her and she melts. Soooo serious. About Pepe the frog. Then laugh twice as hard at anyone defending this, and go after their precious social capital, progressive’s kryptonite. You’re defending Hillary? What will people think of you, what you have to say, why should they care what you say, you’re defending a mad woman who’s looking over her shoulder to scapegoat a cartoon frog. What kind of knuckle dragger are you? And you people sunk Dean over a spontaneous yell? Aw, you mad and serious, like the strange kid everyone shunned in school? Is that what you aim to be like? It’s how we’re looking at you now.

* Harambe jokes are frowned upon at UMass Amherst:

Going further, the email’s two authors said that the “dicks out for Harambe” catchphrase could be serious business: “Phrases/hashtags which encourage the exposition of body parts runs the risk of being reported as a Title IX incident. These are sexual assault incidences that not only get reported to Community Standards, but also to the Dean of Students. Needless to say, it is a very serious incident—especially for a first year student!”

I have to admit that when some alt-righters explained to me that the plan was to make the Great and Good look ridiculous because the people at the pinnacles of power would be unable to resist lecturing us about the dangers of a cartoon frog and gorilla memorial movement, I scoffed. Yet here we are, with the media conducting HUAC hearings on the subject of bad amphibian drawings.

Come see the absurdity inherent in the oppression.

* Bravo, meme warriors. I used to look down upon you. But you’ve trolled the world. You got the Democratic presidential nominee talking about a cartoon frog.

* I usually watch very little television, but I’ve been watching MSNBC and CNN a bit lately to witness the Establishment’s nervous breakdown. It’s been pretty interesting. I still can’t believe that this morning the people at MSNBC were actually suggesting that Hillary’s health is better than Trump’s.

* The Economist is owned in part by the Rothschilds so some poor sap in London got a call to make Hillary’s paranoid delusions semi-believable. When I read these articles, I wonder how they appear to your average truck driver or waitress in this country. I have to imagine it is just as disorienting for your average bond trader and hedge fund manager that reads The Economist. Is this the real life?

* Alt-Righters have secret code words and signals to identify fellow tribesmen. Generally meaningless to normies.

* Is it my imagination, or is Clinton losing a fight with a cartoon frog? #Trump #Clinton https://t.co/TVHbodxesU

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 14, 2016

Attacking a cartoon—and getting her media surrogates to join in—is the height of hilarity.

I can only assume that Hillary and her crew are deliberately doing this to distract from her Parkinson’s collapse and the DNC attempts to get her to step down. Otherwise, attacking the frog is doubling down on stupid, and while Hillary might be delusional enough to do it, her team would be blocking it.

I have a strong suspicion it was Hillary’s team that released those Colin Powell emails to distract from her death spiral as well.

I remember in the 1980s I thought The Economist was lively. Now it is dull.

The Economist: FIRST, an apology, or rather a regret: The Economist would prefer not to advertise the rantings of racists and cranks. Unfortunately, and somewhat astonishingly, the Alt-Right—the misleading name for a ragtag but consistently repulsive movement that hitherto has flourished only on the internet—has insinuated itself, unignorably, into American politics. That grim achievement points to the reverse sway now held by the margins, of both ideology and the media, over the mainstream. It also reflects the indiscriminate cynicism of Donald Trump’s campaign.

Much of the Alt-Right’s output will seem indecipherably weird to those unfamiliar with the darker penumbras of popular culture. It has its own iconography and vernacular, derived from message boards, video games and pornography. Its signature insult is “cuckservative”, directed at Republicans supposedly emasculated by liberalism and money. Its favourite avatar is Pepe the frog, a cartoon-strip creature co-opted into offensive scenarios; one Pepe image was reposted this week by Donald Trump junior and Roger Stone, a leading Trumpista, the latest example of the candidate’s supporters, and the man himself, circulating the Alt-Right’s memes and hoax statistics. Its contribution to typography is the triple parentheses, placed around names to identify them as Jewish.

To most Americans, the purposes to which these gimmicks are put will seem as outlandish as the lexicon. One of the Alt-Right’s pastimes is to intimidate adversaries with photoshopped pictures of concentration camps; a popular Alt-Right podcast is called “The Daily Shoah”. To their defenders, such outrages are either justified by their shock value or valiantly transgressive pranks. Jokes about ovens, lampshades and gas chambers: what larks!

Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, an extremist website, dismisses these antics as “youthful rebellion”. (Mr Taylor is also involved with the Council of Conservative Citizens, which Dylann Roof cited as an inspiration for his racist massacre in Charleston last year.) But the substance behind the sulphur can seem difficult to pin down. The term Alt-Right, reputedly coined in 2008 by Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute, a bogus think-tank, encompasses views from libertarianism to paleoconservatism and onwards to the edges of pseudo-intellectual claptrap and the English language. Many Alt-Righters demonise Jews, but a few do not. Some, such as Brad Griffin of Occidental Dissent, another website, think “democracy can become a tool of oppression”, and that monarchy or dictatorship might be better; others, such as Mr Taylor, disagree. Some are techno-futurists; others espouse a kind of agrarian nostalgia. Many mourn the Confederacy. Mr Griffin thinks that, even today, North and South should separate.

Yet from the quack ideologues to the out-and-proud neo-Nazis, some Alt-Right tenets are clear and constant. It repudiates feminism with misogynistic gusto. It embraces isolationism and protectionism. Above all, it champions white nationalism, or a neo-segregationist “race realism”, giving apocalyptic warning of an impending “white genocide”. Which, of course, is really just old-fashioned white supremacism in skimpy camouflage.

That is why the term Alt (short for “alternative”) Right is misleading. Mr Taylor—whom Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a watchdog, describes as the movement’s “intellectual leader”—says it represents an alternative to “egalitarian orthodoxy and to neutered ‘conservatives’.” That characterisation elevates a racist fixation into a coherent platform. And, if the Alt-Right is not a viable political right, nor, in the scope of American history, is it really an alternative. Rather it is the latest iteration in an old, poisonous strain of American thought, albeit with new enemies, such as Muslims, enlisted alongside the old ones. “Fifty years ago these people were burning crosses,” says Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, a venerable anti-racist group. “Today they’re burning up Twitter.”

Probably the best that can be said for the Alt-Right is that its mostly youngish adherents are naive: unaware that 21st-century America is not the worst society the world has ever conjured, and so prime exemplars of the pampered modernity they denounce. Their numbers are hard to gauge, since they mostly operate online and, as with most internet bullies, anonymously: like dissidents in the Soviet Union they must, Mr Taylor insists, for fear of punishment. As with pornographers, though, the web has let them forge like-minded communities and propagate their ideas, as well as harass critics and opponents (particularly those thought to be Jewish). Online, they have achieved sufficient density to warrant wider attention. There, too, they and Mr Trump found each other.

The association precedes Mr Trump’s hiring as his campaign manager of Stephen Bannon, former boss of Breitbart News, a reactionary news website that Mr Bannon reportedly described as “the platform for the Alt-Right”, and which has covered the movement favourably. Already Mr Trump had echoed the Alt-Right’s views on Muslims, immigration, trade and, indeed, Vladimir Putin, whom Alt-Righters ludicrously admire for his supposed pursuit of Russia’s national interest. Pressed about these shared prejudices (and tweets), Mr Trump has denied knowing what the Alt-Right is, even that it exists—unable, as usual, to disavow any support, however cretinous, or to apply a moral filter to his alliances or tactics.

This is not to say he created or leads it, much as Alt-Right activists lionise his strongman style. Mr Taylor says Mr Trump seems to have “nationalistic instincts that have led him to stumble onto an immigration policy that is congruent with Alt-Right ideas”, but that “we are supporting him, not the reverse.” Breitbart, Alt-Righters say, is merely Alt-Lite. The true relationship may be more a correlation than causal: Mr Trump’s rise and the Alt-Right were both cultivated by the kamikaze anti-elitism of the Tea Party, rampant conspiracy theories and demographic shifts that disconcert some white Americans.

Unquestionably, however, Mr Trump has bestowed on this excrescence a scarcely dreamed-of prominence. As Hillary Clinton recently lamented, no previous major-party nominee has given America’s paranoid fringe a “national megaphone”. Many on the Alt-Right loved that speech: “it was great,” says Mr Griffin. “She positioned us as the real opposition.” Because of Mr Trump, the Alt-Right thinks it is on the verge of entering American politics as an equal-terms participant. “He is a bulldozer who is destroying our traditional enemy,” says Mr Griffin. Mr Trump may not be Alt-Right himself, but “he doesn’t have to be to advance our cause.”

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My Brunch With the Anthony Weiner Intern

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

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GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA writes July 31, 2013 for The Atlantic:

NEW YORK — Mark Leibovich has memorialized D.C. as This Town, but it turns out “this town”-type behavior extends all the way to New York, which has just discovered its very own Kurt Bardella-by-way-of-Zoe Barnes figure in the form of — as a New York tabloid might put it — a lissome blonde former intern for Anthony Weiner by the name of Olivia Nuzzi.

Nuzzi, 20, penned a series of columns for a gossipy website about her short time on Weiner’s doomed campaign, which catapulted her onto the cover of the New York Daily News Tuesday. She earned instant internet notoriety after Weiner communications director Barbara Morgan unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade against Nuzzi in a conversation with Talking Points Memo Tuesday night.

Morgan later said she thought her epic rant was off the record. TPM says that was not the case, and either way the evening ended with Morgan apologizing to Nuzzi and Nuzzi using the political aide’s words as her new Twitter bio: “Slutbag, twat and cunt. Writer for NSFWCORP.” On Wednesday, she accepted Morgan’s apology.

I happened to meet Nuzzi on a Sunday morning two weeks ago with Dave Weigel of Slate. We decided to go to brunch at the Breslin, and Nuzzi joined us there at Weigel’s invitation. I was confused at first as to what her connection to Weigel was, since they appeared not to have met before, and she seemed very young (she’s a junior at Fordham University). As it turns out, a former cable host she’d once sought to intern with suggested she get in touch with Weigel when he was in the city at some point.

Nuzzi was looking for advice on how to break into journalism, and, in particular, how to get a foothold in TV. All of her friends wanted to be TV pundits, she said. It’s what they idolized.

Despite efforts to cast her as a “mercenary hobag” intern selling out her boss for 15 seconds of fame, Nuzzi’s columns for the Daily News and NSFWCORP were not her first forays into political journalism, or even into writing about a politician who was her boss. She’s also written for Alternet, the Huffington Post, and two small New Jersey publications, More Monmouth Musings and the triCityNews. There, she penned a series of columns about New Jersey politics, including some in 2011 about the District 11 Democratic campaign, for which she was also an intern.

I was impressed by the way Nuzzi coupled a kind of self-conscious sexpot appearance with an unexpectedly deep knowledge of New York and New Jersey politics. She friended me on Facebook shortly thereafter (the picture above is one she had made public on the site).

Morgan described Nuzzi as someone who aggressively courted a position with the campaign. “I can tell you she … like accosted me at like our petitioning thing to be able to become my intern, begged me to be my intern, sent me something within like 20 minutes of meeting her and then proceeded to — she came in the next day and was like, basically, ‘I want to be your bitch all summer long, that’s all I want to do is be your right-hand person,'” Morgan told TPM. “I was like, ‘OK, well, it’s not really glamorous, like, you’re going to do clips, and you’re going to do media catching, and you’re going to do x, y, and z and maybe I’ll get you to the point where you’re like doing some other stuff.”

There was no question when I met Nuzzi that she was on the make. But then so are plenty of other young journalists — the difference is that they are usually men. It’s actually rather rare to meet a young aspiring woman journalist who is as aggressively networky and career-oriented as Nuzzi. Or as willing to burn bridges.

Oh — and to that photo on the cover of the News? It wasn’t a newspaper photoshoot, but one of several pictures taken by fashion photographer Sofia Colvin during the spring. Nuzzi had been using them as her Facebook photos for months.

Somehow I won’t be surprised if she gets her moment on TV sooner because of all of this, though for now she’s been turning down appearances in favor of work where she’s the content creator, not the content.

COMMENTS AT STEVE SAILER:

* We must dispel with this notion that Olivia did not know what she was doing.
Olivia knew exactly what she was doing!

We must dispel with this notion that Olivia did not know what she was doing.
Olivia knew exactly what she was doing!

We must dispel with this notion that Olivia did not know what she was doing.
Olivia knew exactly what she was doing!

We must dispel with this notion that Olivia did not know what she was doing.
Olivia knew exactly what she was doing!

We must dispel with this notion that Olivia did not know what she was doing.
Olivia knew exactly what she was doing!

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