July 3, 2015 Stalin’s Willing Executioners Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Stalin’s Willing Executioners

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

We mustn’t forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish

Here’s a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago, between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka.

Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.

We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.

Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, “opposition members” who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself.

In his new, highly praised book “The War of the World, “Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University’s Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed internally.

Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined “terror officials,” cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with a kosher certificate.

All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though the former Soviet Union’s archives have not yet been fully opened
to the public. But who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD’s and KGB’s service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores the question of “How could it have happened to us?” As opposed to Eastern European nations, the Russians did not settle the score with their Stalinist past.

And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name “Genrikh Yagoda,” the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU’s deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin’s collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the “bloodthirsty dwarf.”

Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In his Book “Stalin: Court of the Red Star”, Jewish historian Sebag Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the Communist killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded by beautiful, young Jewish women.

Stalin’s close associates and loyalists included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as the “first Stalinist” and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside from the Nazi horrors and Mao’s terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.

Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We’ll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD’s special department and the organization’s chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.

In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a “carnival of mass murder,” “fantasy of purges”, and “essianism of evil.” Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history.

The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the Soviet Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and “Soviet people.” Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and “play dumb”: What do we have to do with them? But let’s not forget them. My own view is different. I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.

Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of “our hangmen,” who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their origin.

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Do Jews Control The Media?

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

What do you think of the phrase, “Jews control the media”? Here’s one Jew who says we should stop denying it and just embrace it and accept the responsibility that comes with great power.

By Manny Friedman

July 12, 2012 “Times Of Israel” — We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, Jewish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we inevitably say something like, “Did you know that he was Jewish?” That’s just how we roll.

We’re a driven group, and not just in regards to the art world. We have, for example, AIPAC, which was essentially constructed just to drive agenda in Washington DC. And it succeeds admirably. And we brag about it. Again, it’s just what we do.

But the funny part is when any anti-Semite or anti-Israel person starts to spout stuff like, “The Jews control the media!” and “The Jews control Washington!”

Suddenly we’re up in arms. We create huge campaigns to take these people down. We do what we can to put them out of work. We publish articles. We’ve created entire organizations that exist just to tell everyone that the Jews don’t control nothin’. No, we don’t control the media, we don’t have any more sway in DC than anyone else. No, no, no, we swear: We’re just like everybody else!

Does anyone else (who’s not a bigot) see the irony of this?

Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control the media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it’s almost obscene. Just about every movie or TV show, whether it be “Tropic Thunder” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is rife with actors, directors, and writers who are Jewish. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Jews?

But that’s not all. We also control the ads that go on those TV shows.

And let’s not forget AIPAC, every anti-Semite’s favorite punching bag. We’re talking an organization that’s practically the equivalent of the Elders of Zion. I’ll never forget when I was involved in Israeli advocacy in college and being at one of the many AIPAC conventions. A man literally stood in front of us and told us that their whole goal was to only work with top-50 school graduate students because they would eventually be the people making changes in the government. Here I am, an idealistic little kid that goes to a bottom 50 school (ASU) who wants to do some grassroots advocacy, and these guys are literally talking about infiltrating the government. Intense.

Now, I know what everyone will say. That everyone tries to lobby. Every minority group and every majority group. That every group has some successful actors and directors. But that’s a far call from saying that we run Hollywood and Madison Avenue. That the Mel Gibsons of the world are right in saying we’re deliberately using our power to take over the world. That we’ve got some crazy conspiracy going down.

Okay. Fine. So some of that is kooky talk.

But let’s look at it a bit deeper.

Maybe it’s true: everyone lobbies. Maybe it’s true there are actors of every ethnicity out there. But come on. We’re the ones who are bragging about this stuff all the time. Can’t we admit that we’re incredibly successful? Can’t we say it to the world?

I’ll give my theory for why Jews don’t want to talk about their control of the media.

First of all, as much as Jews like to admit that so many of them are successful, and that so many of them have accomplished so much, they hate to admit that it has to do with they’re being Jewish. Maybe they’ll admit that it has something to do with the Jewish experience. But how many Jews will admit that there is something inherently a part of every single one of them that helps them to accomplish amazing things?

The ADL chairman, Abe Foxman, was interviewed in a great article about the subject and he said that he “would prefer people say that many executives in the industry ‘happen to be Jewish.’” This just about sums up the party line.

The truth is, the anti-Semites got it right. We Jews have something planted in each one of us that makes us completely different from every group in the world. We’re talking about a group of people that just got put in death camps, endured pogroms, their whole families decimated. And then they came to America, the one place that ever really let them have as much power as they wanted, and suddenly they’re taking over. Please don’t tell me that any other group in the world has ever done that. Only the Jews. And we’ve done it before. That’s why the Jews were enslaved in Egypt. We were too successful. Go look at the Torah — it’s right there. And we did it in Germany too.

This ability to succeed, this inner drive, comes not from the years of education or any other sort of conditional factors, but because of the inner spark within each Jew.

Now, the reason groups like the ADL and AIPAC hate admitting this is because, first of all, they are secular organizations. Their whole agenda is to prove that every Jew is the same as every other person in the world. I cannot imagine a more outlandish agenda. No, we’re different. We’re special.

Of course, people hate when anyone says this. They assume that if you’re saying that Jews are special, it somehow implies that they’re better.

To be honest, I’m not really sure what the word “better” even means. What I do know is that being special simply means a person has a responsibility to do good.

I think that’s the real reason most Jews are so afraid to admit that there’s something inherently powerful and good about them. Not because they’re afraid of being special. But because they’re afraid of being responsible. It means that they’re suddenly culpable when they create dirty TV shows that sully the spiritual atmosphere of the world. It means that things can’t just be created for the sake of amusement or fun or even “art.”

Suddenly, we can’t screw up the world.

The interesting thing is that Jews have done so much for the world in so many other ways. They’ve moved forward civil rights; they’ve helped save lives in Darfur, Haiti and just about everywhere else.

But that’s not enough. Fixing the world physically is only half the battle.

Our larger battle, the harder battle, is elevating the world spiritually. And this is what the people that fight with every inch of their soul to prove that Jews are just the same as everyone else are afraid of. It means that we can no longer just “express ourselves.” We’ll have to start thinking about the things we create and the way we act. It means we’ll have to start working together. It means we’ll have to hold one other, and ourselves, to a higher standard.

The time has come, though. We no longer have to change our names. We no longer have to blend in like chameleons. We own a whole freaking country.

Instead, we can be proud of who we are, and simultaneously aware of our huge responsibility — and opportunity.

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How Do Jews Feel About Non-Jews?

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

How about in the spirit of mutual understanding and respectful dialogue, we start surveying Jews for their attitudes towards non-Jews? Are there such surveys? Why don’t the goyim have their own anti-defamation league?

I appreciate the ADL’s survey of attitudes towards Jews in 100 countries. Why not something similar about Jews views of the goyim?

Ex-Hasid Luzer Twersky writes:

Let me answer some revealing questions about Hasidic Judaism. Does it withhold a broad education from their children in order to keep the children narrow-minded and uneducated? Yes. Does it vilify the outside world in order to keep its members from joining it? Definitely. Does it have a fear and/or doomsday element to it? Of course. Is there ex-communication for those who dare to leave? Oh yeah.
I still have not received anything past a 5th grade education. In fact, since I never attended a regular school, I don’t actually know what a 5th grade education is — I just picked a grade that seemed right. I don’t know what algebra is; I know I can Google it but I wasn’t made to care enough to do so.
For most of my life, I believed that all non-Jews hate us and want to kill us. I believed that all goyim are murderers, rapists, degenerates and dirty second-class citizens. Of course, they/we aren’t but I was taught that in order to make the secular lifestyle less appealing. I was told horrible things would happen to me in this world and the “next world” if I leave. I was told I would end up a criminal or drug addict. Many members of my family refuse to speak to me to this day.
I have had to transition both out of Hasidism and transition into mainstream culture. I have had to find a replacement for the void left by the lack of community and warmth. I had to replace my family, my friends and my moral compass. It was hard leaving everything behind but it was even harder to find something to replace it all with.

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Anti-Semitism Before the Holocaust

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

I confess that in my first 20 years as a Jew, I vastly preferred books that blamed anti-Semitism 100% on the goyim.

As I have aged, however, I have come to see anti-Semitism as the natural result of conflicts of interest between groups.

I’m not a historian, but it seems to me that history suggests that the fortunes of Judaism and Christianity are usually inverse. For instance, Judaism was stronger than Judaism in the first two centuries of the Common Era, and then Christianity rose in strength and Judaism declined. The biggest discrepancy in power and influence between the two religions was probably the 17th Century in Europe.

Judaism has never dealt successfully with the Enlightenment. Christianity has had an easier time of it. Islam rejects the Enlightenment and has failed to produce a single country that is prosperous and free.

When there’s free competition, Jews (Ashkenazim have an average IQ around 110) always out-compete, out-earn and out-influence white Christians (average IQ of 100) who always out-do Muslims (average IQ around 85).

Albert S. Lindemann writes:

There is little question that Jewish anger and resentment were aggravated by Christian attacks, but…Jewish hatred and derision for Christians both predated and developed to an important degree independently of Christian persecution. The process was not essentially different from the way that Christian hatred for Jews developed according to its own logic and not only in reaction to Jewish provocation. Many of the most hate-filled Jewish texts date from the time when Christianity was still weak and hardly capable of mounting significant physical attacks on Jews.
When, by the high middle ages, Christians began to appreciate the extent to which, in the words of one historian, “that Jews had been mocking them for centuries” in the Talmud and other rabbinical works, they were outraged. Copies of the Talmud were burned on a number of occasions, just as copies of the Gospels had been earlier destroyed by Jewish authorities when they had the power to do so….
While a number of non-Jews spoke up for a fairer treatment of Europe’s Jews [during the Enlightenment] few had favorable comments about contemporary Judaism or about Jews in their present state. Even those who believed that legal discrimination against Jews should be abolished nonetheless considered most Jews to be of low moral character — cunning and dishonest — while Judaism was hidebound and itself bigoted. Indeed, even those Jews who spoke up to defend their people often did so in remarkable back-handed ways. They granted the Jewish population suffered from all too obvious defects, both moral and physical…

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Yahoo Finance Exclusive: Earl Holt started giving money to GOP pols after marrying the widow of a Jewish businessman

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Yahoo: “As president of a white nationalist group linked with the murders of nine churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. on June 17, Earl P. Holt III is straddling the uneasy boundary between free speech and racial hatred.”

How can there be a boundary between free speech and racial hatred? If people speak freely, they are going to disparage out-groups.

Would Yahoo call the Bible hate speech? In it, God commands the Israelites to commit genocide against the Canaanites.

How is there any link between the Council of Conservative Citizens (CoCC) and Dylann Roof other than that Dylan read CCC’s website and cited it in his manifesto?

Once known only to watchdog groups that monitor extremist groups, Holt has suddenly become notorious for racial slurs splattered across the Internet and for writings on his group’s web site that supposedly inspired Dylann Roof, the alleged Charleston shooter, to carry out a massacre.

Earl P. Holt was known before the massacre to many of those who shared his values.

Tens of millions of Americans don’t like blacks and they tend to vote Republican.

Holt’s campaign contributions — and the apparent source of his money — are causing consternation now because of hostility he has shown toward blacks and Jews. Holt is president of a nonprofit group called the Council of Conservative Citizens, based in St. Louis. The group says it supports politically conservative causes and doesn’t encourage or condone racism. It does, however, routinely highlight crimes committed by blacks against whites, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups, describes the council as “a virulently racist group whose website has referred to blacks as ‘a retrograde species of humanity.’” The Anti-Defamation League also considers the council extremist and says, “although the group claims not to be racist, its leaders traffic with other white supremacist groups.”

Notice how Yahoo won’t identify SPLC and the ADL for what they are — Jewish nationalist groups at war with other nationalist groups. If Jews can be nationalist while convincing non-Jews that nationalism for goyim is bad, then Jews have an advantage in the competition for resources and power (a cohesive group will out-compete individuals).

Some Jews like nationalism for themselves but don’t like it for Gentiles because it usually excludes Jews and places them in the out-group just as Jewish nationalism places goyim in the out-group.

On The Blaze (which has since taken down his posts), Holt said blacks are “the laziest, stupidest and most criminally-inclined race in the history of the world.

And that is clearly wrong how? In every country where there are large numbers of blacks and accurate crime records, blacks commit murder and other crimes at a much higher rate than whites and asians. Blacks also have the lowest labor participation rates among the major races. Blacks also have the lowest average IQs of the major races. What Holt said was not nice, but it was truthful.

How come when blacks commit murder, we don’t make inquiries into what they were reading? Isn’t that racist?

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Steve Sailer: The Real Story Behind the Pine Bush Anti-Semitism Lawsuit

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Jews are the most intellectually aggressive people in this earth, the big two religions (Christianity and Islam) are influenced by Judaism but with less tribalism and more universalism. Jews can also do universalism, Marxism has conquered the World, most political movements that gained traction worldwide have been created and promoted by jews.

* I paid a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan on Monday. During the course of my 3+ hour visit I made some observations of visitor demographics that may be of interest.

It was a surprisingly young crowd, I would estimate the average age in the 25 to 30 range. Who says young people don’t appreciate culture?
As for race, my best guess is 60% white, 35% East Asian, 5% everything else. I’m counting as white some Spanish speaking people of fully European appearance. There were very few visible Hispanics and surprisingly few South Asians. The typical black visitor was a young lady in her teens or early 20′s in a group with a few white girls her age, though I also saw a few older black women by themselves. I saw some Orthodox Jewish men, identified by their yamulkes. No Hasidim, though they probably would be forbidden to view sometimes improper images (though there were a few headscarf wearing Muslim women, whom one would think would be under similar restrictions).
While there were many couples and some families (the MoMA isn’t really a place for children), among singles and people in groups of friends I would say that females outnumbered males by at least 5 to 1.
Almost all of the guards in the galleries were black men. That surprised me a bit, surely people of all races would want what’s probably a decent paying and reasonably prestigious job. It then occurred to me that perhaps management thinks that black men have a more intimidating appearance, with their mere presence discouraging visitors from trying to touch the artworks. Sort of the same concept as when nightclubs hire black bouncers. Though I noted with some amusement that the skinniest, nerdiest guard in the whole place was watching over its most famous work, Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

* I recall that you once mentioned that German Jews kept Russian Jews out of their country clubs. So modern Jews have retconned history to make it seem like Russian Jews were actually excluded from country clubs by WASPs. That had the benefit of smoothing over intragroup Jewish conflict while also maintaining Jewish solidarity against the “anti-semitic” WASP bogeyman.

* Two separate issues are being conflated. There was harassment of the small number of liberal Jewish kids by other schoolchildren and there is also resistance amongst the broader community (both Jewish and Other) to developments proposed by the Satmar. The existence of the Hasidic community at Kiras J seems to have increased tensions and its possible that the Jewish children in various Pine Bush schools bore the brunt of this. It is also possible that someone in the Satmar community fed the story to the NYT thinking it would pressure the town into treating its own claims more favorably.

* Within modern-era Jewish literature/plays/TV there is a well-mined fissure of grating & chafing in matters of divergent customs/tastes between the shtetl people and the pedigreed Mitteleuropa types (though usually from the down-punching perspective of the latter): food, clothes, manners– all the status-nitpicking staples. If they don’t seem to spend much time explaining the bit to gentiles, it’s probably less to do with “retconning” than the question of why anyone not part of such supersubtle intramural rubes-toffs rivalry would be expected to understand or care. Identifying the common outgroup enemy, by contrast, requires no such explication. At any rate the cultural narcissism of small differences runs both ways. Take Amory Blaine’s ridiculous list of Yale/Princeton distinctions in “This Side of Paradise,” over which no one not from that circle would be partisan or even have an opinion. I bet there’s some Chinese teen in San Gabriel scrutinizing it like Confucian dialectics though.

* I’m told by a Jewish resident of the neighborhood that Lamm’s buldings were built in blatant violation of the building codes, and that the Hasidim targeted Bloomingburg because it had a small, easily overwhelmed voting base and its municipal organization didn’t give it the means to fight off the tactics of Lamm and the Hasidim.

* Various kinds of Jews squabble with each other all the time, but they are very good at closing ranks and uniting over blaming outsiders before the poor dumb outsiders notice the quite good reasons for the internal divisions.

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Jews, Christians & Loyalty

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

I love stories of betrayal (even though from a rational perspective, there is no such thing, we use the word for when people important to us have different priorities from what we expected, e.g., if your wife commits adultery, she’s not betraying you, she’s simply acting on different priorities than what you expected).

As Robert J. Avrech wrote in the foreword to my book, Yesterday’s News Tomorrow: Inside American Jewish Journalism:

Betrayal fascinates Luke Ford. It’s his life.
Luke betrayed his father, a prominent Seventh Day Adventist minister, when Luke converted to Judaism.
Luke betrayed his second “father” when he sacrificed his friendship with Dennis Prager to work on an unauthorised biography of his hero.
Luke betrayed Judaism when he became lukeford.com, the preeminent journalist covering LA’s sordid, mob-infested porn industry. Luke betrayed his Orthodox synagogue when he lied about his work and told the rabbi that he was a “freelance journalist who writes about crime for a Japanese magazine.”

Damon: “What about trust? I think we should expect more from those we’re closest to. Also, what if these acts of ‘priority’ are taking place behind your back? Doesn’t that bolster the perception of betrayal?”

It’s just emotionally charged language to deal with the uncomfortable reality that different people have different interests that constantly clash. That’s why all relationships are often frustrating and painful. There’s no betrayal. All we should expect is that people will pursue their interests and those interests will always differ at times from our own. If I take your wife, am I betraying you? No, I am just pursuing my interests and those interests clash with yours.

If you identify as a Jew or as a Christan, your primarily loyalty may be to other Jews or Christians, not to your country.

That may look like betrayal but it simply Jews being loyal to Jews, Christians being loyal to Christians, just like Muslims are often loyal to Muslims and Chinese are often loyal to Chinese. Almost every group is tribal except for Anglos.

All of the American scientists who gave nuclear secrets to Stalin were Jewish. Around the same time, Stalin became paranoid that Soviet Jews had more loyalties to the Jewish state than to Mother Russia.

From the book Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries Into the Secret State: “Many Jewish scientists — among them some of the greatest names in Soviet science — worked in secret scientific institutions. Targeting such would-be emigrants for recruitment promised to yield intelligence directly relevant to American defence at a time when the Reagan administration was conducting a furious arms race with the USSR. Certainly the KGB feared such recruitments. Even though he seemed to have no evidence to this effect, Yuri Andropov, when its chairman in the 1970s, steadfastly maintained to the East German foreign intelligence chief Markus Wolf that the ‘refusnik’ Anatoly Sharansky — a computer scientist in a research institute — was a CIA spy. It was owing to his work for this institute that he was denied permission to emigrate to Israel in 1973.”

I find this article in the Washington Post thrilling: “How the CIA ran a ‘billion dollar spy’ in Moscow”

From CIA.gov: “Tolkachev commented a number of times to at least one of his case officers that the brutal treatment that his wife’s parents had suffered was a key factor in his motivation to work against the Soviet regime. He never shed any light on why the authorities had taken these actions against his wife’s parents, but once suggested that his wife and her parents were Jewish. Given the Stalinists’ anti-Semitism, this factor may have played a role in their persecution.”

From the book The Main Enemy: The Inside Story Of The Cia’s Final Showdown With The KGB: “…Tolkachev never told his CIA handlers whether he or his wife was Jewish.”

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

JOHN GUILSHER, as the CIA field officer in Moscow, handled one of the West’s greatest espionage coups of the Cold War in the classic traditions of the spy trade.
The CIA almost blew its chance to recruit the specialist engineer Adolf Tolkachev in the late 1970s, but once he had been recruited, Guilsher’s professionalism and bravery helped build a bond that yielded military secrets of incalculable importance.
Tolkachev provided details of the research and development of the radar systems for the Soviet’s front-line fighters from the MiG-29 and MiG-31 to the Sukhoi Su-27, as well as for cruise missiles and avionics.
His secret revelations more than matched the importance of another “volunteer” spy, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky of the Soviet military intelligence service, who provided the CIA with key information in 1960.
Tolkachev’s secret treasure trove was almost stillborn: five times from January 1977 to February 1978 he approached cars with US diplomatic licence plates in Moscow, begging to speak to an American. Ironically, the first car he approached at a petrol station belonged to the CIA’s Moscow station chief, who ignored the Russian, fearing he was a KGB agent sent to entrap Americans.
But the persistent Russian – resentful of the Soviet Union’s earlier treatment of his Jewish parents – kept returning, each time revealing more about himself, indicating that he had information about Soviet weapon systems. Finally, the CIA assigned Guilsher, a Russian-speaking officer, to make contact.

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T.S. Eliot & The Jews

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Forward: During a 1933 lecture in Virginia, published in 1934 as “After Strange Gods,” (which he later refused to reprint) Eliot, following Maurras, stressed the importance of social “unity of religious background…. Reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable,” Eliot declared.

* “The notorious passage in After Strange Gods is capable of the interpretation that a community of orthodox Jews would be socially desirable because of the strong social bonds established by Jewish solidarity.” Roger Kojecky, T. S. Eliot’s Social Criticism (London: Faber, 1971)

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The Legion of the Archangel Michael

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

I appreciate it when people grapple with their character defects. I am grateful when they have a sense of their destructive tendencies. I’m relieved when they have an accurate perception of themselves and of their tendencies.

I think the people in my life are better off because I have grappled with my moral flaws and destructive addictions. Despite this work, I still find it easier most of the time to find fault with others than to find fault with myself. I still find it much easier to think about the bad things that others have done to me than to confront the bad things I have done to others and could well do again.

In 12-Step programs, we learn to get in touch with the part of ourselves that could do the horrible things that others have done to us. In other words, we learn to develop empathy and to see our own defects of character that have influenced the ways we have felt about ourselves and influenced the way others have treated us.

Jews are generally grateful when other groups come to terms with their group defects. For instance, Jews appreciate it when Muslims condemn Muslim terror and when blacks condemn black criminality and irresponsibility and when whites own up to the dark sides of their history and when Germans agonize over the Holocaust. Yet Jews, like the rest of the human race, often do not enjoy coming to terms with the destruction that some Jews have done. For instance, the organized Jewish community has been a force in America for over 120 years pushing for more immigration even though the majority of America during that time were probably against more immigration. Every major Jewish organization in America supports immigration amnesty.

I’ve never heard Jewish organizations grapple with the fact that all of the American scientists who gave Joseph Stalin nuclear capability were Jewish. I’ve never heard any Jews agonize that the person who stole the crown jewels of American nuclear secrets and gave them to the Jewish state of Israel which then likely traded them to America’s arch-enemy, the Soviet Union, for the release of Soviet Jews was a Jewish cokehead (Jonathan Pollard).

Jews have done a lot of good in the world and a lot of harm. In America, they’ve occupied a disproportionate role in organizations that promote the interests of minorities at the expense of the majority. Depending on where you are coming from, this is a good or a bad thing.

I find it interesting to put myself in the place of other peoples, such as blacks, Nazis, Muslims, goyim, Orthodox Jews from birth, white nationalists, and the like. I find it interesting to imagine myself in the shoes of some of the big enemies of the Jews and to try to see the world as they have seen it, to understand that they love their group as much as I love Jews, and to figure out how Jews may have hurt or hindered or helped their group and perhaps how the behaviors of real life Jews may have played a role in the persecution of Jews.

I think it is good for Jews, and for all groups, to understand how their actions affect other people. Jews played a major role in the development of communism, for instance, and played a big role as Stalin’s willing executioners of various genocides. Not only did approximately six million Jews die in the Holocaust, but approximately six million Ukrainians were deliberately starved to death by Stalin with help from some Jews such as Lazar Kaganovich (the biggest Jewish mass murderer in history).

You might wonder how a Jew could get in touch with a part of himself that might understand genocide. Well, think about Purim. Jews celebrate a story that culminates in Jews murdering 75,000 of their enemies. Think about how the God of the Torah commanded the Hebrews to commit genocide against the native inhabitants of Canaan. Think about how great the world would be if all the enemies of the Jews disappeared. Think about how the average Jewish Israeli wishes all Palestinians would disappeared. Think about how awesome it would be if Iran disappeared. It’s not that hard to get in touch with the genocide in your heart and therefore to understand how other groups want their enemies to similarly vanish.

Every group has a victimology and every victimology has a nationalism and every nationalism has the capacity for genocide.

Accurate criticism helps individuals and groups to behave better and to analyze life more intelligently.

Jews and Romanians, for instance, have a particularly rotten history. I’m not sure there was any country in Europe where Jews and goyim hated each other more (perhaps only Poland).

Romanian nationalist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu led a movement that was largely spiritual but had enormous real-world impact.

According to Wikipedia:

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu was a Romanian politician of the far right, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael (also known as the Legionary Movement), an ultra-nationalist and violently antisemitic organization active throughout most of the interwar period. Generally seen as the main variety of local fascism, and noted for its mystical and Romanian Orthodox-inspired revolutionary message, it grew into an important actor on the Romanian political stage, coming into conflict with the political establishment and the democratic forces, and often resorting to terrorism. The Legionaries traditionally referred to Codreanu as Căpitanul (“The Captain”), and he held absolute authority over the organization until his death.
…Codreanu learned antisemitism from his father, but connected it with anticommunism, in the belief that Jews were, among other things, the primordial agents of the Soviet Union…
Cuza was preaching that the Jewish population was a manifest threat to Romanians, claimed that Jews were threatening the purity of Romanian young women, and began campaigning in favor of racial segregation.
… Throughout its existence, the Legion maintained strong links with members of the Romanian Orthodox clergy,[45] and its members fused politics with an original interpretation of Romanian Orthodox messages — including claims that the Romanian kin was expecting its national salvation, in a religious sense.
…Corneliu Zelea Codreanu explained early on: “The country is dying for lack of men and not for lack of political programs.”[52] Elsewhere, he pointed out that the Legion was interested in the creation of a “new man” (omul nou).[53]
Despite its apparent lack of political messages, the movement was immediately noted for its antisemitism, for arguing that Romania was faced with a “Jewish Question” and for proclaiming that a Jewish presence throve on uncouthness and pornography.[54] The Legionary leader wrote: “The historical mission of our generation is the resolution of the kike problem. All of our battles of the past 15 years have had this purpose, all of our life’s efforts from now on will have this purpose.”[55] He accused the Jews in general of attempting to destroy what he claimed was a direct link between Romania and God, and the Legion campaigned in favor of the notion that there was no actual connection between the Old Testament Hebrews and the modern Jews.[56] In one instance, making a reference to the origin of the Romanians, Codreanu stated that Jews were corrupting the “Roman-Dacian structure of our people.”[57]
He began openly calling for the destruction of Jews,[58][59] and, as early as 1927, the new movement organized the sacking and burning of a synagogue in the city of Oradea.[60] It thus profited from an exceptional popularity of antisemitism in Romanian society: according to one analysis, Romania was, with the exception of Poland, the most antisemitic country in Eastern Europe.[61]

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu sounds like many other charismatic nationalists, such as Ze’ev Jabotinsky — the developer of a powerful combination of religion and nationalism fused to a particular people and a particular land.

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Do You Want To See A Muslim Groveling To Jews?

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

If so, read this Pakistani-Brit politician’s speech:

Sajid Javid’s speech at the Union of Jewish Students’ Annual Conference 2014

Shalom Aleichem [Hebrew for “Peace be with you”]. Thank you for coming, and thank you for inviting me along today. It’s always great to see young people getting engaged with the political process. …

As I’m sure you’re all aware, there’s an increasingly vocal campaign for a full-scale cultural boycott of Israel. It’s a campaign I have no time for … It was wrong when Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s Behzti came under siege from members of the Sikh community. It was wrong when Christian groups tried to drive Jerry Springer The Musical off the stage. And it’s wrong when Jewish artists are targeted simply because of their connection to Israel. A century ago William Howard Taft called anti-Semitism a “Noxious weed”.

A century later, I don’t want to see that weed taking root in any aspect of British life. That’s why I will always be proud to stand up and resist calls for boycotts of Israel. I know that such calls are nothing more than a smokescreen for the oldest hatred. That’s why I am proud to see the government taking real action against anti-Semites who want to gain a foothold in Britain’s universities. We’re denying a platform to extremists who would abuse our freedoms in order to sow the seeds of division.

And that’s why I’m proud of the work we’re doing with the Holocaust Educational Trust. We’re paying for two teenagers from every British school to visit Auschwitz, letting them see for themselves the horrors of the Shoah. I had the privilege of joining a group of children from my constituency when they visited two years ago. I’ve read a great deal about the atrocities of the Nazi regime. And I was extremely moved by the permanent Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.

But nothing can prepare you for the experience of actually being there. The Prime Minister found that for himself when he visited this week. I’m sure everyone who goes to Auschwitz is touched by what they see in different ways. For me, I will never forget the sight of a case filled with thousands upon thousands of shoes taken from those who were murdered. Mixed in among them there were countless tiny pairs that had clearly been stolen from the feet of children.

As a parent – and as a human being – it’s a sight that will live with me forever. As the Holocaust Educational Trust says, when we understand where prejudice leads, we can stop it in its tracks. …

I’m proud to be the child of immigrants. It’s who I am. It’s what I am. The same was true of Yehudi Menuhin. He was born an American and died a British citizen.

But for his whole life he was, of course, Jewish through and through. I know that his name, Yehudi, is the Hebrew word for “Jew”. But what I didn’t know until recently was the story of how he came to be called that. You see, not long before Menuhin was born his parents were out house-hunting together.

I think it might have been in New York. They thought they’d found the perfect place. But as they were leaving, the landlady, unaware of their background, cheerily told them that: “You’ll be glad to know I don’t take Jews!” His parents were rightly appalled, though sadly not surprised. But they were proud people. They didn’t want to hide in the shadows. To deny who they were. To simply ignore the bigotry of others. So there and then, they decided that their unborn child would be given a name that declared his race and religion to the world.

That’s why, a few months later, they called their first and only son “Yehudi” – “The Jew”. And as he grew up and toured the globe, probably the greatest violinist of all time, his name proclaimed not just who he was, but what he was. It shouted it from posters, album covers and programmes around the world. Celebrating his heritage, not hiding it. Just as his parents intended. [Etc, etc] (Sajid Javid’s speech at the Union of Jewish Students’ Annual Conference, 14th December 2014)

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