I was Googling “Torah racism” to find out what the Torah has to say about racism — nothing in my knowledge — and I found this news article from 2010:
A number of leading rabbis who signed on to a religious ruling to forbid renting homes to gentiles – a move particularly aimed against Arabs – defended their decision on Tuesday with the declaration that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews.
“We don’t need to help Arabs set down roots in Israel,” Rabbi Shlomo Aviner of the Beit El settlement, said on Tuesday. Aviner explained that he supported the move for two reasons: one, a Jew looking for an apartment should get preference over a gentile; and two, to keep the growing Arab population from settling too deeply.
“Racism originated in the Torah,” said Rabbi Yosef Scheinen, who heads the Ashdod Yeshiva. “The land of Israel is designated for the people of Israel. This is what the Holy One Blessed Be He intended and that is what the [sage] Rashi interpreted.”
He added that he did not see the move as racist so much as segregationist. “The world is so big and the State of Israel is small, that God intended it for the people of Israel and the whole world covets it. That is the injustice.”
The rabbis’ letter prompted by Eliyahu, which was first published months ago and reprinted in October, urges Jewish owners of apartments to reconsider renting their properties to Arabs since it would deflate the value of their homes as well as those in the neighborhood.
“Their way of life is different than that of Jews,” the letter stated. “Among [the gentiles] are those who are bitter and hateful toward us and who meddle into our lives to the point where they are a danger.”
The rabbis also urge neighbors of anyone renting or selling property to Arabs to caution that person. After delivering the warning, the neighbor is then encouraged to issue notices to the general public and inform the community.
“The neighbors and acquaintances [of a Jew who sells or rents to an Arab] must distance themselves from the Jew, refrain from doing business with him, deny him the right to read from the Torah, and similarly [ostracize] him until he goes back on this harmful deed,” the letter reads.
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To what extent have modern rabbis rewritten the Jewish past eliminating what does not fit in with their contemporary religious self-interpretations and world view? This wide-ranging and original review of how this policy is applied in practice adds a new perspective to Jewish intellectual history and to the understanding of the contemporary Jewish world.
Friday May 2, 2014
Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage, State University of New York, University at Buffalo.
Marc says he sees nothing wrong with using data gained from Nazi experiments.
Marc: “Sins have a negative force in this world and it is the rabbi’s job to prevent sin.”
“In Orthodox communities, there’s often a problem with people playing basketball on the Sabbath. On the one hand, there’s nothing wrong with it from a technical halachic perspective. Rabbi Moses Isserles, Ashkenazi Jews are bound by him, says there is no problem playing ball on the Sabbath, but it is not in the Sabbath spirit.”
“The rabbis have adopted all sorts of methods for how to deal with this… Instead of having real games, just have shooting or a game of horse. One rabbi came up with the idea that he would tell the congregants that it is forbidden and a violation of the Sabbath. Another rabbi said that is not true and he would tell his congregants.”
“The most important authorities (Ovadiah Yosef, Chaim Kaniefsky) say you are permitted to alter the truth in the name of societal good.”
“The Modern Orthodox in the 1950s could never have imagined the rise of right-wing Orthodoxy. The whole idea was about fitting in. What did Modern Orthodoxy do? It focused on intellectuals writing articles and creating think tanks. What did the right-wing do? They created kollels, the kiruv movements. They have mass appeal. The Modern Orthodox should have been the ones to come out with the chumash. They had the academic background. They ceded all that ground. They invited in the right-wing to produce [the new chumash]. They produce quality products. This is a failure of the Modern Orthodoxy. This is part of the larger swing to the right. You have to put it in the context of the rise of multiculturalism, the rise of right-wing religion generally. It’s probably too late. Every Modern Orthodox synagogue in the country has Artscroll. Their Talmud is unbelievable. They’ll be using it in 500 years. The siddur (prayer book) can come and go.”
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HIV/AIDS has had a devastating impact on minorities in the United States. Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 70 percent of the newly diagnosed cases of HIV infection in 2011. In 2011, 82 percent of children born with HIV infection belong to minority groups.
In the African American community, HIV infections has become an epidemic. African Americans accounted for 44% of all HIV infections cases diagnosed in 2011. African American men are 7 times more likely to die of AIDS than non-Hispanic White men. African American women are particularly struck by this disease, and are 15 times more likely to die from HIV, as compared to non-Hispanic White women. AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death in African American women aged 35-44 and the fourth leading cause of death in African American men, aged 45-54, in 2010.
HIV/AIDS is spreading at a rapid rate in the Hispanic community. Hispanics accounted for 20 percent of AIDS cases in 2011, despite making up only 17 percent of the U.S. population. Hispanics are twice as likely to be diagnosed with AIDS than Whites. Hispanic males were also twice as likely to die of AIDS than their non-Hispanic White counterparts, and Hispanic women were 2.2 times more likely to die from AIDS.
Though the numbers are small, American Indians are also impacted disproportionately by HIV/AIDS. American Indians are 1.5 times as likely to have AIDS than Whites.
For Asians and Pacific Islanders, HIV/AIDS is the ninth leading cause of death in men aged 25 to 34. Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders are 2.2 times as likely to be diagnosed with HIV infections as the White population.
Quick Facts
African American males have 7.8 times the AIDS rate as White males.
African American women have 20 times the HIV rate as White women.
American Indian/Alaska Native women have almost three times the AIDS rate as non-Hispanic white women.
Hispanic females have 4 times the AIDS rate as non-Hispanic white females.
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islanders are 2.2 times as likely to be diagnosed with AIDS as the White population.
I find this terribly upsetting. Why does AIDS discriminate?
According to the UN: “Africa has the highest percentage of HIV in 2009 with 15-28%, with Sub-Saharan Africa suffering the most—Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. More women than men in Sub-Saharan Africa have HIV. The majority have gotten HIV from unprotected heterosexual sex, often paid sex.”
The statistics show that at the end of 2011, an estimated 230,000 people were living with HIV in the Caribbean. Some 13,000 people were newly infected during 2011, and 10,000 people died from AIDS.1
In the Bahamas more than 3% of the adult population is living with HIV.2 This level of HIV prevalence is found only in sub-Saharan Africa, making the Caribbean the second most affected region in the world.3 Half of adults living with the virus are women.
Overall, the main route of HIV transmission in the Caribbean is heterosexual sex, with many new infections linked with commercial sex work.5 Sex between men is recently emerging as another major route of transmission in Caribbean countries. Cultural and behavioural patterns (such as early initiation of sexual acts, and taboos related to sex and sexuality), gender inequalities, lack of confidentiality, stigmatisation and economic need are some of the factors influencing vulnerability to HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean.
What could be the cultural behavioral patterns that cause high rates of AIDS among blacks? Why do blacks tend to have sex at the youngest ages and orientals tend to wait the longest before having sex?
What about AIDS in Japan? Wikipedia says: “In December 2009, the World Health Organization reports the number of HIV cases in Japan to be at least 17,000.[3] This equates to roughly 0.01% of the population of Japan, one of the lowest ratios of reported HIV in the world.”
When I consult a world map of AIDS rates, I see that AIDS is almost unknown in oriental countries, rare in dominantly white countries, and common in black countries:
According to Wikipedia: “The table makes clear Africa’s unfortunate position in the worldwide HIV and AIDS epidemic, as the 19 countries worldwide with the highest prevalence of reported infections are all African countries with more than 24.5 million, and more than 60% of the HIV-infected population. South Africa is reported to have the largest population living with the disease, at well over 5 million people infected, followed by Nigeria in 2nd place and India being the 3rd largest population of HIV infected with more than 2 million people reported due to its large overall population, but with a prevalence rate of 0.30 in comparison to the prevalence rate of 0.60 in US and 18.10 in South Africa.”
Perhaps AIDS is an anomaly? When it comes to other sexually-transmitted diseases, perhaps orientals have the most and blacks have the least? No. The statistics show that blacks are far more likely to have STDs and orientals are the least likely.
Surveillance data show higher rates of reported STDs among some racial or ethnic minority groups when compared with rates among whites. Race and ethnicity in the United States are population characteristics that also correlate with other fundamental determinants of health status.1,2
Social and economic conditions, such as high rates of poverty, income inequality, unemployment, low educational attainment and geographic isolation can make it more difficult for individuals to protect their sexual health.3 People who struggle financially are often experiencing life circumstances that increase their risk for STDs.4 Those who cannot afford basic necessities may have trouble accessing and affording quality sexual health services.5 As an example, in 2010, the poverty rates, unemployment rates, and high school drop-out rates for blacks, American Indians/Alaska Natives, and Hispanics were considerably higher than for whites, differences commensurate with observed disparities in STD burden.6–9 Many people of Hispanic ethnicity face additional barriers arising from immigration or undocumented citizenship status.10 Even when health care is available, fear and distrust of health care institutions can negatively affect the health careseeking experience for many racial/ethnic minorities when there is social discrimination, provider bias, or the perception that these may exist.11,12
In communities where STD prevalence is higher, individuals may have a more difficult time reducing their risk for infection. With each sexual encounter, they face a greater chance of encountering an infected partner than those in lower prevalence settings.13 Acknowledging the inequity in STD rates by race or ethnicity is one of the first steps in empowering affected communities to organize and focus on this problem.
Blacks—In 2012, the overall rate among blacks in the United States was 1,229.4 cases per 100,000 population (Table 11B). The rate of chlamydia among black women was over six times the rate among white women (1,613.6 and 260.5 per 100,000 females, respectively) (Table 11B and Figure L). The chlamydia rate among black men was over eight times the rate among white men (809.2 and 95.9 cases per 100,000 males, respectively).
Chlamydia rates were highest for blacks aged 15–19 and 20–24 years in 2012 (Table 11B). The chlamydia rate among black females aged 15–19 years was 7,719.1 cases per 100,000 females, which was over five times the rate among white females in the same age group (1,458.3 per 100,000 females). The rate among black women aged 20–24 years was 4.4 times the rate among white women in the same age group (Table 11B).
Similar racial disparities in reported chlamydia rates exist among men. Among males aged 15–19 years, the rate among blacks was 9.9 times the rate among whites (Table 11B). The chlamydia rate among black men aged 20–24 years was six times the rate among white men of the same age group (3,556.0 and 590.6 cases per 100,000 males, respectively).
Asians— In 2012, the chlamydia rate among Asians was 112.9 cases per 100,000 population (Table 11B). The overall rate among whites is 1.6 times the rate among Asians.
Hispanics— In 2012, the chlamydia rate among Hispanics was 380.3 cases per 100,000 population (Table 11B) which is over two times the rate among whites.
The rate of gonorrhea among blacks in 2012 was 462.0 cases per 100,000 population, which was 14.9 times the rate among whites (31.0 per 100,000) (Table 22B). This disparity has decreased slightly in recent years (Figure M). This disparity was larger for black men (16.2 times) than for black women (13.8 times).
Black men aged 20–24 years had a gonorrhea rate of 1,903.7 cases per 100,000 men, which was 16.4 times the rate among white men in the same age group (115.9 per 100,000). Black men aged 15–19 years had a gonorrhea rate of 1,012.3 cases per 100,000 men, which was 26.2 times the rate among white men in the same age group (38.7 per 100,000).
Asians—In 2012, the gonorrhea rate among Asians was 16.9 cases per 100,000 population, which was lower than (0.5 times) the rate among whites (Table 22B). This difference is larger for Asian women than for Asian men…
Hispanics—In 2012, the gonorrhea rate among Hispanics was 60.4 cases per 100,000 population, which was 1.9 times the rate among whites (Table 22B). This disparity was larger for Hispanic men (2.2 times) than for Hispanic women (1.8 times)…
Syphillis:
Blacks — In 2012, 39.7% of all cases reported to CDC were among blacks. The overall 2012 rate for blacks was 6.1 times the rate for whites. In 2012, the rate of P&S syphilis among black men was 5.7 times the rate among white men; the rate among black women was 16 times the rate among white women…
Asians — In 2012, 1.9% of all cases reported to CDC were among Asians. The 2012 rate of P&S syphilis for Asians was 2.0 cases per 100,000 population, which was 0.7 times the rate for whites…
Hispanics— In 2012, 19.5% of all cases reported to CDC were among Hispanics (an increase from 16.7% of all cases in 2011). The 2012 rate of P&S syphilis for Hispanics was 5.7 cases per 100,000 population, which was 2.3 times the rate for whites…
Race differences exist in sexual behavior. The races differ in how often they like to have sexual intercourse. This affects rates of sexually transmitted diseases. On all the counts, Orientals are the least sexually active, Blacks the most, and Whites are in between. The races also differ in the number of twins and multiple births, in hormone levels, in sexual attitudes, and even in their sexual anatomy.
The races differ in their level of sex hormones. Hormone levels are highest in Blacks and the lowest in Orientals. This may tell us why Black women have premenstrual syndrome (PMS) the most and
Orientals the least.
The races also differ in testosterone level which helps to explain men’s behavior. In one study of college students, testosterone levels were 10 to 20% higher in Blacks than in Whites. For an older sample of U.S. military veterans, Blacks had levels 3% higher than Whites (see the 1992 issue of Steroids). In a study of university students, Black. Americans had 10 to 15% higher levels than White Americans. The Japanese (in Japan) had even lower levels.
Testosterone acts as a “master switch.” It affects things like self-concept, aggression, altruism, crime, and sexuality, not just in men, but in women too. Testosterone also controls things like muscle mass and the deepening of the voice in the teenage years.
Blacks are sexually active at an earlier age than Whites. Whites, in turn, are sexually active earlier than Orientals. Surveys from the World Health Organization show this three-way racial pattern to be true around the world. National surveys from Britain and the United States produce the same findings.
A Los Angeles study found that the age of first sexual activity in high school students was 16.4 years for Orientals, 14.4 years for Blacks, with Whites in the middle. The percentage of students who
were sexually active was 32% for Orientals but 81% for Blacks. Whites again fell between the two other races. A Canadian study found Orientals to be more restrained, even in fantasy and masturbation.
Orientals born in Canada were just as restrained as recent Asian immigrants. Around the world, sexual activity for married couples follows the three-way pattern. A 1951 survey asked people how often they had sex. Pacific Islanders and Native Americans said from 1 to 4 times per week, U.S. Whites answered 2 to 4 times per week, while Africans said they had sex 3 to 10 times per week. Later surveys have confirmed these findings. The average frequency of intercourse per week for married couples in their twenties is 2.5 for the Japanese and Chinese in Asia. It is 4 for American Whites. For American Blacks it is 5.
Racial differences are found in sexual permissiveness, thinking about sex, and even in levels of sex guilt. In one study, three generations of Japanese Americans and Japanese students in Japan had less interest in sex than European students. Yet each generation of Japanese Americans had more sex guilt
than White Americans their age. In another study, British men and women said they had three times as many sexual fantasies as Japanese men and women. Orientals were the most likely to say that sex has a weakening effect. Blacks said they had casual intercourse more and felt less concern about it than whites
did.
Race differences in sexual behavior have results in real life. They affect sexually transmitted disease rates. The World Health Organization takes note of sexual diseases like syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes and chlamydia. They report low levels in China and Japan and high levels in Africa. European countries are in the middle.
The racial pattern of these diseases is also true in the U.S. The 1997 syphilis rate among Blacks was 24 times the White rate. The nationwide syphilis rate for Blacks was 22 cases per 100,000 people. It was 0.5 cases per 100,000 for Whites, and even lower for Orientals. A recent report found up to 25% of inner city girls (mainly Black) have chlamydia.
Racial differences also show in the current AIDS crisis. Over 30 million people around the world are living with HIV or AIDS. Many Blacks in the U.S. do get AIDS through drug use, but more get it
through sex. At the other extreme, more AIDS sufferers in China and Japan are hemophiliacs. European countries have intermediate HIV infection rates, mostly among homosexual men.
Chart 5 shows the yearly estimates of the HIV infection rate in various parts of the world from the United Nations. The epidemic started in Black Africa in the late 1970s. Today 23 million adults there are living with HIV/AIDS. Over fifty percent of these are female. This shows that transmission is mainly heterosexual. Currently, 8 out of every 100 Africans are infected with the AIDS virus and the epidemic is considered out of control. In some areas the AIDS rate reaches 70%. In South Africa one in 10 adults is
living with HIV.
The HIV infection rate is also high in the Black Caribbean. About 2%! Thirty-three percent of the AIDS cases there are women. This high figure among women shows that the spread tends to be from
heterosexual intercourse. The high rate of HIV in the 2,000 mile band of Caribbean countries extends from Bermuda to Guyana, and it seems to be the highest in Haiti, with a rate close to 6%. It is the most infected area outside of Black Africa.
Data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that African Americans have HIV rates similar to the Black Caribbean and parts of Black Africa. Three percent of
Black men and 1% of Black women in the U.S. are living with HIV (Chart 5). The rate for White Americans is less than 0.1%, while the rate for Asian Americans is less than 0.05%. Rates for Europe and the Pacific Rim are also low. Of course AIDS is a serious public health problem for all racial groups, but it is especially so for Africans and people of African descent.
The three-way pattern of race differences is found in rates of multiple births (two-egg twinning), hormone levels, sexual attitudes, sexual anatomy, frequency of intercourse, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Both male and female sex hormone levels are the highest in Blacks, the lowest in Orientals, with Whites in between. Sex hormones affect not only our bodies, but also the way we act and think. Blacks are the most sexually active, have the most multiple births, and have the most permissive attitudes. Orientals are the least sexually active and show the least sexual fantasy and the most sexual guilt. Whites are in the middle. Sex diseases are most common in Blacks, least so in Orientals, with Whites in between the two. The very high rate of AIDS in Africa, the Black Caribbean and in Black Americans is alarming.
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Ricpic said: “Race is naturally fascinating because it is so obviously a factor if not the factor in the organization of the world. And yet we are living in an age in which the topic is taboo. This anomaly – that something inherently fascinating must not be noticed or discussed – cannot hold.”
Anon replies: Of course it can hold. Sex is inherently fascinating, yet some cultures haven’t discussed it in ages. And those are actually the healthiest cultures around. Death is inherently fascinating, yet the healthiest cultures deny it completely, believing in the fairy tale of eternal life instead. I think that unlike religious fairy tales the leftist fairy tale about race is harmful to society. But that’s separate from the question of whether or not humanity can ignore fundamental truths for thousands of years on end. Of course it can. If it couldn’t, it would have probably gone extinct long ago…
A lengthier, more competent pan of Wade by H. Allen Orr is up at The NY Review of Books, behind a pay wall.
Orr mostly concedes the first half of the book.
He pans the second half. Some examples:
“[Wade’s] much taken, for instance, with the difference between tribal and modern societies, but one of the most tribal peoples on the planet, the Scots with their clans, are now identified with some of the most modern of ideas and attitudes. Were David Hume and Adam Smith precocious carriers of a mutation that swept Edinburgh?”
(Fair question, but pretty glib as a counterpoint. The ancestors of Hume and Smith were probably lowland agriculturalists.)
“Geneticists have had an extraordinarily hard time finding genes that make substantive contributions to complex diseases like Type 2 diabetes. This doesn’t bode well, to put it mildly, for finding the genes that allegedly underlie subtle differences in predisposition to middle-class behavioral traits.”
(I’m not qualified to assess this, but this is why you want to rely on, for the time being, rigorously documented patterns a la psychometrics. It was a mistake, as Cochran noted, to skirt psychometrics as a field of evidence and instead, say, speculate freely on East Asian creativity.)
“Wade responds that while the genes for violence are unknown, murder rates in the industrialized world are lower than those in sub-Saharan Africa, “a difference that does not prove but surely allows room for a genetic contribution to greater violence in the less developed world.” But if the issue is whether people differ innately in a behavioral trait, a material line of evidence cannot be that people differ in the trait. They may easily differ for other reasons.”
(But if they persist on differing in a trait, even if placed in disparate environments with various governments spending billions trying to eliminate the difference, *that* should count as evidence.)
It’s not that so many Jews see the world through Jewish-centric lenses. That’s fine. It’s that they’re not even aware of how much their Jewish neuroses prejudice their judgments. Which problem is amplified because none of the rest of us are allowed to suggest that Jewish neuroses might be worthy of criticism or a prejudicial factor.
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So what is the average Nigerian IQ? It’s 67, so of course they’re not competent. The average African IQ is 70. That’s why the continent is a disaster. As America imports more people from Africa and other disaster zones such as Mexico, America becomes more of a disaster every day. American cities such as Detroit with a high percentage of people whose ancestors come from Africa as opposed to Europe or East Asia also tend to be disasters. When a bunch of people whose ancestors come from Africa as opposed to Europe or East Asia move into your neighborhood, the results are not likely to be much prettier than Africa today.
NYT: “WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials on Thursday questioned whether the Nigerian military is able to rescue, even with international help, more than 260 schoolgirls abducted last month, giving impetus to a social media campaign calling for the United States to do more to free the hostages.”
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I suffer from this flaw and I think this explanation from Dr. Drew Pinsky is right on.
Dennis complained that when he first was on radio in the 1980s, celebrities would invite him over to their homes and all but one could only talk about himself, so Dennis stopped going.
Dr. Drew: “People who do achieve fame usually are smart and substantial. They’re interesting. As a person, they have the deep emptiness. When it is a painful source of longing, when you are in pain, it’s hard not to focus on you and your pain. Also, closeness is threatening, so they have to be in control.”
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GM posts: “I think there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases is mitigated by circumcision. When I was born and when our children were born male circumcision was quite normal, basically as a health and hygiene measure. Step forward a couple of generations and it is almost impossible to find a non-Jewish doctor who will even consider circumcising infants. We even have everyone from the feminist lobby to the EU commission saying that infant circumcision is a violation of human rights!”
I wonder if Jews will be blamed for this.
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In this 1996 talk, psychology professor Philippe Rushton says that the average black officer in the U.S. armed forces has a higher IQ and more cranial capacity than the average white recruit.
Black men have larger brains than white women, even correcting for body size, but lower average IQs. White women have much smaller brains than white men but similar IQs (perhaps as low as five points lower). Women do much worse than men in dynamic spatial ability. Most of the human brain goes to keeping the body balanced and so men who historically were hunting, would have greater need for an ability to orient yourself in space.
When you have a computer and you want more capacity to write, you need to add more RAM memory, but if you want to work with graphics, you need dramatically more RAM.
“What is the reception of these ideas in Asia? There’s not much interest in Japan and China and among Asians in America about race differences. They are embarrassed by it. They don’t want to be held up to any attention. They certainly don’t want to be held up as superior to white people because they are deathly afraid that the immigration lobby will slam down the gates, not on the grounds that they are crime-prone, but that asians work so hard that they are unfairly competitive to the white person. Even today there is increasing resentment on our campuses by white students against asian students. For example, someone white wanting to get into medical school, walks into a lab needing to get an A grade and sees it is 90% asian, he says oh no, because it will be harder for him to get that A grade than if the class was made up of latinos and blacks.”
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[Jewish intellectuals] are good at coming up with intellectual rationalizations for adolescent emotions.
Jewish insecurity dropped sharply after the Six Days War of June 1967. There is a variety of evidence suggesting that the Six Days War was the turning point in launching the subsequent propaganda War on WASPs. (My piece of “The Graduate” of 1967 lays out some circumstantial evidence.)
Instead, Jewish security and accomplishment, as symbolized by victory the Six Days War, unleashed a lot of feelings of ethnic superiority that had been bottled up through 1966. What Gould and Co. did in the 1970s was like a highbrow version of a victory riot by sports fans.
Neoconservatism didn’t really exist until after the Six Days War. Norman Podhoretz goes 300 pages in his 1960s memoir without mentioning Israel until Israel wins the war, when suddenly he becomes a huge fan.
But hatin’ on old WASP scientists was something that could bring together ideologically conflicting elements of the Jewish community. Lewontin was pretty much of a Communist and Gould was generally some kind of socialist, but being mad at old WASP scientists over the 1924 immigration cutoff appealed to neoconservatives too.
The Jewish community is adept at papering over their divisions by finding some non-Jewish bad guy for everybody to get mad at. For example, the rise of feminism in the 1960s had a lot to do with the increase in Jewish guys divorcing their first wives and marrying shiksas. But rather than take a stand on what was really bugging them, it was quickly turned into a war on men in general, with no particular Jewish aspect to the bad guys (although Norman Mailer kept volunteering for the role).
* I can’t imagine that any gentile, even the supremely gifted Updike, could get away today with writing three Bech novels poking gentle fun at a Jewish writer.
* Chabon did about as much as humanly possible with the idea of superheroes as a solely cultural (or maybe genetic) inheritance of the Jews. Kavalier & Clay is an impressive work.
But the idea of The Golem as awesome is awfully lame.
This 1993 book by Jack Nelson is a classic. It hits all of the Jewish themes of Kevin MacDonald but gives them a different spin.
From Publishers Weekly: “Ku Klux Klansmen, claiming that Jews were the driving force behind the civil rights movement, bombed two synagogues and a rabbi’s house in Jackson and in Meridian, Miss., in 1967-68. A Klan hit list targeted Jewish business leaders for assassination. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who covered the South in the civil rights era, discovered evidence that the FBI and the Meridian police, using funds supplied by the Jewish community, paid informants to set a trap that left Klan hit man Thomas Tarrants III wounded and his fanatically anti-Semitic bomb-maker girlfriend Kathy Ainsworth dead. This absorbing true-crime tale is a time capsule to the civil rights movement’s heyday. Using FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Nelson recreates the case and illuminates the FBI’s long vendetta against him for his reportage.”
Here are some random notes on the book:
* Regarding the PW review, Jews were the driving force behind America’s civil rights movement as well as the force behind opening up immigration to non-whites.
* Samuel Holloway Bowers, the imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan (membership was about 6,000), believed Jews were behind the Civil Rights movement that was destroying the Southern way of life and he wanted to fight back. So this KKK group shifted from fighting blacks to fighting Jews, believing that blacks were too stupid to be effective in their own cause without Jewish help.
* Author Jack Nelson repeatedly labels groups and literature in the cause of white identity to be filled with hate while Torah literature, which contains as much hate, is of course sacred text.
* Almost nobody liked Reform Rabbi Perry Nussbaum of Beth Israel. He needled everyone with frequently inappropriate remarks but what really irritated his congregants and the wider community was Nussbaum’s work against desegregation (the Southern way of life). When Jews try to destroy the customs of the people around them, Jews can expect to get hurt.
* Rabbi Perry Nussbaum pledged to his congregation to never do anything to put them in danger but he pursued his left-wing anti-segregationist beliefs over his congregation’s interests and put them all in grave danger. But he knew better because he was for civil rights.
* Jews have lived comfortably in the South for centuries. They fought on its side in the Civil War. They were “aliens in a land of fundamentalist Protestantism” but they were not disturbed as long as Jews did not disturb the Southern goyim. The German Jews assimilated to Southern norms as much as possible while the Jews of East European origins were more separatist and defiant of community mores. Jews were often regarded more positively than Roman Catholics and blacks.
* Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, were fine until 1961 when radical Jews and blacks from the North came to town as “Freedom Riders” to recruit blacks into voting. Southern whites suddenly woke up to the menace that many northern Jews posed for their segregationist culture and they started looking more critically at all Jews.
* Most of the Jews in in Jackson supported segregation, but as in South Africa and most places, Jews were overall more left-wing on matters of race than white Christians.
* Temple Beth Israel started hosting black non-Jews and anti-segregation events. The goyim noticed and did not approve. The KKK got angry and exploded a bomb in the temple. Nobody was hurt.
* While many black churches had been bombed and law enforcement paid little mind, once the Jewish temple was bombed, the FBI and law enforcement poured in resources. Why? Because Jews are organized, intelligent, educated, affluent and influential.
* The Jews got angry and demanded that the goyim condemn the bombers from the pulpit. Some of the goyim did not enjoy getting yelled at by intense Jews. Some Jews wanted to hire Mafia hitmen to kill their enemies.
* The Jews, their temple, and their rabbi got more involved in civil rights for blacks and so the rabbi’s home was bombed and nobody was seriously hurt. The rabbi summoned goyisha clergy to his home and screamed at them for not speaking out against the bombings. The goyim preachers sat quietly and took the abuse. Goyisha bystanders were shocked at the vehemence of the rabbi. The rabbi told one goy, “You’re a white Christian — a Baptist, the worst kind for Jews. You’ve got a responsibility for what happened.”
* The Jews in Jackson got intense and organized and the goyim took steps to alleviate their concerns. Goyisha clergy felt bad about the bombings and spoke out against it from their pulpits.
* The FBI descends in force on the KKK and makes their lives miserable.
* Jews raise money as a reward for information about the bombers. The FBI tells the Jews that the FBI would have more success against the KKK if the Jews would fund them but it would all need to be kept off the books and hush-hush.
* Some members of the temple realize that the rabbi’s work against segregation has put them in danger but most members rally around the rabbi who gets increasedly heated and sure of his own righteousness.
* Jews in Jackson felt their only friend was the FBI.
* One Klansman told the FBI that “Jews are the biggest nigger-loving people in the world”, which might be true.
* Jewish money buys Klan informers who set up the bombers to be killed by law enforcement.
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