{"id":107994,"date":"2016-09-27T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107994"},"modified":"2016-09-28T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:49:21","slug":"on-spencers-herzlianism-for-the-current-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107994","title":{"rendered":"On Spencer\u2019s Herzlianism for the Current Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Alt Zionism A Home for Dissident Jews<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If not Jew and White, then which?<\/p>\n

It is a curious fact that in the Current Year, the Alt Right understands the Jews better than the Jews understand themselves. While legions of ersatz Larry Davids and Brooklyn-accented Californian soccer moms gather in the hallways of the ADL to issue hollow, self-abnegating proclamations that what it is to be a Jew is to be a refugee (1,2),it is only the purported anti-Semites who share the common sense of Herzl in recognizing that the Jews are \u201ca people \u2013 one people\u201d (3).<\/p>\n

Richard Spencer took this point for granted when, at a recent press conference, he suggested that it would be an insult to call a Jew a European, for to call him a European would be to deny him his heritage (4). To call a Jew a European, on Spencer\u2019s view, is to cut him off from his people, and to suggest that Jews will form a part of a future pan-European ethnostate is do an injustice to the destiny and struggle of the Jews as much as to the struggle and destiny of the Europeans.<\/p>\n

Spencer\u2019s view presupposes, of course, that Jewish identity cannot be an instance of European identity in the same way that French identity, for example, is. If this is right, then it must be the case that Jewish identity and European identity are in fact incompatible in such a way that to identify as a Jew is to link oneself to an entirely different people and history than the people and history to which one links oneself in identifying as a European. Read on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Alt Zionism A Home for Dissident Jews: If not Jew and White, then which? It is a curious fact that in the Current Year, the Alt Right understands the Jews better than the Jews understand themselves. While legions of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,9993,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-europe","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t