{"id":122821,"date":"2018-07-26T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122821"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:35:39","slug":"is-this-jewish-doctor-secretly-a-white-nationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122821","title":{"rendered":"Is This Jewish Doctor Secretly A White Nationalist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Forward<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Jewish doctor at a New York City hospital has been \u201cplaced off duty\u201d after an article posted online Monday claimed that he was Facebook friends with white supremacists and had frequently commented on some of the web\u2019s most high-profile hate sites, including the writing of \u201cA Jewish Defense of Anti-Semitism\u201d and approving reflections on armed racial revolution.<\/p>\n

The article about Dov Bechhofer, a doctor who works at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, based its accusations on links to Bechhofer\u2019s since-deleted Facebook page and screenshots of the writings of someone who goes by \u201cDov\u201d in the comments section of the blog for white nationalist publishing house Counter-Currents.<\/p>\n

The piece briefly appeared on the website Medium before being taken down for violating the site\u2019s rules against \u201cdoxxing,\u201d or revealing private information. The article included Bechhofer\u2019s alleged mail and email address, phone number and social media accounts…<\/p>\n

Most American Jews skew liberal, and even politically conservative Jews often pride themselves on their anti-racism. Bechhofer\u2019s father, a rabbi, has frequently spoken out against prejudice as a leader of the group Orthodox Jews Against Racism and Discrimination. Yet the rise of the \u201calt-right,\u201d a loose movement of racists and white nationalists, has seen some Jews join its adherents despite many of its leaders\u2019 professed anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

Such behavior exists on a spectrum: On one end are Jews like White House senior advisor Stephen Miller or New York lawyer Aaron Schlossberg, whose anti-immigrant statements have been accused by critics of being racially tinged. On the other end are Jews who explicitly advocate for white ethnostates \u2014 including former American Nazi Party leaders Frank Collin and Dan Burros and, now, Bechhofer. The difference is that unlike those two, Bechhofer is open about his Judaism in white supremacist spaces.<\/p>\n

Spencer Sunshine, an associate fellow at the think tank Political Research Associates who studies far-right movements, told the Forward that it wasn\u2019t unusual for a Jew to support white nationalism or even white supremacy…<\/p>\n

\u201cJust from his Facebook account alone, you can see that he\u2019s a white supremacist,\u201d the investigator, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, told the Forward. \u201cHe\u2019s friends with a dozen other white supremacists\u2026and so unless there\u2019s some impostor that\u2019s running that Facebook account, I think Dov is certainly a white supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commenter \u201cDov\u201d frequently appeared underneath articles on Counter-Currents, which Sunshine described as \u201cat the highest intellectual level of discourse in the white nationalist crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participating in its forums shows that Bechhofer was on the \u201chardcore\u201d edge of the right, Sunshine added: \u201cHe\u2019s not just a white American Jew who doesn\u2019t like immigrants, it\u2019s on another level.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the comments section:<\/p>\n

* There are racial differences in intelligence, and the facts about IQ and race have a great deal of explanatory power regarding the racial inequalities that we observe throughout the world
\nFor example, MRI scans of living human brains have now revealed that Chinese Japanese and Koreans have larger brains than white European people, they score higher on IQ tests than white people, and they do all the things we associate with a group of people having a high IQ. They acquire more academic qualifications than whites on average, have lower criminality than whites, lower rates of illegitimacy, earn more, less substance abuse, and generally are at or near the top of all the positive social indices and near or at the bottom of all the negative social indices.
\nDarwin’s theory of evolution, which all intelligent people are supposed to accept as broadly true, predicts that when a species is separated into different colonies owing to some contingency such as natural disaster or the search for food, then over a long period of time the several coloniores will evolve different attributes owing to the particular environmental pressures they are severally subjected to. The human brain is not exempted from this rule.<\/p>\n

All the above is either observable fact or established science. These are the sorts of facts that “alt-right” people acknowledge as true and think should be more widely known so that rational decisions can be made about public policy. If the doctor in the article believes it too then how can he be blamed for it? You can’t choose what to believe, at least if you claim to be a rational agent.<\/p>\n

* Hi Kressel,
\nI’m the one who gathered and released this information on Dov Bechhofer. My motivation for this came from an anti-fascist perspective. During my research I saw that his father was very active in anti-racist efforts, and I respect him for that. But unfortunately the apple did fall very far from the tree. While the original article I posted on Medium has been taken down, back-up versions can be found at the two links below. Please take a look for yourself at the evidence.<\/p>\n

Dov Bechhofer is a white supremacist doctor that works at the Montefiore Medical Center located in the Bronx. Online, Dov frequently posts comments on the website of Counter-Currents, a white supremacist publishing firm (not to be confused with Countercurrents.org), and on Facebook he is friends with roughly a dozen white supremacist authors (https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/WwySx98). Dov also created a Facebook group for supporters of the American Renaissance (https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ycsKnd8), a white supremacist website and annual conference that promotes eugenics and pseudo-scientific racism to an audience of neo-Nazis, KKK members, and other white supremacists.<\/p>\n

What Dov believes, in his own words
\nDov wants to create a white ethnostate (a white-only nation)
\n\u201c\u2026 I\u2019ve written in previous comments that in White ethnostates (which I hope to see materialize ASAP)\u2026\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/t1RaC
\n\u201c[T]o what extent are White Nationalists ready to establish a distinct nation\u200a\u2014\u200asay, within North America?\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/e5pnK
\n\u201cGarden-variety \u201cconservatives\u201d need to be made to understand that the age of racial neutrality is over.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/AXcl6
\nObviously, the creation of a white ethnostate requires the forced deportation of all people of color. Dov recognizes this fact.
\n\u201cI think he presented his side rather well, as far as considering the unforeseen negative consequences that could arise from the soft expulsion of non-Whites from America (although, I doubt that China would have much use for the departing Blacks and Hispanics). However, the immediacy of the salvaging of White nations overrides abstract concerns, so I\u2019d say the fight would be worthwhile.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/WsF4B
\nDov supports armed revolution to create a white-only nation
\n\u201cThe essential question is: are Whites still capable of armed revolution? [\u2026] Will Whites ever assign enough importance to their race that they would be willing to die in the fight for its preservation? [\u2026] I\u2019m not optimistic about this, although I do my best to change the dynamics.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/TbovU
\n\u201c[A]ll the signs point to extra-democratic solutions now being the only way for the various ethnicities of the White race to save themselves. The great question is how to overcome the differential of firepower between government and citizen.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/V6LBU
\nDov\u2019s comments show that he is comfortable with violence, even lethal violence, such as at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville where neo-Nazi James Fields plowed his car into a crowd of protestors, killing one and injuring nearly 30 others.
\n\u201cI will say that if electors change their votes and elect Clinton, blood must flow.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/NmKW0
\n\u201c[I]n my judgment, the significant damage resulting from Charlottesville has little to nothing to do with Fields\u2019s action with his car.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/f3RJr
\n\u201cMy main problem wasn\u2019t with the unforeseeable act of Fields.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/KuAeo
\n\u201cTo me, the major failure of U the R was not the violence.\u201d
\n http:\/\/archive.is\/X8yG6
\nIf a white militia is formed with the intent of engaging in armed conflict to create a white ethnostate, they will quickly understand that it is far easier to terrorize and massacre marginalized people and try to scare others into leaving than it is to try to overthrow the US government, which has the most powerful military in the world. History shows this is repeatedly what violent white supremacists end up choosing (and, even if the government were overthrown, the loss of rights and forced deportations would be just as violent). And Dov already views people of color as a hostile enemy.
\n\u201cOpen your eyes and look at the footage of the protests. It *is* you vs them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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