Myth and the Russian Pogroms Part 3 – The Jewish Role

Andrew Joyce


We continue our series of essays examining the Russian Pogroms with this essay on the part played by Jews in provoking the disturbances. As stated in Part Two, one of the key problems with existing historiography on the pogroms (and ‘anti-Semitism’ generally) is that these narratives invariably argue that the plight of the Jews was the result of nothing more than irrational hatred. Jews adopt a meek and passive role in this narrative, having committed no wrong-doing other than being Jews. There is no sense of Jewish agency, and one is left with the impression that Jews historically have lacked the capacity to act in the world. In almost every single academic and popular history of the pogroms, the author blindly accepts, or willfully perpetuates, the basic premise that Jews had been hated in the Russian Empire for centuries, that this hatred was irrational and rootless, and that the outbreak of anti-Jewish riots late in the 19thcentury was a ‘knee-jerk’ emotional response to the assassination of the Tsar and some blood libel accusations.

This is of course far from the truth, but the prevalence of this ‘victim paradigm’ plays two significant roles. Firstly, Jewish historiography is saturated with allusions to the “unique” status of Jews, who have suffered a “unique” hatred at the hands of successive generations of Europeans. In essence, it is the notion that Jews stand alone in the world as the quintessential “blameless victim.” To allow for any sense of Jewish agency — any argument that Jews may have in some way contributed to anti-Jewish sentiment — is to harm the perpetuation of this paradigm. In this sense, the ‘victim paradigm’ also contributes heavily to the claim for Jewish uniqueness and, as Norman Finkelstein has pointed out, one can clearly see in many examples of Jewish historiography the tendency to focus not so much on the “suffering of Jews” but rather on the simple fact that “Jews suffered.”[1] As a result, the paradigm offers no place to non-Jewish suffering. Simply put, the ‘victim paradigm’ is a form of secular “chosenness.” This aspect of the narrative is seen, quite rightly, as a useful tool in the here and now. There is perhaps no race on earth which uses its history to justify its actions in the present quite like the Jewish people. From seeking reparations to establishing nation states, Jewish history is one of the foundation stones propping up Jewish international politics in the present. As such, Jewish history is carefully constructed and fiercely defended. The interplay between Jewish history and contemporary Jewish politics  is plain to see — I need only make reference to the terms “revisionist” and “denier” to conjure up images of puppet trials and prison cells.

Secondly, the omission of the Jewish contribution to the development of anti-Semitism (be it in a village setting or a national setting), leaves the spotlight burning all the more ferociously on the ‘aggressor.’ Within this context, the blameless victim is free to make the most ghastly accusations, basking in the assurance that his own role, and by extension his own character, is unimpeachable. The word of this untainted, unique, blameless victim is taken as fact — to doubt his account is to be in league with the ‘aggressor.’ In Part Two we explored the manner in which the RJC took full advantage of this construct to purvey appalling, and unfounded, atrocity stories. More generally, exaggerated tales of brutality by non-Jews are commonplace in Jewish literature and historiography, and go hand in hand with images of dove-like Jews. For example, Finkelstein has pointed to Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird, a work now widely acknowledged as “the first major Holocaust hoax,” as an example of this “pornography of violence.”[2] The twin concepts of Jewish blamelessness and extreme Gentile brutality are inextricably bound up together, and supporters of one strand of the ‘victim paradigm’ are invariably supporters of the other. Take for example that high priest of Jewish chosenness, Elie Wiesel, who praised Kosinki’s pastiche of sadomasochistic fantasies as “written with deep sincerity and sensitivity.”[3]   

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Having clarified this theoretical framework, we now turn our attention to deconstructing the second strand of the pogrom ‘victim paradigm.’ To deal most effectively with the question of Jewish culpability in the souring of relations between Jews and non-Jews, we will need to probe deeper, and with more focus, than we endeavored to do in Part One. This essay will focus on specific examples of anti-Jewish disturbance in the Russian Empire prior to 1880, with a particular focus on Jewish economic practices preceding these events.

Anti-Jewish Riots in the Russian Empire Before 1880

For the reasons discussed above, the majority of Jewish historians have long displayed an aversion to the idea that Jewish economic practices have played a significant role historically in provoking anti-Semitism. For example, Leon Poliakov in The History of anti-Semitism: From Voltaire to Wagner, argues that the idea of economic anti-Semitism is “devoid of real explanatory value.”[4] Similarly, Jonathan Freedman has stated that, in explaining anti-Jewish attitudes, economic anti-Semitism should play only a very “small explanatory role.”[5] Both of these historians posit that theology, and by extension Christianity (and therefore Western culture) is the fount and origin of anti-Semitism. Robert Weinberg, in his 1998 article on Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History, explains anti-Semitic outbreaks of violence in Eastern Europe by stating that they were the product of “the frustrations of Russian and Ukrainian peasants, workers and town dwellers who, for the most part, spontaneously took out their frustrations on a time-honored scapegoat, the Jews.”[6] Weinberg refrains from stating where precisely these ‘frustrations’ emerge from, but note again the extremely passive Jewish role in his analysis.

Conversely, those historians who have accepted that economic issues have played a role in provoking anti-Semitism fail to engage in actual case studies of economically provoked anti-Jewish actions, preferring instead to probe “images” or stereotypes which allegedly infuse the consciousness of non-Jews. For example Professor of Israel Studies at Oxford University, Derek J. Penslar, has stated that economic anti-Semitism is nothing more than “a double helix of intersecting paradigms, the first associating the Jew with paupers and savages and the second conceiving of Jews as conspirators, leaders of a financial cabal seeking global domination.”[7] By choosing to discuss “images” and concepts rather than say, an actual incident such as the Limerick Anti-Jewish Riots, Penslar engages in a practice equally duplicitous to that engaged in by Poliakov and Freedman. Penslar’s thesis only superficially acknowledges the economic role, while really lending more weight to the argument that European society has suffered some kind of neurosis in relation to its Jews. Penslar deftly offers us an argument in which Jews and economics play a role in the development of an anti-Semitic “image,” without placing the Jew in anything but a passive role. Penslar’s “images” are also devoid of gradation — Europeans, if they hold to economically motivated anti-Semitism, either view Jews as pauper savages or global financiers. This despite the case that most European peasants simply didn’t need to have these extreme conceptions of Jews, and probably didn’t. Exploitative economic practices by local Jewish capitalists, the existence of local Jewish monopolies on such items as alcohol, and the Jewish practice of in-group/out-group ethics would be more than sufficient to provoke anti-Jewish resentment.

But references to this motivation for anti-Jewish action is entirely absent from Jewish historiography on the causes of anti-Semitism, most likely because it comes extremely close to demolishing the ‘victim paradigm.’ This essay, which focuses on actual case studies (in particular the city of Odessa), will argue that the anti-Jewish riots of the 1880s, like many riots before them, were motivated by economic anti-Semitism, and that this economic anti-Semitism had its origins not in the European psyche, but in the day to day economic interactions of Jews had with the non-Jews of Odessa. It attempts to rediscover the Jewish role, and to place it front and centre.

The first disturbance involving Jews to occur in the Russian Empire, and which left sufficient documentation, was the 1821 Odessa pogrom. Weinberg has painted a picture of Odessa as being some kind of multicultural heaven at this time. He states that the city “benefited from the presence of German, Italian, French, Greek, and English residents whose cultural and intellectual tastes influenced local life.”[8] By the 1820s street signs were written in Russian and Italian, the city’s first newspaper appeared in French. Odessa, according to Weinberg, had a thriving art scene, particularly in relation to theatre, music, and opera.

However, Klier paints a radically different picture of the city, stressing in particular the ethnic tension created by increasing Jewish settlement in the city. Klier states that by 1821, Odessa was “a hotbed of ethnic, religious, and economic rivalries” and was, quite significantly, “a distinctly non-Russian city.”[9] Weinberg explains that “the number of Jews arriving from other parts of the Russian Empire and Galicia in the Austrian Empire skyrocketed.” In Odessa, Jews were entirely free from “legal burdens and residency restrictions.”[10]

Violence erupted in 1821 when, during the Greek War of Independence, a group of Muslims and Jews murdered and then mutilated Gregory V, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Istanbul. In the aftermath, many Greeks fled with Gregory’s remains from Istanbul to Odessa, where his funeral procession was held. Surviving documents suggest that violence broke out when a large contingent of Odessa’s Jewish population showed open disrespect for the procession.[11]

In describing this and subsequent outbreaks of violence in Odessa, I must urge readers to divest themselves of the preconception that the Jewish contingent of the city was a tiny minority. Jewish historians are often quick to allude to minority status without providing definitive numbers. John Doyle Klier, however, informs us that by the middle of the nineteenth century Jews constituted “almost one-third of the total population” in Odessa.[12] Given the huge population of Greeks and other nationalities, it was the Russians who composed the “tiny minority.” Economic supremacy in the city until the middle of the nineteenth century was the preserve of the Greek population, which had fended off the attempts of numerous other ethnic groups to “secure or maintain a favored economic position.”[13]

When a huge influx of Jews occurred in the 1850s, the struggle for economic supremacy between Jew and Greek, added to historical religiopolitical grievances, contributed to increased inter-ethnic tension in the city. Greek historian Evridiki Sifneos informs us that earlier co-existence had “not been based on mutual toleration. On the contrary, economic recession in the second half of the nineteenth century accelerated ethnic distinctions, and resentment was provoked by the ascension of social or ethnic groups [primarily Jewish], which led to the redistribution of resources.”[14] Until the mid-1850s, the Greeks had control of grain exports, but with the disruption of trade routes as a result of the Crimean War, some local Greek business owners were forced into bankruptcy. The city’s Jews, who had earlier occupied mainly middleman roles, pooled resources and eagerly bought up these businesses at extremely low prices. A letter from one Greek contemporary reads: “When I first came to Odessa in 1864, I became a purchaser of grain on behalf of our house, 14 at Moldovanka. The majority were Greeks, with a few Russian middlemen. Now there are no Russians, and as for the Greeks they are counted on the fingers of one hand. Jews are the ones who have taken over the market.”[15] According to Sifneos, Jews took advantage of the placement of their taverns in the villages to establish themselves as middlemen in the collection of grain from the surrounding countryside, and in addition “they worked more tightly within their ethnic network.”[16]

Weinberg further states that when “Jewish employers followed the practice of only hiring their own, many Greek dockworkers now found themselves in the ranks of the unemployed.”[17] When it became apparent that Jews had wrested economic supremacy from the Greeks in 1858, incidences of inter-ethnic violence began to escalate in frequency. In 1858 there were attacks on Greek and Jewish property, and numerous “Greek-Jewish brawls” in the city, and in 1859 a quarrel between Greek and Jewish children again escalated into full-scale inter-ethnic conflict. Violence was ended thanks only to the intervention of Russian police and Cossacks.[18] A major bout of Greek-Jewish violence occurred again in 1869.

How do we describe such events? In light of the context of these disturbances, does the term “pogrom” or “anti-Jewish riot” withstand scrutiny? Certainly not. Note my use of the terms “inter-ethnic violence” and “disturbance involving Jews.” These terms do not feature in Jewish historiography on these events. “Anti-Jewish riot” or “pogrom” is merely part of the lexicon of the ‘victim paradigm,’ bequeathing passive status even through word use. To express it flippantly, when Tom and Bill have a fight in the street, one does not describe it as “anti-Tom violence.” This automatically imparts passive, victim status to Tom, despite the fact that he may have started the fight, and certainly threw as many punches. Weinberg, for example, describes the 1859 disturbance as “anti-Jewish activity,” but states that both “Jewish and gentile youths engaged in bloody brawls.”[19] This is an obvious contradiction in terms.

It is only in 1871, during a particularly severe bout of disturbances, that we see the first Russian involvement in Odessa’s inter-ethnic violence. The late John Doyle Klier, formerly Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University, informs us categorically that Russian involvement in the 1871 Odessa ethnic conflict had its roots in real, tangible economic grievances. Klier states that Russian participation was the result of “bitterness born of the exploitation of their work by Jews and the ability of the latter to enrich themselves and manipulate all manner of trade and commercial activity.”[20] Similarly, Weinberg concedes that by 1871, there were “many others besides Greeks who perceived Jews as an economic threat.”[21]

The roots of the 1871 disturbance are quite tangible, and there is a tremendous amount of evidence suggesting it was the result of real socio-economic grievances, rather than “images,” “stereotypes,” or any of the other usual suspects wheeled out in Jewish historiography. Brian Horowitz, Chair of Jewish Studies at Tulane University argues that by 1870 Jewish economic and social cohesiveness had been further enhanced in Odessa by founding of a branch of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment, an organization dedicated to in-group philanthropy as well as “alternative politics” whereby members “did not contact the government as an intercessor.”[22] In this respect, it was the kahal-lite, and it had a significant positive impact on the wealth of Odessa Jewry. Klier states that under this organisation, the Jewish grip on the economic life of the city grew stronger, and that Russian government reports from 1871 attribute the disturbance above all to the fact that “the economic domination of the Jews in the area produced abnormal relations between Christians and Jews.”[23] By 1871, Jewish economic domination had moved beyond grain exports. A US consular report from that year reveals the extent of Jewish control over Odessa’s economic life. It reports that Jews in the city “occupy themselves with trade and favoring their own class or sect, that is that their combinations, in a great many instances, amount almost to monopolies. The common remark, therefore, is that ‘everything is in the hands of the Jews.’ To sell or buy a house, a horse, a carriage, to rent a lodging or contract for a loan, to engage a governess, and sometimes even to marry a wife the Jew gets his percent as a “go between.” The poor laborer, the hungry soldier, the land proprietor, the money capitalist, and in fact every producer and every consumer is obliged in one way or another to pay tribute to the Jew.”[24]

Impoverished Greeks, Russians and Ukrainians looked on at increasingly ostentatious displays of Jewish wealth. In fact, Sifneos states that contemporary correspondence reveals that during the disturbances, many of Odessa’s Jews attributed the trouble “to the widespread resentment against the growing prosperity of their community.”[25] Sifneos also informs us that demographic shifts in the city were of extreme importance in creating unease among non-Jewish populations. In line with increasing wealth, the 1897 census revealed that during the preceding two decades Odessa Jewry was undergoing an extremely rapid demographic explosion, and that Odessa was “rapidly becoming a predominantly Jewish city.”[26] To put this into some kind of perspective, the 1897 Odessa census reveals that by that date there were 5,086 Greek speakers, 10,248 German speakers, 1,137 French speakers, and 124,520 Yiddish speakers. The census further revealed that while almost all of the Greek and French speakers were predominantly residing in the inner city slum areas, a huge 54% of Odessa’s Jews were living in the middle-class suburbs of Petropavlovsky, Mikhailovsky, and Peresipsky.[27]

To conclude, when inter-ethnic violence broke out in 1871, it was not rooted in irrationality, but was quite obviously, as Sifneos argues, a desperate attempt to “weaken the economic power of the Jews.”[28] In this context, we see the Jews of Odessa emerge from their passive role in the shadows of Jewish historiography, and how they truly appear in the cold light of day.

 



[1] Norman Finkelstein, ‘The Holocaust Industry,’ Index on Censorship, 29:2, 120-130, p.124

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid, p.125.

[4] Leon Poliakov The History of anti-Semitism: From Voltaire to Wagner (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) p.viii

[5]  Jonathan Freedman, The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p.60.

[6] Robert Weinberg, ‘Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History,’ Jewish History, Vol.12 (1998), 71-92, p.72

[7] Derek J. Penslar, Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001) p.13.

[8] Robert Weinberg, ‘Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History,’ Jewish History, Vol.12 (1998), 71-92, p.73

[9] John Klier, Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) p.15

[10] Robert Weinberg, ‘Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History,’ Jewish History, Vol.12 (1998), 71-92, p.73

[11] John Klier, Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p.16.

[12] Ibid.

[13] Ibid, p.15

[14] Evridiki Sifneos, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon: Rivalry and Riots for Shelter and Occupation Between the Greek and Jewish Populations in multi-ethnic Nineteenth Century Odessa,’ The Historical Review, Vol.3 (2006), p.191

[15] Ibid, p.195

[16] Ibid, p.196

[17] Robert Weinberg, ‘Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History,’ Jewish History, Vol.12 (1998), 71-92, p.75.

[18] Ibid, p.18

[19] Robert Weinberg, ‘Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History,’ Jewish History, Vol.12 (1998), 71-92, p.74

[20] John Klier, Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) p.21

[21] Robert Weinberg, ‘Visualizing Pogroms in Russian History,’ Jewish History, Vol.12 (1998), 71-92, p.75.

[22] Brian Horowitz, How Jewish was Odessa? : http://www.wilsoncenter.net/sites/default/files/OP301.pdf#page=17

[23] John Klier, Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) p.22

[24] Evridiki Sifneos, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon: Rivalry and Riots for Shelter and Occupation Between the Greek and Jewish Populations in multi-ethnic Nineteenth Century Odessa,’ The Historical Review, Vol.3 (2006), p.198

[25] Evridiki Sifneos, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon: Rivalry and Riots for Shelter and Occupation Between the Greek and Jewish Populations in multi-ethnic Nineteenth Century Odessa,’ The Historical Review, Vol.3 (2006), p.193

[26] Ibid.

[27] Ibid.

[28] Ibid.

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64 Comments to "Myth and the Russian Pogroms Part 3 – The Jewish Role"

  1. Andrew Joyce's Gravatar Andrew Joyce
    May 13, 2012 - 11:26 am | Permalink

    Just a note to say that on re-reading this piece, I noticed a few things I would change if I could have gotten hold of it just prior to publication – not least a couple of examples of my own use of the lexicon of the Jewish victim paradigm! In the main though, this essay conveys much of what I wanted to say on this particular topic. In order to deal with other committments, to make way for other writers, and perfect further entries in the series, I would like to propose an interlude of perhaps two weeks before we resume. Regards,
    Andrew Joyce

  2. obamaisosama's Gravatar obamaisosama
    May 13, 2012 - 1:31 pm | Permalink

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  3. Invictus's Gravatar Invictus
    May 13, 2012 - 1:42 pm | Permalink

    @ Andrew Joyce

    Your work here is very important, and I am eager to read the remainder of it. Accordingly, I wish to state that I would prefer not to have your proposed interlude.

  4. European's Gravatar European
    May 13, 2012 - 2:00 pm | Permalink

    Excellent 3 part essay series. I enjoyed reading it, as it validated what I’ve always thought, whether in Russia, Germany, Spain or where ever Jews dwelled, in a nutshell, it is the rubbing and exploitations of the inhabitants, their thinking of being greater then thou and all creation, that caused the ills in their own history. I’ve come to that conclusion a long time ago, but why can these articles posted here not be published in news-papers, schools etc. as food for thought, or as an academic perspective, to stop the brainwashing of new generations in schools, churches, and fight the assaults of labeling “truth” as anti-semitic. Eventually some would get it, the young as well as the church-goers. IMO “Truth” trumps race.
    Well written and excellent indeed, thank you Andrew Joyce.

  5. Alosja's Gravatar Alosja
    May 13, 2012 - 2:06 pm | Permalink

    The one way, passive, victim, opressed, minority -narrative that the jews have managed to purport as historical truth is really mind boggling… Thank you for your work on these interesting installations, very informative.

  6. Junghans's Gravatar Junghans
    May 13, 2012 - 3:02 pm | Permalink

    This has been a very revealing series of articles about the real history of the so-called pogroms, and the mendacious Jewish altered version of these events, which clearly amounts to nothing but blatant historical subterfuge. Call it what you will, it is quite simply naked public relations manipulation, or ethnic front running under the Great Jewish Masque.

  7. fender's Gravatar fender
    May 13, 2012 - 4:32 pm | Permalink

    The yids have a psychological need to hate, so they deceive themselves into thinking the world is out to get them , which gives them justification to murder and loot their “enemies.” Remember, these nonexistant atrocities were the justification for their extermination of millions of Russians and Ukrainians during the communist era. I wonder if they realize how screwed-up they are, psychologically.

  8. Nancy White's Gravatar Nancy White
    May 13, 2012 - 5:42 pm | Permalink

    Good stuff. Not surprising in any way, but revealing nonetheless. They simply repeat the same pattern over and over and over. They take over, deal in financial chicanery, people get angry and throw them out, they pretend they did nothing wrong.
    Rinse and repeat. Sad. You’d think that THEY would learn, as opposed to blaming us.

  9. ethnonationalism's Gravatar ethnonationalism
    May 13, 2012 - 5:54 pm | Permalink

    Andrew Joyce:
    “In essence, it is the notion that Jews stand alone in the world as the quintessential “blameless victim.””

    Many peoples have the same opinion of themselves. Certainly, all nations in the part of Europe where I live – Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Croats, Albanians…

    And make no mistake about it, if they were as capable as the Jews, they would stick their “suffering” to the face of the entire world, just like the Jews do.

    There have already been many such pathetic attempts by all of the above nations (including my own).

    I think it is really stupid… As if someone cares for the suffering of others…

  10. Villax's Gravatar Villax
    May 13, 2012 - 8:17 pm | Permalink

    @ethnonationalism
    What’s the point? Jews suffer most beacause they are the most talented of the bunch, or just the best storytellers alive?

  11. May 13, 2012 - 10:51 pm | Permalink

    I heartily support the two-week “sabbatical” ON THE CONDITION that the series WILL resume after the two weeks.
    I have been following this serial historical enlightenment with fascination and gratitude to Andrew Joyce. Only my eagerness to read more contends against my desire that he be praised and rewarded with the granting of ANY request he might see fit to make!

  12. Dave's Gravatar Dave
    May 13, 2012 - 11:37 pm | Permalink

    @Andrew Joyce:

    Terms such as “anti-Semitism,” “anti-Jewish riots,” and “pogroms” should not appear in our lexicon. If they must be used on the rare occasion, they should be qualified.

  13. Dave's Gravatar Dave
    May 14, 2012 - 12:01 am | Permalink

    “Few serious people here ever characterize all Jews as evil or dismiss their accomplishments or intelligence. … The problem is not the Jewish people per se, but their hostility to European peoplehood and culture.”

    –Mickey Meadows

  14. Walter L's Gravatar Walter L
    May 14, 2012 - 3:01 am | Permalink

    Mr. Ethnonationalism,
    Your statement is not only untrue but ridiculous.

    Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Croats, Albanians do not invade every nation of Europe and the Americas and set up economic and cultural organizations to overtake the host nations institutions.

    And people do care about the suffering of others that is why the Jews have been so successful.

    There are no Serb, Hungarian, Romanian, Croat, and Albanian monopolies of publishing, movie making, TV, newspapers and magazines anywhere. Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Croats, Albanians do not spend time and money on convincing everyone that they are victims.

    The Jew is unique. The Jew is in Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, and Albania seeking to exploit the people and re-form the culture, but the Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Croats, and Albanians are not in Israel trying to exploit the people and re-form the culture.

  15. Not a Jonkey's Gravatar Not a Jonkey
    May 14, 2012 - 3:30 am | Permalink

    What a great finishing article . AJ has taken this poisonous rotten old tree and hit it directly with agent orange . Good work , man .

  16. Justus's Gravatar Justus
    May 14, 2012 - 6:31 am | Permalink

    “Death camps,” second Holocaust for Jews

    Back in August 2011, just before Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his candidacy for president, he spoke before an audience of tens of thousands at a right-wing evangelical Christian prayer event organized by Kansas City-based pastor Mike Bickle. The event, called “The Response,” served as a springboard for Perry’s national campaign, ensuring him the wholehearted support of a substantial faction of America’s powerful Christian Right.

    This week, expert researcher Bruce Wilson compiled footage of Bickle’s remarks on Jews, Israel, and the End Times. The video revealed Perry’s close political ally predicting that in Israel, “before Jesus returns, not every Jew, but many [will be in] prison camps.” “A significant portion of Jewish people will be in work camps, prison camps, or death camps,” Bickle said on another occasion. While two thirds of Israel’s population will be wiped out, according to Bickle, “one third of Israel is gonna get radically saved and become lovesick worshippers of Jesus.” Addressing Jews directly, Bickle said, “You’re under the discipline of God because of your perversion and sin.”

    Watch the video here.

    During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Sen. John McCain was forced to withdraw the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, America’s leading Christian Zionist figure, when statements by Hagee surfaced showing him describing the Holocaust as a divinely ordained phenomenon designed to return the Jews to Israel so that biblical prophecy could be fulfilled. According to Hagee, the Jews of Europe who rejected the enticements of “fishers” like Theodore Herzl were forced into Israel by Adolph Hitler, whom Hagee described as a “hunter” used by God to fulfill biblical End Times prophecy. This understanding of the Holocaust, which according to Christian Right expert Rachel Tabachnik is central to Christian Zionist theology, has also been promoted by Bickle.

    In a 2004 sermon, Bickle channeled the voice of God prior to the Holocaust, declaring, “I’m going to give all 20 million [Jews] a chance to respond to the fisherman… And if they don’t respond, I’m going to raise up the hunters. And the most famous hunter is Adolph HItler.”

    Bickle’s sermons about Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust were widely available before Rick Perry elected to ally himself with the pastor. But Perry and his staff ignored them, opting to reap the immediate political benefit of headlining Bickle’s massive prayer event. But now that Perry is in the national spotlight, attempting to prove his electability in a head-to-head match-up against Barack Obama, his prayer pal’s bizarre prophecies could begin to plague his already flagging campaign.

    http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/1105/

  17. icr's Gravatar icr
    May 14, 2012 - 9:08 am | Permalink

    @ethnonationalism:

    Many peoples have the same opinion of themselves. Certainly, all nations in the part of Europe where I live – Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, Croats, Albanians…

    All these groups (maybe with the partial, and insignificant, exception of Albanians) quickly vanish into the hodgepodge of the white diaspora when they emigrate to North America. For example, you hardly ever meet a Hungarian-American who has married another Magyar. What is more, whatever ethnic organizations the above groups have in the New World are comically small and powerless-this even holds true for even much larger and more established white ethnic groups like the Poles, Irish and Germans.

    It’s all quite a bit different in the case of the Jews.

  18. icr's Gravatar icr
    May 14, 2012 - 9:32 am | Permalink

    @icr:

    It goes without saying that the only ethnic lobbies the USG/MSM does not treat with disdain are those with the Jewish seal of approval: La Raza, the various black race-hustling orgs, and of course the multiplicity of Jewish groups. The Cubans have a bit of heft solely because Florida is usually a “battleground” state every four years -and they *do* organize, something Euro-Americans are afraid to do in any effective way.

  19. Free Thinker's Gravatar Free Thinker
    May 14, 2012 - 10:13 am | Permalink

    @fender: I think its more a Religious/Ethnic inculcation that helps put up the barricades and circle the wagons and keep the tribe focused on reproduction and pillage .
    Though your description does sound simply clear it may be you that engaging in self deception . Possibly a a a hate CRIME !

  20. Free Thinker's Gravatar Free Thinker
    May 14, 2012 - 10:25 am | Permalink

    @icr: I imagine as the White middle class get disgusted with there own impoverishment at the hands of the Crooked Elites the more intelligent will start to band together .Perhaps this sight is the seed ground .

    If the Romney shows himself to be more than a Mason Phoney Candidate he would start to use the Affirmative Action legislation as a rallying point for the disaffected middle classes who are sick of working their asses off for Financial crooks and Political shysters and Academic charlatans !
    Sadly I feel and think White Americans are going to be hustled and shook down right into minority status . Then atomised and persecuted !

  21. Alice Teller's Gravatar Alice Teller
    May 14, 2012 - 1:34 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for this clarifying series, I look forward to more.

    On a note closer to home, I urge all Americans to contact their representatives regarding tax credits to illegal immigrants. We must learn to be as loud and angry as our opponents.

    http://www.wthr.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7054149

  22. Heather Blue's Gravatar Heather Blue
    May 14, 2012 - 1:45 pm | Permalink

    Jews seem to work the same game plan over and over, century after century.

    It is a shocking when your country is getting along peacefully and suddenly the citizens find themselves the target of horrific charges of racism and atrocities. The common man is puzzled. He knows of no wrong-doing, yet the word is out that we are doing terrible things to helpless Jews simply because they are Jews when our impression of them was of egotistical, arrogant, rich and powerful Jews laughing all the way to the bank.

    Jews live a double life. On one hand they are arrogant, ruthless moguls and on the other pathetic, helpless victims. It is a ruse that changes by the day.

    I have worked with Jews from time to time and was always surprised with how they could undermine gentiles in the office, but effortlessly switch to the victim mode if confronted by them. I also felt they over-reached, pretending some kind of medical condition or unhappy life to wring more sympathy out of us than the case merited.

    Obviously, Jews are aware we have feelings of sympathy they do not have and work us like violin strings for all they can get. If we had no propensity for pity or honor what good would it do to spin horrendous tales of abuse and mistreatment? Indeed, if we were as horrible as Jews claim all their wailing and hand wringing would have no bearing on us whatsoever. Jews prove how bogus their tales are when they go all out trying to appeal to a sympathy we are not supposed to possess.

  23. fender's Gravatar fender
    May 14, 2012 - 1:53 pm | Permalink

    @Heather Blue:

    Jews are powerful and arrogant as a group. As individuals they are cowardly and submissive. Aryans are just the opposite: powerful and arrogant as individuals, cowardly and submissive as a group.

  24. May 14, 2012 - 2:45 pm | Permalink

    The Anti-semites Creed

    The jews are a problem–not our ONLY or SOLE problem, not responsible for EVERY problem faced by gentiles, not some ALL-POWERFUL race that we shouldn’t bother trying to resist, not an EXCUSE for avoiding responsibility for problems of our own making –but nonetheless, A REAL, SERIOUS PROBLEM.

    White gentile responsibility includes recognizing, openly admitting, learning about and DOING SOMETHING about this problem. Anti-semitism does not imply hatred of or a desire to exterminate the jews.

    I will stop being anti-semitic when the semites stop being anti-gentilic. Not a day sooner.–Burrhus

  25. Heather Blue's Gravatar Heather Blue
    May 14, 2012 - 4:01 pm | Permalink

    @fender: Jews are powerful and arrogant as a group. As individuals they are cowardly and submissive. Aryans are just the opposite: powerful and arrogant as individuals, cowardly and submissive as a group.

    That is true, fender. I had not even thought about it. Very insightful. We should be able to do something good with that bit of wisdom.

  26. fender's Gravatar fender
    May 14, 2012 - 4:10 pm | Permalink

    @burrhus:

    There’s no such thing as antisemitism. It’s the Jews who are anti-Aryan. They’re the ones who hate and scheme and wreck everything we build. They are the guilty ones, not us.

  27. Justus's Gravatar Justus
    May 14, 2012 - 5:43 pm | Permalink

    Jews are collectivists, Westerners are individualists.

    “Lying is a more acceptable behavior in collectivist than in individualist cultures, if it saves face or helps the in-group.” – Triandis.

    That partially explains why jews are compulsive liars.

    Indoctrination and Group Evolutionary Strategies:
    http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/MUNICH1.PDF
    http://www.euvolution.com/neoeugenics/the-case-of-judaism.htm

    Ethnic Conflict and Indoctrination
    http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qv2QBoy_KWYC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&dq=kevin+macdonald+indoctrination&source=bl&ots=QhFr8MFd_J&sig=l7y5OjbF5I9TSoCikKtEDq5_q3A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KXyxT-ikBq-8iAeEy63sCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=kevin%20macdonald%20indoctrination&f=false

  28. May 14, 2012 - 10:01 pm | Permalink

    I deal with Jews on an ongoing basis through my job. Many of them are almost likeable. They appear to be diverse, however, when the rubber hits the road the essence of their collective becomes obvious: It’s all about me; I’m a victim; and You need to do something to correct my situation. As the old saying goes, they aren’t backward about coming forward.

  29. arthurdecco's Gravatar arthurdecco
    May 14, 2012 - 11:13 pm | Permalink

    @Heather Blue: “Jews prove how bogus their tales are when they go all out trying to appeal to a sympathy we are not supposed to possess.”

    Typed, thought and posted by Heather Blue.

    Heather Blue, Yours is the best thought I’ve read on the Occidental Observer.

    EVER!

    My apologies to the big guns who post here…

    (It’s not that you’re smarter than they are, Heather – it’s that you’re free of their educated-in prejudices that makes you special. )

    Thank you for thinking like you!

  30. Justus's Gravatar Justus
    May 15, 2012 - 4:46 am | Permalink

    “Hey Jews and Israel
    Just Like the Dinosaurs
    you will soon be extinct
    Welcome to Jewrassic Park”

    http://www.crethiplethi.com/wp-content/uploads/jewrassicpark.jpg

    http://www.crethiplethi.com/muhammad-and-the-jews/global-islam/2010/

  31. Justus's Gravatar Justus
    May 15, 2012 - 4:47 am | Permalink

    A Jew I know once said to me (quote) “We are the most persecuted race” (unquote).

  32. arthurdecco's Gravatar arthurdecco
    May 15, 2012 - 6:38 am | Permalink

    @Heather Blue: “Jews prove how bogus their tales are when they go all out trying to appeal to a sympathy we are not supposed to possess.”

    Thought, typed and posted by Heather Blue.

    Heather Blue, Yours is the best thought I’ve read on the Occidental Observer.

    Ever.

  33. fender's Gravatar fender
    May 15, 2012 - 10:14 am | Permalink

    @Justus:

    “A Jew I know once said to me (quote) “We are the most persecuted race” (unquote).”

    And justifiably so!

  34. Franklin Ryckaert's Gravatar Franklin Ryckaert
    May 15, 2012 - 11:23 am | Permalink

    @fender:

    A Jew I know once said to me : “We are the most persecuted race”.

    Knowing what I know now about these people I would feel as little sympathy with him, as when a member of the Mafia would say : “We are the most persecuted organization of history”.

  35. fender's Gravatar fender
    May 15, 2012 - 11:43 am | Permalink

    @Franklin Ryckaert:

    They’ll never learn. They plot to assassinate the Czar and then complain about anti-Jewish pogroms. They genocide 10 million Ukrainians in 1933 and then complain that Ukrainians helped the Germans mass-execute them ten years later. The Asians don’t know how lucky they are that they don’t have to deal with these barbarians.

  36. May 15, 2012 - 12:18 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, Andrew, for your profound and exceptional analysis.

    I recall reading Jerzy Kozinsky’s “The Painted Word” when I was still wrestling with my own inchoate ‘anti-Semitism’ many years ago and soon realized that the book’s primary metaphor was not only a certain fabrication (tales of malevolent gentiles in Eastern Europe painting captured birds and then releasing them so that when they attempted to re-join their flock, they would be attacked viciously by their own kind!) but that the parallel between these symbolic suffering birds and the Jews was also a fraud.

    It is the Jews who, though superficially integrating themselves among numerous gentile cultures, work ceaselessly to remain separate. This persistent fact sets the stage for conflict. Kozinsky’s bird metaphor was itself a grotesque misrepresentation of historic Jewish/gentile relations.

  37. Villax's Gravatar Villax
    May 15, 2012 - 1:36 pm | Permalink

    @mark green
    that book is titled correctly “The Painted Bird”. A strong book verving into too much grotesquery describing rural Poland.

  38. Neville's Gravatar Neville
    May 15, 2012 - 2:06 pm | Permalink

    Thank you Andrew Joyce for exposing victim hood as yet another Jewish myth.

    As one poster put it ” After 60 years of Let My People Go epics from Hollywood, in tandem with 40 years of Remember The Six Million docudramas on TV being drummed into the skulls of white Americans”.
    Yes “blunt repetition overcomes tangible evidence every time”.

    8 million Poles perished in WWII ( “the unnecessary war” ) but the 6 million Jews is all the world hears about.

    Jews themselves are forced to believe their propaganda & seldom question it out of fear.
    http://sixmillionmyth.blogspot.com/p/six-million-myth.html

    Remember how even Judge Goldstone was forced to “regret” his Gaza report due to endless Jewish pressure.

    Even today a Jewish tribal instinct of living in close proximity to one another is reinforced by Program myths of long ago & of course the holohaux.
    http://www.viddler.com/v/ccd6b3a0

    The UK & the US in 1948 were persuaded to steal Palestinian Arab land & give it to Zionist Ashkenazi Jewish Holohaux survivors from Eastern Europe out for revenge for 2,000 years of victim hood

    Jews are a very belligerent people amongst themselves & as widely suggested need the fear of a perpetual external enemy to survive.

    A Zionist Jewish hierarchy has cleverly & successfully driven a wedge between the US & the World of Islam with Jews leading the drumbeat & flag waving for “our” war that they have orchestrated.
    http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/12/08/the-deadly-embrace/

    Meanwhile the comparison of Gaza to the WWII “Warsaw Ghetto” is forgotten.

  39. TabuLa Raza's Gravatar TabuLa Raza
    May 16, 2012 - 11:57 am | Permalink

    Heather is Regular on VNN.

  40. ethnonationalism's Gravatar ethnonationalism
    May 16, 2012 - 12:13 pm | Permalink

    @Villax:

    The point is that all of those nations see their history as a history of a “blameless victim” constantly opprest by other nations.

    Of course, they don’t have such a world-wide powerful diaspora like the Jews, so they can’t spread the story all over the world.
    But if they did, you can be sure that they would.

  41. Villax's Gravatar Villax
    May 16, 2012 - 2:52 pm | Permalink

    @ethnonationalism
    And how is your week? Guess it’s monday, monday, monday monday, monday, monday, monday. Hope you don’t loose track…

  42. Heather Blue's Gravatar Heather Blue
    May 16, 2012 - 4:25 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, authordecco. I can’t imagine anybody discussing me. Alice, or Blue Rose, perhaps, but not me. I am a bit stunned. Actually, I am in over my head around here and I feel it.

    Back to Mr. Joyce’s article. The information is invaluable. We must understand how Jews operate and learn what we must do to save ourselves from similar atrocities.

    We are living under a Judas Iscariot brand of morality.

    I want to stress that Jews in America are corrupting our Christian foundation and replacing it with their Judas brand of “fairness, rights, equality and tolerance.” It’s devastating.

    Equal rights and the laws making them legal has nothing to do with justice. It’s tyranny. This path will invariably lead to atrocities like those that took place in Russia.

    Women’s rights (radical feminism) undermines white male authority and weakens our culture. Particularly, abortion rights….infanticide. Legalizing abortion strips the White Man of his authority to protect and defend the young and renders him powerless over the fate of future generations.

    Equality does not exist. It’s a farce. Coming to live in a white country does not make anybody white or a contributor to white culture. A Black remains a Black, a Jew remains a Jew, an Asian remains an Asian, a Hispanic remains a Hispanic and they demand special recognition for who they are and do not tolerate one word of criticism. Any contributions they might make to America are minimal, to say the least. Clamoring for equality is primarily a clamor for destabilization. Every day White Americans find it harder to hold the country together.

    Gay fairness is the ultimate in immorality. Nothing is as dysfunctional as perversion. Nothing disorients a young mind so severely. Nothing damages a young child’s sense of decency as much as homosexuality. Teaching tolerance of homosexuality in elementary schools is as low a blow as public education ever got. It can ruin the child and interfere with his ability to live a purposeful life as a normal white person.

    Sure, Jews want tolerance – all they can get. Most of all they want tolerance of their Judas brand of morality. Not only does it replace Christian concepts of right and wrong but it leaves us without a base from which we can function as a healthy society.
    We must make a choice between fighting for our Christian concepts of right and wrong or give in and fall as a great culture under the Jew’s Judas Iscariot brand of sanctimony.

  43. Alice Teller's Gravatar Alice Teller
    May 16, 2012 - 4:55 pm | Permalink

    @Heather Blue:
    Heather, you must not underestimate yourself. I join artdecco in admiring your gift for cutting through the nonsense and getting to the heart of the matter. Please keep up the good work!

  44. omop's Gravatar omop
    May 16, 2012 - 5:35 pm | Permalink

    New org in Europe!!!!

    by pas » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:42 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6m0G7QqMG4
    http://zioncrimefactory

  45. Neville's Gravatar Neville
    May 16, 2012 - 7:41 pm | Permalink

    @ Heather Blue -May 16, 2012 – 4:25 pm

    An Agent provocateur or a Christian Zealot to be sure.

    The thinking world has moved on from Christianity & Creationism-heaven & hell-Virgin Birth-etc etc

    Christianity to teach people to suppress their individuality, their
    desires & joy in this life all for an imaginary life hereafter -

    For the past couple thousand years Jews have been told that they are superior and can do whatever they want, more or less.

    For the past couple thousand years Christians have been told they are born sinners and that they are guilty or unworthy.

    Perhaps the genetic effect of the latter is showing itself.

  46. TabuLa Raza's Gravatar TabuLa Raza
    May 16, 2012 - 8:32 pm | Permalink

    HB’s long “World View” Thread:

    http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=70377

  47. Alice Teller's Gravatar Alice Teller
    May 16, 2012 - 9:21 pm | Permalink

    @Neville:
    We believe in the Virgin birth, angels and devils. You believe in artificial insemination and lesbian birth, communication via magical protons beamed of powerful objects in the sky and fear the dire ill effects of the power of trolls. I feel much safer putting my faith in the efficacy of Heather Blue’s prayers than in a man with so little intellect and imaginations that he must use prepackaged insults.

  48. fender's Gravatar fender
    May 16, 2012 - 9:32 pm | Permalink

    @Alice Teller:

    You’re just spouting what leftists want you to think science and materialism are. Science says that the most psychologically stable- and most successful- children grow up in households with a mother and father. Science says that Whites are smarter than Blacks, Hispanics, Arabs, and many others, on average. Science tells us that Whites need to act collectively and cooperate or they will be overtaken by inferior races who breed faster. Science says that in order to increase our intelligence to compete with the high-IQ races we need to breed eugenically.

    What does your Bible say about us? Oh yeah, nothing. You stay with Mark, Paul (or should we call him by his jewish name, Saul?), Matt, and the other hebrews and their superstitions and neuroses. I’ll stick with Darwin, Wilson, Huxley, Shockley, and the other men who actually tried to do something for us by increasing our knowledge. The faith and religiousness of the Mezo-Americans didn’t save them from the superior technology and know-how of the Spanish, did it?

  49. fender's Gravatar fender
    May 16, 2012 - 9:45 pm | Permalink

    The point is this: science supports race realism, ethnic cohesion, natural aristocracy, and basically everything leftists despise. Leftists who claim to be pro-science simply do not understand it.

  50. Alice Teller's Gravatar Alice Teller
    May 16, 2012 - 9:48 pm | Permalink

    @fender:
    Now that is just silly. While I have many shortcomings spouting what others want me to is not among them. Of course I believe in the scientific method to discover some truth about the universe and the improvements and damage it has made to life on earth. The fact that I recognize that science has limitations does not mean I do not trust it within those limits. You can do much better than that.

  51. TabuLa Raza's Gravatar TabuLa Raza
    May 16, 2012 - 11:41 pm | Permalink

    Look around- how much of the good stuff has come from religion, and how much from Science? btw No religion has ever advocated anything like the first amendment we are using at this very moment.

    The view that religion “equals” science is an obscenity. It is just one more example of EGALITARIANISM- egalitarianism that most folks on this site allegedly hate.

  52. Alice Teller's Gravatar Alice Teller
    May 17, 2012 - 12:50 am | Permalink

    @TabuLa Raza:
    I can not image who would propose such a thing. Science and religion are not comparable on any level.

  53. Hyperborean's Gravatar Hyperborean
    May 18, 2012 - 1:20 pm | Permalink

    @Alice Teller:
    “I can not image who would propose such a thing. Science and religion are not comparable on any level.”

    Untrue! Both science and religion have played a critical role in forming the European worldview; although science has undermined much of the religious dogma (ex. creationism, geocentric universe vs evolution, heliocentric universe) and raised our collective consciousness to a level where christianity is no longer relevant, because it is no longer able to give meaning to the lives of thinking people. We have outgrown it.

  54. Alice Teller's Gravatar Alice Teller
    May 18, 2012 - 4:12 pm | Permalink

    @Hyperborean:
    Please note that I was referencing this statement :

    The view that religion “equals” science is an obscenity

    To reduce religion to the components which can and have been revised do to scientific discoveries is yet another example of the widespread spiritual autism that so many in our culture suffer from. It no doubt accounts for much of our current dilemma.

  55. Alice Teller's Gravatar Alice Teller
    May 18, 2012 - 5:14 pm | Permalink

    @Alice Teller:
    Sorry, That should read due to scientific. See the silly mistakes that occur when one relies on science, like spell check, to warn us that we have erred?

  56. Hyperborean's Gravatar Hyperborean
    May 19, 2012 - 2:14 am | Permalink

    @Alice Teller:
    To reduce religion to the components which can and have been revised do to scientific discoveries is yet another example of the widespread spiritual autism that so many in our culture suffer from. It no doubt accounts for much of our current dilemma.

    I can agree with this statement. Atheism and the nihilistic outlook it tends to induce is very much responsible for the form of collective neurosis our people seem to be suffering from, although I am skeptical that traditional Christianity can provide an antidote to the affliction. I have found the ascetic spiritual traditions of the Orient derived from Aryan hinduism, such as yogic and zazen practice, much more beneficial to spiritual development and gaining self knowledge than anything Christianity has to offer.

    Science is not capable of filling the void in our souls which is a product of the loss of our traditional religion; it is not the purpose of science to do so. The role of science is to serve as acid test to determine the soundness of a particular ideology. Nietzsche wrote about philosophizing with a hammer; science is the hammer which should be used to determine whether particular values ring true. Science should serve as the guide for developing a new ideology which is capable of giving meaning to the lives of thinking people in the 20th century. Eugenics should be the first tenant of this ideology.

    Several of the titians of the white national intellectual movement, such as William Pierce and The Great Satan of Germany, have already laid the groundwork for developing this new worldview. Perhaps traditional Christianity can be adapted to fit into this worldview, but I can’t help but feel we would be better off scraping the whole tradition and developing something new and completely European, completely free of influence from the Levant.

  57. Hyperborean's Gravatar Hyperborean
    May 19, 2012 - 2:43 am | Permalink

    “EDIT”
    “people in the 21st century”

  58. Namensfeld's Gravatar Namensfeld
    May 20, 2012 - 8:44 pm | Permalink

    Can I say I could not read the description of thoroughly enmeshed Odessa without thinking of Postville, which not only suffered the out-of-control slaughterhouse, but also saw the expansion and intrusion of those same slaughterhouse investors into every aspect of the town’s economic life?
    I am very grateful for these pieces.
    This series has changed my outlook on my schooling; I stepped away from history or a while because I had an erroneous impression of [what I wanted to study] as both forbidden and largely settled. Clearly there is still plenty of work to do along Klier’s lines.

  59. May 20, 2012 - 9:49 pm | Permalink

    Thanks to the Author for a much needed essay. I cite a few cases from WW1 to post-WW2 Poland: http://piotrbein.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/revisionism-role-reversal-and-restitutions/
    Even though the period, place and political-social conditions differ distinctly, conclusions are similar to Andrew Joyce’s on Russia:
    - The motivation for resentment and rebellions against Jewish dominance is economic and social, rather than cultural and religious.
    - Rapid demographic growth, accompanied by little assimilation of the Jews to local communities.
    - In a role reversal, the Jewish community (of which comes the victimizer, usually its extreme group) is painted as the victim.
    - Jewish global propaganda disseminates the false or grossly distorted narrative.
    - The false narrative is at great odds with foreign government commission investigations.

    In the cases I cite, the Judeocentric motivation is chiefly political:
    - Attempts at thwarting Polish independence and statehood struggle to advance Jewish autonomy in Poland (between the World Wars).
    - Subjugation of Poland to Judeocentric rule (post-WW2 to date).
    - In recent years, use of the false narratives to demonize Poles before the global public, in order to advance fraudulent multi-billion dollar claims to Jewish property lost during WW2, and possibly, to gradually establish Jewish autonomy (Euroregion) in Poland. [More about Judeopolonia: http://piotrbein.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/286/ ]

    What was the political motivation for the “pogroms” in 19th century Russia? Apart from creating a sympathy for Jewish immigration in the West, would Jews need a global uproar to protect their economic standing in Russia? (Vide the oligarchs in Russia today.)

    National Geographic (May 1907, p. 313‑314) has an interesting account on the „pogroms“ in Tsarist Russia:
    “Whenever a desperate deed is committed it is always done by a Jew, and there is scarcely one loyal member of that race in the entire Empire [...T]he massacres that have shocked the universe, and occurred so frequently that the name ‘pogrom’ was invented to describe them, were organized and managed by the exasperated police authorities in retaliation for crimes committed by the Jewish revolutionists”. Quote [73] in: http://piotrbein.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/judeocentrics-and-mass-crimes/

  60. Anonymous's Gravatar Anonymous
    May 22, 2012 - 2:37 pm | Permalink

    @Piotr Bein:

    You may be interested in this, which someone posted to one of the earlier installments:

    “Stories of oppression against Jews in Eastern Europe in the interwar period (1910s, 20s) were met with great skepticism by the U.S. State Department and were seen as propaganda. It amazes to read the following history relating that issue, which history includes accounts of behind-the-scenes machinations by two Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justices to lobby for Zionism:

    “Probably no tactic employed by the Zionists caused greater resentment than their efforts directly to intimidate the State Department and its staff. One such effort serves to demonstrate the Zionist technique. It was a highly effective tactic, and continues to be, and it goes far in explaining why the professionals at the State Department and successive secretaries of state harbored various degrees of animosity towards the Zionists.

    “The case involved an urbane and highly successful diplomat, Hugh Gibson. At the age of 36 in 1919 he was the newly installed ambassador to Poland, or to use the grandiose title of the day, the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. Post-war Poland was home to one of the largest and least assimilated Jewish communities in Europe and their troubles were trumpeted by the Zionists as an example of ruthless anti-Semitism. In fact, anti-Semitic incidents were common, but not as common in Gibson’s view as claimed by American Zionists. To his mother he wrote: “These yarns are exclusively of foreign manufacture for anti-Polish purposes.”

    “Gibson’s skeptical reports to the State Department about the troubles of Polish Jews came to the attention of Brandeis. On 24 June 1919, Gibson was called by Colonel House to a meeting with the fabled justice and his protégé, Felix Frankfurter. Gibson not only was at a disadvantage because of Brandeis exalted status but also because his appointment as ambassador to Poland had yet to be confirmed by the Senate.

    “In Gibson’s words, the two Zionists opened what the young diplomat later called the “prosecution” by saying that

    “I had done more mischief to the Jewish race than anyone who had lived in the last century. They said…that my reports on the Jewish question had gone around the world and had undone their work….They finally said that I had stated that the stories of excesses against the Jews were exaggerated, to which I replied that they certainly were and I should think any Jew would be glad to know it.

    “Frankfurter claimed that Gibson “had no right to make reports to the department in regard to Jewish matters and should have ‘refused’ on the ground that I could not possibly learn enough about them to make even general observations.” Frankfurter then hinted that if Gibson continued his reports that Zionists would block his confirmation as ambassador to Poland by the Senate.

    “Gibson was so furious by the confrontation that he wrote a twenty-one page letter about it to his friends in the State Department, including Frankfurter’s claim that Gibson should not report on Jews. Nothing is more disconcerting or insulting to a diplomat than to have his reporting questioned, much less to be advised that he had no “right” to report on certain matters. Reporting is the secret heart of the diplomat’s art, a talent especially valued in Washington where officials in those pre-television days depended on it as their window to the world beyond.

    Frankfurter could hardly have raised a more sensitive question or one more certain to raise the hackles of diplomats. Gibson went further in his letter than just describe his encounter. He also shared his suspicions of what the Zionists were trying to accomplish-a conscienceless and cold-blooded plan to make the condition of the Jews in Poland so bad that they must turn to Zionism for relief.” The State Department in those days was a far more closed and clubby establishment of upper class scions than after 1945. This attack on one of its own was highly resented. A rising star of the foreign service had been humiliated and threatened by a justice of the Supreme Court acting as a spokesperson for a narrow Jewish group not even accepted by most Jews. Rancor was particularly strong in the Warsaw embassy, where it lingered for years. In 1923, Vice Consul Monroe H. Kline reported: “It is common knowledge that this race of people [Jews] are continually and constantly spreading propaganda, through their agencies over the entire world, of political and religious persecution.” He added: “The Jew in business oppresses the Pole to a far greater extent than does the Pole oppress the Jew in a political way.” ”

    Source:

    Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945
    By Donald Neff

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/fallenpillars.htm

  61. Anonymous's Gravatar Anonymous
    May 22, 2012 - 2:41 pm | Permalink

    @Piotr Bein:

    - Attempts at thwarting Polish independence and statehood struggle to advance Jewish autonomy in Poland (between the World Wars).

    How does this behavior help thwart Polish independence and statehood? Why is Polish independence and statehood at odds with Jewish autonomy in Poland?

  62. May 22, 2012 - 3:13 pm | Permalink
  63. Ron's Gravatar Ron
    June 8, 2012 - 8:33 pm | Permalink

    “There is no anti-semitism without semitism; one presupposes the other.”–Ernst Zündel

  64. Ron's Gravatar Ron
    June 8, 2012 - 11:35 pm | Permalink

    The Riddle Of The Jews Success (1927)
    http://wnlibrary.com/Portabel%20Documents/The%20Riddle%20Of%20The%20Jews%20Success%20-%20F%20Roderich%20Stoltheim.pdf

    A very good read. Reveals Jewish business practices and less-than-kosher modus operandi of “da tribe”

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