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Talking with
Jews (or not)
Kevin MacDonald
February 10, 2009
A topic that
is not discussed enough is the screaming, in-your-face, hostile aggression that
people must withstand when they dare to trample on Jewish
sensibilities. We are not talking about the sophisticated rationalizations one
sees in the op-ed pages of the mainstream media, or even the smear techniques of
organizations like the ADL or the SPLC. We are talking about interpersonal
aggression. There is something absolutely primal about it.
Now comes a
refreshingly frank blog post by Karin
Friedemann, an
ethnically Jewish
anti-Zionist. She
notes the “violent intolerance” that defenders of Israel show towards people
with different opinions.
American Jews are
actually being trained since childhood to interact with non-Jews in a deceitful
and arrogant manner, in coordination with each other, to emotionally destroy
Gentiles and Israel critics in addition to wrecking their careers and
interfering with their social relationships. This is actually deliberate,
wicked, planned behavior motivated by a narcissistic self-righteous
fury….
The problem is that
Gentiles are taught through emotional pressure and violence via the media and
the school system to be very sensitive to Jewish suffering so when a Zionist
becomes outraged at them for challenging their world view, the Gentile really
has to fight against his own inner self in a huge battle against his "inner Jew"
making him feel inadequate and intimidated. But the Jew doesn’t care how much he
or she hurts others. Jews only care about what's good for the Jews.
…
I once reduced a 50
year old man to hysterical sobbing tears because I told him gently and lovingly
that Jews were not that unique. I just told him the Jews, like everyone else,
have had good times and bad times. Times when they were slaughtered and other
times when they slaughtered others. Just like everyone else. Guess what he did
next. He emotionally abused me in an insulting way and then cut off all further
communication. Jewish behavior is so predictable that it's truly scary.
…
If you mention
cutting off the money or if you mention the possible compromise of living with
Palestinians as equals in one state they become very angry and start using
bullying tactics, unless they have some reason to fear you, in which case they
shun you and complain about you to the authorities, try to get you arrested or
try and destroy your career or social status through character assassination. …
Zionists all believe
in the myth of "1000 years of Jewish suffering" and feel that the world owes
them compensation for their ancestors' "unique" suffering. It's a criminally
insane viewpoint. They cope with the contradictions between their belief that
they are the good guys and what Jews are actually doing to their neighbors, both
in the Middle East and in the US, by developing mental health issues. Most
Zionists are functional schizophrenics.
My take:
· These
tactics are not restricted to critics of Zionism. As one who has experienced a barrage
of hostile email from my faculty colleagues, I can certainly attest to this. One
quickly notices that assertions of the legitimacy of white identity and
interests will also result in a barrage of hostility. This despite the
fact that support for racial Zionism is strong throughout the entire Jewish
political spectrum (see below). A correspondent sent me the following
recently:
I have
encountered many liberal, politically correct Jews who react vociferously
(almost violently) to the most innocuous comments about any topic related to
Israel or Jews. One Jew upon my mentioning that my wife and I had been to
Russia spent several minutes virtually frothing at the mouth about
Russians. Another upon hearing me say I was sympathetic to the problems of
the Palestinians demanded to know who I was and how dare I say such a
thing. Often zero tolerance for any difference in opinion.
·
The media constantly present images of
Jewish suffering—most recently the endless glut of Holocaust movies. But the
media ignore instances, such as the early decades of the
USSR and now in
Greater Israel, where Jews have inflicted horrible suffering. Right now I am
reading E. Michael Jones’ The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its
Effect on History. It is striking to read his account
of Jewish violence against non-Jews in the ancient world, particularly the
persecution of Christians whenever Jews had the power to do so. Long before
Christians had any influence on Roman policy, Christians’ complaints about Jews
were not stereotypes based on historical memory but resulted from direct
experience with Jews: “Origen understood that Jewish calumny helped
to cause Christian persecution, and that Jewish hatred was a fact of life for
the Christians, continuing unabated after the repeated defeats of Messianic
politics” (i.e., the defeats of Jewish rebels at the hands of the Romans in 70
and 135 ad) (p. 69). This is the
basis of my concern on what will happen to whites when
Jews become part of a hostile elite in white-minority
America.
· Non-Jews absorb these media images and
as a result feel inadequate and emotionally intimidated. Eventually they identify
with the aggressor, much like a browbeaten hostage or, as Friedemann suggests,
an abused spouse. Or they maintain their friendships but studiously avoid
talking about anything related to Israel. Non-Jews do the bidding of their
“inner Jew” because they have internalized images of Jewish suffering. They
therefore aid and abet Jewish brutality and aggression.
· Non-Jews who persist in criticizing
the organized Jewish community are threatened with loss of livelihood and social
ostracism. As I noted in a previous article the organized Jewish community does
not believe in free speech. It is important to keep in mind that when Jews were dominant in the first decades of the Soviet
Union, the government controlled the media, anti-Semitism was outlawed, and
there was mass murder of Christians and the destruction of Christian churches
and religious institutions.
As Friedemann
notes, the situation is nothing less than a sign of serious mental health issues
for the mainstream Jewish community: “Most Zionists are functional
schizophrenics.”
I think this
is what happens when people who deal with Jewish issues finally realize that
there is no hope for dialogue and begin to think of what to do next. Honest
people finally realize that when it comes to critical issues like Israel and
multicultural America, the divisions among Jews are an illusion. (Friedemann
herself has renounced her Jewish identity.) As Friedemann’s husband, Joachim
Martillo, notes, “Jews, who want to be decent human
beings, have no choice but to renounce being Jewish and serve the anti-Zionist
struggle (right now).”
Exhibit A for
this right now is the murderous Israeli invasion of Gaza. We know (see, for
example, John Mearsheimer’s
article in The American Conservative) that this
invasion occurred after a prolonged period when Israel restricted supplies into
Gaza and then attacked tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. We know that the invasion
was designed to “to
inflict massive pain on the Palestinians so that they come to accept the fact
that they are a defeated people and that Israel will be largely responsible for
controlling their future.”
The
tone of Mearsheimer’s article suggests a dramatic shift in attitude where the
usual inhibitions on public discourse are finally beginning to fall, even for a
respected academic:
There
is … little chance that people around the world who follow the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict will soon forget the appalling punishment that
Israel is meting out in Gaza. … [D]iscourse about this longstanding conflict has
undergone a sea change in the West in recent years, and many of us who were once
wholly sympathetic to Israel now see that the Israelis are the victimizers and
the Palestinians are the victims.
The
gloves are coming off. This is what happens when smart and honest people who
work hard to get the scholarship right are nevertheless smeared as
anti-Semites guilty of the vilest misdeeds. Not surprisingly, Abe Foxman — a
premier defender of the racial Zionist status quo in Israel — devoted an
entire book
to smearing Mearsheimer and Walt. Quite simply, there is no point to talking to
such people or taking seriously what they say about us.
We know that the government of Israel is firmly in the hands of the racial Zionists — followers of Vladimir Jabotinsky and his view of the racial distinctiveness and superiority of the Jewish people. Indeed, the only question in the Israeli election is which brand of racial Zionism will form the next government. One knows that racial Zionism has completely won the day in Israel when Kadima — the party of Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and the Gaza invasion — is now described by Benjamin Netanyahu as the party of the left. (The LA Times dutifully calls it “centrist” but, as Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery writes, Livni “cries to high heaven against any dialogue with Hamas. She objects to a mutually agreed cease-fire. She tries to compete with Netanyahu and [Avignor] Liberman with unbridled nationalist messages.”) Indeed, Netanyahu’s only worry is that the openly racist Liberman — a disciple of the notorious Meir Kehane — will take away too many votes from Likud.
The situation is analogous to a US election
where Pat Buchanan is the candidate of the far left. (I can dream.)Avnery
analogizes the election to a joke where a sergeant tells his men:
“I have
some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you are going to change
your dirty socks. The bad news is that you are going to exchange them among
yourselves.”
Incidentally,
A good example
of the schizophrenia described by Friedemann comes from the fact that around 80% of American Jews
voted for Obama but around the same percentage
blames Hamas for the escalation of violence and believes that the Israeli
response was “appropriate.” These results of the poll on the Gaza invasion were
proudly
announced by Abraham Foxman of the ADL, an organization that is one of the
principal forces in promoting a post-European America. The Jewish left is a
pillar of multi-cultural America but strongly supports racial Zionism in Israel.
This
same schizophrenia was on display at a recent presentation
at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles by Chris Hedges
and Mark Potok — he of the Southern Poverty Law
Center.
The program dealt with the usual bogey-men of the organized Jewish community:
Christian fundamentalists, skinheads, David Duke,
and (I am gratified to report) The Occidental
Quarterly.
In a comment on the alliance between Christian conservatives and Zionists, an
audience member mentioned (to stifled applause) that “There are Jewish
fascists.” But the moderator, Ian Masters,
saved the day when he stated that “the vast majority of American Jews are
secular and liberal” — a comment that brought much applause, presumably because
it reassured the many Jews in the audience that they weren’t like THOSE Jews.
For his part, Potok, that stalwart warrior against White America, expressed his
support for what he sees as a beleaguered Israel on the verge of apocalypse at
the hands of the Arabs.
The
politicians who are running Israel are, if anything, more racialist and
nationalist than anything even remotely on the horizon in American or European
politics. As Avnery
notes:
In every
other country, Liberman’s program would be called fascist, without quotation
marks. Nowhere in the Western world is there a large party that would dare to
advance such a demand [to annul the citizenship of Arabs]. The neo-fascists in
Switzerland and Holland want to expel foreigners, not to annul the citizenship
of the native-born. …
When Joerg
Haider was taken into the Austrian cabinet, Israel recalled its ambassador from
Vienna in protest. But compared to Liberman, Haider was a raving liberal, and so
is Jean-Marie le Pen. Now Netanyahu
has announced that Liberman will be “an important minister” in his government,
Livni has hinted that he will be in her government, too, and Barak has not
excluded that possibility.
The
optimistic version says that Liberman will prove to be a passing curiosity. …
There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the
Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This
phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
So I have a suggestion for the Foxmans, the Potoks, the neoconservatives, and the secular Jewish liberals of the world: If you want to fight racism and ethnic nationalism, start in your own backyard. And my suggestion for the rest of us is to get rid of what Friedemann calls the “inner Jew.” I know it’s hard to do. But once you tune out the screaming hostility (and assuming you don’t fear losing your job), it’s easy. Just don’t expect a pleasant or rational conversation.
Kevin MacDonald is editor
of The Occidental Observer and a professor of psychology at California
State University–Long Beach.
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