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The
Washington Post’s
Willing Executioner?
Edmund Connelly
September 12, 2008
Last
week, an
editorial
on this site made reference to a
Washington Post
column
in which a Jewish writer contended that “the Republicans now
more than ever are the white folks' party . . . the party of the American
past. Republican conventions have long been bastions of de facto Caucasian
exclusivity, but coming right after the diversity of Denver, this year's GOP
convention is almost shockingly — un-Americanly — white. Long term, this
whiteness is a huge problem.”
There
was a picture of the writer, Harold Meyerson, at the top of his column:
An
acquaintance of mine put the anti-white sentiment together with the photo
and concluded:
It is
the policy of Jews [that is, White-Jews] that White people [that is, White
Christians] have no place in America or the American future. Anyone who says
it is labeled an anti-Semite. Yet Meyerson's is an unambiguous
exterminationist position. Whites have as much place in America as
Palestinians in Israel.
(His
face is, BTW, like that of the NKVD killers who murdered 40 million
Christians in the Soviet Union.)
It is
as blatant as that.
At
first blush such words come across as overly harsh, but upon reflection they
make sense. This struck home for me because earlier this year I had a long
essay published in which I used
Yuri Slezkine’s
descriptions of seemingly normal Jews turning into blood-thirsty
killers during the Bolshevik Revolution.
Titled
“Israel’s Willing Executioners,” the essay included long considerations of
two recent books,
The Power of Israel in the
United States
and
Rulers and Ruled in the US
Empire: Bankers, Zionists and Militants, by retired
professor James Petras. (The essay can be found in the Winter issue [7,4] of
The Occidental Quarterly.
Unfortunately, it is not available online.)
Petras
was unique among academic writers in that he expanded upon the identities of
Zionist American Jews to include the “sayanim”
— “Those who cooperate directly with Israeli intelligence
agencies”; the sayanim comprise “a huge worldwide network of Jews in
strategic or useful places.” What’s interesting for my purposes is they
include “doctors, dentists, philanthropists, real estate magnates,
financiers, journalists, media moguls, and academics.”
In my
essay, I wanted to use the common image of the “Jewish dentist” to show the
transformation from a familiar and harmless member of the American community
to a potential killer. Perhaps it was because I found a passage where
Slezkine described the highly visible cadre of Jews charged with executing
the Russian Tsar and his family. One of the murderers, Shaia Goloshchekin,
was a dentist.
In any case, my editor did not think the dentist trope would fly, so my line “Is it so unthinkable that today’s typical Jewish American, say a dentist, might become an executioner?” was axed.
Still, the general message of peril came
through. I noted that during the Red Terror in Russia, some expressed shock
that seemingly pacifistic Jews changed almost overnight: “We were amazed by
what we had least expected to encounter among the Jews: cruelty, sadism, and
violence had seemed alien to a nation so far removed from physical, warlike
activity; those who yesterday did not know how to use a gun are now found
among the executioners and cutthroats.”
Slezkine also describes a “formerly oppressed lover of liberty [who] had
turned into a tyrant of ‘unheard-of despotic arbitrariness.’” He had been
“transformed outwardly into a leather-clad person with a revolver and, in
fact, lost all human likeness.” He could now be pictured as “standing in a
Cheka basement doing ‘bloody but honorable revolutionary work.’”
Petras makes a similar claim with respect to Jews today, at least “those who
claim to be a divinely chosen people, a people with ‘righteous’ claims of
supreme victimhood.” We must, he admonishes us, expose the fact that “many
descendants of victims have now become brutal executioners.”
Left to his own devices, I initially wrote, our American Jewish dentist may
well remain nonviolent and lead a life of industry and contentment. But too
often Judaism and Jewish groups have worked on such ethnic Jews to
radicalize them, with or without their consent. As
Kevin MacDonald
has emphasized,
“At all
the turning points, it is the more ethnocentric elements—one might term them
the radicals—who have determined the direction of the Jewish community and
eventually won the day.”
Petras
makes the same point, noting that “Judeocentrism
is the perspective which guides the organized, active minority
driving the major Zionist organizations and their billionaire camp
followers. And it is always the organized, zealous and well-financed
minority, which assumes 'legitimate' claim to speak 'for the
community.’”
Getting
back to Harold Meyerson’s mug at the top of this page, the point is that
when someone like him writes that “whiteness is a huge problem,” we whites
have reason to worry. We have seen the radical turn in Russia, which
resulted in rivers of gentile blood. Now Jews have risen in America.
Ominously, as MacDonald has noted, “If there is any
lesson to be learned,
it is that Jews not only became an elite in all these areas, they became a
hostile elite—hostile to the traditional people and cultures of all three
areas they came to dominate.”
MacDonald expanded on this theme in the foreword to Tomislav Sunic’s
Homo Americanus,
arguing that the current American regime
is “maintained less by brute force than by an unrelenting, enormously
sophisticated, and massively effective campaign to constrain political and
cultural activity within very narrow boundaries.” A violent communist death
is not yet necessary because dissenters “are not yet trundled off to jail or
beaten with truncheons, but are quietly ignored and marginalized. Or they
are held up to public disgrace, and, wherever possible, removed from their
livelihood.”
I
suppose that is a relatively happy state of affairs, at least when compared
to the potential bloody future such as the one Petras envisions. Already the
“Zionist Power Configuration” has “effectively colonized the
White House and Legislative Branches,” and “ultra-Zionist” Attorney
General Michael Mukasey and “Israel-First” Head of Homeland Security Michael
Chertoff man critical posts. To be sure, they may in fact be honorable men,
but the point is to recognize the parallel to the rise of Jews to power in
Soviet Russia and their role in the deaths of millions of perceived ethnic
enemies (disguised as “class” enemies).
MacDonald, Petras and Slezkine have all shown in their own ways how talent,
high intelligence and above all ethnic networking have allowed Jews to
exercise great power despite low numbers. Jews operating in other Jewish
movements in America have already succeeded in disestablishing the tradition
European-derived majority, whether through Boasian anthropology with its
scientifically unsupported claims that race is an illusion; whether through
the arguments of Horace Kallen and others that America is merely a
“propositional nation” without a founding people; or whether through
activists like those in the Frankfurt School who combined psychoanalysis and
Marxism into a “devastating weapon against the ethnic consciousness of white
Americans.”
Sunic
also sees dark clouds on the horizon for any group in America that might be
targeted: “Thus, in order for the proper functioning of future Americanized
society, the removal of millions of surplus citizens must become a social
and possibly also an ecological necessity.” MacDonald identifies what
sectors might be targeted “and therefore worthy of mass murder by the
American counterparts of the Jewish elite in the Soviet Union—the ones who
journeyed to Ellis Island instead of Moscow.” They are the European-derived
whites populating vast areas of the American nation, particularly in the
so-called “red states.”
In
fact, Jewish sources have long been openly admitting that a less white
America is in their interests. Activist
Ben Wattenberg,
for example, has said that “The non-Europeanization of America is
heartening news of an almost transcendental quality.”
The
Census Bureau has just reported that about half of the American population
will soon be non-white or non-European. And they will all be American
citizens. We have tipped beyond the point where a Nazi-Aryan party will be
able to prevail in this country.
We
[Jews] have been nourishing the American climate of opposition to bigotry
for about half a century. That climate has not yet been perfected, but the
heterogeneous nature of our population tends to make it irreversible—and
makes our constitutional constraints against bigotry more practical than
ever.
This is
the sentiment that the unhandsome Meyerson expressed in the above
Washington Post column, the view that “this year's GOP
convention is almost shockingly — un-Americanly — white.”
Ultimately, is it so unthinkable that today’s typical Jewish American, say a
Washington Post
columnist,
might become an enthusiastic executioner?
Edmund Connelly is a freelance writer, academic, and expert on the cinema
arts. He has previously written for The Occidental Quarterly.
