The 2014 WaPo caption: “People hold a banner” — they mean “Arab Immigrants hold a banner” Previously posted at VDARE. The Main Stream Media predicts Donald J. Trump will appeal for “national unity” in his Inaugural Address this Friday, but they’ve been mistaken before. One way he could wrong-foot the Narrative: by announcing an immediate […]
The Winter issue of The Occidental Quarterly is out. It’s really one of the best we’ve ever put together, and, at 136 pages, certainly the longest. It contains great articles and review essays by writers well-known to readers of TOO, including Nelson Rosit, Dr. Ray Wolters, Dr. Andrew Joyce, Guillaume Durocher, F. Roger Devlin, and Dr. Tom […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 CONCLUSION An important mechanism underlying all this is that of rallying around the flag during times of crisis, a phenomenon that is well understood by social psychologists. Group identification processes are exaggerated in times of resource competition or other perceived sources of threat,131 a finding that is […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Given the tendency for Jewish radicals to carry the day, it is worth describing the most radical Zionist fringe as it exists now. It is common among radical Zionists to project a much larger Israel that reflects God’s covenant with Abraham. Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, maintained that […]
Start with Part 1; Part 2. ZIONISM AS A “RISKY STRATEGY” Zionism was a risky strategy—to use Frank Salter’s term62—because it led to charges of dual loyalty. The issue of dual loyalty has been a major concern throughout the history of Zionism. From the beginnings of Zionism, the vast majority of the movement’s energy and […]
Start with Part 1. These trends can be seen by describing the numerically dominant Hasidic population in early nineteenth-century Galicia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian empire; similar phenomena occurred throughout the Yiddish-speaking, religiously fundamentalist culture area of Eastern Europe, most of which came to be governed by the Russian empire.21 Beginning in the late […]
The U.S. abstention on the UN resolution on West Bank settlements continues to reverberate. Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech defending the U.S. position that included the following: The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by […]
