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Why the Jewish Establishment Wants Progressives Talking About ICE Instead of Gaza

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Whenever the spotlight on Israel’s actions becomes too bright, the Jewish institutional apparatus predictably shifts the national conversation toward other subjects such as immigration. By promoting aggressive pro-immigration agendas, organized Jewry provides a safe harbor for the progressive base, effectively drugging the public with endless debates over immigration policy while the Jewish occupation of Palestine proceeds without the hindrance of American scrutiny.

More importantly, Jewry achieves a dual victory throughout this process: they effectively shield Israel from the fallout of its own atrocities while simultaneously accelerating the mass migration that serves as their long-term grand strategy for demographic replacement.

The No Kings protests that swept across America in 2025 and 2026 highlighted this dynamic. A recently surfaced clip featuring William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, exposed the delicate balancing act Jewish groups have taken in light of these protests that have emerged in the wake of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Chris Menahan posted the clip on X with the observation that Daroff “says progressives being distracted by ICE is providing an opportunity for a ‘reset’ on Israel, especially with images from Gaza ‘subsiding’ on TikTok” (presumably at least partly because Larry Ellison now controls TikTok).

The clip comes from Lazar Focus, a Times of Israel podcast hosted by diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman. Daroff leads an umbrella group representing roughly 50 national member organizations including AIPAC, the ADL, the AJC, and the Jewish Federations. The Jerusalem Post has named him among the 50 most influential Jews worldwide. He serves as a key Washington policy player who lobbies on U.S.-Israel relations, Iran, and antisemitism.

What makes the clip remarkable is its candor. Daroff lays out a strategy that treats the Gaza war as a public relations cycle to be waited out rather than a moral reckoning that demands a serious conversation regarding U.S. foreign policy and its subservience to Jewish interests.

When asked about the emergence of young progressive Jews publicly disaffiliating from Israel, Daroff identified this “non-Zionist” movement as the thing that disturbs him most. “I don’t think we’ve lost them,” Daroff said. “I think that they’re loud, many of them are uneducated, as I talked about, the need for Jewish education to ensure that they understand their connection to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel, to the land of Israel.” Notably, Daroff argues that these young Jews are lacking proper education. The problem, in his telling, is information rather than policy.

Even more revealing was the portion of the interview where Daroff provided his assessment of American political dynamics. He argued that the recent ICE crackdowns serve a calculated political purpose. They are designed to energize the progressive coalition, which includes both Jewish leaders and their non-Jewish pets. Furthermore, these raids serve as a strategic distraction; they shift public focus away from Israeli military actions in Gaza and back toward mass migration, an issue that is much more comfortable for political allies to debate.

“The American progressive world of the moment is focused on ICE, not focused on Israel, and that gives us an opportunity,” Daroff said. “With all due deference and nods to our friends in Minnesota and those who are in that battle, it gives us an opportunity, I think, while there is this relative quiet, to reset the engagement and to try to reconnect not just with the young American Jews, but with all of America without these images clouding those images.”

Daroff’s comment about waiting for “TikTok images to subside” is equally telling. Social media coverage of the Gaza conflict transformed public perception of the war, particularly among younger Americans. Daroff’s strategy involves waiting for these images to stop circulating rather than addressing the atrocities—subsidized by U.S. taxdollars—they depicted. “I think again, though, that as the TikTok images subside and we have a new baseline, that we have an opportunity to reengage with them, to reconnect with them,” Daroff said.

The full episode is available on the Times of Israel and on YouTube.

The No Kings protests themselves illustrated these internal progressive tensions that organized Jewry has had to grapple with since October 7. Indivisible, the primary organizing force behind the mobilizations, was founded by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, a married couple who are both Jewish. However, their political orientations place them firmly in the progressive camp rather than pro-Israel advocacy.

Greenberg has stated: “I see myself as being part of a tradition of Jews organizing for social justice, and recognizing that our own status as a minority group that has been persecuted calls on us to support others who are under attack.” In January 2024, Indivisible issued a statement calling the situation in Gaza a catastrophic crisis and demanding the Biden administration pressure Israel for an immediate ceasefire. On the one-year anniversary of October 7, 2024, Greenberg issued another statement characterizing Netanyahu’s military response as having “taken a horrendous toll on Gaza’s people.” This critique mirrors the approach often taken by J Street. While they openly rebuke the excesses of current Israeli policies, they stop short of addressing the underlying reality. They refuse to confront the system of Jewish supremacy that fundamentally sustains the occupation of Palestine.

This pattern of selective criticism serves as a convenient front for a movement that relies on institutional backing far removed from the grassroots. The reality of this patronage is made clear by the massive influx of Jewish capital from established power players like the Open Society Foundations.

George Soros’s Open Society Foundations gave Indivisible a 2-year $3 million grant in 2023 and has awarded a total of $7.61 million in grants to Indivisible between 2017 and 2023. Tom Perriello, who employed Greenberg before she co-founded Indivisible, served as executive director of Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs from November 2018 to July 2023, creating a documented financial link between the Soros network and the organization.

The No Kings protests blended immigration enforcement concerns with other causes, including Palestine solidarity. At various rallies, Palestinian flags appeared alongside signs protesting ICE raids. This created precisely the dynamic Daroff describes benefiting from. When progressive energy disperses across multiple causes, the focused pressure on any single issue—challenging the Israeli project in this case—diminishes.

For establishment Jewish organizations, the immigration enforcement controversy represents something close to a strategic gift. It absorbs activist bandwidth, dominates news cycles, and pushes Gaza coverage further from the center of progressive attention. Daroff essentially admits this on camera, treating it not as a coincidence but as an opportunity to be exploited.

Having the conversation focus on immigration is a much more preferable option for many Jewish leaders like Daroff, who view this as an opportunity to allow the “invade the world, invite the world” order to continue apace without issue. An easily distracted and polarized population is one that is putty in the hands of Jewish interest groups.

American Free Press Panel Discussion on the SPLC Indictment

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The Department of Justice recently announced that a federal grand jury in Alabama has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with multiple counts of wire and bank fraud. Talk radio host James Edwards assembled a special panel of attorneys and activists and asked them to express their thoughts about the indictment.

To ensure a diversity of perspectives, these expert contributors were asked to share their initial reactions and personal experiences with the SPLC and were otherwise encouraged to focus on aspects of this development they believed readers would find most compelling.

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Glen Allen, Esq., Chief Legal Officer and Director of the Free Expression Foundation (FEF): I was a victim – one of many – of the odious SPLC’s fraudulent and criminal conduct. In 2016, the SPLC, led by the hateful Hedi Beirich, orchestrated a campaign against me with the aim and successful result of having me fired from the Baltimore Law Department, impairing my family and social relationships, and sullying my reputation as an attorney. What was my crime in the reptilian eyes of the SPLC and Beirich? Just this: certain perfectly legal associations decades prior with Dr. William Pierce and the National Alliance, plus – horrors! – my attendance at a Holocaust revisionist conference on National Alliance property. And how did Beirich and the SPLC learn of these aspects of my private life? By bribing or otherwise illegally inveigling a National Alliance employee to turn over confidential information regarding me and others to the SPLC.

I fought back. I sued Beirich and the SPLC in federal court, alleging multiple causes of action. The court, however, dismissed my complaint on the rationale that the facts I alleged – and I alleged in detail the SPLC’s odious and illegal tactics – were not “plausible.” So, at one level, I feel vindicated by the DOJ’s indictment, which confirms numerous incidents of SPLC’s criminal behavior, including its illegal manipulation of the National Alliance employee as set forth in my complaint.

On another level, I remain disappointed and frustrated at how our legal system treated me and other SPLC victims, failing to give us the impartial justice to which we are entitled. The system did not rise to the occasion but sank to a shallow political Wokism that for many of us will always tarnish our view of the judiciary. What’s next in this SPLC saga? You may be assured that I and other legal minds in FEF’s milieu will zealously investigate which old claims can be revived and which new claims can be pursued against the SPLC as a result of the DOJ litigation.

Lydia Brimelow, President of the Berkeley Springs Castle Foundation and half of the husband-wife team that ran VDare: My only question about the SPLC indictment is, what does this mean for the Historic American Nation? There are several facets of the answer that particularly interest me.

1. Does it damage the SPLC? Undeniably. Even if a large portion of their donors rally around and they drum up support to defend themselves against “persecution,” a flaw has been revealed. It will have repercussions. Not only will some portion of their donors lose enthusiasm, but the ability for our enemies to use the SPLC as their weapon of choice in Cancel Culture battles has been profoundly handicapped. And who knows, some of them might even go to jail. A girl can dream!

2. Does it benefit the SPLC or any of the Leftist with whom they are in league? They were hiding these transactions for a reason. If they thought the exposure would help their cause it would have been in their public communications. Even in the worst case for us – they beat the charges – great! It’s still an ugly clean-up job. The more resources they waste the better. Best case scenario for us…could be historic.

3. Does it damage the Historic American Nation? Not directly. It is extremely annoying that some influential voices of the mainstream Right are using the SPLC indictments to falsely claim that Unite the Right was a hoax, and it is worth correcting them. On the one hand, it shows how profoundly uninvested in our people they are. On the other hand, the distance (however inappropriate given the facts) that Fake News creates between the massive smear job that Charlottesville turned out to be, may permit some normal Americans to reconsider their fear in associating with right wing activism. Scapegoats have a purpose after all, and they do important psychological work. There is obviously the question of the paid informants and the people who were informed on, but I have to assume that if any juicy tidbit was shared, the SPLC has already cashed in on it. It’s all from years ago. The damage there is most likely already done.

4. Does it benefit the Historic American Nation? Yes. We should take any and all opportunities to celebrate, unconditionally. A federal indictment that will precipitate massive discovery against our enemies is an objective good, even if the SPLC manages to throw it off. In the best-case scenario – and I’m just talking about logical possibilities here, not realistic ones – the SPLC gets shut down.

Hope is a dangerous thing because disappointment is so painful. I have seen months lead to years when there are no victories. In that interminable desert, keeping the faith takes real effort. And, ultimately, God’s time is not our time – we may never see victory. But we’re called to fight, and we’re called to rally, and victory comes one win at a time.

So, pop some champagne and take this win, patriots! We’re joining you in a toast at Berkeley Springs Castle.

Kyle J. Bristow, Esq., Founder of Bristow Law, PLLC: I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard that the Southern Poverty Law Center had been indicted for having committed felonies. The SPLC has, for decades, viciously targeted and harassed law-abiding American citizens who espouse traditional, Christian, politically conservative, and patriotic ideals, and I am optimistic that the SPLC’s campaign of hate is coming to an end.

For far too long, the SPLC has smeared the reputations of people and organizations that are opposed to the SPLC’s degenerate, leftist worldview. Such smearing fosters a culture of self-censorship and ostracism at best, but violent crime at worst, which is antithetical to core American values. After a gunman walked into the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in 2012 with the goal of gunning down Christians, the FRC president, Tony Perkins, said that he believed that the shooter was motivated by the SPLC.

Although I am hopeful that the SPLC will be convicted and severely punished, such as losing its tax-exempt status or even being dissolved as a corporate entity, the legal process itself will be horrifically painful for the SPLC. I enthusiastically anticipate Republican state and federal lawmakers conducting invasive investigations and holding public hearings to deeply delve into the political and financial misconduct of the SPLC. A law firm that litigates class action lawsuits may even file a major racketeering lawsuit against the SPLC to recover the hundreds of millions of dollars the SPLC has unlawfully and fraudulently received over the years, after engaging in systematic mail and wire fraud against its duped donors.

The SPLC is morally rotten to its core, and this is readily becoming apparent to the public. The federal criminal indictment and significant press coverage associated with the same are far more damaging to the SPLC than even the 2019 allegations of rampant sexual harassment, gender discrimination, race discrimination, and toxic work culture, which culminated in SPLC co-founder Morris Dees being terminated.

There is nothing “southern” about the SPLC. There is nothing “poverty” about the SPLC. And now it is clear that the SPLC may be more of a criminal syndicate than a “law firm.”

Sam Bushman, Owner of the Liberty News Radio Network and CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA): For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has cast itself as America’s moral authority on hatred and extremism. That authority is collapsing under the weight of its own record.

Their most dangerous weapon is the “hate map.” In 2012, a gunman entered the Family Research Council headquarters intent on mass murder — after finding them listed on the SPLC’s website. He said so himself. That is not incidental. That is a direct, documented line between reckless labeling and real bloodshed.

I know this personally. I am a radio host, patriot advocate, and CEO of the CSPOA. Sheriff Richard Mack and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association were falsely branded by the SPLC as advocates of violence. It was a lie. They retracted it — quietly. Accusations travel fast. Corrections don’t. Sheriff Mack and I have offered $10,000 to anyone producing credible evidence linking either of us to violence. No one has claimed it. Not one person.

The walls are closing in. State attorneys general have raised formal concerns about the SPLC’s conduct. Federal scrutiny has followed. Then came Atlanta — an SPLC attorney was arrested on domestic terrorism charges after Molotov cocktails were hurled at a police training facility. The organization that has spent decades branding others as dangerous now has answering of its own to do.

This is not a political disagreement. It is a reckoning. The same standard of accountability that the SPLC has weaponized against patriots, sheriffs, and citizens for decades must now be applied to them. Full investigation. Full transparency. Prosecution where the evidence demands it. The rule of law has no exceptions. Not even for those who built a career deciding who deserves to be called dangerous.

Sam Dickson, Esq.: The indictment is greatly overestimated in the minds of our adherents. It is thin soup that charges the SPLC with technical violations of bank regulations. The “crimes” seem improbable. Since when have donors been entitled to a line-by-line breakdown of the activities of the group getting the donation?

Hasn’t it been pretty much common knowledge that the SPLC plants agents in organizations it targets and bribes officers and members of such organizations to steal information so the SPLC can use it to damage the professional careers of members of such organizations?

The indictment conceals the identities of the sleazeballs who took the bribes, which, to me, indicates the government’s desire to pull its punches. I am pessimistic that we will ever learn the identities of the plants and the bribed informants.

The indictment also fuels the misleading narrative currently being pushed by cuckservatives that by bribing members of these organizations to provide the SPLC with information with which to harm the careers of adherents, the SPLC was “financing hate.”

In a sane society (not one like ours), the SPLC would be a laughingstock. The SPLC is a parody of the liberals’ parody of Senator Joseph McCarthy. For three generations, liberals have ridiculed McCarthy for “guilt by association.” The SPLC practices guilt by association (it calls it “links” to avoid triggering memories in the atrophied brains of liberals) on meth.

The “links” used by the SPLC to smear its targets include geographic guilt by association (“John Doe comes from an area of North Carolina once known for “racism”), audience guilt by association (“John Doe spoke at Berkeley University and a known neo-Nazi sat in the audience”) and even quotation guilt by association (“John Doe denies that he is a Nazi but SPLC research proves that something he wrote was quoted in a Nazi publication”).

The SPLC’s mode of thinking mirrors that of schizophrenics. Normal people’s brains do not hatch screwball ideas that a shared geographic location, the presence of someone in an audience listening to a speaker, or the mere fact that someone wrote something and was quoted by someone else establishes any rational connection.

Schizophrenics think and talk that way. So does the SPLC. We should focus on exposing the intrinsic madness of the SPLC and take a more sober view of this indictment, which will likely be a financial bonanza for the SPLC and will be used to raise another several hundred million dollars.

Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE): The indictment of the SPLC is an amazing breakthrough and may help weaken one of the most morally corrupt organizations in the United States with its gargantuan $800 million endowment. That it paid agitators to create the “racism” and “hate” it purports to fight should sit poorly with many donors. It’s like a fire department setting fires to justify their existence and hours of overtime.

Hopefully, it will weaken them, especially among those corporations that send them fat checks. It may also chill the trust the lamestream media has placed in them as the go-to source to tell them who the “haters” and “extremists” are, with the SPLC’s “hate map” having included everyone from conservative Christians and parents protesting perverted curricula in their schools.

In Canada, we have the pernicious Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which got its start-up seed money from the SPLC and, like the SPLC, spies on nationalists and dissenters and briefs the media as to who the “haters” are. Both groups have cost many good people their jobs, making a mockery of the right to freedom of speech. In the U.S., after a trial and, hopefully, convictions, perhaps citizens who have been defamed, deplatformed, debanked, or fired because of the SPLC may find justice.

Dr. Michael Hill, President of the Southern Nationalist League (SNL): Yes, Charlottesville was a set-up involving high-level officials and likely numerous infiltrators. But it was also a legitimate outpouring of White/Southern nationalist sentiment that scared the hell out of the establishment. Now, after nine years, someone is looking to refashion the Charlottesville story for their own benefit. That’s why those of us who were there should be the first and loudest to insist that the truth be finally told.

The recent indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, for, among other things, paying over a quarter-million dollars to someone who was at Charlottesville at the Unite the Right rally (UTR) in August 2017, has reopened the important question of just what actually happened at the event and why. Trump says it was organized and paid for by the SPLC (who we all want to see go down for good) for the sole reason of making him look bad. His acolytes/influencers in the various media, especially social media, laid the groundwork from the beginning for Trump’s claims about Charlottesville being paid for, organized, and orchestrated by the left. They said, in effect, that any organic outpouring of pro-White and pro-Southern sentiment was by its very nature fake and a product of the left designed to embarrass the “real conservative” movement in America: Trump and MAGA. No “racists” and “antisemites” need apply to this respectable club.

I was in Charlottesville as Chief of The League of the South (LS), the largest single organization to participate in UTR. Michael Tubbs (LS Chief of Staff) and I were at the head of that column that marched down East Market Street and had to fight our way into Lee Park while the local and state cops stood down and watched the mayhem take place. In other words, I was there and solely responsible for the LS and its UTR logistical planning and funding, its tactical and operational planning, and its overall goal of defending our beleaguered Southern culture and heritage. I sure as hell know better than Trump and MAGA about what went on that day. In short, they are liars. To what larger purpose remains to be seen, but I’d bet whatever it is goes to the benefit of Trump himself.

But as with much of Trump’s bombastic and ego-driven babbling, Charlottesville, too, is a flimsily constructed falsehood. As my friend and compatriot Brad Griffin posted on X: “Hundreds of White Nationalists got together in 2017, plotted with the SPLC how to make Trump look bad, and drove to Charlottesville to carry out their plan. Part of the organizers’ plan was to get sued for millions of dollars while not being able to afford legal representation.”

May the God of our fathers separate the truth from lies and bring His wrath and judgment upon the purveyors of the latter.

Jason Kessler, Unite the Right organizer and author of Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech: Obviously, the SPLC indictment is great news and yet another example of the benefit we get out of Trump that we wouldn’t get from any other president.

It’s a double-edged sword regarding the revelations about an SPLC informant at Unite the Right. On the one hand, sunlight is almost always a good thing. We want to know who this is and pray that the identity of F-37 is revealed. And yet, on the other hand, the revelation has sparked a wave of false conspiracy theories about Charlottesville being “staged.”

I am not an attorney, but I have spent many years in legal combat, including as a successful pro se litigant. On its face, the allegations against the SPLC clearly and logically have merit. It’s about committing wire fraud and money laundering, not hiring an informant. For once, the shoe is on the other foot, and our enemies will face trial in a potentially hostile jurisdiction in Alabama.

Some people say that this part of Alabama is the “Black belt” because of the high Black population, but I could see Black people also being offended about SPLC paying people to make “racist posts online.” Time will tell.

Kirk Lyons, Esq., Founder and Chief Trial Counsel for the Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC): Since the indictment, I’ve fielded about 15 calls about the SPLC case, including an FBI inquiry about my 1989 quote on their involvement in the Shelby Bookstore murder case. This suggests a broader investigation.

Most of the former SPLC leadership has left, including Morris Dees and Richard Cohen in 2019, as well as Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich. But they still have an estimated $800 million endowment, and they are rallying with other left-of-center “civil rights” groups to fight the indictment.

We need to push the administration to proceed vigorously, find ways to share information with the DOJ, and encourage them to expand the investigation through our Congressmen and DOJ contacts (especially in the US Attorney’s office in Montgomery).

The SPLC’s strategy will be to delay, including by filing a motion to quash the indictment, and, if there is a trial, to appeal any verdict they don’t like. I seriously doubt they will settle with the DOJ. I assume they will fight for all they are worth and try to run out the clock on the Trump administration, because when it’s over, this all shuts down.

Dependent on any proven revelations of wrongdoing from the DOJ, any groups looking to jump in on this with a private cause of action need to be united, well-organized, and well-funded.

Experiencing the SPLC discovery process was quite an education for me and was unrelenting and brutal. Whatever we do, we need to take advantage of this situation to learn all we can about SPLC’s skullduggery and inner workings, and keep the press spotlight on the SPLC’s many scandals and abuses. I look forward to seeing what the DOJ can prove.

Rev. Bret McAtee, Pastor of Christ the King Reformed Church (Charlotte, Michigan): I popped a cork from the finest champagne and celebrated when I heard of the SPLC being hoisted on their own petard. I only pray now that the ADL, B’nai Brith, and the ACLU will also soon get a similar comeuppance. Finally, the loathsome SPLC has been indicted. “Whatsoever a man soweth he shall also reap.”

Of course, this doesn’t mean that this organization will be convicted in a court of law, but for now, the spotlight has been turned on them to expose the hate-filled nature of their hate-filled lies.

My objection to the SPLC was their contention that there was something errant or unworthy about hate. Scripture clearly teaches that God hates all workers of iniquity (Ps. 5:5). Scripture tells us that there are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him (Prov. 6:16 and Zech. 8:17). The Holy Spirit instructs His people to “Hate that which is evil, cling to that which is good.”

Next, Christians have to get past thinking that there is something intrinsically wrong with “hate.” How can we not hate that which the Lord Christ loves? How can we not hate that which seeks to destroy the good, the true, and the beautiful, as Christianity defines the good, the true, and the beautiful? Instead of defending ourselves from charges of hate, we should step up to the mic and say, “Of course I hate that which is vile, false, and ugly. Who wouldn’t?” Christians who don’t hate the SPLC and the parallel organizations are not right in the head. Tolerance of evil folks is not a virtue.

Finally, and this will probably fly right by people, Christians need to realize that Biblical hatred is built on the foundation of love. It is because we love people that we stand in opposition to them when they attack those things God counts as lovely. We should communicate to the Christ-hating cosmopolitans that we understand their attack on that which is virtuous is part of their pursuit of the establishment of the perverse.

Because of these instructions, I gladly admit that I hate the SPLC with a holy hatred since it has consistently revealed itself as an organization that hates that which God loves (Ps. 139:21). Indeed, the SPLC has always used its hate list as a proxy war to seek to destroy Biblical Christians and Biblical Christianity. It’s clear that any organization that claimed to be an authority on identifying hate while refusing to name “antifa” as a hate group was working with an ax to grind.

Sheriff Richard Mack, Founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA): I have been lied about by the SPLC for over 25 years. I have called them out on it numerous times. As I analyzed their modus operandi, I discovered what they were just indicted for: lying to their donors about me and who I was to scare them into donating more money. This is what the SPLC has always done, and they have made a tremendous amount of money doing it.

For example, the SPLC has said numerous times that my national organization and I have promoted and advocated violence and that the CSPOA is a paramilitary organization. I challenged them to show one example in which I ever promoted violence or committed an act of violence in my life. I even challenged them to an open debate about any of their baseless accusations. Of course, they refused.

Why? Because they cannot afford to be exposed to the public or to their supporters regarding their “sales tactics.” Now, finally, they have been exposed, and I would be happy to testify against them.

Padraig Martin, former government contractor and author of A Walk in the Park: My Charlottesville Story: I may be the last individual outside of the criminal justice system to have seen James Fields in person. In fact, in many ways, I became an inadvertent eyewitness to the depths at which the system fought against those of us who simply wanted to preserve a monument and a people’s heritage. Why? Because I was arrested in Charlottesville after the Unite the Right rally was deemed “unlawful,” I was charged with a criminal offense entirely unrelated to the event. That which I witnessed was a study in government tyranny.

After UTR, I had the misfortune of losing the keys to my car. While attempting to break into my own vehicle, the Virginia State Police stopped me. I explained it was my car and told them that I had a gun in my pocket and where to find it. I also explained that I had a legal concealed carry permit in my home country, Florida. Given that Virginia and Florida had a reciprocity agreement, the matter should have ended with a misdemeanor citation (failure to carry said permit, which I left at home). I was not engaged in criminal activity, and I had a legal right to carry. Instead, the State Police chose to process me in a makeshift, underground station beneath the Charlottesville courthouse, where I sat, watched, and listened.

At the time, because I was in their custody, I had no idea about the James Fields incident. I listened to the State Police complain more about Terry Maculiffe’s decision to fly to Charlottesville and the resultant helicopter crash. I heard them speak about a car crash (the Fields incident) and that a woman hospitalized as a result would be fine. I watched as they took calls from various city officials, discussed matters with federal law enforcement wearing White Nationalist regalia (including several whom I recognized at the park earlier in the day), and joked amongst themselves quite frequently. After finally allowing me to wash off a strange irritant that the antifa had thrown at us, they took me to the Albemarle County jail to get processed in front of a Magistrate.

While sitting with handcuffs behind my back on a wooden bench, a disheveled young man in a polo was brought into the room by officers and sat on a bench somewhat caddy-cornered from me. I thought to myself that this was a poor kid who got a DUI on the wrong day. He looked flushed and almost stoned. I genuinely thought he was drunk. I told him, “Don’t worry. It will be alright.” That solicited a bark from one of two officers behind the glass not to talk to one another.

An officer came into and out of the Magistrate’s processing room several times, asking Fields questions or making declaratory statements on his behalf. Fields answered willingly or agreed to the statements without the privilege of an attorney. “Is that when you sped up?” “Did you say you did this?” “Do you admit you did that?” His answers were mumbled, further reinforcing my belief that he was a drunk college kid – not the monster he was later made out to be. He was then led into the Magistrate’s room, and I assumed I would see him inside. Instead, I was let out simply because I owned a home in Virginia, which I had to put up as some kind of collateral. It was not until Monday that I found out who Fields was, when we were both arraigned in Charlottesville court. I sat in the courtroom surrounded by antifa having their charges dropped one by one; his arraignment was via video. At that moment, I knew I was a witness to a crime – one committed by the State of Virginia against Mr. Fields.

Lew Moore, former Congressional Chief-of-Staff, Ron Paul’s Presidential Campaign Manager, and host of the Hour of Decision podcast: I believe the indictment of SPLC had been in the “hip pocket” of the Trump DOJ for some time, to be brought out if/when needed for maximum political impact. After all, the liberal Montgomery Advertiser newspaper exposed a mountain of perfidy on the part of Morris Dees and this strange “poverty” law center as far back as the 1990s. We’re told even the Biden administration was considering a crackdown. There is much evidence that the Trump political operation is currently trying to pivot to fire up the base for the upcoming election, and away from bad war and economic realities. This move at the SPLC is one element of the “pivot.”

The SPLC had overreached, extending its “Hate Map” toward Trump allies Dennis Praeger, Franklin Graham, and TPUSA. The hideous greed of this organization eventually made it a liability to the Left as well, not to mention increasing allegations of internal discrimination against Blacks, etc. This left them with no political cover, allowing the hammer to fall. But whether actual individual actors will be perp-walked and the organization completely bankrupted, not merely fined, remains to be seen.

That the DOJ’s point of attack has been the infiltration of provocateurs within right-wing groups offers Zionist-influenced elements around Trump an opportunity. This malign foreign influence has openly sought to purge influencers within the old Trump base who have exposed them. Unfortunately, through ignorance or design, some of these same influencers have decided to defame, without evidence, the organizers of the Charlottesville rally and other patriots as SPLC plants. Watch this entire turn of events carefully, and all lies must be called out.

Dr. Tomislav Sunic, former Croatian diplomat: I have long had the dubious distinction of being featured on the SPLC website as “a white nationalist author, radio host, and fixture on the white nationalist speaker circuit.” I have also had the privilege—albeit not noted by the SPLC—of growing up in communist Yugoslavia, becoming familiar at an early age with the nature of the communist totalitarian mindset, its lawfare, and its ceaseless manufacturing of “fascism” and “white supremacism” threats. Even if there were no longer any fascists around, the communist judiciary would fabricate them in order to provide itself with international legitimacy.

Having been subjected to such communist demonology, and having seen my late father—a Catholic lawyer—spend considerable time in a Yugoslav communist prison for his anti-communist writings, I had no problem detecting the same language and legal patterns in the SPLC. This did not surprise me, especially given that in the early 1980s, I encountered more communist-minded professors and grad students on U.S. college campuses than in the entire Eastern European communist educational system.

Most Americans still do not realize that the SPLC is not the only player in this demon-hunting game; there are dozens of similar antifascist, communist-inspired, well-funded virtue-signaling leagues all over the US and the EU: the Jewish-Zionist-inspired ADL, the UK-based Hope Not Hate, the powerful and government-funded Amadeu Antonio Stiftung in Germany, the DÖW in Austria, and the CRIF and LICRA in France. All of them function on the same principle: resurrecting dead fascist foes in order to cover up their live academic and media smearing campaigns against dissident voices. With the massive racial changes due to decades of uncontrolled migration, coupled with a still-resilient and strong DEI-influenced judiciary, in the years to come the US will likely face a Soviet-like scenario of mutual hatred of all against all.

The fundamental mistake of self-proclaimed US and EU white nationalists is their often childish sporting of fascist and martial insignia, which provides additional fodder for bans or deplatforming by local authorities. Often, it is their total ignorance of the genealogy of cultural fascisms and their offshoots in prewar Europe that makes them look grotesque and dangerous in the eyes of the wider population. Whoever marches along with “Hollywood Nazis” or their look-alikes must know that there are powerful interests behind them who profit from such silly—if not outright retarded—behavior.

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When not interviewing newsmakers, James Edwards has often found himself in the spotlight as a commentator, including many national television appearances. Over the past 20 years, his radio work has been featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines worldwide. Media Matters has referred to Edwards as a “right-wing media fixture” and Hillary Clinton personally named him as an “extremist” who would shape our country.

Alabama Opens Its Own Investigation Into the Southern Poverty Law Center

The law center, based in Montgomery, has drawn the ire of conservatives in recent years. Last month, the Justice Department charged the group with financial crimes.

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The Alabama attorney general’s office announced on Monday that it was opening its own investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center, less than a month after the Justice Department charged the organization with several financial crimes.

The law center, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., has drawn the ire of conservatives in recent years for targeting groups that many of them consider mainstream. That conflict came to a head in April, when the Justice Department charged the organization with crimes that included wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

In a statement, the Alabama attorney general’s office applauded the Justice Department’s actions and said that it was separately investigating the law center to determine whether “the S.P.L.C.’s activity within the state also ran afoul of the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act or state laws related to charitable organizations.”

“Thanks to the U.S. Justice Department’s action to deal with the S.P.L.C., the state’s efforts have now received a shot in the arm,” the attorney general, Steve Marshall, said in the statement. “We look forward to learning more about the inner workings of an organization that we have long believed was rotten, but until recently, has been impervious.”

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M.I.G.A. in the woodpile

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The year is 2028. Trump is now 6’4″, according to his doctor. He has survived more assassination attempts than the other presidents combined. He’s managed to avoid impeachment by way of a backroom deal with the Democrats that granted citizenship to a million Dreamers. Trump says he’s days away from a deal with Putin to end the Ukraine war, just in time to give JD Vance a boost in the polls, but by now only a sprinkling of Evangelicals and diehards remain from his original grassroots base.

What a difference a few years can make. As Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Candace Owens wash their hands of this administration, the company that the president keeps leaves little mystery as to where things go from here. These days the president prefers to bathe in the sweet and soggy praise of those who were against him when he first ran for office: Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Lindsey Graham. As strange as it is to say, Trump has become a Never-Trumper.

Back in 2015, I wrote the semi-satirical piece Why Donald Trump Should have held a Miss Universe pageant in Iran. Before the Islamic Revolution of 1978 Iran actually used to host beauty pageants, but the broader point was that commerce and cultural exchange often succeed in relaxing political barriers. The article was initially rejected for being too negative about Trump’s personal baggage at a time when he was the next big hope, but indeed many of the early warning signs were there that in the slipstream of this populist Pegasus was a neocon Trojan horse. Trump was already a huge war hawk on Iran and an advocate of massive military spending. His extensive business and familial ties in New York were completely intertwined with Jews, including in-laws and grandchildren. So while some red meat was thrown into the mix in the form of anti-immigrant nativism, the overall manifestation of the two Trump administrations hardly diverges from its headwaters. These days, Trump rarely utters the slogan America First – perhaps a Freudian pink slip of termination – but what you will hear coming out of the woodwork from a growing number of defectors is the Make Israel Great Again lampoon. Let’s assess the claim.

Over the Trump era, we’ve seen the embassy moved to Jerusalem, recognition of Golan’s annexation and the conclusion of Gaza’s demolition. The 1.9 million refugees slowly being redistributed to neighboring countries could also end up in a neighborhood near you. The ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is an open supporter of the Greater Israel Project (and he is the Christian in Trump’s cabinet). Appetites for a chunk of the fallen Syrian state persist as rumors for now, while Israel has invaded Lebanon up to the Litani River and may well convert this “defensive buffer” into eventual annexation. The fighting is so fierce that one IDF soldier was forced to use a sledgehammer to defend himself against a statue of Jesus.

On the socioeconomic front, inflation in Israel is a mere 1.9%, compared to 3.5% in the United States and up to 6% in some EU countries. New Jewish immigrants continue to arrive in Israel and the country even ranked eighth in the recent World Happiness Report – remarkable in the midst of intermittent war. Israelis are a special breed, not only do they repeatedly choose Benjamin Netanyahu to lead them but also Knesset ogres like Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose recent role in the bringing about Palestinian death penalty law was celebrated by his wife baking a birthday cake with the image of a noose and the words “Sometimes dreams come true.”

Out in the Diaspora, the morale of Jewish activists might not be quite so plucky but it nevertheless endures with aggressive litigation of everything deemed antisemitic. Australia recently completed an inquisition following the Bondi attack by two Muslims, with the expected fallout that free speech and gun rights will be further stymied. It’s unlikely there’ll be many more influential youth leaders who dare take a stand on Israel the way Charlie Kirk did before he was wiped off the map. There’s a saying among political pundits that nothing is true until Benjamin Netanyahu denies it, and sure enough the Israeli PM embarked on a strangely prolific campaign to deny Israeli involvement in the Kirk assassination.

A similar run of good luck with plausible deniability has carried the Jeffrey Epstein affair to an anticlimactic stalemate, even if it’s widely assumed he must have been running a blackmail operation on behalf of the Israelis. No indictments, no justice for victims and not even a minor scandal about the use of Jewish supremacist language in the emails. Instead of a Goyim Lives Matter awakening, Americans were treated to this hysterical exchange in the congressional hearing in which antisemitism became the focal point. Who knows what will be written about the Protocols of the Elders of Epstein a century from now? I say that because the passage of time invariably gives Jewish narratives the benefit of the doubt.

Last week in Brussels, stained glass windows more than a century old were removed from the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula because they were said to be antisemitic depictions of a blood-libel from 1370. Not knowing precisely what happened seven centuries ago might be one reason to remove the murals, but what the clergy have agreed to do is to kowtow with an apology plaque in place of the windows and grovel to the Jewish community for forgiveness. This is the direction that atonement and reconciliation always travels in between these groups. The Middle Ages may have been a time of rampant superstition and religious mania, however I see no reason why such zealotry would have been confined to Christians while Jews be considered paragons of equanimity not at all prone to neurotic curiosities and conspiracy.

The lifetime work of Ariel Toaff is a good place to start for the alternative perspective, as the Israeli-based professor of medieval history proved through meticulous research that European Jews were involved in ritualistic blood sacrifice beyond the garden variety of kabbalah. The modern State of Israel hardly inspires more confidence given some of the civic ordinances that transpire, quite contrary to its reputed secularism. Footage from recent protests in Israel caught my eye for I had never noticed that the country’s ambulances were marked with a red hexagram instead of a Red Cross. Thus the Israelis have done what Muslims have done with the Red Crescent, even though the humanitarian movement of the Red Cross has nothing to do with religion (the logo is an inversion of neutral Switzerland’s flag). At any rate, the Rothschild family sign has come full circle in modern Israel, but it hasn’t stopped the pathological aversion to anything that looks like a cross. The education system in Israel has gone to the extreme of banning the international plus sign because it resembles the crucifix. In its place, the up tack (﬩) was implemented to placate all of the “pious” Jews – for whom spitting on crosses is a 1,800-year-old tradition.

The other week at a protest in northern Israel police confiscated a Hungarian flag from an anti-Netanyahu demonstrator on the grounds that it looked too similar to the Palestinian flag! Poor Viktor Orban just can’t catch a break these past few weeks. The sole democracy in the Middle East they keep telling us, but such are the level of frivolous sensitivity, irritability and institutionalized chutzpah. Last month an Israeli lawyer and politician serving in the Knesset called for the billions in aid that Israel receives from America to no longer be called aid but rather a “security exchange” and “one of the most cost-effective strategic investments” – especially given the “coordination in confronting Iran.” As with the historical understandings that Western leaders reach with Jewish counterparts, the financial ones seem a lot like Heads: Jews win, Tails: Gentiles lose – with Trump’s visage on upcoming US coinage to supervise the formality. This rather cynical dialectic reminds me of a famous quote from Israeli PM Menachem Begin in which he said “I wish both sides good luck” just as the brutal Iran-Iraq war was beginning. If you like dark humor then wait until you find out that Begin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978, in spite of being responsible for the King David Hotel bombing that killed 91 people.

This sounds a lot like the trajectory that Trump is on, pining for shiny accolades while being responsible for grievous crimes. Trump and Netanyahu – two chickpeas in a falafel – have managed to revolt even traditional allies like the servile European ones. Furthermore, Israeli daily Haaretz reports that a critical mass of Jews in America is now disgusted with Israel, although this is a motif we’ve heard before and deserves suspicion. Performative outrage is a staple of the political left, which is the tribe of most American Jews, and so when Israel periodically “mows the lawn” in Palestine the expected outrage is largely performative and temporary, for in the interim period they typically drift back into the fold, recycle their final straw and allow the cycle to repeat. Figures like Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer are clearly reluctant critics of Israel, while most Jewish anti-Zionist media are to some extent controlled opposition. One need only look at the editorial staff of the formerly communist now anti-Zionist publication Jewish Currents, which includes born and bred Zionist apostate Arielle Angel and Israel damage-control operative Peter Beinart. In 2021 the publication apologized after being called out for running ads for a “leadership” training program in Israel.

Beinart is the archetypal Jewish activist who advances Jewish interests through the politically correct framework, and is therefore legion with the bipartisan chorus of those still denying Israeli designs and impetus behind the latest war in the Middle East. Too late it seems, as plenty of American normies have crossed the Noticing™ Rubicon, but just to make it official, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had his blond moment (just as his Spanish surname connotes) and inadvertently revealed that Israel forced America’s hand.

Unsurprisingly, social media in recent weeks has been awash with sobering testimonials from Americans of all walks of life who have finally realized that their team has actually been the bad guys all along. Those in active duty appear to have come to the same conclusion, because two incidents of fires on US Navy carriers suggest sabotage from war-shy personnel. It’s been a real treat to watch average Americans call to account not just the Levins and Shapiros, but all of the Shabbos goyim on the AIPAC payroll – folks like Mike Johnson, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Rick Scott. Meanwhile the popularity of Thomas Massie is skyrocketing.

The fault lines of the second Trump administration are now well and truly entrenched and regrettably he has chosen all that glistens – from the gaudy opulence of his material accumulation to the sparkling words of his sycophantic counsel. He at least has the self-awareness to admit that he’s “not heaven bound.” You could almost begin to feel for Elon Musk, who got a raw deal on the EV mandate while the rest of Trump’s inner circle enriches itself beyond all shame. Even Baron Trump now has an estimated net worth of $150 million. Not bad for someone too young to vote, but with that kind of money he can start buying politicians. Joining the fray is sleazebag lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who joined the Republican Party last month, while nutcase Laura Loomer solidifies her face in Trump’s good books. Jews really have a way of getting their foot in the door – readers may recall that Loomer was a speaker at the 2022 American Renaissance Conference, meanwhile luminaries of academia like Kevin MacDonald and Tom Sunic still await an invitation. It would probably take a constellation of experts to understand the totality of Trump’s psychology and physiology; the multiple personalities between campaigner and president, the junk food eater who never sleeps and the teetotaler who is drunk on power.

If Trump is being blackmailed into waging war on Iran then the obvious question is why such blackmail wasn’t active during his relatively pacifistic first term as president. That would be giving him too much credit, and credit is something he can’t get enough. Americans are paying for this spectacular misadventure through a variety of camouflaged ways, meanwhile Trump has the sensibility to mock inflation, Jesus, Tucker Carlson’s IQ and Candace Owens’ looks. It’s still a mystery how he manages to pivot from childish tweets on social media to 90-minute phone calls with the Russian president, the content of which remains highly secretive. It must humor Putin to have Trump’s laconically named social media platform Truth Social translated into Russian, since that’s more or less how the old Soviet newspaper Pravda was named.

There’s a well-known aphorism in diplomacy that says if you aren’t at the table then you are on the menu. That doesn’t bode well for Ukraine, which is now solely reliant on an energy-starved Europe. Zelensky, who is involved “up to his neck” in money-laundering according to a former Ukrainian diplomat and prosecutor, keeps registering his interest for nuclear weapons. Lousy timing indeed, following the recent advancement of the so-called Doomsday clock to a record 85 seconds to midnight. In an era of erratic, contemptuous and nihilistic Western rule we may ask whether the bothersome convention of daylight savings adjustments actually serves a wise purpose: confusing the timekeepers of our Armageddon. Whether Trump is the cuckoo or just the cuckservative of this late hour, I leave readers to decide.

 

Could President Trump Be Crazy Like A Fox?

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Could President Trump Be Crazy Like A Fox?

Breaking The Zionist Grip On America: The Greatest Service A U.S. Statesman Could Do?

Patrick Cleburne
May 10, 2026

 

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Continuous war drum-beating notwithstanding, the fact is that shutting down the Iran effort now could yield tremendous benefits for President Trump and America, even justifying the action.

Yesterday I read The war on Iran will likely end in American retreat By Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares Aljazeera 9 May 2026.

Putting aside the emotional triumphalism in this essay, it provides a plausible explanation of why this mess occurred:

The US – Israel war plan was a decapitation strike, sold to President Donald Trump by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and David Barnea, the director of the Mossad. The premise was that an aggressive joint US–Israeli bombing campaign would so degrade the Iranian regime…that the regime would fracture. The United States and Israel would then impose a pliable government in Tehran.

Obviously that has not worked, for totally predictable reasons that the essay discusses.

In war, shutting down an attack or a whole offensive because of lack of success is quite normal. In more rational and less emotional eras like in 18th-century Europe (as opposed to 20th-century) this applied to whole wars. Bureaucratic and political enemies try to make capital from disappointment, but the mass of opinion sees reason.

In October 1956,the British, French and Israelis launched the Suez operation, to reverse Egypt’s Nasser’s theft of the Suez Canal. The Americans led by President Eisenhower threw a petulant tantrum and the Allies had to withdraw in humiliating defeat. This was the end of the UK as a world power

Obviously this was a disaster for the ruling Conservatives in Britain. The very strong Left there exulted and was confident of a sweeping victory at the next General Election. But in fact in October 1959 the Conservatives won with a sharply increased majority.

How did this happen? A British friend had the following insight:

At the time, the BBC had a program called “Any Questions?. A panel of quests, usually including an MP from each of the major parties, answered a range of queries. In one show, in ’57 or ’58, they were asked about the impact of the Suez fiasco on the next election.

After the Labour MP had finished gloating, the Conservative said that he was certain that his party would be returned with an increased majority

“…because when the British People go to vote they will recognize that what the Tories did at Suez, right or wrong, successful or unsuccessful, was done with the best interests of this Country at heart, and for no other reason.”

Retreat is to Trump’s advantage. As the recent Midwest primaries showed, his core base has not wavered. The considerable swathe of disaffected Rightists is likely to welcome his change of mind like the return of the Prodigal Son. And reopening the Strait of Hormuz will quickly reverse the adverse economic impact of this escapade, cheering up the Public as a whole.

Life will not be so easy for the Democratic Leadership. Israel’s Gaza activities since October 2023 have turned substantial majority of Democratic voters against her. So attacking Trump for closing down the effort is not possible. And with the shutdown, with its implicit admission of error, the question of why it was initiated will become academic to most.

Life will become extremely difficult for the Zionists and the Israeli Government. Since the Iran strikes on February 28, Israel has, per a Grok search this evening, occupied 232 square miles (5.7%) of Lebanon, killed up to 2,600 Lebanese and displaced over 1Mm people (19% of the population). Israeli bulldozers are leveling villages and there are mutterings that the plan is to establish a DMZ-like buffer of perhaps 10% of Lebanon.

Meantime, killings in Gaza have accelerated and there is continued connivance at the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank by Jewish settlers.

These facts are less well known to the Americans than they are to the rest of the world because of US MSM repression. But via Podcasts, Social Media and by following foreign news sources, those who are interested can find out.

And the younger generation of Leftists is extremely interested. Quite apart from sincere outrage, the situation provides copious ammunition in the brewing inter-generational war. The surprisingly geriatric Democratic Leadership is weakly positioned to defend itself against charges of being negligent on the Israel question.

Anyone following the Primaries knows this battle has been joined. I believe it was at the root of the strange purge at the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2024. Wherever young Leftists are influential, conflict erupts.

An important demonstration of this is the progress of H.R.3565 “To provide for a limitation on the transfer of defense articles and defense services to Israel.” This Bill was introduced on May 21, 2025, and was endorsed by 56 Democrats by the time of the Gaza ‘’Ceasefire” on October 10. (No Republicans have signed.) At year end the number was 60 and now stands at 68, with 5 signing up in April. This is 32% of the whole Democratic House delegation. Ominously for the Leadership, support is heavily drawn from non-White Members

A decade ago, the Sponsor of such a measure would probably have been expelled from the Party.

Although many Donor-owned GOP Congresscritters would no doubt like to sign up for the job, the prospect of holding the Republican Party in a Zionist posture is also poor. Discontent with Israel among younger Rightists is strong, as a recent article in The New Yorker bemoaned. And the role of Neoconservatives in the last generation is well known and deeply if quietly resented.

So if President Trump were to abruptly shut down the Iran confrontation, the Israelis would be left conducting massive operations of conquest and virtual extermination in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza which their friends around the World will not be able to protect.

Major inflection points in world affairs often have a cogent meta-myth. George III and the American Revolution, Bismarck’s engineering of a united Germany, Hitler’s decision for war in 1939 all come to mind. When studied at the granular level these accounts are generally quite hard to detect. They retain an explicative value.

So it is not necessary to fully believe that President Trump went into the Iran venture thinking it could ultimately end the Zionist grip on American affairs. (Although he may at a subconscious level have grasped that he could withstand failure better than his tormentors.) The recognition of the effects of shutting down would presumably be conscious – if not admitted.

However arrived at

’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d.”

[Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1)]

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Alphonse Toussenel and the Socialist Roots of French Antisemitism

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The name of Alphonse Toussenel is conspicuously absent from the modern leftist canon; a silence that serves as a deliberate erasure of a foundational intellectual tradition. While contemporary socialist discourse has been sanitized by decades of Jewish institutional hegemony, the reality remains that the radical origins of Western socialism were deeply intertwined with a sophisticated understanding of Jewish power. To recover the revolutionary potential of the past, one must move beyond the current stifling consensus and revisit the work of thinkers like Toussenel, whose unflinching critique of financial parasitism once united those who recognized the existential threat that organized Jewry posed to their civilization.

Alphonse Toussenel was born on March 17, 1803, in Montreuil-Bellay, near Angers, and died in Paris on April 30, 1885. A devoted disciple of Charles Fourier, the utopian socialist philosopher who envisioned an alternative society organized around cooperative “phalansteries,” Toussenel embedded himself in the most radical currents of early 19th-century French socialism. He settled in Paris in 1836 and the following year became editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Paix — notably a publication firmly on the Right, not a socialist one — before joining the Fourierist movement and co-editing the journal La Phalange from 1839 to 1843. He then co-founded the newspaper La Démocratie pacifique alongside Victor Considerant. In 1841, he took up a post as civil commissioner in Boufarik, Algeria, resigning the following year following a conflict with the military authority.

What makes Toussenel a figure of enduring historical importance was not his editorial career but a single book that poured the intellectual currents of socialist antisemitism into a vessel so potent it would still be poisoning European politics four decades after his death.

It is his 1845 two-volume work Les Juifs, rois de l’époque, subtitled Histoire de la féodalité financière — “The Jews, Kings of the Epoch: A History of Financial Feudalism” — for which Toussenel is remembered. The Encyclopaedia Judaica calls it “one of the most resounding attacks on the Jews published in France” before the appearance of Édouard Drumont’s La France juive, and scholars from Robert Byrnes to Zvi Jonathan Kaplan have identified it as a foundational text of modern antisemitism that directly shaped French antisemitic literature for the 4 decades that followed.

The French Revolution of 1789 had not destroyed feudalism but only changed its form, Toussenel argued as his central thesis. The old aristocracy of birth had been supplanted, in his view, by an aristocracy of money — bankers, speculators, and railway financiers who now effectively controlled the French state, its parliament, its courts, and even its king. He was particularly focused on James de Rothschild — whom he called in the book’s own text “the king of finance, a Jew ennobled by a very Christian king” — whose expected acquisition of the chemin de fer du Nord (the Northern Railway running from Paris to Belgium) Toussenel used as his central exhibit. Railway concessions, state debts, and stock market speculation were, in his telling, all instruments through which Jewish bankers had effectively replaced the French state as the true sovereign over the country’s wealth and labor.

Toussenel’s critique was as much about semantics as it was about steel rails and high finance. Toussenel made explicit that his use of the word “Jew” was not confined to practitioners of Judaism. “I wish to point out to the reader that this word will generally be used here in the popular sense of Jew: banker, usurer,” he wrote. This rhetorical device allowed Toussenel to claim he was not attacking the Jewish people as such while in practice fusing Jewish identity with finance capital. The effect was to make antisemitism palatable across the political spectrum by positioning it as an anti-capitalist force rather than a form of racial prejudice. Nevertheless, Toussenel issued explicit calls for revolutionary action against organized Jewry, most notoriously declaring: “Power to the strong! Death to parasitism! War on the Jews! That is the motto of the new revolution!”

Toussenel’s hostility extended well beyond Jews. He was a fervent Anglophobe, viewing Britain as the archetypal nation of predatory capitalism, merchants, and “birds of prey.” He declared in a phrase that became notorious: “Who says Jew says Protestant” — lumping England, the Netherlands, and Switzerland into his category of exploitative alien finance. He depicted “Londres-Juda” — London-Judea — as “an insatiable vampire sucking the lifeblood of France,” depicting the English and the Jews as twin external and internal threats to French national identity. Accordingly, the Protestant nations of Europe — the English, the Dutch, and the Swiss — were, like the Jews, “merchants and birds of prey,” in Toussenel’s views.

Toussenel’s impact on subsequent antisemitism was enormous. Drumont, the most influential antisemitic journalist in late 19th-century France and author of La France Juive from 1886, drew on Toussenel’s framework and helped ensure his legacy endured. A second edition of Les Juifs, rois de l’époque appeared in 1847. The book was reprinted in 1886 and 1888, becoming a foundational text for the late 19th-century antisemitic movement. Toussenel’s “embittered antisemitic, anti-foreign, and anti-Protestant tirades,” as the Encyclopaedia Judaica notes, “later provided ample inspiration for the anti-Dreyfusards” — the faction that defended the 1894 treason conviction of Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, whose decade-long legal ordeal split France. As Zvi Jonathan Kaplan concluded in Jewish History: “Although Toussenel died in 1885, his work helped to legitimize the forces that led to the Dreyfus Affair.”

Toussenel’s death in 1885 did not end his influence. The antisemitic worldview he popularized gained momentum with Drumont’s 1886 publication of La France Juive, then exploded into national crisis during the Dreyfus Affair a decade later.

Toussenel serves as a bridge, inviting us to see past the manufactured illusions of the current political order. His synthesis of social justice and racial survival stands as an indictment of the modern left and a challenge to the timid, controlled right—both ideological strains that have been tarred by Jewish subversion. As we witness the ongoing displacement of Whites across the globe, the need to reintegrate these suppressed, hard-edged truths into our discourse is paramount. Outmaneuvering the Jewish masters of our age requires us to master the lessons of the past. Toussenel recognized the ‘Kings of the Epoch’ for the parasites they are; now, we must sharpen his legacy into a cohesive political strategy to secure the survival and freedom of the West.

The Willing Dupes and Traitors of the Flowerman People: The Suicidal White War on Western Civilization

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once,
finds it much easier to do it a second and third time,
till at length it becomes habitual.
Thomas Jefferson

A major Jewish group evolutionary strategy used to weaken the competitiveness of a majority White society and on a larger scale, Western civilization, is cultural Marxism, a core mechanism that reduces anti-Semitism and enhances Jewish competitive success by breaking the collective resistance and viability of the White race, making it easier to control, exploit, or replace.[1], [2]

Its creators insisted on the need to hide the real purpose of their project under the cover of innocent and positive sounding words, respectability, and especially “science,” an indispensable universal method of inquiry, which they have hijacked and corrupted for their own needs.

This racial project is thus forced on the public in a stealth fashion by sophisticated social engineering techniques through education, books, mainstream media, movies, TV series, sitcoms, and government propaganda.

As summarized by archeologist Dr. Timothy Ives, this psychological weapon of mass destruction “was the outgrowth of the anti-empirical Frankfurt school that viewed the role of a scholar as a social critic without the need to validate any of his claims.”[3]

To break the spirit of the White race, in his article Mass Propaganda in the War Against Bigotry (1947),[4] Jewish American psychologist Samuel H. Flowerman recommends, and I quote, the “diminishment of cultural pride and self-esteem” and to do this dirty work, the sponsorship of “willing dupes or traitors.” [5],[6] But don’t be fooled by the intended “war on bigotry.” This is not a noble effort motivated by a sincere concern to fight racism. As shown in a previous article, Moses, the First “Führer” in History: Jewish Racial Consciousness and Supremacism, no one is more bigoted than this subset of Jews, aka the “Flowerman people” in this article.

Schools and universities, which are mostly staffed with White Flowerman-led cultural Marxist ideologues, with some teachers from the Third World, play a huge role in the spreading of this fake war on bigotry.[7] Even pre-school White children are being brainwashed; by the time they finish university, they hate themselves and their race to the point of wanting to destroy their own kind in the following spirit taken from an anonymous meme called “Meanwhile at a Random University.” A “Nazi” in this diatribe is a conservative who doesn’t want the future these ’Babel stooges” are preparing; he prefers meat to crickets, he’s for God, reason, freedom, law and order, family, and nation. On the other hand, leftists are programmed to say things like the following:

I hate Nazis, they can’t think for themselves!!! They’re just brainwashed sheep who follow racist dogmas and do everything their shepherd’s command!!! They’re also insensitive anti-Semites, misogynous, bigots, homophobic, fascists and should be all jailed!!!

Auschwitz, slavery, and colonialism are some of the better-known historical mischiefs that serve this purpose. What willing dupes and traitors are teaching in schools about European civilization and its accomplishments is another lesser-known  evolutionary strategy used to diminish the cultural pride and self-esteem of the Flowerman people’s main competitors.

To break White man’s will for power and weaken his competitiveness, everything about his exceptional civilization is downplayed and demonized while non-Western achievements are elevated to nonsensical levels “in violation of the most basic protocols of scholarly research, evidence, and standards,” notes Dr. Ricardo Duchesne, former Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick, the author of Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age.[8]

A Flowerman Derrida-type of postmodernist rhetoric is routinely used to “confuse, detract from, or avoid facing the overwhelming evidence standing in opposition to their absurd claims,” asserts Dr. Duchesne, “sources are misused, books are misread, the evidence is grossly misinterpreted, facts are concealed, the principles of historical objectivity and respect for scholarship are trashed in order to enhance the imagined merits of multiculturalism inside European created cultures.”[9]

Darwinian theory and evolutionary psychology are erased from the discourse in an effort to prove that there is only one race, the human race.[10] Egalitarianism being the sacred cow of the “Babel stooges,” obviously, they go to great lengths with this abuse of the historical profession in order to prove with their bogus ideas that all civilizations are equal and that European civilization was not exceptional. As noted by Dr. Duchesne,

What is going on here cannot be attributed to mere empirical incompleteness and understandable errors of judgment. Our students today may be said to be the targets of deep-seated educational efforts to impose a multicultural view of Europe’s history, that is heavily infused with fabrications and the mistreatment of scholarly sources.[11]

To do this dirty job of deconstruction and rewriting of world history in accordance with the interests of the Flowerman people, even though existing research does not validate their perspective, the willing dupes and traitors of this trickery are paid handsomely, covered with laurels and gifts, and awarded with generous research grants. In exchange for betraying their own race, they become the prominent  professors at Ivy League universities in the U.S. and at prestigious universities throughout the West; they are given lucrative positions at prestigious think tanks and on the board of large corporations; their books and articles are spread far and wide by the mostly Flowerman-owned publishers and media; these evil dupes of the chosen people are highly praised by their peers who repeat blindly to their students every one of their obvious lies; their opinion is the accepted truth and almost no one dares challenge them without dire consequences for their career and advancement.[12]

Professor Duchesne, for example, a man highly esteemed by his students, the author of several scholarly books, was like all his like-minded colleagues in other universities and in other fields, dragged in the mud and ostracized by his weak and feeble-minded, willing-dupe, traitorous colleagues, and forced into early retirement for criticizing this farce disguised in science.[13]

Pseudoscience is the right term for the kind of science these willing dupes and traitors are professing. They have hijacked science to serve their miscreant needs. True to Lenin’s favourite saying, “The end justifies the means,” these useful idiots forcibly adjust reality to the ideas they want to impose on the world.

So, what is it then about European civilization they want people to believe?

For understandable reasons, from their point of view, they first divided history into two periods, before and after the Western Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century.

Before the Industrial Revolution

There was nothing exceptional about Europe, so they tell us. It did not possess any cultural attributes that could be contrasted to other world cultures. Many parts of Asia, especially China, had equal if not superior technologies in guns, ships, textiles, metallurgy, and agriculture. The world economy was in fact dominated by China.[14] Moreover, the science of Copernicus, Kepler, Laplace, Descartes, and Bacon had their equivalents in other civilizations — it was a global phenomenon. As for the intellectual movements of Ancient Greece, they originated from Africa and the Near East. In short, according to the “willing dupes and traitors” who profess this fantasy, “the Eurocentric claim that Europe with its exceptional culture and institutions created a higher level of technical and scientific proficiency is no more than a myopic perspective lacking a global vision. … The major transformations of history are due to world connections and two-way cultural influences.”[15]

Everything until then, so they tell us, was therefore fair and square, everyone had his word to say, and every civilization shared equally in the artistic, scientific, technical, economic, philosophical, and moral advances that were made. If any divergence existed, it was primarily due to different competitive and ecological pressures. From this perspective, what spoiled it all, what made the European civilization different than others happened after the Industrial Revolution.

After the Industrial Revolution

After this crucial turning point of history, so they tell us, Europeans, for some unexplainable reason, lost their mind and started exploring the world and forming colonies here and there in order to plunder the natural resources of these newly discovered territories. “Pale faces” killed, raped, and enslaved the peaceful and noble savages of these regions, aka, the Third World. That’s how they got rich and how they managed to get ahead in all aspects of life. They basically pounced on other cultures and stole everything they had.

In short, if today’s Third-World countries are going nowhere, it’s mainly because the White slave nations emptied it of its lifeblood before building their industrial revolutions on the profits of slavery and then plundering them through colonial exploitation. This is, of course, a fantasy as shown in Slavery and Colonialism. Are Whites responsible for the Stagnation of Africa and Blacks in General.

Races, which are cultural constructs, so they tell us, had absolutely nothing to do with it. There are no innate influences on behaviour, in other words, that could give one race an edge on the others. There is only one race, the human race, and we are all equal under the skin and in the head, according to the willing dupes and traitors of the Flowerman people: “This is so because we say so. There is no need to validate any of our claims. Science is what we choose it to be. And if you don’t like it, we’ll shame you, dox you, send our Antifa attack dogs against you, get you fired from your job, call you a racist, a bigot, an anti-Semite, a fascist, a Nazi, and a White supremacist.” This is, of course, fear-mongering, intimidation, and another fantasy.

The Role of Biology

Whites  are endowed with unique characteristics that demoralized and subdued Whites who think of themselves as the scum of the earth should consider before depreciating themselves and bowing down to Third-World invaders and the willing dupes and traitors of the Flowerman people.[16]

Truth be told, Whites “originated and developed all the disciplinary fields of knowledge taught in our universities: archeology, botany, economics, sociology, anthropology, history, biology, chemistry, genetics, physics, geology, philosophy, geography—all of them including theology,” as Dr. Duchesne shows in his most recent book, Greatness and Ruin.[17]

According to Dr. Charles Murray, the author of Human Accomplishments: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950:

97% of accomplishments in science, whether measured in people or events, occurred in Europe and North America from 800 BC to 1950. The sheer number of significant figures in the arts is higher in the West in comparison to the combined number of the other civilizations. In literature, the number in the West is 835; whereas in India the Arab world, China and Japan combined, the number is 293. In the visual arts, it is 477 for the West as compared to 192 for China and Japan combined (with no significant figures listed for India and the Arab World). In music, the lack of a tradition of named composers in non-Western civilizations means that the Western total of 522 significant figures has no real competition at all.[18]

As Joseph Sobran said in 1997:

Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible. It’s Western exploration, science, and conquest that revealed the world to itself. Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared. The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel no hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation. The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it. And superiority excites envy. Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call “minorities.”[19]

These are facts you are not allowed to state in universities and schools.[20] The willing dupes and traitors of the Flowerman people will not allow it. Why? Stuck on their mantra “race is a social construct,” they cannot admit that the European civilization is the greatest civilization the world has ever known precisely because of one word: biology. Races are real, and they are not equal in aptitudes. As shown in the following articles, some races such as the White race are in fact more intelligent, more adventurous, and more creative than others.[21], [22]

Race is Real

DeepSeek on Race, Egalitarianism, Jews, the Rulers of the World and the Solution to the Problems They Cause.)

“We are indeed,” laments Dr. Duchesne, “in the midst of one of the most paradoxical phenomena ever witnessed: the very civilization that insisted more than any other that truthfulness requires impartial reasoning and a ‘weight of evidence’ approach is now fabricating facts to fit with an ideological agenda.”[23]

In the end, you could say, as Dr. Duchesne states in his book, Greatness and Ruin, that this fabrication of facts is a “deeply embedded expression of the emancipatory project of Western liberalism itself,” [24] and you wouldn’t be wrong either, if you added, as stated by Dr. Kevin MacDonald and others,[25], [26] that the emancipatory project of liberalism, which came to fruition in the 1960s, was deeply imbued with cultural Marxism and decisively promoted by its Jewish overlords as Jews rose to elite status throughout the West. They are the “Flowerman people” as described in this article.

[1] Kerry Bolton, PhD, The Perversion of Normality. From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs, Arktos, 2021.

[2] Kevin MacDonald, PhD, The Culture of Critique. An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, 3rd Edition, Antelope Hill Publishing, 2025.

[3] Cited by Bruce Gilley, PhD, The Case for Colonialism, New English Review Press2023, p. 256.

[4] Samuel H. Flowerman, PhD, “Mass Propaganda and the War Against Bigotry,” The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. 42 (4), Oct 1977, pp. 429-439.

[5] Andrew Joyce, PhD, “Modify the standards of the in-group: On Jews and Mass Communications,” The Occidental Observer, January 14, 2020/24.

[6] Kevin MacDonald, PhD, “Samuel H. Flowerman: Pathologizing White Ethnocentrism in the Mass Media,” Culture of Critique, work cited, p. 386 to 393.

[7] Kerry Bolton, PhD, Revolution from Above. Manufacturing “Dissent” in the New World Order, Arktos, 2011.

[8] Ricardo Duchesne, PhD, Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age, Arktos, 2019, p. 103.

[9] Ibid.

[10] Kevin MacDonald, PhD, work cited.

[11] Ibid., p.104.

[12] Kerry Bolton, PhD, Revolution from Above. Manufacturing ‘Dissent’ in the New World Order, Arktos, 2011.

[13] Kerry Bolton, PhD,  The Tyranny of Human Rights. From Jacobinism to the United Nations, Antelope Publishers, 2022, p. 379-381.

[14] Ricardo Duchesne, PhD, Faustian Man, work cited, p. 75.

[15] Ibid., p. 105.

[16] Ricardo Duchesne, PhD, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Brill, 2011; see also his latest book, Greatness and Ruin: Self-Reflection and Universalism within European Civilization, Antelope Hill, March 28, 2025.

[17] Ricardo Duchesne, PhD, Greatness and Ruin. Self-Reflexion and Universalism Within European Civilization, Antelope Hill Publishing, 2025, p. 263.

[18] Charles Murray, PhD, Human accomplishments: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950, Harper Collins, 2003.

[19] Gregory Hood, “Resentment and Race,” American Renaissance, April 13, 2022.

[20] Ricardo Duchesne, PhD, Greatness and Ruin. Self-reflection and Universalism Within European Civilization, Antelope Hill Publishing, 2024, p. 264.

[21] Charles Murray, PhD, Human Diversity. The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, TWELVE, 2020, cited by Ricardo Duchesne in Faustian Man, p. 193.

[22] Ricardo Duchesne, PhD, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Brill, 2011; see also his latest book, Greatness and Ruin: Self-Reflection and Universalism within European Civilization, Antelope Hill, March 28, 2025.

[23] Ricardo Duchesne, PhD, Greatness and Ruin. Self-reflection and Universalism Within European Civilization, Antelope Hill Publishing, 2024, p. 264.

[24] Ibid.

[25] Kevin MacDonald, PhD, The Culture of Critique. An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, 3rd Edition, Antelope Hill Publishing, 2025.

[26] Kerry Bolton, PhD, The Perversion of Normality. From the Marquis de Sade to Cyborgs, Arktos, 2021.

Such Skill Beneath the Skull: Celebrating the White Genius of Dutch Art

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death
Laura Cumming (Chatto and Windus, 2023)

Reading is richer for racists. That’s on the good side. On the bad side, reading can be more regretful for racists too. You’ll find both the good side and the bad side of racist reading in Laura Cumming’s excellent book Thunderclap. It’s partly a study of art in the Dutch Golden Age and partly a memoir of how the author came to know and love that art. And to base part of her career on it: Cumming has been “chief art critic of the Observer since 1999.” That is, she’s a Guardianista (the Observer is the Sunday edition of the Guardian). And she wrote this book for other Guardianistas. But it isn’t Guardianistas who will get the most out of the book or the art it discusses and displays.

Thunderclap with a skilful skull, Vanitas by the Flemish master Hendrick Andriessen[1] (Wikipedia)

No, it will be racists and sexists like me. This is because Guardianistas won’t notice, or won’t dare to notice, some fascinating and important questions raised by the book. The Netherlands — the Low Countries comprising modern Holland, Belgium et al — is a small region whose population numbered perhaps two million by the Golden Age of the seventeenth century. And yet from the Middle Ages that small population turned out painters of astonishing subtlety and skill. They outcompeted in quality and quantity the far larger and more populous nations of France, Germany and Britain, and were matched or surpassed only by Italy. The Netherlands was the birthplace of Van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt and Vermeer, creators of immortal art whom we can justly call geniuses. Yet Cumming never asks why and how this could be so. How could such a small region produce so many world-conquering painters?[2] And such good painting in such quantity?

Holland in the hexagon: We owe “97% of human accomplishment” since the 1300s to White men in this region

If she had asked those questions, she would of course have confined her answers entirely to culture and invention. And yes, culture and invention — glass and lenses, for example — do undoubtedly explain some of the Dutch success in art before and during the Golden Age. But those things alone don’t and can’t explain all of it. Genetics played a central part too, because genetics was involved in all of it: the art, the culture, the invention. Those sublime skills arose within skulls of a particular kind. Dutch genius was a subset of White genius, of the evolved intelligence and inventiveness of White northern Europeans. Holland sits inside a hexagon of achievement identified by Charles Murray in his book Human Accomplishment (2003): “97% of human accomplishment since the 14th century occurred from men born in this region.” Among the men discussed by Murray are Rembrandt and Vermeer, two Dutch masters who are also discussed by Cumming in Thunderclap. But her book centers on a Dutch master whose art is now far better known than his name. Millions of people are familiar with this painting, for example:

The Goldfinch or Het puttertje (1654) (Wikipedia)

But who painted it? I knew the painting when I picked Thunderclap up earlier this year, but I couldn’t have told you the name of the painter. He was Carel Fabritius, born in 1622 and killed thirty-two years later in the huge accidental explosion from which Thunderclap takes its title. The Dutch town of Delft was deafened and part-destroyed in the mid-morning of 12th October 1654, when the carelessness of a government official ignited stocks of gunpowder held in a vault near the center of the town. This is how Cumming describes the disaster:

Trees are torn from their roots, bodies lifted into the air in a torrential uprush. It takes a while for the living to rise up from the ground, stunned and terrified of another blast. Which comes, as 90,000 pounds of black gunpowder stored in barrels in the vault detonate in a rapid bombing pattern of explosions that rip through Delft, exactly as happened in the present century when the port of Beirut exploded, the sound heard as far away as Cyprus. Some citizens are tormented by tinnitus for weeks. Others are permanently deafened. (“Three,” p. 223)

Fabritius was carried severely injured from the ruins of his house and died shortly afterwards. It was the final tragedy of a tragic life, for he had lost his first wife in childbirth and three children to disease by then. Death came early and often in those days, but Cumming understands only the tragedy of that, not the implications for human evolution. Fabritius seems to have left no descendants: he failed genetically. But he triumphed memetically, because one thing survived from his shattered house. As Cumming describes on the final page of Thunderclap, modern scanning has revealed that his most famous painting was there on that thunderous day. But the fragments driven against it by the blast “did not split or shatter” its surface “because it was not dry.” No, “The Goldfinch was still wet, still drying, a work in progress like its maker, a living thing in the studio when Fabritius was dying.” (p. 256)

That’s a memorable image to end a memorable book, a celebration of some of the world’s greatest art and greatest artists in one of the world’s smallest and least geographically fortunate nations. Vermeer is celebrated in Thunderclap, of course, and Cumming casts a skilful and appreciative eye over masterpieces like View of Delft (c. 1660):

Zicht op Delft or View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1660) (Wikipedia)

But she centers the book on Fabritius and does her best to give him some of Vermeer’s stature. I don’t think she succeeds. Yes, The Goldfinch is a masterpiece, but not at Vermeer’s level and I wouldn’t apply the same label to the rest of what has survived of Fabritius’s art. Instead, I’d call it strange and interesting. Perhaps if he had lived longer or painted more, his name would be better known today. But he was neither prolific nor fortunate, and it was obviously the tragedy and mystery of his life that drew Cumming to him. He’s a tragic hero, bereaved early and often before dying young and suddenly, having just created what would become a world-conquering piece of avian art. But I think a piece of vegetable art included in the book is greater than almost anything that has survived by Fabritius. It’s Still Life of Asparagus by Adriaen Coorte (c. 1665–c. 1707):

Coorte, Adriaen; Still Life of Asparagus; The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/still-life-of-asparagus-141862

Still Life of Asparagus or Stilleven met asperges by Adriaen Coorte (version in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

To invest a face or a finch or a flower with sublimity is high achievement for an artist. But higher still is to invest vegetables with sublimity. That’s what Coorte did in the still-life above. And in Laura Cumming’s own life, his painting would be a leap to the sublime from the ridiculous. How so? Well, she describes how she was studying literature at Oxford and went to see the “French philosopher Derrida” speak at the Modern Languages Faculty. But Derrida was delivering his “impeccably difficult lecture” in French and she felt ashamed not to follow it well. To console herself afterwards, she visited the Ashmolean Museum next door. It was there that she “saw a small painting glowing in a gallery dim with shadows.” It was her first encounter with the art of Coorte, whom she would come to regard as “the greatest” of “Dutch still-life painters”:

It showed a bunch of asparagus lying on a shelf, perhaps a dozen spears, running from white to silvery-green at the tips. This humble sheaf, tied up with string, is positioned at a curious tilt. But what strikes first and last is the black and white thunderclap — the obliterating darkness from which these stalks stand out in a light so bright it appears to come from within as well as from without. Young asparagus has that pale metallic sheen, as if it had stored up some internal power from growing up out of darkness. But this light was almost supernaturally bright, darting along the edge of the stone shelf like a laser, igniting the nubs and tips and woody root where the blade has sliced right through — such modest vegetables held in such glory. (“Two,” p. 139)

Those seven final words are an excellent summary of the appeal of Dutch art in the Golden Age: “such modest vegetables held in such glory.” The Protestantism of Vermeer and Rembrandt had replaced the Catholicism of Bosch and Van Eyck, the mundane had replaced the Madonna, but Dutch art was still celebrating miracles. Indeed, paintings like Coorte’s still-life make a miracle out of the mundane and the material. In a sense, he sanctified the bunch of asparagus, investing its color and shape and fleeting presence with an awe that escapes any hint of incongruity. Yes, the painting tells you, matter is miraculous and the modesty of Still Life of Asparagus multiplies the miracle.

Flowers in an Ornamental Vase or Bloemen in een siervaas by Maria van Oosterwijck (1670) (Wikipedia)

A couple of pages before that, there’s a fiery and flamboyant still-life of flowers by the female artist Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-93). It’s an excellent painting, full of color, detail and what Cumming rightly calls joie de vivre. But it isn’t full of genius in the way that Coorte’s “modest vegetables” are. And that raises another question that Guardianistas like Cumming do not like to ask or even acknowledge. Why is genius so much a male phenomenon? Why do men invent and innovate on a scale and over a range far beyond women?

More particularly — and more unspeakably still for Guardianistas — why do White men have such a disproportionate share of genius? As Charles Murray said, “97% of human accomplishment since the 14th century occurred from men born” in that north European hexagon with its corners over lowland Scotland, Denmark, central Europe, central Italy, southern France and southern England. It’s a hexagon of White male genius: there has been no female Vermeer just as there has been no female Mozart or female Newton.[3] Guardianistas would of course attribute that over-achievement of White men entirely to culture, contingency and male evil, because their leftist dogmas state that all human groups, men and women, Whites and Blacks, gays and straights, are the same under the skin and should therefore succeed or fail at exactly the same rates.

“A team of brilliant women”

That isn’t true and leftists don’t in fact behave as though it’s true. That’s why they believe that male evil explains male success and White evil explains White success. While leftists preach equality, they practise hierarchy, because they believe in privilege for their pets, like women and Muslims, and punishment for their enemies, like men and Christians. That’s why they’re concerned about unequal outcomes only when their favorites are on the losing side. When their favorites are on the winning side, inequality ceases to matter. You can see that double standard in the book under review. In the acknowledgements, Cumming thanks “a team of brilliant women” at her publisher Chatto & Windus, which is now dominated by women like most big publishers in the English-speaking world. Is that female domination a good thing? Of course it is! Does it represent prejudice against men and self-centered scheming by women? Of course it doesn’t! Unlike men, women dominate on merit, not malevolence. Those are the answers you’d get from leftists. But female domination of modern publishing isn’t a good thing. For a start, women are less adventurous and more censorious than men. I don’t think Thunderclap would have been as lyrical or as emotionally rich if it had written by Edward Dutton, but it would have been far more insightful, far more thought-provoking and far readier to ask uncomfortable questions about the racial, sexual and cultural patterns in the art it addresses.

Brilliant Female Publishing: Europe becomes the Black Continent for these travel-guides by Dorling Kindersley

But Dutton’s iconoclasm and intellectual buccaneering are  precisely why the “team of brilliant women” at Chatto would reject any book by him about any aspect of European art or culture. Dutton is a racist, sexist and homophobe with, for leftists, unspeakably wicked ideas about genetics, psychology and racial difference. He belongs to a thoroughly unfavored group, that of the White Heterosexual Able-bodied Male or WHAM. So we have the irony of a modern publishing world where it’s women deciding what can be said about the work of White male geniuses like Vermeer and Rembrandt. But I need to give Cumming her due: she isn’t hostile to WHAMs in this book. She doesn’t belong to the Culture of Critique and she doesn’t shoehorn slavery or colonialism anywhere into her analysis. She celebrates Dutch culture and the Dutch throughout rather than denigrating or deconstructing them.

No risk of wrath

And the book is, in part, a celebration of the WHAM responsible for her own existence: her father James Cumming (1922-91), a Scottish modernist painter who helped waken her love of art and of Dutch art in particular. I don’t like the paintings by him reproduced here, but I did like the irony of the final image in the book being a detail from his colorful painting Chromosomes II. Cumming muses on the painting and its title earlier in the book:  “Chroma: colour. Soma: body.” (p. 108) But she doesn’t acknowledge and would never admit that real chromosomes underlie what is celebrated in her book: the embodied genius of White men who could capture color and shape so skilfully on canvas.

The color of chromosomes: how race is obvious in genetic geometry

Her father wasn’t a genius, but it’s perfectly understandable that she should seek to celebrate him and make his art more widely known. He’s family and leftists don’t condemn Whites who celebrate and defend their own family. But they do condemn Whites who celebrate and defend their super-family, that is, their race. Cumming runs no risk of leftist wrath in Thunderclap. She doesn’t celebrate her own race or even acknowledge its existence. She presents Dutch artistic genius as though it emerged ex nihilo and owed nothing to genetics or evolution. That’s why she doesn’t write as richly as Dutton might have done. It’s also why her book won’t be read as richly by Guardianistas as it is by racists and sexists like me.

Deliberate disaster

But her book won’t be read as regretfully by Guardianistas either. I both relished and regretted the celebration of Dutch artistic genius in Thunderclap. What did I regret? I regretted what I knew lay ahead for the nation of Vermeer, Rembrandt and Fabritius. A much slower and much more insidious disaster awaited Holland than that accidental detonation of gunpowder stocks in 1654. And it wasn’t an accidental disaster. No, it was the deliberate opening of Holland’s borders to the Third World. Laura Cumming can feel the tragedy of Carel Fabritius losing his wife and children in the seventeenth century. Why can she not feel the tragedy of the native White Dutch losing their nation in the twentieth-first century?

And not just losing their nation: losing it to groups of far lower intelligence and far less achievement. Non-White groups like Moroccan Muslims didn’t give the world sublime art when they lived in their homelands and the magic dirt of Holland hasn’t enabled them to do so after they moved there. What they excel at is not art or invention, but violent crime, welfare dependency, fraud and political corruption. Like Britain, Holland has Muslim rape-gangs and, like Britain again, Holland has leftists enabling and excusing the rape-gangs. Cumming discusses and praises female artists like Maria van Oosterwijck and Rachel Ruysch in her book. But what about the female descendants of those Dutch female greats? Those descendants are at risk and under attack in ways that their ancestress-artists could never have foreseen. Because who could have foreseen in the Dutch Golden Age that the civilized Christian Netherlands, newly liberated from Catholic Spain, would open its borders to Muslim barbarians?

Genius and genetic pacification

Cumming regrets vanished art again and again in Thunderclap, like “the treasury of Golden Age art lost [aboard ship] off Finland in 1771 on its way to Catherine the Great in Russia.” (p. 129) She laments that “Dutch painters are always in debt, verging on destitution: Van Goyen, De Hooch, Fabritius, Vermeer, Rembrandt above all.” (p. 191) But she doesn’t regret or lament what is happening to the whole of Holland in the twenty-first century: submersion beneath a mud-flood and the conversion of what could have been a golden future into something quite different. Now Holland’s future, like Britain’s, threatens to be a bloody chaos of civil war and ethnic cleansing.

But perhaps the atrocities of Holland’s future were predictable from the art of Holland’s past. The art discussed and displayed in Thunderclap is sublime, subtle, spiritual. But it could also be described as subdued and even subjugated. It occasionally contains soldiers but it isn’t martial or militant. It has genius but also gentleness, because it expresses the psychology of a genetically pacified people who had lived for many centuries under a strong state that executed criminals and protected the law-abiding. That’s genetic pacification: a strong state removes genes for violence, sensation-seeking and criminality even as it protects genes for self-control, industry and resistance to boredom. So was this painting by Carel Fabritius an unintended prophecy of Holland’s future?

The Sentry or De poort bewaker by Carel Fabritius (1654) (Wikipedia)

What does The Sentry mean? Art-critics are still arguing about that: as Cumming says, it “is the most enigmatic of Fabritius’s scant few works.” (p. 159) But it could be read as an unintentional allegory of Holland asleep as traitors prepared to release the mud-flood of unassimilable and under-achieving tribalists from the non-White regions like Turkey, Morocco and the Moluccas (a former Dutch colony today part of Indonesia). Those non-White homelands have never produced a Vermeer or a Leeuwenhoek, the great Dutch microscopist who also appears in Thunderclap. He’ll remind some readers that Holland has oversized achievements in science and technology too. Holland’s heritage is mighty and worth fighting for.

And it will be fought for, because the true White Dutch are not dead. The genius of Vermeer, Van Eyck, Rembrandt and the rest now has to be seen not as ars gratia artis, “art for the sake of art,” but as ars gratia Martis, “art for the sake of Mars.” If the White Dutch want to retain their nation and the glories of its art, they will have to fight. And I think they will fight. When I read Thunderclap, I found it impossible to believe that a nation capable of such greatness would ever be defeated by enemies of such inferiority. That’s the final of the racist messages in Thunderclap that its Guardianista author never intended to put there.

[1]  This painting doesn’t appear in Thunderclap, but I needed something both skilful and skullful.

[2]  Vermeer was not properly recognized outside the Netherlands until long after his day, but his art has now conquered the world.

[3]  As the provocateur Camille Paglia once put it: “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”