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2012 TOO Fundraising Appeal

It’s time for our annual fundraising appeal. I’d like to first thank those who have contributed during 2012.  Much appreciated . With your generous support, we have been able to put out over 300 articles and blogs in the past year.

We are doing pretty well financially—we are definitely not going away, but we could certainly do better. Several of our stalwarts are providing material gratis, and others are underpaid in terms of their situation in life and need for income.

Donations to TOO are tax deductible for Americans through the Charles Martel Society, the same organization that sponsors The Occidental Quarterly. TOO and TOQ remain separate entities (even though I am editor of both). However, money donated to TOO is now routed into a separate account at the CMS.

The links for tax deductible donations are here. This page also provides instructions for donors who wish to remain anonymous or prefer to send checks. And foreign donors and others unconcerned about US taxes may use the link on the main donations page or go here directly.

My comments in the last fundraiser are still apt:

The reasons for contributing to TOO have never been more obvious. TOO occupies a unique space on the Internet. Quite simply, we are the only site where Jewish issues are consistently discussed openly and honestly, with intellectual depth and without resorting to name calling and propaganda. As everyone knows by now, the mainstream media routinely avoids discussions of Jewish issues in a way that might offend Jewish sensibilities. Just in the last few months, it has been stunning to behold how quickly Rick Sanchez and Helen Thomas were fired because they dared to depart from the media mantra of Jews as oppressed and morally above reproach. The message is clear: Don’t mess with the Jews. Truth and reasonableness are not defenses. As Joe Sobran said, a hypocritical etiquette forces most commentators to portray Jews as powerless and oppressed victims—and if you depart from this line these “victims” will destroy you.

This is a very exciting time. There is very encouraging progress in Europe where concern about Muslim immigration has led to an upsurge of mainstream political parties that reflect disenchantment with the multicultural future envisioned by the elites. There is enormous anger among lower- and middle-class Whites in the United States, but there is a crying need for intellectual leadership that will direct this anger into explicit opposition to multiculturalism and massive non-White immigration and an explicit awareness of all of the forces that oppose our interests.

One of the exciting things about the present state of the Internet is that there are quite a few outlets now for White advocacy as well as sites that are critical of Jews and Israel. In fact, one has the feeling that Jewish organizations are on the defensive, particularly about Israel. Israel is increasingly showing its Jewish character as a hostile, aggressive, ethnonationalist state with all of the characteristics that make organized Jewish Diaspora communities in the West such formidable foes. This year’s list by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of the year’s “Top Ten Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs” shows an increasing awareness around the world of Jewish power and of the brutal nature of Israel.

Please help make us stronger. Again, the links for tax deductible donations are here. This page also provides instructions for donors who wish to remain anonymous or prefer to send checks. And foreign donors and others unconcerned about US taxes may use the link on the main donations page or go here directly.

Thanks for thinking of TOO.

On Traitors and Victims: The Ans van Dijk Story

On a cold winter morning in January 1948 a Jewish woman, Ans van Dijk, was executed in Fort Bijlmer near Amsterdam after being sentenced to death for collaboration with the German occupiers during World War II. The pivotal questions are why a Jewish woman was executed after the liberation and how she became involved in collaboration with the Germans during the war. Consulting the literature and sources on this topic reveal some astonishing facts which shed a different light on the fate of Dutch Jews in Holland in World War II.

Ans van Dijk

Anna (called “Ans”) van Dijk was born in 1905 to a Jewish family in Amsterdam. In 1927 she married to Bram Querido, and in 1940 her life took a dramatic turn when her father died in a mental hospital and she divorced her husband. Meanwhile the Germans had occupied Holland and she embarked on a lesbian relationship with the Miep Stodel. Stodel left her to flee to Switzerland and Van Dijk decided to go into hiding to evade deportation to Poland.

In 1943 Ans van Dijk was arrested by the German Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service—SD) and after she promised to work for the SD she was released. She posed as a member of the resistance who could provide hiding places and fake identity passes, but in reality she would report Jews in hiding to the SD. Van Dijk would not only evade deportation by her co-operation but was endowed with bounty money for everyone she turned in. She was the perfect agent because her Jewish appearance made her look trustworthy in the eyes of the resistance.

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Jews and the Occupy Wall St. Protests: Bill Handel says “My Tribe Controls Wall St.”

The Occupy Wall St. movement and its many offshoots have clearly become creatures of the left. Although it’s hard to say what it was originally, it is becoming the left’s answer to the Tea Party’s angry middle-aged and middle-class White people: angry young, mainly White people worried about their prospects and expressing themselves in left-speak. Locally, the campus liberals at CSULB are promoting Occupy Long Beach, and nationally one hears the likes of Michael Moore on MSNBC touting it. On the other hand, from conservatives there is a reflexive disdain and accusations that OWS movement is funded and organized by activists associated with leftist organizations like the SEIU and ACORN.

There are certainly a lot of reasons to complain about Wall St. The financial meltdown is the greatest elite malfeasance/fraud in memory, and to date none of the high-level perpetrators have been prosecuted–those who made the markets for bundled mortgages given to people who could not possibly repay. The financial meltdown of 2008 continues to reverberate in world economies, resulting in enormously increased debt loads at all levels of government, politically volatile levels of unemployment, and an as yet uncertain outcome.

It’s ironic perhaps that there has been a very visible Jewish presence to the OWS movement. (See “Occupy Wall St. protests taking on a Jewish flavor, ” JTA, Oct. 11, 2011.)

From progressive activists who seek to conflate the protesters’ aspirations with Jewish values to Chabadniks looking for opportunities to have Jews to perform mitzvahs such as sitting in a sukkah, the Occupy Wall Street protests are becoming a fulcrum of Jewish ferment. In Boston and Philadelphia, too, Jewish activists held Yom Kippur services at the site of the demonstrations.

“For many of us, social justice is where we find our Judaism,” said Regina Weiss, the communications director for the Progressive Jewish Alliance & Jewish Funds for Justice. “For many there is no more important way to stand up and express Judaism on the holiest night of the year [Yom Kippur] than to stand with people who are hurting and to stand up for greater equality in the country.” Read more

Stalin’s 1937 Counter-Revolution Against Trotskyism

Glorious 1937! In that year Stalin finally came to understand that it was Zionism, not Communism, that was being built in the USSR and he destroyed it. After 1937, Suvorov and Kutuzov, Nakhimov and Ushakov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky and the “Knight in Tiger Skin” became the national symbols. And the Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians – all those whom the Zionists had destroyed and left to rot in prisons, labeled “nationalists” or “anti-Semites – returned. General Viktor Filatov[1]

In his book Myths and the Truth about 1937: Stalin’s Counter-Revolution (YAZA-PRESS, Moscow, 2010, 288 pp.), Andrei Burovsky assumes the role of devil’s advocate or apologist for the crimes committed by Josef Stalin during the time of  “The Great Purge.”

This is a highly revisionist point of view, so a bit of biographical information is in order. Burovsky was born in Taganrog in SW Russia in July 1955. He majored in history at the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical Institute, defended his Candidate’s Dissertation (The Historical and Cultural Stages of the Development of the Paleolithic Yenisei River) at the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Archaeology in 1987, and defended his Doctoral Dissertation (Problematics in Anthropo-Ecology in 1996. He was made a professor in 1998 and since that time has had a position at Krasnoyarsk University.

Burovsky is a prolific author (see, e.g., here). Aside from Burovsky’s 12 books on Jewish topics (I previously reviewed his Empire of the Intellect for TOO), he has written on a variety of subjects, including  Noogenesis and the Formation of the Noosphere School, 1996; Anthropo-Ecosophia, 2009; Petersburg as a Geographic Phenomenon, 2003; Arian Ancestors, 2005;The Great Civil [sic] War, 1939-45, 2010; Russian Atlantis, 2007; The Novgorod Alternative: The True Capital of RusPeter the First: The Accursed Emperor, etc.

Burovsky’s view is that the events of 1937 did not represent the usual case in which the devil under indictment is accused of crimes against innocent victims, but rather a case in which the devil is alleged to have committed crimes against another devil of even greater evil; it was the war between Stalin and Trotsky. True, Stalin had succeeded in exiling his nemesis in 1929, but the spirit of Trotskyism, according to Burovsky, had permeated the entire communist establishment and the Red dictator was determined to eradicate it.
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Author of “The Help” accused of racism; sued

As we’ve all heard countless times, the opera ain’t over until the fat lady sings. This certainly applies to America’s latest soap opera, The Help, which is nothing more than a heaping helping of warmed-over Civil Rights Movement (CRM) leftovers served up by the the usual suspects in Hollywood.

In case you’ve been in a coma for the past several months, The Help (twice reviewed in TOO, here and, by yours truly, here) is a fictional, anti-White story about black maids in the South during the CRM, before the blessed triumph of liberalism when “the walls came a’tumblin down.”

The movie is based on a novel by the same name written by a White Jackson, Mississippi woman named Kathryn Stockett, who supposedly used her insider information to blow the lid off of the hidden record of atrocities visited upon the humble but lovable (but surprisingly spunky and resourceful) Black maids that once upon a time served as maids for haughty white socialites like herself and her family.

Kathryn portrays herself as the White heroine of the piece (no surprise there), Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a character with a dash of Gloria Steinem and Harriet Beecher Stowe thrown in for good measure. The principal Black heroine of the film/novel is Kathryn’s former family maid Ablene Cooper, portrayed as all things wise and wonderful, just like most Black people are in real life!

The film’s primary villains, of course, are Kathryn’s fellow Junior Leaguers with appropriately preppy names like “Hilly,” portrayed with a nuance and sensitivity that makes Cruella De Ville look like Mother Theresa. Read more

Plundering the U.S. Taxpayer, again

Forward caption: Security at a Cost: Congregation B’nai Israel of Staten Island installs new windows, paid for by a federal grant.

Since 2005, you taxpayers will be pleased to know, you have been paying for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with results so blatantly ethnocentric that even The Jewish Daily Forward has flinched:

How an Anti-Terror Program Became a Jewish Earmark by Nathan Guttman, Maia Efrem and Eileen Reynolds September 14, 2011

A Forward analysis of the 995 grants distributed through the national program from 2007 to 2010 found that 734, or 73.7%, went to Jewish organizations. DHS announced its grants for 2011 in late August, and here, too, Jewish groups were the big winners, with 81% of those awards.

Examining the grants program provides a window into Jewish organizational and political power. It is this power that allowed a small community to create and maintain a government program tailored specifically for its needs and catering almost exclusively to its members…

The legislation and the rules defining eligibility make no mention of preferring Jewish institutions, but in practice the program could easily be viewed as a Jewish earmark. Read more

Social Nationalism: The Political Thought of Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus

Alexander Lukashenko

Here we proceed from the fact that the mentality, traditions and way of life of the people cannot be changed overnight. Must they be changed at all? It cannot be possible to throw unprepared people into the market abyss—Alexander Lukashenko, 2002

We have once again felt ourselves a part of the sacred whole, which name is the people of Belarus. We have made sure: A healthy nation is being formed in our country. Healthy not only physically, but also spiritually–(Alexander Lukashenko, 2009)

Alexander Lukashenko is probably the most maligned politician in the world today. The reasons for this are not difficult to discover. Contrary to the prattle about his alleged “tyranny,” Lukashenko is under attack due to his success. Truth be told, of course, Belarus has more important opposition parties than the U.S., and also has a press that is part state-owned, but with many legal opposition newspapers in existence, partly funded by the United States and the EU. Nevertheless, his success is not based on this.

Lukashenko is victimized because he has proven the economic success of the social nationalist model, or what he calls the “social market” model as opposed to libertarian capitalism. There is no doubt this model has strong national associations, is generally pro-Russian and looks to the East, rather than the terminally ill West, for its economic future. Belarus was one of the most essential components of the old Soviet Union. She is very well educated, specializing in electronics and fuel transport and refining. This makes her highly strategic and a threat to the failing West. Read more