James Edwards Interviews Pat Buchanan on the Death of the West

What follows is a transcript of an interview conducted by talk radio host James Edwards with Patrick J. Buchanan upon the initial release of his book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?  We revisit this conversation because the year in question has now arrived, and many of the concerns raised during the discussion still remain. This transcript has never before appeared online and has been edited for brevity.

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James Edwards: Pat, thanks for being back with me again, and congratulations on the early success of your latest title. Writing a book is like printing money. Everybody loves you!

Patrick J. Buchanan: No, James. They give me an advance and then I go out and try to sell as many as I can to help the publisher get it back.

Edwards: I saw someone buying it at Target last night, of all places. Maybe you should run for president.

Buchanan: Been there, done that!

Edwards: Well, let’s jump right into the thick of it. Do we currently have front-row seats to the end of Western Civilization and culture as we know it?

Buchanan: I believe the answer is yes, from a variety of standpoints. In one chapter, I discuss the “Demographic Winter” of the West. Currently, no Western country has a birth rate among its native-born population that is sufficient for it to sustain itself in any recognizable form by the end of this century.

It is my argument that when Christianity, which was the faith that created the West, when the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, and then the people die. And I think that’s true down through history. And we certainly see that in Europe, for example, which is well advanced ahead of us, where something like one in ten people go to church in Great Britain, I believe. More people attend Muslim mosques on holy days of the week than go to Anglican churches.

So, I think the West was created by this great religion, and that created the magnificent culture of the Middle Ages, out of which came all these great countries, which really dominated the world through the twentieth century, with empires basically dominating every country on earth almost, except for Japan. And now look at where they are. I think you see a civilization basically in retreat. As Toynbee said, “Civilizations die by suicide, not by murder.”

Edwards: I’m glad you brought up our faith in your book. It is dying in America and that precedes the death of a nation. In Russia, however, there seems to be at least somewhat of a revival of Christianity. I have read reports that the Russian government has even tried to encourage its citizens to have more children. Is Russia coming to its senses in a way that we in the West are not?

Buchanan: Well, I think the Russians went through hell for 70 years under Bolshevism.  They were a deeply religious and patriotic people who were Orthodox Christians. And when Lenin and Stalin came in, the church was literally murdered. I was over there in 1971, I guess, and we went down to this museum of Atheism in Leningrad, which was a gigantic cathedral. They turned it into that, and everything had been emptied out.

So, they went through 70 years of hell. And it’s very true that when they were liberated from Bolshevism and Communism, many returned to the faith. But frankly, James, if you look at the numbers there, Russia’s current birthrate may lead to a loss of approximately 25 million people by 2050. I have the statistics in my book.

Suicide of a Superpower also deals with what’s happening in Russia and these other countries. They’ve already lost 8 million in the last two decades ever since they became free, and the women are not having children. I think the median death age of Russian men is now something like 60. It has not only to do with the lack of births but apparently, the health system is terrible. There’s alcoholism. I think the average woman has seven abortions. I’ve had that in an earlier book.

Edwards: I once said during an appearance on CNN that you can’t have a first-world nation with a third-world population. Moving on to another aspect of your excellent new book, which I have a review copy of right here on my desk, you write that “White America is an endangered species.”  Pat, what is America going to look like if Whites go extinct?

Buchanan: I don’t think Whites are going to go extinct — I mean, certainly not in the near future.  But what is happening, as you see in California, is that Americans of European descent are already a minority, and that is true in Texas, and it is true, I believe, in New Mexico and Hawaii.  And in this decade, I think six more states will pass the tipping point where Whites become a minority. I think the best way to understand what America will look like is to look at California today. The Hispanic population will be immense, 135,000,000, according to the Census Bureau of Statistics.

California was once the Golden Land. Everybody went there. It was paradise. The soldiers who went out to the Pacific came home and then made their homes there.

But what is happening out there, James, is that the bond rating is the lowest in the country. The taxes are enormously heavy on the well-to-do and the successful, and these folks are leaving the state while one-third of poor, illegal immigrants head for California. You’ve got a Black/brown war of the underclass going on in Los Angeles, according to Sheriff Lee Baca, in the gangs and in the prisons. The welfare state is bankrupting California, and they have some of the highest taxes in the nation.

So, I think this is what the country is going to look like. And I quote the famous Harvard sociologist, Robert Putnam. He did a study of all the major cities of the United States and some others throughout the world. He found that social capital, that disposition of people to work together and live together and join together for common causes and good causes and political and social causes, is at its lowest in the city of Los Angeles.  He said he had never seen social capital so low anywhere and that diversity brings about people moving into their own enclaves, segregating themselves, separating themselves, and really cooperating in very little.

Edwards: Pat, we were talking about the demographic decline of European stock around the world and here in America. As you know, every minority group in this country has numerous organizations and representatives seeking to protect and advance their unique group interests. I find that to be quite natural and healthy, and, of course, it’s not only allowed when they do it; it is encouraged and applauded.  You discuss this tribalism in Suicide of a Superpower. Clearly, tribalism has empowered minorities in America and Europe. What happened to the tribal instincts of European Americans?

Buchanan: Frankly, it’s almost impermissible for folks of European descent to organize around their race. But you have a point, and in the book, I do talk about the Black caucus in Congress, which organizes and operates on Capitol Hill on government property, and it does not admit White members and several Whites who’ve tried to get in — Jonathan Bingham, I believe, and Pete Stark — have been denied admission because they were not African American.  And then there was your congressman in Memphis, they basically slammed the door in Steve Cohen’s face.

Edwards: It is one of the greatest hypocrisies that exists. African Americans voted 95 plus percent for Barack Obama, and people just shrug and say, “Well, of course they did. Why wouldn’t they?”  You have the Black congressional caucus, as you just mentioned. You have organizations like the NAACP. However, if White people express similar ethnocentric tendencies, they face harsh denunciations and condemnation.

Buchanan: That’s right. The African American community voted 95 to 4, which is 24 to 1, for Barack Obama, which is astounding.  Even prominent Republicans like General Powell turned against his fellow Vietnam vet to vote for Obama and Powell admitted that race had something to do with it, even though Obama ran denouncing the war that Powell sold to the country.

But you know, 85 percent of White folks in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama voted against Obama. There is this fellow for the New Yorker who wrote that he sees a new people emerging in the White community and that people who are constantly under attack and discriminated against by affirmative action will eventually unite around what it is that is being attacked and what they have in their own identity.

And frankly, this is something that somewhat concerns me. If you have no ethno-national poor in a country, such as they didn’t have in Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia, as soon as they lifted off that repression, those things flew apart into something like 24 or 25 countries, whereas Poland stayed together, and Germany reunited on ethnic grounds.

And so, I feel that this power of ethnonationalism and religious fundamentalism is really the coming force in the world and you can see these things tearing countries apart.

Edwards: This is a follow-up to my previous question. It seems to me that many White politicians in Washington often work against their own group interests, which stands in stark contrast to the actions of their minority counterparts. Your chapter titled “The Diversity Cult,” begs me to ask this question: Why do so many Whites remain entranced by diversity when the social and cultural effects of diversity are almost entirely negative for themselves and their children and grandchildren?

Buchanan: I’ve been asked by people why it won’t be a really good thing when Whites become a minority nationwide. I mean, real problems are attendant to this.

If you go with the average American, let’s take the fellow who does the anti-affirmative action and civil rights initiative things. He conducted those ballot initiatives that abolished affirmative action in Michigan by referendum, in California by referendum, and in Washington by referendum, in three states that normally vote Democratic.

So, there is a growing majority of American people, even among the young, who feel that racial preferences and affirmative action are simply unjust. There’s a great belief that everybody should have a shot at getting on the team or getting in the band, or whatever. But the prize should go to those who are the best and work the hardest. And the idea that people should be discriminated against because of the color of their skin or where their ancestors come from, I think they find that profoundly offensive.

I think the further we go down the road with this affirmative action, especially now when you have women who qualify for affirmative action, Hispanics do, although there was no slavery of Hispanics. African Americans do. Then you’ve got 30 percent of the country, White males, who are really the ones who are the victims of affirmative action, not the beneficiaries. White males are 30 percent of the country, but they’re 75 percent of the dead and wounded coming back from Afghanistan. That’s not a formula for social peace.

Edwards: No, it’s not. But if these disenfranchised White males tried to come together politically to assert themselves, they would be shouted down as racists, supremacists, and so on and so forth.

Buchanan: Well, you know Shelby Steele wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal several years ago.  He’s an African American intellectual and scholar. And he said this type of racial identity politics is simply denied to Whites. I don’t know if he was saying this was a good thing or not. But clearly, if this type of organization took place it would be denounced. But I remember several years ago they had a meeting over in Leesburg of the Asian American caucus, the African American caucus, and the Hispanic caucus to decide how they can get more benefits out of the Congress for their own communities.  And you would say, “Wait a minute. At whose expense are these going to come?” I think, regrettably, that’s where America is headed.

Edwards: Let’s talk about the end game. Where do all the liberal, multi-racial, multi-cultural utopian fantasies that are destroying American pride and prosperity end?  You have written that we don’t share the same heroes, faith, or even the same language anymore.

Buchanan: Well, this is it. What are the basics of a nation?  It is a common language, common borders, a common faith, moral consensus, and moral code. Certainly, a common history, heroes, holidays, and literature are things that make up the culture. But you’re right. When I grew up in Washington DC, even though we were a segregated town, Blacks and Whites shared a lot of those things in common, and now we have very little in common that we share. And in addition to that, our politics and ideology are dividing us. If all these things go and we no longer have something like the Cold War to unite us where we could all stand together against Communism, then what do we have left?

Edwards: So where are we twenty years from now?

Buchanan: James, what I believe is that the United States will be a legal and political entity in 2041 when there is no majority anymore, and we’re all minorities. But I’m afraid the things that hold us together seem to be weakening, and the centrifugal force that is pulling us apart, as Lee Hamilton said, is strengthening. I think we will be a legal nation, but I don’t think we will be one nation under God, indivisible, and one people again. We will be a Balkanized country, sort of a tower of Babel, and we will be at war with each other over our differences in culture, language, politics, ideology, and religion.

We already see it happening now. I mean, the atmosphere, especially up here in Washington, is just poisonous. And I hear the term “racist” thrown out there. It’s a constant on cable television these days. Just disagreeing with somebody and calling them a racist. Those were horrendous terms 50 years ago, even when you had the civil rights struggle going on.

Edwards: I love God. I love my family, Pat. I want to see our destiny and traditional cultural heritage reclaimed for the benefit of all Americans. I don’t want that to come at the expense of anyone, but I also don’t want to be forced to trade down.

Buchanan: James, my hope is certainly that we’re going to be free to do that. But what I think is going to happen is the folks who believe as you do are going to basically, I think, retreat into enclaves of their own kind.

You know, all over the world, as I write in the chapter, “The Triumph of Tribalism,” ethnonationalism, and religious beliefs are driving peoples to separate from each other and to set up their own small nation-states where their own religion is predominant, and their own culture is predominant, and they themselves rule to the exclusion of all others.

Arthur Schlesinger and Pat Moynihan, both of whom I knew and who came to be my friends, wrote in the 1990s that these are the forces that will shape the future. It will not be Democracy versus Communism, Democracy versus Fascism, or ideology at all.  But these fundamental forces.

Edwards: We know a lot of the problems, but what can we do?  I don’t think it’s ever going to be 1950 again, though that certainly looks like an oasis by comparison.

Buchanan: You were born in 1980. I go back a long way before that. But you know, I’ve talked about the 1960s transition from Eisenhower to Kennedy. And the 1950s were really a wonderful time in America. I thought we were one people. We had won the World War. We were united. Ike was in charge. We were challenging the Soviet Union. The young president was coming in. He was going to the moon. And you know, I just don’t know if we’re ever going to be anything like that again. I think we are going to be utterly different than that in the future.

And I saw a review of my book that quoted Russell Kirk asking what a conservative’s duty is. And Kirk had said it is to preserve a particular people in a particular place at a particular time. And I think that’s what I’ve been trying to do with little success, and we have to look at things realistically. We can preserve this, but it’s not going to be dominant in the country anymore as it was. It’s not going to be the view of all. It will be the view of some, and others will have ideas, beliefs, and cultures that are in utter conflict.

And so, I see, as I said, sort of a Balkanization and a separation of peoples coming in this country over these most fundamental beliefs.


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Why did the Israelis close their Dublin embassy?

Good news! It is now both fashionable and safe in Ireland to criticise Jewish Israelis and aspects of the Jewish religion.

They say it’s because Irish politicians are the most anti-Semitic in the world. Nonsense. Have they never heard the joke about Gregor Braun, the menorah and the fire extinguisher?

They cite Ireland’s decision to recognise the Palestinian state, to join the genocide case against Israel and the proposed bill to boycott Israeli goods.

This is also nonsense. Other countries have given much more active support to the Palestinians, and the Israelis have no problem having embassies there. And they hang out with Hamas and fund jihadis, so what’s the problem with an embassy in Ireland?

The Irish politicians publicly sympathise with the Palestinians, but privately they do everything to support the Israelis. Above our heads, day and night, we see and hear planes crossing the Atlantic in military convoy. The journalists tell us the Israelis are flying their US munitions through our skies. Sometimes they even stop at Shannon airport. Our government does nothing.

The bill to boycott some Israeli goods from the Occupied Territories has been sitting waiting approval for five years. Our politicians all support the bill, but they just can’t seem to find the time to pass it. The Israelis boast that they caused the delay. They released a supposed transcript of a chat one of their guys had with our finance minister, Pascal O’Donohue. He tells the Israelis not to worry about the Occupied Territories bill, that the government will find some technical excuse to delay it. Which is exactly what they did, and are still doing. Coincidence?

Multiply these incidents by a thousand and you will see that behind a screen of sympathy for the Palestinians, the Irish state is very helpful indeed to the Israeli killing machine.

Three possible explanations for the Israelis closing their Irish embassy:

1. It’s a boast and a show of strength. The Israelis are saying: ”The Irish are supposedly big pals of the Palestinians. We don’t even have an embassy there. But we can fly our war materials through Irish skies, no problem. We can stop an Irish law with just one phone call. We don’t need an embassy because Irish politicians just do exactly what we ask them to. Every single time. If they want to cry crocodile tears about the dead Palestinian children, let them. As long as they do what we tell them.”

The MSM are threatening us that Trump will close all the US big tech and big pharma factories here. Perhaps we can save ourselves if our politicians do a goy grovel, and open Shannon airport to Israeli flights?

2. Anti-Semitism is popular here! It’s an Israeli attempt to boost the popularity of our two top leaders Simon Harris and Michael Martin. By name, by nose and by the nature of their deeds, these two buckos have quite possibly some Jewish ancestry, and if there is a plot, they might well be working for it. They are widely unpopular and recently re-elected. Their brand needs freshening up, in preparation for the next five years. What could be more popular and refreshing, in pro-Palestine Ireland, than rebranding the two boyos as the worst anti-Semites in the world?

3. Nervous breakdowns: Israeli people working in the Dublin embassy are suffering mental health breakdowns because people keep making insulting jokes about various aspects of Jewish history and Jewish religion. Irish law allows you to make jokes about other people’s religions, and even to suggest to foreigners that they feck off back to where they came from. Perhaps dozens of Dubliners were mocking the embassy staff every day, and they just couldn’t handle it. There is no direct evidence this happened; it’s just a hypothesis. There have been statements by Irish Jews that other Irish people constantly bring up the question of the Israeli massacres with them, often in rather a rude way! The Israeli ambassador lady has sounded quite stressed and on the brink of a nervous breakdown when speaking on Irish radio, though it is possible she was just acting and looking for sympathy.

Man is a social animal. He wants to belong. If you were to meet with one insult in a day, it would have an effect. If you met with a dozen insults a day, five days a week, for weeks and weeks and weeks it would work it’s way through even the thickest skin.

The Irish Overton Window of talking about Jewish bad behaviour is pretty wide. Even government politicians and mainstream journos will say stuff like: The Zionists control the US…Jewish money and influence in the US…The IDF are murderers and liars…Netanyahu and his pals are part of a weird bloodthirsty Jewish sect. None of these statements are in any way controversial here.

So far, no mainstream politician will talk about Jewish power in Ireland.

Low profile people can voice even stronger criticism of aspects of Judaism, without any direct public punishment. You will not be arrested, brought to court or even publicly criticised or doxxed for saying things like: If the Israelis control the US, it means they control Ireland too. We should arrest all Israeli citizens in Ireland, confiscate all their assets and deport them, unless they can provide a certificate of good behaviour from the Palestinian ambassador. You can accuse Irish politicians of supporting mass migration because they have been compromised by Israeli sex traps. You can accuse Zionists of being involved in the multi-billion euro refugee accommodation scam.

Nobody will blink an eyelid. There will be no fuss. They may try to take revenge in other ways, but they won’t do anything publicly.

This is because they do not want to draw any more attention to these statements. They are afraid. If they publicly criticise someone for criticising the Jews, it could be the spark that set the heather blazing.

Statements like these have been made on local radio and in public meetings attended by government politicians. The government people did not say one word of criticism or contradiction to these potentially controversial statements. They just spoke about other topics.

This is proof that they are afraid.

Some politicians sense the way the wind is blowing. They are rubbing shoulders with Gregor Braun and a large bunch of other Remigration people in the European Parliament. They know Trump is talking about deporting tens of millions of people.

Deporting surplus foreigners is becoming fashionable. Trash talking Israeli Jews is very fashionable.

Four Irish MEPS discussed Israeli power on RTÉ. They all were in favour of the bill to boycott Israeli goods, but they all warned: There will be consequences, sanctions, ramifications, we will be totally isolated in Europe and at risk of being punished by Trump. One spoke with shock at how vehemently her colleagues in the European People’s Party defended the Israeli massacres.

At a public meeting in Killarney, all in the dear old Gaelic, the statement about arresting all Israelis, confiscating their assets and deporting them was made. None of the speakers ón the podium condemned this suggestion in any way. After the debate, who makes a beeline for the group including the maker of the “Deport them all” statement? None other than Cynthia ní Mhurchu, newly elected Member of the European Parliament, and still a very elegant woman, despite the fact that she is not as young as she used to be. All those months listening to Gregor and the other Konfederacla people complaining about Israel has obviously made her immune to shock when someone suggests rounding up all the Israelis and deporting them. She was keen to make clear that she voted against von der Leyen because of Ursula’s pro-Israel stance.

Good news: It is now both fashionable and safe in Ireland to criticise Jewish Israelis and aspects of the Jewish religion.

How do we encourage our world champion anti-Semitic leaders to take the next step and start taking action against the Israeli menace?

Simon Harris is boasting that he will send a top diplomatic mission to the US to make nice to Trump.

Wouldn’t it be fun to hijack this diplomatic offensive? A roster of fifty people could provide three one hour vigils outside the consulate, morning, lunch and evening. Every time they leave the office, there is someone holding a big photo of a massacre, calling the officials by name, and urging them not to be complicit in the genocide.

A few hundred other people contact the consulate by email, phone and in person. In person is best, of course. Explain that you are part of Trump’s base. But you’re also anti Israel using US weapons to kill children. Tell him that he must contact his superiors and inform them that Irish airspace is being used to transport genocide supplies. Remind him that you will hold him personally responsible, and quote the UN convention at him.

A few hundred contacts and a small vigil could have a big effect on some embassy staff. Some embassy staff are very nasty, and this will have very little effect on them. Some of the others will have a conscience, or at least a sense of shame. A couple of months of this kind of perfectly legal lobbying would definitely send some staff into a Palestine-related nervous breakdown. Or, better still, they could become whistleblowers…

Labour Fights for Rapists’ Rights: How the Non-White “Mass-Rape Abomination” Was Flourishing 70 years Ago

Jess Phillips is a typical masculinized high-testosterone leftist female politician. She’s also typical in that she follows a script written nearly eighty years ago by a man called George Orwell. In his most famous novel, Orwell described how “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.”

Jess Phillips, a masculinized high-T leftist fempol, with three of the White girls she and her party helped to murder

What Orwell meant as a satirical rebuke is a settled reality for modern leftists. Jess Phillips is the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence against Women and Girls in the current Labour government. Naturally enough, then, she works to encourage violence against women and girls on behalf of a party that hates the White working-class whom it was founded to defend. Phillips believes in the right of non-White rapists to carry on raping, not the right of White women and girls to be protected against non-White rapists. She has refused to commission any government enquiry into the industrialized abuse of White working-class girls by Pakistani Muslim rape-gangs in Labour-controlled towns and cities all over ethnically enriched England. For perfectly obvious reasons, feminist Phillips does not want any discussion of how and why these working-class Whites ended up dead while they were supposedly under the protection of Labour MPs and Labour councils:

  • 14-year-old Charlene Downes, who was raped and prostituted by Muslims in the Labour constituency of Blackpool before being murdered by her Muslim “boyfriends” and probably turned into kebab-meat.
  • 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia, was raped and prostituted by Muslims in a Labour constituency in Manchester and deliberately addicted to heroin before dying of an overdose.
  • 16-year-old Lucy Lowe, who was raped and prostituted by Muslims in the Labour constituency of Telford before being burned alive with her mother Eileen and her 17-year-old sister Sarah when her Muslim “boyfriend” set her house on fire.
  • 17-year-old Laura Wilson, who was raped and prostituted by Muslims in the Labour constituency of Rotherham before being repeatedly stabbed by her Muslim “lovers” and then thrown into a filthy canal to drown.

The Yorkshire town of Rotherham is, of course, the most infamous example of how Labour collaborated with non-Whites as they raped and prostituted White working-class girls. But much worse has gone on in other town and cities controlled by Labour. Rotherham’s staunchly feminist Labour MP, Denis MacShane, is nevertheless a perfect example of how and why Labour betrayed its traditional supporters. He worked tirelessly for rich Jews in far-off London while ignoring the White working-class girls being raped, tortured, and murdered by Pakistani Muslims in what he called his “wonderful constituency.”

Great champions for Jews

When MacShane went to jail for fraud in 2013, he was saluted as “one of the [Jewish] community’s greatest champions” by the journalist Martin Bright in the Jewish Chronicle. Bright got it right. So did the billionaire Elon Musk when he said that Jess Phillips should follow MacShane into jail for betraying women and girls. But Musk should call for the entire leftist elite to be jailed, from the slippery lawyer Tony Blair, a dedicated shabbos goy, to the slippery lawyer Keir Starmer, also a dedicated shabbos goy, to the very well-paid “Children’s Commissioner” Sue Berelowitz, a Jew who “denied there was a disproportionate problem with gangs of British Asians grooming young girls for sex.” Labour and other leftists have worked to harm the White working-class just as they’ve worked to harm ordinary women. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, understands that. So, it appears, does one of the world’s richest women. The leftist mega-millionaire J.K. Rowling tweeted this in response to the scandal about Jess Phillips’ refusal to safeguard women and girls:

The details emerging about what the rape gangs (why call them ‘grooming’ gangs? It’s like calling those who stab people to death ‘knife owners’) did to girls in Rotherham are downright horrific. The allegations of possible police corruption in the case are almost beyond belief. (Tweet by J.K. Rowling, 2nd January 2025)

Sue Berelowitz, the leftist Jew who said “Screw you!” to working-class Whites (image © Lucy Young/REX from Daily Mail)

It’s almost as though Rowling has read what I wrote about her at the Occidental Observer: “I admire leftists like J.K. Rowling for standing up to the small clown-cult of transgenderism. But she ignores the far greater harm done to women by the giant clown-cult of trans-Westernism. It’s as though she’s complaining about the common cold while cholera is raging.” Just as transgenderism is the lie that men can be women and occupy female spaces, so trans-Westernism is the lie that non-Whites can be Westerners and occupy White nations.

Guide for the Perplexed

I think it’s very significant that an influential leftist like Rowling now understands how her own ideology has betrayed and harmed women not just by siding with sexually perverted men but also by siding with sexually rapacious non-Whites. But there’s a lot more for Rowling and company to understand about leftist collaboration in what Nigel Farage has called the “mass-rape abomination.” They’re beginning to see how badly Labour has betrayed the White working-class, but they don’t yet see how long this betrayal has been going on.

For the answer to that, Rowling should turn to another – and much better – female writer, the late and definitely great Jennifer Worth (1935-2011). In her hugely successful Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (2002), Worth included a chapter whose title and toxicity hasn’t been analyzed or publicized in great detail by leftists. You will understand why when I tell you that its title was simply “Zakir” and its toxicity arose from its honest portrayal of the way non-White men were preying on White working-class girls many decades ago.

First pretence, then predation

Zakir is the name of a Muslim Asian who “grooms” a young White girl called Mary with pretended love and concern. Even when she sees that Zakir is in harsh control of other White girls, she doesn’t realize what he is planning to do:

Mary thought, “He likes me the best. He doesn’t like those girls. They look a nasty bunch anyway. But I am his special friend,” and a warm glow flooded over her. Each time Zakir returned, he showered Mary with smiles, his beautiful white teeth flashing and his dark eyes gleaming. … That night Mary had her first clients. She was auctioned as a virgin, and the highest bidder got her first, with eight others following after. The next day Zakir put his arm around her, and told her that he was very pleased with her. He flashed his smile at her and her heart melted. She lived off this smile, and the others he condescended to give her, for months. (Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s)

Worth is describing the modus operandi of countless similar non-White predators in Britain, who first pretend love and concern to fool naïve White girls, then turn into vicious predators and pimps. Mary was soon working as a prostitute for Zakir, whose pretended love turns into sadistic abuse and exploitation. Zakir had destroyed the lives of dozens of White girls before Mary and would go on to destroy the lives of dozens more. And that was merely one non-White predator-pimp in London in the 1950s. In other words, the “mass-rape abomination” was already flourishing seventy years ago.

How did the feminist Labour party respond as its traditional supporters were attacked and had their lives destroyed? By ignoring the raped working-class Whites and championing the non-White rapists. In 2013, Roy Hattersley, the former deputy leader of the Labour party, asked this question in the Guardian: “Should I, in 1964, have called for what a clear majority of my constituents, and most of the country, undoubtedly wanted – the repatriation of all Commonwealth [i.e., non-White] immigrants?” His answer was an emphatic “No.” What “most of the country” wanted, traitorous politicians like Hattersley refused to supply. As he boasted in a later article: “For most of my 33 years in [parliament], I was able to resist [my constituents’] demands about the great issues of national policy – otherwise, my first decade would have been spent opposing all Commonwealth immigration and my last calling for withdrawal from the European Union.”

Keir Starmer and Roy Hattersley with their Jewish wives (images from Sky News and Daily Mail)

It’s no coincidence that Roy Hattersley has a Jewish wife just like Keir Starmer, the current leader of Hattersley’s party. Labour was founded to champion the White working-class but was long ago taken over by Jewish money and Jewish ideology. It now works to harm the White working-class and help the non-White predators whom Jews regard as their “natural allies” in their war on Whites and the West. That’s why Labour and all other mainstream leftists have been collaborating with non-White rape-gangs for so many decades. It’s good that J.K. Rowling has started to understand the truth about the Labour party and her own ideology, but she still has a long way to go.

Identities, TWASH, and the True Purpose of Propaganda: On the Nature of the Parasitic Superorganism That is the American Regime and How to Overcome It

Why has the true Right, the Dissident Right, been losing ground to its enemies for so long? There are almost as many answers to this as there are intellectual fighters within our ranks—not surprising, given that the hive mind doesn’t exactly thrive on our side. Today I wish to present not only my answer to that question, but also what I believe to be the best method for reversing that trend and driving back the Left. To begin, then, let’s start with the nature of the problem, which can be summed up in one simple sentence: The Right thinks in terms of ideas and how to spread them, whereas the Left thinks (or, at least, the segment of it that does think at all) in terms of institutions and how to conquer them. It is absolutely critical that our side realize that institutions give ideas, however wise or foolish they may be, teeth—or to put this is a more graphic, in fact literal, form, picture the Left in its current dominant form as a rabid, plague-ridden sewer rat with massive, razor-sharp incisors. Then picture the Dissident Right in its current form as a healthy, muscular Doberman that has had all of its teeth plucked out one by one until it has now only gums: despite the fact that it’s madder than a March hare and incapable of surviving for very long. That rat’s going to inspire complete and utter terror in everyone who crosses it, whereas the Doberman despite its strength and potential longevity, is more likely to get laughed at than feared. Such is the power of ideas when they have institutions to back them.

The reason for this goes to the very heart of human nature. Ideas do indeed have consequences, to quote the Southern agrarian Richard Weaver, but they’re actually far less consequential than many dissidents tend to think, at least when they’re by themselves. If you want to know what charts the course of human events, look to the twin concepts (as I define them) of attributes and identity, or any aspects (true or false) of a man which are or which he holds to be part of himself and his nature. Together they constitute a person’s being, and as such, there is not one event however small and long-forgotten in all of human history that was not presided over by this absolute duopoly, the nature and workings of which will allow those who come to appreciate and understand that nature and those workings a far greater ability to influence events yet to come than they otherwise would have.

Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica famously described the attributes of God as simplicity, perfection, goodness, infinity, existence in all things, immutability, eternity, and unity. Although not all of you may agree with St. Thomas on the nature of God or even the nature of His existence, I think you can all agree that human nature by contrast is just about the opposite: namely, it’s transitory, changeable, and conflicted. Given that we might say that at any given point the course a person pursues will be the result of which coalition of attributes and identities came out on top, if only for that time. Moreover, the battles of this lifelong war are often much more convoluted and confused than would be the case with sets of distinct attributes and identities going head-to-head until one set emerges triumphant. There are numerous ways this actually plays out, but for our purposes here, we’ll just focus on a few ways, all of which have to do with identities intertwining, deceiving, or both.

As for the ways identities can intertwine or blend, we might begin by observing that there are only two types of reasons why a person likes or dislikes anything, be it a person, place, object, or idea: implication and association, these corresponding very roughly to reason and emotion. To give a quick example, one might like carrot juice for its ability to help restore red blood cells after an injury or blood donation; in contrast, the person might not be aware of any health benefits of carrot juice and may actually hate the taste of it but still like drinking it for its association with the dinner at which he proposed to his wife and how it floods him with those happy memories.

Hence, you get some cases in which identities logically blend or grow out of each other—for example, our identity of opposition to open borders and unlimited and indiscriminate immigration grows naturally out of our identity as those desiring nations that are stable, internally sturdy, and with a longevity that can be measured in centuries rather than decades.

On the other hand, there are identities that become intertwined by mere designation, though having no logical connection with each other and possibly being mutually exclusive or at odds with each other. For example, the bizarre package of identities that the neocons and MSM try to sell as conservatism—(in theory) freedom of speech, limited government, loyalty to the Constitution, along with (in practice) unlimited immigration, a vast expansion of the surveillance state, endless open-ended wars “for democracy,” etc.—despite the utter incompatibility with each other and their negative utility for conserving anything beyond the elites’ own power and wealth.

And then, there is the grand but mostly associative intertwining of the vast majority of our attributes and identities, involving thoughts which deal with our ideas about ourselves and the world, into what you might call our sense of normalcy—which as we’ll see later, the elites weaponize in order to better control us.  All of which have to do with identities intertwining, deceiving, or both.

Also important are the identities of deception. There are, of course, the types which you were aware of even if you never gave them a name, i.e., what I call stalking horse identities which are false identities we present to others in order to deceive them, such as the ones adopted by those who would use talk of support for human rights or the poor of the world as a stalking horse behind which lurks a raw desire for increasing political power by swelling the ranks of supporters or increasing profits with an endless supply of cheap labor or both.

But of course there are other deception types of identities as well, ones even more quintessentially human: for while examples abound in nature of species that try to deceive others or even others of their own, it is man alone who habitually deceives himself, with two (among others) such types of deception involving what I refer to as cloaking identities and iceberg identities.

The latter is a unique blend of internal and external deception: as the name implies, it is where you’ve got one or more identities on the surface that you let people see. They aren’t phony, as with stalking-horse types, but they aren’t the whole story either, as they’re inextricably bound to other identities below the surface (some far enough below that those who possess them aren’t even consciously aware of them). For example, those engaged in White flight who describe their motivation as a search for “better schools”—that being the surface part with the racial component kept safely below. If you’re arguing with an ordinary person, someone not a political shill, and you’ve logically addressed all their objections but have not swayed them in the least, the chances are pretty good that you’re dealing with a set of iceberg identities, and you need to have your arguments address what they’re not revealing.

Then there are the purposeful self-deception cloaking identities. They’re the identities behind which we conceal from ourselves those parts of us that are embarrassing or shameful. Often what’s behind the cloak is some form of laziness and/or cowardice: many there are that make at least some part of the regime’s ideology their own, either out of a combination of fear of the repercussions for openly opposing it and shame at being so impotently timorous, or out of a slothful love of first-world leisure that opposing the system would eliminate, or both.

This brings us to the true purpose of propaganda and what makes control of institutions so important.

You see, the primary purpose of a regime’s ideology, propaganda, pronouncements, etc., isn’t to deceive people: most of what the regime espouses is too far removed from reality to truly fool all but the most fanatical ideologues or the very dumb—who don’t make up enough of the population to make pure deception an efficient method of control. Rather, its primary purpose is to give those of at least middling intelligence and at most middling energy and courage a way to sublimate their sloth and/or cowardice, concealing those parts of themselves behind a façade belief in the official line. Were the regime to come right out and flaunt its power and its hatred of us, the timidity and lethargy of the majority would be on display for all to see and all would be forced to choose between standing there in complete shame or fighting, and, thus cornered, many would finally choose the latter, which is why no regime EVER will abandon its official lies.

Of course, this also requires the regime to make opposition to it and its lies a fearful and difficult matter; hence why control of institutions is key to its survival, since they serve as the enforcement mechanism for compliance with its ideology. In the Soviet Union these institutions, especially the economic bureaucracy and secret police, were formal appendages of the state itself; in our case, they tend to be unofficial, ostensibly private ones, with the most common being those capable of inflicting economic harm: express unapproved sentiment on racial differences, the border, etc.—get fired from your job, have your payment system cut off and the like.

Not that such economic enforcement alone would be enough. Given its undisguised antagonism toward the nation’s founding stock, the regime’s official ideology would lead to massive opposition and boycott had it just been foisted on us out of the blue by government in conjunction with big business without a prior effort to instill at least elements of it into the population at an early age and have it permeate the culture. In other words, unless the regime gains control of other, mutually reinforcing institutions as well.

That last part cuts to the heart of both the regime’s fundamental nature and the reason the Dissident Right keeps losing ground to it: to put it simply, the regime functions as a parasitic superorganism.

The standard superorganism definition runs along the lines of “a colony of social organisms (such as ants) in which the members and castes are integrated in much the same way as the organs of a multicellular individual,” with the colony of ants mentioned being the usual example (of a nonparasitic, albeit predatory, type): as with a multiorgan being, none of the individual parts can survive without the others. A cancerous tumor would be an example of the parasitic type displaying these attributes: the rogue cells not only multiply out of control but engage in a division of labor with some specializing in tricking the body into growing extra blood vessels specifically for it (angiogenesis), etc.

To lay it out in broad terms, these are the major parts of the superorganism in relation to each other:

  1. The political elites who give a veneer of legitimacy to the system. Without them, the other divisions would not be able to push their ideologies and undertake their de facto looting operations of various kinds without risking being noticed and retaliated against. On the other hand, these elites rely almost entirely on the other divisions to fund their campaign against more honest men and create and enforce the ideologies that justify their nefarious activities.
  2. The oligarchs whose connections to the central bank allow them through credit expansion to clandestinely steal the wealth of the general population, giving them a greatly heightened ability to buy out businesses and politicians alike, to the disadvantage of those for whom theft (even legalized theft) is immoral and forbidden. It is the oligarchs’ Fed connection that allows for the existence of financial behemoths such as BlackRock whose leadership converts financial power into ideological power by pushing wokeism from the top down: allowing them to buy out and/or fire those who won’t toe the line and thus allowing them to enforce ideological conformity with the threat of livelihood loss. However, the oligarchs mostly do not create the ideology they push nor give it its initial push; THAT is the task of the third part.
  3.         The educational establishment, in whose upper ranks first develop the deadly ideologies that then spread downward, eventually reaching the level of grade-schoolers who are most ill fitted to discover their fallacious nature or their disastrous effects. The ideas that provide oligarchs and politicians alike with the ideological justification for various forms of manipulation and tyranny originate in academia. The upper echelon of education also serves as a gateway (and thus, their denizens as gatekeepers) to the lower ranks of the political and oligarchic parts. On the other hand, this part is almost entirely dependent on the largesse of the first two for its survival.
  4. The Hollywood media and professional sports entertainment complex, the means by which the ideologies which would otherwise remain confined to the ivory tower or be scorned by ordinary people are made to permeate the general culture such that they are taken at least semiseriously even by those who have the greatest scorn for academics. Without the push of entertainment, the oligarchs and politicians would never be able to utilize the ideas cooked up by the academics even half as effectively. On the other hand, as the era of the Hays Code showed, even media moguls can be brought to heel by an unindoctrinated population wielding the threat of political force to force the moguls to keep their works in line with the general culture. Hence, the elites of media and Hollywood require the assistance of the others in order to protect their own part of the superorganism.
  5. Finally, the military-industrial complex. This part indirectly supports the superorganism’s other parts by—at least up until the time that the Ukraine War began to prove the US military to be something of a paper tiger—allowing for the threat of military intervention against countries who refuse to align with our elites’ interests. By propping up the dollar’s status as the world reserve currency (at least until now) the MIC gave the US Fed the awesome financial power that it somewhat yet enjoys. In turn, the defense contractors within it donate massively to the various politicians’ campaigns and are in turn fed out of the public trough. Also, as the ideological campaigns of Biden’s diversity officers show, the military is not invulnerable to the pseudointellectual bilge cooked up in the academy and spread through the media.

As you can see, it’s truly like a biological superorganism in that the loss of some parts would mean the others couldn’t survive in parasitic form. As such, the regime has all the strengths and weaknesses of a parasite, including as I noted in passing earlier, most people have a kind of grand intertwining of most of their identities into what you might call their sense of normalcy and thus avoid disillusionment with any major part of their worldview. This worldview is for the most part crafted by the education and media establishment, Disillusion would make them feel as though their whole world is falling apart despite the other parts having no logical connection to the parts there was disillusionment with; this in turn allows the parasite to hold their sense of sanity and normalcy hostage and thus allows it to force them to swallow even ridiculous narratives rather than feel that world collapse.

How can the Dissident Right give its ideas the teeth to oppose the parasitic regime, perhaps in conjunction with normiecons and even citizens in general? By providing the leadership and direction for forming a counter-superorganism, one that can outcompete that of the regime and its allies in some or most of the areas it currently dominates.

As I said, the regime’s a superorganism, meaning none of its parts can thrive or possibly even survive without the others. Imagine if an alternative economy (not a black market–style underground one, but a legal parallel one) could be formed, rendering the regime’s primary means of punishing heterodoxy null: many, many more would find the courage to openly voice ideological blasphemy. Or if an alternative education system could be put together, allowing an entire generation to see just how bizarre and evil, how contrary to nature the regime’s official ideology truly is. That should be the Dissident Right’s goal, to form that counter-superorganism.

In this we will be given help, quite unintentionally, by the superorganism itself, which like all parasites contributes nothing to its host and in fact actively weakens it as it battens itself. This means that it faces what I call the parasite’s paradox: the greater the parasite’s power becomes, the more tenuous its hold on power becomes as well, since every move that it makes to strengthen itself has the counterproductive effect of creating more TWASH (my Elmer Fuddish–sounding acronym for “those whom the American system hurts”).

This, in turn, creates the potential for a leveraging effect to be used against the parasite. Here’s how it works. At any given point there are those who are greatly harmed by the regime and will oppose it (legally and nonviolently in our case), the consequences—save maybe being sent to a literal gulag or executed—be damned. It is critical to begin with this mad as hell and not going to take it anymore TWASH crowd, giving unique focus and appeal to each subgroup of them and uniting them to leverage their power to influence, one after the other, the critical groups above them. For immediately above the TWASH lies a larger group of those who still have their jobs and reputations but are hurt enough by the parasitism (in the form of inflation, antiwhite propaganda insults, etc.) that they’d be glad to oppose the regime—nonviolently, I mean, as with everything I say here—if only the effort were not futile. Above them lies an even larger group that would oppose the regime if opposition is either easy or likely to be successful. Together these three groups constitute a critical mass capable of imparting to our ideas legitimacy and respectability in the eyes of the gray men of the world: that is, those who hold no strong beliefs but will swing one way or another based on what everyone else, or at least the respectable majority, seems to favor. And once you get the gray men—who at this late stage of the infection are feeling pain from the parasites’ activities as well—on the side of your ideas and plans, you have the means to overwhelm those who yet support the regime either for profit or ideology,

In the past, even ten years ago, the potential for forming a counter-superorganism and leveraging was fairly small: too many Americans still had too much faith in the system and were too comfortable in their bubble of easy money/debt-fueled consumerism to want to truly (if nonviolently) oppose the parasite, and the parasite was still too able from a combination of debt-financed pseudoprosperity and perceived military might to grow fatter and more damaging without creating too much TWASH.

Those days are now long gone. The military has been shown, in Ukraine and Afghanistan, to be a paper tiger (albeit with a few nuclear teeth left); deficit financing now leads to massive inflation—and as such there is no way for the parasite to bribe one group of our potential allies among the TWASH without making more TWASH in the process. It’s all out of carrot and has only stick left to work with—and all punishment, real or threatened, obviously creates TWASH as well.

Based on the 2024 and 2020 elections, we have a potential pool of about 77 to 81 million to work with (a number greater than the population of all but 19 countries!). That number of dissenters from the regime will only continue to go up—I’m assuming both that the regime won’t give Trump any fake votes and that (contrary to what Trump’s ego might feel), while there were many who voted for him who didn’t like him or might even despise him personally, there were virtually no Trump voters who didn’t hate the regime. It needs only be given skilled leadership and guidance to mold it into a powerful counter-superorganism capable of outcompeting (again, nonviolently) the parasite and bringing it to its knees.

Too many on our side showed surprise when those such as Italy’s Meloni and our Trump failed to live up to their promises or outright turned on those who elected them. But why should that outcome surprise anyone older than a grade-schooler? After all, as things stand now, we have nothing to offer politicians but a vote and nothing to threaten them with besides waiting patiently ‘til the next chance to vote for someone even worse; meanwhile the superorganisms of the various regimes can both offer the pols huge campaign war chests and easy, highly lucrative employment for their remaining days when they final step down from their positions as top Judas goats and threaten them with everything from lawfare to being JFK’ed if they’re truly perceived as a threat by the parasite to its interests. Had we as powerful a counter-superorganism as our numbers would allow, we could field and fund our own party, defend its members against any harm, and make sure that anyone tempted to turn traitor would be duly punished: obviously not by physical harm or death, but by ensuring that either they’ll be recalled in disgrace, or when they step down, any business that tried to hire them with their proverbial 30 pieces of silver would find itself made into a pariah and boycotted into bankruptcy.

As I close, let me make something clear: intellectual institutions such as VDARE are absolutely necessary. they’re just not sufficient. Without virtue and truth on our side— truth which they help spread, what counter-superorganism we might form would slowly but inevitably devolve into just another parasite.  To give teeth to the ideas they’re helping to spread, we of the Dissident Right need to immediately begin to analyze the numbers, composition, and location of various segments of TWASH and start forming the groups that will compose our counter-superorganism. Only then will we see our beloved ideals honored and our ideas brought to fruition.

Thank you.

Philanthropic Woes: Australian Jewry in the wake of October 7

Ultimately, the philanthropists and Jewish leaders who pull the rug out from under pro-Palestine activists and seek to destroy the Palestinian homeland are the very same Zionists who support the efforts to eradicate White Australia and weaken White homelands around the world. It functions as one and the same operation and, minus the use of military force, the methods are identical: dehumanisation, institutional silencing, deconstruction of identity, encouraging foreigners to settle on their land, funding pro-immigration groups, inflicting conditions of life on White Australia calculated to bring about its physical destruction, and declaring all opposition to the aforementioned tactics to be hate or terrorism.

Jewish writers and leaders were not wrong when they declared that the surprise raid on Israeli territory launched by Hamas on the morning of the 7th of October 2023 changed the direction of world affairs. At first the linguistic elevation of a calendar date into a distinct phrase in the English lexicon seemed melodramatic; “October Seven”, as if to imply an earth-shattering moment, a cynical attempt by Zionists to link the events of the day to 9/11. The intervening year has proven that the date does indeed signpost a point of departure from a prior state in global politics.

War is the locomotive of history, as a famous Bolshevik once said, and the war in Gaza has certainly brought many rapid changes. Military escalations once considered inconceivable have become reality, war looms between world powers, and supporters of Israel are on the defensive against condemnation by the civilised world. The reverberations of the strike masterminded by Yahya Sinwar rapidly reached the far shores of the Antipodean continent. Here, Australian Jewry is reeling from the outbreaks of sympathy for the Palestinian people that have resulted from a war that has claimed the lives of more than 13,000 children.

In turn, the impacts on Australian politics are profound. The year 2024 was one of the more difficult and confusing years to be on the Australian Left. After a lifetime of being taught to stand up for the oppressed, to fight for the rights of colonised people and oppose ethnic cleansing, members of Australia’s artist and activist class found out the hard way that their leaders and benefactors have somewhat different rules when it comes to the state of Israel. Allies they once thought they had in the Jewish community have rushed to sever support for creatives who speak out against the destruction being inflicted on Gaza.

Reflecting on the period since October 7, we see a community in tactical retreat, fearful of its position and overplaying its hand. The organs of Australian Jewry initiated heavy interventions into public life in order to put out the fires started by Hamas halfway around the world, interventions that they would otherwise have preferred not to undertake. Across the country, major changes are occurring in the Australian cultural and political realm as the organised Jewish community reorganises and re-calibrates.

Visible for the first time in a generation is the true scope of Jewish power and the extent of their privileged status, their ability to lock down the choke-points in Australian society. October 7 has shown that Jews enjoy political agency to a degree that defies all conventional explanation, whereas Muslims, who outnumber the Jewish community in Australia by a factor of 10 to 1 and act as representatives of nearly a quarter of the world’s population, struggle to get politicians to even listen to them.

As detailed in this essay, chaos in the Middle East and its local political repercussions have revealed the networks of money and influence that once hid behind the scenes in the world of philanthropy and at Australia’s universities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as well as the key role Jewry plays in governing discourse in Australian life.

Follow the money

Contrary to crude stereotypes of miserly Jews, Jewish money freely flows across the Australian cultural landscape — or at least it used to. Australia’s wealthiest Jews have long made up a large proportion of the funding streams for Australian artistic endeavours, through the issuing of lavish endowments and regular multi-million-dollar donations. Alongside their financial contributions to Jewish hospitals or programs monitoring ‘hate speech’, billionaire families like the Besens, Gandels, Schwartzes, Pratts and Smorgons channel their wealth into local art galleries, stages and theatres, universities, human rights groups, and other non-profit organisations.

These family-run philanthropic foundations (a selection of which are seen in the image above) are undoubtedly familiar names to those in the Australian arts and non-profit sector. Jewish-led peak bodies like Philanthropy Australia (currently chaired by Jewish lawyer Amanda Miller) and Australians Investing in Women (founded by Eve Mahlab and Jill Reichstein) advise corporate donors on the worthy causes and direct funding from prospective donors who do not own foundations. In addition, Jews are an ever-present feature on the boards of the largest gentile-originated philanthropies: the Paul Ramsay Foundation and the Ian Potter Foundation. Ultimately, money talks and donations always come with the condition that donors be allowed a say in an organisation’s agenda, oftentimes through securing positions on boards or executive roles.

The scale of this philanthropic support and an exact accounting of where all the funds end up is difficult to establish, though no cause is too small or too obscure to warrant their attention. The Besen family, who support the land-grab settlement projects of the Jewish National Fund, also donate money to anti-racist documentaries like Bukal Bukal, a film about an Aboriginal woman struggling with the effects of colonial dispossession who attempts to reclaim a family artefact held by the British Museum. In 2023, the Gandel Foundation partnered on the Quill Award for Reporting on Multicultural Affairs and Media, a minor journalistic award issued by the Melbourne Press Club. The resulting partnership position on the selection panel allowed Gandel Foundation chairman Graham Goldsmith to issue the award to journalists who ‘debunked’ stories about African [Sudanese] Gangs terrorising the suburbs of Melbourne.

There is certainly enough money within the Jewish community to make things happen. The Australian Financial Review Rich List, a yearly publication that charts the top 250 wealthiest Australians, shows that Jews make up somewhere between 15–18 percent of Australia’s multi-millionaires. This figure is even more lopsided when one considers the upper echelons of this list. Jews regularly account for between 10–13 entrants on the top 30 wealthiest Australians, oftentimes taking out the number 1 spot if their investment portfolios made good returns over the prior year. Jews are similarly over-represented in the AFR’s Philanthropy 50 List, again skewed towards the most charitable entrants.

Many of these wealthy Jews chose to downplay their financial contributions and settle for their names merely appearing on a discreet plaque placed on a building or hidden in an annual report; other families make a show of their philanthropic largess. Since arrival in Australia, the members of the Besen family, who built a fortune from the rag trade, have collected entire galleries worth of Australian modern art, displayed in sprawling private museums such as the TarraWarra Museum of Art.

The works of artists that fled National Socialist Germany for engaging in ‘degenerate art’ adorn the public spaces adjacent to Australian cultural venues, their placement made possible by wealthy Jewish benefactors. The sculpture “Forward Surge” designed by German-Jewish artist Ingeborg King — a series of oversized metal shavings — graces the park wedged between the Arts Centre in Melbourne and concert venue Hamer Hall.

“Forward Surge” (1981) by Inge King

Since October 7, Jewish philanthropists and donors around the country have been quietly pulling funds and boycotting Australian artists. Wealthy Jewish families are said to be “in despair” at the level of anti-Zionist sentiment rampant at the institutions they bankroll:

A quiet revolt against bullying and anti-Semitic rhetoric — used by some pro-Palestinian activists               including publicly subsidised artists — has seen Jewish donors withdraw or redirect their funding deals         with environmental, women’s or arts groups…The list of leading arts companies from which Jewish          donors or board members have withdrawn in recent times is growing and includes the Melbourne and      Adelaide writers festivals, Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, the National         Association for the Visual Arts and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts[1]

High profile defections first hit the board of the Sydney Theatre Company. Funding was pulled by prominent Jewish donors after actors wore keffiyeh scarves during a stage production in December 2023. Later the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra came under fire; musicians issued a vote of no confidence in board members of the MSO who had, in response to donor pressure, cancelled performances by pianist Jayson Gillham due to his outspoken pro-Palestine views. The legal firm of Mark Leibler (ABL), which widely represents clients in the arts work, has withdrawn services from groups like the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) – the peak body for visual arts in Australia — over statements they issued condemning Israeli conduct in Gaza.

The Melbourne ‘Rising’ festival, the city’s yearly arts festival, faces a trimmed-down 2025 lineup since the Besen Family Foundation withdrew funding. The Adelaide Festival, another marquee event on the arts calendar, revealed a deficit for financial year 2024; unidentified “major sponsors” pulled out over the inclusion of Palestinian artists in the festival lineup. Financial shortfalls in the funding streams of organisations as diverse as Opera Australia and the Queensland Ballet have also recently seen instability result on their boards of directors as they struggle to account for lost operating income. Art galleries and literary associations around the country have publicly and privately issued statements of impartiality in order to prevent the loss of crucial funds from Jewish donors.

For artists and activists on the Australian left, the financial and organisational chaos that has erupted around them is cause for bewilderment. Why, they ask, are these powerful allies, whom are otherwise steadfast in their support for human rights, equality and justice for Indigenous Australians, not supporting the plight of all oppressed peoples and how is it possible that we are being silenced for speaking out about ethnic cleansing and genocide? Writers cancelled by the State Library of Victoria for thier pro-Palestine views sputter in disbelief at its CEO Paul Duldig. How a man who publicly defends LGBTQ+ rights and freely allows ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ events to take place within the library premises can possibly make such a rapid heel-turn when it comes to the suffering of the Palestinian people is a question they have no good answer for.

These Jewish donors and board members, happy to support every conceivable artistic insult, political attack, and cultural subversion directed against the Australian people shrivel up at the first sighting of a keffiyeh or a Palestinian flag. Absent the Jewish presence, the donation habits of Australia’s philanthropies would look far more like that of mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $40m in aid to Gaza. Forrest’s donation through the Minderoo Foundation (which he and his wife have full organisational control of), includes $5 million earmarked for the World Central Kitchen, a non-profit food relief group targeted by Israeli forces in November 2023, resulting in the killing of an Australian citizen.

Campus Hate and NGO Silence

The political machinations against Palestinian solidarity are being felt not just within arts groups or at literary festivals, but also deep within the heartlands of the organised left. No longer is the university campus or the NGO the ‘safe space’ it once was. Australia’s power-brokers have declared that if the space is not safe for Zionism, then it cannot be allowed a space at all.

Much like in America, Australia’s university system in the aftermath of October 7 has been the scene of confected claims of an outbreak of anti-Semitism on campus. University vice-chancellors, previously comfortable to let Trotskyist radicals and all manner of anti-white groups protest to their hearts content, are responding to pro-Palestine demonstrations with an uncharacteristic firmness. Campus encampments, flyers, chalk drawings, bake sales and protest meetings — standard fare for any other political issue that university radicals take an interest in — are now hateful events deserving of police monitoring and disciplinary processes.

Over the course of 2024, police moved in to dismantle encampments and arrest protesters at Australia’s leading Group of Eight (Go8) universities. Far-reaching protest restrictions or outright bans on the construction of encampments on university grounds now apply for any future demonstrations envisaged by students, pro-Palestine or not. In a twist of irony, rhetorical accusations and legal complaints otherwise beloved by the left like ‘marginalisation’ or ‘psycho-social harm’ are successfully being turned against the campus radicals by Jewish student unions and university administrators, bypassing rights to academic freedom and political expression. The latter concept is found in Workplace Health and Safety Acts throughout the country. Used to define unsafe work environments, it plays a role in regulating all manner of ‘woke’ ideas on race and gender.

On the political level, an inquiry into anti-Semitism at Australian universities by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights is currently underway in Canberra, launched in October 2024 by Jewish Attorney General Mark Dreyfus. A report inquiring into the “prevalence, nature and experiences of antisemitic activity at universities” is due by next March. Expected outcomes of the inquiry are recommendations for the widespread adoption of the IHRA definition and strengthened anti-Semitism reporting procedures on campus, as well as new federal laws directly targeting anti-Semitic speech, laws likely to be incorporated into the pending hate speech bill sitting before the Attorney General.

Submissions were received from all the peak Jewish bodies and Zionist organisations, as well as from Australia’s small but loud network of anti-Zionist Jews, whose leaders have ingratiated themselves within pro-Palestine groups.[2] A submission from the Australasian Union of Jewish Students singled out the University of New South Wales (UNSW) for being “notably effective, particularly in managing protests and ensuring Jewish students’ safety during these events”, whilst also condemning the University of Sydney for maintaining a veneer of freedom of speech. Worth noting of course, is who currently occupies the role of UNSW Chancellor — David Gonski — thus making the UNSW the only member of the Go8 with outright Jewish leadership.

The situation looks even more bleak for the university radical in his or her future career pathway at a non-governmental organisation. Dripping out from left-wing Substack blogs and posts on X/Twitter are accounts of internal revolts and widespread frustration from lower-level activists working within Australia’s human rights and climate NGOs. Desperate for action on Palestine as they watch the slaughter unfold online, employees motivated to speak out have found institutional blockages placed in their way by higher-ups. Many note the near-silence of Australian NGOs on the plight of people in Gaza despite these same institutions issuing loud statements of support for Indigenous reconciliation and opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Common to these accounts, such as the following opinion piece in Overland criticising the lack of Palestine solidarity at climate NGOs, are revelations of pressure coming from the leadership levels and above.[3]  Executives fearful of incurring the wrath of donors are cracking down on employee support for Palestine, even for acts as insignificant as wearing a Palestine flag t-shirt at work:

Several people shared their experience and knowledge of one-on-one calls, emails and text messages                from donors and climate leaders to CEOs and organisational executives discouraging people from         speaking out in support of Palestine. I also understand a number of funders indicated that they would       withdraw funding if groups took a public stance and that several organisations have already been       advised their funding is at risk.[4]

A mass resignation hit the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) over its Zionist leadership and its willingness to cancel activists with pro-Palestine views at the urging of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Leaders of Climate Action Network Australia (CANA), the umbrella group representing Australia’s climate organisations, refused to undersign a Gaza ceasefire statement issued by their parent international group, citing an inability of skills or resources to properly “resolve the issue” with the  ‘committed members’ who fund CANA. Reviewing CANA’s committed members, which includes the Climate Council chaired by Carol Schwartz and the Jewish Climate Network, makes it clear where their concerns originated from. Activists even traced the silence on Palestine at Australia’s largest mental health organisations (Orygen and Headspace) to their Jewish funding streams and links with Israel.

Regardless of whether or not these human rights leaders or university Vice-Chancellors are Jewish themselves, the message being communicated through them is clear: give no quarter to support for Palestine.

Labor under Fire

Since the defeat of the Voice to Parliament referendum, which occurred under the shadow of news coverage of October 7, the prospects of re-election for the governing Australian Labor Party have been diminishing by the day. Failure to arrest extreme levels of immigration and address the cost-of-living crisis rank high on causes for this political collapse, but undoubtedly Labor’s indecisive position on the conflict in the Middle East has played a central role in the crashing fortunes of the current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The tone of the overall political debate in Australia was set soon after October 7, when Jewish groups disseminated their own local version of the ‘40 beheaded babies’ hoax. At a pro-Palestine protest held on steps of the Sydney Opera House on the 9th of October, observers from the Australian Jewish  Association claimed they heard the phrase “gas the Jews” chanted by participants. After months of obsequious media coverage[5] and bipartisan outrage, full video recordings eventually showed no evidence of the phrase being uttered. Smeared with false accusations, pro-Palestine forces in Australia were on the back foot from the very start.

Though the Liberal Party remains as firmly locked into a pro-Israel position as ever, the Labor Party’s relationship to Israel has historically been anything other than steady — a fact Jewish leaders are well aware of. Initially, Israel drew its firmest Australian supporters from the left, and the Chiffley Labor government quickly recognised the Jewish state in 1949. Since then, former Labor Prime Ministers range from Zionist sycophants like Bob Hawke (Prime Minister from 1983–1991) and Julia Gillard (2010–2013), to Zionist critics like Kevin Rudd (2007–2010, 2013) and Gough Whitlam(1972–1975). Political ententes fostered by Zionist leaders and Jewish MPs and vast donations to the Labor party like those made by Trump-supporting billionaire Anthony Pratt have, since the most recent breakdown in relations during the Rudd-era,[6] ensured pro-Israel sentiment remains at the forefront.

Since October 7, Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong sit somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, pleasing neither side of the debate. Australia’s formal response to Israel liquidating the cities of Gaza has been to timidly seek a resolution to the conflict under the strictures of international law, whilst also affirming support for Israel as a supposed Western democracy and respecting its ‘right to defend itself’. Though this once may have been considered a reasonable if not muddled approach to take on the Israel-Palestine conflict during peacetime, it has become politically untenable now that organised Jewry is lashing out at any deviation from full-throated support of Israel’s military efforts. In turn the disillusioned left accuse the government of complicity in genocide, pointing out that Australia continues to provide military aid and defence exports to Israel.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking at a Synagogue

Attempts by Albanese to calm Zionist anger have so far failed to stop the Israeli foreign minister and Australia’s peak Jewish bodies from thundering against Labor for abandoning Israel. Appointing a ‘special envoy to combat anti-semitism’, donating money to Jewish museums, banning Roman salutes, or declaring a fire at a synagogue to be a terrorist attack before authorities had even established a suspect, let alone a motive, does not appear to make up for the Australian government voting in favour of Palestinian statehood or ceasefire resolutions at the United Nations general assembly. Furthermore, Australia has thus far resisted U.S. and Israeli pressure to outright condemn the authority of the International Criminal Court, which Australia has been a party to since 2002.

In the state of Victoria, the governing Labor Party provides the counter to the woes of federal Labor. Evidently showing firm support for Israel and acquiescing to the hysterical demands of the Jewish community leaves your government in a far more stable position. For years former Premier Daniel Andrews fostered strong connections with the Jewish community in Victoria, the largest in the country. As a symbol of appreciation, Andrews was recently awarded the Jerusalem Prize from the World Zionist Organisation and used his speech to urge Jewish philanthropists to double their  existing efforts in defunding critics of Israel.[7]

Now a patron of Labor Friends of Israel, Andrews’ years in government saw collaborations to strengthen hate speech laws, the creation of mandatory holocaust education courses in schools, memorandums of understanding between Victoria and the Israeli Defence Ministry, and the furthering of trade connections. Premier Jacinta Allen, who took over the position in late September 2023, continues in the tradition set by her mentor and predecessor. The latest furore over anti-semitism has prompted the Victorian Government to promise further draconian crackdowns on civil liberties and the right to protest. The envisioned laws banning masks, designated symbols and protest implements have been criticised by unions, antifascists, libertarians, and nationalists alike but will likely make no dent in Victorian Labor’s electoral prospects

Elsewhere on the political front, the efforts of the Teals, a group of semi-independent politicians who unseated Liberal Party members in previously safe conservative seats in the 2022 election, have also taken a hit. In April, The Australian revealed that Naomi Milgrom (née Besen) withdrew funding from Climate 200 (the financial pot that supplies the Teal movement) due to Teal MP’s Kylea Tink and Sophie Scamps voting with the Greens on a parliamentary motion condemning Israeli strikes on Gaza.[8]

In the end, it takes more than just pressure from a ‘lobby group’ to transform the likes of Anthony Albanese from a university radical and a founding member of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine into a defender of Israel. Whether its genuine belief or pure cynicism, somewhere along the path to power Albanese learnt that to be an Australian prime minister, it’s necessary to don a kippah and make concessions to the powers that be.

2025 and beyond?

“If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.” — Sun Tzu

With funds seemingly freed up from left-wing causes, the question now is, where will all the money go instead. Will Jewish philanthropists permanently disassociate from those that have pledged support for Palestine and refocus on the Zionist right by crowing about “the end of woke.” Or has it all been just a temporary lull, with cash-starved artists set to crawl back with promises to stay tight-lipped on Gaza? Whilst it is tempting to speculate on the revived fortunes of conservative political forces and the finances behind the recent launch of an Australian arm of Yoram Hazony’s ‘National Conservatism’ project, only time (or the release of the next batch of Australian Electoral Commission donation returns) will provide a clearer picture.

Meanwhile the Palestine solidarity movement, as it exists in its current form, appears destined to relive the political defeats of 2024. Taught from childhood by Judeo-centric history syllabuses that the holocaust is the ultimate expression of evil, rank-and-file members still can’t wrap their minds around how the direct descendants of those that fled to Australia from National Socialist Germany are able to support the barbarism on display in Gaza. Taking their cue from Jewish intellectual trends by framing the issue as one of ‘white supremacy’, sprinkling in some class reductionism, and then announcing ad-nauseam that it is incorrect to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism leaves them unable to articulate a true critique of Jewish power. It’s far from coincidence that the only “woke” political cause in Australia that is impotent, the one that utterly fails where all others — be it LGBTQ+ rights, indigenous reconciliation or gender equality — succeed in strides, just so happens to be the one organised Jewry doesn’t support.

The brightest note of pro-Palestine efforts — one in fact condemned by anti-Zionist Jews — occurred at the start of the year and made headlines around the world. Enterprising activists exposed a WhatApp group chat filled with hundreds of prominent Australian Jews busily developing strategies to attack and silence critics of Israel. The release included a spreadsheet with the names, images and social media accounts of chat participants, in a form similar to the treatment meted out to pro-Palestine activists on the website Canary Mission, which “documents people and groups that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews”. Members of the chat rushed to the press to complain they had been ‘doxxed’ and forced the federal government to push through new criminal offences on the dissemination of personal data, despite not a single email, private address or phone number being revealed in the releases. Discovering, in real time, incontrovertible evidence of a ‘Jewish conspiracy’ plants the seeds of true dissent in the way that a thousand newspaper articles cannot.

Ultimately, the philanthropists and Jewish leaders who pull the rug out from under pro-Palestine activists and seek to destroy the Palestinian homeland are the very same Zionists who support the efforts to eradicate White Australia and weaken White homelands around the world. It functions as one and the same operation and, minus the use of military force, the methods are identical: dehumanisation, institutional silencing, deconstruction of identity, encouraging foreigners to settle on their land, funding pro-immigration groups, inflicting on White Australia conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, and declaring all opposition to the aforementioned tactics to be hate or terrorism.

Perhaps it will click in the minds of the honest Palestine supporter that so much of what they understand as human rights advocacy is just a fig leaf created by Zionists to cover their true intentions, that this support for diversity and multiculturalism in Australia has always gone hand-in-hand with violent and oppressive ethnic particularism in Israel. Something other than mere concern for humanity is going on when Jews fund the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and Indigenous ‘blak art’ collectives whilst simultaneously declaring justice for the people of Gaza off-limits.

When Hersch Lauterpacht, Jacob Robinson and René Cassin set the framework for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and developed the language of international human rights law at the Nuremberg Trials, they had in mind not universalism or left-wing ideals of utopia, but an international system that would advance Jewish national self-determination and ensure the security of the Jewish people. Henceforth, whenever this system has gone rogue and come into conflict with the military or political aims of Zionism, Jewish leaders attack and declare it is failing in its true purpose. Whether it’s the United Nations, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Amnesty International or the International Criminal Court, no institution that speaks out is left unscathed.

Forced to play their hand by the events in Palestine, Australian Jewry exposed their position to those who were paying attention. To make an appeal for White Australia to the bulk of Palestine supporters is probably a lost cause. But for those open-minded individuals who watched the philanthropic retreat and the institutional chaos unfold in the year and three months since October 7 2023, it can only have opened their eyes to the true nature of politics in Australia.


[1]Neill, R & Bashan, Y 2024, ‘Facing hate from those they fund, Jewish donors walk away in despair’, The Australian, September 2, retrieved from: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/jewish-donors-are-pulling-and-redirecting-their-funds-as-they-despair-at-rise-of-antisemitism/news-story/48507627d50a44f96738c62cb75f38ba

[2]Jordana Silverstein, executive member of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network and figures like Sarah Schwartz, Max Kaiser (the grandson of Walter Lippmann) and others grouped around the newly created Jewish Council of Australia.

[3]Statements on Gaza issued elsewhere by the editors of Overland and literary journal Meanjin denounce October 7 as an act of terrorism and baulk at supporting militant resistance by Hamas.

[4]Kelly, A 2023, ‘Where is the Australian climate movement’s solidarity with Palestine?’, Overland, December 3, retrieved from: https://overland.org.au/2023/12/where-is-the-australian-climate-movements-solidarity-with-palestine/

[5]For a discussion on the Jewish role in Australian media and its general pro-Zionist slant, see my previous TOO piece ‘Moulding the Australian Mind.

[6]Also the conflict centred around Bob Carr’s brief term as Foreign Minister; see Brendon Sanderson, ‘Mark Leibler: Power Broker for Australia’s Jewish Plutocracy‘. h

[7]Other political recipients of the Jerusalem Prize are Labor Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Julia Gillard and Liberal Party PMs John Howard and Scott Morrison.

[8] The Australian 2023, ‘Rich-lister’s rethink on Teal support’, retrieved from: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/margin-call/richlister-naomi-milgrom-rethinks-support-for-teals-libs-cashed-up-in-cook/news-story/bc6f0b6171b1b51f89b312a081188c92

Bernard Bachrach’s “Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe”

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe
Bernard Bachrach
University of Minnesota Press, 1977 (Available online at Archive.org)

2910 Words

The term “lachrymose” should be in the lexicon of all modern dissidents. According the first entry in my 1984 Webster’s II dictionary, it means, “Weeping, or given to weeping: tearful.” This term gained prominence regarding the Jewish Question in the late 1920s when historian Salo Baron coined the “lachrymose theory” of Jewish history, which describes “the eternal self-pity characteristic of Jewish historiography.” Such an approach, as many of us know, amounts to dishonestly politicizing history by exaggerating both the innocence and suffering of Jews as well the power and malevolence of White gentiles. The point, of course, is not to increase our knowledge of days gone by but to cynically promote the ethnic interests of Jews in the here and now.

Bernard Bachrach successfully challenges this mindset in his brief 1977 volume Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe, wherein he demonstrates how the lachrymose approach falls short when held against historical data. In his preface, he writes:

Such treatments of early medieval Jewish policy have generally been presented in conjunction with a view of barbarian Europe that depicts Christian secular rulers as powerful and religiously oriented, the Church as the dominant institution in society with immense influence over the political process, and the Jews as very few in number, powerless, and easily victimized though innocent. This picture of strong monarchs, a powerful church, and an insignificant Jewry, however, does not fit the evidence for early medieval conditions.

Although the work is technically one of history, really it is a reflection on historiography and, if writ large, a repudiation of the infusion of politics into the study of Jewish history. In his notes, Bachrach mentions how Jewish scholars had attacked Baron’s lachrymose theory “for providing ammunition with which the anti-Semites can attack Jews.” Thankfully, Bachrach places himself above such concerns (regardless of his personal sympathies). The result is both useful and interesting since in most cases when kings or Church magnates acted against Jews, they were in fact being reasonable.

Bachrach begins with the Visigoths, who were the post-Roman Germanic rulers of the Iberian Peninsula. Their Jewish-policy baseline sprang from the old Roman law which established that Jews were to be . . .

  • left alone to practice their religion
  • given judicial autonomy within their communities
  • prohibited from holding public office wherein they could inflict punishment on Christians
  • prohibited from converting non-Jews to Judaism
  • prohibited from owning Christian slaves

Yet, as Bachrach mentions repeatedly, just because a law was on the books does not mean that it was respected or enforced. King Theodoric the Great, the Ostrogoth who reigned over the Visigoths during the early sixth century, for example, had ignored many of the laws which limited Jewish activity. The Visigothic monarch Reccared I, who reigned a half-century later, has been considered anti-Jewish since he decreed that children of Jewish and Christian parents be baptized. Some modern scholars viewed this as forced conversion. Bachrach, on the other hand, reveals that the Visigothic Jews themselves would not have objected to this given that, according to Jewish law at the time, a Jewish woman married to a non-Jew deserved to be stoned to death and that a child born of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother wasn’t even a Jew. Bachrach exonerates not only Reccared but also the Church leaders for being “concerned about the spiritual and material well-being” of such children. Further, Reccared removed the death penalty for Jews who proselytize and even ignored a missive from Pope Gregory I, which entreated him to punish Jews who were illegally dealing in Christian slaves in Narbonne.

In Visigothic Spain a rough pattern then emerges over the next two centuries:

  1. Jews are given wide freedom by pro-Jewish kings, which they then abuse, typically through bribery, proselytization, dealing in Christian slaves, and forcibly circumcising them.
  2. In response, anti-Jewish kings replace the pro-Jewish ones (often with the support of the Church) and enact laws meant to protect Christians and Christianity from Jews.
  3. Jews do not like this, and subsequently lend their financial and military influence to viable enemies of the crown until the anti-Jewish king is deposed or dead.
  4. Rinse and repeat.

This is a good early medieval example of Jewish aggressiveness against the host society and willingness to exploit non-Jews.

Sisebut in 612 was the first of these supposedly anti-Jewish kings. He reversed many of Reccared’s pro-Jewish policies and attempted to enforce the extant laws about Jews owning and converting Christian slaves. Later in his reign he offered the Jews of Spain an ultimatum, conversion or exile—something that even the anti-Jewish Church officials opposed. This may sound harsh to modern ears, but Bachrach shoots down any interpretations that Sisebut was acting out of greed, fanaticism, or malice. Simply put, the Jews of Spain had opposed Sisebut’s ascension to the throne, and he was understandably trying to hamstring their political influence in response. In any event, his anti-Jewish decrees went largely ignored.

Things then ping-pong between pro- and anti-Jewish monarchs over the following decades. One pro-Jewish king, Chindasuinth was in fact much harder on his fellow Christians than he was on his Jewish subjects. After Chindasuinth’s successor Reccesuinth reinstated Sisebut’s anti-Jewish legislation, Reccesuinth’s successor Wamba had to crush a Jewish revolt in Narbonne. Wamba then banished all Jews from the city. Yet, as with most anti-Jewish actions in Visigothic Spain, it didn’t last.

Wamba, however, was not a religious fanatic, and his appreciation of the power of the Jewish community apparently led him to a rapprochement with them. The Jews of Narbonne were allowed to return to their city where for a long time they continued to be a dominant force. Wamba, in addition, did not enforce the existing anti-Jewish laws, and at the councils which met during his reign the Jewish question was not discussed.

Bachrach also states bluntly that “as late as 694 Jews still owned Christian slaves and carried on business as usual.” This was during the reign of Egica, who also tried to weaken the economic base of the Jews in order to rid his political enemies of their financial strength. He went to so far as to order that all Jews in his kingdom “be stripped of their property and be made slaves.” As in the past, such legislation was an abject failure because most of the leadership in Visigothic Spain was either openly tolerant of Jews or susceptible to their bribes. Still, Bachrach shockingly defends Egica’s decision as rational since the Jews had indeed schemed against him:

Had not refugae sought foreign aid to help rebel causes throughout much of the seventh century? Had not the Jews actively participated in military operations against Wamba? Were not Jews sufficiently disadvantaged as a result of Egica’s politics that would benefit by opposing him actively?

Historian Edward Thompson defines refugae as “men who went to foreign powers with a view to launching attacks on Spain from abroad.” Thus, it can be inferred from Bachrach’s text that many of these traitorous individuals were in fact exiled Jews. This becomes an important point in the early eighth century when, as Egica’s grandson Achila in the north, the upstart Visigothic king Roderic in the south, the Byzantines, and the Arab Muslims were all vying for control of the Iberian Peninsula. In the ensuing chaos the Spanish Jews repaid the Goths for two centuries of prosperity, freedom, and tolerance by allying with the Muslims and seizing a number of cities in Spain—and prospering thereafter.

Although Bachrach does not state this explicitly, it seems that the Visigoths would have benefited greatly had they actually followed through on the anti-Jewish legislation with which scholars of the lachrymose tradition so keenly besmirch them.

In Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe, Bernard Bachrach saves the best for first, with the remainder of his treatise lacking much of the punch and parry found in his chapter on the Visigoths. This is not Bachrach’s fault since the history itself is not quite as compelling vis-à-vis Jews. Basically, the Ostrogoths, the Byzantines, the Merovingians, and the Carolingians were pro-Jewish and rarely wavered from that. These Europeans also ignored the mildly anti-Jewish Roman laws as well as pressure from Church magnates to penalize Jews when proselytizing or abusing the flock. From the sixth to the ninth centuries, the Jews of Western and Southern Europe enjoyed a golden age of tolerance and prosperity.

Indeed, in an earlier work Bachrach suggests that the Jews were so wealthy, powerful, and aggressive that until around the middle of the fifth century the government viewed a strong anti-Jewish policy as not politically viable, even though it was continually being pressured in this direction by the Church.[1] The rather limited anti-Jewish actions of the government during the 150 years following the Edict of Toleration of 313 are interpreted “as attempts to protect Christians from a vigorous, powerful, and often aggressive Jewish gens” (408). The Jews themselves were perceived by the emperors, the government, and the Church fathers as “an aggressive, well-organized, wealthy, and powerful minority” (p. 408). Particularly revealing are the suggestion that the solvency of the municipalities depended on Jews paying their taxes and the fear that offending the Jews could set off widespread and costly revolts, such as the one led by Patricius in 351.

Of the early-sixth-century Ostrogothic monarch Theodoric, Bachrach writes:

It seems, however, that Theodoric pursued a clearly defined pro-Jewish policy that called for the recognition and enforcement of their privilegia. At the same time he managed to ignore old imperial legislation the restricted the activities of Jews. Those who harmed Jews were effectively and severely punished; alleged or potential Jewish wrongdoing was investigated, admonished, and even threatened with “royal displeasure”; but at no time is there evidence of punishments having been meted out or of anti-Jewish laws having been enforced.

Bachrach points out that the Jews of Italy at the time provided many educated men for public service as well an even greater number of armed fighting men loyal to the crown. So why wouldn’t Theodoric want to pursue pro-Jewish policies? In the late sixth century, Pope Gregory I also had a hand in protecting Jewish interests, especially when he made allowances for Jewish slave traders who may have “accidentally” found themselves owning Christian slaves. Despite Gregory’s professed “horror and loathing” of Jews, he continually relied upon the relatively lenient Theodosian Code rather than the stricter Justinian Code when dealing with Jewish matters.

Compared to such a standard, the medieval leaders whom the lachrymose school considers anti-Jewish really weren’t. For example, the Byzantine emperor Justinian did confiscate synagogues in North Africa in 535, but this was in response to North African Jews having supported the Vandals in their war against the Byzantine Empire. Another historical hiccup can be found in how Byzantine emperor Heraclitus decreed in 632 that Jews convert to Christianity. Bachrach reveals that this was merely a stratagem to entice potentially disloyal Byzantine Jews to support the Empire’s wars against the Persians and Muslims. As it turned out, the Jews called the emperor’s bluff and refused their support, and Heraclitus still did not enforce the decree. Byzantine Jews later repaid their emperor’s tolerance by rioting in Constantinople in 641 and attacking the Hagia Sophia in 661.

Then, of course, there was the famously pro-Jewish king Charlemagne who did everything he could to promote Jewish mercantile and scholarly activity. In particular, he encouraged the Jewish group known as the Radanites to trade far and wide across Europe, the Muslims world, and beyond. Bachrach even speculates that it is partially because of Charlemagne that Jews became so dominant in international trade to begin with. Despite this beneficence, however, Jews still found ways to abuse the system. For example, they forced Charlemagne to ban Jewish mint masters from operating out of their homes so to cut down on fraud. He also had to prohibit Jewish moneylenders from accepting “the persons of free Christians” as collateral.

As for controlling his kingdom’s economy, Charlemagne

emphasized the importance of the local market where his officials could oversee weights and measures, collect taxes, and monitor prices. Some Jews in the Carolingian realm seemed to have found it more profitable to do business from their homes away from the government’s watchful eye. Charlemagne therefore issued an administrative order forbidding Jews from storing commodities intended for sale such as grain and wine in their homes and thus hoped to stop business from being done outside of the market place.

Bachrach often makes the point that many of the acts of monarchs deemed by lachrymose scholars as anti-Jewish were in fact either sheer bluffs, toothless edicts, retributive fair play, or rational responses to Jewish malfeasance. Charlemagne’s actions above are a great example of this last type of behavior.

The most persistent opponents (I hesitate to use the term “enemy”) of the Jews during the early Medieval period were the Church magnates. They were naturally most concerned about Jewish intermarriage and proselytization as well as the continued Jewish practice of owning and circumcising—thereby converting—Christian slaves. Since Church leaders, at least on paper, had little to gain from the economic benefits that unfettered Jewish activity brought to the table, they were quick to rail against the gross injustices associated with this activity. Of the Carolingian times, Bachrach writes (emphasis mine):

Thus there are contemporary reports that Jews purchased Christian slaves from Christian owners and sold the former to the Muslims in Spain. Jews also apparently castrated some slaves especially for the foreign market and even kidnapped Christian youths for sale abroad.

The growing Jewish trade in pagan Slavs was also a problem. Obnoxious behavior such as Jews entering convents to have “secret dealings” with nuns further offended the ecclesiastics.

Incidentally, in his Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian (Princeton University Press, 1993), Louis Feldman points out that the circumcision of slaves well into the sixth century was a Jewish religious law at least partly for ritual reasons (circumcision enabled slaves to perform their duties, such as handling food, in a manner consistent with Jewish religious law) but undergoing this procedure did not mean that the slaves had been converted to Judaism. Like Bachrach, Feldman also emphasizes Jewish wealth and prosperity and their alliances with wealthy, powerful non-Jews.

The strongest and most notable anti-Jewish Church presence during this period was Bishop Agobard of Lyons (see also Andrew Joyce’s “Agobard of Lyon and The Origins of the Hostile Elite”). During the reign of Charlemagne’s son Louis in the early ninth century, Agobard actively campaigned against Jewish criminal excesses and constantly pressured the crown to enforce the anti-Jewish laws which had been on the books since Roman times. Further, he promoted a general segregation of Jews and gentiles and strongly opposed the ongoing Judaization of Western Europe. If Agobard had his way, Christians would be banned from purchasing wine and meat processed by Jews. Clearly, all of this would have severely limited Jewish economic strength in the nascent Holy Roman Empire, and was something that Louis—who was even more pro-Jewish than his father—would not have allowed.

Things came to a head around 822 when Agobard and a Jewish slaveowner faced each other in imperial court. Essentially, Agobard had absconded with one of the Jew’s slaves, a former pagan who had been converted to Judaism (willingly or not, Bachrach does not say) and later baptized by Agobard. The judge found in favor of the slaveowner, and Louis added insult to injury by peremptorily dismissing Agobard from the court. Bachrach then rationalizes Agobard’s actions and essentially asks the reader to sympathize with him rather than with the king, the court, or the Jews. After mentioning how various supporters of Agobard had to go into hiding or were punished by imperial officials after the trial, Bachrach writes:

He [Agobard] seems to have believed, and he was correct, that compromise with the militant, aggressive, and powerful Jews of Lyonnais would have meant defeat for the Church. As a religious churchman deeply committed to the spiritual health of his flock he had little choice in his course of action; he fought and lost.

That the greatest anti-Jewish advocate of the era met with total defeat is a powerful blow against the lachrymose school of Jewish historiography. Bachrach makes this point several times throughout his volume, and he is quite convincing. He also makes plain that such an approach not only selectively remembers anti-Jewish actions among gentiles and downplays their pro-Jewish behavior, it also exaggerates the power of monarchs and their willingness to enforce anti-Jewish laws. Bachrach essentially accuses lachrymose scholars of exaggerating Jewish suffering during the early Medieval period in Western Europe.

This then leads us to the next question: if the Jews are exaggerating historical events during this period, what other historical events are they exaggerating? It’s a fair question, and one which exceeds the scope of Bachrach’s study. Nevertheless, Bachrach, to his credit, leaves the door open for its pursuit.

We should remember that Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe is more a commentary on historiography than a work of history per se. It’s too thin to be otherwise. Readers shouldn’t look to it for many “gotcha” moments whereby Jewish historical sins are revealed and historic anti-Semitism exonerated. Yes, there is some of that, but one would be better served viewing American Krogan’s excellent 6-part video series entitled The Visigoths and the Jews for this sort of thing. For his part, Bachrach remains evenhanded by presenting the positive side of the equation. He often depicts Jewish-Christian interaction as voluntary and mutually beneficial. He’s also quick to point out the good Jews can do, such as in 793 when the Jews of Narbonne—the same place where they had been illegally trading in Christian slaves—defended their city and the Carolingian realm against Muslim invaders.

It gets to the point where we begin to wonder if these are even Jews that Bachrach is writing about. His depictions appear strange compared to the Jews that Europeans have known so well since the Middle Ages. Yes, the vigor, venality, economic proficiency, and internationalism will ring a few bells. But one does not find much zealous proselytizing or military prowess among Jewish diasporas these days. Further, Bachrach makes little mention of usury and almost no mention of economic exploitation or cultural degeneracy. Anything resembling the Jewish revolutionary spirit which caused so much damage in the twentieth century also does not make an appearance. Could it be that such stereotypically Jewish traits were less common back then in that part of the world than they are today? Perhaps one reason why Western European Jews and Christians got along relatively well during this period was because these Jews were somehow genetically different than modern Jews? Bachrach never mentions whether he was writing about the Sephardim or the Ashkenazim. Perhaps the evidence from that period was too murky in 1977 to make such distinctions?

In any event, with Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe Bernard Bachrach has given us a highly useful work with which to refute the pervasive lachrymose school of Jewish historiography.


[1] Bernard S. Bachrach, “The Jewish community in the Later Roman Empire as seen in the Codex Theodosianus,” in “To See Ourselves as Others See Us”: Christians, Jews, “Others” in Late Antiquity, ed. J. Neusner & E. S. Frerichs (Scholars Press).

Feminists for Femicide: How Leftist Lies Lead Inexorably to Dead White Women

Are you a vile hate-thinker? The answer to that surely came if you heard about a recent horrific murder on the New York subway. Someone set fire to the clothing of a sleeping 76-year-old woman and she burned to death as her killer stood and watched. If you heard about the murder, did you immediately think: “The killer is melanin-enriched, not melanin-deficient”? If you did, then you’re a vile hate-thinker.

Diversity Is Death: Guatemalan enricher Sebastian Zapeta at work on the New York subway (image from Twitter)

And you were right to be one, because a dark-skinned Guatemalan called Sebastian Zapeta was clearly identified on CCTV as the culprit and is now in police custody. In Western societies, non-Whites commit a vastly disproportionate share of crime, particularly violent and sexual crime. But it’s precisely when people are right about racial patterns of crime that the left call them haters and try to silence them. As I’ve pointed out before, the supreme commandment of leftism is “Thou shalt not recognize patterns — except when they’re not there.” Leftism demands that we ignore real patterns of non-Whites harming Whites and accept non-existent patterns of Whites harming non-Whites. That’s why Britain has a martyr-cult for a Black youth called Stephen Lawrence, but no martyr-cult for a White woman called Tracey Mertens.

The martyr-cult of Stephen Lawrence

Who was Tracey Mertens? Well, in the eyes of feminists and other leftists, she was a nobody who deserved oblivion, not attention. Stephen Lawrence was entirely different. He was one of thousands of Blacks murdered in Britain, but he had the rare distinction of being murdered by Whites, not by other Blacks. That’s why he now has an extensive and lavishly funded martyr-cult devoted to promoting a gigantic leftist lie: that cruel and vicious Whites are a permanent threat to saintly and suffering non-Whites. Features of the martyr-cult include the following:

Stephen Lawrence Day, an annual memorial for the martyr created by the so-called Conservative prime minister Theresa May and strategically placed on 22nd April, the day before commemoration of England’s national saint St George and Shakespeare’s traditional birthday.

The Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, which works to demonize Whites and sanctify non-Whites at De Montfort University in the ethnically enriched city of Leicester, where Muslims and Hindus are now re-enacting the tribal feuds of their highly corrupt, violent and rape-friendly homelands.

The Stephen Lawrence Memorial Centre, which works to demonize Whites and sanctify non-Whites in ethnically enriched south-east London, where Blacks murder, rape and rob all other races at vast disproportionate rates.

A Damehood for the martyr’s mother Doreen Lawrence, who now sits in the House of Lords lecturing the White British on ethics and policing. Dame Doreen comes from the highly corrupt, violent and rape-friendly island of Jamaica, which has more murders each year than Britain, despite having a much smaller population. If murders committed in Britain by Jamaicans and extra-judicial murders by the Jamaican police were added to the stats for Jamaica, the discrepancy would be even greater.

The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1999, initiated by the half-Jewish Home Secretary Jack Straw and starring the fully Jewish anti-racism activist Dr Richard Stone. The Inquiry condemned the British police as “institutionally racist” and, like the George Floyd hysteria in America, led to reduced policing of Blacks and other non-Whites, followed by an entirely predictable increase in murder and rape by non-Whites.

Mary-Ann Leneghan and Kris Donald, horrifically murdered by non-Whites and therefore entirely unsuitable for martyr-cults

The full direct and indirect costs of the martyr-cult of Stephen Lawrence must be in the billions of pounds by now. But the far more numerous White victims of non-White killers have not been deemed worthy of a fraction of that funding or attention. There are no martyr-cults for the White children Kris Donald and Mary-Ann Leneghan, who were murdered by non-Whites under far worse circumstances than Stephen Lawrence. 15-year-old Kris Donald was kidnapped by Pakistani Muslims, driven for hundreds of miles as he pleaded for his life, then doused in gasoline and burned alive. 16-year-old Mary-Ann Leneghan was raped and tortured for hours by Blacks, told again and again that she was going to die, then stabbed repeatedly before having her throat slit.

Forgotten by feminists

But there’s no martyr-cult for them. And there’s no martyr-cult for the White woman Tracey Mertens, also murdered under far worse circumstances than Stephen Lawrence. But who was Tracey Mertens? A week ago, I would have had no idea myself. However, by coincidence, her horrific murder-by-incineration has been back in the news at the same time as the horrific murder-by-incineration on the New York subway. But the stories have more in common than their simultaneous appearance in the media. As you read about Tracey Mertens’ murder, please note how it was perfect for a feminist martyr-cult. Except for one thing:

Tracey Mertens, burned alive by Blacks, forgotten by feminists (image from BBC)

The daughter of a woman brutally murdered 30 years ago when she was set on fire in a churchyard has said she will never truly rest until the killers are found. Kelly Hill was 11 when her mum Tracey Mertens walked out the door on 23 December 1994 to pick up some documents from their former home in Birmingham. She never saw her again. Tracey was bundled into a car by two men and driven to Eaton, near Congleton in Cheshire, where she was doused in petrol. [The report does not add “and set on fire” — the BBC was reluctant to state the full horror, for reasons that will become obvious.] She died the following day.

“I can’t let go until I know why and what’s happened – and someone gets in court for it,” Mrs Hill said. “It’s just like she’s forgotten about, but I can’t forget.”

Ms Hill, now 41, said she remembered hearing the door of their new house in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, close as her mum left. “I woke up and I ran over to the window and she was just getting in the car,” she said. “I knocked on the window and I waved to her and she waved back. That was the last time I saw her.”

The family, including her brother Daniel, who was 10 at the time, and father Joey, had moved up north that winter. Tracey had gone to pick up the benefits book she had left at her former home in Nechells, Birmingham, when two men turned up at the door. The following details are known because despite the extensive injuries Tracey had suffered, she was able to tell police what happened in the last hours of her life. The men asked “where’s Joey?” before bundling her into a yellow Ford Escort.

She was driven 60 miles to isolated Christ Church, where she was set on fire in the grounds. Tracey described her attackers as two black men with Birmingham accents, but who also spoke Jamaican Patois. Tracey died the following day, on Christmas Eve. (“‘I can’t let go until I know who killed my mum’,” BBC News, 23rd December 2024)

The one thing that prevented Tracey Mertens’ becoming a feminist martyr is the race of her killers. They were Black and their horrific crime revealed the truth about the bestiality of Blackness. That’s why feminists have ignored Tracey Mertens. Her daughter used too many words when she said: “It’s just like she’s forgotten about.” In fact, the White female Tracey Mertens is definitely forgotten, quite unlike the Black male Stephen Lawrence. Yet by every objective criterion her murder in 1994 was far worse than the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. He was stabbed twice after a chance encounter and might easily have survived. She was incinerated with vicious sadism and given no chance of escape or survival. He died quickly and with relatively little suffering. She died slowly and with horrific suffering. She was a mother with young children. He was a teenager with no children. His killers proved themselves a threat only to young men from racial minorities. Her killers proved themselves a threat to both sexes and all races.

Excluding Blacks is good for Whites

And her killers may have burned her alive simply to strike at her husband Joey Mertens. Reading between the lines of that story at the BBC, I conclude that her husband had offended Black gangsters in Birmingham in some way and that the Black gangsters punished him by incinerating his wife. He must have known how vicious and dangerous they were, but he didn’t ensure that his wife was safe from them. That would be another example of how men cause harm to women, but feminists have never given the murder of Tracey Mertens even a fraction of the attention it deserves.

If they had, they would have found another stark contrast with the murder of Stephen Lawrence. On utilitarian grounds, the killers of Stephen Lawrence can be said to have been protecting women rather than harming them. They were seeking to keep Blacks out of a White working-class area of London. Excluding Blacks is good for Whites and particularly for White women. After all, Blacks commit rape at much higher rates and in worse ways. Gang-rape is a Black speciality in Britain. And just look at Britain’s most prolific gerontophile rapist, a Black called Delroy Easton Grant who raped scores or even hundreds of elderly White women in London, destroying the peace of their final years and in some cases undoubtedly bringing about their premature death.

Inverting the truth

Like the unidentified killers of Tracey Mertens, Delroy Easton Grant was from Jamaica, the Caribbean island that has supplied thousands of murderers, rapists, thieves and tax-eaters to Britain since treacherous politicians imposed non-White immigration against the clearly expressed opposition of the White majority. As I’ve often noted before: “Blacks Blight Britain.” But it’s precisely because non-Whites blight Britain that there are no martyr-cults for the White victims Tracey Mertens, Kris Donald and Mary-Ann Leneghan. Their horrific murders revealed the truth about the harm done by non-Whites to Whites and leftists are determined to suppress that truth. Indeed, they are determined to go further: not merely to suppress the truth but to invert it. That’s why they created the martyr-cult of Stephen Lawrence, which is devoted to promoting the gigantic leftist lie that cruel and vicious Whites are an ominous and omnipresent threat to the lives and welfare of gentle, enriching non-Whites.

The murder of Tracey Mertens shatters that gigantic leftist lie, which is why she has no martyr-cult. Like the rape-gangs of Rotherham, her murder proves that feminists have no real concern for the lives and welfare of ordinary women and girls. Instead, like all other mainstream leftists, they are concerned with only one thing: advancing the cause of leftism. They want power and privilege for themselves, and have no qualms about sacrificing ordinary women to gain those all-important things. Non-white immigration causes enormous and growing harm to White women across the West, but non-Whites are footsoldiers in the leftist war on the West, so feminists are fully in support of open borders. In other words, feminism promotes femicide, or the murder of women. At the same time, feminists pretend to oppose femicide. For example, the Black male feminist Keith Fraser has recently issued a stirring “call to action for men and boys”:

Black male feminist Keith Fraser, who postures about ending male violence against women while working to increase it (image from Gov.uk)

Today is White Ribbon Day, an international campaign observed on 25 November each year, calling for the elimination of violence against women and girls.

As the Chair of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and a former police officer, I’ve had the privilege of working across organisations that help to shape the lives of children and young adults, particularly those caught up in the youth justice system. My personal and professional journey has been driven by a commitment to safety and positive societal change. My time as a police officer meant I have witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of violence against women and girls. This issue is not just something we read about in headlines; it’s a daily reality for countless women. It tears apart individuals, families and communities.

White Ribbon Day offers a powerful opportunity for men and boys to be allies for women and girls. I myself take an active role in promoting gender equality and challenging behaviours and attitudes that perpetuate violence against women and girls, and today I am calling on the youth justice sector to do the same. It is so important to have positive male role models within these spaces and beyond. White Ribbon Day also marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, which runs until Human Rights Day on 10 December. (“White Ribbon Day 2024 — a call to action for men and boys,” The official British government website, November 2024)

In fact, Keith Fraser was issuing a call for posturing about violence against women and girls, not a call to action about the problem. Leftists like him take action only to increase violence against women and girls. Those “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” took place at the same time as some horrific stories about male violence were in the British media. Men were on trial for committing bestial crimes against these women and girls:

Natalie Shotter, a 37-year-old White woman who was orally raped to death while lying unconscious on a bench in a London park

Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old Polish-Pakistani girl who had been viciously beaten and tortured for years before being murdered — her autopsy revealed “10 spinal fractures and further fractures to her right collar bone, both shoulder blades, both arms, both hands, three separate fingers, bones near the wrist in each hand, two ribs and her hyoid bone in the neck”

Elianne Andam, a 15-year-old Black schoolgirl stabbed to death in London after trying to help a female friend retrieve belongings from an ex-boyfriend

Amie Gray, a 34-year-old White woman stabbed to death on a tourist beach as she picnicked with a White female friend, who was also savagely attacked

The racially diverse female victims of bestial male violence and their non-White killers

Every one of those female victims is worthy of a feminist  martyr-cult but will never receive one. Why not? It’s very simple: because the male killers are all UUSFLL rather than useful for leftism. That is, the killers are Utterly Un-Suitable For Leftist Lies, because all of them are non-White. Even worse, three of them are Muslims. Natalie Shotter was raped to death by a Black Muslim called Mohamed Iidow (sic). Sara Sharif was beaten and tortured to death by her own father, a Pakistani Muslim called Urfan Sharif. Elianne Andam was stabbed to death by a Black teenager called Hassan Sentamu. Amie Gray was stabbed to death by an “Iraqi-Thai Muslim” called Nasen Saadi, a criminology student who appears to have been motivated by a sexual fetish about the random murder of women. The Guardian reported that “he may have taken sexual pleasure in the killing,” because while “he was being held in the high-security Belmarsh prison in south-east London, awaiting trial, he asked a female officer if the killing was making headlines and then masturbated in front of her.”

An attractive White and two ugly Blacks: Tracey Mertens compared with Stephen Lawrence and George Floyd

But you can be sure that the Guardian and rest of the mainstream British media will soon end any discussion of Nasen Saadi and the other killers. Like many thousands of other violent and depraved criminals across the West, Saadi and Company are UUSFLL — Utterly Un-Suitable For Leftist Lies. That is, they’re non-White and reveal the truth about non-White pathologies, so feminists and other leftists cannot use their depraved crimes to advance the cause of leftism. That’s why their female victims will soon be forgotten, just as Tracey Mertens was before them. And there’s one more key contrast to note between Tracey Mertens and Stephen Lawrence — and between Tracey Mertens and George Floyd, the thuggish Black criminal who inspired a world-wide martyr-cult after his self-inflicted death in 2020. Tracey Mertens was attractive; Lawrence and Floyd were ugly. By basing mendacious martyr-cults on two ugly Blacks, leftists prove that they hate the middle term of Belloc’s Godly triad just as much as they hate the terms that flank it on left and right. This is what the great Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc said in 1936:

[T]here is (as the greatest of the ancient Greeks discovered) a certain indissoluble Trinity of Truth, Beauty and Goodness. You cannot deny or attack one of these three without at the same time denying or attacking both the others. Therefore with the advance of this new and terrible enemy against the Faith and all that civilization which the Faith produces, there is coming not only a contempt for beauty but a hatred of it; and immediately upon the heels of this there appears a contempt and hatred for virtue. (The Great Heresies, chapter 6, “The Modern Phase”)

Belloc was a highly insightful and honest man, so it should come as no surprise that he has long been condemned for “anti-Semitism.” As Andrew Joyce has described in his review of Belloc’s The Jews (1922), Belloc identified and condemned clear patterns of Jewish predation and subversion within White societies. If he were alive today, Belloc would readily understand and explain why the modern West is consumed by a cult of minority-worship that insists Whites can do no right and non-Whites can do no wrong.

Yes, Belloc would have seen and said that minority-worship is yet another example of Jewish subversion. The cult centers on Blacks, who are the most harmful, obnoxious, unintelligent, unattractive and unproductive of all minorities. In other words, they are the group that least resembles Whites. And that’s precisely why the hostile Jewish elite selected Blacks for transformation into the archetypal saintly victims of White oppression. The martyr-cults of Stephen Lawrence and George Floyd don’t merely deny racial reality: they turn the reality on its head and proclaim that sinful Whites harm saintly non-Whites. Like the sadistic murder on the New York subway, the sadistic murder of Tracey Mertens in an English churchyard demolishes those leftist lies. That’s why feminists will ignore the murder in New York just as they’ve ignored the murder in England. Like leftism as a whole, feminism is an ethically and intellectually bankrupt ideology that works to increase femicide and female suffering, not to end them. And like leftism as a whole, femicidal feminism expresses the will of Jews, not of Whites.