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American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
 
 

About a decade ago, I happened to be talking with an eminent academic scholar who had become known for his sharp criticism of Israeli policies in the Middle East and America’s strong support for them. I mentioned that I myself had come to very similar conclusions some time before, and he asked when that had happened. I told him it had been in 1982, and I think he found my answer quite surprising. I got the sense that date was decades earlier than would have been given by almost anyone else he knew.

Sometimes it is quite difficult to pinpoint when one’s world view on a contentious topic undergoes sharp transformation, but at other times it is quite easy. My own perceptions of the Middle East conflict drastically shifted during Fall 1982, and they have subsequently changed only to a far smaller extent. As some might remember, that period marked the first Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and culminated in the notorious Sabra-Shatila Massacre during which hundreds or even thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered in their refugee camps. But although those events were certainly major factors in my ideological realignment, the crucial trigger was actually a certain letter to the editor published around that same time.

A few years earlier, I had discovered The London Economist, as it was then called, and it had quickly become my favorite publication, which I religiously devoured cover-to-cover every week. And as I read the various articles about the Middle East conflict in that publication, or others such as the New York Times, the journalists occasionally included quotes from some particularly fanatic and irrational Israeli Communist named Israel Shahak, whose views seemed totally at odds with those of everyone else, and who was consequently treated as a fringe figure. Opinions that seem totally divorced from reality tend to stick in one’s mind, and it took only one or two appearances from that apparently die-hard and delusional Stalinist for me to guess that he would always take an entirely contrary position on every given issue.

In 1982 Israel Defense Minister Ariel Sharon launched his massive invasion of Lebanon using the pretext of the wounding of an Israeli diplomat in Europe at the hands of a Palestinian attacker, and the extreme nature of his action was widely condemned in the media outlets I read at the time. His motive was obviously to root out the PLO’s political and military infrastructure, which had taken hold in many of Lebanon’s large Palestinian refugee camps. But back in those days invasions of Middle Eastern countries on dubious prospects were much less common than they have subsequently become, after our recent American wars killed or displaced so many millions, and most observers were horrified by the utterly disproportionate nature of his attack and the severe destruction he was inflicted upon Israel’s neighbor, which he seemed eager to reduce to puppet status. From what I recall from that time, he made several entirely false assurances to top Reagan officials about his invasion plans, such that they afterward called him the worst sort of liar, and he ended up besieging the Lebanese capital of Beirut even though he had originally promised to limit his assault to a mere border incursion.

The Israeli siege of the PLO-controlled areas of Beirut lasted some time, and negotiations eventually resulted in the departure of the Palestinian fighters to some other Arab country. Shortly afterward, the Israelis declared that they were moving into West Beirut in order to better assure the safety of the Palestinian women and children left behind and protect them from any retribution at the hands of their Christian Falangist enemies. And around that same time, I noticed a long letter in The Economist by Shahak which seemed to me the final proof of his insanity. He claimed that it was obvious that Sharon had marched to Beirut with the intent of organizing a massacre of the Palestinians, and that this would shortly take place. When the slaughter indeed occurred not long afterward, apparently with heavy Israeli involvement and complicity, I concluded that if a crazy Communist fanatic like Shahak had been right, while apparently every mainstream journalist had been so completely wrong, my understanding of the world and the Middle East required total recalibration. Or at least that’s how I’ve always remembered those events from a distance of over thirty-five years.

During the years that followed, I still periodically saw Shahak’s statements quoted in my mainstream publications, which sometimes suggested that he was a Communist and sometimes not. Naturally enough, his ideological extremism made him a prominent opponent of the 1991 Oslo Peace Agreement between Israel and the occupied Palestinians, which was supported by every sensible person, though since Oslo ended up being entirely a failure, I couldn’t hold it too strongly against him. I stopped paying much attention to foreign policy issues during the 1990s, but I still read my New York Times every morning and would occasionally see his quotes, inevitably contrarian and irredentist.

Then the 9/11 attacks returned foreign policy and the Middle East to the absolute center of our national agenda, and I eventually read somewhere or other that Shahak had died at age 68 only a few months earlier, though I hadn’t noticed any obituary. Over the years, I’d seen some vague mention that during the previous decade he’d published a couple of stridently anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist books, just as might be expected from a hard-line Communist fanatic, and during the early 2000s I started seeing more and more references to these works, ironically coming from fringe sources of the anti-Semitic Far Right, thereby once again proving that extremists flock together. Finally, about a decade ago, my curiosity got the better of me and clicking a few buttons on Amazon.com, I ordered copies of his books, all of which were quite short.

 

My first surprise was that Shahak’s writings included introductions or glowing blurbs by some of America’s most prominent public intellectuals, including Christopher Hitchens, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, and Edward Said. Praise also came from quite respectable publications such as The London Review of BooksMiddle East International, and Catholic New Times while Allan Brownfeld of The American Council for Judaism had published a very long and laudatory obituary. And I discovered that Shahak’s background was very different than I had always imagined. He had spent many years as an award-winning Chemistry professor at Hebrew University, and was actually anything but a Communist. Whereas for decades, Israel’s ruling political parties had been Socialist or Marxist, his personal doubts about Socialism had left him politically in the wilderness, while his relationship with Israel’s tiny Communist Party was solely because they were the only group willing to stand up for the basic human rights issues that were his own central focus. My casual assumptions about his views and background had been entirely in error.

Once I actually began reading his books, and considering his claims, my shock increased fifty-fold. Throughout my entire life, there have been very, very few times I have ever been so totally astonished as I was after I digested Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, whose text runs barely a hundred pages. In fact, despite his solid background in the academic sciences and the glowing testaments provided by prominent figures, I found it quite difficult to accept the reality of what I was reading. As a consequence, I paid a considerable sum to a young graduate student I knew, tasking him to verify the claims in Shahak’s books, and as far as he could tell, all of the hundreds of references he checked seemed to be accurate or at least found in other sources.

Even with all of that due diligence, I must emphasize that I cannot directly vouch for Shahak’s claims about Judaism. My own knowledge of that religion is absolutely negligible, mostly being limited to my childhood, when my grandmother occasionally managed to drag me down to services at the local synagogue, where I was seated among a mass of elderly men praying and chanting in some strange language while wearing various ritualistic cloths and religious talismans, an experience that I always found much less enjoyable than my usual Saturday morning cartoons.

Although Shahak’s books are quite short, they contain such a density of astonishing material, it would take many, many thousands of words to begin to summarize them. Essentially almost everything I had known—or thought I had known—about the religion of Judaism, at least in its zealously Orthodox traditional form, was utterly wrong.

For example, traditionally religious Jews pay little attention to most of the Old Testament, and even very learned rabbis or students who have devoted many years to intensive study may remain largely ignorant of its contents. Instead, the center of their religious world view is the Talmud, an enormously large, complex, and somewhat contradictory mass of secondary writings and commentary built up over many centuries, which is why their religious doctrine is sometimes called “Talmudic Judaism.” Among large portions of the faithful, the Talmud is supplemented by the Kabala, another large collection of accumulated writings, mostly focused on mysticism and all sorts of magic. Since these commentaries and interpretations represent the core of the religion, much of what everyone takes for granted in the Bible is considered in a very different manner.

Given the nature of the Talmudic basis of traditional Judaism and my total previous ignorance of the subject, any attempt on my part of summarize some of the more surprising aspects of Shahak’s description may be partially garbled, and is certainly worthy of correction by someone better versed in that dogma. And given that so many parts of the Talmud are highly contradictory and infused with complex mysticism, it would be impossible for someone like me to attempt to disentangle the seeming inconsistencies that I am merely repeating. I should note that although Shahak’s description of the beliefs and practices of Talmudic Judaism evoked a fire-storm of denunciations, few of those harsh critics seem to have denied his very specific claims, including the most astonishing ones, which would seem to strengthen his credibility.

On the most basic level, the religion of most traditional Jews is actually not at all monotheistic, but instead contains a wide variety of different male and female gods, having quite complex relations to each other, with these entities and their properties varying enormously among the numerous different Jewish sub-sects, depending upon which portions of the Talmud and the Kabala they place uppermost. For example, the traditional Jewish religious cry “The Lord Is One” has always been interpreted by most people to be an monotheistic affirmation, and indeed, many Jews take exactly this same view. But large numbers of other Jews believe this declaration instead refers to achievement of sexual union between the primary male and female divine entities. And most bizarrely, Jews having such radically different views see absolutely no difficulty in praying side by side, and merely interpreting their identical chants in very different fashion.

Furthermore, religious Jews apparently pray to Satan almost as readily as they pray to God, and depending upon the various rabbinical schools, the particular rituals and sacrifices they practice may be aimed at enlisting the support of the one or the other. Once again, so long as the rituals are properly followed, the Satan-worshippers and the God-worshippers get along perfectly well and consider each other equally pious Jews, merely of a slightly different tradition. One point that Shahak repeatedly emphasizes is that in traditional Judaism the nature of the ritual itself is absolutely uppermost, while the interpretation of the ritual is rather secondary. So perhaps a Jew who washes his hands three times clockwise might be horrified by another who follows a counter-clockwise direction, but whether the hand-washing were meant to honor God or to honor Satan would be hardly be a matter of much consequence.

Strangely enough, many of the traditional rituals are explicitly intended to fool or trick God or His angels or sometimes Satan, much like the mortal heroes of some Greek legend might seek to trick Zeus or Aphrodite. For example, certain prayers must be uttered in Aramaic rather than Hebrew on the grounds that holy angels apparently don’t understand the former language, and their confusion allows those verses to slip by unimpeded and take effect without divine interference.

Furthermore, since the Talmud represents a massive accretion of published commentary built up over more than a millennium, even the most explicit mandates have sometimes been transformed into their opposites. As an example, Maimonides, one of the highest rabbinical authorities, absolutely prohibited rabbis from being paid for their religious teaching, declaring that any rabbi who received a salary was an evil robber condemned to everlasting torment; yet later rabbis eventually “reinterpreted” this statement to mean something entirely different, and today almost all rabbis collect salaries.

Another fascinating aspect is that up until very recent times, the lives of religious Jews were often dominated by all sorts of highly superstitious practices, including magical charms, potions, spells, incantations, hexes, curses, and sacred talismans, with rabbis often having an important secondary role as sorcerers, and this even remains entirely true today among the enormously influential rabbis of Israel and the New York City area. Shahak’s writings had not endeared him to many of these individuals, and for years they constantly attacked him with all sorts of spells and fearful curses aimed at achieving his death or illness. Many of these traditional Jewish practices seem not entirely dissimilar to those we typically associate with African witch-doctors or Voodoo priests, and indeed, the famous legend of the Golem of Prague described the successful use of rabbinical magic to animate a giant creature built of clay.

 

If these ritualistic issues constituted the central features of traditional religious Judaism, we might regard it as a rather colorful and eccentric survival of ancient times. But unfortunately, there is also a far darker side, primarily involving the relationship between Jews and non-Jews, with the highly derogatory term goyimfrequently used to describe the latter. To put it bluntly, Jews have divine souls and goyim do not, being merely beasts in the shape of men. Indeed, the primary reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve as the slaves of Jews, with some very high-ranking rabbis occasionally stating this well-known fact. In 2010, Israel’s top Sephardic rabbi used his weekly sermon to declare that the only reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve Jews and do work for them. The enslavement or extermination of all non-Jews seems an ultimate implied goal of the religion.

Jewish lives have infinite value, and non-Jewish ones none at all, which has obvious policy implications. For example, in a published article a prominent Israeli rabbi explained that if a Jew needed a liver, it would be perfectly fine, and indeed obligatory, to kill an innocent Gentile and take his. Perhaps we should not be too surprised that today Israel is widely regarded as one of the world centers of organ-trafficking.

As a further illustration of the seething hatred traditional Judaism radiates towards all those of a different background, saving the life of a non-Jew is generally considered improper or even prohibited, and taking any such action on the Sabbath would be an absolute violation of religious edict. Such dogmas are certainly ironic given the widespread presence of Jews in the medical profession during recent centuries, but they came to the fore in Israel when a religiously-minded military doctor took them to heart and his position was supported by the country’s highest religious authorities.

And while religious Judaism has a decidedly negative view towards all non-Jews, Christianity in particular is regarded as a total abomination, which must be wiped from the face of the earth.

Whereas pious Muslims consider Jesus as the holy prophet of God and Muhammed’s immediate predecessor, according to the Jewish Talmud, Jesus is perhaps the vilest being who ever lived, condemned to spend eternity in the bottommost pit of Hell, immersed in a boiling vat of excrement. Religious Jews regard the Muslim Quran as just another book, though a totally mistaken one, but the Christian Bible represents purest evil, and if circumstances permit, burning Bibles is a very praiseworthy act. Pious Jews are also enjoined to always spit three times at any cross or church they encounter, and direct a curse at all Christian cemeteries. Indeed, many deeply religious Jews utter a prayer each and every day for the immediate extermination of all Christians.

Over the years prominent Israeli rabbis have sometimes publicly debated whether Jewish power has now become sufficiently great that all the Christian churches of Jerusalem, Bethleham, and other nearby areas can finally be destroyed, and the entire Holy Land completely cleansed of all traces of its Christian contamination. Some have taken this position, but most have urged prudence, arguing that Jews needed to gain some additional strength before they should take such a risky step. These days, many tens of millions of zealous Christians and especially Christian Zionists are enthusiastic advocates for Jews, Judaism, and Israel, and I strongly suspect that at least some of that enthusiasm is based upon ignorance.

 

For the last two thousand years, Jews have almost invariably existed as small, relatively weak minorities living in the lands of others, whether Christian or Muslim, so a religious doctrine so unswervingly hostile to outsiders has naturally presented considerable obstacles for peaceful co-existence. The solution to this dilemma has been based on the divine mandate to preserve Jewish life and well-being above all else, superseding almost all other religious considerations. Thus, if any of the behaviors discussed above are considered likely to stir up resentment from powerful Gentile groups and put Jews at risk, they must be avoided.

For example, the prohibition against Jewish physicians treating the illnesses of non-Jews is waived in the case of powerful non-Jews, especially national leaders, whose favor might provide benefits to the Jewish community. And even ordinary non-Jews may be aided unless some persuasive excuse can be found to explain such lack of assistance since otherwise the vengeful hostility of their friends and relatives might cause difficulties for other Jews. Similarly, it is permissible to exchange gifts with non-Jews but only if such behavior can be justified in strictly utilitarian terms, with any simple expression of friendship towards a non-Jew being a violation of holy principles.

If the Gentile population became aware of these Jewish religious beliefs and the behaviors they promote, major problems for Jews might develop, so an elaborate methodology of subterfuge, concealment, and dissimulation has come into being over the many centuries to minimize this possibility, especially including the mistranslation of sacred texts or the complete exclusion of crucial sections. Meanwhile, the traditional penalty for any Jew who “informs” to the authorities on any matter regarding the Jewish community has always been death, often preceded by hideous torture.

Much of this dishonesty obviously continues down to recent times since it seems very unlikely that Jewish rabbis, except perhaps for those of the most avant gardedisposition, would remain totally unaware of the fundamental tenets of the religion that they claim to lead, and Shahak is scathing toward their apparent self-serving hypocrisy, especially those who publicly express strongly liberal views. For example, according to mainstream Talmudic doctrine, black Africans are traditionally placed somewhere between people and monkeys in their intrinsic nature, and surely all rabbis, even liberal ones, would be aware of this religious doctrine. But Shahak notes that the numerous American rabbis who so eagerly worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and other black Civil Rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s strictly concealed their religious beliefs while denouncing American society for its cruel racism, presumably seeking to achieve a political quid pro quo beneficial to Jewish interests from America’s substantial black population.

Shahak also emphasizes the utterly totalitarian nature of traditional Jewish society, in which rabbis held the power of life and death over their congregants, and often sought to punish ideological deviation or heresy using those means. They were often outraged that this became difficult as states grew stronger and increasingly prohibited such private executions. Liberalizing rabbis were sometimes murdered and Baruch Spinoza, the famous Jewish philosopher of the Age of Reason, only survived because the Dutch authorities refused to allow his fellow Jews to kill him.

 

Given the complexity and exceptionally controversial nature of this subject matter, I would urge readers who find this topic of interest to spend three or four hours reading Shahak’s very short book, and then decide for themselves whether his claims seem plausible and whether I may have inadvertently misunderstood them. Aside from the copies on Amazon, the work may also be found at Archive.org and also a very convenient HTML copy is freely available on the Internet.

My encounter a decade ago with Shahak’s candid description of the true doctrines of traditional Judaism was certainly one of the most world-altering revelations of my entire life. But as I gradually digested the full implications, all sorts of puzzles and disconnected facts suddenly became much more clear. There were also some remarkable ironies, and not long afterward I joked to a (Jewish) friend of mine that I’d suddenly discovered that Naziism could best be described as “Judaism for Wimps” or perhaps Judaism as practiced by Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

There may actually be a deeper historical truth behind that irony. I think I’ve read here and there that some scholars believe that Hitler may have modeled certain aspects of his racially-focused National Socialist doctrine upon the Jewish example, which really makes perfect sense. After all, he saw that despite their small numbers Jews had gained enormous power in the Soviet Union, Weimar Germany, and numerous other countries throughout Europe, partly due to their extremely strong ethnic cohesion, and he probably reasoned that his own Germanic people, being far greater in numbers and historical achievements could do even better if they adopted similar practices.

It’s also interesting to note that quite a number of the leading racialist pioneers of 19th century Europe came from a particular ethnic background. For example, my history books had always disapprovingly mentioned Germany’s Max Nordau and Italy’s Cesare Lombroso as two of the founding figures of European racism and eugenics theories, but it was only very recently that I also discovered that Nordau had also been the joint founder with Theodor Herzl of the world Zionist movement, while his major racialist treatise Degeneration, was dedicated to Lombroso, his Jewish mentor.

Even as late as the 1930s and afterward, international Zionist groups closely cooperated with the Third Reich on international economic projects, and during the world war itself one of the smaller rightwing factions, led by future Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Shamir, actually offered a military alliance to the Axis Powers, denouncing the decadent Western democracies and hoping to cooperate against their mutual British enemies. The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black, 51 Documents by Lenni Brenner, and other writings have documented all these facts in detail, though for obvious reasons they have generally been ignored or mischaracterized by most of our media outlets.

 

Obviously the Talmud is hardly regular reading among ordinary Jews these days, and I would suspect that except for the strongly Orthodox and perhaps most rabbis, barely a sliver are aware of its highly controversial teachings. But it is important to keep in mind that until just a few generations ago, almost all European Jews were deeply Orthodox, and even today I would guess that the overwhelming majority of Jewish adults had Orthodox grand-parents. Highly distinctive cultural patterns and social attitudes can easily seep into a considerably wider population, especially one that remains ignorant of the origin of those sentiments, a condition enhancing their unrecognized influence. A religion based upon the principal of “Love Thy Neighbor” may or may not be workable in practice, but a religion based upon “Hate Thy Neighbor” may be expected to have long-term cultural ripple effects that extend far beyond the direct community of the deeply pious. If nearly all Jews for a thousand or two thousand years were taught to feel a seething hatred toward all non-Jews and also developed an enormous infrastructure of cultural dishonesty to mask that attitude, it is difficult to believe that such an unfortunate history has had absolutely no consequences for our present-day world, or that of the relatively recent past.

Furthermore, Jewish hostility toward non-Jews may have often served the interests of others, and helped determine the economic role they played, especially in European countries, with this factor having been obscured by widespread ignorance of the underlying religious tenets. As most of us know from our history books, political rulers with little sympathy for their subjects sometimes restrict military power to a relatively small group of well-rewarded mercenaries, often of foreign origins so that they will have little sympathy for the population they harshly repress. I strongly suspect that some of the most common traditional economic niches of European Jews, such as tax-farming and the arrenda estate-management system of Eastern Europe, should be best understood in a similar light, with Jews being more likely to extract every last penny of value from the peasants they controlled for the benefit of their local king or lords, and their notorious antipathy for all non-Jews ensuring that such behavior was minimally tempered by any human sympathy. Thus, we should not be surprised that Jews first entered England in the train of William the Conqueror, in order to help him and his victorious Norman lords effectively exploit the subjugated Anglo-Saxon population they now ruled.

But states in which the vast majority of the population is oppressed and dominated by a thin slice of rulers and their mercenary enforcers tend to be much weaker and more brittle than those in which rulers and ruled share common interests, and I believe this is just as true for economic enforcers as for military ones. In many cases, lands reliant upon Jewish economic intermediaries, notably Poland, never successfully developed a native middle class, and often later fared quite poorly against their nationally-unified competitors. Spain was actually one of the last countries in Europe to expel its Jews, and over the next century or two reached the peak of its military and political glory. Prof. Kevin MacDonald’s controversial books on Judaism have also extensively argued that rulers who seem to have been more concerned for the well-being of their subjects also tend to be the ones more likely to be labeled “anti-Semitic” in modern history books, and his volumes are now easily available in my selection of HTML Books:

Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism

In 2009, Gene Expression blogger Razib Khan interviewed eminent evolutionary theorist David Sloan Wilson on the group selection ideas that have been his major focus. During this hour-long discussion, the theories of MacDonald became a major topic, with Wilson seeming to take them quite seriously, and pointing out that within the scientific framework “parasitism” has a simple technical definition, namely the exploitation of the large by the small. Unsurprisingly, the video record of such extremely touchy subject matter was quickly truncated to just the first 11 minutes, and eventually completely removed from both YouTube and BloggingHeadsTV. But it still at least partially survives in archived form:

In recent years, the history of Jewish expulsions from various European societies over the last thousand years has received considerable attention. The total number is somewhat disputed but almost certainly in excess of 100, with the 1930s policies of Hitler’s Germany being merely the most recent example, and Wired Magazineprovided an interesting graphical presentation of this large dataset in 2013. Given these unfortunate facts, it may be difficult to point to any other group so consistently at bitter odds with its local neighbors, and the religious details provided by Shahak certainly make this remarkable historical pattern far less inexplicable.

A very even-handed but candid description of the behavior pattern of Jewish newcomers to America was provided in a chapter of a 1914 book on immigration groups by E.A. Ross, one of America’s greatest early sociologists. Ross had been one of the towering Progressive intellectuals of his era, widely quoted by Lothrop Stoddard on the Right while still so highly regarded by the Left that he was named to the Dewey Commission to adjudicate the conflicting accusations of Trotsky and Stalin and also received glowing praise in the pages of the Communist New Masses. His dismissal on political grounds from Stanford University led to the formation of the American Association of University Professors. Yet his name had so totally vanished from our history books I had never even encountered it until beginning work on my content-archiving project, and I would not be surprised if that single chapter from one of his many books played a major role in his disappearance.

The Eastern European Hebrews

Jews spent two thousand years living as a diaspora people, and their tightly-bound trans-national colonies provided them with a uniquely effective international trading network. Since their religious traditions regarded slavery as the natural and appropriate lot of all non-Jews, both ideological and practical factors combined to apparently make them some of the leading slave-traders of Medieval Europe, though this is hardly emphasized in our histories. Closer to home, in 1991 the Black Nationalists of The Nation of Islam published The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One, which seemed to persuasively document the enormous role Jews had played in the American slave-trade. In 1994, Harold Brackman published a short attempted rebuttal entitled Ministry of Lies under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, but I found his denials much less compelling. I very much doubt that most Americans are aware of these historical facts.

 

Throughout most of my life, Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn was generally regarded as the greatest Russian literary figure of our modern era, and after reading all of his works, including The First CircleCancer Ward, and The Gulag Archipelago, I certainly concurred with this assertion, and eagerly absorbed Michael Scammel’s brilliant thousand page biography. Although Russian himself, many of his closest friends were Jewish, but during the 1980s and 1990s, whispers of his supposed anti-Semitism began floating around, probably because he had sometimes hinted at the very prominent role of Jews in both financing and leading the Bolshevik Revolution, and afterward staffing the NKVD and administering the Gulag labor camps. Late in his life, he wrote a massive two-volume history of the tangled relationship between Jews and Russians under the title Two Hundred Years Together, and although that work soon appeared in Russian, French, and German, nearly two decades later, no English translation has ever been authorized. His literary star seems also to greatly waned in America since that time, and I only very rarely see his name mentioned these days in any of my regular newspapers.

Samizdat versions of major sections of his final work may easily be located on the Internet, and a few years ago Amazon temporarily sold a 750 page hard copy edition, which I ordered and lightly skimmed. Everything seemed quite innocuous and factual, and nothing new jumped out at me, but perhaps the documentation of very heavy Jewish role in Communism was considered inappropriate for American audiences, as was the discussion of the extremely exploitative relationship between Jews and Slavic peasants in pre-revolutionary times, based on liquor-dealing and money-lending, which the Czars had often sought to mitigate.

When a ruling elite has limited connection to the population it controls, benevolent behavior is far less likely to occur, and those problems are magnified when that elite has a long tradition of ruthlessly extractive behavior. Enormous numbers of Russians suffered and died in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, and given the overwhelmingly Jewish composition of the top leadership during much of that period, it is hardly surprising that “anti-Semitism” was deemed a capital offense. Kevin MacDonald may have been the one who coined the term “hostile elite,” and discussed the unfortunate consequences when a country comes under such control.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, reborn Russia soon fell under the overwhelming domination of a small group of Oligarchs, almost entirely of Jewish background, and a decade of total misery and impoverishment for the general Russian population soon followed. But once an actual Russian named Vladimir Putin regained control, these trends reversed and the lives of Russians have enormously improved since that time. America’s media organs were overwhelmingly friendly toward Russia when it was under Jewish Oligarchic rule, while Putin has been demonized in the press more ferociously than any world leader since Hitler. Indeed, our media pundits regularly identify Putin as “the new Hitler” and I actually think the analogy might be a reasonable one, but just not in the way they intend.

Sometimes it is much easier to notice obvious patterns in a foreign country than in one’s own. In the early 2000s I read The Master Switch, a widely-praised history of modern communications technology by Columbia University professor Tim Wu, who has subsequently become a leading Internet-rights activist. I found the account fascinating, with so many stories never before known to me. However, I couldn’t help but notice that all the powerful mass-media technologies of our modern world–film, radio, and television–had been invented and pioneered by Gentiles, mostly of Anglo-Saxon origin, but in each case control was seized by ruthless Jewish businessmen, who sometimes destroyed the lives and careers of those creators. By the 1950s, nearly all of America’s leading concentrations of electronic media power—with the sole major exception of Disney Studios—were solidly in Jewish hands. In an open society such as ours, these are the central levers of political influence, and over the next generation or so, America’s long-dominant and heavily Anglo-Saxon ruling elite was replaced by a mostly Jewish one, a development I alluded to in my long Meritocracy article of a few years ago.

Critics today of all backgrounds bemoan the total impoverishment of so much of America’s once comfortably affluent middle class, noting that some sixty percent of the American population today possesses less than $500 in readily available savings. A younger generation has been reduced to permanent debt-servitude by ruinous student loans, while the the newspapers report that the opioid drug epidemic has claimed a dreadful toll in lives and family-breakdown even while Wall Street and other elite sectors of the financialized economy are richer than they have ever been before. There are certainly many different explanations for this sad economic trajectory, including technological change, growing international competition, and shifts of political power in the American system of government. But it does sometimes seem like a substantial fraction of our population has been reduced to a 21st century version of the drunken, ignorant, exploited, indebted, impoverished, and immiserated Slavic peasantry of the Jewish-dominated Pale of Settlement, and a striking graph produced by the Economic Policy Institute demonstrates that a very sharp economic inflection point occurred in the early 1970s, right around the time that the aforementioned ethnic transformation of our ruling elites was fully under way.

Contrary to widespread popular belief, it is not actually illegal to be a “Nazi” in America, nor are Nazis prohibited from owning property, even including media outlets. But suppose that the overwhelming majority of America’s major media concentrations were owned and controlled by Nazis of a particularly fanatical type. Surely that might have serious consequences for the course of our society, and especially that fraction of the population viewed with considerable disfavor under Nazi doctrine.

One important point to consider in the abbreviated history of Hitler’s Third Reich was that although the ruling Nazi elite was often quite harsh and extreme in its behavior, well over 98% of the population it ruled prior to the outbreak of war consisted of Germans, the particular group which that ruling elite most sought to benefit and uplift in all possible ways, and despite the obscuring cloud of retrospective propaganda, this goal seems to have largely been achieved. In 2004, Counterpunch published a column by the late Alexander Cockburn, its redoubtable editor, noting the tremendous success of Hitler’s peacetime economic policies, and in 2013 that same webzine carried a much longer column focused entirely on this same subject, citing the analysis of Henry C.K. Liu, whose Chinese background provided him greater critical distance. Indeed, during most of the 1930s Hitler received widespread international praise for the great success of his domestic economic and social achievements, making the cover of Time Magazine on numerous occasions and even being named its Man of the Year for 1938. By contrast, I suspect that a population that was some 98% non-German but ruled by those same fanatically pro-German leaders might have fared far worse.

Most of these disheartening facts that have so completely upended my understanding of reality over the last decade could not possibly have come to my attention until the rise of the Internet, which partially broke centralized control over the distribution of information. But many other people surely must have known large portions of this important story long before that, and recognized the very serious consequences these matters might have for the future of our society. Why has there been so little public discussion?

I believe one factor is that over the years and the decades, our dominant media organs of news and entertainment have successfully conditioned most Americans to suffer a sort of mental allergic reaction to topics sensitive to Jews, which leads to all sorts of issues being considered absolutely out of bounds. And with America’s very powerful Jewish elites thereby insulated from almost all public scrutiny, Jewish arrogance and misbehavior remain largely unchecked and can increase completely without limit.

I’ve also sometimes suggested to people that one under-emphasized aspect of a Jewish population, greatly magnifying its problematical character, is the existence of what might be considered a biological sub-morph of exceptionally fanatical individuals, always on hair-trigger alert to launch verbal and sometimes physical attacks of unprecedented fury against anyone they regard as insufficiently friendly towards Jewish interests. Every now and then, a particularly brave or foolhardy public figure challenges some off-limits topic and is almost always overwhelmed and destroyed by a veritable swarm of these fanatical Jewish attackers. Just as the painful stings of the self-sacrificing warrior caste of an ant colony can quickly teach large predators to go elsewhere, fears of provoking these “Jewish berserkers” can often severely intimidate writers or politicians, causing them to choose their words very carefully or even completely avoid discussing certain controversial subjects, thereby greatly benefiting Jewish interests as a whole. And the more such influential people are thus intimidated into avoiding a particular topic, the more that topic is perceived as strictly taboo, and avoided by everyone else as well.

For example, about a dozen years ago I was having lunch with an especially eminent Neoconservative scholar with whom I’d become a little friendly. We were bemoaning the overwhelmingly leftward skew among America’s intellectual elites, and I suggested it largely seemed a function of our most elite universities. Many of our brightest students from across the nation entered Harvard and the other Ivies holding a variety of different ideological perspectives, but after four years departed those halls of learning overwhelmingly in left-liberal lock-step. Although he agreed with my assessment, he felt I was missing something important. He nervously glanced to both sides, shifted his head downward, and lowered his voice. “It’s the Jews,” he said.

 

I do not doubt that much of the candid analysis provided above will be quite distressing to many individuals. Indeed, some may believe that such material far exceeds the boundaries of mere “anti-Semitism” and easily crosses the threshold into constituting an actual “blood libel” against the Jewish people. That extremely harsh accusation, widely used by stalwart defenders of Israeli behavior, refers to the notorious Christian superstition, prevalent throughout most of the Middle Ages and even into more modern times, that Jews sometimes kidnapped small Christian children in order to drain their blood for use in various magic rituals, especially in connection with the Purim religious holiday. One of my more shocking discoveries of the last dozen years is that there is a fairly strong likelihood that these seemingly impossible beliefs were actually true.

I personally have no professional expertise whatsoever in Jewish ritual traditions, nor the practices of Medieval Jewry. But one of the world’s foremost scholars in that field is Ariel Toaff, professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval Studies at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, and himself the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome.

In 2007, he published the Italian edition of his academic study Blood Passovers, based on many years of diligent research, assisted by his graduate students and guided by the suggestions of his various academic colleagues, with the initial print run of 1,000 copies selling out on the first day. Given Toaff’s international eminence and such enormous interest, further international distribution, including an English edition by a prestigious American academic press would normally have followed. But the ADL and various other Jewish-activist groups regarded such a possibility with extreme disfavor, and although these activists lacked any scholarly credentials, they apparently applied sufficient pressure to cancel all additional publication. Although Prof. Toaff initially attempted to stand his ground in stubborn fashion, he soon took the same course as Galileo, and his apologies naturally became the basis of the always-unreliable Wikipedia entry on the topic.

Eventually, an English translation of his text turned up on the Internet in a PDF format and was also placed for sale on Amazon.com, where I purchased a copy and eventually read it. Given those difficult circumstances, this work of 500 pages is hardly in ideal form, with most of the hundreds of footnotes disconnected from the text, but it still provides a reasonable means of evaluating Toaff’s controversial thesis, at least from a layman’s perspective. He certainly seems an extremely erudite scholar, drawing heavily upon the secondary literature in English, French, German, and Italian, as well as the original documentary sources in Latin, Medieval Latin, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Indeed, despite the shocking nature of the subject matter, this scholarly work is actually rather dry and somewhat dull, with very long digressions regarding the particular intrigues of various obscure Medieval Jews. My own total lack of expertise in these areas must be emphasized, but overall I thought Toaff made a quite persuasive case.

It appears that a considerable number of Ashkenazi Jews traditionally regarded Christian blood as having powerful magical properties and considered it a very valuable component of certain important ritual observances at particular religious holidays. Obviously, obtaining such blood in large amounts was fraught with considerable risk, which greatly enhanced its monetary value, and the trade in the vials of this commodity seems to have been widely practiced. Toaff notes that since the detailed descriptions of the Jewish ritualistic murder practices are very similarly described in locations widely separated by geography, language, culture, and time period, they are almost certainly independent observations of the same rite. Furthermore, he notes that when accused Jews were caught and questioned, they often correctly described obscure religious rituals which could not possibly have been known to their Gentile interrogators, who often garbled minor details. Thus, these confessions were very unlikely to have been concocted by the authorities.

Furthermore, as extensively discussed by Shahak, the world-view of traditional Judaism did involve a very widespread emphasis on magical rituals, spells, charms, and similar things, providing a context in which ritualistic murder and human sacrifice would hardly be totally unexpected.

Obviously, the ritual murder of Christian children for their blood was viewed with enormous disfavor by the local Gentile population, and the widespread belief in its existence remained a source of bitter tension between the two communities, flaring up occasionally when a Christian child mysteriously disappeared at a particular time of year, or when a body was found that exhibited suspicious types of wounds or showed a strange loss of blood. Every now and then, a particular case would reach public prominence, often leading to a political test of strength between Jewish and anti-Jewish groups. During the mid-19th century, there was one such famous case in French-dominated Syria, and just before the outbreak of the First World War, Russia was wracked by a similar political conflict in the 1913 Beilis Affair in the Ukraine.

I first encountered these very surprising ideas almost a dozen years ago in a long article by Israel Shamir that was referenced in Counterpunch, and this would definitely be worth reading as an overall summary, together with a couple of his follow-up columns, while writer Andrew Hamilton offers the most recent 2012 overview of the controversy. Shamir also helpfully provides a free copy of the book in PDF form, an updated version with the footnotes properly noted in the text. Anyway, I lack the expertise to effectively judge the likelihood of the Toaff Hypothesis, so I would invite those interested to read Toaff’s book or better yet the related articles and decide for themselves.

 

The notion that the world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine has often been misattributed to the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington, and over the last fifteen-odd years I’ve sometimes begun to believe that the historical events of our own era could be considered in a similar light. I’ve also sometimes joked with my friends that when the true history of our last one hundred years is finally written and told—probably by a Chinese professor at a Chinese university—none of the students in his lecture hall will ever believe a word of it.

Related Readings:

http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/

 

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  1. Wally says:

    A search of CODOH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust), the world’s leading ‘holocaust’ Revisionist publisher, website, and source of information concerning scholarly research proving the fraudulence of the ‘holocaust’ narrative yields forty-one results when searching Israel Shahak.
    see:

    https://codoh.com/search/?sorting=relevance&q=shahak

    Thanks.

    The ’6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers’ are scientifically impossible frauds.
    See the ‘holocaust’ debunked here: http://codoh.com
    No name calling, level playing field debate here: http://forum.codoh.com

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  2. Dan Hayes says:

    Mr. Unz:

    All I can say is WOW! With this essay you’ve really let it all hang out and thrown down the gauntlet.

    I would ordinarily give zero or less as the political survival chances for anyone else writing anything like this. But somehow or other through earned wealth, political brazenness, or just plain unmitigated good fortune I feel/hope that you and the UR will both continue and prosper.

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  3. Polymath says:

    Not having time at the moment, I make no judgment on the validity of Unz’s findings, but I predict that a very strong reaction will arrive soon, and I trust Ron has made adequate technical preparations.

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  4. Anon[257] • Disclaimer says:

    There is one authenticated child sacrificed by Jews. It’s the child Saint Hugo of Lincoln disappeared and found dead and drained of blood near Lincoln England in the 1200.

    There was also a N. Italian boy in the 1500s

    The mid 19th century Syrian was an adult, a Christian monk.

    Affirmative action is a Jewish war against the White goyim. The majority of attorneys on the anti White side of the affirmative action law suits have Jewish names. Same with the civil rights criminal attorneys that have made the once great cities crime ridden ghettoes.

    Re: employment, Whites are untouchables. It’s amazing the number of government agencies at all levels whose only function is to ensure that Whites aren’t hired for any job.

    It’s ny opinion that we goyim should be grateful American Jews haven’t yet done to us what they did to Russians 1918 to 1950? And what they’re doing to Palestinians now.

    Having personally known some Jewish weather underground and other radicals I know how much they hate us.

    I found Dr Macdonald’s trilogy in the university library where I worked. Having spent a lifetime around the Jewish old left and new left, nothing in those books was new to me.

    It was because of the Jewish tax collectors that Poland was partitioned between Russia Austria and Prussia. They kept so much of the tax money for themselves there was no money for either an army or any kind of diplomatic service.

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  5. Colin Wright says: • Website

    My. Well, offhand, I imagine my reaction will lie somewhere midway between the uncritical applause of the anti-semite brigade and the shocked denunciations of the guardians of political orthodxy.

    The comments I’m about to post are more or less haphazard. I merely wish to emphasize that I actually agree with most of what I read; I’m listing my points of dissent, not my points of agreement.

    First off, it’s an exaggeration — and a self-defeating one — to say that the Russian Communists were ‘overwhelmingly’ Jewish. Disproportionately, certainly, and indeed, heavily, but not ‘overwhelmingly.’ Perhaps a third of the prominent figures were Jewish. Have half. The point is that Communism, while heavily Jewish, was also gentile.

    Second, the article gives the impression that there is some some kind of monolithic Judaism. That’s obviously untrue: Jews are some of the most quarrelsome, dissent-prone folks around. The author is actually more representative of the average Jewish intellectual than he may think. Indeed, this compulsion to dissent — rather than some sinister urge to reduce the goyim to misery — may do much to explain the attraction revolutionary creeds hold for Jews.

    I’ll also note that the monolithic Judaism paradigm fails in the face of the enormous intermarriage rate among Jewish men. If there is a Jewish plot, a good half of Jewish men are completely failing to do their duty.

    So that’s about it. Revisionism — of all kinds — is good and useful. However, it usually goes too far. If the Jew as immaculately innocent and eternal victim paradigm is obviously inaccurate, it doesn’t follow that the exact opposite must be the case.

    If it wasn’t for Israel, I’d actually have no problem with Jews. I found myself confronting this when I decided to buy a camera from B&H Camera. I realized the firm is owned by Satmar Jews, who think that when the Messiah comes, all the bad gentiles will go to hell while all the good gentiles will be the slaves of Jews for all eternity.

    I thought about that for a bit, and eventually came to the conclusion that while their sentiment is hardly friendly, when the Messiah comes, we’ll find out if they’re right. In the meantime, they offer some excellent prices on cameras.

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  6. DB Cooper says:

    I heard years ago that Christianity is so despise in Israel that in school the students are taught to write the arithmetic plus sign as the letter “t” rather than “+” because the “+” sign resembles the Christianity cross.

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  7. Colin Wright says: • Website

    As a separate note, I’d add the works of a professor Klier to the reading list. He’s a Cambridge academic who’s produced some careful research on Jews in nineteenth century Russia and the actual nature and course of the various pogroms on which so much Jewish victimology rests. Certainly the evil anti-semitic Tsars and their officials emerge as much more ambiguous figures than the usual narrative would have us believe.

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  8. Rational says:

    EXCELLENT ARTICLE, GREAT ARTICLE, SUPERB ARTICLE, MR. UNZ.

    Sir, you have written one of the best articles I have read in years! Great work! It takes a great man to speak with such honesty like you have, in this day and age.

    Israel Shahak was truly a great man. His excellent book “Jewish History, Jewish Religion” belongs in every intellectual’s book shelf. I recommend your article and his book to everybody.

    I thank you again.

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  9. It is worth noting in the Bible how prevalent the mention of both animal and human sacrifice is. It is also noteworthy how many ancient Jewish customs and rituals, starting with male circumcision mentioned in Genesis, are still adhered to today with pride by modern-day Jews. To dismiss any mention of the possibility of human blood ritual sacrifice without even entertaining the relevant facts bespeaks a conditioning by both Jews and non-Jews that simply will not entertain the possibility of it being true.

    The term thug is derived from the Hindi word thugee, a member of a religious sect that existed for centuries in India strangling travellers in their sleep after gaining their confidence. When the Thugs were finally broken up by the British authorities in the 19th century, they protested that they were merely serving the great goddess Kali and her need for sacrifcial victims. Who were they, mere mortals, to deny her her sacred rite right? They were merely being good devout Thugs.

    You’ve got to give Jews credit for one thing. They think BIG. Wheras the Thugs merely killed small bands of pilgrims, Jews do the same thing on a national scale.

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  10. Reading this I’m reminded of the Far Side cartoon that shows a psychiatrist writing on his note pad his assessment of a patient who is blabbering on and on about his life. The notes read: “Just plain nuts.”

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  11. utu says:

    On Saturday I tried to tell a friend about who was Ron Unz and about his Weltanschauung evolution. Then on Sunday for reason now I do not remember I began to think of Bobby Fischer and his evolution that eventually lead to the asylum he got in Iceland. And I began to fear for Ron Unz’s future and safety. Was he on a similar path?

    Several hours later this article was posted.

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  12. anon[149] • Disclaimer says:

    I’ve just been called a Nazi and kicked out of the Atheist Conservative facebook group for posting this, calling it fascinating and asking what the administrator thinks.

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  13. Well that was as fascinating as it was morbid. As usual, thank you for sharing. You’re doing (Christian) God’s work!

    Synagogue of Satan confirmed!

    Adding further credibility to the notion that Christianity was created as an anti-Jewish weapon. I watched a vid on YouTube some time ago between Kevin McDonald and… I want to say David Duke? But they were getting in to that theory quite a bit.

    Though, all things considered, the modern day implications of this article only make me wish I really could rely on a holy savior descending from the sky to rescue us from such an incomprehensible evil.

    Reminds me of the spirit cooking thing with Podesta from the 2016 election cycle. And the #PizzaGate thing. That video of the after hours event they were holding in that pizza shop still gives me the creeps.

    I often refer to people these days as cattle, for obvious reasons. But thinking about what I read here in the context of modern times…. how soul crushing it is even just to consider that we may..probably are.. quite literally be cattle for these people.

    I think I see the farm. But how do I leave it?

    Ehh… I really shoulda saved this read for the morning…

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  14. Thanks to Ron for summarizing this obscure material, and his bravery and honesty in writing about it.

    What have we learned here? That European Jews, in the Christian period between antiquity and modernity, often dwelled in superstitious and tightly controlled communities, hostile to outsiders. That on several occasions, perhaps even repeatedly, they became exploitative agents of a local ruling class, alienated from the common people. That despite the secularism and reformism that dominates the modern Jewish community, the superstitious tribalism survives as an element in the political life of the nation-state of Israel, and the rapacious economic practices as an element in the business life of modern America. That’s my instant synopsis.

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  15. A few typos I picked up:

    “One or the one” should probably be “one or the other.”

    “Discontented facts” should probably be “disconnected facts.”

    “Lenni Brunner” should be Lenni Brenner.

    ———–

    All in all, I found this a solid summary of some interesting but obscure factual claims. I think it was somewhat irresponsible not include a discussion of just how widespread such beliefs, attitudes and practices are among Jews today. Without such a discussion, I fear too much of the commentary will be about how ‘anti-semitic’ the essay is, rather than how accurate it is.

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  16. Blood Passover is made more believable generally by consideration of the entirely authority plus faith based persecution of non existent witches. Great Britain had become quite moderate until James 1′s experience in Denmark when he was James VI of Scotland picking up his bride turned him into a scholar of Demonologie and, despite his son Charles 1 putting a damper on witchhunting it took off during the civil war about 1645 and led to the killing of hundreds of witches over the next hundred years. Local villagers were often the accusers for pecuniary or other malign motives and de facto circumvention of legal restrictions on torture were common. Not the same obviously but it makes belief in almost any primitive practices quite credible.

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  17. Ron, as a Jew raised in the Reform tradition, I can’t speak to the claims about Talmudic Judaism. But your claims that “our media pundits regularly identify Putin as ‘the new Hitler’” seems largely untrue. A quick Google search on “the new Hitler” turns up only 70,000 results, links that refer mostly to Saddam Hussain, various Iranian leaders, and Trump. A search for “the new Hitler” and “Putin” turns up only 17,000 results and from what I can tell many of the linked stories criticize the formulation. Can you point to even two or three significant pundits who have called Putin “the new Hitler”?

    I’m also no expert on the subject of Hitler’s economic policies, but I recall from an undergraduate history course that Hitler revived the German economy through massive deficit spending, budgets predicated on the coming wartime plunder. Citing “the tremendous success of Hitler’s peacetime economic policies” is like citing the tremendous success of the US occupation of Iraq in 2003. It’s true as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go very far.

    As to all the claims about pre-modern Judaism, I can’t say, but many of the practices and superstitions you cite don’t seem very different from contemporaneous Christianity. And your dark musings on the lasting impact of the alleged centuries of inculcated “seething hatred” for Christians doesn’t jibe particularly well with the Jewish intermarriage rate, an actual verifiable statistic that’s conspicuous in its absence.

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  18. You are a good, brave and rare man, Ron Unz.

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  20. bossel says:

    Not really. Watching it there right now. Length 65:49.

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  21. Sloopyjoe says:

    Thank you Mr. Unz for your hard work in putting this article together. I’m glad you had mentioned the Organ Harvesting Disease that infects Jewish Voodoo Practices, The Jewish role in the Black Slave Trade, and the physical spitting upon Christians by Jews. These topics are rarely mentioned today due to the suppressive nature of Jewish Media control and the bought off USSA/Western Politicos. Another Oddity of the Jewish Religion (only naughty and consistently problematic creatures need to have 613 Commandments):

    https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/756399/jewish/The-613-Commandments.htm

    MAJOR RED PILLS

    I would like to take the readers on a little journey a bit further back in time in regards to the origination of the Jewish Religion, as well as, Christianity and Islam. First a short video:

    Here is the article and Author from which this originates ( I would encourage the readers to read the other well researched and very enlightening articles by scholar, Ashraf Ezzat):

    https://ashraf62.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/why-are-the-pyramids-not-mentioned-in-the-bible/

    And another by John Kaminski:

    https://www.johnkaminski.org/index.php/essays-by-john-kaminiski-american-writer-and-critic/holocausting-humanity/9-the-first-jewish-lie

    The understanding of the above information has PROFOUND implications on the above three religions. Most will deny and scurry off into their “Safe Spaces” while continuing to live in the “Blue Pill” world and deserve to be scolded by The Wise Prophet, Mr. T:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sQELbOflO4 The few that have retained a spine and a desire for accurate historical truths will be on their way to the “Red Pill” world and out of the Matrix Mind Control Mechanisms. Similar to 9-11. If one major part of the story stinks, then the rest stinks. Simple.

    Some sagely wisdom from Comedian George Carlin RIP (I would rename the video Organized Religions are Bullsh*t):

    The revisionist history practices and manipulative nature of the Jews (real and fake) are easily verified by any who have eyes to see and minds to think.

    Free your mind and your arse will follow.

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  22. mark green says:

    This was an extraordinary article. Thank you, Ron Unz. Warning: you are being monitored, Ron, around the clock (of course you already know this).

    This just in:

    The International Coalition Against Anti-Semitsm and White Supremacy (ICAAWS) wants UNZ.com shut down and Ron Unz held responsible for the ‘disturbing’ rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes and unprovoked attacks upon innocent Jews around the world. It’s reaching epidemic proportions!

    Actually, this hysterical malarkey is not exactly true. Ron’s not facing any lawsuits or indictments (yet) and the organization above does not exist (at least as far as I know). But there are dozens of similar-sounding organizations which do. And they’re deadly serious about “stopping the hate”–even in online discussions where Jewish conduct is criticized and where remarkable disclosures concerning Jewish history and ‘beliefs’ are revealed.

    Ron: You are trafficking in blood libels!

    This part is true: at this moment, scores of Jewish scholars, attorneys, lobbyists, activists, intellectuals, ‘philanthropists’, political experts and media operatives are working feverishly and cooperatively to impose limits on political speech and even draft legislation that will criminalize and eventually eradicate the global ‘scourge’ of anti-Semitism. This includes you, dear reader. You’ve got the disease!

    That’s how the official story might read, anyway.

    But let’s not kid ourselves. Jews do have a problem.

    No matter how collectively powerful, accomplished, secure, connected and wealthy they become, the chosen people are constantly aspiring for more. More!

    As the Torah instructs, they must ‘rule the nations’ (all of them).

    More land, more prestige, more wealth, more glory. Even more shiksas! (As Harvey W. knows).

    This unquenchable appetite of theirs invariably spills over and into neighboring cultures, populations and states. Jews may be small in number but their footprint is large. Very large. Thus ‘anti-Semitism’. And to make matters worse, their ‘religion’ is a hodge-podge of macabre superstitions, outright satanism, and supreme self-worship. This makes them less-than-ideal neighbors.

    I can only imagine the intense interest and ‘outrage’ (one of their favorite words) felt by world’s foremost deceivers, hypocrites, self-deceivers when they read an article like this, Mr. Unz. Like Shahak, you are telling the truth as you find it. And that makes them mad. Very mad.

    Don’t you dare say that!

    Unvarnished disclosures can nourish ‘anti-Semitism’! And mere truth is no defense.

    Jewish safety (and Jewish souls) are just too damn important. Kosher taboos must therefore be observed. And obeyed.

    This is why the chosen people have become the world’s foremost censors. Unfettered discourse and unobstructed scholarship jeopardizes their precious Narrative (just as it threatens the official Holocaust yarn). So shut up. Free Speech has its limits.

    (((They))) will tell you just what those limits are once you’ve violated them. Be careful. Tread lightly.

    Indeed, I do recall seeing as small article about Toaff’s provocative book (this was well over 20 years ago) in a local SF newspaper that indicated that “political pressures” forced its ‘cancellation’.

    Decades earlier, a Japanese writer (whose name I do not recall) attempted to publish a book in Japan that posited the view that Jews controlled the Western world. This book too never saw the light of day. Even Japan (way over yonder) was brought to heel by the (((guardians of discourse))).

    And I also distinctly remember the article (and photo) that also appeared decades ago in the SF Chronicle which described the incident where revisionist historian, David Irving, was physically attacked in an auditorium at Cal Berkeley (home of America’s ‘legendary’ Free Speech movement) for being a ‘Nazi apologist’. Yet there was no public ‘outrage’ over the politically-driven, physical attack upon a scholar speaking in Berkeley. None.

    Irving ‘deserved’ it.

    The always-protesting Left had nothing to say (or if they did, it went unrecorded) about this frontal assault on intellectual freedom at Berkeley. Gee. Odd.

    The ACLU was AWOL. No professors came to Irving’s defense. To quote a cliche adored by the vociferous Left: ‘the silence was deafening’.

    And throughout the mainstream press at that time, there was no defense of Mr. Irving’s right to discuss his book (‘Hitler’s War’) at Berkeley; nor was there any kind of counter-protest at Berkeley to defend Irving’s clear, constitutionally-guaranteed right to address an audience in an academic setting. None.

    What’s wrong with this picture?

    And it happened at Berkeley.

    The totalitarian (((Left))) rules the academy as well as our news institutions. And that’s not all.

    Thankfully, we now have a free and gloriously open internet. The marketplace of ideas has arrived.
    But I lived through an era when all we had was (((mainstream))) news and prime time entertainment. America was even more zombified then than now.

    Nevertheless, Americans still live under a soft occupation. We are allowed (encouraged) to get obnoxiously and deliriously excited over a football game. One may also champion this Democrat candidate over that Republican one (or visa-versa)– but Americans are not really allowed to stray too far from the contrived ‘center’ of our culture’s political ‘center’. This violation of standards is what the ‘far right’ does. And it makes them ‘extreme’.

    So America’s political center has been given a loose definition. It includes the global security state, Zio-Washington’s global military empire, our two-Party duopoly, Russia-phobia, Iran-phobia, Hamas-phobia, political protocols which undermine white cohesion, as well the ‘unshakable’ commitment to virtually all political objectives sought by the Zionist state.

    Sometimes reality is indeed stranger than fiction.

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  23. Wow explosive stuff Ron, the tribe will come for you.

    In keeping with the spirit of the essay, new Jim Crow legislation’s being proposed in Israel. Imagine the outrage if it were done in the US.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/15/israel-turmoil-bill-allowing-jews-arabs-segregated

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  24. Ron,

    above you link to your Meritocracy article on Asian vs Jewish vs white (Gentile) admission at Harvard.

    Did you ever answer Nurit Baytch’s analysis that appeared to refute your article’s claims of absurd Jewish overrepresentation at Harvard?

    In addition, are you aware that later, after Baytch’s did her calculations, some of the annual Harvard Crimson surveys of incoming freshmen and graduating seniors give the number of self-reported Jewish whites at Harvard, and the number is much lower than what you stated in your Meritocracy article?

    As far as I can tell you were completely wrong about the level of Jewish representation at Harvard. Your accusations of Jewish admissions favoritism (the Protocols of the Elders of Harvard Square) are astonishing, very damning if true, and got very wide circulation on the internet. Yet there is no record (that I could find) of any substantive response from you to Baytch or any indication that you are even aware of the Jewish data in the Crimson surveys.

    So: did you (or anyone else) answer Baytch or address the data from the Harvard Crimson?

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  25. mcohen says:

    At first I was outraged by this article then I had to unbuckle a chuckle.I am disappointed that you never brought up the love amongst certain Jewish sects of chopped liver.

    “And with America’s very powerful Jewish elites thereby insulated from almost all public scrutiny, Jewish arrogance and misbehavior remain largely unchecked and can increase completely without limit.”

    a sliver of liver,a crown for the clown,in the kings court,all will turn to nought.

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  26. llloyd says: • Website

    Jesus. You went the whole hog. The last sentence is a master stroke. Chinese culture has no developed sense of good and therefore no developed sense of evil. It’s all about harmony. The rulers of heaven above bringing down tranquillity below.

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  27. utu says:

    The first time I have encountered the idea that Nazism emulated Judaism was in Umberto Eco’s essay in a niche art journal. Recently I tried to locate it bu I failed. That I do not reminder the name of the journal does not help.

    It is interesting that a Polish historian wrote about Nazism as an emulation of Judaism already before the WWII and then in underground publications during the WWII in Poland. He worked on his Jewish Civilization before the WWII which finished right after the war. It has been published since in Polish but for obvious reasons not widely know. Supposedly an English translation from a small publishing house in Poland is available:

    Koneczny is more known for his 1935 “On the Plurality of Civilsations.” Here reviewed by Carroll Quigley

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/2504158?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

    and here the whole book in English with a preface by Arnold Toynbee

    An this is from fairly recent critical article about Koneczny’s Jewish CIvilazation and his raising popularity among nationalists in Poland:

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  28. Anonymous[423] • Disclaimer says:

    Amazing article. Bravo.

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  29. Ron seems to be perilously hovering on the edge of a social abyss – i.e. Holocaust revisionism. Join us Ron it’s the logical endpoint of this particular journey.

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  30. utu says:

    Feliks Koneczny (1940s during the WWII): Judaized Hitlerism (excerpts)
    Polis version: https://wolna-polska.pl/wiadomosci/feliks-koneczny-hitleryzm-zazydzony-2018-02

    In Germany, Jews are being attacked, but their ideology is being adopted. The foundations of Nazism are drawn from Jewish civilization. The first (as far as I know) realized in this K.L. Koniński, writing in 1933 about the chosen nation and the chosen race: “How similar to the Jews who are hated are these anti-Semites!.” The civilization activity of both Russian and German societies combines in the fight against Christianity. From the sickle and the hammer, the more obvious sign of anti-Christian tendencies is the broken cross (this is the hackenkreuz). In Russia,all religion are fundamentally destroyed, they do not want any and none, while the Germans decided to create their own religion. Hitler did not think of this at first; it is Josephism mutatis mutandis. Joseph II bred his Catholicism in his own way, because he believed that religion could be very useful to the state; he wanted to make the Church a first-class politician for his use. Also Hitler. The dreams of your own religion have been dating back to Germany since the days of Fichte, and for a hundred years they have been thinking about creating their entire civilization. Attempts to date have been miscarried, because civilization can not be “done”; by no means it will be created artificially, a priori.

    Jews brought monolatry to Europe and we know it from them, and in general we consider it something specifically Jewish. It is not so; monolatry is a phenomenon repeated in universal history here and there in various parts of the world, it can therefore be diverse and Germany could (in principle) think of a new, specifically German monolatry. They did not make this so. The Hitlerian monolatry is a faithful copy of the Jewish one, for it accepts the Jewish concept of the relation of its god to people without reservation. Just like Jehovah, the deutsche Gott is the enemy of all mankind, with the exception of Jews or Germans, Jews are the chosen people, and the German word Herrenvolk means the same; For Jewish choice has the message to rule over the whole world, and Germany strives to the same, under the authority of the deutschen Gottes and under his protection. The goal will undoubtedly be achieved, because the German God is invincible. When the incomparable (for Germans) coincident failed the first universal war, the second one provoked; if it should fail, it will evoke the third, etc. Until the effect. Similarly, Jews believe that world domination can not pass them.

    Their contempt of strangers they had learned from the Jews, as if they were reciting a lesson from the Talmud; they also equated themselves with Jews in maximum hatred. Jews are similar in that pride without measure is the most striking feature of both. In truth, a Jew is a complete man, only a Jew for a Jew, only a German for a German. A simple consequence of being chosen!

    The Germans completed the biblical verse as fully as possible with the promise of Jehovah, who will give Israel “a great and good city that you have not built; at the same time, the houses full of the good of all you did not clean up and the wells dug that you did not dig; vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant – and you will eat and eat “. The situation is exactly the same with the Germans. To desire of someone else’s property has become an essential feature of their character and the axis of their history. They work to have what they want to lead a war of invaders and a robbery invasion, then to live at the expense of others, fruges consumere nati.

    The civilization that is currently being carried by the Germans is to be based on slavery. Jews also dream about it, that when the Messiah comes, he will turn the “nations” into the slaves of Israel. The Germans made this dream a reality, they turned it into reality. They are more radical than Jews. It is hard to think that this system of the “new Europe” is progress.

    Having written down the manifestations of the latest German culture, we see that it is to be strictly utilitarian. Generally, this trait is also characteristic of Jews, but for Germans to a higher degree. Jews cease to be utilitarians when it comes to the worship of Jehovah and the study of the holy books. The Jew is now ready to make great sacrifices. There is nothing sacred in Nazism. They went through Jewish and Chinese in utilitarianism.

    In matters of property of the “nations”, the German position is quite compatible with the Talmud. Quite Jewishly, Germans also consider all property conquered as a “desert”, or a “free lake”, on which the Germans are allowed to do what he likes. Whether for a Jew or for a German, the property of “strangers” is nevertheless res nullius and primi occupantis of a Jew or a German.

    They strictly and thoroughly took over from the Jews the command of a double ethic, different for their fellow believers, and for different gentiles, which consisted of exemption from all ethics. This comes from the explicit command of Jehovah and the German god. The whole Europe knows from experience, not only is German allowed to commit all this evil, so that German has no conscience only but also no honor in relation to strangers, but unfriendly and dishonorable conduct is directly recommended to them. If German does not commit wickedness towards a stranger, apparently he is not a Nazi in spirit; like a Jew, without thinking of anything bad for a goy, he becomes a Jew who has been de-Judaized.

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  31. Tyrion 2 says: • Website

    Ron, I don’t know if you’ve drunk your own koolaid or if this is some sort of bizarre grand experiment in creating a deranged and lunatic cult.

    There’s a certain paint by numbers feel to the article that is plainly contrived. The oscillating hot/cold and reasonable/unreasonable tone is the type of manipulation that I am sensitive to seeing, and reacting against.

    Regardless, from the point at which you say that the Talmud takes precendence to the written Torah (Old Testament), you’ve already jumped into fantasy land.

    For example, the entire Torah is read out in services every year. The Talmud is not. It is instead a millenia old vast Jewish Wikipedia in which the most controversial stuff would be found in the commentson edits, the comments on comments on edits and so on and so on and so on.

    Were an alien to browse the internet message boards as you may have browsed the Talmud, they would make all sorts of unreal conclusions.

    I suspect that indeed the huge swelling in third world anti-Western resentment pre-9/11 may actually have been a result of middle class people in the third world getting connected and assuming Western peoples were entirely depraved and without any moral value. As time has passed, they have gained a context for this and their anti-Western feelings are incomparably lower, despite all of the wars.

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  32. Anonymous[266] • Disclaimer says:

    It kind of explains the current unhinged Russophobia and the promotion of everything destructive to Western Christian civilization.

    A couple of other sources related to this subject.
    Yale-educated historian William Walsh:
    Characters of the Inquisition
    Isabella of Spain

    And the works of Fr. Denis Fahey:

    https://archive.org/search.php?query=Denis%20fahey

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  33. What a fantastic post by Ron Unz. But with all due respect,much of what he has discovered would have been easily learned by following David Duke.
    To some of us this is old news.

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  34. This is a truly remarkable article. Hopefully this leads to some much needed introspection, which would be in the interest of both Jews and Gentiles.

    This 2018 FED survey found that 41% of American adults can’t cover a $400 emergency expense.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/fed-survey-40-percent-of-adults-cant-cover-400-emergency-expense.html

    That number is actually a decrease from 50% in 2013.

    Yes, it does. I definitely think the misrule of our elites, both Jewish and Gentile, is certainly a factor. However, it seems like the quality of the citizenry has declined significantly (even after adjusting for demographic change). Modern-day Americans seem to have little desire to acquire knowledge, read, discuss issues, or study history. They’re frivolous people whose lives revolve around sports, celebrity gossip, tv, wild pleasure-seeking, and other forms of entertainment. They talk and think like children, which has all sorts of unfortunate consequences for them and their country. They are poor quality citizens.

    This isn’t anything new. Prosperous civilizations tend to decline with time, as comfortable living weakens their fortitude, debauches their mores, and undermines their once strong social bonds. The end result is a citizenry that’s physically&mentally fragile, ruinously hedonistic, and highly socially atomized.

    In its late stage, the citizenry of the Roman Empire had become totally distracted by chariot races and gladiator fights. Meanwhile, irresponsible leaders, some of whom were literally insane, misruled and looted the empire. Eventually, the hollowed out empire was destroyed by the Germanic barbarian hordes. This pattern has been repeated numerous times by many different civilizations.

    See the video below.

    Our elites can get away with so much because they rule over a population of gluttons, clowns, fools, and hedonists. Such a population can be easily distracted and, when needed, intimidated. Elites tend to behave much better when they have a sober-minded, responsible citizenry to keep them in line. Elites run wild when the population is too distracted, enfeebled, atomized, debauched, and ignorant to do anything.

    If Colonial-era America had been populated by the inhabitants of “Sodom and Gomorrah,” the British would’ve never left.

    “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

    “The first generation makes it, the second generation spends it, the third generation drinks it.”

    Today’s Anglo-Saxons are nothing like their ancestors.

    Around the late 70s and early 80s (when wages and productivity truly diverge), “Reagnomics” (tax cuts, deregulation, financialization, union breaking, offshoring, commoditization of labor) was implemented in the U.S. It was so successful for our oligarchs that other Anglo&Euro nations followed our example. Decades of these policies have enriched bankers and executives, while impoverishing workers.

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  35. “When a ruling elite has limited connection to the population it controls, benevolent behavior is far less likely to occur”

    I have no opinion on the thesis itself (although the way it’s phrased, it doesn’t sound convincing), but are you implying that Leon Trotsky (for example), coming form an assimilated novorussian peasant family, had more ‘limited connection’ to the population than Nicholas II, or, say, Pyotr Stolypin?

    And if you do believe that this ‘connection’ is a function of religion of one’s ancestors rather than one’s real life experiences, then perhaps you’d care to explain why?

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  36. geokat62 says:

    Wow, Ron Unz really busts it wide open with his latest American Pravda installment.

    While he shines a spotlight on many new revelations, I wanted to draw attention to the following two which relate to most of the exchanges I have with my interlocutors on this site.

    The first is directed at the PEAbrain and his peeps:

    Ignorance, indeed!

    The second is directed at The Maven. While he constantly stresses the importance of the threat of antisemitism, I normally respond that the opposite is the real threat. And this quote by Israel Shahak backs that up:

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  37. JessicaR says:

    What an interesting article! As a non-Jew, who did not have an education in Judaism, I have a slightly different take on Judaism than on Israel Shahak.

    1. In my judgment, Shahak failed to distinguish between rabbinical rulings and local folk traditions. In his book, he includes a reference to Jews spitting in front of Christian churches and cemeteries. While this did sometimes happen, Baruch Kimmerling claimed–in correspondence with me–that this practice was a folk tradition and not an official religious practice. In any community with millions of members, some people will do disgusting things. However, that does not mean that most of its members approve of–or even know about–these practices.

    On a human level, I can’t imagine too many mothers in any culture encouraging their children to spit. A big part of motherhood is discouraging children from doing disgusting things with their bodies. Why undermine all that hard work with church spitting?

    2. A useful perspective on the book is provided by a review by Baruch Kimmerling: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2538163?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents. This link provides a preview but gives enough to give the flavor of the review. Kimmerling’s basic claim is that Shahak exaggerates the degree of anti-Gentile animus in Judaism and that the dominant reaction is one of anxiety and fear, rather than hatred.

    3. Furthermore, according to Kimmerling, various “loopholes” existed within Judaism that allowed kind treatment of Gentiles. Usually, these loopholes were framed in terms of avoiding hurt feelings and endangering Jews, but in fact, these provisions gave Jews a wider leeway in befriending and helping Gentiles.

    4. Most Jewish doctors, even the Orthodox, would not adhere to provisions about discriminatory treatment of non-Jewish patients.

    5. I do not deny that the fanaticism Shahak describes does in fact exist. However, Judaism embraces many different interpretations, many of which are quite different than the ones he discusses in his book. Consider, for example, the Israeli group “Rabbis for Human Rights,” which adamantly opposes the views Shahak objects to. Many of these rabbis are Orthodox.

    6. I once worked as a long-term substitute at two schools run by Chabad Lubavitch. Everyone knew I wasn’t Jewish and I was well and fairly treated.

    7. One should always distinguish between a religious system and the people in it. While I do think ultraorthodoxy–but not modern orthodoxy–is a flawed religious system, many of the people in that system are quite decent individuals.

    8. I despise the way ultra-Orthodox Jewish females are treated.

    9. In spite of my disagreements with Shahak’s views on Judaism, I believe he was a great man who did heroic work to protect the human rights of Palestinians.

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  38. If Jews apparently pray to Satan almost as readily as they pray to God, then it appears the Jew Testament has influenced Christians to imitate them, since Jesus is identified as Lucifer, if the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible from which the word Lucifer originates, is correct.

    • Isaiah 14:12: “How you have fallen from heaven, morning star/Lucifer, son of the dawn!”
    • Revelation 22:16: “I Jesus….Root and the Offspring of David…the bright and morning star/Lucifer.”

    That gives new meaning to the term “Star of David” and its hexagram symbol ✡.

    To be sure, Lucifer is Latin meaning “bearer of light,” to which Jesus identifies himself: “I am the light/Lucifer/Illuminati of the world.” (John 8:12)

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  39. Jake says:

    Mother of God pray ofr Ron Unz. May all the Jews over the ages who converted to Christ, starting with St. Andrew, pray for Ron Unz.

    Jews who wish him dead by now surely are legion, and no morality stands in their way, nor does fear of any governmental authority.

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  40. Sean says:

    Israelis would seem to be very unJewish Jews. I am not sure how much their methods can be related to their religion or a small grouping with integral-nationalistic views like the Stern gang. The incipient military Zionism of Israel was fostered by Orde Wingate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Night_Squads

    Wingate, who apparently set the tone on his first night operation with the SNS by murdering an Arab, was a cousin of T.E Lawrence, so his antipathy to Palestinians may have had a rather curious basis.

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  41. ” For the last two thousand years, Jews have almost invariably existed as small, relatively weak minorities living in the lands of others, ”

    The last two thousand years began in CE 18.
    Twice thereafter Rome sent powerful armies to Palestine to fight the jews.
    After beating jews militarily the ideological destruction began: christianity.
    If Jezus ever existed or not, Roman citizen Paul created christianity, aimed at jews.
    How Paul became a Roman citizen I do not (yet) know, on the total population of the Roman empire of more than four million there were no more than a few hundred thousand Roman citizens.
    They had special rights, to be fed in Rome for free, and direct appeal to the emperor in case they were persecuted.
    Palestine was a Roman province, but Pontius Pilatus could not sentence Paul, on the contrary, he got an escort of 1300 soldiers on his way from Jerusalem to the coast where he took a ship that would bring him to Rome.
    If Paul was a secret agent of the emperor, w’ll never know, after going aboard the old sources do not mention Paul again.

    Then about judaism, when some correspondent told he about his book The Weight, I would not believe it.
    How many jews still think that only jews are humans, and that non jews are just animals disguised as humans, bcause it would not be proper for jews to be served by animals, I do not know.
    But when one googles ‘gentiles in halacha’ one finds an article by three rabbis confirming that judaic theology indeed only sees jews as humans.

    Then there is the rule and conscience question.
    Jew live good when they follow the Talmudic rules, there are two Talmuds, they’re not identical, one has, from memory 20.000 rules, the other 22.000, something like that.
    Rabbi Graetz, in his nine volume or so history of the jews of 1880 or so, states that conscience has no role in judaism.
    What he does not write is how dodging rules seems to be THE jewish sport.

    Houston Stewart Chamberlain, ‘Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts’, 1898- 1907, München; many quotes from Graetz
    Lewis Mumford, ‘The city in history, Its origins, its transformations and its prospects’, London, 1991, 1961;the author is of the opinion that the jewish rules had two objects: separation from other peoples, and maximum population growth.
    Michael Grant, ‘The Jews in the Roman World’, 1973, New York; how jews were a considerable power in the Roman world
    Yigael Yadin, ‘Massada, Hero’s fortress and the zealots’ last stand’, London 1996; the enormous Roman effort to destroy the last jewish resistance
    Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, ‘Verschlusssache Jesus, Die Wahrheit über das frühe Christentum’, (The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, 1991), 2005, Bergisch Gladbach; the theory about Paul being a secret agent of the emperor, but also a description of the scrolls. One of them of copper sheeting, describing all the places where the temple treasures had been hidden; Grant explains how the temple got rich, so I’m inclined to believe that the descriptions were real.
    Flavius Josephus, ‘Geschichte des Jüdischen Krieges’, Wiesbaden, 1978; descriptions of the Roman jewish wars, and the oldest suicide resistance.
    Since a long time try to remember what book mentions that jews were implicated in the murder of Ceasar, he was taking away their prerogatives.
    Michel Rostovtzeff, ‘Geschichte der Alten Welt, zweiter Band, Rom’, Bremen 1961 (The History of the Ancient World) explains what Ceasar did, tried to do, was to unify the Roman empire, anyone the same rights. It fits into this theory that Ceasar also wanted to abolish special rights for jews.

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  42. Jake says:
    @Mitchell Porter

    And here are the indispensable truths to carry forward:

    Jews as a group will remain the same until such time as converted completely, truly, to Christ.

    Because being anti-Christ is central to Jewish identity, and because only European peoples built a Christian civilization, Jewish culture will always be viciously anti-white Gentile, because Christ-hating Jews feel they are justified in Christ-hating if they can defeat, subdue, ruin the peoples of historic Christendom.

    Protestantism even under the ‘anti-Semite Luther’ is a series of heresies that requires Judaizing.

    Anglo-Saxon Puritanism was a thoroughly Judaizing heresy that formed the final, and most important (because theological and therefore both spiritual and moral) basis of WASP culture.

    The British Empire spread the fruits of WASP Judaizing across the globe. The Yank Empire has continued the spread, and entrenchment, of stridently pro-Jewish culture across the globe.

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  43. Hans says:
    @Colin Wright

    Andrew Joyce has written a fine essay on the facts and fiction of the “pogroms” in Russia with the relevant citations from Klier. Highly recommended – https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2012/05/08/revisiting-the-19th-century-russian-pogroms-part-1-russias-jewish-question/

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  44. @Andrew Gilbert

    ” I recall from an undergraduate history course that Hitler revived the German economy through massive deficit spending, budgets predicated on the coming wartime plunder ”

    Mainly nonsense.
    Schacht primed indeed the German economy using Keynesian economics, but by creating special money just to be used by enterprises among themelves.
    Hjalmar Schacht, ´76 Jahre meines Lebens’, Bad Wörishofen, 1953
    Hitler never wanted war:
    A J P Taylor, ‘The Origins of the Second World War’, 1961, 1967, Londen
    Massive deficit spending: FDR.

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  45. @Mitchell Porter

    André Schwartz-Bart, ‘Le Dernier des Justes’, 1959, 1980 Paris
    Francine Kaufmann, ‘Pour Relire “Le Dernier des Justes”‘, 1987 Paris

    Francine Kaufmann is a very intelligent woman, so when I ordered her book I expected criticism on the mentioned novel.
    But is was the opposite, she defends the writer.
    Novels often better than any scientific book describe a historical situation, I think Le dernier des justes does.

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  46. Excellent, informative article, this should be required reading for everyone on planet earth.

    I have delved into the Talmud and found it to be–without exception–the most racist, hate-filled and obscene document ever compiled. Based on those writings alone Jews should be classified as the most extremist hate group this world has ever seen.

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  47. @JessicaR

    Read
    Ralph Giordano, ‘Israel um Himmels willen Israel’, 1993 Köln
    A book written by a German jew about his long visit to Israel.

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  48. utu says:
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  49. @Tyrion 2

    ” For example, the entire Torah is read out in services every year. ”

    The Torah cannot be read out, what is read out is one of many interpretations.
    Christine Kauffmann, and an atheistic colleage rabbi explain in lectures why, alas in French.
    The lectures are on internet.
    Very interesting

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  50. @JohnRedburn

    Jewry did anything possible to prevent the translation around 1870

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  51. JackOH says:

    Ron, thanks for this very lively and provocative piece.

    I have pretty close to zero expertise in Judaism, but it’s pretty common Western knowledge that Christianity has been a turbulent religion, sometimes violent, sometimes passive, sometimes corrupt, and that history has been written about and opinions drawn from it. Seems to me no reason why Judaism ought to be exempt from reasonable public examination. (I’m a cradle Lutheran, lapsed for decades, and sort of describe myself as a “reviving Christian” these days. Non-dogmatic, non-observant type.)

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  52. Hi Ron,

    What courage it took to be true to your principles. Thanks for the article. Just wanted to point out a possible typo, where you wrote Israeli Defense Minister, “Israel Sharon.” I believe it should be “Ariel Sharon.”

    Cheers!

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  53. @utu

    Hitler just wanted to recreate the Germany that existed before 1914
    S.Fischer-Fabian, ´Herrliche Zeiten, Die Deutschen und ihr Kaiserreich’, Wien 2006
    Herrliche Zeiten, a marvelous time, what it was in my opinion; Kaiserreich, empire,.
    Socially, democratically, scientific, technical, etc

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  54. Anonymous[266] • Disclaimer says:
    @utu

    Fischer is another hyper-IQed guy who devoted decades of his life to reading and researching. He too came to the same conclusion as Unz regarding the evil of A.D. Judaism. Fischer near the end of his life became philosophical and then theological. He read Chesterton’s Outline of Sanity and books by Catholic theologians (not easy to come by in almost exclusively Lutheran Iceland).

    From a recent biography of Fischer:

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  55. Superb piece of work!

    No further comments necessary.

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  56. Anonymous[266] • Disclaimer says:
    @RealAmericanValuesCirca1776Not1965

    And Rod (((Rosenstein))) comes out with a federal indictment of some Russians for hacking a private e-mail account and spilling the beans on this spirit cooking.

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  57. Tyrion 2 says: • Website
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    It isn’t friendly. I don’t believe in it. But don’t Christians believe that only Christians go to heaven? While everyone else burns for eternity?

    I don’t get offended by such a belief because a) they’ve not made that decision b) it seems like a fairly logical corollary to their religious doctrine c) there’s a practical and historical context.

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  58. Anonymous[266] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jake

    Yeah, but strangely this pushes people in the opposite direction. You’d think after reading this you’d come away feeling that this stuff is demonic and has been shown to be so destructive and thus that which they despise most and work so strenuously against, namely Christianity, would be good. But most of the people detailing this stuff (e.g., Kevin MacDonald) are atheist.

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  59. vinteuil says:

    If this article doesn’t kill unz.com, once and for all, and, along with it, ISteve, than nothing will.

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  60. Ron is a gutsy guy. That said, there is a quite a bit of horseshit in all religion. An old Navy CPO told me that once and I have never forgotten it.

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