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Responding to David Cole on the Dissident Right & Israel
Spencer J. Quinn
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In his recent Takimag essay, “White Knighting for Middle East Unsalvageables,” David Cole gets a lot right, but he misses the broader picture. With his usual caustic flair, Cole complains about the uncritical — and what he sees as hypocritical — support many on the Right have been lavishing on the Palestinians during their ongoing war with the Israelis. If American Rightists have no sympathy for, say, irredentist Mexicans or American Indians languishing on reservations or reparation-minded blacks, then why the sudden bleeding heart over the Palestinians? The Palis, according to Cole, are losers in the same way that the Mexicans, Indians, and blacks are. Therefore, for the sake of consistency, the Right should lay off the rah-rah stuff regarding the swarthy denizens of Gaza — unless, of course, they’re only in it to hate Jews.
Here is a choice quote [emphasis mine]:
Like welfare blacks living in ignorance and squalor in inner cities, and Injuns living in abysmal poverty on reservations, Gazans are a failed people who lost a war ages ago but can’t accept it. Yet Gazans are egged on in their discontent by an international community that hates seeing people with lighter skin prevail over people with darker skin (the same international community that would cheer blacks in the U.S. for slaughtering whites as “revenge” for slavery).
Palestinians are told, “Keep fighting to get back those olive groves! You lost, but you deserve a do-over.” Many far-rightists seem to be on board with this. And when those rightists decide that blacks, Injuns, and Mexicans also deserve a do-over, then maybe I’ll view their pro-Palestinianism as something other than naked Jew-hatred.
I understand where Cole is coming from. I had the same thoughts 20 years ago, back when I was a philo-Semitic Zionist neocon who was still seeing red over 9/11. I also draw a similar comparison with American Indians in my recent essay, “It’s Not About the Palestinians.” In 1862, the Minnesota Sioux murdered 644 white settlers, took 300 captives (mostly women and children), and depopulated 23 counties. This provoked a war, which required many more dead Indians to resolve. It’s not a perfect analogy, but something similar is happening in Israel and Gaza right now, with the Israelis as stand-ins for the whites, and the Palestinians for the Indians. So, if principled White Nationalists support the whites in their violent suppression of Indian terror, then they should also support Israel’s violent suppression of Palestinian terror.
It’s a good argument. But it overlooks the fact that these are Jews we are talking about, and that changes everything. This is a point I made previously, and I will make it again, since it’s important that David Cole read the memo. In the past century or so, Jews have consistently used blacks, browns, and aboriginals as weapons against white people in traditionally white nations. This I call demoskrieg, which is long-term, low-contact, no-holds-barred evolutionary warfare between peoples. You wouldn’t know it from Cole’s essay, but Jews are the world heavyweight champions of demoskrieg. As a diaspora, they take up and amplify non-white causes, even when whites all around them are respectful and allow them to prosper. Jews do this through a process I call “counter-plugging,” which describes encouraging one’s enemies to tolerate dysgenics while promoting eugenics among one’s own. How else to describe the Anti-Defamation League, which opposes discriminatory pro-white policies in traditionally white countries while supporting equally discriminatory pro-Jewish policies in Israel?
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And why? Because Jews as a group are dead set against white power in white nations or anywhere else. They were instrumental is overturning race-realist and pro-white political structures such as apartheid in South Africa and segregation in the United States. They have also championed the rights of aboriginals in Australia, as well as bankrolled the migrant crisis in Europe. Where would black and brown Muslims in Europe be without well-heeled Jewish Leftists such as George Soros lending their considerable fortunes and influence to diversify their new homes?
It is not as simple as all this, of course. Many whites are complicit in their own downfall. But without the Jewish diaspora lending them their energetic support, resources, talent, and leadership, the white Left would be held in check by the white Right — and vice versa. The Right, as the bastion of tradition, religion, and patriotism, is therefore perfectly justified in viewing Jews as a dangerous and subversive element in their home nations despite all the good Jews do in fields such as medicine, business, and entertainment. Without Jews, Right and Left would be in balance, and we would still be arguing over the moral efficacy of the pill or how to better implement “separate but equal” in Negro schools. But we don’t do that today, do we? Now we argue about the moral efficacy of transgenderism in children, or how to make it easier for blacks to riot or murder whites whenever they feel aggrieved. This is how civilizations decline and ultimately die, and Jewish demoskrieg is disproportionately to blame.
I find Cole’s article misguided because he doesn’t recognize this. Instead, he complains solely about white demoskrieg against Jews, which is, in essence, retaliatory. In this sense, he resembles a boxing spectator who boos only when one guy gets hit in the cup and not the other. And he isn’t complaining about the fighter who’s doing most of the fouling. The dissident Right can root for the Palestinians all it wants, but we all know it will have no tangible impact other than annoying David Cole. Eventually, Israeli forces will crush Hamas and its allies while leaving quite a few dead Palestinians in their wake. The gradual depopulation of Gaza will then commence, sending displaced Palestinians to join their troublemaking brethren in Europe and the United States.
Meanwhile, white voices in the West brave enough to stand up against this injustice by promoting white identity get silenced across the board. This is done largely by Jewish power, which suddenly cares a lot more about Palestinians as soon as they set foot on the magic dirt of Europe and America. Because Cole does not address this switcheroo in his essay, he has allowed me to use his own argument against him: When those Jews decide that white people also have a right to ethnically homogeneous homelands, then maybe I’ll view their solicitous concern for non-whites as something other than naked hatred of white people.
Embedded in Cole’s essay, however, could very well be a subtle call for a ceasefire — or perhaps even an alliance — between Jews and whites. At least I hope there is. I interpret his annoyance as disappointment that many on the dissident Right — his political cohorts whether he likes it or not — didn’t have the decency to at least remain neutral while Israeli citizens — his ethnic cohorts whether he likes it or not — got slaughtered in the war’s first couple of days. He seems to imply that if the dissident Right were more consistent across the universal white-brown divide (with Jews counting as white), then he would give them the props they deserve.
This approach is consistent with the population competition strategy I call diaskrieg, which is exclusive of demoskrieg. With diaskrieg, different populations respect each other’s ethnocentrism while opposing each other’s efforts to expand and conquer. Some of the more stalwart mainstream conservatives in America, such as Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, resist the designs of the Jewish diaspora, yet embrace Israel. This is a form of diaskrieg, and it appears to be the strategy Cole wishes to pursue when he likens white historic oppression of blacks or Indians to Israel’s current treatment of the Palestinians. But diaskrieg only works when both sides practice it. When Rightists take on the Palestinian cause and undermine Jewish nationalism in Israel, they run counter to Cole’s sense of principled diaskrieg. Fair enough. But anti-white Jewish behavior in the West for the past century undermines my sense of principled diaskrieg. How could it not, given how decadent and dangerous our culture has become thanks to the political empowerment of blacks, browns, and aboriginals?
This is why I see the wisdom in demoskrieg. This is why I will not criticize people on the Right for supporting the Palestinians, even though I personally never will. This will change only when a critical mass of the Jewish diaspora abandons the Left and proves to be decent enough ethnocentric allies for whites. Sort of like David Cole himself. Let’s not forget that Cole has recently been interviewed for Counter-Currents and has said complimentary things about Greg Johnson. He was also slated to speak at the 2022 American Renaissance conference. He deserves a ton of credit for that. He may not be /ourguy/, but if more Jews were like him, the world would be a much better place — and maybe those of us on the Right would become less interested in the Palestinians and more willing to give Israel a second look.
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15 comments
Yeah, Cole’s article was well reasoned if not for the Jewish-subversion-of-white-society elephant in the room. That’s a huge hurdle to overcome if we’re gonna take the “hello fellow colonizer” position in good faith.
Good one!
I’ve been saying this for years: there is no such thing as an anti-Zionist Jew. There is also no such thing as an anti-Zionist white leftist. When push comes to shove they reveal their true allegiance and drop the controlled-opposition facade. These people like ‘Holocaust revisionist’ Jews (‘3 million, not 6 million’) all fall right back in line and become apoplectic when their ethno-state has so much as a hiccup.
Then they throw out Plans B, C and D to divide the Goyim again by placating the WN itch amongst rightists. It’s hilarious because they don’t have a playbook for what Hamas just did.
But all of these ‘honorary Aryan’ Jews and ‘rightist’ Jews are forced to do what all these pretend Trump Gentile loyalists are doing right now with the GOP primaries even though we know Trump wins without showing up. It’s a pointless, career-ending charade these people have to do to pay homage/swear fealty publicly to their true overlords for some strange reason. But with Jews they absolutely cannot control their ethnocentrism in moments like this, even the lowliest Jewish HVAC guy.
I had no idea Dan (Cohen) Carlin (Hardcore History) was Jewish until his curious tweets compelled me do some research that is no longer ‘early life’ knowledge these days. Same deal with Indy (Dermansky) Neidell (Timeghost). I had to trace his grandparents to a Jewish cemetery in New York only because his rare bias-slip on contemporary events alerted my merchant radar.
There needs to be a Counter-Currents investigation on neo crypto-Jews because there are tons of them in prominent places in addition to the known ones. It’s almost like a cavalry. It explains an unbelievable amount of seemingly Shabbos Goy shilling, even down to the comment-section level on Cuckservative websites like Breitbart. It isn’t even necessarily Hasbara bots being deployed, which makes it even worse, because it’s like weekend warrior IDF reservists/volunteers activating themselves to come to the defense of International Jewry when it is on the ropes. They viscerally understand that if any of theis political tapestry unspools, their global hegemony falls apart like a Jenga stack
I measure the pulse of Gentile rightist normies by the volume of comments on those sites. Most of these neocon articles only have 100 comments these days because the pax Trump era lasted long enough to dislodge the chickenhawk warmongering of the Boomer disposition like a student forgets algebra or Spanish a few years after graduation. The diehards all shifted to the Democrats. But among these 100 comments are almost entirely volunteer weekend warrior (not Hasbara) Jewish rearguards trying to replant neoconservatism back into a bipartisan consensus.
This minimal satrapy of hegemony (voters, politicians etc) Jews have had in the GOP is comparable to Raj India. It took only 50,000 Redcoats to conqueror and rule the entire subcontinent of 300 million people. Meanwhile, the British Empire was able to continue to colonize and conquer the rest of the world simultaneously with the bulk of their resources and manpower while maintaining a high standard of living. The Jews have severely neglected the white Right with this Trump miscalculation, which I believe is the root of these conflagrations. Had Trump still been president now, many of these wars would not be occurring for whatever reason.
Brilliant essay, Spencer.
🙂
An excellent riposte to Cole’s column.
Cole also contrasted Palestinians’ never-ending intifada to the Germans after WWII who accepted the new status quo and concentrated their energies on rebuilding their shattered nation. And, as Cole points out:
“In terms of land, expellees, and deaths, German losses massively dwarfed everything the Palestinians experienced.”
But the Third Reich went down in flames after the rest of the world had ganged up on it; Palestinians – judging by the history of UN resolutions – seem to have the support of much of the world. That support may be giving the Palestinians false hope.
Without repeating what I said on Goad’s article talking about Jewish nuclear threats, we ought to be very cautious of being too fair and open minded towards what Jews think about this stuff.
They are not doing the same as this article points out.
Counter-plugging! That’s the word! I forgot the word that was floated on here about using a political viewpoint you don’t necissarily agree with but use it as a means against your opponents. Is it sort of like counter-signaling?
I think this is a great rebuttal. I still think Cole has an upper hand though in pointing out the disingenuous nature of the dissident right’s support of Palestine simply as a means of whetting its political ax against Jews. Could you imagine a scenario where alt-right types try to join pro-Palestine protest?
Alt right protest leader: hey! Us alt-right white folks want to join you in protesting for Palestine. Free free Pales–
All the pro-Palestine protestors in perfect unison: NAZIS!!!
Next thing you know the alt-right protestors are being charged with vandalism amd hate crimes for their blood being spilt on rainbow crosswalks.
Subversive Jewish DA: is this your blood on the LGBTQ crosswalk Mr. Nazi?
Nazi: Yes
Subversive Jewish DA: no further questions, your honor.
I think the other layer to this is that the pro-Palestinian left would want nothing to do with the dissident right’s support for Palestine, even if it is legitimate.
Either way, we are seeing the golem turn on its master. There is a BLM chapter that is openly pro Hamas and a mostly peaceful protest saw Jewish students held up in a library for almost an hour having had to exit via an underground tunnel. In that respect I think Jews are in a quandary like the dissident right. “Jews will not replace us” probably sounds a lot less vexing than “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” Even left wing Israeli rag Haaretz is starting to sound like right wing Jewish settlers.
I think the silver lining to all this is that the left is going to cannibalize itself over this. Being pro-Palestine will be the litmus test if you really are a good leftist.
“I think the silver lining to all this is that the left is going to cannibalize itself over this.” Yes. Meanwhile we should stay out of the way. That is more important than taking sides.
I think Trump made perhaps the biggest mistake of his presidency like this. It never seemed to recover after he needlessly intervened on the feud between AOC and Pelosi. It fully united the squad with Democrats and put an end to her aggressive protests against establishment Democrats.
We all know the Napoleon quote about not interrupting the enemy when he is making a mistake, but not everybody knows that Hitler believed in intervention rather than waiting on the sidelines, which was a disaster in the end.
This could be the opportunity for European countries to tell Jews and Muslims to take their centuries old blood fused somewhere else.
If American Rightists have no sympathy for, say, irredentist Mexicans or American Indians languishing on reservations or reparation-minded blacks, then why the sudden bleeding heart over the Palestinians? The Palis, according to Cole, are losers in the same way that the Mexicans, Indians, and blacks are.
What a ridiculous comparison !!
Palestinians lost their ancestral soil but they NEVER lost their self-respect and communitarian discipline.
They didn’t exchange their faith, history, language, culture etc. for self-indulgence. They didn’t waste their lives in retarded gang wars. The men didn’t become worthless alcoholics and junkies. The women never forgot their duties and responsibilities; they remembered that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. And, thus, they nurtured and nourished fighters.
They can be bombed savagely but they can’t be broken spiritually.
So, yeah, these are, indeed, admirable traits.
And it is also quite obvious why drunk American-Indian casino owners and socially misbehaving, cocaine-snorting Mexicans and Blacks failed to earn any respect from reasonable folk.
Wow. This was so well done, I’m going to have to read it again. (It’s also a fine response to Coulter’s latest, which is terrific except for the blind spot in the essay regarding the 1965 Act which she so deplores.)
Beautifully reasoned, and beautifully written. Thank you.
It appears Tim Pool’s audience has awoken to the JQ. I never thought I would see the day. The only rightists who support zionism now are boomers.
Zionism is not a nationalist project. Zionism is an anti-nationalist project that makes an exception in favor of Jews.
Zionists don’t support the nationalists projects of other nations. Zionists condemn and oppose nationalist projects of other nations, because those projects imply that those nations would be run by people of those nations, and not by Jews, and they imply that the territory of those nations would be inhabited by the people of those nations and not by people brought in to dilute those nations.
There is a single exception that Jews and only Jews are allowed to have their own racial state, the Jewish state. This puts Jews in a strong position to suppress other nationalist projects.
From the point of view that says that Zionism is a nationalist project, theoretically the rise of Israel should have been good news for Whites whose racial and national feelings and aspirations have been suppressed. Israel has provided a homeland for a lot of Jews, and an ample field for Jews with the will to power to pursue political ambitions in ways that don’t conflict with White interests. Theoretically the pressure should be off White nationalists.
That’s absolutely not what happened. Since the rise of Israel things have been worse for White nationalists than they were before.
This is a great essay. It centers the very tribal idea that my Momma taught me, ‘Consider the source’.
The situation between the Whites and the Indians is not similar to the situation between jews and Palestinians because the two situations involve different tribes.
The jews use ‘universalism’ to undermine tribalism in their racial enemies and then use ‘particularism’ (ala ‘holocaust’) to create the illusion of immunity from responsibility.
Spenser’s opening salvo in this piece swiftly and savagely lays bare the rhetorical tactic by the jews and moves in for the kill.
In both the White/Indian case and the Israeli/Palestinian case, both contacts between tribes was driven by the migration of one tribe into the lands of another.
Sometimes this is called ‘colonization’.
Mass immigration is colonization.
And the jews support colonization of White lands as a means to dispossess Whites of territory.
And loss of territory means loss of authority over that territory.
Even a jew who is not anti-White (like Cole) cannot imagine that Whites have the right to a homeland…but jews do.
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