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It seems that there has not been a worse time since the formation of Israel to be a diaspora Jew.
The friends and allies that the diaspora has traditionally counted on are beginning to turn on them with the same determination and ferocity that gentiles have always possessed on the eve of a pogrom or mass expulsion. The writing is on the wall, and many Jews, thankfully, are beginning to notice.
Columbia University in New York City, once the bastion of intellectual Jewry, has lately been the epicenter of overt anti-Jewish feeling. Of course, this entails the increasingly menacing protests over the current war in Gaza. These resemble the anti-war protests of the Vietnam War era in that they are serious, sometimes violent, and coming entirely from the Left. It’s gotten so bad (or good, depending on your perspective) that Columbia’s rabbinical leaders have recently urged Jewish students to stay home. According to a WhatsApp message from Columbia’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus:
What we are witnessing around campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made clear that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy.
It deeply pains me to say that I recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.
The “events of the last few days” refers to the anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia, which resulted in over 100 arrests. Many of these protestors were Arabs themselves, or otherwise not white. Further, there have been thousands of similar protests across America these past few months. I wrote about a particularly nasty one involving a menorah at Harvard not too long ago.
This is the future. And while these Left-wing protestors are no friends of the dissident Right or white people in general (which is why they protest Donald Trump with equal venom), the part of my brain which processes immediate gratification wants all this to continue. Regardless of how one feels about the war in Gaza — I would describe my position as qualified neutrality — we should have absolutely no sympathy for diaspora Jews in this situation.
This is a golem of their own creation, and the blowback they are experiencing couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people. For the CliffsNotes rundown of why I say this, Jews were instrumental in the passing of Brown v. Board of Education as well as the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, and have been in the vanguard of integration and immigration efforts ever since. Diaspora Jews have been dedicated to the erasure of the white supermajority in America, as well of white identity in general, for decades. Now that they have gotten what they have always wanted, they’re beginning to realize that maybe they shouldn’t have wanted it in the first place. The irony is too delicious for me not to enjoy.
But I cannot enjoy it for long. After all, there is a war going on. Many thousands are being killed, with all the grief and misery and everything else war brings with it. Plus, the refugees have to go somewhere, which will likely soon be to a diversified neighborhood near you. I know that the Gaza War is a red-on-red conflict, as are all the violent protests currently ongoing in major American cities, and it has somewhat enhanced the Right’s clout as Jews begin to shift in that direction. But I’m sure it’s keeping others besides me on edge as we wait for this regional conflict to grow into something global.
One thing I think most of us can agree upon, however, is that the Jewish diaspora is either reaching or has reached its apogee in power and influence outside of Israel. Being a political people who cannot seem to survive among gentiles without playing major roles in politics, diaspora Jews will not have a home unless they have a political home. This, I believe, stems from their inherent neuroticism, insecurity, clannishness, and self-serving natures, which unfortunately combine well with their high average intelligence and plethora of talents. This will naturally put them at odds with gentile populations from time to time — especially when their leadership adopts more of their vices than virtues, as we are seeing today.
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If we can take the reverse of Clausewitz’s famous dictum that war “is the continuation of political intercourse by other means,” then perhaps for many diaspora Jews, politics is the continuation of war by other means — meaning that when gentiles practice politics, Jews practice war.
Everything makes more sense when you think about it that way, doesn’t it?
In any event, diaspora Jews are beginning to realize that their comfy political spaces are dwindling. A diversified Left, especially among young people, is vociferously rejecting them over Gaza, and indeed over Zionism in general. The mainstream Right is getting tired of all the forever wars in the Middle East, and, if its unwavering support for Donald Trump is any indication, would prefer a more isolationist and populist approach to international relations moving forward. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in Ben Shapiro’s recent spats with Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson — two America-firsters who view Israel as a foreign country with interests separate from those of the United States. This of course is heresy for neoconservatives such as Shapiro and his ilk over at the Daily Wire. Amid all the resulting invective, Shapiro is taking on the role of William F. Buckley in trying to gatekeep the respectable Right. But he is learning that Owens and Carlson enjoy far greater status in the public’s eye than Joe Sobran and Sam Francis ever did, as brilliant as those two certainly were.
Beyond this, what’s left? The dead center. The moderates, the liberals, the conservatives — basically, the baby boomers. Sadly, this population is dwindling as well, but by natural rather than political causes.
The only remaining bastion of support diaspora Jews enjoy these days, aside from that of the political establishment — whose qualified backing is disproportionately secured by threats, bribery, and blackmail — is the evangelical Christian Right. These are people who believe in a Biblical mandate for supporting Israel. Some even see the Gaza War as a sign that we are entering the End Times, and that we must be prepared to accept Jews as our brothers and sisters once Jesus walk the Earth again. Thus, of course Evangelicals will remain steadfast in their support for Israel.
Won’t they?
I asked myself this very question while researching this essay. How has the war in Gaza impacted Evangelical support for Israel and Jews in general? According to many news sources, the answer is: not at all. As soon as it started, Evangelicals enthusiastically lined up to give Israel record financial support and went there in large numbers to volunteer. According to the Religion News Service:
“Evangelicals as a bloc are about the only friends that Israel has,” said Joel Rosenberg, a longtime political strategist, novelist and editor-in-chief of All Israel News, an evangelical pro-Israel news and commentary site.
Rosenberg, who became an Israeli citizen about a decade ago and identifies as a Jewish believer in Jesus, told Religion News Service that he saw more Israelis at the NRB [National Religious Broadcasters meeting] this year than in the past.
That’s in large part due to the close ties between Israel and evangelicals, who are more loyal than other groups, said Rosenberg, host of The Rosenberg Report for the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
“Where else are you going to find people who will listen, and then have a platform and a motive to act,” he said.
Then again, nearly all of the articles I could find were published shortly after the war began last October. This would make sense, given Jewish prominence in the media and the need for wartime propaganda. But less on the topic seems to have been published in the past few months as the body count continues to rise to appalling numbers, which is an exceedingly bad look for Israel. So pillar of salt taken. However, I did spot one Haaretz article which suggested that perhaps the unwavering Evangelical support is starting to waver a bit. According to another article from 2021, Evangelical support, especially among the younger crowd, has been slipping. So who knows?
The tea leaves on this tragic imbroglio are telling me that diaspora Jews have a real Hobson’s dilemma on their hands. Either they have their meat with dairy or they have their dairy with meat. If they abandon Israel, they will lose the support of the Evangelical Right, and if they don’t abandon Israel, they will lose the support of the anti-Zionist Left. Obviously, this state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely.
This is why I feel diaspora Jews are at their apogee of power and influence in the West. It’s only downhill from here, unless they get wise to race realism and the nativist needs of whites — truly, their best friends throughout all of this — and then shift hard and fast to the Right and mean it. (I know, I know, unlikely.) It’s either that or they pack up and schlep themselves to Israel.
The dissident Right should naturally do nothing to discourage them from either option. After all, the one thing diaspora Jews cannot do right now is nothing.
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The standard lachrymose rabbinic narrative is that the Jews were forced into diaspora by invading and destructive Gentile powers, the 6th c. bc Babylonian captivity most famously, then the Romans, and that since then they constantly long for a return to their homeland from forced exile among the anti-semitic Gentiles. Psalm 137 is the official story.
However, it is no accident that the dominant form of the Talmud was created by a significant Jewish community, probably the majority, that remained voluntarily in this “captivity” when Cyrus the Persian allowed them to go home.
There were Jewish communities all over the Mediterranean long before the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, etc. For example, they were expelled from Rome several times prior and they were a noticeable enough population in Alexandria to provoke nasty rioting and violence in 38 and 40 AD.
Though they’ve had an ethnostate since 1948, the majority of them still follow the Babylonian line and remain where they are. For a noticeable portion of Jews, since the 6th century BC, diaspora was a choice. One might almost say a “group evolutionary strategy.”
Aggression is a heritable trait and Jews have a lot of it. The most reasonable course of action from a Jewish point of view will be to beat the anti-Zionist left into submission by using money power, career-killing cancel culture, and so on.
Agreed, and also using the military power of this nation outright against itself, which is not only realized but allowed by a greedy minority of Gentiles. This also exposes our own authorities defects as it pertains to “money versus morals”. Can’t serve god and mammon at the same time as per their own archaic text.
It seems they’re already trying that. The problem is that it’s starting to wear out from overuse, for one thing. For another, what was once pretty effective at singling out and picking off isolated critics doesn’t work so well when the monster of their own creation suddenly turns on them. Oops, totally didn’t see that one coming, now did they?
My take is that the high-water mark of Zionist power was the first Gulf War, and it’s been slipping downhill since then. Anyway, the most rational thing for them to do would be to knock it off with the sneaky subversive stuff, get over themselves, and mind their behavior henceforth. That might work out better than making the same mistakes time and again.
Beau, I think I’ve read in many of your comments over the past couple of years (in so many words) “….if they just stop doing that.”
If their collective behavior has been a winning strategy for them (for survival and success), why would they change, individually or as a group. If it is something inherit to their race and ethnicity, then they can’t really change, and there will always be that tinge of subversion, aggression, and manipulation. Since these characteristics are at the core of their reputation (for centuries), I think they are who they are, and we should plan accordingly going forward.
The way I see it, getting kicked out of 109 countries is pretty lousy as far as success goes. They need to think about what they’re doing. As neurotic as they can get sometimes, they’re not automatons, and are capable of examining their behavior.
Yes, if they care about their place in the global arena and within a hostile territory of their own making.
No. This is collective psychopaty aka pervert narcissism. Pervert narcissists never never admit that they are wrong.
It seems no other group obsesses over themselves as much as the Jews. And yet it also seems no other group understands themselves so poorly.
I think that hoping they change and become nice people is a losing strategy. It is written in their holy texts and frankly, their blood, that they must destroy us. I don’t want to forgive a people that have orchestrated the rape and murder of my own.
Jewish culture and tradition consciously celebrates chutzpah, a relentless drive to accomplish your goal, regardless of judgement or opposition.
From the Hasidic group Chabad, which defines chutzpah as “audacity, insolence, impudence, gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible guts, presumption and arrogance.”
They add this quote from a religious classic: There is no nation with more chutzpah than the Jews. Rabbi Yizchak BenRedifa said in the name of Rabbi Imi, “You think this is derogatory? It’s actually nothing but praise! A Jew says, ‘Let me be a Jew or let me be crucified!’
Many are driven by this religious belief of privilege over all others for millennia. The Romans would have non of it and in the end decimated that province more than any other within their empire. Unfortunately history does repeat itself time and time again. They are biting the hand that feed them and no one else has been better fed.
Good article. I’ve never heard a Jew ask why so many different cultures/ethnicities/countries throughout history have expelled them. I’m sure they believe it’s everyone else and not them.
Most Jews view Israel similar to a vacation property. A nice place to visit, let some relatives stay there and maybe retire to, but they need to stay in their ‘main’ home where they work and earn the resources to pay for it. After all, without Western support Israel wouldn’t last long.
Jews will never advocate for White nationalism or even White identity. Their hatred for Europeans won’t let them, they’d rather lose everything than help us. They are the scorpian, we are the frog.
Should there be a mass consciousness raising in the West Jews will likely primarily ally with one or more of Russia, India and China. India, China and Israel have thoroughly infiltrated our societies and could wreak havoc. Any appearance of a return to ethno-nationalism in the West would likely be viewed as a serious threat by all four of these rivals.
Already now, the globalist elite, in which Jews play a disproportionately large role, (although I do not think that they really act in the interests of the Jews as a people) is ceasing to rely on white peoples, and is moving on to relying on China. China would be a new world policeman of the globalists, instead of the US, and maybe also a regional Eurasian policeman instead of Russia (which is now going to be a full vassal of the PRC, like Iran already is).
If you wish to see, “The Great Replacement”, go to Toronto! Once the houses in the white, ethnic areas are placed for SALE, there are NO white buyers. Over 82% of the students in the TDSB (Toronto District School Board) are visible minorities. Crime is common on the TTC ( Toronto Transit Commission), as are car-jacking, home invasions, stabbings, shootings, government Medicare is collapsing as is the whole social welfare system in the Province of Ontario. Apartments are $3000/month and houses are selling for $1.5 million. All cheaper accommodation is taken over by the Canadian ( cough, cough!) government, refurbished and given to Somali “asylum seekers” GRATIS plus their welfare cheques and free Medicare! Whites are no longer hired by the TTC, City of Toronto, security guard companies are solely dominated by East Indians. Books are censored ( and confiscated at the Canadian border), as well as university & college internet. And, if you publicly deny the Jewish holocaust, it is a punishable offence with up to 2 years in prison under the Canadian Criminal Code. Oy vey….
The Jew was NEVER a friend of white, western civilization! His whole raison d’être is to destroy, destroy, destroy! Their whole religio-ethnic group strategy was and is to destroy the Goyim! Oh sure they may put up a side-show of having some beneficial accommodation with whites, but this just a charade, as was their supposed conversion to the Catholic religion at the time of their expulsion from Iberia under Queen Isabella. They then sailed with Columbus to the New World. But what will they do when the white, western man has been made extinct by them? Then you will see a COLLAPSE of the currency, infrastructure, military, law& order, electric generating stations STOP distribution…what kind of world will the Chosenites leave for their progeny? In a way, they are not so smart..’
They are not smart at all and they have a primitive mentality, a stupid ” cargo cult ” where white gentiles provide them everything magically.
And no they have not a ” plethora of talents ” , this is an outdated cliché, if they had real talents they would have built high cultures and civilizations and wouldn’t need to ” squatt ” gentile societies for centuries.
A three-digit IQ analysis of the situation. I particularly enjoyed the “…war ‘is the continuation of political intercourse by other means,’ then perhaps for many diaspora Jews, politics is the continuation of war by other means.” I forgot what these type of expressions are called, where you reverse the order of things but I really like them. Also, I think the commentary of Jewish power reaching its apogee is pretty spot on. I think the writing was on the wall with that one when Jewish SCOTUS judge Breyer got replaced with a black woman. But I think it is now becoming very palpable. The golem is turning on its master.
The irony of it all is that the Frankfurt School complete with its “regressive tolerance” set up shop at Columbia. I’m not sure of how the Frankfurt School at large felt about Zionism and Israel. I am guessing that, like most diaspora liberal Jews, that they were liberal when it came to their host country but nationalist when it came to Israel. It would be interesting to look into. Sort of how, I forget which politician mentioned this, but looking into Qatari money that is supposedly funding these protests. I’m surprised Qatar didn’t take a leaf from the Jews and double down on the gaslighting and calling the allegation an anti-Islamic conspiracy theory.
I don’t see a scenario where Jews have their “come to Jesus moment” where they ally with conservative whites. They’ve invested too much in the left. Jews have spent decades cutting off their nose to spite their face in the form of subverting bourgeoise white Christian gentile society. “Yeah, that illegal alien Venezuelan drunk driver made me a quadriplegic in the car accident and the liberal Jew-judge dropped the charges because he doesn’t know English, but at least we showed the white anti-Semites who wouldn’t let my grandfather join the WASP golf club!”
I see two scenarios playing out. Perhaps somehow this all fizzles out. A combination of the protestors being brow-beaten that they are being anti-Semitic and they should focus their ire on whitey and the war winding down due to the US threatening to cut off funding and somehow some hostage deal is reached. If not, there could be seismic shifts in academia. There are a lot of Jews buttering the bagels of academia. The article mentions Jews schlepping back to Israel. A middle ground approach would be for Jewish parents to send their kids to university in Israel and Jewish donors would redirect their donations to Israeli universities. Israeli/Jewish academics in the US, like the guy who had his access card deactivated, could also go to Israel along with all the grant money they court with them.
Ah the good old days when Joseph Sobran had a column in the LA Daily News. Me and my buddy were commuting together and would delight in his latest commentary.
This whole thing about protesting and frightened Jews tickles me. It’s almost like a gang turf war in South Central LA. You’d like to think it’s better to stop it because of collateral damage, but then realize that whatever they work out between warring parties, it’s better for me to not get involved.
Is it true Trump came out in support of the monstrous aid bill? If so, he’s beginning to lose his edge. That would be a terrible position to take.
“the blowback they are experiencing couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people”
Sums it up ever so nicely.
I am now recovering now from a few cuts on my hand and leg I got from sharp edges of a rusted piece of pipe. These I deem inconsequential. You see I decided to go diving thru an underwater pipeline connecting 2 bodies of water under a road. Entering one end of tunnel, I couldn’t see light from the other end. I felt pretty sure it was there, yet reaching the other end was a much higher priority {before my air ran out} than being careful not to recieve a few scrapes & cuts.
So it is with the Jews. I think a very influential Jewish woman {Barbara Something} wrote that there may be some inconveniences experienced by some Jews in their march to destroy European Hites. But the ends justify the means. So it is also with the destruction of American Hites. I’d be surprised to see any changes in the policy of Hite elimination due to a few disgruntled Muslims. One Jewish solution could be to bring in even more of them in the hopes that they’ll then calm down and feel more at home?
You can screw over some of the natives all of the time.
You can screw over all of the natives some of the time.
But you cannot screw over all of the natives all of the time (and not get pogrom’d).
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