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Thread ID: 13517 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2004-05-03
2004-05-03 22:12 | User Profile
[COLOR=Blue]Believe it or not, this is [I]good [/I] news - a harbinger of Western renewal. Goldhagen incorrectly views antiSemitism as a morphing entity, as though he is perpetually astounded by the contortions of illogic the goyim will bend themselves into to justify their hatred of Jews, when the truth is that [I]the rifle scope merely follows the target[/I]. Back when there was such a thing as sovereign nations, each one's Jewish problem was properly handled as an internal matter - but as the Jews have used finance, media and government to spread their bat-wings globally over the past generation, gentile self-preservation must follow suit. When "most of the antisemitic fire was aimed locally — by Germans at German Jews, by French at French Jews", there was no Command Control Center known as Israel (and, absent the relentless social promotion of unqualified minorities, taking out NYC used to be a near-impossibility).
Goldhagen's alarmism is founded on the irritating (to him) reality that in a high-tech media-driven era, people will perforce adapt to prevailing conditions. Nowadays, that means when the reporter holds an open mike to your face, you mouth the correct philoSemitic, anti-racist platitudes and tell them what they want to hear. Then you go home, clean and oil your firearms, and email your buddy the latest VNN spintro. (Goldhagen knows it, too - [I]vide [/I] "And it is only a few clicks of a mouse away". Say hello to coming Internet legislation and policing, my friends....)
Only beer-belled, [I]Joe Millionaire[/I]-watching America still stands as a bulwark of comfortable ignorance towards the Zionist dream of domination, thanks to the twin prongs of Jewish cultural controls and know-nothing Christianity. Thus the flogging of the not-yet-dead horse of "Anti-Zionism is Anti-Americanism". But how much longer until the buzzards start circling the nag? [/COLOR]
[url]http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.05.02/oped1.html[/url]
[COLOR=Indigo][B]The Globalization of Antisemitism [/B] [/COLOR] By DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN
Antisemitism is evolving. After a period of remission owing to the horror of the Holocaust, the ancient prejudice has recently been reactivated, catalyzed by the Arab-Israeli conflict. It has entered a new era in which its main focus has shifted from the domestic to the international. Always protean in quality, always changing to take on the idiom of its day, antisemitism has been globalized.
Antisemitism has always had domestic and international components. During the long era of Christian antisemitism, the transnational institution of the Catholic church spread the belief that Jews as Christ-killers were a cosmic force for evil. But the principal target of anti-Jewish prejudice was local, the Jews of one's town, region and country who allegedly harmed their Christian neighbors.
In its second era during the 19th and 20th centuries, antisemitism took on a secular and more racist cast, in which an international conspiracy of Jews worked against humanity. Still, most of the antisemitic fire was aimed locally — by Germans at German Jews, by French at French Jews — for the harm that they allegedly inflicted on their countrymen. The "Jewish Problem" — one of the most burning political issues of the day — was overwhelmingly about what Germans, French, Poles and others should do with the Jews within their countries.
Globalized antisemitism is a new constellation of features grafted onto old ones. Varied and complex, it is oriented to the global stage. In most of Europe, and certainly in the West, the domestic "Jewish Problem" is all but dead. Only fringe elements in Germany, France and elsewhere believe that local Jews are causing great harm — financial, professional, moral — to their non-Jewish neighbors, and that a radical response is necessary.
The focus of the animus against Jews has shifted overwhelmingly to Jews of other countries — of Israel and the United States — as the alleged central moral and material culprits of the international arena. Zionism has become, for many, a mythical entity, a destructive agent in the world, and anti-Zionism has become interwoven with anti-Americanism to the point where Russian nationalist politicians can express their fear of American domination by saying that Russia is in danger of being "Zionized."
The center of antisemitism and directions of its transmission are also new. In the previous eras of antisemitism, the demonology about Jews flowed first from the Christian, and then the European, center to the periphery. Today, there are many antisemitic centers and multidirectional flows from Europe, to the Middle East and elsewhere, and back. Essentially, Europe had exported its classical racist and Nazi antisemitism to Arab countries, which they applied to Israel and Jews in general, suffusing it with the real and imagined features of the intensive local conflict. Then the Arab countries re-exported the new hybrid demonology back to Europe and, using the United Nations and other international institutions, to other countries around the world. In Germany, France, Great Britian and elsewhere, today's intensive antisemitic expression and agitation uses old tropes once applied to local Jews — charges of sowing disorder, wanting to subjugate others — with new content overwhelmingly directed at Jews outside their countries and their continent.
The imagery characterizing globalized antisemitism is new. Rambo Jew has largely supplanted Shylock in the antisemitic imagination. The sly and stealth corrupting Jew of the first two eras of antisemitism, now armed with his new military and political power, has become the subjugating, brutalizing and killing Jew, either doing the dirty work himself, as in Israel, or employing others to do it for him, as the Jews, fantastically, are said to do with the Bush administration and the "East Coast" establishment is purported to do with the United States generally.
An emblematic image of globalized antisemitism is of Donald Rumsfeld wearing a yellow star inscribed with "sheriff," followed by a cudgel wielding Ariel Sharon who is flanked by a golden calf. (Please see photograph, below.) That this scene, expressing the putative globalized nature and predations of the Jews, was created for an anti-globalization demonstration in Davos is no mere coincidence.
Globalized antisemitism has other important and new features, including its instantaneous, global transmission through the Internet and by television's biased stories and inflammatory images of Palestinian suffering, which are incorporated into the antisemitic narrative; its unification of elements of the European left and right, and its semi-concealing cloak of anti-Zionism.
Perhaps most distinctive, though, is the unmooring of antisemitism from its original sources. It is detached from Christianity, even if there are still powerful Christian sources of antisemitism. It is detached from its 19th-century European sources of nation building, reactions against modernity and pseudo-scientific notions of race and social Darwinism, even if that era's demonology is still potent in somewhat transposed form.
Globalized antisemitism has become part of the substructure of prejudice of the world. It is free-floating, located in many countries, subcultures and nodes, available in many variations, and to anyone who dislikes international influences, globalization or the United States. It is relentlessly international in its focus on Israel at the center of the most conflict-ridden region today, and on the United States as the world's omnipresent power. It is self-reinforcing, with its fantastical constructions of Jews and Zionism — which are divorced from the fair criticisms that can be made of Israel's policies — and by being located totally outside people's countries and experience. And it is only a few clicks of a mouse away.
After the Holocaust and after Vatican II, it seemed that antisemitism had diminished and might eventually atrophy. It had indeed declined, and in most European countries, including Germany, the publics' conception of their domestic Jews was de-demonized. Many people in Europe and elsewhere today also reject the new antisemitic fantasies.
Yet the reawakening of antisemitism in its new globalized form meant that antisemitism succeeded again in metamorphosing and in extending its reach — even to Africa and Asia. So far the new globalized antisemitism has not proven to be as dangerous as earlier forms, except in the Middle East, but its disquieting features suggest that it has the potential. A genuine settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict would take some of the wind out of this new antisemitism. But antisemitism's deep roots in the ever more globalizing consciousness, and its proven tenacity and plasticity, make its dissipation unlikely.
[I]Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, an affiliate of Harvard University's Center for European Studies, is the author of "A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair." He will be appearing at "Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West," a conference being held May 11-14 at the Center for Jewish History.[/I]
2004-05-03 23:16 | User Profile
You gotta love how Goldhagen can work a coded shakedown into the title of his 'scholarly work':
"A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust [B]and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair[/B]"
And then there's
[QUOTE]He will be appearing at "Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West," a conference being held May 11-14 at the Center for Jewish History.[/QUOTE]
I guess when you've parasitically sucked dry a hundred host nations, you require four friggin' days to decide where your next target of opportunity might be. Hey, didn't the Isle of Malta turn away refugee boats in the 40s?
2004-05-04 00:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=AntiYuppie]Eventually, the victim line will wear a little thin, people start wondering WHY it is that the whole world hates them. What do an Arab street merchant, a Russian cossack, or a German soldier have in common that would lead them to the same conclusion about Goldhagen's tribe? It harks back to the saying, "if one person tells you you're an a$$hole, it's his problem. If everyone tells you you're an a$$hole, it's YOUR problem."[/QUOTE]
Very well stated. I mean, how can there be a substantial minority (and, in many cases, an absolute majority - sometimes even near unanimity) of people who hate the Jews in each and every nation on Earth, unless the Jews are doing something to provoke it? The whole Occam's Razor thing springs to mind....
2004-05-04 00:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno] thanks to the twin prongs of Jewish cultural controls and know-nothing Christianity. [/QUOTE] Sweet.
2004-05-04 01:48 | User Profile
"the German people were by nature evil, genocidal, barbarous Huns"
Ironically it's the actually the Khazars who are the ones whom are descended from the Huns.
These anti-Christian, European bashing Jews are very fond of applying indiscriminate censorship and disseminate disinformation in all directions. This it however must be done at increasingly regular intervals in order to remain effective as a form of thought control.
The media is merely a instrument of deception and is used to flog the masses with there oftern blatant lies and self pity. Whilst history it's self has proven that the people who loath the Jews most are often Jews themselves.
Hitler whom admittedly was a disturbed psychotic despite his political genus. Apparently used to refer to his Jewish blood as a diseases consuming him from the in side, polluting this otherwise health blood. Indeed Hitler spent much time among the Jews during his youth and his experiences seemingly only reinforced these convictions.
The character and inner nature of the Judeo-nazis, Zionist Jew is disgusting. The Zionist Jew is any abonination and has made the Jewish people enemies amongst many differing peoples.
The Jew however is not to blame for the Europeans or any other peoples failings. The best way to deal with the Jew is not to at all. Evade him and his anti-Christ followers by avoiding both his person and his interests when ever possible.
Have the sense of will and duty to enforce the development of your own interests and to protect your peoples rights. Believe in your Christian values and preserve your true cultural identity.
Gregz
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny!" - Thomas Jefferson
2004-05-04 07:24 | User Profile
First of all, it's nice to see you back, il ragno. :thumbsup:
This article by Goldhagen is a fine example of what could be called "preemptive propaganda." Goldhagen has apparently put his finger to the wind and realized that many who are uncomfortable with "naming the Jew" outright (a great way to lose your job) are becoming much less shy about focusing their criticism on Israel, the crimes of which are much more tangible. This trend having been discerned, Goldhagen wishes to inform his fellow Tribesmen so they can react appropriately.
The sly and stealth corrupting Jew of the first two eras of antisemitism, now armed with his new military and political power, has become the subjugating, brutalizing and killing Jew... That is, in fact, a very factual description of what has happened.
...either doing the dirty work himself, as in Israel, or employing others to do it for him, as the Jews, fantastically, are said to do with the Bush administration and the "East Coast" establishment is purported to do with the United States generally. If the notion that Jews manipulate the US into serving their interests is "fantastic," then perhaps Goldhagen can explain why Iraq was invaded rather than North Korea when the latter even admits to having WMDs (chemical and possibly nuclear) while Saddam was well-contained. Could it have had something to do with JEWS like Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, and others in key positions associated with the Bush administration? Hmmm....
DEMOCRATIZING ISLAM Paul Eidelberg Policy Paper No. 141, 2002
Executive Summary
ââ¬ÅDemocratizing Islamââ¬Â shows that ââ¬ÅIslamic fundamentalismââ¬Â or ââ¬ÅIslamismââ¬Â is in fact authentic Islam ââ¬â the Islam of Muhammad. To democratize Islam it will be necessary for the United States to conquer Iraq and other Islamic regimes and maintain an occupation force for two or three decades, as was done in post-war Japan and Germany.
A generation of Muslim children will have to be re-educated. Anti-Jewish and anti-Christian verses in the Qur'an should be neutralized by contrary verses and commentaries. The principle of Jihad must be eliminated from the four schools of Islamic law. Islamic regimes must abide by the Seven Noahide Laws of Universal Morality. Source: [url]http://www.acpr.org.il/publications/policy-papers/pp141-xs.html[/url]
The above words are not those of someone who lacks confidence that the US will serve Israeli interests when called upon to do so. Furthermore, what does Goldhagen claim to be the primary end of organizations such as JINSA and AIPAC? I doubt it's to encourage the US to act as an impartial mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
There is nothing "fantastic" about the charge that pro-Israeli Jews (and dispensationalist religious lunatics) are a source of constant pressure on the US government to bow to Israel's whims. The charge is rooted in concrete fact. What's truly incredible is that so many people don't see this to be the case.
2004-05-04 09:16 | User Profile
Angler,
I think Goldhagen should have take this quote back further in history to be accurate:
The sly and stealth corrupting Jew of the first two eras of antisemitism, now armed with his new military and political power, has become the subjugating, brutalizing and killing Jew...
I'd say that they previously had this power back in the early days of the Soviet Union. Now, of course, they have gained an even better prize, us.
This one below you posted is funny in a way.
A generation of Muslim children will have to be re-educated. Anti-Jewish and anti-Christian verses in the Qur'an should be neutralized by contrary verses and commentaries. The principle of Jihad must be eliminated from the four schools of Islamic law. Islamic regimes must abide by the Seven Noahide Laws of Universal Morality.
Here it is they want to re-write the Koran not only to suit their own taste, but at the same time insist on removing antiChristian references as well, while at the same time insisting that the New Testament be re-written to remove the things there they don't like.
Amazing.
Hello, Il Ragno. :) Interesting and enlightening post you have here.