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Re: [evola_as_he_is] Re: 'The Paradoxes of Anti-Semitism'

Tom spoke at one of our New Right meetings in September, so he's still very involved with us. I highly recommend his new book, 'Homo Americanus', too.


G <vnvsmvndvs@...> wrote:
With this article it becomes clear that mr. Sunic speaks more freely
than most of the contemporary writers/thinkers on the Right. I assume
that mr. Sunic isn't that affiliated anymore with New Right circles?

Would it be possible to provide us with the end notes?

--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "evola_as_he_is"
<evola_as_he_is@...> wrote:
>
> By T. Sunic
>
> "Jews happen to enjoy a privileged place in the Western world, with
> their entire past portrayed as a story of suffering at the hands of
> their non-Jewish enemy. There are tons of well documented books on
> the psychology of Judaism, which also examine the genesis of the
> concept of anti-Semitism and its multiple verbal distortions in daily
> political discourse. The word "anti-Semitism," unlike words
> "anticommunism," or "antifascism," does not reflect political beliefs
> or critical views of the Jews. This term is exclusively used as a
> lexical label to depict a person's grave mental illness. As a
> perceived medical or judicial illness, anti-Semitism must never be
> debated; an anti-Semitic patient must not be a partner in scholarly
> duels; his sick views must not be the subject of academic inquiry and
> counter-inquiry. As an element of medical pathology, anti-Semitism
> must only by treated by doctors, preferably by Jewish psychoanalysts,
> or legally, by a prosecutor in court.
>
> The word "anti-Semite" will likely be studied one day as a telling
> example of distorted political discourse, i.e. as a signifier for
> somebody who advocates the reign of demonology. "Many world-known
> Jewish authors, haunted by the either real or surreal specter of anti-
> Semitism, consider it a sickness, which enables them to avoid any
> form of introspection." 1 How does one dare critically talk about the
> predominance of the Jews in America without running the risk of
> social opprobrium, or, as in Europe, of landing into jail? While it
> is a common place for the vast number of white Euro- Americans to
> crack jokes in private about Arabs, Mexicans, Africans, or for that
> matter deride their fellow Gentile citizens, without looking over
> their shoulder, a critical comment about the strong influence of Jews
> in America, even when that comment is founded on empirical facts, is
> viewed as a grave insult to Jews.2 If a serious European and American
> scholar or a politician ventures into this forbidden field, his
> gesture is interpreted as a sign of an agent provocateur, or worse,
> as a sign of somebody who decided to write his obituary. Such a
> schizophrenic climate of self-censorship in the West will sooner or
> later lead to dramatic consequences for both Jews and Gentiles. The
> lack of healthy dialogue can last for a century or so, but feigned
> conviviality between Euro-American Gentiles and Jews cannot last
> forever and remained based on distorted perceptions of the Other and
> how this Other should behave. Mendacity carries the germ of a civil
> war. The entire Western history, particularly since World War II, has
> abundantly proven that distorted self-perceptions, as well as the
> romanticized perception of the "Other," if based on negative wishful
> thinking, lead to war and chaos. Eventually, both Jews and Euro-
> American Gentiles will be pitted into an ugly clash from which there
> will be no escape this time.
>
> While many thinkers in the West unabashedly challenge modern myths
> and sport staggering erudition and courage in their demolition, the
> most sensitive point of reference of the twentieth century, i.e., the
> "Jewish question," is carefully avoided. If the subject of Jews is
> mentioned in the European or America public forum, then it is usually
> in a laudatory fashion, which clearly indicates a morbid desire of
> white elites to curry favor with the Jews. The same individuals will
> be the first to declare themselves certified anti-Semites when an
> opportunistic moment becomes official enough for pogroms of Jews. It
> is the lack of open discussion about the topic of the Jews that
> confirms how Jews play a crucial role in the Western notion of the
> political. This is an additional sign of how past times interact with
> present times. Twentieth century experience with National Socialism
> serves as a powerful red flag in a political- semantic field that
> must be carefully trodden upon.
>
> Christian Neurosis
>
> But contrary to classical anti-Semitic arguments, strong Jewish
> influence in the West is not the product of Jews only; it is the
> logical result of Gentiles' own acceptance of the Jewish founding
> myths that have seeped over centuries into Europe and America in
> their diverse Christian modalities. The current cultural and
> political ambiance coupled with strong self-censorship is just the
> latest secular version of this Judeo-Christian mindset.
> Hypothetically speaking, if Jews, by some miracle, were to play a
> marginal role in Europe or America - as they claim they do - then,
> logically, they would be the subject of a normal critical discussion
> or derision, just like other ethnic groups, races, or next door
> neighbors are. Blaming, however, Jews for extraterrestrial powers and
> their purported conspiracy to subvert Gentile culture borders on
> delusion and only reflects the absence of dialogue. This behavioral
> trait is particularly salient among white Christian Euro-Americans.
> Such delusions only provide legitimacy to Jews in their search for a
> real or surreal anti-Semitic boogieman around the corner. Without the
> specter of anti-Semitism, Jews would likely assimilate quickly and
> hence disappear. Thus, anti-Semitism provides Jews with alibis to
> project themselves as victims of Gentile prejudice. Consequently, it
> assigns them a role of posing as the sole educational super-ego for
> Euro- Americans and by proxy for the entire world. In his book on the
> social role of Jews, a prominent Jewish-French politician and author,
> Jacques Attali, writes: "As Russian Jews invented socialism, and as
> Austrian Jews invented psychoanalysis, American Jews in the
> forefront, participated in the birth of American capitalism and in
> the Americanization of the entire world."3 For a Jewish author, like
> Attali, such a remark is easier to write down than for a Gentile
> thinker, who with the same comment, would be shouted down as an "anti-
> Semite" – or possibly land in jail in Europe.
>
> Each time Euro-American Gentiles write critically about the prominent
> Jewish role in Western society, they are likely to find marginal
> readership and will hardly garner credibility in the mainstream media
> environment. But when a Jewish author talks critically about the same
> issue, notably the phenomenal Jewish role in social and political
> affairs in the postmodern West, then his prose will elicit awe and
> respect. He may be sometimes met with apprehension and irritation by
> his fellow Jews, such as was the case with Norman Finkelstein, or to
> some extent Noam Chomsky, but his words will nevertheless find their
> place in the ears and eyes of a larger audience.
>
> It remains an open secret that Jews played a disproportionate role in
> the Bolshevik revolution, and more precisely in the early Soviet
> secret police. It is also a fact that although being a tiny minority
> in America, Jews play an influential role in the opinion making
> industry, i.e. the film industry, the media, and higher education.
> "Jews are simply indispensable for other nations." 4 There were
> literally tons of books published in the early and late thirties of
> the preceding century in America, Germany and France that provide
> detailed accounts of the role of the Jews in different important
> professions in America and Europe, and that specifically discussed
> Jewish numerical overrepresentation in the early Soviet Union and
> America respectively. The government in National Socialist Germany
> harnessed the most erudite anti-Semitic heavy weights in order to
> document every nook and cranny of Judaism in the Soviet Union and
> America.5 But at the beginning of the 21st century, these books are
> either banned or derided as unscientific, or simply shrugged off as
> an anti-Semitic prose. In mainstream political discussions their
> authors are ignored. Their prose seems to be only savored by
> individuals who are a priori hostile to Jews, and who usually explain
> away the entire human drama by reducing it to the alleged Jewish
> conspiracy.
>
> Therefore, a comment or a book by a Jewish author, who preferably
> sports a politically correct liberal pedigree, and who tackles this
> greatest taboo topic of our times, must be accepted with welcome.
> Such is the book of a liberal Jewish-Russian-American scholar, Yuri
> Slezkine, whose research does not reveal to someone already
> knowledgeable about the Jewish question any new insights regarding
> the Jewish role in America and the ex-Soviet Union. Slezkine notes
> how Jews played a prominent role in the early Soviet terror machine
> and in the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, but they did it "because
> they fought for the state in order to become free of Jewishness."6 In
> other words, they happened to be Jews against their own will. They
> apparently wanted to leave the image of being first and foremost
> cosmopolitan citizens who wished to improve by means of Bolshevisms
> the whole humanity. Slezkine also confirms that America was a
> promised land for the Jews in view of the fact that it "has no state
> bearing natives."7 It was to be expected that with the collapse of
> communism and the decay of the Marxist mystique, the American dream,
> at the turn of the 21st century, became the best ersatz for
> disenchanted Jewish Marxists.
>
> Slezkine notes that America became a Jewish substitute utopia
> because, unlike Europe and Germany, with their strong tribal
> adherences, "America knew only "vestigial establishment tribalism."8
> . From its inception, America was therefore an ideal country for
> Jews; it was designed to be a prime laboratory for diverse
> multicultural and academic experiments — be they of intra-European or
> extra-European nature. However, this multiracial social engineering
> was facilitated by the earlier ecumenical and globalistic framework
> of the early European Christians, notably American Puritans, who had
> always considered themselves "spiritual Jews." What Jewish
> intellectuals could not attain in Europe, or later in the Soviet
> Union, was at hand in America where "Jewish power, economic status
> and cultural influence have increased dramatically since 1960."9
>
> On a different level of analysis, one can notice the absence in
> America of what the Germans call Kulturvolk, i.e. a rooted cultural
> and national community (and not just the adherence to the white
> race), which is the main prerequisite for a sound state-anchored
> nationalism. The absence of a common cultural identity among white
> Americans seems to be the fundamental weakness of either real or
> would-be American nationalists, racialists and conservatives who,
> while not hiding their hostility to Jews, are unable to muster up
> common cultural and national energy and shed the Biblical heritage.
> Harping only on genetic determinism, as many American eugenicists and
> racialists do, in order to promote some abstract white man American
> identity is often self-defeating.
>
> One can naturally concur that Euro-Americans are influenced by Jews,
> but then the question arises as to how did it happen? After all, was
> not Christianity the offspring of Jewish monotheism? Was Jesus
> himself not a Jew? The influence of Jews in powerful media positions
> and the political apparatus, which many Europeans and Americans in
> private complain about, did not drop from the moon. Jewish social
> prominence has been the direct result of the white Gentile's
> acceptance of Christianity and its early Jewish promoters - an event
> which was brought to its perfection in America by early Pilgrim
> Founding Fathers. Be it in Europe or in the USA, Christian religious
> denominations are just differentiated versions of Jewish monotheism.
> Therefore, the whole history of faked philo-Semitism, or anti-
> Semitism in America and in Europe, must be described as a kind of
> social neurosis.
>
> European and American pro-Jewish or "Jewified" intellectuals often
> show signs of being more Jewish than Jews themselves. Their excessive
> love for Jews stems from their subconscious hatred of Jews, a fact
> that most Jews are perfectly aware of, and which only gives further
> legitimacy to Jewish social prominence. Indeed, at the beginning of
> the 21st century there can be no worse insult than qualifying some
> white politician or an academic as an "anti-Semite." And often this
> derogatory noun or adjective does not originate with persons labeled
> as anti-Semites, but are hurled by Jews or Gentile intellectuals
> sympathetic to the Jewish cause. Both white Europeans and white
> Americans, who are resentful of Jews, often forget that the
> hypothetical disappearance of Jews or their lesser role in public
> life would not open up a golden era for the while people. Has not the
> entire history of all European peoples, be it before Christ or after
> Christ abundantly proven that when Gentiles run out of Jews, then
> they start hacking each other to pieces - often for trivial reasons.
>
> As the latest version of Christianized and secularized monotheism,
> Judeo-Americanism represents the most radical departure from the
> ancient European pre-Christian genius loci, which Europeans have
> managed to preserve better than Americans. How then to counter strong
> Jewish influence without lapsing into anti-Semitism?
>
> It is the ontological proximity of Christianity with Judaism, which
> explains their mutual resentment. Christian anti-Semites in Europe
> and America often forget, in their endless lamentation about the
> changing racial structure of America, that Christianity is by
> definition a universal religion aiming to achieve a pan-racial system
> of governance. Therefore, American Christians, regardless whether
> they are hypermoralistic sons and daughters of early Puritans, or
> more authority prone Catholics, are in no position to found an
> ethnically and racially all white Gentile society while adhering at
> the same time to a Christian-inspired dogma of pan-racial
> universalism. "Anti-Semitism was born from the Christian desire to
> fulfill Judaism, to "finish it up," to attribute to it its "real"
> meaning."10 The Pilgrim Fathers had exactly this globalistic and
> ecumenical approach in mind when they arrived in New England. Their
> liberal secular successors in Europe and America are obligated to
> resort to the same gospel. i.e., a democratic and human rights credo,
> as well as ecumenical democracy designed for different peoples world-
> wide. In the eyes of Christians "just as the Law, with Christ, had
> come to its end (in both senses of the word) and has become useless,
> in the same vein each distinction between Israel and other nations
> has become redundant: there are no more Jews or Greeks (Gal. 3, 28).
> It is universal Christianity which is verus Israel.".11
> "This process, which emerged with the Pauline reforms had a double
> consequence. On the one hand it ended up with the persecution of the
> Jews, who were depicted as the worst enemies of Christianity, on the
> ground of their genealogical proximity and their refusal to convert,
> that is, to recognize Christianity as "true Israel." On the other
> hand, as Shmuel Trigano noted, while setting itself up as "new
> Israel," the West recognized to Jewishness a factual, if not a
> juridical jurisdiction over itself. And this boils down to saying
> that the West has become "Israelite" to the extent that it forbade to
> Jews to remain Israelites. It follows from this that the name "Judeo-
> Christianity" is a double incarceration; it imprisons the Christian
> West, which by its own act subordinates itself to a jurisdiction
> which is not its own, and in order to regain it, puts it in a
> position to deny this jurisdiction to its legitimate keepers."12
>
> One could argue that the Christian West and its zenith America, is
> subconsciously anti-Semitic to the extent that it has always yearned
> to become Jewish. Therefore, the Christian West, and particularly
> America, will cease to be obsessed with Jews and anti-Semitism once
> it leaves this neurosis, once it returns to its own local European
> beliefs, and "by stopping to be what it is not and by allowing the
> "Other" to continue what it is."13 The Judeo-Christian embrace,
> resulting in a mutual love-hate relationship, has been going on for
> centuries, and at the beginning of the 21th century it attained its
> final schizoid peak. This corroborates our thesis that Christianity
> is a self-defeating "proposition myth" ready to embrace all races and
> peoples world-wide.
>
> Many Jewish scholars rightly acknowledge deep theological links
> between the Western civilization and Judaism.14 By contrast, European
> and especially American traditionalists, however much they may be
> correct in denouncing Jewish-inspired modern dogmas, such as
> Freudism, Marxism, and neo-conservatism, fail to go a step further
> and examine the Judaic origins of Christianity and mutual proximity
> of these two monotheist religions that make up the foundations of the
> modern West. When, for instance, a number of historical revisionists
> critically examine the historical narrative of World War II, they
> seem to forget the religious Judeo-Christian bonds which have shaped
> the historical memory of all European peoples. The words by
> historical revisionists will have, therefore, little echo. No wonder
> that the level of Jewish outcry against their critical writings will
> be strong. How can one, as a good Christian, dismiss the self-
> evidence of Holocaust yet at the same time embrace a self-evident
> story of a Jew named Jesus Christ, or the immaculate conception of a
> Jewish Virgin Mary? "Instead of submitting anti-Semitism to the free
> play of ideas, instead of making it a topic for debate in which all
> can join, Jews and their liberal supporters have managed to organize
> an inquisition in which all acts, writings and even thoughts critical
> of Jewry are treated as a threat to the moral order of mankind."15
> The highly neurotic subject regarding the Jewish question will sooner
> or later result in an ugly conflict between Gentiles and Jews.
>
> The frightened attitude of American and European intellectuals, who
> often extol the concept of "intellectual freedom," is best seen in
> their servile attitude toward Jews, to the extent that "(T)he pro-
> Semite has consequently made himself a mirror image of the anti-
> Semite."16 The danger of this fatal embrace lies not with Jews, but
> with white Christians. After all, an American Christian-inspired anti-
> Semite must appear in the eyes of Jews as a very bizarre species. On
> the one hand he hates this alien Jew; yet on the other, he lugs
> behind himself this Levantine deity that is not of European cultural
> origin. Many American conservatives, and particularly American
> Christian Zionists, believe in the future conversion of Jews to
> Christianity. This monotheistic linage, however contradictory it may
> look, makes sense. After all, just like Mary immaculately conceived
> her Jewish son Jesus, she remained an immaculate Jewess by birth.
>
> The feigned fraternity between the postmodern Euro- American
> "shabbath" goyim and American Jews is veiled in mendacity and mutual
> make-belief mimicry which can be spotted in the Western political
> establishment and the media all the time. At the beginning of the
> third millennium, feigned love for the Jews is mimicked tirelessly by
> European and American politicians and academics. Admittedly, this
> will only give rise to a proverbial Jewish hubris which will continue
> to grow as long as it receives the appropriate Biblical fodder from
> Christians and self-censored European academics.
> In order to get rid of this millenarian anti-Semitic neurosis it may
> be advisable for all white Europeans and Americans to revive their
> primordial pre-Christian beliefs and critically reexamine stories of
> Bedouin saviors and a host of other Levantine rag-tag preachers. How
> about starting reading Homer again?"
>



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With this article it becomes clear that mr. Sunic speaks more freely than most of the contemporary writers/thinkers on the Right. I assume that mr. Sunic isn't...
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Only he could tell you whether or not he is still affiliated with these circles. In the meantime, it's not just a matter of 'freedom of speech'. It's a true...
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Tom spoke at one of our New Right meetings in September, so he's still very involved with us. I highly recommend his new book, 'Homo Americanus', too. G...
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