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?"