The Future of the Jews: More of the Past?

Guest Post by Fred Reed

It is strange: Jews have been disliked everywhere and in all times. The dislike  appears in odd places. I was astonished to find that my Nepalese trekking guides were intensely hostile to Jews. They said that Jews (actually Israelis in most cases I think, but the Nepalese do not seem to make the distinction) were loud, demanding, and always trying to force down the guides’ fees. Historically the hostility has often been powerful and, not infrequently, murderous.  Jews have been expelled from country after country, excluded from polite society, subjected to quotas,and required to live in certain regions. Why?

How much anti-Jewish hostility is there today in America? . A lot? A little? Is it negligible? Potentially explosive? It is hard to tell because disliking Jews is often a firing offense, and a controlled press makes discussion impossible. A clue can perhaps be found in the  comments sections of political websites  whee, protected by anonymity, commenters are often bitterly anti-Jewish. But then, these comments may, or may not, be the work of a  few cranks.

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Today there  appear news stories about growing hostility on campuses, that Jews are fleeing Paris because of increased or more openly expressed dislike, or that the German Right, never fond of Jews, gains strength.

Since the dislike has existed for at least two thousand years, there must be some enduring reason or reasons. What?

One I think is the Space Alien Effect. It is human nature to dislike people different from oneself. This fact runs against today’s cult of diversity, which accounts for the disastrous reality of American life, but a glance around the world reveals that diversity causes most of the planet’s troubles: Sunni and Shia, Jew and Muslim, Tutsi and Hutu, black, white and brown in America, Tamil and Sinhalese; Turks and Kurds; Turks and Armenians; Thais and Muslims, Germans and Jews. Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, on and on for a very long list of religious, ethnic, and racial differences. Diversity is nobody’s strength.

Diversity often disappears through assimilation. Today people named O’Toole and Libertini may be proud of their ancestry, but they think of themselves as American, not as Irish and Italian. So do others. Thus hostility to them, once intense, has vanished.

Jews do not assimilate.  Yes, they speak the same language, wear the same clothes, and peck at smartphones like everyone else. Yet they think of themselves as Jews. So, therefore, does everyone else. While there is no legal or moral reason why they should not so think of themselves, there are consequences: Human nature is what it is, regardless of whether we think it should be.

Specifically, Jews are always Them. We are Us. We are aware that Feinstein is Jewish as we are not aware that O’Malley is Irish–because he isn’t. Difference alone doesn’t cause antagonism. but makes it much more likely.

Worse–and this has caused millions of deaths–Jews are often successful. It doesn’t matter whether the success arises from superior intelligence, greater drive, collusion, or the will of Yahweh. It happens. Thus the pattern repeated over and over and over down the ages. Jews prosper, become rich, gain power sometimes abused, and become arrogant. If Christians did this–Bill Gates, or the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age–they would be resented as individuals perhaps, not as an ethnicity. But Jews are Them.  The surrounding population feels colonized–by Them, by Space Aliens, by internal foreigners–and deeply resents it. As noted, the reaction may take the form of ostracism, enforced quotas, confinement to the Pale of Settlement, expulsion from the country, ghastly pogroms, or Auschwitz.

Hitler’s  complaints against the Jews were along usual lines, that Jews controlled German culture, finance, academia, and the media. These are also things said in America today today on the internet against Jews . Whether these criticisms are true, fair, justified, or make sense does not matter. What matters is that people feel, or can easily be made to feel, controlled,  by Them. Making a list of powerful Jews is sufficient and, with the internet, easy.

The dislike is  profoundly visceral, not rational, tapping into deep wells of instinct that make little sense–which doesn’t matter. This can be seen in the wild disproportion between offense given and  reaction. How do you get rationally in Germany from growlings in beer halls, “There are too damn many Jews in everything,” to  “We should kill all the Jews”?

Them, not Us. It makes little obvious sense  to say that Jews are not Americans. Bob Dylan isn’t an American? Lauren Bacall? Yet this is clearly how anti-Jewish commenters on the web see it.  Them, not Us. It is a matter of limbic tribalism, which does not map well onto legal principles.

The hostility is often to Jews more as a metaphysical category than as actual people. Many who loathe Jews have little contact with them. Ask, “What have Jews actually done to you? Hacked your bank account? Gypped you out of your house? Shot your dog?” and the answer will likely be, “Nothing.” Rachel Cohen, the dentist next door in Peoria, is not easily envisioned as trying to destroy America, impose communism, or wreck the currency. Thus, “some of my best friends…but….” While the Jews one actually knows probably are not bad people, or at most annoying, The Jews collectively are a sort of ominous barely visible miasma. (For the record, no American Jew has ever harmed me, and many have helped me in what I humorously call “my career.” Coupla girlfriends, too.)

Importantly, Jewish presence is seen as Jewish conspiracy. Four Jews on the Supreme Court? From two percent of the population? My God, they must be up to something. A conspiracy, doubtless. But a conspiracy to do what? A candidate theory, correct as it happens, is that Jews as a people do anything and everything they can to advance the fortunes of Israel. But on the Supreme Court…how? Other suggestions are a desire to destroy the white race (including themselves?), to bring America down (why?), to wreck the international monetary system (why?), or to  impose a Zionist world empire. Most of these make between little and no sense, which doesn’t matter.  Jews don’t actually have to sacrifice Christian children to die for it. They just have to be thought to do so.

It is interesting that these usually nonexistent Jewish conspiracies get enduring attention while other, demonstrably real, conspiracies do not arouse similar ire. For example, the Koch brothers, who are not Jewish, have funded and led a massive and disguised campaign to subvert American politics for the benefit of big business. The arms industry bribes, suborns, and finagles to get the government to buy hugely expensive weapons. The FBI was recently caught trying to prevent the election of Donald Trump. The Clintons are crooked as kite string in a ceiling fan. So why do Jewish conspiracies, sometimes real but, more usually, imagined, get attention on the web?

The Space Alien Effect. Jews are Them. We are Us. Both know it.

The importance of this tribalism should not be underestimated. I once walked down Main Street in Farmville, Virginia, a small town in the Southside, with a friend. He said–I forget how the subject came up–with some bitterness, “The Jews own everything on Main Street. Just like they do everywhere.” He pointed to Rose’s, a perfectly ordinary department store. It did nothing wrong or even interesting. But it was Jewish. That was enough.

Them, not Us. The Presbyterian owners of a store actually engaged in gouging would have been resented as individuals, not as a tribe. The Jews.

Power and wealth are not necessary to engender slaughter. Mere difference, specifically not being Christian, has often been enough. History is littered with examples, of which Jews are well aware. When the First Crusade took Jerusalem in 1099, the Christian armies immediately burned the synagogue with the Jews inside.  Why? The Jews had no part in the war, which was between Muslims and Christians.

This explains why Jews do not like Christianity, though the antipathy typically is (wisely) disguised as a principled adherence to the invented constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state. Note that while Americans think of the Holocaust as something the Germans did (I do) to Jews it can look like just another attack by a Christian country (Poland, Russia, England, the Baltics, and so on.) A Jewish friend once expressed the attitude as sometimes being, “Look what they have done to us. We can do anything we want to them.”

Here we encounter the unfortunate human tendency to blame entire groups for what a few members did. For example, the Jews killed Christ. “(Gosh, Rachel, you don’t look old enough.”) Or whites enslaved blacks. Actually, no one in the United States has been a slave, or owned one, for a century and a half.  Most of liberal politics would wither to nothing if we accepted that people cannot be guilty of things they did not do.

It is not necessarily wise to be seen as trying to eliminate a majority religion.

Note that a people, though living always among others, can maintain characteristic over long periods. Recently I was reading Las Novelas Ejemplares of Cervantes, specifically La Gitnailla, which means very approximately The Little Gypsy Girl. It begins,

“Parece que los gitanos y gitanas solamente nacieron en el mundo para ser ladrones: nacen de padres ladrones, críanse con ladrones, estudian para ladrones y, finalmente, salen con ser ladrones corrientes.”

“It appears that gypsies are born only to be thieves. They are born as theives, raised among thieves, study to be thieves, and finally end by being common thieves.”

Cervantes died in 1616, which makes the story over 400 years old.  Yet this description of gypsies is  their reputation today,  very much supported by police files.They haven’t assimilated, and they haven’t changed.  Jews of course have never been associated with burglary or picking pockets, but the passage makes clear that peoples can maintain characteristics over centurions.

Jews with remarkable consistency have been described for centuries as smart, greedy, combative, clannish, “pushy,” exploitative, and arrogant.  This is how I hear them described in Mexico, where I live. (I think of these as Middle Eastern traits, but never mind.) Then there  is chutzpah. which in  practice seems to mean “brashly walking over other people.” It can leave others feeling bulldoze, defeated, used.   This bruising of the ego, of self-respect, arouses a hostility all out of proportion to actual damage done. It is, or so I think, a major cause of dislike for Jews. Such descriptions are dismissed today as stereotypes. A stereotype is just the aggregate observation of many people over time.

Of course the evidence does not always support a particular explanation for avisible effect. A Jewish friend says, “We’re no more greedy than anyone else. We’re just good businessmen so we make money.” Those with money are usually described as greedy. I don’t think I have ever met a greedy Jew, though I have met many who were very careful with money.  It doesn’t matter whether you really are greedy only that people think you are.

Chutzpah: When I was seven we lived in Arlington, Virginia, next to the Furmans, recently someone said, of  Hell’s Kitchen, which I didn’t know what was. The Furmans were by no means bad people. One day Mrs. Furman came over and gave my mother a hard time because my little brother, five was playing with a kid across the street instead of little Andrew Furman. Mom had done nothing to influence my brother’s choice of friends. She,a quietly genteel woman from the Southside of Virginia, was horrified by the aggressiveness. She told me of this decades later, so it clearly made a bad impression. Thereafter, Them were not our kind of people. Small things can produce lifelong dislike.

In sum, Jews seem alien, smarter than others and  far more aggressive than Christians, whom they seem to trample. Christians feel that they cannot compete, that they are outsmarted at every turn, or at least pushed around, and made victims. This bruising of the ego sets off irrational, serious hostility. It is the attitude of blacks toward whites, for the same reasons.

Finally there is Israel, the albatross around the Jewish neck, making it impossible for Jews quietly to be more or less normal Americans. To Jews Israel is of immense and understandable importance, but this enthusiasm brings up charges of dual loyalty or, often, loyalty exclusively to Israel. The truth of this doesn’t matter. It looks true, which is enough. Does Rachel the Jewish dentist in Peoria back Israel? To what extent? What does she think of Israeli behavior? We don’t know. We know that Jewish lobbies like AIPAC and the Neocons back Israel one hundred percent. And they control American Mid-Eastern policy. This is much noted on the Web.

Jewish backing for Israel requires emotional contortions sincc Israel is everything liberals, to include Jews,  profess to hate, being racist–just now it is expelling blacks–religiously exclusive, an apartheid state, militaristic, and brutal in its treatment of Arabs. This I suspect bothers some Jews, but is assuredly is a grave PR problem for the country.  But then, as a small coastal enclave in a part of the world intensely hostile to it, a sort of second Crusader Kingdom, it is hard to see what choices it has. If it becomes democratic or allows extensive intermarriage, for example, it will quickly cease to be a Jewish state, and there is no way to rule nicely over a sea of people who want to kill you.

Is there a possibility of active anti-anti-semitism in America? Yes. Why is America immune to a dislike that has influenced all of history?

Yet at the moment, no. No overt expression will soon occur, and perhaps never will. But the classic preliminary conditions exist and grow. The appearance of Jewish power is strong.  Four of nine justices of the Supreme Court, a majority of  Ivy presidents, CEOs of television networks. Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sergei Bryn co-founder of Google. the New York Times, Time-Warner, Disney, much of Hollywood, huge parts of retail, most of the big publishing houses in New York. Anyone who has worked in Washington knows that Jewish control of Congress and the media is near absolute. The list could go on for pages. Things like this create a propagandist’s paradise..If America’s tight control over expression ever slipped, a would-be Adolf with Google searches could come up with a shocking list.

A rational person might ask, “So what?” Do the Supreme Court’s Jewish justices make Jewish decisions–whatever that might mean? Or do they vote like any four NPR listeners chosen at random? Did Mark Zuckerberg do anything underhanded? Or was he a very bright Jewish kid who had an idea and the strength of character to push it into existence? Does  Schumer of Starbucks do something evil, or does he, like, you know, sell reasonably good coffee at a reasonable price?

It doesn’t matter. They are there, so they must be conspiring. And their influence is becoming more obvious, as with Trump’s subservience (as seen by much of the world) to Israel in planning to move the embassy.

People who think they are defending Jews will point to Jewish contributions to nearly everything–science, music, math, technology, literature, charity, medicine, support for symphonies.  These contributions are real and immense. With respect to anti-Jewish politics, they are also  irrelevant or worse. Since the hostility to Jews rests largely on their excessive presence (again, in the eyes of the anti-Jewish) pointing to their intellectual contributions just increases the  dislike. It emphasizes both the Jewish presence and apparent superiority.

Happy,  prosperous societies seldom form lynch mobs. When things break down,  when hope wanes, expectations fall, and near-desperation sets in, explosions come. Today the  United States quite arguably heads into a Weimar-like future of chaos and social violence. This may sound crazy…but is it? Nobody thought such a highly civilized country as Germany capable of Treblinka.

America is not really stable. Political animosity runs high, racial hostility is great and growing, standards of living fall, offshoring and automation leave the young with nowhere for their lives to go. Wealth goes rapidly from the many to the few and what was the working class falls into drugs and anomie. The wars never end. Infrastructure ages and falls behind that of more advanced nations. Anger grows. As the pie shrinks, someone will have to get less pie.

It is hard to see how this can continue forever. My guess is that the fighting–”unrest” is the polite term–will break out first between white and black. Whites are quiescent now, but see their lives worsening and their world deteriorating. The kneelers in the NFL, the rioters in Ferguson are much more visible than Jews.

But if unrest starts, someone will say “Wall Street!” and that will mean “the Jews,” and all the rest will follow. Whether any of it makes sense will not matter in the least.

Let us hope I am crazy. But it is not, I think, the way to bet.

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doug
doug

See a following article for your answer-under comments you’ll notice a trend of Jews pushing gun control. Still don’t believe they have an agenda? Does it justify the anger towards the group?

Jack Lovett

I think the reason politition’s and jews are buried 100 Feet deep
is because deep down, they are good people.

Schmaboo
Schmaboo

Most of my Jewish friends are gun owners and staunch supporters of the NRA, even life members.
I wish I can afford it.

TampaRed
TampaRed

the writer touches upon what much of the problem is with both jews and blacks–
jews cannot assimilate w/o losing their religion and we will not really allow blacks to assimilate,therefore they will always be “them”–

Wip
Wip

Please tell me you are kidding about us not letting blacks assimilate. America is bending over for how long now to make blacks feel welcomed?

TampaRed
TampaRed

giving them welfare and preferences,letting them slide by in school,etc.,is not assimilation,it is guilt,fear or just basic stupidity–
if your teen daughter brought home a black kid & introduced him as her new boyfriend,what would be your reaction?

Montefrio

I recall such an incident in 1963. The young lady’s father tossed him out of the house, stating quite clearly his feelings. They guy in question, a West Indian mulatto from a wealthy family, stated: “I have a Corvette! How tf could he think I’m a ni…?”

My own dtr brought one home once. He also was a mix, in this case Korean-black, but I explained to him as nicely as I could that Goldman-trainee or not, I was incurably prejudiced and preferred that he take a hike before I was forced to disinherit my dtr. To his credit, he understood and accepted reality without any complaints.

Annie
Annie

Where there is smoke there is usually fire, in this case both in the level of antisemitism in the US and the reason behind it.

One of the earliest memories that I can recall of “what Jews have done to me” made it perfectly obvious to me that the Jews considered themselves above/outside our society. “brashly walking over other people.” This happened to me – literally. 1980+something I was living in the Boston area. I don’t remember what day it was (had to have been either Friday evening or Saturday) but I was walking in Coolidge Corner, Brookline MA and the service at a Synagogue must have just gotten out. A gaggle of Jews were taking up the whole sidewalk walking towards me. I moved all the way to the edge (but not off) the sidewalk and held my ground. They walked right into me. No acknowledgement at all that they should have shared the sidewalk. Yes, it is a small thing, but sometimes the small things make the biggest impressions.

BB

Jews are in favor of everything that is Destroying white Christian Culture.I just don’t feel like going through the list.Gun control and massive third world immigration is funded Mostly by Wealthy Jews.Just those two should get our attention.By Their comments on Jewish sites reveals a deep hatred for white Americans that run throughout​ modern Jewry.

Robert Gore

Fred,
That was a good article and I posted it.

TC
TC

I haven’t seen someone tap dance like that since Sammy Fucking Davis Jr.

gxg
gxg

White Christians built this society and country, and yet, we’re being displaced and crushed from both ends — from parasitic blacks on the bottom and from parasitic Jews from the top.

On the bottom, we have blacks displacing our lower classes, taking charity and help we would otherwise be providing to our fellow white Christians who have fallen on hard times. On the top, we have Jews displacing our upper classes, wielding power and influence far beyond their numbers, while actively working to subvert white Christian society.

Meanwhile, whites in the middle (the middle class) are getting crushed between these two foreign forces, neither of which built this country or is capable of sustaining it in its current form.

Currently, there are huge penalties for “noticing” either of these dynamics, but as anti-white racism becomes more blatant, people WILL notice. Add in any sort of resource scarcity, and the noticing will accelerate.

But then again, this time will surely be different/sarc.

Grimbold
Grimbold

Regarding Israel, the writer is sadly misinformed. Israel doesn’t have any legal limits to Jews intermarrying with anyone, just not religious marriage (which makes sense, as you would not want a catholic church to be forced to marry gay couples, for example). Mixed couples can live with each other, have children and enjoy the same right as married couples (Yeduim Betzibur- “Common law marriage”).
The populations still don’t mix because of cultural & religious differences – most of us find the arabs muslim culture to be abhorrent and inferior (they limit the choices of women, are generally anti intellectual and concerned with saving face instead of doing the job). This is enough to keep Israel jews- no need for “racist” laws.

Israel treatment of Arabs is far netter than the treatment of Ararabs by Arab rulers in all other Middle Eastern countries. You can easily see this in life expectancy and avarage purchasing power statistics of Arabs in Israel and the territories compared to Egypt or Jordan for example.

Also, not all jews in the USA are liberals. actually, a large and growing fraction are orthodox jews that are quit conservative. they have no problem with ethno-states, voluntary segregation, military self defense etc. The Jewish liberals are usualy Reform Jews, and they are disappearing due to inter-marriage with the same rich, liberal white elites that are rightly hated by most people here.

TC
TC

LOL. Let us know when a republican gets more than 10-15% of the Jewish vote, even after kissing the rings at AIPAC, visiting the wailing wall wearing a beanie and swearing lifetime allegiance and pledging $billions a year in American taxpayer financial support to Israel.

Montefrio

“Catholic” gets capitalized, sir, just like you did with “Jews”, although you did drop that practice later on. It’s also interesting that you differentiate “jews” (well, “Reform Jews”) from “whites” in your final sentence. Do you consider yourself “white” or “jew” first and foremost? Do you equate “white” with non-jewish? Are you a citizen of the USA or of Israel? Please give that some thought.

As the old saw goes, “Some of my best friends…” and it’s been true since childhood, but I must confess it’s beginning to wear thin. Time to take sides, sir, and I’ve regretfully begun to do so.

hardscrabble farmer

When you cannot comment on a particular subject without risking substantive damage to your personal, professional, economic and social life it adds a dimension to this discussion that Fred seems to have overlooked.

diogenes
diogenes

The few jews I have come into contact with on a personal basis were nasty as hell.

John Prokovich
John Prokovich

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem….from the Jewish Bible,,

diogenes
diogenes

You got one thing right, the bible is definitely jewish.

i forget
i forget

It’s within the human nature continuum to dislike people different from oneself. Also within that continuum are sorts who like to insist there is no continuum – just jugs of homogenized milk, chocolate milk, milk of I need more mags-nesia, whatever. Simple simon sez see, see “seniority.” It’s a version of seigniorage. Not to mention senior moments. Dumb is the diverse universe that accounts for ‘disastrous reality.’ Chickenshit’s a close 2nd. Them & us: dumb & chickenshit. Limpdick tribalism. Categorical imperators. Collectives define their borg-selves by their opposite # boogeymen. Collectives are for kids, silly rabbits. Can’t be human w\o some scape to dehumanize. Con•didate theories – never correct. stair e oh type: a piece of exercise-in-place machinery. can’t (or won’t) compete – you’re onto something with that. poor snowflake darlings. I fired a ton of ‘em. ‘we don’t know’ – also true (ignorance the bliss). propa•yobo•nanda indeed. ‘excessive presence’: quotas, snowflakes. ‘the jews’ – just as dumb & chickenshit as ‘the Mexicans.’ Fred’s pointing out how soft in the head, & spine, many peeps are.

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