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Editorial The Specter of Russian Nationalism
The fallout from the Russian invasion
of Georgia continues.
The Daily Mail
reports that “Across the region, newspapers, commentators and politicians
drew parallels between Moscow's operations in Georgia to Soviet
interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968 to crush their
attempts to leave Moscow's orbit.”
The LA Times did its bit, with a
photo op-ed piece titled “All
too familiar” juxtaposing photos from Czechoslovakia in 1968 with
photos from Georgia, 2008.
Russia stands out among the
white-majority societies of the world because it is not dominated by elites
bent on managing the dissolution of the peoples and culture that created
them. Russian nationalism is on display in a variety of ways. The LA Times reports on “ a patriotic concert” in Tskhinvali, capital of South Ossetia: “In front of a badly damaged government building, a Russian orchestra performed pieces by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich as 1,000 or so residents held up candles and the flags of Russia and South Ossetia, the catalyst in this month's conflict between Russia and Georgia.”
The Order of Canada to an Abortionist?
Anthony Hilton
Dr. Henry
Morgentaler has been named to the Order of
Canada for his efforts in promoting and legalizing abortion.
The event provoked controversy. Not a surprise. But it got me
thinking about it more seriously in two respects. First, how do I feel about
it? And, second, what are the implications for our people? My gut reaction is negative. I don’t like the whole idea
of it being done to any woman, especially those I love. My god, what would
it mean if my daughter became pregnant and considered an abortion? It would
mean that something had gone very badly, no?
Of course if the fetus were obviously defective, e.g., with a genetic disease like Downs syndrome, there would seem to be no rational (as opposed to religious, aesthetic or emotional) argument against aborting such a fetus. Abortion in all such cases (6% of all abortions) is surely eugenic and is performed for precisely that reason even if the term “eugenic” is rarely used. Even if the “defective” individual were sterile, the parental and societal investment would, from a strictly biological and economic standpoint, constitute a waste of resources. True, even if the politically correct don’t want to think about it.It’s the same in cases of rape (less than 1% of abortions). Abortion is rational, over and above the psychological trauma of rape (hatred, fear, alienation, sadness), since the pregnancy would not have been the result of the woman’s choice of mate. Women’s choice prevents parasitism by violence-prone males who will not invest in the child’s future. It can be thought of as a minimal selection mechanism for good genes — as well as an element (among many) for promoting a healthy psychological environment for a child.
Eye on Hollywood
Reel Bad WASPs
Edmund
Connelly August 7, 2008
Today the leisure suit of
the mid-to-late 1970s is rightly ridiculed. Many things were askew in those
years of economic “malaise” and high interest rates. Most importantly for
whites, the 1960s cultural revolution had settled into a prolonged assault
on the cultural image of whites.
Needless to say, Hollywood was an enthusiastic participant in this assault. An interesting example is the movie Caddyshack, starring Chevy Chase. Caddyshack is doubtless a trivial movie, but it has been heralded as one of the funniest movies of all time, and it continues to be shown endlessly in TV reruns. Although the point is presumably lost on the vast majority of its audience, the real narrative of the movie is the Jew-as-outsider “comically” assaulting the WASP-as-insider. The setting of Caddyshack is apt, for the private country club represented one of the last bastions of WASP privilege.Jewish resentment over WASP snobbery toward upwardly mobile Jews continues to rankle among Jews. For example, Jacob Heilbrunn emphasizes this resentment as a key motivator for the neocons who have been so influential in the current Bush administration. The early neocons attempted “to overturn the old order in America …. There were the fancy clubs, the legal and financial firms that saw Jews as interlopers who would soil their proud escutcheons and were to be kept at bay. Smarting with unsurpassed social resentment, the young Jews viewed themselves as liberators, proclaiming a new faith” (p. 28). The same could be said of Jews in Hollywood, doubtless including Harold Ramis, the director and a co-screenwriter of Caddyshack. [more] Eye on the Media The Nameless Whites of CNN's Shenandoah Coverage: When Will Our People Speak Without Fear? Christopher Donovan August 1, 2008 As one might expect, the beating death of a 25-year-old Hispanic man in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania by white teenagers took the top spot on CNN's web page. And, as any white advocate (and most whites in general) knows, this is in sharp contrast to media treatment of obviously racial attacks on whites by other racial groups, such as the Knoxville Horror and the Wichita Massacre. When whites attack others, "hate crime" is presumed, and when others attack whites, "hate crime" is strenuously denied — both by law enforcement, and the media. This point is almost too obvious to belabor. But in reading CNN's coverage, I was struck by something. First, the reporters included the fact that they were approached by several "Anglos" who wanted to talk about Hispanic-on-white violence, but wouldn't give their names. I vividly recall this phenomenon when I was a reporter. Whites rarely wanted to be quoted by name. They saw me as a communist agent for Big Brother of some kind, whose goal was to make them look foolish in the newspaper. They had (sometimes irrational) fears of losing their jobs or being harassed for speaking their minds on anything. Blacks and Hispanics, however, saw me as a hero, a "safe" figure riding into town with a white hat. They did not doubt that I, as the journalist, was on their side. They spoke freely to me and identified themselves without hesitation. [more] Editorial San Francisco's Sanctuary City Disaster *Update: The Minutemen bring out the SF open-border fanatics San Francisco prides itself on being one of America's safest cities. It has the 9th lowest crime rate for cities of 500,000 or more according to the respected Morgan Quitno Survey. The City by the Bay also fancies itself a champion of diversity, indeed, bordering on perversity. Frisco has become a veritable Niagara Falls for gay-lesbian weddings (recently legalized throughout California, but still facing the possibility of being declared null and void by a November statewide ballot proposition). It is ground zero for the Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride parade, which features such celebrants as "Dikes on Bikes" (a bunch of leather bulldykes on Harleys) and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (a gaggle of gays wearing pancake makeup and dressed up in nuns' habits).
Far more menacingly, however, San Francisco has
declared itself a Sanctuary City, protecting illegal immigrants — strike
that, "undocumented individuals" — from the long, if rather feeble arm
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Widow Wants San Francisco Sanctuary Law Changed After Illegal
Charged With Murder
But Baghdad by the Bay, as it was termed by the late Jewish wiseass
Herb Caen,
did not prove so safe for the family of Danielle Bologna.
Her husband and two sons were gunned down last month — allegedly by an
illegal immigrant who remained in the city despite previous crimes.
Edwin Ramos, 21, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, allegedly gunned
down Bologna's husband Anthony and their two sons, Matthew and Michael,
in a road rage incident when they were returning from what had been a
peaceful and joyous family picnic.
Well, Mrs. Bologna is doing a
Howard Beale.
She's mad as hell as is doing something about it!
The widow Bologna is demanding San Francisco radically repair its
sanctuary law. The city's 1989 "City of Refuge" ordinance prohibits SF
agencies from contacting the feds on immigration matters. She told
FOX News,
"I feel that the government should have stepped in. I feel that they
allow these immigrants to come in and how dare they strip our families
like this…It was a senseless crime, and had they done something this
animal would not have taken my family."
According to the San Francisco
Chronicle Ramos was convicted of two gang-related
felonies while a juvenile and remained in San Francisco because the
Juvenile Probation Department did not alert federal authorities.
The Minutemen, a group that patrols the U.S.-Mexican border to keep illegal immigrants out, has taken up the cause of Mrs. Danielle Bologna. (See above.) About a dozen
Minutemen peacefully demonstrated at San Francisco City Hall demanding
an end to the sanctuary policy and politicos responsible for it. They
carried signs accusing city officials of being "accessories to murder"
and demanding their resignations. Officially, the
City by the Bay has since reversed its policy of not turning over
illegal immigrant youths arrested for felonies to federal authorities
for possible deportation. City officials
Pharisaically argue that the policy was never intended to harbor felons.
Instead they described it as
"a pragmatic measure to encourage crime victims and
witnesses who happen to be illegal immigrants to come forward. It also
allows them to access city services, such as going to public health
clinics or enrolling their children in school, without being questioned
about their immigration status."
(As if these aliens should be entitled to these taxpayer-financed
services). The protest
elicited the obligatory counter-protest, doubtless by the same types who
participate in the GLBT Pride parades (see above).
Unlike the Minutemen, the protest was not entirely peaceful, either in
word or deed. Hundreds of immigrants' rights advocates stood on the
sidewalk yelling: "Smash the border, smash the Minutemen!" Two of them were
arrested, one for allegedly spitting on a sheriff's deputy, the other
for throwing an unknown liquid at the City Hall steps. The former was
cited and released, the latter was booked in county jail. San Francisco
Superior Court Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe refused to impose a gag order in
the Ramos case. His lawyer had argued that media coverage of the case —
specifically, a story in the
San Francisco Chronicle revealing
Ramos' previous crimes as a juvenile violated his client's right to a
fair trial! At least some sanity sometimes remains in some branches of government. But don't count out the possibility of appeal.
Alas, there is no branch of government to which Mrs. Bologna can appeal to restore the lives of her innocent husband and children.
Eds: If you've never heard of the USS Liberty cover-up, no surprise. If you have heard the story but weren't sure if it was for real, then watch this video. It's a bit long, but well worth seeing what thoroughly credible people are now able say about a treasonous crime committed by our own government on June 8, 1967, a crime that foreshadows the more recent control exerted by Israel and its supporters over our current government.
All this year's candidates for election should be required to make their position clear on having a Congressional investigation of the matter, both to set the record straight and to do justice to the many US sailors who were deliberately murdered by Israel.
One element not emphasized is the motive for Israel's action, so that you'll have to pay close attention not to miss however little is reported — since only Israel can say for sure, but Israel hasn't come clean on that, either.
Eye on Hollywood
Reel Bad Whites
Edmund Connelly
July 28, 2008
As I
wrote
back in early June, Arab-American professor Jack
Shaheen has long been concerned about the consistently negative images
Hollywood comes up with when portraying Arabs. Over the years he has
written three books on the topic:
The TV Arab;
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People;
and
Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11.
In the massive second book
Reel Bad Arabs, he canvassed
900 films, “the vast majority of which portray Arabs by distorting at
every turn what most Arab men, women, and children are really like.”
Shaheen was wise to point to the selective framing of Arabs and how it
is repeated endlessly. Naturally, such repetition has a goal, one
captured in an old Arabic saying: “Al
tikrar biallem il hmar. By repetition even the donkey learns.” With respect to an ethnic group—nay, a whole race—closer to my own heart, I worry about the images of the white majority. You know, the Leave It to Beaver types that we were (and were surrounded by) in our youth. [more] Editorial
Philip Weiss on AIPAC July 10, 2008 Despite its
general unwillingness to tread too far into Jewish issues (see
Edmund Connelly's gem
on this page), The American Conservative certainly has done
itself proud with the publication of
Philip Weiss's account
of the recent AIPAC convention. The AIPAC convention is really a ritual of Jewish
dominance in America. We read about the sheer political power able to
command the presence of both presidential candidates and over half the
Congress. The politicians truckle before their masters, competing to
outdo each other with their promises and concern for Israel. There
are large banners featuring photos of wealthy AIPAC donors with their
presumably non-Jewish trophy wives. Eye on the Media
NYT's Kristof Admits: A White Mugabe Would Get Attention Christopher Donovan
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof is a bit of an enigma: an apparently white gentile male with solidly liberal leanings who occasionally flirts with the reality of genetic differences. His big concern, as with many white liberals, is Africa.
But Kristof is not quite the apologist that Walter Duranty was for the Soviet Union. He lays bare the atrocities of African regimes and does not reflexively blame whites for Africa's messes.
In his Sunday column, he actually reports that many black Africans in Zimbabwe preferred the rule of white leader Ian Smith to its present leader, black African Robert Mugabe, because under Smith, food was available. [more] Canadian Human Rights Commission drops complaint against Maclean's
Eds: The dismissal of the complaint against Maclean’s magazine is a modest victory for freedom of speech in Canada. However, keep in mind that the Canadian Human Rights Commission is still in business and ready to attack other alleged “hate speech.” They will doubtless do so when the speaker is of lower status than Maclean’s magazine, or its Jewish writer (Mark Steyn), and they are likely to be more sensitive to complaints from groups of higher status than the Muslims that brought the complaint against Maclean’s magazine. It is also quite possible that the Human Rights Commission is acting in part out of sensitivity to the now widening Canadian public opinion against it, given its past record as a “kangaroo court.” As David Warren points out, the mindset behind the CHRC is alive and well. The case continues before the British Columbia HRC. (You see, in Canada, complaints can be brought at the national level as well as in each of the provinces.) And, even though the case was dismissed by the Ontario HRC, it was dismissed “with an outrageous statement from its chief commissioner, Barbara Hall, to the effect that Maclean's was guilty of publishing "hate," nonetheless. She regretted that her commission had no mandate to try the case, but looked forward to a time when this mandate would be extended.”
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Immigration Policy —
African Style
Immigration to the US — even Illegal immigration — is often a cakewalk. As
noted
previously, cities like San Francisco provide a wide
range of social programs for
illegals, including "spiritual, cultural enrichment and recreation
activities."
On the other side of the world, immigrants are not so kindly treated. Consider Somaliland — no that's not Somalia of Mogadishu massacre fame, but Somaliland, a self-declared independent, though totally unrecognized-by-anyone, republic which broke away when the Somali Nationalist Movement liberated the region from then-Somali strongman, Mohamed Siad Barre, in 1991.[more]
Migrant Mayhem Bleeds Bedlam by the Bay
Edwin Ramos, the 21-year-old Salvadoran native facing triple-murder charges in San Francisco in connection with the slayings of Anthony Bologna and his two sons, Michael and Matthew, is not unique. He may not even be exceptional.
Mexican illegal immigrant Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun (aka "Tweety") now 19, is the second youthful offender protected from deportation in San Francisco to have been arrested for a violent crime as an adult. And a very violent crime it was.
According to San Mateo County chief deputy district attorney Steve Wagstaffe, Tweety and several other suspected gang members approached a man
waiting for a bus, accused him of being a member of a rival gang, then
unsatisfied by his denial, proceeded to beat him with a broomstick until it
broke. While other gang members stripped the man of his jacket, Uc-Cahun
then slashed the victim's abdomen open with a box cutter in two different
places. "He basically gutted him, like you gut a pig to get to the meat,"
Wagstaffe said.
Both Tweety and Ramos were in San Francisco's juvenile justice system, not
once but at least twice, during Mayor Gavin ("I never met a gay wedding I
didn't sanction") Newsom's time in office — Ramos for assault and attempted
robbery committed when he was 17, "Tweety" for assaults and "other crimes."
Cooter Obama, George Obama: The Onion (Inadvertently?) Beats Real Life to the Punch
Christopher Donovan
May 22, 2008
The satirical newspaper The Onion, once a college campus mainstay out of Madison, Wisconsin that in recent years has moved its headquarters to New York for a more national reach, has a habit of creating spoofs that are one step ahead of reality.
Last week, it ran a pretty funny piece on "
Cooter Obama," Obama's embarrassing half-brother.
Cooter Obama welcomes his brother's supporters with a jug of "white lightning" before whipping up a steaming vat of flat-possum stew.
Now, it's being
reported by the UK's Telegraph that the Italian Vanity Fair has found a real — and probably embarrassing — half-brother. George Obama lives in a hut in Kenya, doesn't seem to have an identifiable job, lives on a dollar a month, and describes himself as "good with his fists."Did Onion writers know something the rest of us didn't? Probably not. Modern life can be so predictably ridiculous that satire is probably a more accurate forecaster than serious pundit divinations. (Think of the Mike Judge movie, Idiocracy).
Although in this case, the real half-brother might have taken the Onion by surprise, because the supposed comedy premise of "Cooter Obama" is that such a figure would be restricted to whites. Political correctness restrains us from imagining an embarrassing black or African half-brother.
The Onion was once more daring on racial issues, but its rise to prominence has tempered that. For instance, the fake columnist "Amber Richardson," known for such declarations as "My baby don't want no medicine," was originally black. Now, "Amber Richardson"
is depicted as a white woman with a bandana on her head. (Caution: Rough language.)It's not as funny.
The Onion's still pretty funny (personal favorite headline: "
New Crispy Snack Cracker to Ease Crushing Pain of Modern Life"), but one wonders if it would be funnier still if it were more willing to poke all of America's sacred cows.Christopher Donovan is the pen name of an attorney and former journalist.
Permanent link:
Donovan-Cooter
Media Watch
Bob Herbert Knows Who the New Massa Is
Christopher Donovan
August 9, 2008
Bob Herbert is a black liberal columnist for the New York Times. There's nothing remarkable about his writing or much original about his ideas: America is racist white country, Republicans are bad people, and so on. (He could be on to something about the Republicans, though.) His haughtiness during television appearances is off-putting.
In what might seem to be an unusual twist, this Saturday he took on Nikki Tinker, a black woman who recently unsuccessfully challenged Steve Cohen, a Democrat who represents a majority black district in Tennessee.
Tinker's sins: an ad linking Cohen to the Ku Klux Klan, and another suggesting that he's a hypocrite to visit "our" (i.e., black) churches.
Herbert actually waded in to defend Cohen's vote against renaming a park in Memphis currently named for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Ku Klux Klan founder. Why the sudden burst of Klan-defense from Manhattan?
Well, as the surname "Cohen" suggests, Cohen is Jewish. Herbert delights in quoting him: "It's not like Nathan Bedford Forrest was inviting Jews over to celebrate Seder."
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Signs of the (Bad) Times
Ohio landlord John Wallen has lost most of his apartment tenants because of the street crime outside the building. He's so exasperated by the failure of the police to clean up the area, he posted a large sign reading "Drugs & Sex For Sale 24/7."
The cops come quickly every time he calls, Wallen explained, but the druggers and ho's resurface as soon as the heat drive off.
A former resident says that "Guys, 20, 30 of them, hang out on the street and deal at 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. ... Women walk up and down the sidewalk talking about how much they charge."
The sign urges passers-by to call the City Council
and demand what every American used to be entitled to
—
a decent place to live and work.
We wish Mr. Wallen good luck. But what can one
expect from the city where the biggest of Trash TV bottom feeders, Jerry
Springer, once held the office of mayor?
Springer was elected to the Cincinnati city council in 1971, but then forced to resign in 1974 when a police raid on a Fort Wright, Kentucky "massage parlor" unearthed a check Jerry Springer had written for its "services".
Apparently that didn't bother Cincy's citizenry or officialdom, as he was first returned to his his council seat in 1975 and then chosen by that august body to serve a one year stint as Mayor.
Speaking of Cincy, remember that Marge Schott, was forced to divest herself of ownership of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team when it was revealed she had some "Nazi" ornaments among a collection of war memorabilia.
Looks like Cincinnati should get some sort of award from the politically correct crowd for epitomizing the new morality — drug pushers, ho's, pro-Jerry Springer and anti-Marge Schott.
Editorial
ADL watch: The truth as "anti-Semitism"
Offensive cartoons about the Middle
East situation? Sure, we've all heard about the
Danish cartoons 'denigrating' the prophet Muhammad ("praise and
blessings be upon his name," lest we also be accused of denigration).
But no, it's not
those cartoons.
No, this time it's the other Semitic ethnic interest element, the Anti-Defamation League, condemning caricatures depicting Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (or perhaps better, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Really Dumb), namely Messrs. Obama-rama and Mad Dog McCain, as lackeys of Zion and the Israel lobby.
Even the moderate Israeli newspaper,
Ha'aretz (which provides much more balanced coverage of Israeli policy and the
Middle East situation in general than any major U.S. publication),
reported the
ADL's outrage.
According to ADL boss Abe Foxman, a
barrage of negative cartoons have appeared recently in the Arab press "from Gaza
to Ramallah, from Bahrain to Damascus, from Cairo to Riyadh." (Is Abe trying to
ape the line from Winston Churchill's (who was in turn aping Macaulay) "Iron
Curtain" speech
— "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste
in the Adriatic"
Foxman doesn't hesitate terming the
cartoons “anti-Semitic”:
"Once again the Arab media does not
miss an opportunity to promote classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of
Jewish control over Washington, the media and the democratic process."
Of course, the claim that the Israel
Lobby has a stranglehold on American politics is far from a baseless
anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. In the respectable media John Mearsheimer and
Steven Walt have debunked that claim. And it is impossible to read Philip
Weiss’s
article
on the recent AIPAC convention without realizing the enormous control the Lobby
wields in the American political process. (Here’s
our take on Weiss.) Over half of Congress and all the presidential
candidates don’t show up at the AIPAC conference just because they like the hors
d'oeuvres.
Click
here
for some additional cartoons, courtesy of the ADL website.
"Jews instinctively fear and feel threatened by
nationalistic, particularistic societies.” Part II
Edmund Connelly
July 9, 2008
Earlier this year, in a column entitled
Naming Neocons, I
mentioned that
The American Conservative publisher Taki
Theodoracopulos
had been
replaced by
Jewish businessman Ron Unz and wondered if that might
change how the topic of Jews was discussed (or not
discussed). After all, while Taki was publisher,
featured writer Pat Buchanan had pointed to the heavily
Jewish makeup of the neocons.
For instance, in his sizzling cover story
Whose War?,
he had written that the pre-planned attack on Iraq following 9/11 was instigated
by a “neoconservative clique.” “We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public
officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in
America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those
wars.”
Well, that essay was five years ago, and
The American Conservative has mostly moved on to other topics. A recent
article, however, prompted me to think about two things related to the above.
First, having just
last
week written about how Jews instinctively fear and feel threatened
by nationalistic, particularistic societies and seek to undermine those
societies in a variety of ways, including revolutionary action, I couldn’t help
but notice that Neil Clark’s June 16 essay in
The American Conservative
fell into the same category. Second, though the article was about
European revolutionary Daniel “Red Dany” Cohn-Bendit, it failed to identify him
as Jewish.
"Jews instinctively fear and feel threatened by nationalistic, particularistic societies." Part I
Edmund Connelly
In a recent
two-part column
in this forum, Hereward Lindsay wrote
that "Jews instinctively fear and feel threatened by nationalistic,
particularistic societies." Allow me to offer three examples of this. That all
three come from vastly different places only points to the central truth Lindsay
identifies.
First, consider
the United States Air Force, a group which is heavily white, with a strong
evangelical presence. Per Lindsay’s maxim, a Jew saw this as a threat, as a
recent article in the
Jewish Forward makes clear: "One of
the primary critics of the Air Force has been Michael “Mikey” Weinstein,
president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and a Jewish graduate of
the Air Force Academy. Last March, Weinstein’s organization sued the federal
government to combat what it calls creeping evangelism in the armed forces,
arguing that it violated the constitution."
Rothschild conspiracies, Turks,
and Jew-Gentile relations: Several not quite random thoughts
Hereward Lindsay
June 21, 2008
Part I
Let us return now to the
matter mentioned in
Part I about early 19th -century Turks in
Damascus arresting Jews for ritual murder.
The charges by the Turks have been dismissed by historians as just
another old anti-Semitic, lurid, ritual murder charge. Actually, there is
some evidence supporting the ritual murder accusation.
Two things about the charge itself immediately jump out at
you:
1. Unlike Eastern Europe, there is no significant history, of
which I am aware, of Islamic anti-Semitism and charges of ritual murder.
In fact, the Turks and the Jews have almost always been on the same side and
have a history of very cozy and friendly relationships. This partnership
started with the Jews opening the gates to the Turks and other Muslims in their
"Crescentades"1 in
the Balkans and in Spain. It continued with the Sephardic "Ladinos" who
were expelled from Spain in 1492 and who then settled in the Ottoman Empire in
North Africa and in Constantinople itself.
A ritual murder charge by local Turkish officials is therefore
not lightly dismissed as just typical lurid anti-Semitism.
2. If the Turkish authorities who brought the charge were anti-Semites fabricating the case, they would surely have concocted a story of Jews ritually murdering a Muslim, not a Christian priest. The Turks, contrary to the standard line that they were tolerant, treated Christians very harshly and would not have had any reason to alienate the Jewish community in Syria and around the world by prosecuting Jews for the murder of a despised infidel and especially a Catholic priest. (But see below) Local Muslim (Arab) sympathies in Damascus would not have been particularly excited over the murder of a Christian clergyman.
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August 20, 2008
In
my last column,
I wrote that the Hollywood depiction of the Holocaust
“was the result of a complex narrative full of sudden stops, starts and dead
ends.” For instance, immediately after the war, Hollywood was far more
interested in something closer to home for American Jews than the Holocaust:
anti-Semitism. This was addressed forcefully in 1947, when there was obvious coordination in addressing barriers against Jews moving into the American mainstream. First, Laura Hobson, daughter of two Jewish socialist immigrants, wrote “the runaway bestseller” Gentleman's Agreement, a novel about social anti-Semitism. Not surprisingly, the Jewish-owned New York Times featured a book review which called it "required reading for every thoughtful citizen in this perilous century." Within months, a polished film version starring Gregory Peck was released (this film too failed to mention the Holocaust). In addition to taking home Best Picture for that year, it also won Best Supporting Actress and Best Director, along with a slew of nominations. The same year also saw Crossfire, another film about anti-Semitism. Editorial
The Neocons Versus Russia August 16, 2008
We know that neoconservatism is a Jewish movement — the news having finally reached the mainstream media with books like Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons. Now imagine for a moment that you are a typical Jewish neocon — that is, someone who sees the world fundamentally through Zionist lenses and, for starters, cannot fathom any difference between the interests of the United States and Israel. Or, what amounts to the same thing, imagine that you are an Israeli geopolitical strategizer. How would such a person think of the situation? [more]
Eye on Hollywood
The Holocaust in American Film
Edmund Connelly
August 15, 2008
Steven Spielberg’s now classic
Schindler’s List
(1993) is
easily the most famous film about the most infamous instance of
anti-Semitism in history: the Holocaust. Why it took until 1993 to produce a
lasting film about one of the defining acts of our age makes for an
interesting story.
Most readers will be surprised to learn that
for the first two decades after World War II
Jewish communities around the world were relatively unperturbed by
the events of the Holocaust. For instance,
Peter
Novick,
professor emeritus of history at the University of Chicago,
wrote that
in the late
1940s “the available evidence doesn't suggest that, overall, American Jews .
. . were traumatized by the Holocaust, in any worthwhile sense of that
term.”
For American Jews at the time, as he argued in his 2000 book
The Holocaust in American Life,
the
Holocaust "barely existed as a singular event in its own right." For Novick,
"the Holocaust" as we understand it today "was largely a retrospective
construction, something that would not have been recognizable to most people
at the time. As evidence, Novick offered these three examples:
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