TRUMPDOM No. 2. ANTI-SEMITISM EXPLORED
Judeophobia firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with roots extending back into Egypt's pre-Hellenistic history. A pattern of ingrained hostility toward an alien culture emerges from comments on Jews and their religion in Greek and Roman writings. Two fierce outbursts of hostility in Egypt: the destruction of a Jewish temple in Elephantine in 410 B.C.E. and the riots in Alexandria in 38 C.E. fuelled by deep-seated ethnic resentments based on allegations of impiety, xenophobia, and misanthropy spread first to Syria-Palestine and then to Rome, where it acquired a new element: fear of this small but distinctive community. To the hatred and fear, ingredients of Christian theology were soon added.
Anti-Semitism and antisemitism. The unhyphenated spelling dispels the notion that there is an entity “Semitism" which 'anti-Semitism' opposes. Semitic refers to a linguistic group (Arabic. Ethiopian. Assyrian, Hebrew). There is no such thing as "Semitism" just as there is no such thing as Arabism or Englishism. Semite was used as a euphemism by the upper class for Jew. ‘Anti-Semite’, then, underlines the essentially racial attitude of contemporary Jews in describing themselves, emphasizing inherent and unchangeable inborn qualities (vs anti-Jewish, emphasizing the Jew as a socio-religious construct, a reaction to the dominant society). The use of the term Semite finesses a reasoned, rational objection to Jewish ideas and actions, and sticks to the mantra, "It is because of what we are, not of what we do." Judeophobia is a better term for anti-Jewishness.
At present (2025) Judeophobia is widespread in the world, increasing in vehemence every day. Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians is seen as worse than the Nazi atrocities in sadism and extent. The victims are not just Arabs, Moslem and Christian, but anyone who opposes Israeli actions or helps the victims. The unconscionable support given by the governments of U.S. and Germany to Israel in its genocide leading to threats of imprisonment to anyone sympathizing with or defending Palestinians has angered the conscience of the world’s peoples who suspect these governments of being controlled by Jewish interests and money.
U.S. politicians vote for millions of dollars every year for Israel and supply it with weapons, which has caused in part U.S. moral and economic decline since the 1960s. President Lyndon Johnson (now considered one of the plotters of John Kennedy’s assassination) overturned Kennedy’s plans to withdraw from Vietnam and keep Israel from developing nuclear weapons. Johnson had Jewish ancestry and an aunt who was a practising Jew, which some authors say account for his censoring knowledge of Israel fighter jets attack on the U.S. Liberty, an unarmed reconnaissance ship monitoring Israel’s secret plans to attack an unsuspecting Egypt to start the 6-day War with Johnson’s knowledge. Israel intended to sink the American-flagged ship and leave no survivors. Many American sailors were killed and wounded but the ship did not sink; Israel planned for Egypt to be blamed. Johnson demanded that no word of the incident be made public. A false flag attack like this is Israeli modus operandi. Israel refuses to acknowledge international courts and sabotages the United Nations. In one of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, Israeli artillery destroyed a U.N. pillbox harbouring a Japanese soldier and Canadian Captain monitoring the action for the United Nations. The Israelis knew they were killing United Nations’ observers, the news of which infuriated me, especially as Israel suffered no retribution. Indoctrinated into a sense of superiority and self-righteousness from an early age, Jews are easily led to see non-Jews as animals as voiced by Israeli leaders and interpret any anger at Jewish behaviour as part of general Judeophobia. A recent review of Josephine Baker’s memoir, Fearless and Free, related her fury at America’s race policy and by extension her anger at New York Jews who “are reducing coloured people to slaves” in Harlem. “Don’t they see that they’re summoning yet more tragedy onto themselves, onto their children too, that when the time comes, they’ll be more blamed than pitied.” Jews called her anti-Semitic, which she definitely was not. The reviewer, Ms Blume, instead of acknowledging the justification for Baker’s anger, expressed shock at certain “passages” and added that the Anti-defamation League released a study in January that found that around half of the adults across the world hold antisemitic beliefs and deny the “historic facts” of the holocaust. So Baker was at fault for her criticism, which reflected bias against Jewishness!
Thankfully many Jews, horrified by the right-wing Israeli government’s mass killings, protest against it and are aware of the inability of others to understand. Some have rejected their Jewishness and publicly such as the English directors of the Zone of Interest, for which they were condemned by 45 Jewish Hollywood film makers who align themselves with the mass killers.
I have been a critic of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the massacres in Palestinian refugee camps but always saw them as the national policy of warlike leaders, not as the will of the Jewish populace until now when Jews and nations under their influence call any criticism of Israel anti-Semitic and attack any sympathy for the besieged people of Gaza. As a result Judeophobia has become understandable, its flare-ups through centuries explainable. In my previous blogs on 9/11, I cited writers who examined Judaism to dig for the source of this hatred of goyim, but apart from this scholarship, the average citizen complains of unfairness as in being taken advantage of or betrayal in financial matters or political control by Jewish interests, whether justified or not. Nazi hatred of Jews arose from such grievances heightened by propaganda by forces manipulating these suspicions to seize power. There are, however, internet posts and periodicals analyzing Jewish political dominance written by commentators who risk verbal and legal recrimination from Jewish organizations around the world. An interesting example is Stuck in the Muck: Musings and Ramblings About Conservatism These Days, part 1 and part 2 by John Massaro, whose digressions on the American backcountry are amusing because recognizably true. He has traveled widely and in Israel. His warning of Jewish control is powerful—for instance this passage from Part 2. “America is an insane asylum. Its top administrators are Jewish media executives with their own agenda who have created a false and bizarre ‘reality’ of the outside world for the inmates, primarily through the hypnosis of the television screen. Their methods are outright censorship, subtle slanting of what they decide is news, and blatant lies—the Hamas incursion into Israel being an example. Through their unmatched skill for global networking, they control a great deal of the world’s ‘news,’ certainly all of it in the White Western world, and nowhere more thoroughly than in the US. In a very real sense they have turned most American conservatives into Jewish clones who think of America and Israel as one and the same country with identical interests. To most conservatives, unconditional support of Israel is as American as baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet. I love the way they throw the word “terrorist” around. If we can agree that terrorism is the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians in order to achieve an objective, or just for the hell of it, then the US government, which through aerial bombing has killed more noncombatant civilians outside its borders than any nation in history, is the bloodiest terrorist organization of all time. You can hate me or threaten me for saying that, but that’s not going to change objective reality. If you leave this insane asylum and view the US from the outside, from other parts of the world, reality suddenly becomes very different. . . Israel’s track record of aggression and terror against its Arab neighbours, and treachery against the US, its greatest benefactor, is long and damning. There are many books that document this but you won’t find them in your local library or bookstore because of behind-the-scenes Jewish pressure, mainly from the Anti-Defamation League. . . The Zionist Connection, by a brave, renegade American Jew named Alfred Lilienthal thoroughly documents “the other side of the story,” and even though it was published in 1978, it’s still worth reading as it covers events in most of the twentieth century. The ugly history of this impossible country has followed seamlessly in the last 45 years.”
Massaro figures he’s read about forty books on what has long been called the “Jewish Question” [see Karl Marx’s essay] and about the problems in the Middle East. “Most Americans have never heard of these books because of Jewish blacklisting, not even books by prominent historical figures like Martin Luther’s On the Jews and Their Lies (1543), and Henry Ford’s The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem (1920). So please excuse my immodesty, but I think I know more about Jewish nature and events in the Middle East than 99.99% of American couch potatoes. I read Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, thinking it would be an excursion to the depths of a profoundly psychotic mind. But before I finished the first ten pages I was mesmerized, realizing this man was a genius, and the further I read I was repeatedly astonished by his clarity of vision, not only about Jews, but his understanding of mass psychology and everything else about the human condition. But I was still repelled by his attempt to exterminate all the Jews in Europe. Enter my third epiphany, my discovery and reading of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Arthur Butz, an exhaustively researched book of meticulous scholarship which thoroughly demolished the absurd story that six million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, mostly in gas chambers.”
Needless to say, I, like most people I know or mixed with, would avoid Mein Kampf as the insidious musings of a madman and, of course, Henry Ford has been thoroughly denounced as a rabid anti-semite. Butz has been called an obscure University professor whose writings have no merit. I have the book online but daunted by its detail I have not tried to read it. Now I will and also Mein Kampf to discover the truth of the propaganda. There are questions about the veracity of holocaust literature which we will discuss in my next blog, including Victor Thorn who revealed official lies about 9/11 and wrote a revelatory book on the holocaust; he was thought a victim of the Mossad, shot while walking in the hills nears home.
Finally I copy Massaro’s harsh judgment on Jewry, influenced no doubt by Israel’s relentless genocide of its neighbours: “My philosophy is live and let live, and I’d be thrilled to see Israel make peace with its Arab neighbours and to see an end to all this death and suffering. But as a realist and a student of history I know that Jews, taken as a whole, are a unique people who have endlessly subverted and destroyed other nations and have always brought hatred upon themselves no matter where in the world they are because of who they are and what they do. They have never created a normal, viable country of their own as we know it, nor formed a constructive relationship with the people among whom they dwell. Not once, ever. That’s why they were expelled en masse from nearly every country in Europe over the ages — some say 109 times. They are a constant problem. They are the ruin of the world, and now threaten to plunge the Middle East into another catastrophic war, like the two previous world wars they deliberately provoked, not to mention the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian bloodbath in which they have played a major role.” [He speaks of Ashkenazis (see blog 9/11 Belief and Control) not the Sephardic Jews, the original Palestinians, many of whom converted to Christianity and Mohammedanism.]
A Jew wants to be at one with his neighbours or fellow workers just as anyone. Unfortunately he/she faces a choice when the overworld of politics demands loyalty to a course he/she would not support as an individual. Will conscience or obedience to ideology win out? I raised this problem in Overworld/Underworld. I find that loyalty to religion or race or ideology is stronger than conscience most of the time because independent thought requires character.
New York Times journalist Tom Friedman declared the far-right leadership of Israel to be frightening and unrecognizable to the average Jew, that it is America’s enemy. Observers connect this statement with Trump’s possible break with Netanyahu over attempts to manipulate him on Near East policy using pro-Israeli spies in cabinet that led to dismissals and relocations of high officials in Washington. Trump will face opposition in Congress from politicians wholly owned by Israel such as Senators Graham, Cotton and Cruz if he deals with Iran, ignoring Israel. Also Trump’s intention to occupy Gaza and its rich oil and gas reserves as U.S. territory will bring the full force of the Israeli lobby on him. But as relationships shift, there is general recognition that some U.S. independence of action in its Middle Eastern foreign policy can only be a good thing “as the lopsided relationship with Israel has brought nothing but grief and suffering.”
