The American Conservative is not anti-Semitic

[Reinhard]

American Conservative magazine wants you to know they are not anti-Semitic
By Michael Hoffman

Some quotes from Mr. Scott McConnell, founding editor of The American Conservative magazine (the publication which has banned advertising for our book Usury in Christendom), July-August 2014, pp. 22 and 24:

“(William F.) Buckley is rightly credited with pushing hardcore anti-Semitism out of the American right. As recently as the 1950s, it was widespread on the right: one of the most popular conservative books of that decade was The Iron Curtain Over America, which purported to describe how Khazar Jews were taking over the Democratic Party. It went through 14 printings. National Review (Buckley’s magazine), founded in 1955, sought to break from this kind of nuttiness.”

Mr. McConnell’s words remind us of a statement by Mr. Buckley’s son, Christopher, that Gore Vidal had the “tiresome” habit of saying that President Franklin Roosevelt had foreknowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Imperial personalities write this way. No data need be advanced concerning what makes The Iron Curtain Over America qualify as being both the epitome of “nuttiness” and "hardcore anti-Semitism.” Mr. McConnell says it is so and that’s all “Conservatives" need to know.

Christopher Buckley finds the idea that FDR let Pearl Harbor be bombed, “tiresome.” My, my, old boy, so sorry to have disturbed your cocktail hour with the thought of it. Let’s dismiss all historical revisionism when we find it tiresome. Truth can be a bit of bore, you know.

Mr. McConnell writes: “(Joe) Sobran’s career subsequently deteriorated into the indefensible.”

Those are strong words about a dead man known for his nobility of soul and coming from a magazine that claims to be independent of the Israeli (if not the Talmudic) agenda. May we trouble Mr. McConnell for the slightest evidence of Joe’s indefensibility? No such luck. We’re just supposed to believe it because the "founding editor” has decreed it.

The same issue of the magazine contains an undistinguished essay by Samuel Goldman, “What Would Jeremiah Do?,” the publication of which seems intended to show that The American Conservative is not “anti-Semitic.” On p. 29 Mr. Goldman quotes from the erstwhile Chief Rabbi of England, Jonathan Sacks, who is on record applauding the Talmudic claim that the rabbis defeated God and God admitted it. The author doesn’t mention that part of Sacks’ writing. Rather, he advertises the rabbi’s supposed unique insights into the Book of Jeremiah.

Mr. Goldman goes on to state, “At least in the diaspora, Jews have demanded to live as Jews — but not the imposition of Jewish law or practices on others.”

Really, Mr. Goldman? If that is the case why is so much of my food here in the U.S. marked with a small letter “K” or a letter “U” inside a circle, representative of the fact that my victuals have been blessed by a rabbi, rendering it kashrut (kosher)? Consumers pay the rabbis for this privilege. It’s a hidden tax on our food.

The freedom to abort unborn children in America is in accordance with rabbinic halacha, which determines that an unborn child may be killed at any time in the womb, if it is determined that it is a rodef (“pursuer”) — a baby seeking to kill its mother. Talk about nuttiness!

What of the activist Supreme Court justices who make law by judicial decision? This is a traditional form of Talmudic legislation.

Why is the U.S. Congress occupied Israeli territory?

Why do I see a Chanukah menorah on Union Square in San Francisco in December, but no Nativity Scene?

The Talmudic Noahide Laws (these have no connection to the Biblical Noah), have been enshrined in Federal Law as part of "Education Day USA.” One of those laws provides for the execution of idolaters. Rabbi Maimonides, a hallowed halachic authority for Ashkenazi Judaism, defined idolater as one who worships Jesus Christ as God.

How is it that I am likely to lose my employment and my reputation if I object to Orthodox Judaism with the same zeal that tens of thousands of pundits, preachers, priests and politicians object to Islam?

Mr. Goldman’s amusing writing serves as a means for the frightened editors at The American Conservative magazine to point to when they themselves are accused of the perpetual charge of anti-Semitism. They can reply, “No we’re not — we smeared Sobran, and held Samuel Goldman and Rabbi Sacks aloft. How can we be anti-Semites?”

How can you be Conservatives?


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[C.E. Whiteoak]

Good article.

Today’s average conservative American is a useless slug, a pathetic creature. He has been degraded to the point that he only wants to “conserve” the status quo. Try to get him to say something critical of Affirmative Action or Martin Luther King Day, and you’ll see what I mean. He has no moral courage or intestinal fortitude whatsoever. He would rather slap his grandma down the stairs than take a chance on being called a racist. He would rather set himself on fire with gasoline than take a chance on being called an ant-eye-see-mite.

[Will Williams]

Good article.

Today’s average conservative American is a useless slug, a pathetic creature. He has been degraded to the point that he only wants to “conserve” the status quo. Try to get him to say something critical of Affirmative Action or Martin Luther King Day, and you’ll see what I mean. He has no moral courage or intestinal fortitude whatsoever. He would rather slap his grandma down the stairs than take a chance on being called a racist. He would rather set himself on fire with gasoline than take a chance on being called an ant-eye-see-mite.

Exactly.

I tuned in to Bill O'Reilly's show last night when I heard there would be a spot on the supposed problem of "growing anti-Semitism." I wasn't disappointed to see this PhD. spokesman for the "conservative" Heritage Foundation explain away why Jews are so "irrationally hated" by goyim (the rest of the world) See video, here: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2 ... i-semitism
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O'REILLY: Joining us now from Washington Steve Bucci from the Heritage Foundation. So how bad is this current anti-Semitism? Is it a dangerous situation or just an annoyance?

STEVE BUCCI, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: Well, I have to say, Bill, it's way more than an annoyance. As you mentioned in your examples, we have problems with it here. Europe is far worse. They have had major riots that have not just been anti-Israeli policy, but are blatantly anti-Jewish.

O'REILLY: What is driving those demonstrations? Is it all jihadist sympathizers?

BUCCI: No, I mean they are predominantly the immigrant Muslim populations in Germany and France, for instance. But there are significant numbers of German citizens, native German citizens and native French citizens either from the far right or the far left who blame Israel and are turning it into an anti-Jewish campaign.

O'REILLY: Is there a theme? I mean when you say blame Israel it's fairly rational clear-minded people understand that Hamas is a terror group and it is committed to killing Jews and wiping Israel off the face of the earth. That's not debatable. That's a fact.

And then when Hamas starts to attack and throw rockets into civilian areas in Israel, Israel of course has to defend itself. So there is not a rationality there or a moral equivalency. So then when people take the sides of Hamas, this is my question. Is it just they hate Jews like they would hate Irish or hate blacks? Is that what drives it?

BUCCI: You and I would agree there's no rational defense for what Hamas does. But some of their supporters are not rational and they have translated this into an attack on all Jews. That anti-Semitism has been below the surface but not much below and this conflict has now allowed it to come to the surface.

O'REILLY: Now, historically speaking there was an anti-Semitism in Europe because many of the people who controlled the land and the banks were Jewish and that had resentment among the people who didn't have money and didn't have land. But now it's not that way. Now, it's a pluralistic society. So I'm not understanding why a German or French person non jihadist -- I understand that crazy philosophy -- why they would hate Jews. Jews have a very small minority. They are not around very much. In America is like four million Jews, that's all. Why do they hate these people? For what reason?

BUCCI: It's a very visceral thing. It goes back in some cases the far right an alignment with Nazism. The far left with strong Communism -- both of whom hated Jews and persecuted them. So the connection is still there.

O'REILLY: But why? Why did the Nazis and the Communists select the Jews? Because I think our audience in America needs to know the historical perspective. Why were they singled out?

BUCCI: In the case of the Nazis, it was Hitler's irrational view that Jews were somehow subhuman, were less than the pure Germans of which he wasn't one either. On the left side, the Communists, a lot of them were Jews which started out but they turned it around particularly with Stalin where he saw them as competitor and a group that needed to be crushed and destroyed so he could have full power.

O'REILLY: So isn't it though that the Jewish people are very close knit and that was -- I don't know -- that was a red flag to some people. I never really understood the anti-Semitism. I never really got it. I think it was economically based back in the Middle Ages. But I will give you the last word.

BUCCI: Well, it's -- they have a closeness other groups have a closeness. The Jews mostly were forced to have a closeness just to survive.

O'REILLY: Just to survive, absolutely.

BUCCI: It is irrational.

O'REILLY: Now, do you think it's on a rise in America or you think these are just selected nuts doing this kind of stuff?

BUCCI: I hope to be optimistic and say it's not on a rise across the board. But there are enough people that feel the release to do this because of what's going on in Israel. And hopefully we can keep it down in our country and eliminate it.

O'REILLY: Well, we don't tolerate it. We find it, we'll expose it.

Mr. Bucci, thanks very much. We appreciate it.

[Michael Olanich]

O'REILLY: So isn't it though that the Jewish people are very close knit and that was -- I don't know -- that was a red flag to some people. I never really understood the anti-Semitism. I never really got it. I think it was economically based back in the Middle Ages. But I will give you the last word.

As you can see, Mr. O'Reilly is playing dumb. He understands full well the reasons of anti-Semitism, but he doesn't give a crap. He knows where his bread is buttered, and for that his undying loyalty is and always will be to the Jewish Race.