Comments on: Foxman and Wisse Attack Assimilation, Foxman Saying It Makes Jews Less Selfish

By: Charles Keating

Charles Keating — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Adam Keller, editor of the Tel Aviv-based The Other Israel, spoke at length on the issue during a lecture tour of the US in September 2004, especially in the course of an intense and highly emotive debate with right-wing Jewish hecklers on the university campus at Fullerton, California. Among other things he said on that occasion:
"I find this term, 'Silent Holocaust', more obscene than all the pornography in the world put together. The Holocaust, from which my mother and my father barely escaped and in which many of their relatives perished, was the systematic genocide and mass murder of millions of people, solely because of their ethnic and religious identity. The so-called "silent holocaust" is the freely chosen exercise by human beings of the right to choose a spouse and live a happy and satisfying life with him or her, a right specifically guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which the State of Israel is one of the first signatories. Only a monstrously perverted mind can possibly conceive of making such a comparison. This comes from a mindset in which an individual counts for nothing, his or her wishes count for nothing, and the individual's only worth is as being a component of an overwhelming, all-supreme Nation or Ethnos. This is a racist way of thinking, a fascist way of thinking. It is, I must say, Hitler's way of thinking, and I am deeply ashamed that some Jews have taken it for their own."

By: ej

ej — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Endogamy is a reactionary culture, suitable for the ghetto.
Time to join the 21st century.

By: scorpio

scorpio — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

the title of Wisse's latest screed is actually "If I Am Not For Me". end of sentence. the fact that Harvard is harboring race-baiters annoys me

By: Joachim Martillo

Joachim Martillo — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Because Ruth Wisse is an orthodox Jew, she is not going to take a position favorable to intermarriage, but she is teaching at Harvard and not at Touro.

In http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/09/jews-and-power-versus-israel-lobby-and.html , I discuss whether Harvard should fire her for moral turpitude.

In general the Wicked Witch of Harvard NELC poisons the University environment. See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/poisoning-atmosphere-at-harvard.html .

I do agree that Wisse is a fanatic ethnic Ashkenazi Nazi in the sense that her political ideology combines politicized ethnic fundamentalism, social Darwinism, biological determinism, essentialism, primordialism, eugenics, national revival through racial purity and opposition to race mixing as a source of decadence.

[BTW, Wisse's husband Leonard Wisse is Chairman of the Board of Directors of CAMERA.]

This particular combination of political beliefs was not unique to German Nazis. The ideology of the Polish Endeks combined similar ideas, and parties with similar creeds existed in Hungary, Rumania, and Yugoslavia.

In their formulation of ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism, which I associate with Jabotinskian Zionism, Nordau and Jabotinsky anticipated intellectual developments of German Nazis and similar (non-German) Nazi groups throughout Eastern Europe.

The various parties associated with Labor Zionism are in the mainstream of Eastern European fascism. Sternhell is quite dishonest in "The Founding Myths of Israel" when he claims that Labor/Left Zionism is nationalist socialist and not fascist because he never addresses Eastern European fascism, which is never formally anti-democratic in the manner of Western European fascism.

In any case the boundaries between fascism and Nazism are not hard and fast. The Strasser faction of the German Nazi party in many regards was very close to Italian fascism in ideology.

Likewise there are clear boundaries between Zionist fascists and Zionist Nazis.

The Labor Zionist leader Arlosoroff described Labor Zionist ideology in "Der juedische Volkssozialismus." At the time period Volkssozialismus is the normal German term for fascism, but Sharon, who started in the Zionist fascist parties in the 50s came to head a Zionist Jabotinskian (i.e., Nazi) party in the 2000s.

By: Montag

Montag — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I'm surprised these yokels (yankels?) don't advocate that in order to remain pure Diaspora Jews should return to the coldwater flats of the urban ghettoes and return to work in the sweatshops for peanuts. But that's crazy, since they wouldn't be able to keep the Prince of Foxes in the lifestyle he's become accustomed to.