From Attack! tabloid, No. 42, 1976
Zionism I: Theory
Exclusiveness, Belief in Superiority, Hostility
by Dr. William L. Pierce
The
Resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November
10, equating Zionism and racism, has provoked a torrent of response in
the news media. Much of this response has been deliberately deceptive,
and there consequently exists a state of confusion in the average
citizen’s mind as to just what Zionism is and what its relationship is,
if any, with racism.
Israeli
Ambassador to the UN, Chaim Herzog, sneers at “goyim” in the UN General
Assembly as he contemptuously tears up their resolution condemning
Zionism. It is arrogant behavior like this which has earned the Jews the
well-deserved hatred of all the other peoples of the world.
The
Jewish response to the UN action, has been to deny that Zionism is
racism and to charge to the contrary that anti-Zionism is merely a
thinly veiled anti-Semitism. Jews maintain that Zionism, with its call
for an exclusive Jewish homeland comprising Palestine and portions of
other Arab countries, cannot be separated from Judaism and the Jewish
people. In the words of Chaim Herzog, Israeli ambassador to the UN:
“Zionism…
is the modern expression of the ancient Jewish heritage. The Zionist
ideal, as set out in the Bible, has been and is an integral part of the
Jewish religion.”
The Jews are essentially correct in asserting
that one cannot be against Zionism without also being against Jews. Even
though many Jews do not participate actively in any of the numerous
Zionist political organizations, it is an undeniable fact that Jews,
non-religious as well as religious ones, are nearly unanimous in their
support for the government of Israel and for the political goals of
Zionism.
Those who oppose Zionism or who are totally indifferent
to it are an utterly insignificant minority. As Israel’s leaders are
fond of boasting, “The Six Day War (of June 1967, in which the Jews
seized Egypt’s Sinai, Jordan’s West Bank, and Syria’s Golan in a
surprise assault on their Arab neighbors) Zionized world Jewry.”
Norman Podhoretz, editor of
Commentary,
the organ of the powerful American Jewish Committee, says essentially
the same thing: “It has become clearer and clearer that something has
happened to the Jews of America: they have all been converted to
Zionism.”
But is Zionism equivalent to racism? Jews are the very
image of wounded innocence as they hotly deny this. They correctly point
out that Jews have been the instigators, the financiers, the
propagandists, the generals, and, to a great extent, the soldiers in the
war against racism, both in the United States and in other parts of the
world.
As just one example, the most important organization in
America seeking to bring about racial mixing between Blacks and Whites,
the National Association far the Advancement of Colored People, has been
an almost exclusively Jewish enterprise from its founding by Jews in
1910 until the death of its last Jewish president, Kivie Kaplan, last
year. A Jewish lawyer, Jack Greenberg, still heads the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund, which has instigated most of the moves toward
court-enforced racial mixing in the last 25 years, including the
original school-integration decision by the Supreme Court in 1954, from
which all of today’s forced-busing orders have stemmed.
And the
record of votes by Jewish legislators in the Congress and statements by
Jewish spokesmen in the media is clear: they overwhelmingly favor all
moves, including the racial busing of school children, which bring about
increased racial mixing.
In other countries it is the same
story. In South Africa, for example, the crumbling of the government’s
policy of apartheid and the decision to abandon Rhodesia are the direct
result of Jewish pressure. Harry Oppenheimer, the Jewish
multibillionaire who controls the De Beers diamond mines, practically
all of South Africa’s gold mines, her uranium industry, and a dozen
other South African industries as well, has used his enormous wealth to
buy control of many of the English-language news media in South Africa
and has made substantial inroads into Afrikaans newspapers and
magazines. He uses his media control to propagandize for Black-White
“equality” and eventual Black rule for South Africa while simultaneously
applying more direct pressures to government officials. He is supported
in his efforts by South Africa’s very substantial Jewish community.
So, if nearly all Jews are Zionists and if nearly all Jews believe in racial mixing, how can Zionism be a form of racism?
In
trying to answer this question, it is helpful to consider what a few
prominent Zionists have had to say about Zionism. Moses Hess (1812-1875)
is regarded as the real father of the modern, political form of
Zionism. In his book
Rome and Jerusalem, published in 1862, he wrote:
“We Jews shall always remain strangers among the
goyim
(Gentiles)… It is a fact that the Jewish religion is above all Jewish
nationalism… Each and every Jew, whether he wishes it or not, is
automatically, by virtue of his birth, bound in solidarity with his
entire nation… One must be a Jew first and a human being second.”
Hess
was more a Jewish nationalist than a Jewish racist — although he
clearly did consider Jewishness to be a matter of birth rather than
conviction. Other Zionists were much more explicit on this point. Louis
Brandeis, a former U.S. Supreme Court justice and a leading Zionist,
stated it succinctly: “Jews are a distinct nationality of which every
Jew, whatever his country, his station, or his shade of belief, is
necessarily a member.”
The Zionist historian Simon Dubnow wrote in his book,
The Foundation of National Judaism (published in 1906):
Assimilation
is common treason against the banner and ideals of the Jewish people…
But one can never ‘become’ a member of a natural group, such as a
family, a tribe, or a nation. One may attain the rights or privileges of
citizenship with a foreign nation, but cannot appropriate for himself
its nationality too. To be sure, the emancipated Jew in France calls
himself a Frenchman of Jewish faith. Would that mean, however, that he
became a part of the French nation, confessing to the Jewish faith? Not
at all. Because in order to be a member of the French nation one must be
a Frenchman by birth, one must be able to trace his genealogy back to
the Gauls, or to another race in close kinship with them, and finally
one must also possess those characteristics which are the result of the
historic evolution of the French nation. A Jew, on the other hand, even
if he happened to be born in France and still lives there, in spite of
all these, he remains a member of the Jewish nation, and whether he
likes it or not, whether he is aware or unaware of it, he bears the seal
of the historic evolution of the Jewish nation.
All three
Zionists quoted above may be correctly regarded as racists, in that they
reject the prevailing notion of the day that only the individual has
any real significance and that it is wicked even to take into
consideration the biological and cultural connections of the individual
to a “natural group” (to use Dubnow ‘s term) of which he is a member.
It
can be argued, nevertheless, that Jewish racism is at least a little
different from the racism of most other peoples, in that it does place
relatively less emphasis on purely biological connections and relatively
more on other tribal connections: a shared culture, history, and
attitude toward the non-Jewish world.
But this is to be expected
in a people who exhibit as much biological diversity as the Jews do.
They have absorbed physical traits from many of the other races among
whom they have lived, until today, although most Jews still have many
racial factors in common, they cannot be easily classified as a distinct
race — and certainly not as a homogeneous race.
That which
defines the Jews is only partly racial. They are also a partly national,
partly religious, partly historical, partly cultural entity.
Indeed,
because Jews are much more uniform psychically than physically, it is
very difficult to decide whether they are more nearly a racial entity or
a cultural entity. But that may be an irrelevant point. The fact is
that Jews, now and always, have regarded themselves as a distinct,
separate, and very special category of people — the “chosen people,” the
“people of God,” and, as such, superior to all other peoples of the
earth.
This idea that all Jews, whatever the country of their
birth, are members of a single tribe, separate from and superior to all
others, is the central theme of Zionism and of Judaism. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the World Zionist Organization, touched on it when he said:
"Diaspora
Jewry (all Jews outside Palestine) has to overcome the conscious or
subconscious fear of so-called double loyalty. It has to be convinced
that it is fully justified in tying up its destiny with Israel’s. It has
to have the courage to reject the idea that Jewish communities owe
loyalty only to the states where they live.”
Nahum Goldmann, top Zionist leader. He speaks openly of a “Jewish race” and urges Jews everywhere to be loyal only to Israel.
Dr.
Goldmann expressed himself more clearly in addressing the Jews of
Germany, before World War II, attempting to persuade them to emigrate to
Palestine:
Judaism can have nothing in common with
Germanism, if we go by the standards of race, history, and culture, and
the Germans have the right to prevent the Jews from intruding into the
affairs or their volk… The same demand I raise for the Jewish volk, as
against the German… The Jews are divided into two categories, those who
admit that they belong to a race distinguished by a history thousands of
years old, and those who don’t. The latter are open to the charge of
dishonesty.
If the racism expressed by Goldmann in the above
statements were all there is to it, it would be hard to find fault with
Zionism. Racism — the feeling of belonging to a “natural group,” of
owing loyalty to that group, of wanting to preserve its identity and
promote its welfare, of preferring to associate with members of that
group rather than with aliens — is a universal, natural, and healthy
condition of mankind. Indeed, it is a natural condition of all living
things, in a sense, and they all owe their very existence to its
universality.
But Zionism — whether one prefers to call it Jewish
nationalism or Jewish racism — goes far beyond that. It is a distorted
racism, a perverted and predominantly negative racism, expressing itself
more in hostility toward other peoples than in positive aspirations for
the Jewish people.
This has been true from the time of Moses,
who instructed his fellow Jews to massacre without pity the Gentiles
whose lands they wanted to seize, lest they later be inconvenienced by
the survivors:
“But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of
the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that those which ye
let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your
sides and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.’” (Numbers 33:55)
The
advice was generally followed in the old days, and it is still followed
today. Joshua, after capturing the city of Jericho and looting it of
all its “silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron”… “utterly
destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old,
and ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword.”
And, more
than 3,000 years later, the Haganah and the Irgun and the Stern Gang
massacred the entire populations of Palestinian villages in order to
terrify the other Arab inhabitants of Palestine into fleeing the country
and leaving their homes and farms and businesses to be taken over by
Jews.
This hostility toward other peoples, this extreme Jewish
xenophobia and ethnocentricity, this contempt for everything not Jewish
is revealed over and over again in the writings of Zionists, just as in
their actions. It is a masochistic sort of racism, which glories and
revels in the anti-Jewish hostility which it in turn provokes.
This clipping from the November 21, 1975, issue of the Jewish Press,
which claims to have the largest circulation of any English-language
weekly newspaper for Jews, complains that Gentiles are “infiltrating”
into Israel posing as Jews, thus “desecrating” the Jewish state and
religion. In the eyes of orthodox Jews, “goyim” (Gentiles) are mere
cattle, not human beings.
Theodor Herzl, the Zionist leader whose efforts were most essential to the founding of the state of Israel, wrote in his book
The Jewish State (published in 1896):
Every
nation in whose midst Jews live is, either covertly or openly,
anti-Semitic… Anti-Semitism increases day by day and hour by hour among
the Gentiles… We are one people — our enemies have made us one in our
despite… Distress binds us together, and, thus united, we suddenly
discover our strength.
The Zionist Jakob Klatzkin (1882-1948) carried the idea further in his book
Crisis and Decision, published in 1921, and addressed to the German people:
…We
are not hyphenated Jews (i.e., German-Jews); we are Jews with no
qualifications or reservations. We are simply aliens; we are a foreign
people in your midst, and, we emphasize, we wish to stay that way. There
is a wide gap between you and us, so wide that no bridge can be laid
across. Your spirit is alien to us; your myths, legends, habits,
customs, traditions and national heritage, your religious and national
shrines, your Sundays and holidays… they are all alien to us. The
history of your triumphs and defeats, your war songs and battle hymns,
your heroes and their mighty deeds, your national ambitions and
aspirations, they are all alien to us. The boundaries of your lands
cannot restrict our movements, and your border clashes are not of our
concern. Far over and above the frontiers and boundaries of your land
stands our Jewish unity… Whosoever calls the foreign (Gentile) land a
fatherland is a traitor to the Jewish people … A loyal Jew can never be
other than a Jewish patriot… We recognize a national unity of diaspora
Jews, no matter in which land they may reside. Therefore, no boundaries
can restrain us in pursuing our own Jewish policy…
And the
“American” Zionist, Samuel Untermyer, said in 1933: “Other races have
come and gone. The Jew has survived. Persecution cannot crush him. The
Jews are the aristocrats of the world.”
Such unbridled and
reckless arrogance, stemming from the persistent Jewish notion that the
children of Israel have been “chosen” to rule the world and must,
therefore, remain aloof from the
goyim,
destined to be their slaves when the Messiah comes, has led to a great
deal of friction between the Jews and their Gentile hosts throughout the
ages. And yet even this negative and peculiarly Jewish form of racism
could be tolerated, if that were all.
The Jews could all go off
to the Middle East and finish butchering the Palestinians, or they could
all settle on a large island by themselves somewhere, and they could
then indulge their narcissist fantasies and their hatred of the rest of
mankind to their hearts’ content, and we would not care.
But
gathering the Jews of the world together in one place is not really part
of the Zionist scheme. They want an exclusively Jewish homeland, all
right, but they also want to maintain their death grip on the economies
and the governments of the Gentile lands where they live as minorities.
Zionism is built not only on the ideas of Jewish exclusiveness and
Jewish superiority, but also on the idea of Jewish world dominion.
Not
a world dominion achieved by force of Jewish arms or by any frontal
assault on the hated goyische world, but a dominion brought about by
infiltration and subversion, by the encouragement of weakness and
decadence among the Gentiles, by the imperceptibly slow injection of a
Jewish spiritual poison into the hearts and minds of the goyim,
destroying their will to resist.
And therein we have the
explanation of the seeming dilemma: Jews who have devoted all their
talents and energies to combatting racism being themselves charged with
racism by the world community. Yes, Jews are against racism — racism
among the Gentiles, that is, because they want to destroy the unity of
the Gentile nations. And, yes, Jews (or Zionists, if you prefer) are
racists, because they, more than any other people, realize the necessity
of maintaining their own unity.
The condemnation by the United
Nations of Zionism is, on the whole, a welcome move, but it nevertheless
fails to face the issue as squarely as it should. The UN has condemned
the Jews for their behavior in Palestine, for practicing both physical
and cultural genocide against the Palestinian people. But that is only a
negative form of the same racism which is practiced by all healthy
peoples. What the Jews are doing to the Palestinians is what the Turks
did to the Armenians, what the Serbs did to the Croats, what the
American pioneers did to the Indians, what the Germans did to the Jews
(although hardly to the tune of 6,000,000 as the Jews claim). It is the
way of the world, even if, in our Western squeamishness, we would like
to see more positive and fewer negative expressions of this natural and
universal racism.
And so, in this regard, the Jews are at least
justified in their claim that the UN condemnation of Zionist racism is
hypocritical, because most of the members of the UN practice their own
forms of racism. But if the UN were really an honest organization, it
could have issued a denunciation of Zionism against which the Jews would
have no defense.
Theodor
Herzl, one of the “founding fathers” of Israel. He dreamed of an
all-Jewish state from which the Gentile world would be ruled, in
fulfillment of Jewish “prophecies.
The UN could have
pointed out that Jewish racism is a unique evil — a unique danger to
the world — not because the Jews want Palestine all to themselves or
even because they aspire to world rule, but because of the truly unique
ways in which the Jews go about implementing their Zionist designs.
Recognizing
more clearly than any other people the importance of racism as a
natural defense — as Nature’s way of maintaining racial integrity — the
Jews deliberately go about neutralizing the racism of their intended
victims, thus destroying their unity, their cohesiveness, and their will
to resist. It is a tactic which has proven extraordinarily effective in
the past, a tactic to which the Western peoples in particular have
proven susceptible.
It is for this reason that the Germans, the
one nation in modern times which developed a defense against Jewish
racism, named the Jews “der Weltfeind” — the world enemy.
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Transcribed by Vanessa Neubauer from the book
The Best of Attack! and National Vanguard, edited by Kevin Alfred Strom. Source: http://whitebiocentrism.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=1245&sid=b40b92cfbcd1ca411853eefc7d35a7e1
