Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, Hero

Goodwin, a psychiatrist, was head of something called the Violence Initiative, intended to reduce the insane violence in our, ahem, (Black and Hispanic, but mostly Black) inner cities. He made the following extremely controversial comment, which I heartily endorse:

If you look, for example, at male monkeys, especially in the wild, roughly half of them survive to adulthood. The other half die by violence. That is the natural way it is for males, to knock each other off and in fact, there are some interesting evolutionary implications of that because the same hyperaggressive monkeys who kill each other are also hypersexual, so they copulate more to offset the fact that more of them are dying.

Now, one could say that if some of the loss of social structure in this society, and particularly within the high impact inner-city areas, has removed some of the civilizing evolutionary things that we have built up and that may be it isn't just the careless use of the word when people call certain areas of certain cities jungles, that we may have gone back to what might be more natural, without all the social controls that we have imposed upon ourselves as a civilization over thousands of years in our evolution.

Goodwin screwed up by using the monkey - jungle metaphor. That implies that Blacks are monkeys who live in the jungle. There's no place in civilized discussion to call Blacks monkeys. They aren't monkeys. They're human beings. US Blacks have been out of the jungle for 200 years. And around the world, plenty of well-behaved folks live in jungles, so living in a jungle doesn't automatically make you act like an animal.

Goodwin was condemned as racist and a Nazi for saying that. If believing that makes you racist and a Nazi, I guess I'm a racist Nazi then. The best way to answer this abuse from the Cultural Left is to simply agree with them.

First, rephrase the comment that upset them. Ask, for example, "Really, so saying that Black IQ's are 13 points lower than White IQ's is racism?" The idiot will usually say, "Yes, it is." Then calmly nod your head and say, "OK, well, if saying that means I'm a racist, I guess I'm a racist." Say it with complete aplomb, as if one were commenting on the weather.

We really need to take the sting out of some of these abusive words the Cultural Left is throwing at the sane people. Sure there's plenty of racism around, but there's less and less all the time. Most of the time anymore, "racist" is a just a term of abuse leveled against Whites. It's just hate speech against Whites, like calling Blacks niggers.

Goodwin's comment was outrageous, but it does seem to make a lot of sense, does it not?

The only alternative theories for the insane violence in our Black ghettos are bullshit notions like poverty, bad schools, bad neighborhoods, lack of education, lack of hope, lack of jobs, White racism, discrimination, oppression, on and on the bullshit piles.

The only thing bad about our ghettos is the humans who live in them. The neighborhoods, schools, etc. are lousy because the humans in the ghetto have destroyed them. There's no jobs because the horrible behavior and mass crime of the humans in the ghetto has driven all the employers away.

The humans in the ghetto are poorly educated because they don't want to get educated. There's no hope in the ghetto because the humans who destroyed the neighborhoods also have to live in them, and that's pretty hopeless.

About racism, discrimination and oppression, about the only racism, discrimination and oppression in our ghettos is against any non-Black person stupid enough to venture into them. The residents of the ghettos aren't experiencing any real oppression or discrimination at all. Who's oppressing them, beside the criminals they live with?

Who's discriminating against them? Whites? They aren't any White people in the ghetto to discriminate against anyone. Residents of the ghetto probably experience little racism too. They hardly see any Whites, and the only ones they do see are liberal do-gooder types. Blacks in suburbs live much better than ghetto Blacks and surely experience far more racism.

Yet this is what passes for sane discussion of one of the most important issues in our nation - utter nonsense.

Recent efforts to ameliorate the mess in our ghettos have involved tearing down or shuttering public housing and giving ghetto residents vouchers to go live anywhere they want.

As a socialist, I support these efforts. Ghetto residents ought to be able to live anywhere they can afford to, and packing lots of ghetto Blacks together tightly can't possibly be a good idea. Blacks have moved out of the projects and into better neighboring areas.

The results have been mixed at best. The former ghetto residents act somewhat better, but not dramatically so. Crucially, they continue to have serious pathologies. This reinforces my view that the problem in the ghetto was always the humans who live there, not the buildings, the streets, the schools, or whatever.

Russian Neo-Nazi Video Is Real

The infamous Russian neo-Nazi beheading video, which can be found on this site here, along with a long post describing it and giving background to it, has long been rumored to be a fake . I never thought it was a fake, simply because faking such an act so well requires the facilities of an expensive movie studio. There is no evidence that these amateurs had access to such a studio.

However, new evidence has just emerged that the video is real and is not a fake, according to Russian law enforcement (LE). I figured as much. The Russian neo-Nazis are completely out of control; they assault and kill people all the time, and not a whole lot is done about them. It made sense that sooner or later they would take to the next level and commit a homicide on tape a la Al Qaeda and the insurgents in Iraq.

Kistaman Odamanov from Dagestan said that one of the men killed on the tape was her brother, Shamil U. Odamanov, 24. Her father, Umakhan, and her brother, Artur, along with other relatives, also recognized Shamil on the tape.

Shamil, from the town of Sultanyangiyurt in the Kizilyurtovskeyeo District of Dagestan, had gone to Moscow to find work, and possibly to find a bride, two years ago and had disappeared in March 2007. The video appeared in mid-August 2007.

Shamil was in touch with his family the whole time he was in Moscow, calling home every day while he worked as a laborer.

During phone calls home, he frequently complained of run-ins with skinheads who stalk people who appear to be immigrants in the low-income housing around Moscow. He called his father in late March 2007 to wish him a happy birthday. That was the last time anyone ever heard from him. He has not yet been found.

"It's not just that it looks like him, it is him, period," said Umakhan Odamanov.

In the video, Shamil was wearing the Adidas jacket and shirt given to him by his brother Artur. Shamil has been identified as the poor soul who is beheaded in the video. Another man, said to be a Tajik, is shot to death in the video. He has not yet been identified.

Raziyat is a neighbor of the Odamanovs.

"I knew him well; I saw him grow up. He was an ordinary boy. The children grew up without a mother; she got sick and died," Raziyat said. "There were nine children in the family. The father is a calm, balanced family man without any bad habits. They were very worried, they looked for him. His brother traveled to Moscow to search for him."

Russian LE made their determination that the video was real on Shamil's family's information and on re-analysis of the video.

Artur said that he was called to Moscow by Russian LE in April. They told him that they found the site where Shamil was killed, but that there was no evidence of murder there.

German LE is working with the Russians on this, implying a German neo-Nazi link to Russian neo-Nazis. Those who made the tape have not yet been found, and the "Tajik" in the video has not yet been identified, though he is probably a real person who was also killed.

Police are investigating several ultranationalists in connection with the video, but have not yet arrested anyone. The initial beautiful footage in the video, showing a small Russian town in the midst of a vast forest and large lake, has been identified as the Kaluzhskaya region near the city of Kaluga, 120 miles southwest of Moscow. The exact site where the killings took place has not yet been found. No bodies have been found either.

Please be careful if you wish to watch this video, as many people have been very upset by it.

It's not my purpose to litter this blog with all sorts of gore and nasty stuff, but in this case, the video was very topical, so I ran it.

Original source for this article was in Russian, if you can read it.

Photo from the Russian article. My copy does not have nearly such good resolution. Email me if you can find me a better copy of this video.

Polish/Jewish Revisionism

A new book by Gunnar Paulsson, a Polish-Jewish historian who lost relatives in the Holocaust, offers a completely revisionist view of the standard Jewish view of the Poles being the most evil anti-Semites of them all, or, as Yitzak Shamir said famously, "Poles imbibe anti-Semitism in their mothers' milk." A corollary is that the Poles were the worst Jew-killers of all during the Holocaust, and to this day, many Jews are pretty angry at Poles and Poland.

I won't go into details, but Paulsson offers a seriously revisionist view of these commonly held beliefs. Instead, I will just offer you some links so you can check them out yourself. Paulsson's book website. An article by Paulsson on TotallyJewish.com, a site for UK Jews. Go there and see what he has to say, you might be surprised.

Like so many things in life, the Polish-Jewish thing is oh so complicated.

Unfortunately, people promoting Paulsson's book have been accused by Jews of (Guess what?) being anti-Semites and Nazis. Boy, that Nazi card is worth so much to some folks. Why don't we quit reacting whenever certain idiots play that card? The only reason they play that fave card all the time is because we freak out so much when they do.

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So I'm a Nazi?

Repost from an earlier post. It was transferred to a separate post because it distracted from the post it was in. I also significantly expanded it with some new comments about Muslims and how in many ways many of them behave in ways that strikingly resemble the classic anti-Semitic stereotype of Jews.

What the Hell? I haven't been called that in a while, but I do get called no good Commie mass murderer a lot. That actually doesn't feel bad. It sort of feels good really. I used to get called Nazi a lot on here, and, yeah, I admit that it pisses me off. I say it pisses me off cuz it's not true.

I used to get called Nazi or anti-Semite on here quite a bit, mostly because I am opposed to Zionism. Most of the people calling me that are Zionists, often but not always Jewish (kind of hard to tell on the Internet!) My opinion about Zionism is, at best, that it is ridiculous. In August 2007, I got called that on the so-called "liberal" Democratic website Democratic Underground in relation to this post of mine that thoroughly thrashes the disgusting Holocaust huckster Elie Wiesel.

Surely the Jewish survivors (Bless their hearts!) of the Holocaust deserve to be represented by a better man that this snake named Wiesel. Note that mmscghee and JudyM on that thread are both liberal US Jews, a group that in my opinion, is now morally bankrupt due to their support for Zionism.

See my position statement on race regarding charges that I am racist. I do not respond to anti-Semitism charges except to deny them. This blog takes a strong stand on anti-Semitism, and two guest authors have already been temporarily banned for anti-Semitism. My opinion about obsessive anti-Semitism is that it is almost a form of mental illness.

That said, way too many Jews bandy the charge about way too much. On the other hand, the guys in this video are definitely not good for the Jews! Jews fighting anti-Semitism should focus their energy on the type of folks in this video and relax about the rest of their largely hallucinated enemies.

When hyperethnocentric Jews accuse you of being an anti-Semite, there is no defense against the charge that may exonerate you, so pleas of innocence are worthless. If you try to defend yourself, the Jews will start a sadistic game of cat-torturing-mouse that never ends.

People who call me a Nazi are either ignorant, stupid, emotional or simply lying on purpose. The vast majority are Jewish, so I assume they are not stupid, which leaves three alternatives. The obvious intent of these Jews, living in their purely emotional world as they do, is to first smear me and destroy me, second, to shut me up, and third, apparently, to turn me into a Nazi, assuming I am not already one.

This last because I have come to believe that many or possibly most Jews, like hyperethnocentric ultranationalists everywhere, love to be hated. I realize that sounds outrageous, but bear with me.

Not only do they love being hated, but like true masochist-paranoiacs (the word virtually defines any ultranationalist anywhere) they want to create as many enemies as possible and then to radicalize those enemies to the furthest extent possible. Probably unconsciously.

I assume many or even most Jews are most comfortable, unconsciously once again, in a world that is at once teeming with genocidal anti-Semites, yet at the same time safe enough that these Jews can somehow survive, prosper and not get seriously hurt.

Don't ask me how it all makes sense. Explaining mental illness is never easy.

When you consider that these Jews screaming "anti-Semite" at you want to turn you into one, why give them the pleasure?

I have been receiving emails lately from a Leftist colleague who has just been banned from an Internet group for being an "Islamophobe". I think he was also accused of being a Jew. I've been called Jew too, and if only it were true! My friend is a Leftist secularist and most of the members of the group are Americans who for some dumb reason have converted to Islam, of all religions.

My friend is hip to a Leftist notion (along with me) that sees Islam as a particularly backwards and reactionary religion with some very serious issues regarding supremacism, imperialism, intolerance and out and out violence. It's cool that people on the Left are finally speaking up about this. The Left formerly had a long tradition of taking on reactionary Islam from the USSR to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

That's all pretty much gone now and the Left is on board with the nuttiest of the Muslim reactionaries.

My friend noted how the group had quickly turned into heavy-duty Muslim proselytization (Muslims are almost as bad about proselytizing as fundamentalist Christians) along with an obsession with Islamophobia. He pointed out that these Muslims in their obsession with Islamophobia resemble Jews in their obsession with anti-Semitism. There is a particularly delicious feeling to be had in being an irrationally persecuted victim, a feeling that humans crave.

We want to be victims.

These Muslims are convinced that the US is out to destroy Islam. Truth is that the US as an imperialist state doesn't give two shits about anyone's religion. And believe me! To the Bushes and all the rest of the US imperial fanatics, religion takes a very distant back seat to imperialism and the game of making money. If Muslims can help us make a bundle, hey, it's all good.

The US' close alliance with Saudi Arabia (see the particularly stupid articles in the press these days about "Bush getting snubbed by the Saudis" with all of the idiot overtones that the high price of gas is due to an "oil shortage" when the fact is that there is no oil shortage and the price is almost all due to speculation) is a case in point.

The Saudis are as reactionary and nuts as Islam gets. The real truth is that almost all of the fanatical Sunni movements in the world today, particularly the armed ones, have come straight out of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states. Al Qaeda is for all intents and purposes a Saudi organization - a few years ago, estimates were that 80% of cadre were Saudis.

The conservatism that is enveloping Sunni Islam all around the globe now - and that will only spread in coming years, is due to peculiarly Saudi customs spreading out from the vortex in Arabia to the rest of Sunni Islam.

Given that the US backs up the most reactionary Islamic state of them all, one that is responsible at least in part for the vast majority of Islamic terrorism on Earth, belies the victim addict nostrum that the US is out to destroy Islam. Hardly. We are empowering its most virulent and reactionary proponent.

The Saudi regime treats religious minorities, in particular the Shia, worse than Iran treats its minorities, and Iran doesn't treat its minorities all that great. Muslim countries with significant Christian populations, except for Syria and Jordan, don't usually treat their Christians very well. Meanwhile, Christian societies fall all over themselves to suck up to Islam and still get bashed as Islamophobic.

Point is it's not only Jews who get off on being victims and are obsessed with their enemies. To some extent, all ethnic nationalists do this. And Islam does it these days almost as much as the Jews do. Try to see Jewish behavior within its larger human context instead of singling them out anti-Semitically.

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Jonah Goldberg, Intellectual Lightweight and Hack Journalist

I guess my main issue with this guy is that he fashions himself as some sort of a scholar. Not that the Right lacks scholars. William Buckley, Ludwig von Mises, Frederick Hayek, Winston Churchill,Hell, Giovanni Gentile (!), are all at least welterweight intellectuals. You might disagree with them, but they don't write garbage.

Jonah Goldberg is a pretend scholar. He drifted into fame on the back of his ultra-right wing Momma, Lucianne Goldberg, a very rich lady who ran a rightwing publishing house. She put sonny boy in charge as vice president anyway through no talent or degree of his own.

Lucianne was the charmer that helped use Linda Tripp to publicize the completely preposterous charges that led to the near-impeachment of a US President on one of the corrupt episodes of US politics since the election of Grover Cleveland by a fraudulent Electoral College in the 1870's. Before that, Dred Scott. Before that, Aaron Burr murdering a fellow politician while a nation cheered.

Modern conservatism has been a process of sinking lower and lower morally to the point where they are about as close to the ground as slugs and worms. And Jonah Goldberg.

This book is just stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Now, mind you, I don't mind stupid. Give me pro wrestling and a beer anytime. I just want it properly labeled as such. This is pro wrestling stupid labeled as serious intellectual discourse. Instead, it's just right-wing Kuru. Like Kuru, modern conservatism pretends to be a tasty intellectual dish while secretly rotting your brain.

This book is all about why fascism is really a leftwing philosophy. You know, how leftists, liberals, Communists and all the rest are really fascists. Yeah, he says that.

Throughout the book, he explicitly denies the long-standing connection that sane historians and political scientists have long established between fascism and the rightwing movement. As in, fascism is a movement of the far right wing. As in, Communism is a movement of the far left wing. As in, conservatives have as much in common with fascists as liberals do with Communists.

All of these distinctions are lost on Goldberg in his quest for the Holy Grail or Rightwing Propaganda. Goldberg wasted three years of his life writing this book, which is useful for lining bird cages but for little else.

What is truly sad is that this book shot to #3 on the New York Times best-seller list. That means that lots of Americans, many of whom think they are intellectuals, actually bought this book and ate intellectual Alpo as they consumed its 400 pages.

This book has turned into a modern day opus among conservatives. I am on a list with many conservatives, and it is clear that many are highly intelligent. But something has happened. Conservative kuru has set in and their brains are starting to rot. They don't make much sense when they write. They think Jonah Goldberg is a great intellectual thinker of our time. All the signs are there.

Some reviews of this immensely sad and frightening book here, here, here and here.

Oh Hell, just gimme Giovanni Gentile. He's horrible, but at least he's a real and even great thinker. You've got to have a list a trace of respect for a guy who counted Fichte, Marx, Hegel and Nietzsche among his influences, and Croce calls him the most rigorous neo-Hegelian in modern philosophy.

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Juan Cole Grovels to Zionism

Disgusting display of sucking on Jewish Zionist toes here.

I guess when they wage nonstop propaganda war on you for years complete with death threats, intimations of poor scholarship and teaching ability (a threat to get you fired), and when they despicably kill your quest to ascend to an Ivy League professorship that would be have been well-deserved, in one of the worst attacks on academic freedom this country has seen in decades (Yes, Zionist Jews and their Zionist Gentile allies are the leading wave of whatever passes for quasi-fascism in the US these days), Hell, if you can't beat em, you may as well join em, eh, Juan?

Nice long sentence/question!

I'm acquainted with Juan, and it's despicable that this guy is called an anti-Semite. He's as far from that as anyone is. He's paranoid of the whole issue. He has even offhand implied to me in private emails that I am venturing into anti-Semitism, where he dares not go, I assure you.

So Juan pens a groveling post to his "Israeli readers" (Who needs em? Tell em to take a hike if they don't like it!) replete with gushing prose about how great Israel is. The post mostly talks about all the cool and brainy things smart Israeli Jews are coming up, but Jews would be making all these brainy scholarly breakthroughs just as much in the Diaspora.

Actually, I suspect that the latent anti-Semitism in the Diaspora actually sparks Jewish creativity through some weird psychological mechanism, and that Israel, the biggest Jewish ghetto ever, stunts Jewish intellectual creativity, but that's another matter.

Suck up, suck up, suck up, Juan.

I tell you. You've angered the Zionist Jews, and no sucking up short of overt groveling and toe-sucking will ever do, and even that is usually contingent forever, since your "anti-Semitism" of the past will always be held against you.

Jewish Zionists are paranoids by definition. If you have ever known any paranoids in life, you know that they never quite trust you, especially after they catch you working for the enemies.

Give it up, Juan. Go all out and just tell Israel to go to Hell.

Just do it! You'll feel so much better. You will be free!

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Death to the H-1B Program

The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here.

Updated July 7, 2008:

I am going to reprint the article below in its entirety, as I do not think a link should suffice.

90% of all computer jobs in the US are going to H-1B visa holders. To understand what an H-1B visa is, check out the essential Zazona website.

There is need for few, if any, H-1B jobs in the US.

We are allowing around 200,000-350,000 H-1B's into the US every year, mostly from India to work in computers, but also in many other fields, such as school psychologist, long-haul truck driver and just about every job you could possibly imagine. Some of the jobs that have been filled via guest worker programs are

• Accountants
• Administrators
• Executives
• Managers
• Administrators
• Software Programmers
• Computer Scientists
• Any type of Engineer and Technician you could imagine
• Research Associates
• Scientists
• Lawyers
• Tax Analysts
• Teachers
• College Professors
• Postdocs
• Fellows
• Sports Instructors
• Physiologists
• Doctors
• Nurses
• Med-Techs
• Therapists
• Pharmacists
• Surgical and Dental Assistants
• Fashion Models
• Secretaries
• Clerks
• Architects
• Musicians
• Artists
• Youth Counselors
• Day Care Workers
• Cashiers

Ridiculous!

This whole program and all of its various evil twins are about cheap labor and nothing else. There is no shortage of workers in any capacity in America.

Since 1990, the laws of economics have been overturned in the US. This coincides with the introduction of the H-1B program and its babies. Formerly, businesses hired when business was good and laid off when business was bad. In economics, that is called "normal".

H-1B turned that upside down and introduced something called "churning". This is where profitable businesses both massively fire and massively hire workers with no relationship at all to their profits.

This is what happens:

Suppose business at company A is going like gangbusters. Paradoxically, the company is laying off huge numbers of workers. At the same time, they are hiring huge numbers of workers to replace them.

What's the catch? All of the fired workers are Americans. All of the hired workers are H-1B's, mostly from India. This is churning, and it has been going on the US for 17 years now. Both parties support the H-1B madness to the absolute hilt!

Need to import agricultural and blue collar workers? Just get an H-2B or H-2A visa for them.

Need to import workers for your educational or government enterprise? Just get a J-1 visa for them.

Feel like importing Canadians or Mexicans for anything whatsoever? No problem, just get a TN (NAFTA) visa for them.

People wonder why those of us on the Left hated NAFTA and have opposed all of its attempted children. This is one excellent reason.
The fact that NAFTA caused a lowering of wages and a loss of jobs in the US, Canada and Mexico is yet another. It harmed workers and consumers in all three countries. The only people making out like bandits were businesses, in particular large businesses.

The Indian H-1B's are all brought here on visas that are stipulated as "non-immigrant visas". If they are not immigrants, what are they then? They are "guest workers", that's what they are!

The H-1B visa program quota fills up rapidly every year, leaving the US computer corporation liars screaming in paroxysms at Congress to raise the quota due to the "desperate job shortage". But there is no desperate worker shortage in that field. There are more than enough Americans to fill every single one of these jobs. No one calls the liars on it. Not one newspaper or magazine, not one politician.

In the past 6 years, an incredible 2 million of America's finest, our best and brightest, with years of education under their belts and the debts to show for it, have been tossed out on the streets like so much trash, replaced by inferior scabs from India.

I have heard stories like the one below before. Typically, the way H-1B works in a US computer corporation is this:

At first a few Indians are brought in. American workers are made, in abject humiliation, to train their replacements. This is akin to forcing a man to help his executioners prepare themselves for his own execution.

The opinion of most US tech workers is that these Indian tech workers are not very good. Most of them have been through a sleazy, corrupt 6-month program to get some "Masters of Computer Sciences Degree". A 6-month degree, with no prerequisite, that costs a whole $40! A 3-week training course in India is dishonestly written up as 4 years of experience.

The Indian H-1B's can't cut it, so the Americans have to make up for them. Or the Indians start to wreck the shop with their incompetence, but the management could care less.

The Indian H-1B's are almost all liars. They are some of the most dishonest people in this country. Show me an Indian H-1B, and I will show you a shameless, continuous, venal liar. Management knows they are lying all the time, but does not care.

Indian H-1B's tell the US government and their employer that they have a Master's Degree in Computer Science and that they 4 years of experience. The government and the employer both know the H-1B is lying; it's only a 6-month degree and he only had 3 weeks of experience, but neither cares.

An INS investigation of H-1B's revealed outrageous levels of fraud - 47% of H-1B's had faked credentials, experience or other essential facts. Most of the body shops are actually breaking the law via tax scams. This is one more way that American businesses cannot compete. Further, the body shops file the visa for one job and then reselling the employee as contractors.

After a while, the management, for some reason, fires the American supervisor. An Indian supervisor is now brought in the supervise the American-Indian mixed workforce. The Indian supervisor, either acting on management's order or through sheer ethnic chauvinism, begins to slowly fire all of the American workers.

He replaces them all with his Indian compatriots. Before they are terminated, each American is asked to train his Indian replacement. Most American workers training their replacements are shocked at how unqualified the Indian is for the job.

Whatever the motivations for this game, it smells like Indian ethnic warfare waged against non-Indian Americans through and through.

Indian H-1B's, unlike most scabs, have a large public relations industry in back of them, flush with cash. This industry gets charged up every year, along with the computer corporation liars, to squawk about the hallucinatory worker shortage.

Further, the Indian H-1B's themselves, being fairly intelligent, are known to pitch their case on the Net. Typically, the Indian liars say that any American who lost his job to an Indian scab is a "loser" who "could not cut it" and got fired to be replaced by his superior Indian replacement. He is urged to go out and hit the pavement in search of another job, no matter that 90% of them are reserved for foreign scabs.

The Indians below do not represent all Indians. The Indian H-1B scabs coming here are almost all Hindus from the upper castes. As such, they are the shock troops of the fascist Hindutva movement, since this movement appeals disproportionately to the upper castes.

These Indians either are part of the venal and wicked Indian ruling class, or they ally themselves with these parasites. At any rate, they see themselves as part of a racial and ethnic ruling class of India.

The Hindutva movement, like all ultranationalist rightwing movements, hates Western colonialism of their land. All India's problems are blamed on India's colonization by the British. In particular, Hinduism and especially the despicable caste system are upheld as the highest achievements of humanity¹.

The movement is characterized by extreme hatred of Muslims and especially Muslim rule in India, which admittedly was not a picnic. The Hindutvas demand that Muslims apologize for the terror of their rule in India, but being Muslims, they never will, because Muslims never apologize for anything.

But the Hindutvas, like all ultranationalist fools, will never apologize for anything either. The hatred of the British, as you see below, extends to hatred of "the White man", as these types refer to us.

When the British came to India, they were appalled at the sickening and backwards aspects of its "ancient and glorious" religion and culture.

They banned burning women on funeral pyres after their husbands' death. They hated caste and campaigned against it. They pointed out the idiocy and backwardness of scientifically illiterate Indian "science", demanded its removal from all Indian school texts, and ordered that it be replaced by fact-based Western science.

They did impose English-language education, but that was more to kill the power of backwards Hindu religion infiltrating via language.

To the Dalits, the horribly persecuted dark-skinned "nigger" untouchables of South India, the British were a Godsend. To the Hindutvas, they were the worst thing that ever happened.

As you can see, and despite their colonial exploitation of India, the British did try to civilize the Indians. For this the Hindutvas will forever hate them.

The Hindutva scabs that currently infest out guest worker program are usually shockingly racist (by US White standard) towards our African Americans. About this, the US Left is utterly silent, because the only racism they care about is White racism. The Hindutvas have had lots of practice hating Blacks, with the centuries of ultra-Jim Crow the higher castes have been dealing out to their own Dalit "Blacks".*

Sure, the Hindutvas call themselves Aryans. They even allied with Hitler during World War 2. In the 1930's, the Nazis sent some of their fool racial scientists to India to research the early "Aryan" race. Except that Nazi Aryanism meant "German". According to Nazi morons, Germanics were the original White people.

In truth, Whites probably came out of an 11,000 foot pass in the Pamir Mountains, Baroghil Pass, on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, some 35,000 years ago, although this is highly controversial. One group went west to become the Caucasoids or Whites, another north and east to become the Mongoloids, or East Asians.

An earlier post of mine, Osama bin Laden on Top of the World, goes into tremendous detail about this region and has lots of breathtaking photos.

Baroghil Pass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - birthplace of the White Race? DNA studies suggest that a group left here 35,000 years ago. One group went east and became the Mongoloids or East Asians. Another went west to become the Caucasians or Whites.

To this day, there are many blond, blue-eyed natives in this area whose presence is pretty much unexplained. One group is called the Kalash. These pagans are said to be related to Alexander the Great's army, but others say that connection is fanciful. They may go back much further than that.

A clearly 100% Caucasian Kalash woman from Pakistan, south of Chitral. Leftovers from Alexander the Great's army, or remnants of the first Whites from antiquity?


Poppies growing in Argo, Badakhshan Province, in Afghanistan. Badakhshan Province is in the far northeast of Afghanistan. Baroghil Pass is to the east, on the southern border of the Wakhan Corridor on the border with Chitral Province in Pakistan. The post about bin Laden linked above has a lot of information about both Badakhshan and the profoundly isolated Wakhan Corridor.


One model of the origin of the East Asians and Whites shows both of them coming out the Middle East. I favor an alternate model that has them coming out of northern Pakistan. I also wonder what evidence there is for proto-Amerindians crossing the Pacific Ocean to come to America 13,000 years ago?

The origin of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, the true Aryans, lies with the Tajiks of Tajikistan. See my earlier blog post on the Tajiks for more on them.

The hatred of "Whitey" seen in many Indians comes from ruling class, upper caste and ultra-racist Hindutva scum. So, most Indians don't really hate Whites at all, and Dalits may even love Whites - many Dalits loved the British. It's more of an Indian ruling class hatred for the colonizer who shamed them and tried to take away their stupid, evil and insanely racist caste customs.

I do not think there is any way under democracy to uproot India's wicked caste system since it is so deeply entrenched. The only way is a complete revolution, possibly a Maoist one. As Indian capitalism kills at least 4 million Indians every year, I figure any system that kills a lot less than that is pretty much worth it.

For this reason, I support India's Maoist revolutionaries, fanatics though they are. Killing 4 million people a year is already extreme. Perhaps that necessitates an extreme response.

Single Spark is an excellent website that includes some great resources on the Indian Maoists, including their interesting monthly magazine, People's March. They also have a very interesting ongoing "Stalin Project", which seems to be a step in the right direction in evaluating the man.

The article below, written by Simon Jones, originally appeared on the NewsBlaze website. The article:


After responding recently to articles about the Indian invasion of America, I was finally encouraged to write an article about my experiences in the high-tech industry. Because of severance agreements, the names of my former company and former coworkers have been changed or omitted.

I am a computer programmer, and have been for 15 years. I worked for a company in California for 6 years, and I was the director of one of the R&D projects.

About a year ago, most of the other American employees and I were fired and replaced with people from India on H-1B and L-1 visas. The people from India were making only a fraction of what we Americans were making. I was making $110K a year; my replacement, $37K. The people under me were making about $75K; their replacements, about $29K.

To keep my severance pay, I was required to stay on for an additional six months (after the other Americans were fired) to train the replacements. This was probably the most humiliating experience of my life.

What I describe above is happening now every day.

Many of my friends in high-tech have also recently been fired, and are being replaced with cheap imported labor from India or China. Microsoft says there is a “high-tech shortage,” which is a lie. Almost every American programmer I know is now unemployed and has been replaced by a cheap import. There is not a “shortage.” Big business only wants more cheap labor.

But the story only gets better...

You would think that the Indians would be appreciative of being allowed to work in the United States, but this was very far from the case. Most of their conversations involved extreme hatred of America, Americans, and anyone of European descent.

Here are some examples of their daily conversations:

- Indians are the real “Aryans.” The Human Genome Project shows that Indians are closely related to Africans. Thus Indians and Africans are the real “Aryans.”

- All people of European descent (i.e. all whites) must be exterminated.

- Blond hair and blue eyes are inferior traits. By the year 2090, all people with blond hair and blue eyes will either be bred or executed out of existence.

- One day India will invade and take over. It is India’s destiny to rule over Whites.

- Christianity is a disease that can only be cured with a bullet.

- Although most of the Indians were Hindu, a few were Muslim, and they were quite openly fond of Bin Laden.

The Hindus, however, seemed to hate white Americans just as much as if not more than the Muslims. On this they could agree.

And then there is the story about Praveen.

Praveen, a Hindu from Northern India, was often very “touchy” with me and the other Americans. He was always shaking our hands and patting us on the backs. I noticed too that after touching me he often left “red marks” on my clothes, and on others’ clothes.

There was also a break room that only a few Americans frequented. (Indians never visited it.) And Praveen was always in there tampering with the coffee machine.

After seeing him one day pricking himself with a safety pin to make himself bleed, it all came together. He was trying to transmit his blood to others - either by direct contact or by putting it in the coffee machine.

I heard that he was HIV+ and was trying to transmit it to the Americans.

Praveen went back to India shortly after that, so no criminal action was able to be taken. But a few of the other Indians did transmit HIV to a couple of the American women - and seemed very proud of it.

Management of the company was informed of this, but they did very little to look into it. When I told our CEO that I suspected that the Indians were spreading HIV around the workers, he called me a “racist” and told me to be quiet.

I’m sure he was aware of what was going on - but simply did not care. Cheap labor is cheap labor, that that is the bottom line for big business.

The only loyalty of big business is profit, and they could care less about American workers, American values, or the well-being of the United States.

And what about the future of America?

Are we going to auction off every American job to low-paid imports until there are no good American jobs left? Are we going to let third-world hordes take over our high-tech sector until not a single American is left in any important position?

The only effective and patriotic way to stop this is by massive deportations of all the cheap labor from India and China. Otherwise, with the help of big business, we are well on our way to becoming a third-world country.


*My condemnation of Hindutva Indian ultra-racists is not coming from a White nationalist POV. Instead, it is coming from an anti-racist universalist POV that condemns all ethnic chauvinism and racism, including Black, Hispanic, Indian and Arab racism, to name a few.

It is no accident that the strongest allies of Hindutva are the quasi-fascist neoconservatives in the US and the Judeo-fascist criminals currently decamping in Palestine. Their discourse and abusive, obnoxious, belligerent and bullying mentality is much the same as Jewish radical nationalist Zionists.

Notes

1.The relationship of Hindutva to caste is very complex. Some of the movement's leaders were against the persecution of the Dalits, but in India today, almost all upper caste Indians are strong supporters of, or at least apologists for, the caste system (my observation).

My personal experience with Indians in India who are even slightly sympathetic to Hindutva shows that almost all of them support caste-ism in one way or another.

Typically, they either deny that there is a caste problem in India (all the castes get on just fine), deny anti-Dalit violence, claim that the real problem is reverse discrimination by Dalits, claim that caste is not really a bad thing at all and in fact is what has made India great, claim that the Dalits are happy in their lot (cf: US Southerners notion that the slaves were happy in the fields), etc.

It goes without saying that the Indians in the story above are Hindutvas (note their Indian supremacism, their hatred of Whites and Christianity, etc.).

The experience of Americans working with Hindu immigrants is that almost all of them are from upper castes or the Indian middle and upper classes. Our experience has been that a huge number of these Indians are strong supporters of caste-ism, in fact, they have committed the serious crime of infecting America with their sickening system.

Our observation is that these same Indians in the US almost all hate US Blacks and at the same time hate the Dalits of India, whatever concessions Hindutva theory makes to anti-caste-ism. In India today, the upper castes who engage in massive anti-Dalit violence are often supporters of rightwing Hindutva movements.

Those wanting to allow more and more Indian Hindus to immigrate to the US need to consider how many of them are bringing their sickening and wicked caste ideology to our land.

I suggest a screening process for Indian immigrants to see to what extent they believe in caste. Those who show strong support for it should be banned from the US. Further, support for caste-ism could be a reason to deport Indian immigrants from the US. The US doesn't need caste!

For more on the highly complex, and, as is typical for fascists, extremely dishonest Hindutva discourse on caste, see here, here and here. This article in particular is insightful.

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Interview With Andrew Winkler of Ziopedia

The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here.

Updated January 19, 2008:

The website Ziopedia and its owner, Andrew Winkler, leaped into the news lately due to the association of the website with a recent incident involving Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel and a Holocaust Denier in a hotel in San Francisco.
On February 1, a man who later identified himself as Eric Hunt in a net posting approached Wiesel in an elevator in the hotel where Wiesel was appearing at a conference on conflict resolution and asked for an interview. Wiesel agreed to do the interview in the Lobby. Hunt asked instead that they do the interview in Hunt's hotel room.

Wiesel insisted on doing it in the Lobby. As the elevator got to the 6th floor, Hunt stopped the elevator. When the door opened, he pushed Wiesel out, grabbed him, and tried to push him into his hotel room. Wiesel, age 79, started screaming and resisted. At that point Hunt ran away.

Hunt, a Holocaust Denier, anti-Semite, White Supremacist and neo-Nazi, submitted an article to Ziopedia on February 2 describing the incident, in which he said that he merely wanted to interview Wiesel and get him to confess that he made up lies in his book Night.

Hunt said that he did not intend to harm Wiesel. As Winkler makes clear below, he did not know that the article was about a real incident but instead thought that it was a spoof.

On February 7, the post appeared again, on Honest Media Today, an anti-Semitic and Holocaust Denial site which often isn't all that honest, under the rather humorous title, Interrogating a Weasel.

Personally, I intensely dislike Elie "The Weasel" Wiesel for a variety of reasons, namely his militant Zionism, and I understand than a number of hip Jews share my disdain for him. I'd say Eric Hunt is more of a creep than The Weasel, but it's a close call. Racist Nazi creep attacks racist Jewish creep, news at 11.

Around the same time, the same article, with the same appropriate headline, appeared on The Civic Forum, another anti-Semitic and Holocaust Denial site.

Strangely, a week later, the incident was finally reported in an article in the San Francisco Examiner, quickly followed by a story on Fox News. The story was later picked up by the Associated Press and several other major US papers wrote it up, as did a number of websites and blogs, Jewish papers and some papers in Israel.

Initially, it appeared that the reporting of the incident was fairly hysterical, implying a threat of violence when Wiesel in fact was not injured and there was initially no evidence that the accoster intended any harm to Wiesel.

I managed to dig up the obscure blog of "Eric Hunt", the fellow who committed the offense.

A look at his blog - ANSWP - which has the charming url of killjewsdotcom.blogspot.com - reveals an out and out flaming American Nazi, a member of the American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP - webpage here ), a spin off of a larger group headed up by well-known Roanoke, Virginia Nazi Bill White. Looking at Hunt's profile on his blog reveals this:

I am a soldier of ANSWP. I have the authority of our leader to confront Jew Liars and fake Aryans such as Alex Linder. I will see that they tell the truth, even if I have to beat it out of them. I will soon be visiting the heads of CAH, One Peoples Project, and The South Poverty Law Center. We need to have a nice "chat."

Hence, it appears that this "mission" to accost Wiesel had the approval of and was possibly commissioned by Bill White, and that it may have involved more overtones of menace and even possibly violence than was initially suggested. If I were the police looking into solving this crime, I would look in the direction of Bill White, commander of the ANSWP.

White's blog is here and his well-known and misleading webpage Overthrow is here. Commentary on the interesting and repellent Mr. White goes beyond the scope of this post, but a good overview can be found here.

The always-charming Mr. White bases his existence on threatening anyone who "disses" him, so it's possible I may get on his list by writing this. So it goes. He specializes in publishing the phone numbers and addresses of anyone who dares to confront him.

As far as why it happened, well, these Nazis are always looking to pull off publicity stunts of various types. They don't care if it's good publicity or bad; all publicity is good publicity to them. They don't have much support for their wicked little movement, so they are always trying to drum up more.

See this history of George Lincoln Rockwell, the most famous US Nazi, for a rundown on US Nazis' penchant for pulling off any stunt they can to get a few lines in the paper.

The police were said to be looking for Eric Hunt and felt that he had fled the West Coast to the East Coast, where it was thought that he resided. Police found a drivers' license in a car in the hotel lobby belonging to a man named Harry Hunt, who is a known member of a Holocaust Denial group but that has turned out to be a false lead.

A San Francisco Anti-Defamation League ADL spokesman said the post echoed writings by the famous French Holocaust Denier Robert Faurisson. As February 13, police were reportedly questioning a man back East regarding the incident.

Update February 17: Police have issued a $500,000 warrant for Eric Hunt, 22, of Sussex County, New Jersey. Hunt is charged with attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery, and committing a hate crime. Wow, they are really throwing the book at him. Oh well, he should have known better. At the moment, San Fransisco police say they they expect to arrest Hunt in the case very soon.

As a result of the incident, traffic to Ziopedia went through the roof, and so did the hate mail and threats. Much media attention focused on the previously little-known Ziopedia site and its equally obscure owner Winkler.

This interview has also been published on the Ziopedia site here. This blog has already received one hate mail in response to this interview from militant Zionist Jew Ron Yogman. You may contact him at his e-mail here to let him know what you think of his hate mails.

Yogman is "working the Ziopedia case" for his Jewish bosses. He has already gotten Ziopedia kicked off their Paypal account, then when they switched to StormPay, he got them kicked off that too. What's next Ronny? Yogman informed Ziopedia that "Paypal is a Jewish company". What's next, Ronny? Baseball bats? Midnight phone calls?

As part of "working the Ziopedia case", Yogman then apparently falsely flagged this blog as a "racist hate speech" blog, which is humorous, considering that one of the policies of this blog is anti-racism. I assume this is just the beginning of the usual militant Jewish Brownshirt campaign so many of us have come to expect.

I wonder if Jews like Yogman have any idea how much anti-Semitism they create and how much they intensify anti-Semitic feelings already existent in some folks by their thuggish behavior? Or is that the idea? Jews like Yogman are to Jews what Eric Hunt is to Whites. Jewish fascists and Mighty Whitey fascists deserve each other.

Ghetto Jew Ronald H. Yogman runs an public relations and advertising agency in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His business phone number is (727) 343-3700. His business address is 5511 Central Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. Here is a detailed map of his address if anyone wants to pay him a visit. Don't do anything illegal. He may actually reside in Dunedin, Florida, which is a bit to the north of St. Petersburg.

Ron is also Executive President of the Hillsborough Animal Health Foundation in Tampa, Florida. His number there is (813) 221-4804. He is also active in something called Tikva, Tampa Jewish Family Services. He's involved in that because one of his children, who will be nameless for the time being, is mentally retarded.

Ron worked as the former Business Editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent way back in the 1970's. He's also a supporter of the Florida Holocaust Museum.

He and his wife Claire E. Yogman, an early childhood consultant who until recently also sold real estate at Realty Executives in St. Petersburg, are members of the Michigan State University President's Club, which costs $25,000 a year to join. Ron graduated from Michigan University in 1964.

Ron's father, Harry L. Yogman of St. Petersburg, recently died on January 17, 2007 at age 90. That's only a month ago and Ron's still probably grieving about that so make sure not to mention it if you contact him. Ron is the author of a book called M.J.R. Profiles in Perseverance, which was published by the Great Outdoors Publishing Company. The book is seriously out of print and can't be found anywhere.

He has a long history of harassing any website that publishes anything he considers to be remotely anti-Semitic. Since is a deeply disturbed, paranoid and combative Jew with a chip on his shoulder as wide as the grand canyon is deep, he probably hallucinates four times the anti-Semitism that really exists.

But our sicko Judeophiliac (yes, it's a paraphilia) society rewards the Jewish fascists by giving them cushy jobs with fat salaries at the pinnacles of society and a blond shiksa on each arm, while the Mighty Whiteys are properly reviled. But why aren't Jewish fascists like Yogman treated with the same utter contempt and hatred that we treat a guy with a swastika armband? Instead, they rule America.

In response to various insipid accusations by reactionaries, let me say that, as a journalist, this blog will interview most anyone. Winkler approached us with an interview request and it was granted.

This blog has some serious differences with Winkler, which he acknowledges. To me, those differences are in the areas of German nationalism, Holocaust Denial, anti-Semitism, and obsession with conspiracy.

I'm not going to elaborate those differences, but if you spend some time on each site and you aren't a twisted or neurotic Jew, a PC-addled liberal or a morally neutered conservative, you should be able to glean them.

On the other hand, we are both anti-Zionists.



Preface: Can you give us some information about your background?

Andrew Winkler: I’m a baby boomer, born in Australia, grown up in France and Germany. Hence, I am fluent in English, French and German, and also speak a bit of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Foreign languages, history and culture have always been a passion of mine.

Both sides of my family are from Central Europe, with a mixed ethnic background: German, Austrian, Czech, Polish. Before, during and after WW2, they experienced racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing from both sides of the conflict.

My background is that of a post-graduate in computer science and business administration, including an MBA from one of the world’s leading business schools. I gave up a successful career as an IT executive to follow my vocation as a dissident activist.


Intro (vanity): I like to think that I inspired the name of the site Ziopedia. My article, Wikipedia, Ziopedia or Judeopedia, came out a few weeks before Ziopedia went online. I've always suspected that my article inspired the title. Did it, or am I just being narcissistic?

Andrew Winkler: (Laughs), to some extent. I first came up with the idea of calling the site Zioclopedia, and even registered a domain name for it. But the more I thought about it, the less I liked it. I then stumbled across your article and changed the name to ZioPedia.


Do you know who Eric Hunt is? What is your opinion about his post? Why did you accept it? When you accepted it, did you realize you were publishing a criminal's confession and description of his crime?

Andrew Winkler: I wouldn’t have a clue. When I first saw the article submission, I couldn’t stop laughing, because I thought it was a spoof written by some witty revisionist. When the massive and concerted media reporting hit us, I realized that it was more likely a Zionist plant, designed to discredit the revisionist community.


Have the police questioned you or asked to see Internet logs in any investigation of this case? Have police threatened to charge you with any sort of crime re: this case in any way? Have any authorities threatened to shut down your site as a result of this case?

Andrew Winkler: The police haven’t approached me, and quite frankly I don’t expect them to do so. They haven’t even spoken to Elie Wiesel himself. One of the many fishy things about this story is that he hasn’t jumped at the opportunity to talk to the media about it, which is totally out of character for him.


What is your opinion of "Eric Hunt" and the views he expressed in his piece?

Andrew Winkler: It’s a well known fact in the dissident community, both on the left and the right of the political spectrum, that Elie Wiesel’s supposedly non-fictional autobiography is in fact mostly fictional.

For example, he goes on and on in his book Night on how the Nazis slowly burned their victims to death in crematories, when all the other witnesses claim they were killed in gas chambers, not exactly a minor detail. But such is the power of the mainstream media, that hardly anybody outside of the dissident scene knows anything about it.


What is your opinion of the incident itself? Do you think a crime was committed? Do you think Mr. Hunt is a stalker? Do you think Hunt merely wanted to interview Wiesel, or that he had darker intentions? Do you think he assaulted Wiesel or merely accosted him? Do you regard Hunt's actions as appropriate and reasonable or bizarre and creepy?

Andrew Winkler: Coercing someone to a confession is a crime, regardless of the motives and whether it’s done by the Bush government or a Holocaust revisionist.


What is your opinion of Wiesel and his works? Do you think he is a representative of Norman Finkelstein's Holocaust Industry? What do you think of Wiesel attending a conference on conflict resolution?

Andrew Winkler: Finkelstein, one of the most outspoken critics of the ‘Holocaust industry’, calls him a clown. That’s one of the nicer ways of putting it. In my opinion, he is a fraud. He has done an incredible amount of damage to the Palestinian and German people.


What do you think of the way that this incident is being portrayed in the media? Do you regard it as a tempest in a teapot? Many Jews, judging from reactions on the blogs and the Jewish and Israeli press, responded to this incident with panicked reactions that "the Nazis are coming back", "Nazism is right around the corner" and "now we need Israel more than ever".

Do you think these Jewish reactions are reasonable, or are they examples of paranoia and victim addiction? Do you think that Organized Jewry works overtime to keep the Jews in a state of "pogrom panic" to prevent the assimilation of the Jews and to support Zionism?

Andrew Winkler: The media thrive on stories like that. Don’t forget that most of Western media are owned and controlled by Jews blindly supportive of the racist Zionist entity. They need stories about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism as a means of controlling Western public opinion.

Many Internet sites and some papers called Ziopedia an anti-Semitic site, a hate site, etc. How do you respond to such charges? This blog's position is that there is maybe 20% anti-Semitic content on Ziopedia but the rest cannot be characterized that way, and some of it is even overtly Zionist.

In your position statement, you say you oppose "trailer trash racism" against Jews. What is that? White Supremacism and neo-Nazism? The notion that Jews are genetically and racially corrupt? If you oppose racial anti-Semitism, why do you run articles by racial anti-Semites on your site - to give one example, the article by Mr. Hunt?

Andrew Winkler: In the olden days, an anti-Semite was someone who hates Jews. These days it’s someone the Jews hate. All you need to do is criticize Israel or the Israel lobby and a lot of people call you an anti-Semite.

Some of that is deliberate, politically motivated libel, and some of it is Skinner box-like reflexes due to 60 years of Zionist brainwashing. Personally, I hate nothing more than bullies and racists. They push my buttons. That’s exactly why I’m so opposed to the Zionist entity.

Most of the articles written on the ZioPedia site are written by Jews, some in favor, some opposed to Apartheid Israel. Every article that comes in is treated equally. As long as it is somewhat related to the topic of Zionism and - by my standards - isn't racist, I'll post it.

I consider racism to be the discrimination against someone solely because of his or her race. I don't consider saying anything critical about Jews or Israel as a form of racism, unless the criticism is based on racial grounds.


What's your position on Israel? Do you want to dissolve it? Do all the Jews have to leave or can they stay and live with Arabs?

Andrew Winkler: I consider Israel to be the most racist and violent political entity on the planet. It must be a replaced with a free, united and egalitarian Palestine. At the end of the day, it’s up to the Palestinians to decide whether they can live day to day with those racists, after 60 years of violent oppression. I couldn’t.


You have been called a German nationalist. Is that an accurate portrayal? How is German nationalism different from other forms of nationalism such as Zionism?

Andrew Winkler: Having pride in your nationality, your ethnic background, and your heritage is healthy, as long as it doesn’t lead to supremacism and discrimination against others. I feel strong sympathy for the German people, as I do for the Palestinians, but given the fact that I was born in Australia and have lived here most of my adult life, I am first and foremost an Australian.


How many visitors a day do you get? A week? A month? How many death threats and hate mails do you get? Are they mostly or all from Jews? Are you willing to discuss financial matters? Advertising income? Donations income?

Andrew Winkler: ZioPedia.org became very popular in only the second month of its existence, thanks to a Howard Schultz spoof letter I wrote, drawing the attention to the little known fact that the Starbucks chairman supports Apartheid Israel’s propaganda efforts with hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

That letter, A Thankyou to all Starbucks customers, got read by more than 100,000 readers on the ZioPedia site alone in the first month of its publication, and was republished on hundreds of other sites all over the world. From then on, we kept growing, with over 100,000 new readers each month discovering our site.

These days, I measure our performance not so much in how many people visit our site each month, but how much hate mail and many death threats we receive each week. Less than three is poor, three to nine medium, and ten or more excellent. Most of the writers don’t elaborate whether they are Jewish or not. Of those who do, about half are Jewish.

Most of our income is from one-off donations from our readers, Given the fact that we had to go through three server upgrades so far in the nine months of our existence, we rarely break even. But then again, ZioPedia is not about making money. It’s about fighting evil.


Who works on the site? Just you? Anyone else?

Andrew Winkler: I am the only person working full time on the site. Apart from that, there are dozens of part-time volunteers from all over the world helping me – an hour here and there - with editing and publishing.

Is there now a campaign to shut you down? Why did Google pull its Google ads off your site? Did you violate some policy of theirs? Is it true that Paypal is threatening to cancel your site for a disingenuous reason? Are you aware that they shut down Joe Vialls' conspiracy site for similar reasons? Who is behind this campaign, do you have any idea?

Andrew Winkler: There is definitely something going on. Most likely, the ADL or CAMERA have someone on our case. We have increasing problems with hackers, denial of service attacks and viruses.

Numerous Internet security software vendors have blacklisted us under categories such as hate, violence, racism and political extremism, with the result that more and more of our readers have difficulties visiting our site from work or public libraries. And yes, Google ads have been disabled for our site, without notice, and we have been advised that PayPal is going to disable our online payment account.


Have any of the people who send you hate mails and death threats gone to the next level? Have you received such calls at home? In one of the hate mails to you, the Jewish author said that there were militant Jews following you and watching you. Do you have any evidence that these folks are watching you? Have any of them ever accosted you in person in any way?

Andrew Winkler: I refuse to let those threats get to me. I am very passionate about my work and prepared to pay any price for it, and I mean any.


Update: This interview has been linked to a couple of rightwing blogs, Randy Shackleford's famous Jawa Report and by a deranged person named Rob Taylor who runs a blog called Red Alerts. Jawa's "Dread Pundit Bluto" was upset that this was a "softball" interview, despite the fact that I generally do not conduct confrontational interviews, especially with someone I know.

Taylor hallucinated passages in this interview whereby I show my sympathy for Nazi National Socialism. If any careful readers want to read this interview and see where I am sympathizing with Nazism, please send me an email or point it out in the comments page.

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The Jews of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Lebanon

Updated January 31, 2008:

The standard Zionist line, repeatedly endlessly by Zionist propagandists to all who will listen, is that there are no Jews in "Arabia", or certainly none in Saudi Arabia.

Clearly, there are still Jews living in Yemen, which is a part of Arabia. In some ways, these very traditional Jews have it better than they have ever had it in Yemen, where traditionally, the life of a Jew was one most of us would consider to be difficult.

As a sign of changing times, although there are only 200 Jews left in Yemen, the ruling party recently nominated a Yemeni Jew to run on its platform as a parliamentarian representing the northern region.

This was a very controversial move in Yemen, and unfortunately ran up against the stumbling block of a regressive law that says that everyone running for office must be a Muslim.

Since one of the religious laws of the Yemeni Jews was that they were not allowed to serve in the army or government of the state (How is that for a dual loyalty problem?), this law meant nothing to the Yemeni Jews, and neither was it an issue under traditional Islamic rule, when non-Muslims were kept out of the military and probably discouraged from government office too anyway.

The fact that a Yemeni Jew considered running for office shows that the remaining Jews are giving up some of their strict, traditional religious rules. Some rules, however, remain. For instance, the Yemeni Jews refuse to eat with non-Jews, and intermarriage is strictly forbidden. The rule about eating was actually a normal practice for all pious European Jews up until about 1800 or so, a little-known fact.

Also, many Yemeni Jews both inside and outside Yemen continue the ancient Jewish practice of prostrating themselves for daily prayer, similar to what Muslims do in a mosque. European Jews generally only do this nowadays, if at all, during portions of certain prayers during the Jewish High Holidays. So, in some ways, the remaining Yemeni Jews are stuck in time.

The Yemeni Jews that remain are presently banned from certain occupations (probably more by traditional Muslim prejudice than by state law), allowed to live only in certain parts of towns, forbidden to serve in the military or government and have little interaction with their Muslim neighbors but unfortunately, it has always been that way in Yemen.

On the ban on serving in government or military, note above how this is possibly changing in the government aspect, and how this was a traditional Yemeni Jewish law for themselves anyway.

See here for a great webpage, Chayas, on the Yemeni Jews. The Yemeni Jews are some of the most religious Jews in the whole world, and have always been deeply religious.

For instance, on the daily prostration for prayer still practiced by Yemeni Jews, see this near-obsessive Chayas webpage, Did You Prostrate to God Today?, that endlessly plumbs all of the possible ins and outs of how to properly prostate oneself, the specific 12 steps required, the history of such prostration, religious debates about prostration, and on and on.

On the Chayas pages, there is a page on the traditional religious laws of the Yemeni Jews. One is stricken by how similar these laws are to those of an Islamic society:

• Men and women may not bathe together.


• Women may not bathe in the sea, even in a woman-only area, if there is a male lifeguard.


• Women may not bring boys older than 3 to the women's bathing beach.


• Women may not bathe in the sea where there are men and women present together.


• One must not look at a picture of a woman.


• A woman may not look into the home of an unmarried man.


• Women and girls over 6 years old may not ride bicycles because parts of their bodies that should be covered get exposed.


• All married women must wear head coverings.


• Married women must wear a head covering, even when alone in their own homes.
  

An excellent overview of the Yemeni Jews can be found here. On this Chayas page, we see some of the traditional difficulties in identity faced by many Yemeni and other Arab Jews. In one article on the page, the author proudly proclaims herself to be an Arab Jew. This is now a controversial position in Israel, where the Arab Jews are now referred to as Mizrachi Jews (actually Mizrachi covers all Jews of the Asian lands).

Sometimes the Mizrachi are subsumed into the category of Sephardic, though Sephardic traditionally refers to the Jews of Spain and Portugal, who later moved to Italy, Greece, the Balkans, Turkey and Latin America, with some moving to North Africa.

Nowadays, it is quite common for militant Israeli Arab Jews to demand to be called Mizrachis and to say that if anyone called them an Arab Jew, they might hit the person. This is clearly an outgrowth of the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The Arab Jews were pretty much forced out of their lands by the creation of the state of Israel. Riots erupted across the Arab World and hundreds of Jews were killed amidst a general atmosphere of terror. Many left with little but the shirts on their backs. Many had most of their money confiscated upon leaving and were allowed to take few possessions.

Their homes, properties and money were in many cases confiscated by Arab governments. This is clearly an injustice but the Palestinians experienced a similar injustice, and the Arab Jews at least have the right to go back to their home countries, but almost none of them seem to be interested in doing so.

A few years ago, the son of Muammar Qaddafi, who is being groomed to replace the leader, asked the Libyan Jews to return to Libya. None of them took him up on his offer. This is a typical mindset of the Arab Jews, and this is the crucial difference between the Jewish and Palestinian refugees that lies at the core of the conflict.

The notion of "population transfers" - actually sickening, Nazi-like, super-racist episodes of ethnic cleansing - is frequently brought to the table during Middle East discussions, especially by liberal Zionist Jews. Pakistan and India, Turkey and Greece are mentioned, along with Israel and Palestine. The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is equated with the largely voluntary flight of the Arab Jews.

The notion is that both populations fled, so the circle is squared and the conflict is over. Yet...the Arab Jews do not wish to go home! And those that do, just pack up and do so, as we shall see later on in this post. But the Palestinians, virtually alone amongst the world's refugees, are not allowed to return to their lands!

This is at the very root and heart of the conflict, and until there is resolution of this issue, I do not think that peace is possible. In a larger sense, it is deeply disturbing that liberal Zionist Jews, the most progressive of Zionists, casually and glibly equate Zionism with some of the worst horrors of the 20th Century, such as the mass slaughters that accompanied the creations of Turkey and Pakistan.

The flight of 800,000 Arab Jews from their lands was accomplished in part by Zionist terrorists, who, disguised as Arabs, killed Jews in Iraq with hand grenades and bombs in order to terrorize them into fleeing to Israel. The government of Israel cut a deal with the pro-British government of Iraq to deprive Iraqi Jews of their rights and property, to deprive them of employment and ultimately to confiscate their wealth.

All of this was cleverly done to facilitate the flight of Iraqi Jews to Israel. Upon arrival in Israel, 50% of the Iraqi Jews' money was immediately seized by Israeli authorities and was never given back. Arab Jews experienced pronounced racism from the Ashkenazi ruling class.

In fact, getting the Arab Jews into Israel was a necessity for the newfound Israeli state. 800,000 Arabs had been thrown off the land and there were not enough workers to work the fields and do manual work, despite decades of working class and back-to-the-land propagandizing by socialist Ashkenazi Zionists.

Even the terrible riots that swept the Arab World were complex. In many cases, especially in Iraq, local Arabs fought off Arabs who attacked the Jews and helped to hide the Jews from the mobs. In most cases, the number of Jews killed was in the scores. The usual Zionist transcription of this madness as "Arabs try to do Holocaust 2 on the Arabs" is false, as reality was more nuanced than that.

The Chayas article by Dr. Ella Habiba Shohat, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Women's Studies at CUNY-City University of New York, Reflections of an Arab (Iraqi) Jew is typical of the identity issues that many Arab Jews face.

She says that when her Iraqi Jewish parents came to Israel in the 1950's, they thought that the Ashkenazi European Jews were actually European Christians - this is how alien the Ashkenazi seemed to her Mizrachi parents.

In Israel nowadays, the political delineation, a line drawn with blood and guns, is "Arab versus Jew". For many Arab Jews, this makes no sense, as they see themselves as both. For centuries in the Arab World, despite Ashkenazi Zionist revisionist BS, there had been no such distinction. The only delineation was religious. People were either Jews, Muslims or Christians.

Modern Israel and the Diaspora Jewish community are hostile, to say the least, to the very notion of Arabness or Middle-Easternness outside of their Zionist primordialist nonsense.

This in spite of the fact that Israeli Jews now have adopted many Arabic words into their Hebrew, have added many Arabic dishes to their national cuisine (falafel is a national dish) and have adopted Arabic architecture to their homes and buildings. All while adopting a discourse of hatred for the very Arabs whose lands and homes they stole to make their gangster state.

All of the above is difficult for the Arab Jew. I remember reading a piece by a Yemeni Jew who went to Israel and never felt at home. At one point, he was living in a home in Israel and hired an Arab gardener who told him up front that he had used to own the home that the Yemeni Jew was now living in. The Yemeni Jew was so upset that he moved.

The Yemeni Jews never spoke Yiddish and know nothing of it. The women never wore wigs either, and the Yemeni Jews continue to disdain this common Ashkenazi Orthodox practice as heretical. If you go to their synagogue even now, the music sounds like it is coming from a mosque.

In opposition to what we call the Judeo-Christian tradition, the experience of the Arab Jews can only honestly be described, painful as it is for Zionists, as a Judeo-Muslim tradition.

In Israel, Arab Jewish women dye their hair blond to hide their hated Arabness. The men, suspected of being "Arabs", are arrested and beaten. The profound racism of the past has significantly diminished, but as recently as the 1970's the racism of Ashkenazis towards Mizrachis in Israel was as bald-faced and unselfconscious as one found in the US South in the 1960's.

The history of this naked racism has been systematically hidden from Americans by the Zionist Ashkenazi Jews who have plotted to dominate our media.

Their Gentile colleagues do not dare to run such an article, as they live in terror that the US Zionist (Jewish) Lobby would bombard them with hostile phone calls and letters to the editor, drown them with calls for resignation, stage demonstrations in front of the office, threaten advertiser boycotts and plot media campaigns of character assassination by Zionist fellow travelers.

Wherever their minds are at, media Gentiles know who signs the checks.

This situation of an ethnic lobby dominating a nation's media, then terrorizing the same media into de facto censorship, is profoundly undemocratic and hostile to (so-called) basic American values. Whether or not it is an innate value for US Jews with "zero-sum game" Middle Eastern tribal values of ethnic warfare and hyperethnocentrism is not important.

In the late 1800's, Karl Marx said that in 100 years, he predicted that America will be a Jewish country. And so it has come to be, for better and for worse.

European Jews term their movement from the Diaspora to Israel (in a gratuitous insult to the Palestinian natives) as an aliya or an ascent. For the Arab Jews, it has always been a yerida or descent.

In Shohat's excellent piece, she notes a common Mizrachi complaint - that what they see as their rich, wonderful history has been co-opted and revisionized by Ashkenazi Jews into the party-line Ashkenazi "pogrom and persecution" history of the Jews.

Interestingly, many Mizrachis vociferously object to this and see it as an invalidation of their culture. As Shohat protests:

The Jewish experience in the Muslim world has often been portrayed as an unending nightmare of oppression and humiliation. Although I in no way want to idealize that experience--there were occasional tensions, discriminations, even violence--on the whole, we lived quite comfortably within Muslim societies.

Our history simply cannot be discussed in European Jewish terminology. As Iraqi Jews, while retaining a communal identity, we were generally well integrated and indigenous to the country, forming an inseparable part of its social and cultural life. Thoroughly Arabized, we used Arabic even in hymns and religious ceremonies.

The liberal and secular trends of the 20th-century engendered an even stronger association of Iraqi Jews and Arab culture, which brought Jews into an extremely active arena in public and cultural life. Prominent Jewish writers, poets and scholars played a vital role in Arab culture, distinguishing themselves in Arabic-speaking theater, in music, as singers, composers, and players of traditional instruments.

In Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia, Jews became members of legislatures, of municipal councils, of the judiciary, and even occupied high economic positions. (The finance minister of Iraq in the '40s was Ishak Sasson, and in Egypt, Jamas Sanua--higher positions, ironically, than those our community had generally achieved within the Jewish state until the 1990s.)

Note that Shohat speaks positively of the tremendous achievements Mizrachi Jews made in the 20th Century Arab World before the creation of Israel. In typical Ashkenazi Zionist histories of Arab Jews one finds on the Internet, the entire 20th century histories of the Arab Jews of each Arab land is described only as a litany of woes, crimes, persecutions, killings, and general unpleasantness.

As Shohat notes, there is another proud history there, when in the 20th Century, Arab Jews reached the peak of power and influence in their societies, and more importantly, played profound roles in the modernization of their backward societies.

But I digress. This post was to be about the Jews of Arabia. As I noted above, Zionists love to talk about the fact that "there are no Jews in Saudi Arabia". At times, they also sometimes wallow in primordialism by ranting about how Mohammad supposedly killed and ethnically cleansed all of the Jews of Arabia in the 700's.

The Zionists who talk like this actually say that, as a response to these supposed crimes by Mohammad against the Arabian Jews, Zionists had a right to steal Arab Palestine from Arab Muslims in revenge! I kid you not. Now tell me that Zionism is not a form of insanity.

The fact is that standard history says that there have been no Jews in Arabia proper for centuries. It is true that Mohammad did fight wars against three tribes of Arabian Jews (who apparently had come to Arabia after the destruction of temples by the Romans 500-600 years before).

In one of these battles, the battle against the Banu Nadir and Banu Qurayza at the Battle of Kaybar, he executed hundreds of Jews after they surrendered, stole their lands and possessions and enslaved their women. In another war against the Banu Qaynuqa, Mohammad took their possessions and banished the tribe.

In the Battle of Kaybar, Mohammad took a Jewish slave woman, Safiyya bint Huyayy, as a bride. One Muslim tradition has it that a Banu Nadir woman, angry at what he did to her tribe, slowly poisoned Mohammad, from which he apparently died. This hadith is not very well-attested but is a favorite of Muslim anti-Semites.

The truth, as usual, is so much more complicated. It turns out that there were nine separate Jewish tribes in Arabia. Mohammad only had conflicts with three of these nine tribes. With the other six, the Banu Auf, Banu Harif, Banu Jusham, Banu Najjar, Banu Shutayba, Banu Sa'ida, Mohammad made peace and signed the Constitution of Medina with them, in which they were allowed to retain their Jewish religion.

Clearly, the ultranationalist Zionist notion that Mohammad killed all the Arabian Jewish men, enslaved all their women, stole all their stuff and ethnically cleansed them, is simply false.

After the recordings in the Koran, the trail of the Arabian Jews grows dim. We find one clue in the controversy over the apparently false hadith, in which Mohammad supposedly said on his deathbed, "There shall no other religion in Arabia".

This fake hadith is used by the Saudi ultrareactionaries to disallow the open practice of any non-Muslim religion in Arabia, to forbid the building of non-Muslim houses of worship, to mandate that all Saudi citizens must be Muslims, and to allow only Muslims to visit Mecca.

The hadith, probably written long after Mohammad died, is dubious for several reasons. For one, history tells us that Christians, and possibly Jews, lived in Arabia for at least 200 years after Mohammad. If Mohammad actually said this, why were non-Muslims allowed to reside in Arabia for 200 years after his death?

Furthermore, are we to believe that non-Muslims lived in Arabia the whole time during Mohammad's rule with his permission, yet Mohammad suddenly changed his mind on his deathbed and decided they had to leave, yet this was not enforced until 200 years later?

What we do know is that 200 years later, under the influence of this dubious hadith, apparently all Christians, and possibly any remaining Jews, were thrown out of Arabia.

Yet the history of Arabian Jews is more mysterious than even this poorly-attested history.

Saudi society is virulently anti-Semitic these days for various reasons. An example of this nasty anti-Semitism is a a fad in Saudi society to accuse various Saudis one does not like, especially members of the Saudi royal family whose commitment to Islam is suspect, of having Jewish ancestors.

Saudi history (mostly oral) is insistent that a number of Saudi tribes supposedly have Jewish origins. They all apparently converted long ago. Therefore, at the very least, a fair number of the ultra-Muslims of Saudi Arabia are actually converted Jews, as hard as it may be for either group to accept.

Now we find a shocking obscure gem of a web page on the Jews of Iraq from August 2001 that suggests that thousands of Saudi crypto-Jews exist to this very day. From the page:

Wow! What a fantastically historical site you have!! My name is Joseph ElHadef, and I live in NY. I am Greek, Hungarian, Egyptian, and Iraqui. In the article from Montefiore Hall the lecturer mentions that Mr. Dangoor spoke to a crypto Jew in Saudia Arabia, tell me more about this incident? I had two Kuwaiti friends at Hofstra University in NY and they both told me that there are STILL Jews in Kuwait? As well as Bahrain? Tell me more about the Saudi Jews!

Joseph ElHadef

Scribe:

A crypto Jewish couple from Saudi Arabia with their twelve children came to London a few years ago and visited the offices of the Exilarch’s Foundation, asking for help to obtain a visa to enable them to emigrate to Israel. However, the Israel Embassy in London turned down their application and they decided to travel to Jordan and move over to Israel clandestinely.

According to their evidence there are thousands of crypto Jews in Saudi Arabia who lead a separate existence from the main population. To our knowledge, there are no Jews living in Kuwait, but a number of Jewish families still live in Bahrain, mainly of Iraqi origin.

It looks like the Zionists who love to rave about "no Jews in Saudi Arabia" may need to reform those frothing rants in light of this suggestive new evidence that there at least 2,000 crypto-Jews still living in Saudi Arabia! At the least, I think these possible crypto-Jews of Saudi Arabia ought to be investigated by an intrepid, discreet reporter.

One more Zionist lie about Saudi Arabia ought to be disposed of, while we are at it. Zionists love to rail about how, supposedly, no Jews are allowed in Saudi Arabia. Along the same lines, some acknowledge that Jews and Christians are allowed in Saudi Arabia, but are not allowed to practice their religion, according to such august sources as the New York Times. These falsifications really need to be dealt with.

Without defending the fundamentalist cretins in the House of Saud, the fact is that there are quite a few Christians and even some Jews living in Saudi Arabia. None are citizens. All are immigrants working there for foreign companies. Prior to March 1, 2005, the Saudi Tourist Office website had a notice that Jews were not allowed to enter Saudi Arabia. Never mind that many did anyway.

On March 1 of last year, that notice was removed along with a statement apologizing for any inconvenience it may have caused. And, as the nice Crossroads Arabia blog (written by a Western expat living in the Kingdom) notes, there are both observant Jews and observant Christians amongst the expat community, and both are permitted to practice their religions. They are not permitted to proselytize or hold public religious services.

However, foreign business and government offices have facilities that they use to hold religious services for their non-Muslim workers. Furthermore, many of these organizations have what are called "dual-use" employees - workers who also serve to lead these non-Muslim services.

As you can see in the comments on the Crossroads Arabia blog, a favorite Zionist line is that there are virtually no Jews left in the Arab World, while there was an 800,000 strong community before a certain s-tty little country came into existence. That the emergence of this stolen state had something to do with the loss of the Arab Jewish presence is not acknowledged.

The loss of the Arab Jews is used by Zionist super-racists to continuously bash the Arab World over the head. What is truly disturbing about this line, though, is the way in which many of these Jews left the Arab World. For instance, in Operation Magic Carpet in the early 1950's, virtually the entire 40,000-strong Yemeni Jewish community was airlifted out of Yemen.

Many of the Yemeni Jews claim that they were taken out virtually against their wills, that children were separated from parents, that they were rudely sprayed with disinfectant as soon as they landed in Israel and that they have been treated like crap in Israel ever since.

This has been a pattern. In the late 1980's, a Jewish community, the Chabani Jews, was discovered in the mountains on the disputed border of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Although they were actually living in Saudi Arabia (I thought there were no Jews in Arabia!?), they were not citizens.

In contrast to the stereotype of the Jew as "rootless cosmopolitan", these Jews were living the life of the noble savage. They went barefoot in the desert and the men all carried long guns on their backs at all times to defend themselves in this dangerous, tribal region.

Upon learning of the existence of these Saudi Jews, Israel immediately went crazy and demanded that this small group of Jews had to go to Israel "for safety" right now.

Never mind that they had been running around in the desert without significant incident, living lives as normal as anyone else in the region lived, for as long as anyone could remember. They were promptly airlifted out to Israel, where I seriously doubt that they are all sitting on the boards of major Israeli corporations by now.

By 1990, towards the end of the Afghan-Soviet War, it was discovered that there were still a few Jews left in that forlorn land, mostly in Kabul, but a few in Herat. This was for the most part a community of Iranian Jews that moved to Afghanistan long ago and developed its own customs. They had weathered the war about as well as anyone, and apparently did not want to leave.

Israel immediately had an international conniption fit and demanded that all of these Jews had to leave Afghanistan and go to Israel right now. An airlift was organized and most of the baffled Jews took the bait and left. Only one Jew, Zebulon Simontev, remains.

It is important to note that when Israel "rescues" these communities that are usually not even in danger, they bribe them to come to Israel. They are often offered large cash payments, a free house, a free income for 5 years or more, etc. It is not surprising that many take the bait. In this manner the entire remaining Afghan Jewish community was decimated - by Israel!

Even after the Taliban took over, there were still 2 Jews remaining in Kabul, Zebulon Simontev and Isaac Levy. They had stayed to take care of the crumbling synagogue and the scrolls. What was interesting was that the Taliban, who we are continuously told are "Islamofascists" dedicated to exterminating all the Jews on Earth, did not even bother to kill these 2 Jews, although it would have been a trivial exercise.

In fact, they were allowed to live freely with no restrictions. They did get into problems with the Taliban because they were into fortune telling, which was illegal under the Taliban. Both of these Jews was jailed for a few weeks for this offense. These two Jews got on great with the Muslim neighbors, who were truly fond of them.

Wait! I thought all Afghans were "Islamofascist" exterminationists? Tragicomically, these two Jews, though the last remaining of their community, utterly despised each other, and spent most of their time fighting each other in various ways. Their constant fighting seems to have landed them a couple of Taliban jail terms too.

My point here is that whenever a Jewish community turns up in the Arab or Muslim World, Israel immediately races to "rescue" them with an airlift and massive bribes. In this manner have many of these Jewish communities been decimated in recent years.

Then, at the same time, Zionists have the most outrageous chutzpah to say, "There are no Jews left in the region!", and blame the poor Muslims and Arabs, when Israel is, nowadays anyway, one of the major reasons for that dearth.

Now, on to the Jews of Lebanon. I recently found a fascinating blog called The Jews of Lebanon! That was a very nice find. One very interesting article there says that 250 Jews had just returned from the Diaspora to Beirut on July 6, 2006, as they felt that the atmosphere was finally safe enough for them to return. Hooray!

It fascinating to note that only six days later, Israel launched a massive invasion of Lebanon that pretty much destroyed Lebanon. Although it seems insane to suggest such a thing, it is perfectly possible that one reason for the Israeli invasion was the return of the 250 Jews to Beirut. I realize that sounds crazy, but Israel is a very crazy country. Bear with me.

Israel is completely hostile to the notion that Jews can live peacefully anywhere in the Arab World and has engaged in repeated provocative behaviors seemingly intended to frighten Jews into leaving Arab lands. See my notes above about the murderous Israeli attacks on the Jews of Iraq and see below for a reference to the Israeli attacks on the Beirut synagogue during 1982.

Soon after Israel attacked Lebanon in July, the Jews of Lebanon blog posted a statement strongly condemning the attack. For this, apparently, they were attacked by a violent swarm of Zionist Jews ferociously assaulting them for being "traitors". The authors of the blog were so shocked by this assault that they made a post called Enough is Enough, telling the Zionist furies to buzz off.

The standard history of the Jews of Lebanon goes beyond the scope of this post and can be found here on the US-Israel site, among other places. The history on that webpage strangely starts at 1948, but I am sure that Jews have been in Lebanon for long before that.

Mitchell Bard's history on the US-Israel Zionist site, as you can see, is the standard Ashkenazi "pogrom and persecution" history of the Jews, grafted onto the experience of the Mizrachi Jews, in this case the Jews of Lebanon.

Note that, idiotically, on the US-Israel site, the webpage "Jews of Lebanon" is linked under the larger category, "Anti-Semitism", as if anti-Semitism was only salient fact of the Lebanese Jews' existence!

A close glance at The Jews of Lebanon blog shows that many of them probably reject this Ashkenazi mangling of their history. According to Bard's history, the population dropped from 12,000 in 1948 to less than 100 in 2004.

We also learn of some sad and awful cases where Hezbollah, in the insanity of the Lebanese Civil War, killed some Lebanese Jews simply for being Jewish. It is also interesting to note that during that war, Israel seems to have deliberately bombed one of the main synagogues in Beirut, apparently in order to help push the Lebanese Jews into fleeing, hopefully to Israel.

This is in line with standard Zionist practice.

Zionism assumes, adopting the dishonest line from the Jewish religious Haggadah, "Every generation, they rise up to kill us..." that no Jew in the Diaspora is ever safe, that Gentiles (even the most Judeophilic) are permanently afflicted with anti-Semitism, that anti-Semitism is not understandable by humans except as some sort of bizarre infection of pure evil or utter insanity, and that the only safe place for any Jew is Israel.

Therefore, all Jews in the Diaspora must move to Israel as soon as possible. This is a bizarre formulation for a couple of reasons.

First of all, Zionism is possibly a stupid way to go about protecting the Jews. Is it really intelligent, if the Jews are always in danger of imminent extermination, to gather such a huge percentage of them into one tiny country, where they can be wiped out all the easier?

Second of all, Israel is now probably one of the most dangerous places on Earth to be a Jew.

If we take extreme liberties with the truth and refer to every attack on Israelis as a murderous or at least violent "anti-Semitic assault", there are probably about 13 violent anti-Semitic attempted homicides in and around Israel every single day at the moment. A number of them end up killing and hurting Jews or at least damaging or destroying their property.

Comparing this to the latest out-of-breath report by the ADL about anti-Semitic incidents in America is an exercise in comedy. If one Jew is killed in an anti-Semitic assault in the US in a given year, that is notable.

Anyway, back to Lebanon. On The Jews of Lebanon blog, there is a linked article from the super-Zionist hard rightwing Israeli Ynet website called, Beirut's Last Jews. This is a typical Israeli "pogrom and persecution" Zionist crapola sob story.

However, the article makes some interesting points, probably inadvertently. It notes that prior the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during the 1950's and 1960's, the Lebanese Jews had good relations with the other sects in Lebanon (to the extent any ethnic group has good relations with others in such a fractious and sick land).

What is particularly interesting are claims by Lebanese Jews that they had superb relations in particular with the Shiites of Lebanon.

As Israel bombarded and invaded Lebanon repeatedly through the 1970's and finally invaded en masse in 1982, all of that ended, the Shia radicalized, and Hezbollah was born. All of which portended ill for the Jews of Lebanon. The lesson here is clear. The more Israel attacked Lebanon, the worse things got for the Lebanese Jews.

And the despicable lie that pounds our ears night and day these days, with Iran and Lebanon richoceting off the news, that the Shia Muslims have always harbored, continue to harbor, and will always harbor genocidal hatred for Jews, based on the immutable texts of the Islamic religion, is exposed as the hate speech that it truly is.

See the execrable but interesting and erudite Andrew Bostom's Muhammad's Willing Executioners on Robert Spencer's disgusting and bigoted Jihad Watch site and Hezbollah's Creed: Jihadism and Jew Hatred on the disturbing Atlas Shrugs blog of a young, beautiful, bright, articulate New York neoconservative Jewish publisher named Pamela with clear dual loyalty issues, for two recent examples.

The hyperventilating, but well-done and well-written, blog Villagers With Torches by "neoconservative liberal" Jew and former civil rights activist Epaminondas is one continuous inciteful rant against Hezbollah and Iran, among other anti-Semitic entities real and fantasized, and a nonstop, in your face advertisement for the War With Iran that the dual loyalty crowd (Israeli Lobby) - vividly personified by Epaminondas - is currently shoving America headfirst into.

We know very well where the primary loyalties of Jews like Epaminondas lie, and it is not with the America of their birth. Instead, it lies with their tribal links to a vicious little vile racist state in the Levant.

For more, just listen to or read the nonstop incitement by imperialism and Zionism for an apocalyptic war of aggression against Shia Muslim Iran emanating from your TV or the weekly news magazines.>