I was hesitant to write on the
subject while the Pittsburgh dead weren’t buried yet. I know, it is not a valid
consideration for the militant pundits. The US Jews accused President Trump and
the Israeli Jews blamed Palestinians for the shooting as on the cue before the
victims were declared dead. However, you can’t talk sense before the dead are
laid to rest. Now we can deliberate on guilt and blame.
The man who killed eleven Jews
in Pittsburgh did it to have his objection to immigration heard. If he would be
allowed to say that on his page in Facebook, instead of being blocked, these
old people would still be alive. If the New York Times would allow
anti-immigration feelings to be expressed and discussed on paper instead of
being delegitimised, these old people would be still alive. The closing of all
but ultra-liberal outlets for opinion expression had created a powerful pent-up
pressure that caused the already unhinged man to go crazy.
If there are no newspapers, no
public TV stations, not even a post in Facebook to say what you are eager to
say, sooner or later guns will do the talking. Surely the guys who organised
this massive silencing and censorship campaign are smart enough to expect
exactly this outcome. They aren’t entitled to act surprised.
The US has never had a mass
shooting of Jews until now, but the US has never had such an effective
silencing campaign with at least half of its population including the President
banned from sharing their marginalised views. It is elementary physics, the
pent-up pressure leads to explosion. Problems should be discussed and feelings
vented, otherwise people will die.
President Trump, a simple soul,
said the Jews had to defend themselves and install armed guards. Jews have
enough armed guards. There is an Israeli-established institution that
trains and arms Jews for the Jewish organisation in Pennsylvania. The US Jews
have enough of everything, and a lot of power, but they are short of
responsibility. Irresponsible power breeds hubris, while hubris leads to
nemesis in the shape of a man with a rifle.
Instead of taking
responsibility for their actions, Jews prefer to deny it. At a demo confronting
President Trump upon his arrival to Pittsburgh, they flatly denied their
actions in favour of immigration. The gunman, they said, “believed anti-semitic
lies that Jews were funding the caravan.” At the same time, before the victims
were buried, the Jewish organisations, such as HIAS, swore they will continue
to deliver immigrants to the unwilling country, even if it is against the law.
They defied the law by hiding illegals and protecting the smugglers. This
readiness to break or bend the law is a dangerous feature for a powerful but
rather small elite group. They should stick to the law with both hands, instead
of setting an example of embracing illegality.
Indeed some ethical
considerations could be placed above the law, but not with such abandon, not
with such ease. Antigone broke the law and buried her brother, but she was not
surprised to die for this transgression. These guys break the law and expect to
be lauded for that.
Why American Jews support
immigration, while Israeli Jews do not allow Gentiles to immigrate into the
Jewish state? Double standards, you’d say. They do to you what they do not want
to be done to them. – Not exactly. The Jews consider themselves a unique
exterritorial community, while other nations are territorial. In the much-loved
New Year prayer, the Jews praise Almighty for “He didn’t make us as the Nations
of the Lands, the Families of the Earth” (עלינולשבחשלאעשנו כגוייהארצות ולאשמנוכמשפחותהאדמה).
In the Jewish view, the
difference between [non-Jewish] territorial nations is of slight importance in
comparison with the existential distinction between Jews and the nations of the
lands. For this reason, Jews aren’t ‘racists’ – they do not think one race is
preferable to another. Excepting Jews, for sure, who are a totally different
story. As all Gentiles are quite the same for Jews, preferences (aka racism) of
a Gentile are silly and meaningless, in the Jewish eyes.
Iroquois may consider
themselves totally different from Huron or Blackfoot, but for the Europeans,
all of them are Red Indians. Likewise, for Jews all Gentiles are quite the
same.
Though this beautiful Jewish
non-racism of being above races is based on theological grounds, it has
economic consequences. Jewish economics is a miraculous magic of turning
anybody’s blood and sweat into gold, and this magic works fine with whites,
blacks and Latinos. Jews were traditionally into money, and the money of the
black is of the same colour as the money of the white. The black and the white
pay the same rent for the apartment the Jew lets them. The Mexican and the
German pay the same commission to the Jewish bank.
Jews are exterritorial, in
contra-distinction to the rest of humanity, to the Nations of the Lands. Israel
is a brave [British?] experiment to ‘range Jews’ (in the words of Halford
Mackinder), and indeed settled territorial Jews of Israel behave like all
settled nations: they understand the difference between tribes and object to
immigration. The US Jews still act as exterritorial Jews: they approve of
immigration as it enlarges the pool of available customers. This is fine; such
views are legitimate; Jews always embrace them. What is not so fine, that they
tend to delegitimise the regular view of territorial nations.
If there is a lesson to Jews to
be learned from Pittsburgh shooting it is “you should act responsible”. The
Jews took control over a valuable public resource, that is the US mass media,
and use it for their advantage with childish abandon. This is irresponsible.
They should allow other views to be published and discussed without being
marginalised and delegitimised.
Whenever people complain about
Jewish behaviour, the Jews usually answer with the accusation of antisemitism,
a mysterious and eternal Gentile hatred of Jews. This is too easy. The second
lesson is “be more critical to yourself”. If your child comes home and
complains about being bullied, you should ask him in what way his behaviour
contributed to it. Bullying is surely bad, but the victim contribution should
be discussed and taken care of.
Alas, in the modern paradigm it
is not encouraged. There is a veritable taboo on dealing with victim
contribution, whether it is the sexual misconduct or immigration argument. While
unreservedly condemning the criminal action, we should also help victim by
discussing his or her contribution.
If you want to eliminate
negative feelings towards Jews, you should listen to complaints. If people
complain about Jewish landlords or Jewish bankers, there is a easy way for a
Jew, that is to retort “It is an old antisemitic canard” and a hard way: don’t
be a landlord, don’t be a banker, eat your bread by the sweat of your brow,
behave towards your non-Jewish neighbour in the same way you want him to relate
to you. Take a position for regulation of banks and landlords. Do not allow
them to skin people, for they will blame Jews.
Do not use your Jewishness as a
spade to dig with. If you want to help refugees, or promote free trade or gay
marriages, do not say “I do it because of my Jewish principles”, for it is
silly. If you want President Trump to be impeached or re-elected, do not call
for it “as a Jew”, do it as an American. Leave Jewishness for your Sabbath.
The victims weren’t connected
with the immigration issue at all. There is no possible justification for the
murder. But the sick head of the murderer accepted as positive truth silly
claims of the immigration activists that they act as Jews and for the Jewish
cause. They should be more cautious and more responsible before they claim
acting for the whole body of American Jews.
Be honest and avoid weasel
words. If you support affirmative action for blacks and Latinos, demand the
Jews to be counted as a separate group. At present, the affirmative action is
fuelled at sole expense of the white Gentiles, while the Jewish students still
have their seats at the Ivy League secured, as Ron Unz proved.
If you support immigration of
labourers, demand recognition of their learning certificates. If you are a
physician, demand immediate acceptance and unlimited entry of foreign doctors.
If you are a lawyer, ditto. It is unfair that immigrants you invite and bless
can’t compete with you.
If you don’t do it, show your
understanding of people who had suffered because of immigration and positive
discrimination, instead of calling them ‘racists’. This is called for by the
Jewish law saying ענייעירךקודמים, the poor of your town should
be attended before the poor of other towns. Usually Jews think it refers only
to poor Jews, but you may count it in a more general way.
Some Pittsburgh mourners
wrapped up in Israeli flags. This is not appropriate. The Squirrel Hill Jews
didn’t come under fire because of Israel, though Israeli government ministers
were pleased to use the occasion to do their shtick and call for aliyah and for
eternal hatred to Arabs and Muslims (unless they are called Mohammed bin
Salman, live in Riyadh and want to fight Iranians). Israeli Jews have their own
reckoning; their treatment of Gaza will bring retribution on their heads yet.
The US Jews will do wise if they would not undersign this huge and growing
debt.
Their own debt caused by
irresponsible behaviour should be taken care of. And that can be done by paying
heed to complaints of their fellow-citizens.
Israel Shamir can be reached
at adam@israelshamir.net
This article was first
published at The Unz Review.
