Exceptional speech about race and discrimination

Posted on February 21, 2011 by jewamongyou

Destructure links to this video on his blog.  I highly recommend it.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKgHc6bWqZ4&w=480&h=390]

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My involvement with Shas

Posted on February 20, 2011 by jewamongyou

These days, anybody who is familiar with Israeli politics, has probably heard of Shas, the Sephardic religious party.  It is typically believed that the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, was responsible for forming Shas.  Indeed, the wording in Wikipedia is misleading:

The party was formed under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (a former Israeli Chief rabbi), who remains its spiritual leader today.

Yes, it is likely that the political party was formed by Ovadia Yosef.  But the movement itself was not.  I was actually involved in the movement before R. Yosef even knew about it, so I do speak with some authority on the matter.
A dear friend of mine, at the time, had invited me to a meeting in a synagogue located in the Bukharian quarter of Jerusalem.  She was friendly with one or two of the speakers and thought I might be interested.  A few days later, I showed up at the meeting, which was held in semi-secrecy in the evening.  There were about 20 or 30 of us and refreshments were served.  While I do not remember the details of each of the two or three speeches that were given, I do remember that the organization was not intended to be a political one at that stage.  Instead, it was intended to be something of a civil rights group for Mizrahi Jews in Jerusalem.  A serious question was also raised: at what point should R. Ovadia Yosef be notified of the existence of our organization?  Though the group was not, at that point, political, everybody knew that this might change.  It was believed that R. Yosef was beholden to the established, and almost exclusively Ashkenazic, religious political party – Agudat Israel.  There was a real fear that he would quash our movement even before it got started.  As a member of the establishment, there were doubts that R. Yosef could be trusted at this early stage.
The next meeting I attended involved hundreds, if not thousands, of people.  Word had gotten out.  At some point (I cannot remember exactly when) we were given flyers to hand out.  The movement had definitely become political and was going to run for seats on the Jerusalem city council.  The backing of R. Yosef had been secured as well, and this was decisive.  A war of flyers broke out, with the established (and very powerful) Agudat Israel playing dirty tricks to dissuade people from supporting the new party.
In the very beginning of its political phase, Shas was known as “Shat”, which stands for “Shomre Torah” (keepers of the Torah).  A few flyers were printed up, initially, using this acronym.  It soon became known that another registered political party was already using those letters.  There was some discussion as to what to call ourselves instead.  A decision was made to change it to “Shas”, which is also an acronym for “the six orders of Mishna” and is symbolic of the body of Jewish law.

A page from an early flyer using the name “Shat”

 

… another flyer, with the new name, “Shas”

A flyer urging Sephardic Jews to remain loyal to Agudat Israel

I was fairly active in promoting the new movement back then.  It seemed to me that their grievances were legitimate ones.  The establishment party, Agudat Israel, had a stranglehold on political power within the religious community.  Though it received much of its support from Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews, very little benefit or recognition was seen in return.  Agudat Israel cronies used taxpayer monies for their own pet causes and organizations.  The uppermost flyer, pictured above, reads, “a public representative or a private representative”.

The rise of Shas was a good example of a truly grass-roots movement succeeding beyond its wildest dreams – and in a very short amount of time*.  I was a volunteer during the first Jerusalem election that included Shas.  We counted the votes at the end of the day.  The feeling of triumph, when it became clear that Shas had beaten Agudat Israel by a large margin, is hard to describe.  Each party was represented among the volunteers and the faces of those who represented Agudat Israel changed over the course of the counting process.  On their faces I saw disappointment, frustration – and finally a forced respect.  There was a new kid on the block and they had no choice but to resign themselves to the new reality.

Many years have passed since those exciting days.  Is Shas now just another political party?  Is it just as corrupt as the others?  Has it worked toward worthy goals and sought to strengthen the traditions of the people who voted it into power?  I am not sure I want to know; I fear the worst.  As for me, I did what seemed right at the time and those memories continue to bring me pleasure.  As for the future, there are other banners to carry and other battles to be fought.  So much of the fun is in the fight that, at times, victory seems almost irrelevant.

* All this took place in 1983 and 1984

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HBD among the Asians

Posted on February 18, 2011 by jewamongyou

HBD oriented Asian blogs seem to be popping up around the internet.  Personally, I am tickled.  This development is promising because American society is not as strict with Asians, as it is with whites, when it comes to the taboo against honest discussion about race.  If HBD becomes fashionable among Asians, this could provide a foothold for whites to also espouse such opinions.  It could be like sushi or Yoga.  One SWPL would say to another, “hey, did you hear about HBD?  It’s this cool new Asian philosophy!!”
There are far more Asians in the world than there are whites.  If a majority of Asians (even just East Asians) accept HBD, then those whites who continue to cling to their dusty and useless racial equalitarianist beliefs would find themselves increasingly isolated and marginalized.
Asian race-realism does not have the unfortunate baggage that white race-realism so often carries; from what I’ve seen so far, their outlook tends to be kinder and gentler.  The fact that they do not face minority status in their own lands certainly has much to do with this.  We would do well to try to emulate them in this regard – but without losing our sense of urgency and activism.
Some examples of Asian HBD proponents are Steve Hsu, whom I have already written about, Sagat Says and Oriental Right.  We should ally ourselves with them, contribute to their sites and befriend them.  Though there are Asian supremicists , who are enemies of all who are not Asian, we should be able to distinguish between them and our friends with ease.  It would be much more beneficial, for our movement, to ally ourselves with like-minded Asians than with whites who seem to share our goals – but who, in fact, are poisonous.
Some might say that Asians are drawn to HBD because, within the world of HBD, they are generally at the top of the I.Q. totem pole.  Perhaps there is some truth to this.  More likely, I think, they are drawn to HBD because they are intelligent enough to recognize its merits.  Ultimately, we should strive for a world where human differences are acknowledged and respected.  Where policy is based on truth rather than blind faith.  Where it is understood that each race and ethnicity has a right to its own lands and where peaceful commerce and intellectual intercourse are the norm.
It could be claimed that those Asians who live in America are part of the problem; by participating in the displacement of whites, from the nations whites created, their actions speak louder than words.  I do not believe this is a fair standard to hold them to.  If somebody disagrees, perhaps I’ll dedicate a separate post to explain why I feel this way.
In the meantime, I give Asian HBDers the official Hebrew blessing of “ken yirbu” – may they multiply!

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Islam is a symptom, not the problem

Posted on February 17, 2011 by jewamongyou

A reader sent me this youTube video.
When I watched it, I thought to myself, “this is intriguing and the presenter is well-spoken and seems well-informed.  I wonder how Muslims would respond…”  So I watched this video.
It should be obvious, to any objective viewer, that Muhaddith puts thewhiteroses to shame in the composition, presentation and substance of his rebuttal.  But we should not be surprised; just as a couch potato cannot defeat an Olympic runner in a sprint, so too an outsider cannot prevail in a theological debate with somebody who spends all his days (probably for most of his life) poring over his religious texts.  Of course it is possible that Muhaddith is fabricating everything he says, taking advantage of our ignorance to deceive us – but this is not the impression most people would get from his video.
Look closely at any major religion and you will find numerous sects and denominations.  This is because religion, like politics, can be almost anything its followers choose to make of it.  Of course we can find horrible things in the Quran and the Hadith.  The same is true of the Bible, the Talmud and probably the Vedas.  Those who are inclined to be evil people can find many excuses for their activities within their respective holy books.  Good-hearted people also derive comfort and support from their holy books.  It is the person who makes the person.  Not the book he calls “holy”.
For us to focus on the minutiae and intricacies of any given religion, in a bid to prove that its adherents are evil, is a losing battle.  It is possible that, in an alternate reality, Europeans would rally under the banner of Islam and the brown peoples of the South under the banner of Christianity.  But this is not how history played out.  In our reality, Islam came to represent the Southern peoples and Christianity the Northern peoples (very roughly, of course).  As a result, many customs, mores and attitudes of that Southern region, that may not actually be original components of Islam, have become attached to the people who practice Islam.  For us, it makes little difference if female genital mutilation (FGM) is a “part of Islam” or not.  What matters is that those who practice such abominations are colonizing our native lands.  It also matters that those who call themselves “Muslim” do not take a strong enough stand against such practices, even if most of them do not practice them personally.  Most importantly of all, it matters that our lands are being taken away from us, through massive migration and birth-rate differentials, by alien peoples.
I am fairly certain that, if we asked a member of a conquered people what his main concerns were, the religion of the intruders would not be high on the list.  Though it is true that Islam is an aggressively proselytizing religion (like many Christian sects), the only reason it is gaining a foothold among native Europeans is that the latter have rejected their own spiritual traditions.  Where there used to be native European beliefs or Christianity, there is now a vast void – just waiting to be filled by anybody willing to fill it.  It just so happened that Muslims were geographically convenient for the elites to import and so Islam has taken that role.  Europeans should fight back because Islam represents subjugation of the peoples of the North to the peoples of the South and because it comes with a lot of nasty baggage.  European paganism and Christianity are far from perfect themselves but, if “religion is the opium of the masses” then Europe should partake of its own opium, not somebody else’s.

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Posts now indexed

Posted on February 17, 2011 by jewamongyou

I have finally done what I should have done long ago.  I have gone through the blog and indexed most of the posts according to topic.  Now it should be easier to find past posts.  I realize that the list of categories may not be perfect, and the inclusion of any particular post, into a particular category, may not be perfect, so please feel free to send suggestions.

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German outpost in Brazil

Posted on February 16, 2011 by jewamongyou

The webmaster of Human Stupidity mentioned to me that there is a small region, in Southern Brazil, that was settled by Germans back in the 19th century.  What is remarkable about it, especially the city of Pomerode, is that a majority of the population continues to speak the Pomeranian German of their ancestors.  From the Wikipedia article about it:

Pomerode was founded by PomeranianGermans in 1861 and is considered the “most typically German of all German towns of southern Brazil”.
One very remarkable characteristic about Pomerode is the fact that Pommersch is still being preserved by the majority of the local population.
In Pomerode, as in some other localities in southern Brazil (Santa Maria de Jetibá, Espírito Santo, among them), the German language is not a foreign language, but a Brazilian linguistic regionalism.
For a good part of the 20th century, the Brazilian government did not encourage people to speak the German language. As a matter of fact, at times it was actively repressed and prohibited, like during Getúlio Vargas‘s presidency. Today on the other hand the German language is part of the curriculum in local schools and strongly encouraged by the local governments throughout southern Brazil.

The largest proportions of whites, in Brazil, can be found in the South.  Hence, the standard of living tends to be higher there and crime is lower.  According to Wikipedia, 79% of the South region of Brazil is white.  In Pomerode, the percentage is in the 90’s.  So it is no surprise that blacks and mulattoes trickle in from the North to take advantage of this.  One of the tragedies of the political entity known as the “state” is that it tends to homogenize minority populations within its arbitrary boundaries.  Since the regional population lacks the autonomy to restrict immigration into its own territory by political/military means, it is left to the mercy of economic trends.  The minority population must, in a sense, choose between retaining their own national character by remaining poor and backward (so that few outsiders would want to move there), or improving their standard of living and losing their ethnic/racial identity due to the migration of undesirables.
Though there have been secessionist movements in the South of Brazil, it would seem that the odds of success are slim to none.  The only apparent options available to them, to preserve their own identity into the future, would be continued underground intimidation of intruders or to convince the central government to restrict the movement of people into their region (as the Indian government does with some of its tribal areas).  Realistically, I doubt there is any chance that a Western government would make any sort of accommodation for white groups within its territory.  The exclusion of the Amish from social security taxes was a rare exception and was by virtue of their religion, not their race.
If I were a native of Pomerode, I would start a campaign to inform outsiders that, although their tourist money and visits are welcome, they are not welcome to stay and settle.  Billboards could say, “Welcome to Pomerode!  Enjoy yourself – and then go on home”.  This sort of campaign has been done before – but the details escape me at the moment.

 

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Israelis protesting genocide of Afrikaners

Posted on February 15, 2011 by jewamongyou

Thanks to Charles for sending me the link.

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Conquering the land

Posted on February 14, 2011 by jewamongyou

There is an ancient Jewish saying, “a woman is merely real-estate” (ha-isha qarqa’ be’alma).  The analogy being that, just like real-estate, a woman can be bought in one of three ways (according to Jewish law).  Also, just like the land, a woman bears fruit several months after being sown.  But there is yet another analogy.  Whenever one people wishes to conquer another people, it does so through the women of the subject people just as it does so by seizing its lands.
A commentator, called Gerry, linked to an article, in his comment on my post about Hoosier Nation, that discusses the ongoing problem of Jewish women marrying non-Jews in Israel – specifically Muslims.  The relationship between Muslim men and Jewish women in Israel is very much like that of black men and white women in the U.S.  In both cases, the men view the women of the subject people as both trophies and a means of “getting back” at their supposed oppressors.  To the extent that love is involved, it is a love born of hate.  Israeli Muslims hate Jews, so they seek out the soft underbelly of the Jewish people, its women, as targets.  Black men hate whites, so they seek out the soft underbelly of white people, its women, as targets.  Sometimes this takes the form of rape, other times it takes the form of dating and romance – but the goal is the same: a feather in the hat of the man and a blow against his enemy.
It is no accident that the vast majority of Muslim/Jewish couples involve a male Muslim and a Jewess, just as it is no accident that the vast majority of black/white couples involve a black male and a white female.  In both cases, the male is using “love” as a weapon against the target population.  In both cases, women of the target population perceive such men as being more “masculine” because of their raw crudeness and vulgarity.  There is a certain type of woman that is attracted to this.
The cited article reads in part:

Marriages between Jewish women and Arab men took center stage at a meeting of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women this week, when committee chairwoman Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) hosted a hearing on the subject in honor of Jewish Identity Day in the Knesset…
“We must confront the fact that the country has not valued education, which is the only way to prevent Jewish women from forging life connections with non-Jews,” Hotovely said.
“The struggle against assimilation only reaches headlines through stories about Jewish women marrying Muslim men, but it is important to remember that the phenomenon is much wider – 92,000 mixed families live in the State of Israel. There is a need to create a curriculum for girls in high schools that deals with Jewish identity. The fact that girls reach a state of intermarriage testifies to the fact that the education system was absent.”

As a Jew, I am encouraged that public officials in Israel take this matter seriously.  On the other hand – where is the outcry, in the U.S., against the targeting of white women?

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Hoosier Nation

Posted on February 12, 2011 by jewamongyou

Until a few days ago, I had never heard the term “Hoosier”.  Thanks to Matt Parrott, I am now not only familiar with the term, but I even have a historical grasp of its origins and its current meaning.  In fact, after reading his book, “Hoosier Nation”, I almost wished I was a Hoosier myself.  Parrot paints a loving portrait of his people in this book and, at the same time, encourages Hoosiers to embrace what they have left of their long-suffering, and battered, identity.
As I read the book, I found myself nodding in agreement time and time again.  Confronted with the wisdom within its pages, I found it hard to believe that the author is barely 30 years old!  For example:

… we have to lead the way. setting  an example for other Americans to emulate in embracing their own heritage.  We have to stop and reflect on our Hoosier identities, celebrating what we retain of our heritage and reviving what we’ve lost.  If you pronounce “wash” as “worsh”, continue to do so.  Embrace your Hoosier twang and resist the popular culture which equates our accent with inferiority…

Regular readers of this blog already know how I treasure linguistic distinctiveness.  Retaining our own flavors of English (or whatever language) is not simply a symbolic statement of ethnic identity, but an affirmation of it with every word we utter.  Parrott has taken a group of Americans, that is too often assumed to be without any real ethnic identity, and given them an identity – or rather, given them back their identity.  Part of me wants to say that any true American is, at least partly, a Hoosier – but I won’t.  Only a Hoosier can be a Hoosier, but to a certain degree, traditional America is an extension of the Hoosier nation.
Visit Parrott’s webpage/ radio station here.  The entire text of the book is available here.

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Give Jared Taylor and Amren another chance

Posted on February 11, 2011 by jewamongyou

Some people have been saying that two screw-ups in a row is too much.  After reading those comments, I have wondered about other public people.  Let’s take a look at Jesse Jackson.  He calls himself “reverend”, which supposedly means he is a “man of God”.  Yet he cheated on his wife and had a child out of wedlock.  What was the reaction of black Americans?  They overwhelmingly forgave him for his gross indiscretions.  Jesse Jackson does not champion a worthy cause.  He probably does not have a moral bone in his body and makes his living through extortion.  Now let us take a look at Jared Taylor.  His public conduct has been nothing less than exemplary and his cause is a worthy one.  He has worked tirelessly, and fearlessly, so that our children and grandchildren might have a brighter future.  He has been hounded by thugs and regularly insulted both by Jews and anti-Semites.  He has harnessed his intellect and eloquence for a largely thankless cause.  So certainly we can show at least as much patience with him as blacks show toward Jackson.
Who, among us, has invested even a small fraction of what Taylor has invested for the sake of our movement?  So two conferences in a row were  cancelled.  This is unfortunate – but they do not negate decades of selfless service.  Jared Taylor is not the CEO of a company, who has failed his stockholders.  He is not a politician who has reneged on his campaign promises.  He is a private individual who was trying to do the right thing and is “flaw” was that his moral standards were superior to those of his foes.  His foes used this against him.  I am certain that nobody is as distressed, by this whole affair, as he.  After all the years he has put in on our behalf, we should consider him family and treat him as such.  This much he has earned.
As for me, I have decided that if there is another American Renaissance conference, I shall attend if at all possible.  I only ask that it be held in a location that is immune from the dirty tricks of the past.

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