Why Do Socialists Hate Jews?

Judaism Without Embellishment

This topic has been a puzzle to me for a while.  The phenomena has its roots with marching orders from Moscow, relabeling and regurgitating The Protocols of the Elders of Zion for the modern Socialist.  The Leftist Socialists of the world perform incredible linguistic felonies when they try to explain away their antisemitism, especially when they think they are speaking only their fellow bigots and their words get played to the world:

Helen Thomas is not the only example of course, but her example is one that the media finally decided to examine, rather than just brush away.  Also, Ms. Thomas decided to take the long-winded approach to her semantic laden bigotry.

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, sums the issue up nicely with Helen Thomas as the object of his example:

Helen Thomas was fired for saying that the Jews of Israel should move to Europe, where their relatives had been slaughtered in the most devastating act of genocide in history. She believes that once the Jews are evacuated from their ancestral homeland, the world's only Jewish country should be replaced by what would be the world's 23rd Arab country. She believes that Palestinians deserve a country of their own, but that the Jews are undeserving of a nation-state in their homeland, which has had a continuous Jewish presence for 3,000 years, and has been the location of two previous Jewish states. This sounds like a very anti-Jewish position to me, not merely an anti-Zionist position.

In college and after, I heard the attempts to explain away this bigotry the same manner.  The people who thought Jews were "bad" and got called on it would say they were really anti-Zionist.  Leftist friends would explain away the statements of Mideastern students in that way.

David Hochman

In an interview with Playboy magazine by David Hochman, Thomas performed without a net and in a performance that eclipsed a famous Obama interview, she monkeyed around with her words but never wavered in her hate for Jews.  By-the-way, that Playboy interview is hard to find now.  I trust that this copy at Veterans Today is a correct and authorized copy.  Perhaps I am over quoting the article here, better than under quoting, but go to the article and see for yourself.

Helen Thomas

PLAYBOY: It was your follow-up comment, when you said the Jews should go back to Poland, Germany and America, that really infuriated people.

THOMAS: Well, that immediately evoked the concentration camps. What I meant was they should stay where they are because they’re not being persecuted—not since World War II, not since 1945. If they were, we sure would hear about it. Instead, they initiated the Jackson-Vanik law, which said the U.S. would not trade with Russia unless it allowed unlimited Jewish emigration. But it was not immigration to the United States, which would have been fine with me. It was to go to Palestine and uproot these people, throw them out of their homes, which they have done through several wars. That’s not fair. I want people to understand why the Palestinians are upset. They are incarcerated and living in an open prison. I say to the Israelis, “Get out of people’s homes!” It’s unacceptable to have soldiers knocking on a door at three in the morning and saying, “This is my home.” And forcing people out of homes they’ve lived in for centuries? What is this? How can anybody accept it? I mean, Jewish-only roads? Would anyone tolerate something like that in America? White-only roads?

PLAYBOY: You mean Israeli-only roads, not Jewish only, right? [Editor’s note: Israel closes certain roads to Palestinians, but roads are open to all Israeli citizens and to other nationals, regardless of religious background.]

THOMAS: Israeli-only roads, okay. But it’s more than semantics because the Palestinians are deprived of owning these roads. This is their land. I’m sorry, but we’re talking about foreigners who came and said, “God gave this land to us.” [Former Israeli prime minister ­Yitzhak] Rabin said, “Where’s the deed?” I mean, come on! Do you know that an Arab Palestinian trying to go home to see his mother has to go through 10 checkpoints and then is held there, while an American tourist can go through right like that? The Palestinian people have to carry their kids to hospitals and are not allowed to drive cars and so forth. What is this? No American Jew would tolerate that sort of treatment here against blacks or anyone else. Why do they allow it over there? And why do they send my American tax dollars to perpetuate it?

Even she says it is semantics, meaning that Jew and Zionist are interchangeable. This also goes to a bit of mass deception perpetuated by journalists, academics and other mouthpieces of Socialism.  The false notion that only Jews are Israeli citizens, the false notion that only Jews can vote in Israel.  In the mind of Thomas and others, saying that Israeli roads are for Jews only is not inaccurate, since they think that only Jews can be Israelis.  Even the typical #OWS protestor can agree with her.

Not sure if Thomas has the convoluted the view that Palestinians should be voting in Israel, but that would fit.  This is the common and bizarre notion that is rarely challenged in the press.  For decades after WWII the US, France and British occupied Germany but Germans were never allowed to vote in France, England, or the USA.  Did anybody ever question that?  Of course, nobody in the media ever questioned Warsaw Pact countries being 'denied' a vote in Moscow either.  Here in the US, the only non-State that gets electoral college representation is the District of Columbia.  But somehow, the Jew Israel bashers think that the people of Gaza should be voting in Israel.

Thomas had more to say about Jews in her interview, especially about Jeffrey Goldberg, who I quoted above.  Links to the blockquote added by me.

PLAYBOY: Do you have a personal antipathy toward Jews themselves?

THOMAS: No. I think they’re wonderful people. They had to have the most depth. They were leaders in civil rights. They’ve always had the heart for others but not for Arabs, for some reason. I’m not anti-Jewish; I’m anti-Zionist. I am anti Israel taking what doesn’t belong to it. If you have a home and you’re kicked out of that home, you don’t come and kick someone else out. Anti-Semite? The Israelis are not even Semites! They’re Europeans, and they’ve come from somewhere else. But even if they were Semites, they would still have no right to usurp other people’s land. There are some Israelis with a conscience and a big heart, but unfortunately they are too few.

PLAYBOY: In the wake of your anti-Israel comments, a blogger from The ­Atlantic argued there’s really no distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. He wrote, “Thomas was fired for saying that the Jews of Israel should move to Europe, where their relatives had been slaughtered in the most devastating act of genocide in history. She believes that once the Jews are evacuated from their ancestral homeland, the world’s only Jewish country should be replaced by what would be the world’s 23rd Arab country. She believes that Palestinians deserve a country of their own but that the Jews are undeserving of a nation-state in their homeland, which has had a continuous Jewish presence for 3,000 years.…”

THOMAS: [Interrupts] Did a Jew write this? [Editor’s note: The writer is Jeffrey Goldberg.]

PLAYBOY: “…and has been the location of two previous Jewish states. This sounds like a very anti-Jewish position to me, not merely an anti-Zionist position.”

THOMAS: This is a rotten piece. I mean it’s absolutely biased and totally—who are these people? Why do they think they’re so deserving? The slaughter of Jews stopped with World War II. I had two brothers and many relatives who fought in that war against Hitler. We believed in it. Every American family was in that fight. But they were liberated since then. And yet they carry on the victimization. American people do not know that the Israeli lobbyists have intimidated them into believing every Jew is a persecuted victim forever—while they are victimizing Palestinians.

Jeffrey Goldberg responded in a short and very classy way.

Is Thomas seems unaware that the persecution and slaughter of Jews began long before WWII and continued long after?  Ignoring this is certainly in line with denying the wrongs of Stalin while being faithful to her antisemitic roots.  Seeing it as no big deal fits right in too.

The Soviets did not start bashing Israel right away.  They were, in fact, the second country to recognize Israel as a nation, the USA was first. Israel began as a Socialist leaning state, that the Soviets and the French found very appealing.  The Soviets cut diplomatic relations in 1967, during another war that involved Israel's neighbors wanting to drive all the Jews into the sea.  Like a jilted lover calling his ex-girlfriend a lesbian, they ramped up the antisemitism, disguising it as anti-Zionism (Zionology).  Useful idiots in the West, like Helen Thomas, are more than willing to spread the hate long after their Soviet puppet masters have retired.

UPDATE:  A Twitter user provided this comical response to my tweet about this post -

@stormkrow stormkrow

@JohnTagliaferro Why would Jews hold Kol Nidre service at #OWS. The only anti-semite in your thread is #GlennBeck

Glenn Beck as antisemitic in a thread about Helen Thomas?  He also directed another tweet at me claiming Obama governs closer to Reagan than FDR and "facts tend to have a liberal bias."  See what I mean? I don't remember what Reagan nationalized (if anybody has info on that, please forward) but I just named what Obama did in that direction yesterday. Check for show times for stormkrow at the Funny Bone!

Fascists As Bloodthirsty Jew Killers? History Begs To Differ

One of my ongoing quibbles with the chattering classes is the usage of fascist.  They toss it around like an insult while pretending to not know what it means, or worse, not having a clue to what it means.  For one thing, it is an insult to me because I do not have a socialist spec of blood in my body.  When I point this out, they get upset and say or type it in all caps - FASCIST!

If anybody tells you that Hitler invented it, that is either a teachable moment or grounds to dismiss them to protect your sanity.  No Nazi ever called himself a Fascist and Hitler joined the already existing National Socialist German Worker's (Nazi) Party when he was supposed to be spying on them for the German government and Mussolini's Fascist Party was already big in Italy.

The Leftist problem is one of their own making that keeps biting them when they try to express themselves in written or spoken language.  The problem of changing the meanings of words at a whim until they become meaningless.  In actuality, Fascism is a form of Socialism, of the National Socialist variety.  Nazism is a form of Socialism too, also in the National Socialist group.  Mussolini used it as a vehicle to promote Socialism in Italy because his beloved Communist party was not gaining enough popularity to impose "fairness and equality" on everybody in Italy.  Remember, to the Socialist, fairness is stealing other people's property and equality is equality of misery for everybody but the smart people running the show.

International Socialism or Communism, is experiencing the same X-Brand Socialism makeover as I type.  A growing chorus of neo-Socialists proclaim that Communism was not Socialism and object to the term International Socialism as some sort of slander.  All that is fodder for another post and will be examined in depth in How Many Borders Would You Like With That Socialism?

Now, what were the major National Socialist regimes of the World War II era?  Italy, Germany, France and Spain for sure with the United States, England and the Soviet Union making 'valiant' attempts at becoming National Socialist regimes, with the Soviets remaining the only totalitarian regime of that set.

Now, how many Jews did each round up and murder?

Spain - ZERO

During World War II , Franco-led Spain aided the Jews by permitting 25,600 Jews to use the country as an escape route from the European theater of war, provided they “passed through leaving no trace.” Paradoxically, though Spain later cultivated relations with Arab countries, it also assisted Moroccan and Egyptian Jews who survived pogroms.

I wanted to use Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism citation of Franco's repeal of the 1492 Spanish Edict of Expulsion (Alhambra Decree), however Franco did not repeal that act until 1968.

Italy under Mussolini - ZERO
Mussolini was never a big fan of anti-Semitism like his fan and ally Hitler was.  Jews of Rome occupied high positions in Mussolini's Fascist party, like Aldo Finzi, from the beginning and up to 25% of the Jewish population were party members.  However, the same anti-Semitism that swept Europe in the late 1930s showed up on his desk around 1937 and a series of anti-Jewish laws were enacted.  By 1940 Mussolini created the Campagna camp and housed Jews there, refusing to deport them to Germany.


Italy after Mussolini - 7,500
Italian resistance to German demands for Jews to be sent to their death was blatant.  The Italian commanders in Croatia and France refused German demands outright, with support from Mussolini.  No Jew was relocated to a German concentration camp until 1943, after Mussolini was voted out of power and jailed.  When the Germans took control of Italy, they found the Campagna camp empty, but still managed to find some 7,500 Jews to send to Auschwitz, despite the efforts of the Italians to shield them.  It is estimated that the Germans rounded up 20% of the Jews in Italy for the "Final Solution".

France - 90,000
The Vichy French government engaged in more than collaboration with the German 'occupiers,' they kept several steps ahead of the Germans in sending Jews to their deaths.  On 3 October 1940 they enacted Statut des juifs, The Statute on Jews, before the Germans so much as asked.  Jews were stripped of French citizenship, prohibited from serving in the military, prohibited from changing residences, and rounded up into French concentration camps to await deportation to German death camps.  It is estimated that 26% of the Jews in France were murdered in the Vichy "Final Solution".

Germany/Austria - 210,000

Werner Goldberg "The Ideal German Soldier"

It is estimated that 88% of Jews in Germany/Austria lost their lives to the "Final Solution".  However, the Germans did not exempt "half" and "quarter" Jews from conscription.  The number would have been higher had it not been for Jewish war heroes returning from the front only to find their families on "relocation" lists.  Frequently, these soldiers were able to shame the bureaucrats into leaving their families alone, for a time.  See Hitler's Jewish Soldiers by Dr. Bryan Mark Rigg.  Watch him on C-SPAN's BookTV.

So, what we have here is two National Socialist regimes, that never called themselves Fascists, who rounded up Jews and others for extermination.  So, where does the pejorative Fascist come from?  One rule to remember about Leftists and Socialists: facts are meaningless.  They decided, sometime way back when, that since the Italian Fascists eventually allied with the German National Socialists, then they could all be called fascists.  A side note, since all the cool Socialists love France (the birthplace of National Socialism) a whole false history has been created for the French, one that substitutes the actual French reaction to German occupation with the Italian resistance to German occupation.

The Leftists want you to believe Nazi collaborators in France were rare.

Now the story goes, every single French citizen was a member of the underground, save the women of Paris whose heads were shaved after the Allied liberation, and each home hid twenty Jews in the attic and another dozen in the cellar.  That fits more with the Assisi underground in Italy than anything that happened in France.

Remember, when someone calls you a fascist or a Nazi, 1) they probably do not know what they are talking about, 2) you are probably winning an argument.