January 31, 2007
MidEast Policy—Immigration Policy: Is
The Other Boot About To Drop?
By Kevin MacDonald
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Kevin MacDonald
Almost 3 ½ years ago I published Thinking about Neoconservatism,
analyzing the neoconservative movement in the context of my studies
of the behavior pattern of Jewish groups in the societies where they
live. I concluded neoconservatism was the latest of a long
procession of political and intellectual movements dominated and
essentially controlled by members of the Jewish community, in effect
dedicated to a particular concept of how to promote the interests of
that community. I specifically cited foreign policy and immigration
as hallmark interests.
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Immigration Was Top On The Jewish Agenda
Jewish community, in effect dedicated to a particular concept of
how to promote the interests of that community. I specifically cited
foreign policy and immigration as hallmark interests.
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The Southern SPLC Fortress
At the time, and for a couple of years later, this was an
unmentionable theory. I am told certain prominent web sites stopped
linking to VDARE.com after my essay was published. The malign
presence of the SPLC (the “Southern Poverty Law Center”, a notorious
ethnically-oriented Political Correctness enforcer) was soon felt on
the scene, not coincidentally, and it named VDARE.COM a “hate
group”, a sobriquet more normally associated with groups advocating
violence and other forms of illegality.
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The Obvious Neo-Cons
But now public debate has changed considerably. Serious antiwar
commentary routinely connects the Iraq/Iran policy problem with the
influence of Israel and her friends in America. (See here and here
and here.)
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Immigration
So I ask now: will the other boot drop? Will this candor next
extend to the immigration controversy?
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Freedom Of Speech
The vast majority of Americans live under the comfortable illusion
that theirs is a free country. They suppose that issues are openly and
honestly debated in the newspapers and on talk shows. In this imaginary
world, all issues affecting public policy are on the table and are
constantly scrutinized by the best and the brightest.
But that is simply not the case. In fact, I would go so far as to argue
the opposite—that virtually all of the really critical issues affecting
the United States and its role in the world are actually excluded from
discussion in the elite media or in the political arena.
America Lets Israel Roam Free
The classic case: US policy in the Middle East. Despite the
obvious fact that US support for Israel has crucial implications for
war and peace, the vast majority of Americans are oblivious to what
is really going on in this region.
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If The Average American Knew
Most Americans would be appalled to learn the truth about what
former President Jimmy Carter terms “the abominable oppression and
persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid
system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine’s
citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank.” Carter calls
attention to the “enormous imprisonment wall … now under
construction, snaking through what is left of Palestine to encompass
more and more land for Israeli settlers.” (Los Angeles Times,
December 8 2006).
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Finally Some Open Discussion
Carter’s recent book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and his
courageous defense of it, seem finally to be triggering a newly open
discussion of Israeli actions and Jewish influence in the U.S.
Coming on the heels of the work of the University of Chicago’s John
Mearsheimer and Harvard University’s Stephen Walt on the Israel
Lobby, it highlights many of the same issues. Indeed, Carter has
explicitly endorsed Mearsheimer and Walt's conclusion that American
policy in the Middle East does not reflect genuine American
interests, but instead those of the Israel Lobby. (Carter Shares
Insight On Peace In Mideast, by Marty Rosen, Coastal Post, January 3
2007)
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Immigration Before The 1965 Immigration Act
American immigration was white.
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Immigration After The 1965 Immigration Act
This is why it is possible to hope that the role of Jewish
influence in promoting the epochal change inaugurated by the 1965
Immigration Act might also now be discussed openly and honestly
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Carter is quite clear that open discussion of Israel’s policies in
the U.S. has been suppressed:
“This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is
because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel
Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary
voices. It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress
… to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in
defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians…. What is even more
difficult to comprehend is why the editorial pages of the major
newspapers and magazines in the United States exercise similar
self-restraint, quite contrary to private assessments expressed quite
forcefully by their correspondents in the Holy Land.”
In fact, it is not at all difficult to comprehend how this regime of
“self-restraint” is maintained. President Carter himself, and Profs.
Mearsheimer and Walt, point to pressure by the Israel Lobby on the
media, consequent media self-censorship, and the intimidation of
dissidents.
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Carter's Battle
Carter’s book has created the astounding spectacle of a former
president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner being
called an anti-Semite, being condemned by mainstream Jewish
organizations such as the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and
having his offers to give talks at major universities with high
Jewish enrollment rejected. The saga of the book’s treatment on
Amazon has been a farce.
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The Attack Dogs
The ADL’s Abe Foxman is one of many who have used the old canard
of anti-Semitism to condemn both President Carter and Mearsheimer
and Walt. (My favorite title in this genre is by David Horowitz:
“Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar”.)
I focus on Foxman’s comments because he heads a mainstream
Jewish activist organization and thus reflects the opinions of at
least a major component of the organized Jewish community. (It has
long been noticed that there is a gap between the attitudes of the
majority of American Jews and the attitudes of the established
Jewish leaders. This is especially apparent on issues such as the
neoconservative agenda of regime change in the Middle East and
support of expansionist right-wing governments in Israel.)
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If People Become Aware Of Jewish Influence
The point here is that the Jewish Establishment will strongly
resist any discussion of Jewish influence or dual loyalty in any
area of public policy, no matter how judicious and factually-based
it may be. These Jewish leaders have a strong sense of history.
They know that Jews have repeatedly become elites in European
societies.
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People Have Risen Up
But they also realize
that Jewish power and influence and dual loyalty have been potent themes
of anti-Semitism throughout the ages. And they know that increases in
Jewish power and influence have often been followed by the rise of rise
of anti-jewish movements spearheaded by people whose interests have been
damaged by that Jewish power and influence.
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Psychological Strategy
The strategy used by the Jewish Establishment is not to condemn the
neocons for acting on their strong emotional and ethnic ties to Israel
and manipulating the Bush administration into the disaster of Iraq and a
looming war with Iran. Nor is it to urge that the Israel Lobby be scaled
back in an effort to bring it more in line with a reasonable view of
American interests. Rather, they go into the full blown smear and
intimidation mode.
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The Self Hating Jew
Hence the fury among Jewish activists when General Wesley Clark
blurted our that “New York money people” are gung-ho for bankrolling
politicians who will support US involvement in a war against Iran;
and that talk of a war with Iran is common in Israel. As Matthew
Iglesias, himself Jewish, notes: “Everything Clark said … is true.
What's more, everybody knows it's true.” (American Prospect, January
23, 2007). But, as we should know by now, truth is irrelevant here.
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Why Change Tactics?
Partly this is because, thus far, these tactics have been
tremendously effective. The American Jewish Establishment will not
change these tactics until they stop working. After all, it is a
long road from widespread discussion on the internet and occasional
mentions in the above-ground media to having a real influence on the
President and in the halls of Congress. There, change will be much
slower.
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Jewish Money For Elections
This is especially true given the very large role of Jewish money
in funding the newly-resurgent Democrats. On the Republican side, as
Scott McConnell has argued, the neocons may be down, but they are
far from out. And they are still pushing for war against Iran.
I think too that the American Jewish leadership no longer has the
flexibility to use any other strategy. The radical expansionists,
often motivated by religious and ethnic fanaticism, have long been
in control in Israel—since 1967 really. They are the vanguard of the
Jewish community, and as usual, they they pull the rest of the
Jewish community with them.
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Jewish Moderates No Longer Count
The moderates (aka “self-hating Jews”) have been shoved aside and
do not really count any more. Similarly, the organized Jewish
community in America is dominated by the expansionists. Jews who do
not sign on to Israel’s expansionist agenda are relegated to the
fringes.
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Mearshiemer And Walt
Indeed, one of the arguments of Mearsheimer and Walt is that
Israel would be far better off if it could not persuade Washington
to support its expansionist agenda. And reasonable Jews like Jerome
Slater are wondering what it takes to “save Israel from itself”:
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“The real issue is the willed ignorance—the psychological need not to
know—of our community. The price—to the Palestinians, to the Israelis,
and to American national security—is already unbearable, and it may well
soon become apocalyptic.”
These comments bring to mind historian Albert Lindemann’s statement in
his book Esau’s Tears (P535)
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Parasites To The Host
“Jews actually do not want to understand their past—or at least
those aspects of their past that have to do with the hatred directed
at them, since understanding may threaten other elements of their
complex and often contradictory identities.”
Whether it’s about the past or the present, the pattern among
Jews is self-deception and willful ignorance.
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Jews Created The 1965 Immigration Act
As in the case of policy in the Middle East, it is no secret that
Jewish organizations were at the forefront of the immigration policy
shift implemented by the 1965 Act. Consider the assessment of Vanderbilt
University historian Hugh Davis Graham in his book Collision Course: The
Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in
America
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“Most important for the content of immigration reform, the
driving force at the core of the movement, reaching back to the
1920s, were Jewish organizations long active in opposing racial and
ethnic quotas… Following the shock of the Holocaust, Jewish leaders
had been especially active in Washington in furthering immigration
reform.
To the public, the most visible evidence of the immigration
reform drive was played by Jewish legislative leaders, such as
Representative Celler and Senator Jacob Javits of New York. Less
visible, but equally important, were the efforts of key advisers on
presidential and agency staffs
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The Old Lions
These included senior policy advisers such as Julius Edelson and
Harry Rosenfield in the Truman administration, Maxwell Rabb in the
Eisenhower White House, and presidential aide Myer Feldman,
assistant secretary of state Abba Schwartz, and deputy attorney
general Norbert Schlei in the Kennedy-Johnson administration.” (pp.
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In the past year, there has been much discussion of illegal
immigration. It tapped into a very large reservoir of public anger about
the lack of control of our borders and, I think, the transformations
that immigration is unleashing. The fact that illegal immigration is,
after all, illegal made it difficult to keep off the public radar (What
part of illegal don’t you understand??).
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Destroying Social Security And Health Systems
But this contrasts with almost no discussion at all in the
Mainstream Media of the question of the 1,000,000 or so legal
immigrants that come to the U.S. every year—no discussion of their
effect on the economy, social services, crime and competition at
elite universities; no discussion of their effect on the long term
ethnic composition of the U.S. and the displacement of native
populations in various sectors of the economy; and no discussion of
whether most Americans really want all of this. (They don’t.) The
fact that large scale legal immigration causes exactly the same
difficulties as large scale illegal inflow is a non-subject.
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A New Crop Of Anti Semites
Those who question the power and influence of the Israel Lobby
are quickly labeled anti-Semites. The terms of choice for anyone who
thinks the U.S. should have any restrictions at all on immigration
are “racist” and “nativist”.
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Those Who Don't Tow The Line
It is exactly the same routine: Media self-censorship,
pressure on the media and politicians who stray from official orthodoxy,
and intimidation via labeling, anathematizing, and ultimately loss of
livelihood.
Of course, there are other issues that fall into the same category of
“not fit for public discussion”. Perhaps the main one is the role of
genetic influences on intelligence and behavior.
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Diversity Through Immigration
But the two issues of Israel and immigration relaxation
(in the U.S.) have in common a deep and straightforward Jewish
commitment to particular policies. My contention is that both policies
have been construed by Jewish leaders as being helpful to the security
and political influence of their community.
In the case of Israel, this is self-evident. In the case of immigration
policy, there ample documentation [PDF] of a consistent interest by the
Jewish community, both in America and in Europe, in ending the hegemony
of the host community amongst whom they live.
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The Media Bosses
The measures taken to enforce their chosen objectives suggest
there is indeed an element of truth in what Foxman dismisses as “the
old canard and conspiracy theory of Jewish control of the media,
Congress, and the U.S. government”.
I have presented the facts about Jewish influence in both
immigration and the Middle East elsewhere. This has been extremely
unwelcome. And it is not at all surprising that the Jewish community
would strenuously resist these conclusions.
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Will The New Congress Act
Nevertheless, on foreign policy matters what is going on has
obviously become increasingly apparent to a lot of smart people with
intellectual integrity.
As the incoming 110th Congress starts up, a crucial question will be
if this new comprehension will dawn in an area in which, I believe,
it is even more critical: America’s post-1965 immigration disaster.
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