David Brooks on Abbie Hoffman

David Brooks’ column in the NYT “The Abbie Hoffman of the Right” says that Donald Trump is trying to win the “culture wars” in the same way that Jews won the culture wars in the 1960s.  Brooks delights in the destruction of the “Protestant establishment” in the 1960s.  He says:

So in the late 1960s along came a group of provocateurs like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and the rest of the counterculture to upend the Protestant establishment.

Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were Jewish.  Of the new Jewish-dominated establishment, he says:

But eventually a new establishment came into being, which we will call the meritocratic establishment….

Hillary Clinton is part of this more educated cohort. So are parts of the conservative establishment….

This establishment, too, has had its failures. It created an economy that benefits itself and leaves everybody else out.

So in 2016, members of the outraged working class elected their own Abbie Hoffman as president. Trump….

Brooks then says that Trump has made the NFL culture war about race, i.e., blacks.  But what Brooks doesn’t say, or is afraid to say, is that the culture war is about Jews.  Jews like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and David Brooks replaced the old Protestant establishment with the new “meritocratic” Jewish-led establishment.  Hillary was supposed to be the public front-person for the new establishment, which was made up of Jews - who supplied the brains and the money - and the other anti-old-establishment groups who supplied the votes and public support - blacks, Hispanics, gays, etc.  However, the Jewish brains miscalculated in 2016 and all the needed voters did not show up.  Nevertheless, the Jews continue to use blacks (in the NFL in this case) and other minorities to pursue their own dominance.  A high percentage of NFL team owners are Jewish.  

I was surprised to see David Brooks revel in the destruction of the Protestant establishment and the rise of the Jewish establishment so clearly, even if he did not state it explicitly.  

NFL - Blacks Love Their Plantation

The NFL is one of the closest things we have to the old ante-bellum Southern plantations running on slave labor.  We have a bunch of rich white guys, about half of them Jews, each owning dozens of black men.  Of course, the black men are not slaves; they are well paid, but they are not always free to leave, depending on their contracts which bind them to their owners.  But the black players love their owners, just like the old slaves used to love the plantation masters with whom they lived.  It’s nice that black players love their white owners.  It’s ironic that men who choose to be slaves are now protesting for more freedom.  

American Jews Are Driving America’s Wars

I am surprised to find so many serious articles claiming that America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.  It started out when I found a tweet by by former CIA agent Valerie Plame favorably citing an article with that subject by Philip Giraldi, also a former CIA agent.  From that I found a Mother Jones article listing many people who were movers and shakers of American policy toward Israel.  Most of them I recognized as Jewish, but I was not sure about Danielle Pletka, who seems to have something of a second life on TV, appearing frequently on “Meet the Press.”  I then found this article in Israel Behind the News which says she is Jewish and has strong views on US policy toward Israel.  Surprisingly, none of these mention Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who is also Jewish, and who is on TV constantly, starting with “Morning Joe” first thing in the morning.  

These articles make me wonder whether American Jews are loyal to America first or Israel first.  Of course, Jewish political doctrine is not monolithic, but given the relatively small size and the homogeneity of the Jewish population, it is probably more uniform that among larger ethnic groups.  American may be experiencing a hostile takeover by Jews.  There is nothing illegal about this, as long as it is done without violating any laws (like insider trading or illegal political contributions).  But most Americans may not be aware that it is happening.  

About half of the richest 10 or 20 Americans are Jewish.  Google, Facebook, The New York Times, most TV networks, particularly CNN, are controlled by Jews. Jews, led by Chuck Schumer, are a powerful bloc in the Senate.  Jews are less powerful in the House, but Adam Schiff, a Jew, has been the most outspoken and widely televised House member attacking Trump about the Russian investigation.  

Jews were extremely powerful behind the scenes in support of Hillary Clinton.  Her defeat was an uncharacteristic failure for them.  As a result, they are leaders in the subsequent attack on Trump, either to remove him from office, or render him powerless.  Because of the huge number of Jewish lawyers and judges, they see the legal system as a principal means of attacking him.  The need to exert Jewish power in the White House is one reason that the status of Gary Cohn has become so important.  Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is Jewish, but he’s still a kid by Washington standards.  Gary Cohn is rich and powerful enough in his own right to smack Trump in the face with a two-by-four if Jews believe it is necessary.  Treasury Secretary Mnuchin does not have the heft of Cohn.  Of course Trump’s young flamethrower of an adviser, Stephen Miller, is also Jewish.  There are probably others as well.  

The disturbing theme of the articles cited above is that these powerful Jews are using America’s power to further Jewish interests.  America’s and Israel’s interests may converge on many issues, but not on all.  I fear that it is Jewish political power than has drawn the US into the protracted conflict in the Middle East.  In essence gentile Americans are killing Arabs to advance Israel’s interests.  Of course, Osama bin Laden attacked the US, but he did it mainly because he saw the US and Israel as joined at the hip.  He was mad because Israelis were killing Palestinians with weapons supplied by the US.  The US and Israel were one enemy.  After 9/11, we could have gone into Afghanistan, destroyed his operations there, and left.  But we are still there 16 years later.  There was no reason to attack Iraq based on the 9/11 attacks, but we did anyway.  The Iraq war was ginned up mainly by Jews -- Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, etc.  Did we attack Iraq because it was in America’s interest, or Israel’s?  The argument in the above articles is that now it is mainly Jews who are pushing for war with Iran.  Conservative Republicans support various levels of effort against Iran, but would they be as enthusiastic if the Jewish controlled press did not discuss this issue daily.  Many liberal Jews support maintaining the nuclear agreement with Iran, but Israel is strongly opposed to it.  I believe that Israel is safer with the nuclear agreement in place than without it.  Some Jews may also view the nuclear agreement as beneficial to Israel.  

Biden Op-Ed

I was disappointed by former V.P. Joe Biden’s op-ed in the NYT, Reclaiming America’s Values.” Biden basically said that there are only two American values worth reclaiming -- diversity and democracy.  He said:

Reclaiming our values starts with standing up for them at home — inclusivity, tolerance, diversity, respect for the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. If these are the democratic principles we wish to see around the world, America must be the first to model them…..

You cannot define Americans by what they look like, where they come from, whom they love or how they worship. Only our democratic values define us. And if we lose sight of this in our conduct at home or abroad, we jeopardize the respect that has made the United States the greatest nation on earth.

So, Biden does not think a common language is important; English is no more important than Lao, Swahili or Spanish.  It’s more important that people speak many different (diverse) languages than that they speak a common language.  Any kind of a shared cultural heritage is bad.  Children should renounce their parents as evil; this is something that usually occurs in teenagers anyway, although it violates the Fifth Commandment.  

While democracy and the rule of law are important, I do not believe that diversity is a touchstone of American values.  America was founded by men who looked alike and spoke the same language.  Did they believe they were evil because of that?  I don’t think so.  

Jewish Student Population at Elite Universities

In a study of race at top colleges, the New York Times failed to examine how Jews are represented in these colleges, “Even with Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges than 35 Years Ago.” .  The study only breaks out blacks, Hispanics, whites and Asians.  Jews do not consider themselves “white,” otherwise all their complaints about anti-Semitism would be meaningless.  Semitic refers to language, i.e., Hebrew, rather than to race, but Jews use it as shorthand for race.  Arabic is also a Semitic language; so, if they did not mean for anti-Semitism to refer to discrimination against Jews only, Jews themselves would be anti-Semitic because of their discrimination against Palestinians and other Arabs.  Palestinians are kept in ghettos in Israel, just as Jews were in Europe before World War II.  

Jews also try to emphasize the confusion between whether being Jewish refers to race or to religion.  Clearly it refers to both, but clearly there is a Jewish ethnicity separate from race.  An ethnic Jew who becomes a Christian, a Muslim, or an atheist remains an ethnic Jew.  Whether being Jewish means being a separate race from whites may be debatable, but it is clearly an identifiable ethnicity, such as white Hispanic or Slavic.  

I believe that Jews are overrepresented in elite universities, but they hide this fact by refusing to be distinguished from “whites.”  The result is that non-Jewish whites constitute a smaller percentage of students than most statistics indicate.  The Jerusalem Post reported in 2015 that 27 percent of Yale’s undergraduate student body is Jewish, 1,500 out of 5,477.  This figure is apparently based on information from Hillel, a religious organization, and thus may underreport non-religious, ethnic Jews at Yale.  Yale itself reports that 72 percent of its students are “white” but provides no separate data on Jewish enrollment.  Thus, it appears that non-Jewish whites make up only about 50 percent of the Yale students, lower than their share of the US population, while Jews, which reportedly make up only 2 or 3 percent of the population are hugely overrepresented.  The New York Times article did not examine this issue at all, by omitting any discussion of Jewish enrollment.  

My objection to this article is that it purposely ignores an important racial issue, while claiming to be about racial discrimination.  Pointing out the problems of blacks and Hispanics is legitimate, but it’s likely that buried in the numbers is discrimination against non-Jewish whites in favor of Jewish whites.  Therefore an interesting study would be comparing Jews (overrepresented) and Asians (underrepresented).  I suspect that part of the problem is the strongly pro-Jewish bias of the New York Times, but it is also due to the widespread Jewish practice of screaming “anti-Semitism” when anybody mentions the word “Jew.”  The Jews have intimidated everybody.  In addition, the faculties of elite universities are heavily populated by Jewish professors, who tend to play down the Jewishness of their institutions; however, it is hard to find data because Jewish faculty members are usually just reported as “white.”

Interestingly, the Jerusalem Post says that the university with greatest total number of Jewish students is the University of Florida, with 6,500 Jewish students.  

Mobile in WW II

The hype about the new PBS series on the Vietnam War reminded me of the PBS series on World War II, which featured my old hometown, Mobile, Alabama, as one of four ordinary cities that figured prominently in the war effort.  It described Mobile’s importance to the war effort as a shipbuilding town, and it highlighted the war experiences of some citizens of Mobile.  This is a link to the description of the city of Mobile during the war:  

City of Mobile - http://www.pbs.org/thewar/the_witnesses_towns_mobile.htm

These are two of the Mobilians who were described in the series.  Unfortunately, the search engine for the series does not seem to be working.  I could only find names I could remember.  I remember these because I went to school with some of their sons.

Herndon Inge - http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5173.htm

Dwain Luce - http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5167.htm

Tom Galloway - http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5196.htm

Sidney Phillips - http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5193.htm

Eugene Sledge - http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5206.htm and http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_4182.htm

Joint Resolution Attack on White Southerners

I am disappointed to see that you were a cosponsor of S. J. Res. 49 condemning Southern white men as racists.  As a Southern white man, born in Florida and raised in Alabama, I take offense at your racist bigotry.  I am not a “White supremacist” or a “neo-Nazi,” but my great-grandfather, James M. Williams, did fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War.  There is a book about his exploits, “From that Terrible Field.”  The title refers to the Battle of Shiloh, where he fought and where he best friend, George Dixon, was wounded.  My great-grandfather returned to Mobile, Alabama, to command Fort Powell in the Battle of Mobile Bay.  George Dixon went on to command the Confederate submarine Hunley which sank the Housatonic in Charleston harbor.  My great-grandfather named his first son George Dixon Williams in memory of his friend. 

In addition to my great-grandfather’s Civil War service, my grandfather served in the Spanish-American War and World War I.  My father served in World War II and the Korean War.  He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Korea.  I served in Vietnam in an Army artillery battery along the DMZ and on the Laotian border. The names of two of the men I served with are on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial.  After Vietnam, I served twenty-five years in the Foreign Service of the US Department of State. 

I became a confirmed Democrat when I was serving as Science Counselor at the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.  One of my main jobs was to oversee a science cooperation agreement between the US and Poland that was to last five years.  Newt Gingrich and the Republicans were elected while I was there, and one of their first actions was to end US funding for the science cooperation after three years, although there was a signed agreement stating that it was to last for five years.  From Poland I went to Rome, where I again handled scientific affairs.  The Republicans refused to fund appropriations to buy oil for North Korea that the US had promised under the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization agreement.  One of my jobs became to ask the European Union, for which Italy then held the rotating presidency, to contribute enough money to KEDO to honor the US agreement, so that the US would not be the first party to violate it.  I was extremely upset that the US would give North Korea a legitimate excuse to restart its nuclear weapons program.  Finally, while I was at a cocktail party celebrating the launch by the US of an Italian communications satellite, an executive of the Italian telephone company came up to me and said, “You Americans must really hate me.”  It turned out that his daughter had been denied a visa to visit Disney World because his company had some connection with the Mexican telephone company that had some connection with the Cuban telephone company that was banned by the Helms-Burton Act.  In the fictional series The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, the Jewish heroine was prevented by the Nazis from leaving Italy for Israel by denying a visa to her child.  The situation I found in Rome was too similar.  I decided that I would retire from the Foreign Service because US foreign policy did not come up to my standards of decency.  I did not make it a political issue; I just retired in disgust. 

aI voted almost a straight Democratic ticket from then on, for the next twenty years, until the 2016 election. I voted for Bernie Sanders at the last Democratic caucuses.  But that changed with Hillary Clinton’s nomination and her characterization of Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables,” clearly meaning Southern white men like me.   Ironically, I had been the Warsaw embassy officer responsible for organizing President and Hillary Clinton’s visit to the site of the old Warsaw ghetto during Clinton’s visit to Warsaw to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. 

I became disillusioned with the Republican Party for failing to appropriate funds to meet America’s international commitments.  Now I am disillusioned with the Democratic Party for passing hateful, bigoted legislation condemning me as a racist.  You are free to hate me.  There is no law against hate, as long as you do not act on it.  However, politicians are in a position to act on it.  I see this Resolution as a sign that race-based discriminatory legislation is coming.  It is strange that you, Sen. Schumer and Rep. Pelosi would replace Sen. Jesse Helms, Rep. Dan Burton, and their ilk as the new racists in Congress. 

Democrats Running for President in 2020 Depend on Jews

An article in today’s New York Times about Democrats running for President in 2020, “Long List of Top Democrats,”  illustrates how heavily such candidates rely on rich Jews.  The article mentions Marc Lasry, Howard Kessler, Albert Dwoskin, Guy Saperstein, and Michael Kives.  These are only some of the people mentioned as donors and the only ones I could find directly linked to some Jewish organization.  There were only one or two others mentioned in the article who may not have been Jewish.  

No doubt there are many liberal gentiles who contribute to the Democratic Party, but they didn’t get mentioned in the article about potential candidates.  I think the article accurately reflects the major role being played by wealthy Jews in controlling the Democratic Party.  

Most of the media, except for the Murdoch empire, is controlled by Jews.  It, like the Jewish donors listed above, strongly supported Hillary Clinton, and will strongly support whoever emerges as her successor in the Party.  The media is also strongly critical of Trump, as he frequently points out.  He is wise to call it the media, rather than the Jews.  Otherwise he would be pilloried as an anti-Semite even more than he already is.  

The two prominent Jews in his administration, Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin, are the focus of attention, and under pressure from both sides of the political powers that be -- Jews that want them to stay and Jews who want them to go.  They are both billionaires who are working to cut taxes on the rich, their Jewish billionaire buddies.  Of course a lot of rich gentiles will benefit, too, but many of them, like Warren Buffett, object to cutting taxes.