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THE MODERN BULLIES OF ANNE FRANK
Don't conflate Jews with a white civilisation that tried to EXTERMINATE them
I see twitter’s righteous ones are bullying Anne Frank again, a 15 year old Jewish girl exterminated in a concentration camp. She’s being bullied once again because she had “white privilege.” That lucky bitch. Did she take a moment to acknowledge what a lucky white bitch she was whilst hiding in a cupboard? Of course she didn’t. These stupid white girls are so full of themselves they can’t see beyond their entitlement: stupid Karen.
Of course the notion that Anne Frank had “white privilege” is anti-intellectual filth.
It is mind filth from morons whose historical illiteracy is equalled by their utter ignorance regarding Jewish identity.
Of course having one’s murdered body tipped into an unmarked pit is the antithesis of privilege - but let’s break down the whole story for the idiots out there.
I’m a Jew. Like the Franks, members of my family were murdered because they weren’t white. They were Jews. My history isn’t white history. My history is the history of Jews. My ancestors were told where to live, what to do. They were persecuted by white Europeans. Because they weren’t white. They were Jews. A civilisation of their own.
Let’s finally dispense with the “Jews are white” bullshit - whether from pure antisemites or those handful of Jews who run round like headless chickens to be accepted - seduced by non-Jewish peer pressure and disconnected from the reality of our history as a scattered and abused Levantine People.
Don’t conflate Jews with a white civilisation that has tried to exterminate them specifically because they weren’t seen as white European.
Jews in Canada and America - you’re not there because you’re white. You’re there because you’re a Jew. Your family most likely had to flee some place to finally end up there because Jews weren’t safe in Europe. Because they weren’t white. They were Jews.
I’m obliged to make the point that most Jews on planet earth don’t even have white pigmentation. From Ethiopian Jews, to Yemenite Jews, to Ashkenasi Jews - we have diverse levels of melanin.
I’m obliged to make this point as a way to neutralise the general thrust of this skin deep bullshit - but I do it with the heavy caveat that skin colour is not a metric through which the Jewish People have ever defined themselves.
We should reject non-Jewish attempts to dominate reality and coercively frame Jews according to the traditions and standards of the non-Jewish world. Jewish civilisation evolved long before modern Europe. During this time Jews formed an anthropological system for understanding themselves and the universe that simply does not scan with Western modes of categorising ethnic groups according to the uncertain metric of skin tone.
A Jew is a Jew. Membership of the tribe is not contigent upon colour. Though most are born Jewish, and though most can trace their genetic ancestry back to the Levant, Jews are also a tribe in which it’s possible for non-members to join regardless of genes or melanin level. Circumcision doesn’t ask the colour of your schmeckle. Epidermis is not what connects one Jew with another. We are connected through shared history, customs, culture and the mental fabric of an intellectual, spiritual and secular inner world shaped by Jewish ideas and philosophy. The fact that the individuals sharing this ontological universe have various complexions isn’t a story of ethnic differences, but a tale of tribal unity. It points to one People forcibly scattered around the globe but with origins stemming from one geographical region. Not white Europe. Not white America. But Middle-Eastern Israel.
So why are we seeing an attempt to assert Jews are white when previously Jews were attacked for NOT being white? Well firstly, lets acknowledge that neo-Nazis and kitchen table racists still don’t regard Jews as true members of white society. Nothing has changed there.
The reverse notion - that Jews ARE white - is being pushed by progressives, the left, social justice warriors, self-declared anti-racists, the woke and Israel haters of all creeds.
Why?
Because in the era of identity politics, whiteness has become synonymous in these circles with toxicity, privilege and power. These circles have simply absorbed and exhaled antisemitic cliches of Jewish power - in spite of Jews being the number one victims of racial and religious hate crimes.
By incorrectly placing Jews at the apex of societal power and lumping us in with white people, those who would define themselves as anti-racist are regurgitating antisemitic tropes of Jews as an obstacle to be confronted if a better world is to be created.
The contradiction between Jews being simultaneously toxic to Nazis because they AREN'T white, and toxic to the woke because they ARE white is easily resolved. They both see Jews as possessing unfair power and they are both seeking to deprive Jews of fraternal kinship based upon the codes of their particular world view. The whooping, hallooing, feral attacks on the murdered Jewish child Anne Frank shows just how detached from reality these fundamentalists have become.
Israel of course figures in the bid to label Jews white. I’m afraid to say that once again the left, (and Israel haters of all creeds and ethnicities), are holding hands and dancing with Nazis in a waltz that treads on Jews.
Jews were once told to go back to Israel because we WEREN'T white. Now that we've returned home we're told to leave Israel because we ARE white.
It's the confused dance of a world that simply doesn't want us anywhere.
If haters can depict Jews as white Europeans, then with the wave of a magic wand, we are transformed into colonial invaders who don't belong in a non-white Middle East.
The premise is absurd.
When white Europeans went to the Americas and Africa they didn't find ancient manuscripts of William Shakespeare - because they were colonisers.
But Jews in Israel find ancient manuscripts written in Hebrew, the same language they speak today, describing the same rituals - because they are a People indigenous to the middle east.
When white Europeans went to the Americas and Africa they didn't find churches - because they were colonisers.
In Israel you can't move for Jewish artefacts, archeology and ancient synagogues found everywhere. Yet we are still harassed with misplaced taunts of being white, European colonialists.
The sense of entitlement that assumes it can (incorrectly) dictate to a Jewish minority who and what they are is itself a product of supremacy that Jews are excluded from. I hold back from calling it white supremacy as this is a sense of entitlement that people of other minorities feel they can freely engage in without any reflection. Let us call it Gentile Supremacy.
This arrogant roleplay of master and minority can go to hell.
Jews are not pets owned by the non-Jewish world.
You don't get to name us and keep us on a leash.
It's notable that this impulse to reign over Jews comes from those most convinced of their anti-imperialism.
But trying to erase the tribal identity of Jews and turn us into white people is about as colonial as you can get, fitting squarely into a play book that has been applied to other indigenous groups throughout history.
In the 1900s in Australia, Aboriginal and mixed-race Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their families with the intention of making them assimilate into white society. The Northern Territory Chief Protector of Aborigines, Dr. Cecil Cook, argued that Australia should do "everything necessary to convert the half-caste into a white citizen.”
In the 1800s in the USA, thousands of Native American children were taken from their homes and put into boarding schools where they were stripped of their languages, customs, and culture so that they could be "turned into" white people.
Attempts at forced assimilation and cultural genocide were a way to separate these children from their land, from their People, and from their sense of self, by eradicating their distinct identity into whiteness.
Trying to turn Jews into white people is no different.
It displays the same intent to vandalise the identity of an indigenous People in order to disconnect them from each other, from their own sense of self, and from their ancestral land.
This insidiuous assault on our identity is everywhere and assisted by all the advantages of modern communication that society offers. It is on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, The New York Times, The Guardian, The BBC, in academia and film and television.
A Jew today is faced with a hostile barrage of non-Jewish ideas about who they are.
They are placed under extreme pressure to forget the evidence of their own eyes about their origins as a desert-dwelling tribe where animal horns are ritually blown, where boys are circumcised, where worshippers sway to semitic chants that read from right to left.
Instead they are told that they are white people, that they're just a religion, that Chanukah is just a kind of Christmas.
They watch shows on Netflix in which Jewish heroes are those who walk away from the oppression of their Jewishness.
The most accepted Jewish comedians are those who prostrate before the American public and declare their Jewishness is lame and that they of course hate Israel.
They are told that Jews left to their own devices and living in Israel are wicked savages, that they are wild, racist, baby-killing animals, that they lack humanity, that they are cannibals who drink the blood of non-Jews, that they bludgeon and batter with cruel weaponry, and that they should leave this land, (which is not even theirs they are told), and become civilised white people in white society.
In the face of such an onslaught it is no wonder that some Jews internalise this antisemitism and feel they are left with no choice but to abandon the brutishness of their own People and become a dignified white person by renouncing their distinctive tribal identity and the wild lands from whence their primitive ancestors came and where their less evolved Israeli cousins still live.
Such Jews are then tokenised and amplified in order to divide and conquer Jews and to defraud the non-Jewish world about what is mainstream Jewish thinking regarding Israel and our identity. This leads to a societal gaslighting of Jews where we are ridiculed and disbelieved when expressing our non-whiteness and our connection to Israel. We are called liars and smearers when we describe the antisemitic nature of non-Jews speaking over us and crapping on our authentic expressions of Peoplehood. Besides, we can’t be the victims of real racism, they say, because we are apparently white…
The attempt to prise Jews from their homeland via this sly seduction has been adopted because force has failed to dislodge us from our attachment to Israel.
White civilisation has certainly had success taking and keeping the land of indigenous people. In the past, Jews were not spared this fate. The Romans, the Crusaders and the British have all invaded and occupied the land of Israel at one point. But in our modern era, this tiny tribe of Jews have completely flipped the story on it's head by launching the greatest anti-colonial movement the world has ever seen.
Not only did Jews resist both cultural and literal genocide for two thousand years when it would have been far easier to give up and assimilate - they managed to organise an indigenous-rights liberation-movement - Zionism - which redeemed their ancestral home from the grasp of white imperialism. In 1948 the British Empire was driven out by Jews who went on to re-establish Jewish independence on the land of their forefathers. Arab armies with the backing of white powers also failed to dislodge Jews in a series of subsequent wars that sought extermination of the Jews and which, (for the record), is still the aim of Israel’s hostile neighbours.
Who but an indigenous people would endure two thousand years of suffering and then withstand countless bloody wars just to live on a small sliver of land that has no natural resources to speak of?
If Jews were white people or colonialists they would have left long ago in the face of constant war and terrorism.
But anti-colonial tactics don’t work against Israelis because they’re not white colonialists.
They don’t have a European motherland to go to.
Israel is their indigenous home.
The fact that it took so long for Jews to re-establish their autonomy doesn't diminish Jewish claims to Israel as some might sloppily argue. Rather it is a resounding testament to the heartfelt centrality of Israel to this ancient-modern tribe.
There is no expiration date on the relationship between Jews and Israel.
In a non-Jewish world that constantly tries to put Jews into suffocating boxes that don’t fit, it’s only right that they have one place where they can breathe freely as themselves.
And they need no-one’s permission for this.
Because Jews are not his or hers or yours.
Jews are Jews.
To say that Jews are Jews - a distinct group entitled to their own space - is not to join idiotic racists who believe Jews are a malign and alien people who must be expunged. Only racists believe difference and co-existance are bad. A sane person knows its possible for Jews, (and any minority), to possess ethnic differences yet still co-exist as one in a spirit of fraternal love and shared humanity.
Those who argue Jews are white, certainly aren’t doing so out of brotherhood.
If we have any doubt about this consider that the progressive finger of white privilege is ONLY pointed at one minority’s alleged complexion: Jews.
Why are Greeks not harassed by social justice warriors and told they’re white?
Why aren’t woke twitter accounts desperate to declare that Italians are white?
Would they accuse the American muslim Linda Sarsour of being white?
Would they say blonde-haired, blue-eyed Palestinian terror supporter Ahed Tamimi benefits from white privilege?
Of course not. Because those who deploy the “Jews are white” mantra are bigots. They apply metrics, double standards, hoops and hurdles to Jews and Israel that they apply to no one else. They raise our colour only for toxic reasons. To diminish, denigrate, isolate and attack Jews. This is why the notion some Jews are white passing is so dishonest. Not only does it vandalise the authentic nature of Jewish identity as outlined above - it is said not to bestow privileges upon us - it is to take away privileges. It is designed to take away the privilege of solidarity with Jews when it comes to the racism we experience. It is designed to take away the privilege of empathy when we speak of our struggles as a minority. It is designed to take away the privilege of being listened to in progressive circles. It is designed to take away the privilege of having a homeland. All these confiscations of privilege from Jews who possess light complexion are really confiscations of privilege from every Jew. And with regard to the privileges that “white passing” Jews have gained when labelled as such? They don’t seem to help much when white supremacists come to gun them down in synagogues for not being white. They didn’t help Anne Frank.
And consider this. A small number of Jews with white complexion might avoid the immediate scrutiny of racists. But the degradation of having to hide who one is and the subsequent accusation of being a sneaky Jew when “outed” is not a privilege. We could equally say that every gay person on earth has “straight privilege” because it’s possible for them to pass as straight?
It doesn’t happen though.
The notion of being mainstream “passing” would never be used against gays because it runs contrary to progressive society’s stance on PRIDE as being a human right.
A gay person being in the closet to avoid a beating would not be seen as a privilege but as an outrage.
But when it comes to Red Sea Pedestrians, if a small number of Jews can avoid a beating by being “white passing”, you can guarantee they won’t escape the online beating from the woke.
In a truly progressive society, privilege would be seen as the possession of the bigot who thinks this is their world - not the minority who has to try and duck and weave and avoid that bigotry.
Progressives don’t even comprehend that their entire perception of reality is shaped by what we should call Gentile Privilege. When it comes to minorities, why are Jews almost sigularly prosecuted with notions of privilege? Because the court room of the world is a gentile one. Other minorities could just as easily be accused of having privileges which the Jews DON’T possess. No one takes to twitter and says to black people, you have: “not being accused of running the world” privilege. No one tells Indian people to “sit this one out and shut up” because they have: “not being accused of controlling the media” privilege.
The architects of the privilege debate don’t even realise how privileged they are to be born Gentiles in a Gentile World. They are utterly clueless about what it is to be a Jew. They know nothing of what it is to be a Jew living today or in Anne Frank’s time.
Please don’t mistake this with me having any regrets about being a Jew. Being Jewish is fucking brilliant irrespective of the nonsense we have to put up with from those with Gentile Privilege.
When it comes down to it, those who say Jews are white and those who say Jews aren’t white simply think sneaky Jews are getting away with something and that we need to have our masks pulled off to reveal our true colour. And this colour will be white or non-white depending on what is most negative in the eyes of the observer.
Know this: whether you are left or right, part of a dominant demographic or member of another minority, discussing the skin colour of Jews will always be squalid. Calling us white is historically illiterate, wildly innacurate and undertaken by those who believe they’re so superior to Jews that they’re uniquely entitled to ajudicate on who we are, invariably so as to diminish us in some way.
Jews aren’t white. Jews aren’t black. Jews aren’t brown. Jews are Jews. We are one Tribe. Our origins are indigenous to Israel and the Middle East. We thrive when rejecting the non-Jewish world’s attempts to control and define us. And we will continue to thrive for as long as we live proudly in accordance with our own time-honoured and road-tested values of Jewish Peoplehood.
Am Yisrael Chai.
The People of Israel live.
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Wow. What an amazing article. Every paragraph resonated with me and I wanted to tell the world: this is what we are going through! Someone give a shit.
Similar to what Vivian wrote, I understand it so deeply but could never put into words what you so eloquently did. I wish everyone I know would read this. Particularly the self-righteous antisemites who’ve made clear, I have no standing in their world anymore: I am a Zionist, it’s all that matters, it’s all they see.
Phenomenally written, as always. I've been trying to put this all into words for a while now, and you've really hit it out of the park. Thanks Lee 😊