Atzmon tacitly supports Dmowski’s suspicion that, for at least the first part of WWI, both Eastern European and western Jews were pro-German. He confirms Polish nationalists as he also alludes to the Bund as a purveyor of Jewish particularism: “…the Bund would demand national and cultural self-determination within the Eastern European proletarian discourse…” (p. He comments: “Marxism also attempted to make people look equal…The idea was very appealing to a few West European and many East European Jews who even formed the Bund, a Jewish Socialist Party.” (p. On another subject, and perhaps without intending to, Atzmon confirms the fact that Jewish sympathy for Communism had been much broader than formal CP membership, and that it infected much larger Jewish political parties. ZYDOKOMUNA: ONETIME BROAD-BASED JEWISH SUPPORT In particular, Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Company gave 20 million dollars in support of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
For instance, Jewish Polonophobia is probably a form of the dialectic of negation: Whatever a Jew is, he is, thankfully, not one of those dumb, primitive, hyper-Catholic Poles among whom most Jews had to live for so many centuries.Īuthor Atzmon touches on the role of past Jewish bankers and their influence on world politics. However, the author does not explore this subject sufficiently. Jews define themselves not so much as who they are, but as who they are NOT (not Christians, not Muslims, etc.). 101, 123).ĭIALECTIC OF NEGATION: A CLUE TO JEWISH ANTIPOLONISM?Ītzmon sees Zionism as part of the dialectic of negation. The author drifts into extreme invective when condemning Zionism. 19), and one whose political goal (as it was from the beginning with Herzl) is to prevent Jews from disappearing through assimilation. He views Zionism as a movement of Jewish tribal solidarity (p. 7), Atzmon condemns those Jews to put their Jewish-ness over and above all their other traits. g., the neocons) by name, and how they led the USA into Middle East policies that, according to him, were failures.Ī former Jewish nationalist himself (p. He also mentions prominent American Jews (e. Instead, they have 24, which is an 8-fold overrepresentation. For instance, in the UK, Jews are 0.46% of the population, and should therefore have 3 seats out of the 650-member House of Commons. 76, 169).Ītzmon, however, does focus on Jewish influence in world politics. He rejects conspiracy theories involving Jews (p. Holocaust Supremacism Slights the Armenian Genocideįar from being a self-hating Jew, as demonized by his detractors, Atzmon is measured and careful about his criticisms of Jewish conduct. Jewish Dialectic of Negation: Jewish Polonophobia Cause? International Jewry and the Zydokomuna. The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics, by Gilad Atzmon.
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