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VDARE.com January 31, 2007
MidEast Policy—Immigration Policy: Is The Other Boot About To Drop? By 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. 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. 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.) So I ask now: will the other boot drop? Will this candor next extend to the immigration controversy? 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. 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. 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). Carter’s recent book, 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. 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. Kevin MacDonald [email him] is Professor of Psychology at California State UniversityLong Beach. For his website, click here.
MidEast Policy—Immigration Policy: Is The Other Boot About To Drop? By 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. 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. 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.) So I ask now: will the other boot drop? Will this candor next extend to the immigration controversy? 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. 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. 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). Carter’s recent book, 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. 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. Kevin MacDonald [email him] is Professor of Psychology at California State UniversityLong Beach. For his website, click here.
