6th October

The essence of the brand of antisemitism promoted by Henry Ford: Anger directed at the nebulous web of war-profiteers.

The triggering social event was World War I which has a chestful of social change on its conscience.

In other words, the crux of antisemitism in this regard in the 1920s is what today corresponds to the anger aroused by the modern military industrial complex: Businessmen eager for war to gain a profit.

That at least is one of the emotional drivers.

The conclusion? A social cause can easily acquire a grim face. We can easily forget the distinction between an individual and the system in which he as a participant plays by certain rules.

I am convinced that genocide takes more than just a strong feeling, though. Elevating an animosity to a “Jewish” problem requires reasoning of some sort, which the world had in abundance, to the point where one way to determine the true boundaries of Western civilisation is by noting how far the antisemitic tracer substance permeate the globe.

Where does greed come from? The individual or the social system?

The answer – which most people arrive at through a lived life – is that we all have a lot of traits lying in wait. It takes a culture to elicit our worst sides.

The fact that many of us pride ourselves in a “but I would never do that"-attitude means very little, when, given a sufficient amount of theory, we can understand why we should be ashamed of our reluctance.

7th October

A lot of the planning done by Herzl is targeted at controlling the influx of Jews into the new state.

Minds like those of William J. Cameron and Henry Ford expect Jews to be profit mongering by habit.

Herzl spends a good deal of energy setting up a plan to avoid profit mongering amongst the arrivals. So he agrees?

Certainly not. It is very clear that he expects most arrivals to be ordinary people asking for work and food. His plans contains contingencies for outlier cases which is to be expected when you invite thousands of people to come to a country.

8th October

That Theodor Herzl is something of a character. Certainly he drove a hatchet into the catacombs of reality. He swiftly dispatches demographic groups left and right to positions he has thought out without a hint at democratic discussions.

About beggars and people not working he is both firm (or realistic?) and politically quite like your everyday conservative.

THEODOR HERZL - A JEWISH STATE, p.28 - RESPONSIBLE MEN OF THE LOCAL GROUPS

This matter [organised philanthropic institutions] is of great importance to us, on account of our large number of paupers. The weaker characters among us, discouraged by external pressure, spoilt by the soft-hearted charity of our rich men, easily sink, till they take to begging. […] Whoever shows a genuine desire to work will be suitably employed. Beggars will not be endured. Whoever refused to do anything as a free man will be sent to the workhouse.

About people who he at first seems to call unintelligent, but now that I slowly learn to read him, it seems he is referring to people who appear dimwitted because of their treatment:

But we will leave to those even who stand on the lowest grade of intelligence the consoling illusion of their utility in the world. We will provide easy tasks for those who are incapable of physical labor; for we must allow for diminished vitality in the poor of an already enfeebled generation.

He is firm in his dealings, but the language indicates that these unfortunate are the result of humiliating circumstances.

But future generations shall be dealt with otherwise; they shall be brought up in liberty for a life of liberty.

This makes AJS a social experiment as well.

In the year 2025 when we believe ourselves to no longer view Jews as different from other races or cultures, we can instead use their fate as a way to gain insight into our own mental fabric. How would we react to being herded into ghettos? Learn from the Jews. If it was built into the global vernacular that our people could not avoid transgressing the social norm in some embarrassing way, how easily would we integrate? Ask the Jews.

Human culture is a labyrinthine cave system where we live and breathe the immediate and recognisable features around us, and yet we are the product of every fork in the road taken generations ago. Sometimes the herd arrives at a junction, some go left, some go right and from then on their realities start to drift apart.

Herzl makes no effort to soften the choice between stay or go.

THEODOR HERZL - A JEWISH STATE, p.4 - INTRODUCTION

Hence, if all or any of the French Jews protest against this scheme on account of their own “assimilation,” my answer is simple: The whole thing does not concern them at all. They are Jewish Frenchmen, well and good! This is a private affair for the Jews alone.

THEODOR HERZL - A JEWISH STATE, p.26 - OUR TRANSMIGRATION

Old customs, old memories attach us to our homes. We have cradles, we have graves, and we alone know how Jewish hearts cling to the graves. Our cradles we shall carry with us—they hold our future, rosy and smiling. Our beloved graves we must, alas! abandon — and I think this abandonment will cost us covetous people more than any other sacrifice. But it must be so.

It is a sombre moment of truth, this decision to leave Jewish graveyards behind. Shrouded in tragedy as they faced the impossible choice between enduring further amongst their ancestor’s unwanted graves or starting over in a new land, Theodor Herzl made his choice.

He is manifestly present in the minutiae of the circumstances and a child of an un-promised land lying in a future that can only be made by human hands.

Thus the nation of Israel became a secular project first and foremost, where practically minded workers and intellects solved practical problems until a dream became a reality.

9th October

Something about language came up today.

Herzl, describing how the Jews would, when permitted, rather move up the ladder, he argues that poor Jews, given the chance, would stop drifting around and take up any trade available.

What struck me, though was a subtle difference between his language and that of Dearborn Independent.

THEODOR HERZL - A JEWISH STATE, p.31 - OUR INTRINSIC QUALITIES

There are more mistaken notions abroad concerning Jews than concerning any other people. And we ourselves have become so depressed and discouraged by our historic sufferings that, parrotlike, we repeat and believe these mistakes. Such a one is the assertion that our love of business is extreme.

Compare that with:

THE INTERNATIONAL JEW, CH. 4 - THE JEWISH QUESTION - FACT OR FANCY?

[…] In other words, transfer today the world-control of the international Jew to the hands of the highest commercially talented group of Gentiles, and the whole fabric of world-control would eventually fall to pieces, because the Gentile lacks a certain quality, be it human or divine, be it natural or acquired, that the Jew possesses.

There is a subliminal message of inevitability in the latter. I have absentmindedly noticed it before from sources such as TIJ. The implicit necessity that the Jew will rise to world power almost by fulfilment of prophecy is noticeable.

I think this threat of a curse lurking in the shadows may actually be a key ingredient. The more the theory appeals to a feeling of helplessness, the more violent we react.

To Sergei Nilus, the invocation of the spectre of Antichrist was enough.

Today prophecy has been supplanted by historical and social laws. The same kind of inevitability makes us shudder over the unstoppable consequences.

10th October

TIJ - Ch. 2 - Germany’s Reaction Against The Jew

● Jews gained from WW1: SPD and Kautsky gained foothold. ● Political hygiene requires to keep Jews out of high positions. ● Nature encysts sickness, but society lets sick Marxist theories spread like cancer.

Meanwhile, in another part of the galaxy …

Recovering from the shock of the unadulterated nazism that here finds expression I must be wary of the reverberation between Germany and America here.

TIJ picks up a lot of the talking points inside Germany in the Weimar era. While not exactly wholly innocent, it makes historical sense: They are looking for confirmation on the theory of the International Jew, and Germany provided examples. This was before Holocaust (but pogroms were an old phenomenon already). The point is that today we also rarely hold back our fists when pummelling people in public. What if the MAGA people are later discovered slaughtered systematically and put in a mass grave? Imagine the massive backlash that would result. You could say that about Democrats and all sorts of denominations as well.

TIJ also picks up heavily from the Protocols which saw the light of day in 1905. Flying in the face of the chronology, I use TIJ as a “source” of the Protocols, that is, since the Protocols make use of anti-semitism as a literary device, but puts its emotions into aristocratic day-dreaming, I decided to use TIJ to understand those emotions better. The Protocols are too unserious, too ironic to reveal anything about the emotional content of its antisemitism.

TIJ finds the Protocols and sees something confirmed that the authors already knew in their hearts was true.

TIJ searches and finds in Germany living proof of the problems that the Jews introduce by their perverted presence. Again, the authors are in search of confirmation of their suspicions.

Hitler later back-ports the TIJ articles as confirmation of their pet theories.

This re-importing of their own theories increases their validity. A lot of unfounded myths are solidifying into believable theories when professor A cites professor B who cites C, who in turn was inspired by A and B.

I am not sure whether Herzl provides or consumes more urban myths and conjectures. I think the Protocols, TIJ and the Nazi theorists have all read jewish zionist literature. If AJS is a measure of the language, that alone provides ample “proof” that the Jews area strongly represented in business (they were forced to), they avoid other trades (they were forced away from them), some are rich (and probably don’t want to migrate, so Herzl waves goodbye to them) etc.

Hitler couldn’t have spoken more clearly.

“Proof” comes in the form of naming names. If there is a Jew in a council, what else needs to be said? The transitional body in Germany after 1918 was the Council of the People’s Deputies. A mixed group of Jews (some conservative, some socialist) and non-Jews becomes a body of only Jews in this kind of proof.

I realise that to a Hitler, a socialist mind is incurable. Something is wrong with it on a genetic level. This retreat from intellectual endeavour, from actually understanding Karl Kautsky instead of just mentioning he is Jewish and an “aid” to Hugo Haase from SPD (probably reversing the mentorship a bit). Kautsky had lasting impact on many people. Lenin defends his ideas. I need to put Kautsky on my reading list by the way.

A lot of the names of so-called influential Jews people mentioned in TIJ are impossible to dig up, especially as I only have part of their name.

The lexicon mentions that 100.000 Jews served Germany in the war.

… which is of course standard Marxism. Workers unite and let the imperialist forces annihilate themselves in a world war.

So at least I know now that attributing communism to Jewish intellectuals was common practice and not unique to Germany.

Socialism and communism requires Semitic blood

There is no escaping that to Hitler as to the authors of TIJ, socialism required Jewish mentality to be real.

A wonderful love poem from Ford to Hitler! Say thanks, Adolf.

A few paragraphs later the train completely derails itself:

WW1 is here seen as “unsatisfactory conditions” which unfortunately ended in revolution.

What strikes me as odd here is that the Fords of the world - American liberals - join forces with the orthodox conservatives in Russia in viewing Jews as the real capitalists.

On every page, TIJ reminds us that socialism is a disease.

Lenin (not a Jew) would probably be surprised to realise that Trotsky was driven by his Jewish “spur to mastery” and not a social theory.

They manage to make a mockery out of every social theory in existence:

That’s just cruel!

All-Judaan

While in the process of speculating, why not introduce a new super-power:

No doubt this is the Protocols seeping out from under the door.

The puzzle is fitted together to form a slightly different picture than the almost Maxwellian Legio of the Protocols:

Of importance of course is the fact that anti-antisemitism does seem to provoke an outcry in the world press. In other words, there is reason to believe that TIJ represent another fringe sect.

11th October

I still feel like I am making no headway at all.

The theories contemplated in TIJ seem almost childish to me. I writhe and wiggle to try to squeeze my way into the mentality, but in vain.

I need to reconsider my approach.

PARADISE LOST