States of Exile

To be so detested by the whole race of man one must carry within oneself something truly great. - Bernard Lazare, Notes on a Conversion As the hatred of Christ by the Pharisees was testament to his divinity, so the hatred of Jews by anti-Semites is testament to their worth. The scorn of the multitude is the crown Providence lays on the head of the exceptional.

You like us because, being Portuguese and Comtadins, we do not form part of the accursed race. And we do not. We had nothing to do with the judicial crime committed against Christ. . . . you Latins have good reason to like us Latin Jews, because we are as much part of the Latin race as the Greeks and Saracens were in Provence and Sicily. Nor are we half-breeds, any more than those heterogeneous individuals who were mixed with the Romans during the great invasions. Furthermore, we are the best propagators of Latinity. After all, is not Spanish, for the most part, the language spoken in the Jewish areas of Bulgaria and Tunisia? - Apollinaire, "The Latin Jew"

It astounds me how little anti-Semites know about Judaism. Not "Judeo-liberalism" or "Judeo-Bolshevism," but the religion itself. This point was brought home to me by the following remark from an article on Julius Evola , an otherwise interesting thinker whose anti-Semitism is his most vulgar aspect: The dualistic conception of body and soul born of the Jewish spirit, whose abstract and fatalistic contemplativeness is “devoid of any interest in the heroic and supranatural affirmation of the personality,” cannot, as a result, but level the higher values associated with the Aryan’s Olympian spirituality. Surely a writer for a magazine called The Occidental Quarterly should know that the dualistic conception of body and soul originates with Plato. In fact, "the dualistic conception of body and soul" is entirely foreign to biblical Judaism and absent from the Torah. Anti-Semites apparently assume that everything they dislike about Christianity emerged from Jud

An Arab who lost a brother was asked, "What was the cause of his death?" He replied, "Life." - Le-Yosef ben Meir ibn Zabarah, Sefer Shaashuim , 13c, 7.27

While you are sinking through the three hundred and sixty-five eons, worlds and generations on your way to the earth at a point in time, you will grow heavier and heavier; more and more litter from the cosmic spheres will attach itself to you, shrouds, clothes, execrescences, snails, dead weight, covering your awareness of the original Light, until you at last fall into the dark dungeon of spirit and flesh and are finally born as a human being. That is, as a being that remembers nothing, not even what it is, namely Light - like someone sleeping. That applies to you too. But at the same time you are different from the others. All the others are sleepers, who have yet to awake, through faith and knowledge. Only then is there a way back for them. But the heavy accretions have mostly reconciled them with life on earth; they have forgotten that they are aliens there and that they are what they think they are: that is the greatest threat to their return. - Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Hea

Exiled into the world you are aliens in it as Spirit is alien You are its embodiment and your travail here is an unending refutation For the Cosmos itself framed you to mock God's pretense to infinite Justice and Love - Irving Layton

Andre Glucksmann, wandering Jew : "Mr. Glucksmann, was the driving power behind your thinking fury?" "More my childhood and the lifelong sense that I was on the edge of an abyss." Glucksmann's father came from Bukovina, his mother from Prague. They had emigrated to Palestine long before Hitler seized power; there they met and married. Glucksmann's two sisters were born there. In 1930, the young couple gave up all security to go to Germany to help the anti-fascist opposition. Exposed in 1937, they were able to escape to France at the last moment. There, Jojo Glucksmann was born, a German-speaking Jewish child. To the outside world he was "Andre Riviere", French speaking, Christian. The family lived with false papers in constantly changing accommodations near Lyon. The father died in 1940. In 1941, French police uncovered the Glucksmann family and brought them to the Bourg-Lastic camp near Vichy, from where they were to be deported to Germany. Andre&

. . . fulfillment, in man, of God's literary intentions is inspiration or enthusiasm : words whose true meaning is "to be possessed by a god." - Jorge Luis Borges, "A Defense of the Kabbalah" Books which teach and speak of whatever is highest and best are equally sacred, whatever be the tongue in which they are written, or the nation to which they belong. - Baruch Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise The "people of the book" is a fine designation but limits the scope of our library . I suggest the "people of the book" become the "people of the books" and accept the holiness of foreign pages.

Go home to your Jews and tell them that I am not a Jew and I care nothing for Jews and their fate. - Leon Trotsky, to Jewish delegation, 1921 There has never been so blunt a "non-Jewish Jew" than Trotsky. Yet inevitably, after communist, the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Trotsky is "Jew." If Trotsky didn't want to be considered a Jew, shouldn't we honour his wish? I raised the issue in a conversation with one of the more erudite anti-Semites trolling the Internet: Somehow every Jewish communist is representative of Judaism’s essence, every Jewish liberal is representative of a Jewish plot, but their Gentile equivalents get to be individuals with their own personal motivations. His reply: Either you are very poorly informed or being intellectually dishonest. Clearly, even those rabid anti-culture nihilists of the “Frankfurt School” were consciously attempting to advancing Jewish group interests. As was Jacob Schiff, capitalist and suppor

I found the following from a Mr. Bharat Singh in the comments section of a Standpoint Article : Oh Jews, come and live in India! We've had you among us for 900 years and never harmed a hair on your head but then most of you still left - for a condo and a stipend in Tel Aviv! We can assimilate 7million of you no problem - a drop in our billion+ ocean. Your kids come here every year after being in the IDF - and no one bothers them. 7million smart, resourceful Jews would be a godsend to us. Europeans and Arabs will always hate you - because you make them feel guilty, or stupid and inadequate. Over here, you'll be able to relax for the 1st time in 2000 years. Think about it... It strikes me that the man is correct! India has a tradition of religious pluralism and lacks any ingrained culture of anti-Semitism. On a theological level, I've always been bored with the notion of a "Judeo-Christian tradition." I would love to see a Judeo-Vedantic tradition emerge that bridg

The nose of the holy king is the focal point of the countenance. When the forces of power extend themselves and are gathered together, they are the nose of the holy king, and these powers depend upon the single Gevurah [severity or judgment] and emerge from there. When the judgments are aroused and come from their borders, they are tempered only by the smoke of the altar, and then it is written: "And the lord smelled the sweet savor" (Genesis 8:21). The nose of Atika is different, since it does not need [the sweet savor], because the nose of Atika is called long-suffering in every respect; the light of the concealed wisdom is called his "nose." - Wisdom of the Zohar , I

. . . the patriarchs are themselves the Merkavah [divine chariot], and the same is also true of their children after them, and of every righteous man. - Ezra ben Solomon, The Secret of the Tree of Knowledge If man made God rather than the other way around, God would still be man's finest invention and worthy of preservation. We are chariots for an invisible rider, and even if the rider is all in our heads, He still moves us . God doesn't dwell in the land of Israel. God dwells in the individual Israel, "He that struggles." As we are driven into exile, God is that which drives us.

Anti-Jewish Jew Gilad Atzmon asks a key question amidst his vitriol: Historically Jews have shunned many Gods, they dropped Jehovah, they dumped Marx, some have never followed Zionism. But in the light of the Holocaust religion, while bearing in mind the scenes from Gaza, Jenin and Lebanon, the Jew may have to continue in the tradition and drop “the Jew”. He will have to accept that his newly formed father-figure was formed in his own shape. More concerning is the devastating fact that the new father is proved to be a call to kill. Seemingly, the new father is the ultimate evil God of them all. I wonder how many Jews will be courageous enough to shun their esoteric newly formed father-figure. Will they be courageous enough to join the rest of humanity adopting a universal ethical discourse? Whether the Jew drops “The Jew”, only time will tell. Just to remove any doubt, I did drop my “Jew” a long time ago and I am doing fine. This is an argument Jews unwilling to "drop the Jew

Tendance Coatesy reports : Few deny that ‘Anti-Zionism’ can be a cover for racism. But rarely does it lead to this broad alliance. In France the mixed-race (Cameroon-French) ’humourist’ Dieudonné has launched the Parti Anti-Sionist. Its candidates are standing in the European Election this June (in the Isle-de- France). The List contains, Alain Soral, former Communist, then member of the Front National, and Thierry Meyssan, famous as the author of ”L’effroyable imposture” – a founding document of the 9/11 ‘Truth’ Movement. They are joined by Sidi Yahi Gouasmi of the Fédération Chiite de France. As well as Rabbi Schmiel Borreman of Judaism Against Zionism. . . . Fans of Islamism, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Holocaust deniers, French nationalism, Conspiracy Theories and France’s mixed-race answer to Bernard Manning, have (if they live in the Isle-de-France) a unique voting opportunity. Truly unique. By their enemies you shall know them. Nietzsche's words are worth repeating: "Th

Albert Jay Nock writes in his essay Isaiah's Job : One evening last autumn, I sat long hours with a European acquaintance while he expounded a political-economic doctrine which seemed sound as a nut and in which I could find no defect. At the end, he said with great earnestness: "I have a mission to the masses. I feel that I am called to get the ear of the people. I shall devote the rest of my life to spreading my doctrine far and wide among the population. What do you think?" . . . So I mustered courage to say that he had no such mission and would do well to get the idea out of his head at once; he would find that the masses would not care two pins for his doctrine, and still less for himself, since in such circumstances the popular favorite is generally some Barabbas. I even went so far as to say (he is a Jew) that his idea seemed to show that he was not very well up on his own native literature. He smiled at my jest, and asked what I meant by it; and I referred him to

Tom Sunic asks: How does one dare critically talk about the extraordinary influence the Jews in the West without running the risk of social opprobrium? The answer: take a historically-considered and nuanced approach to the issue. For instance: when declaiming that a disproportionate number of Bolsheviks were Jews, also note that perhaps Tsarist policy played some role in Jewish resentment toward the ancien regime. When wondering out loud why so many Jews lean left or vote liberal, consider how Jews have fared in the past under far-right regimes . You may find that like other human beings, Jews are not just the cause of history; they are also subject to and respond to its effects. In other words, provide context to your critique. Another point: if you're going to bemoan negative Jewish influence on the West, intellectual consistency demands you also acknowledge positive Jewish influence on the West. The much-maligned Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Karl Marx were

From a recent article by Gideon Levy: Israel's only real existential danger is losing U.S. support. Yes, there is no Israel without America - not only the $30 billion annual defense aid (without which the IDF would be a shadow of itself), or the market for one-third of Israeli exports, but also international support. Israel, which has become a leper in many circles, is lost without Washington's sponsorship. There is no alternative superpower - having Micronesia alone on our side at the UN will not get us very far. There is Israel without America - the nation of Israel, not the state of Israel. Recall the words of the righteous gentile Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra : State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." It is a lie! The most fanatical Zionists and the most fanatical anti-Zionists have united to propagate that lie. The result has been to bind the Jewish

Following the advice of some website I decided to compare the Israeli and Palestinian national anthems: Israeli National Anthem: While yet within the heart - inwardly The soul of the Jew yearns, And towards the vistas of the East-eastwards An eye to Zion looks. It is not yet lost, our hope, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free people in our land In the land of Zion and Jerusalem, To be a free people in our land In the land of Zion and Jerusalem. Palestinian National Anthem: My country, my country My country, the land of my grand fathers My country, my country My country, my nation, the nation of eternity With my determination, my fire and the volcano of my revenge The longing of my blood to my land and home I have climbed the mountains and fought the wars I have conquered the impossible, and crossed the frontiers My country, my country, the nation of eternity With the resolve of the winds and the fire of the guns And the determination of my nation in the land of struggle Pales