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Collaboration

I haven't posted here in some time. Nonetheless, I continue to read up and think on issues I've discussed in this blog. I'd hate to leave my work here as a virtual corpse, but I also am uncertain as to the efficacy of continuing in this format. What I would like to know is if there are people out there interested in collaboration, either under the State of Exile label or another. My interest is in people with unique, even conflicting takes on Jewishness broadly defined (political, religious, racial, cultural, philosophical) and related issues (nationalism, the Middle East, traditionalism, multiculturalism, tribalism), that transcend the tired mainstream discourse. The scope of this venture would be neither right nor left, and beholden to no dogma (including the dogma of political correctness). Drop me a line if interested.

The Pronouncements of the Exilarch

Here at State of Exile, we acknowledge Naim Dangoor, British-Iraqi-Jewish real estate tycoon and self-declared Exilarch of the Babylonian Jews, to be Exilarch of all Jews. Here are some of his more noteworthy pronouncements, as made in his journal, The Scribe . On Adam: It is time to rehabilitate Adam and honour him not only as the father of our agricultural civilisation but also as the founder of Monotheism. On Buddhism: Buddhism is not a religion, but a philosophy. That and other cults, which have no contact with Jehovah, are man-made fairy tales. On the Creation: Modern science has confirmed the inspired knowledge of our ancestors regarding the origin of the Universe and its creation out of nothing which started with the Big Bang. Encouraged by this information, even serious Bible scholars are trying to find scientific proof in every word of the Bible which is overdoing it. On Cyrus: It is interesting to observe here that in 1971 Iran celebrated the 2500th anniversary, a Jubilee of

Sephardim: The Proletariat of the Jewish Race

The War Nerd makes an underappreciated point in his article about the Israelis who fired on Palestinian marching into the Golan Heights: For every squeamish Euro descendant of socialist kibbutzim in those ranks, I’d bet there are ten Sephardim or Falasha with lots of juicy family stories about what it was like living in Muslim countries who’d be willing to empty their magazines into the crowd coming down the hill. To wit, the Sephardim are the more right-wing, conservative sub-race of Jews. In North America there are relatively few Sephardim, so Jews get fairly stereotyped as bourgeois liberals. But in Israel, Sephardim comprise at least half the Jewish population, so the country tilts to the right. Interestingly, Benjamin Netanyahu (though himself Ashkenazi) dismissed the Israeli "tent city" protestors as "Ashkenazi leftists eating sushi and smoking nargilas." Clearly then, Ashkenazi functions in Israel as Jewish does in certain North American circles: as a signif

The Afro-Semitic Experience

So Jews are a teensy bit African: Reich’s team analyzed more than half a million DNA markers across the entire genomes of people from seven diverse Jewish populations — including Ashkenazim from northern Europe; Sephardim from Italy, Turkey and Greece, and Mizrahim from Syria, Iraq and Iran. They then compared the genetic data with DNA from 15 sub-Saharan African populations. Reporting in the April issue of PLoS Genetics, the researchers found that modern day Jews can attribute about 3% to 5% of their ancestry to sub-Saharan Africans, and that the exchange of genes between Jews and sub-Saharan Africans occurred approximately 72 generations, or about 2,000 years, ago. Surely this gives Israel the right to a small (3% to 5%) slice of Africa? The Lemba protectorate? What is certain is that the Lemba are emphatic about being Jewish. "I love my people," a Lemba woman told Parfitt, "we came from the Israelites, we came from Sena, we crossed the sea . . . We were so beautiful

Alternative Right Are Dicks

Alternative Right reports: the Amish are apologizing for the Holocaust . The reader is expected to instinctively respond, "Jewish power knows no bounds!" Some excerpts from the comment section/echo chamber: When Jews apologize to the Ukrainian people for the premier role of Jews in perpetrating the Holodomor, the genocidal murder of over 8,000,000 Christian souls, and later suppressing information of it, will Jews at last qualify a righteous people? One thing is certain here - if anyone still had doubts whatever as to just how widespread and deep the Jewish guilt-tripping re. the holy "Holocaust" really runs, the fact that even the freakin' Amish feel the need to prostrate themselves in front of modern Hebrews, in Israel no less, over the affair, should pretty much remove all doubt - period!! The best part of apologizing to the jews is that it is the apology that you have to keep on giving. Instead of them having any gratitude to the Amish the focus will foreve

A Swimming Jew

From Salon : About a month after I had moved to Guiyang, China, to work as an English teacher as part of the Peace Corps, one of my students, Yvette, handed me a letter during my office hours. Its title, announced in bold print along the top of the page, was "GREAT JEW." The letter summarized the status of world Jewry: Jew in the world: There are 14 million Jews in the world, 5 million of them are in the Israel, and 6 million in the USA. They have done so many great things for people in the world. They good at jokes, doing business and managing money so that there are a large number of Jewish tycoon in the world. . . . In the Wall Street which is the controlling financial interests of the United States, it is the world of Jews who dominate the "street." Jews deserve careful study though their history is pitiful. Yvette also included a bullet- point list of facts she had gleaned from her textbooks and from local newspapers: • Einstein is the greatest

Dance Songs of the Elders of Zion, Track 1

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Firewater - The Drunken Jew