Keith Barrett – The Unz Review Feb 2, 2024
Posting an article headlined “Damn the Jews!”—even in quotation marks—is asking for trouble. An old friend emailed me with the subject header: “IN REGARD TO DAMN THE JEWS—sad to see you descend into dehumanized hatred.” She pointed out: “There are good Jews ….and bad Jews….good Muslims and bad muslims….good Christians and bad….Good Hindus and bad… Don’t you think, Kevin, we are also individually each a mixture of good and evil?”
A colleague and occasional radio guest wrote: “Conflating Jews with Zionists is what Zionists do best. How could you?!!! You are, effectively, on THEIR side when you repeat their most important fundamental lie.” Other commentators made similar points, arguing for “damn the ZIONISTS!” instead.
My initial response was: “Did you read the article? The title is in quotes! It is a translation of the Houthi slogan! The article is (dark) humor!!!” My old friend admitted she hadn’t read the article and was just reacting to the headline. Others had read it but still found it offensive. I asked whether I should engage in some “literary self-criticism.” Several said “yes!” So here we go.
Literary Self-Criticism
Some writers, like Joyce, Kafka, and Pynchon, have whole industries of scholars interpreting their oeuvres. Others, like me, are condemned to self-exegesis, which I suppose is better than having no exegetes at all.
As Mikhail Bakhtin might say if he were alive and employed by a university that paid him to interpret the works of Kevin Barrett, “Damn the Jews!” is polyphonic. That means that the same phrase (“damn the Jews!”) includes echoes of different, opposing voices that impose different meanings on those words. In the title of my article, I put that phrase in quotation marks, a sign that someone else is saying them, to help readers figure that out.
From a Houthi perspective, and indeed from an Arab and Muslim perspective generally, “damn the Jews” or “a curse upon the Jews” or however you want to translate اللعنة على اليهود isn’t shocking or controversial, any more than a circa-1944 American saying “damn the Germans” would have been to Americans ears of that era. The Arab and Muslim worlds have effectively been at war with Israel and organized Jewry ever since the Jewish State’s genocide of Palestine began in earnest in 1947-1948—just like the American state was at war with the German state in 1944.
If you were an American who said “damn the Germans” in 1944, would anyone have taken offense? Would they have insisted “you should damn the Nazis, not all Germans! After all, there are good Germans and bad Germans…” I doubt it. Though there was and is a theoretical distinction between the German nation, consisting of all ethnically-German people, and the German state, few Americans cared much about that distinction in 1944, any more than most Arabs and Muslims care about the distinction between “the Jews” and the Jewish State today. That’s why saying “damn the Jews” in an Arab or Muslim context is uncontroversial.
Though I’m living in Morocco, where few are bothered by the Houthi anti-Jewish slogan, I write for an international anglophone audience dominated by Americans, but including a fair number of Arabs and Muslims from around the world. So I am hyper-aware that a phrase like “damn the Jews” is going to sound very different to different ears.
Americans, whose government underwrites the genocidal Jewish State, and who get their views from the Jewish-dominated media, have been trained to be hypersensitive to mythical “anti-Semitism.” In the USA, say anything remotely negative about Jews and your career and reputation will be destroyed. Americans internalize this taboo against “anti-Semitism” and start sweating bullets when they hear something like “damn the Jews.” It’s a Pavlovian, emotionally-driven reaction. (Oddly, the same people who freak out about “damn the Jews” are muttering “damn the Russians” at cocktail parties. Don’t they know that it isn’t all Russians?!)
Polyphony, specifically the tension between conflicting understandings of the same words, easily shades into humor. It’s darkly funny, when you think about it, that Americans and Arabs/Muslims react to “damn the Jews” in such radically different ways. (It’s also rather hilarious that Americans have been so completely and utterly brainwashed by the Jewish cowboys running herd on their goyim cattle, in the immortal words of Revilo P. Oliver—but that joke is on the Americans…and the Jews, sorry, I mean the cowboys, are laughing all the way to the bank.)
So to recap: My article “Damn the Jews!” playfully addresses the humorous incongruity between the way two cultures “hear” the Houthi slogan in general, and its fourth line in particular. The standard translation “A curse upon the Jews” is hilarious, as my article attempts to convey, because it is simultaneously so clunkily archaic and so “anti-Semitically” transgressive. That’s why I offered the Houthis tongue-in-cheek PR advice, and solicited my readers to offer more.
The Moral of the Story
So my article did not damn all Jews. It skewered Americans and Westerners for their complicity in Zionist genocide, sought to help them become conscious of the pro-Jewish brainwashing that has led them to complicity in genocide, gently teased the Houthis and their translators, and generally sought higher awareness through laughter, sort of like Swami Beyondanonda does, but in a darker key.
Excerpt from Yesterday’s Richie Allen Interview (whole show archived above)
Richie Allen: You converted to Islam, you’re a Muslim. What does it mean to you knowing, does it mean anything, that so many Jewish people completely condemn and abhor this and say not in their name and yet they never get a chance when talk TV shows here in the UK and radio shows want to discuss it. As far as people are concerned Jewish people are all for this (genocide) but they’re not Kevin, not the Jewish people I know.
Kevin Barrett: Not the Jewish people I know either. I have probably a disproportionate share of Jewish radio guests. People who are always concerned about issues related to Jewish power often harp on the disproportionate presence of Jews in this or that sector, with of course the media being the number one focus. But hey, my radio show is part of the media, and I’m pretty sure that more than 2% of my guests have some kind of Jewish background.
And I suppose that’s just because I look for the most interesting people who have something worthwhile to say that’s outside the box. And there are probably, it’s just going to be a little bit disproportionately people of Jewish background. And that’s cool with me. And the vast majority of those people are pretty much as horrified as I am, if not more so.
I think this does illustrate, Richie, the way that Jewish tribal power has always had a kind of an inner layer as well as an outer layer that kind of bleeds off into the surrounding communities. And the inner lair is fanatically tribal and utterly brainwashed. That’s “our Uncle Mortimer who reads the New York Times every morning and the only thing he cares about is, is it good for the Jews?” And then there’s somebody else in the family that is a much more critical thinker and much more open-minded and probably is going to go off and marry a non-Jewish person. And in another couple of generations, their descendants may not even count themselves as Jewish anymore, but the descendants of Mortimer certainly will.
And so you’ve had this tribal power configuration passed down through the centuries. And today let’s face the fact, Richie, that yes, if we poll Jewish people in the West, we’re going to find a very large number that are against this genocide. Not so in Israel, of course. But at the same time, the powerful part of the Jewish tribe, let’s say Jewish tribal power, is pro-genocide. That is, the Biden administration, as liberal and democratic as it’s supposed to be, is pro-genocide. They have power. And on the other side, the Republican Jews, who are getting vast amounts of (Jewish-Zionist) money, are even more rabidly pro-genocide. So the Jews with power are largely pro-genocide, and the Jews without power are largely anti-genocide.
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The comments and emails were overwhelmingly anti-paywall. I was moved by the people whose financial circumstances make it hard for them to support my work. Here is one example:
Hi Kevin, we have met on a number of occasions and events but not for some time. I live in Seattle. I was at an event on Mercer Island and later at a Methodist church in the university district the last time. It has been at least 10 plus years. Before that I saw you at a couple of 9/11 events. I gave you some cash at those times. I agree you should earn an income. Now I live on a pension and savings so I’m stingy with my money. So what’s the solution.
The best solution I can think of is to go no-paywall, and trust the honor and generosity of the people who can afford to subscribe. If you’re one of my paid subscribers, from now on you’ll be a patron, not a customer, and your subscription fee will be a gift, not a purchase. You’ll be helping me reach a larger audience, and you’ll be helping those among my audience who are hard-up to read and spread my work. So…thank you! May your kindness and generosity be rewarded.
As Andrew Napolitano says on his NaziTube blog, Judging Freedom, if you say ‘from the river to the sea and hold a Palistinian flag, you will be escorted off the campus, be you a legitimate student or not, but Bibi Nazi lederhosen pants can say ‘from the river to the sea’ and it’s broadcast all over the Nazi fake news media.
I was listining to this video with Tucker Carlson. It’s 8 minutes long, and IMHO, is has a very good lesson. Carlson makes the point that if a lamb steals, as in eats a packet of biscuits, and the father questions the child, the lamb says ‘I only ate 3 buscits’. The lamb tell this lie, because it loves their father. It’s a partial admission. Our Nazi elites don’t lie like this, they just come right out and say, no, we didn’t do it, you ate all the biscuits, it’s your fault, you are responsible. Tucker does it much better than I, so you should watch the video. I say that aside from what you think Tucker is, one of them, one of us. I don’t think he’s for them, or us. He knows the thicko sheeple won’t wake up, but those who are interested might learn something.
As another NaziTuber said, ‘Why would you fight for an elite which despises you?’ They despise in many ways, but one of the main ways they despise you, is their bare faced lies.
https://youtu.be/x9kW-OUElfM?si=jf40MfdN-HMosjNl
“She pointed out: “There are good Jews ….and bad Jews….good Muslims and bad muslims….good Christians and bad….Good Hindus and bad… Don’t you think, Kevin, we are also individualljy each a mixture of good and evil?”
His friend sounds like your typical brainwashed White twat.
Good jews? What part of the universe is this goofy bitch living in? That’s akin to saying there are good cockroaches.
“Damn The Semites”
Goyim get to have a laugh as well with that one.
Semites…yeah right.
Copied this the other day from the mainstream.
Senior BBC employee under fire after branding Jews ‘Nazi parasites’
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The BBC is facing calls to investigate a senior employee who shared alleged anti-Semitic Facebook posts. Dawn Queva, a senior scheduler and payout planner for BBC Three, shared posts attacking both Jewish people and white people.
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One of her posts appeared to peddle the conspiracy theory that the Rothschild family were behind the ‘holohoax’, a term commonly used by Holocaust deniers to suggest the Nazi genocide was fabricated. In another post published on January 12, and still not taken down, Ms Queva called Jewish people ‘subcontinental melanin recessive caucAsians of the Synagogue of Satan’.
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A further post on January 13 branded Jews ‘a bunch of thieving squatters’, accusing them of ‘buying and selling those who kidnap from Africa’. And in an anti-Semitic rant as recent as yesterday, Queva reportedly wrote that Jews were ‘japhetic AshkeNazi who have no zero blood connection to the land of Palestine or Israel’.
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The grotesque posts were published under the name Dawn Las Quevas-Allen, whose identity was confirmed to be the BBC employee by trade publication Deadline. The account is littered with claims about the supposed origins of Jews, and asserts that ‘being JewISH has zero to do with ethnicity’, as well as links to videos promoting conspiracies about the Israel-Hamas conflict. pictured: Dawn Queva.
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Ms Queva also allegedly described white people as ‘barbaric’ and ‘bloodthirsty’, the Telegraph reported. According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms Queva previously held roles at Disney and NBC, and joined the Corporation in January 2023. In other Facebook posts, the BBC employee referred to the UK as the ‘UKKK’ – a reference to the Klu Klux Klan.
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Jewish anti-hate charity Campaign Against Antisemitism said it would refer Queva to the police and write to the BBC. The BBC itself has come under pressure over its coverage of events in the Middle East, with Jewish members of staff defying a ban on attending marches against anti-Semitism in London.
The broadcaster faced criticism at the start of the conflict for its failure to call Hamas ‘terrorists’ as well as the decision by a correspondent to speculate that the Al-Ahli hospital bombing was most likely an Israeli airstrike.
Earlier this month the Corporation became embroiled in another row after sports presenter Gary Lineker (pictured) shared a post calling for Israel to be banned from international football tournaments. Lineker took down the tweet after it was claimed he was intending to share a news story rather than express or endorse an opinion.
But the former England footballer sparked further controversy by liking a post defending suspended Labour MP Kate Osamor (Pictured), who used a post on Holocaust Memorial Day to suggest the conflict in Gaza should be remembered as a genocide.
The BBC said it couldn’t comment on individual members of staff and said it had ‘well-established and robust processes’ to deal with anti-Semitism. A spokesperson for the Corporation said: ‘We do not tolerate anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or any form of abuse and we take any such allegations seriously and take appropriate disciplinary action wherever necessary.’
I always say “the Jews” because there are millions of pages of boring obfuscation, as with Unz
This guy’s more concerned about the survival of wogs than the survival of the white race.
Quite a bit of back-peddling here. Why can’t we all just get along??? I would like to point out that there is no middle ground here. There is only the pretense of a middle ground, and I think we know who it is that will shape the dimensions of the argument. In my mind… there is no argument. That was all settled some time ago.
Coming from a long line of ancestors in North America who ether escaped the British Crown or who were driven from their homes in past land-clearance operations on the Isles, and despite being stuck with an English name which has little to do with the hostile blood in my veins, I am more in a mood to say “Damn the Anglos”.
Reading the book “The 48 Laws of Power” by the “good” for nothing Jew, Robert Green, which presents a very good list of instructions for anyone interested in lying and cheating their way to wealth, success, and power in our society, I could not help wondering if with all of the subterfuge and evil going on in the world, for which we tend to blame the Jews, really should be put at the doorstep of the Anglos. The Jews in their religion likely have no proscriptions against using such powers for their advancement, which would give them a great deal more freedom in the use of the laws in order to excel. However, the religion of the Anglos tends to require that the use of such overt methods be more discrete. For instance, the monarch must always be seen to have clean hands, like our courts where justice must always “be seen” to be done, whether it is or not. Most certainly a great deal of hypocrisy is necessary to maintain the Anglo Empire which spans the globe.
One of the 48 laws of Greene in his book is that of the “cat’s paw”. Where a monarch, a ruling class, or even a group of oligarchs cannot afford to be seen to do the actual wet work in various dirty exploits, invariably they use some other person, group or organization to do it, and take all of the blame. Hence, when we see the Jews instigating a war in the Middle East, we ought to ask if they are really being used by the Anglo establishment as a cat’s paw, where it is actually the Anglos spoiling once again to go after the oil reserves of Iran, simply because they cannot maintain their empire for very long without it.
this was also already in USA in the 20ties + 30ties when
one would say anything positive about Nazis + germans .
its old international witch hunt . today my germans are
not better .
don’t know about you but i don’t really care about wogs
yes of course, the old trick…deflect from the kikes..always the Anglos or Nazis.
Fuck off to (6Star)bucks in downtown Mancouver you fat useless
canuck nonentity
You wouldnt have a country without the “Anglos”
Twat!
Fred B,
Ok, I understand where you’re coming from – Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, Committee of 300, Anglo-American Establishment (Carolle Quigley), The East India Company, etc. Yes you believe, very much, that the British Empire is very much alive seeking world dominance? I completely agree with you….
However, the British Empire was never British, but Jewish, created for the eventual establishment of Israel.
Tell me Fred, what Anglo, anywhere on this earth, would push for mass uncontrolled 3rd world immigration into ITS OWN NATION, who pump out 5x the offspring to the indigenous???
This is where your argument falls flat on its face Fred.
Now ask yourself a question – why is every organisation, behind mass immigration into the West, run by Jews?
And another – why is every organisation, that’s promoting hatred of whites, critical race theory, non existent: white supremacy, privilege and oppression of blacks run by Jews?
Fred you only need to know one thing in your life – IT’S THE JEWS.
iran sends third shipment of foo water and medicines to gaza
what have we sent ? warships to bomb them
Our navy should be in the english channel stopping all the toerag migrant scroungers
not guarding israel in the red sea
bastard racist government
New Zealanders have a special treat coming up on weekend television (phew what a cohencidence).
The jews who run NZ TV are running that Deborah Lipstadt/David Irving court room drama.
What percentage of Kiwis will buy it…?..probably maybe 75%…but it will probably be too boring to watch.
Does this screening have anything to do with the massacre of thirty thousand Palestinians….of course it does.
Trouble is fewer and fewer buy the holoco$t legend…..especially outside western pseudo democracies.
Currently the German government is hounding a 91 year old German grandmother for daring to question the holohoax……they’ve had her in prison several times…..a 91 year old woman.
Germans need to focus on today because the plan is to drag Germany into another war with Russia ….damaging both countries AGAIN.
It goes without saying both countries today are controlled by Jews Incorporated via crypto jews embedded in both countries……However Britain and USA are under their control…the most.(Cameron has recently been drafted back into government….probably to liase with the Zio-)Nazi fanatics.
Their current objective is to create war between America and Iran….the final obstacle to jewish control in the Middle East.
It’s a spiritual war between good and evil, and the Bible identifies them; the evil doers as the ‘Synagogue of Satan’ not Anglos.
Christians, real Christ-lovers, lovers of truth should already know this. I have read you trying to convince Yukon Jack of the Christian God. Fred B, Christians really ought to know who the enemy is. I love them by reminding them of the truth and the evil role they are playing.
Those who don’t believe in God are fighting this battle with one arm tied behind their back.
@ Fred At it Again
Actually, unless the Anglos are highly identified with their monarchy, the Masons, British Imperialism, British eugenics, British empiricism, or British cooking, I can see no barriers to friendship and cooperation with them. As for the abysmal birth rates of the middle and upper class Anglos, I do not see the solution being in limiting the birth rates of non-Anglos. As for the establishment folk in the UK and in America, the families are mainly Anglo or Jewish. As for “tag teams” between “good Jews” and “bad Jews” as Henry suggests, I see more of that arrangement going on between Jewish oligarchs and Anglo ones. Israel, the US and the UK are in fact prime examples of the symbiotic relationship which based on the green blood of lucre flowing through their gold-plated hardened arteries.