{"id":126533,"date":"2015-12-23T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=126533"},"modified":"2015-12-28T07:59:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T07:59:31","slug":"the-jewish-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=126533","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish War on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kevin MacDonald <\/a>— Darkmoon Dec 22, 2015<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Pictures, captions and comments by Lasha Darkmoon<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Source<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kevin MacDonald notes, \u201cOriginally posted in 2012, this article gets at the Jewish ethnic angle behind the \u2018War on Christmas<\/em>.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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IF JESUS WERE BORN TODAY,<\/strong><\/h2>\n

MARY AND JOSEPH WOULD BE IN DEEP TROUBLE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
LD: \u00a0This controversial cartoon, published in the Guardian<\/em> in December 2011, caused outrage among British Jews who accused the Guardian\u2019s Christian columnist Phoebe Greenwood of \u201cdemonizing Israel\u201d by conflating Jesus and his family with \u201coppressed Palestinians\u201d. \u00a0Adam Levick says angrily: \u201cThe morally obscene charge <\/a><\/span>is that, if Christ, Mary and Joseph were all alive today, they\u2019d be persecuted by the Jewish state.\u00a0The indisputable\u00a0fact, however, is that Israel remains the sole nation in the Middle East where Christians thrive and worship freely.\u201d Odd that Mr Levick should say that, given that Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0[LD]<\/strong><\/h5>\n
KEVIN MACDONALD writes: A new book,\u00a0Joshua Eli Plaut\u2019s\u00a0A Kosher Christmas: \u2019Tis the Season to Be Jewish<\/a><\/em><\/span>, documents what we have known all along: The Jews did indeed subvert Christmas. \u00a0This book deserves a full review, but Ethan Schwartz\u2019s summary and comment (\u201cTwas the night after Christmas<\/a><\/span>\u201c) deserve scrutiny. First the summary:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Jews have been the vanguard of an effort to \u201ctransform Christmastime into a holiday season belonging to all Americans,\u201d without religious exclusivity. \u00a0The most important Jewish mechanisms of secularization are comedy and parody, for laughter undermines religious awe.<\/strong> \u00a0Take, for example, Hanukkah Harry from \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d, who heroically steps in for a bedridden Santa by delivering presents from a cart pulled by donkeys named Moishe, Hershel, and Shlomo. \u00a0Remarkably, Hanukkah Harry has emerged as a real Santa-alternative for many American Jews.<\/h5>\n
Plaut sees such things not as attempts at assimilation but as an intentional subversion of Christmas traditions. \u00a0\u201cThrough these parodies,\u201d he writes, \u201cJews could envision not having to be captivated by the allure of ubiquitous Christmas symbols.\u201d \u00a0And it isn\u2019t just Jews: for Americans in general, Jewish parody helps ensure that Christmas \u201cnot be taken too seriously\u201d and that the celebrations of other traditions \u201cbe accorded equal respect and opportunity.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
There seem to be two messages here. One is the message of subversion utilizing ridicule among other methods. The other is that Jews are seen as high-mindedly making Christmas \u00a0\u201cinto a holiday season belonging to all Americans.\u201d The end result is that Christmas is not \u201ctaken too seriously\u201d and the Christian religious aspect central to the traditional holiday is de-emphasized.<\/h5>\n
People who take their religion seriously do not allow their religion to be ridiculed. One need only think of the Muslim reactions to cartoons ridiculing Mohammed. The fact that Jews have been able to ridicule Christianity without any serious negative consequences is an important marker of Jewish power and an equally strong indication of the decline of Christian religious belief. I suspect that the organized Jewish community would react in outrage if non-Jews ridiculed religious Judaism. Indeed, any criticism of Jews as Jews\u00a0is off limits in the mainstream media. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
(A\u00a0topical short list of verboten topics: the loyalties of neocon Jews and their role in promoting the war in Iraq, the Jewish aspect of the\u00a0Ivy League admissions scandal<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, how Jewish control of Hollywood influences media content.)<\/h5>\n
Schwartz doesn\u2019t quarrel with Plaut\u2019s evidence, but wonders if it\u2019s good for the Jews that such a book be written:<\/h5>\n
\u201cThere is something disconcerting about this thesis, summoning up classic anti-Semitic images of conspiracy and sabotage. Without a trace of irony, Plaut recounts incidents in which fundamentalist Christian groups complained that \u201ccertain Americans, particularly Jews, were trying to take the \u2018Christ\u2019 out of Christmas.\u201d \u00a0He adds that \u201canti-Semitic comments often ensued.\u201d \u00a0Those Christian fundamentalists might well feel vindicated by Plaut\u2019s argument; yet Plaut is unfazed by this connection, and rightly so. \u00a0It is not inherently anti-Christian, he recognizes, to oppose Christianity\u2019s domination of a secular democracy. \u00a0If Jews have helped to make American society more open, they should be proud of it.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n

A Jewish cartoon from the Jewish website shalomlife.com<\/a>, <\/strong>
\nshowing Jews as victims of Christianity<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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LD: \u00a0You are meant to feel sorry for this nice Jewish family. Even at Hanukkah, the Christians continue to persecute the Jews in the form of an unwelcome visit from Father Christmas. Note the look of indignation on the Jewish mother\u2019s face at the invasion of her home by the Christian Santa. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Joshua Eli Plaut\u2019s comment quoted above by Kevin MacDonald is particularly relevant in this context: \u201cThe most important Jewish mechanisms of secularization are comedy and parody, for laughter undermines religious awe.\u201d Hanukkah Harry on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d \u2014 depicting\u00a0a bedridden Santa delivering presents from a cart pulled by donkeys named Moishe, Hershel, and Shlomo \u2014 \u00a0is an obvious Jewish attempt to trivialize and poke fun at Christmas, thereby undermining religious awe. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
It gets worse. Here are two cartoon pics that not only trivialize Christmas but attempt to sexualize it. With a hop and a skip, we go straight from the reverent atmosphere of\u00a0Gloria in Excelsis<\/em> and the Holy Family praying round the Christmas crib<\/a> <\/span>to the soft porn milieu of sexual hanky-panky in Sleazeville. The first \u2018card\u2019 depicts Hanukkah Harry as he gives a spanking<\/a><\/span> to a scantily clad female Santa in fishnet tights. The second shows the same girl giving the blissed-out Harry what appears to be a blowjob<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 coyly entitled \u201cKissing Santa under the Misteltoe.\u201d For an assortment of these tawdry photos, using humor to ridicule the solemnity of one of Christianity\u2019s most important religious festivals, see Santa Klaus Vs. Hanukkah Harry: There will be spanking<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Kevin MacDonald notes appositely: \u201cPeople who take their religion seriously do not allow their religion to be ridiculed. The fact that Jews have been able to ridicule Christianity without any serious negative consequences is an important marker of Jewish power and an equally strong indication of the decline of Christian religious belief.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
One can only imagine the apoplectic rage of the Jewish community if Holocaust Memorial Day were given the same disrespectful treatment. [LD]<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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KEVIN MACDONALD:<\/strong> \u00a0So Jews subverted Christmas but their motives were pure and idealistic. But such an account ignores the Jewish role in conceptualizing America as a proposition nation\u2014a major topic of\u00a0The Culture of<\/em>\u00a0Critique.\u00a0<\/em>The Jewish stress on cultural pluralism (which has now morphed into multiculturalism) was an explicit rejection of the ethnocultural strand of American identity, an important part of which was Christianity. (Indeed, until the recent wave of immigration resulting from the 1965 law, Jews constituting 2-3 percent of the population, were the only identifiable American group that was not Christian.)<\/h5>\n
Jews were central to\u00a0building a wall\u00a0<\/a><\/span>between religion and the public square which has resulted in the \u201cwar on Christmas<\/a><\/span>\u201d that we still see raging. Jews were also central to\u00a0changing U.S. immigration policy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to be open to all the peoples of the world, again with an ideology that America is merely a set of abstract principles and has no ethnic or cultural core; therefore it should be open to all peoples and these peoples should be able to retain their own culture as part of the American mosaic.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I realize that many good people shy away from saying it, but the reality is that Jews have very aggressively pursued policies that benefit them and are opposed to the interests of the traditional people of America and the West. And because Jews attained status as an intellectual and media elite, they have been able to have a very large effect on public policy and even on the attitudes of non-Jews.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Plaut emphasizes the difference between the very aggressive behavior of Eastern European immigrants with their hatred of Christianity contrasted with the German Jews who arrived in the mid-19th century and \u201cembraced the holiday.\u201d It\u2019s an important distinction, at least in the American context. But in any case, Plaut\u2019s description of the motives of the Eastern European as stemming from their hatred of Christianity hardly paints them as idealistic crusaders on behalf of an open society.<\/h5>\n
It bears repeating once again that Jews react with hostility to the idea that Israel should not have a Jewish ethnocultural core while they have led the campaign against the idea that America and the West have any ethnocultural core.\u00a0As with their promoting non-White, non-Christian immigration, their advocacy has nothing to do with ideals of moral universalism but everything to do with pursuing what\u2019s good for the Jews, motivated by Jewish hatreds toward the traditional people and cultures of the West. The war on Christmas is thus a central example of the theme of Jews as a hostile elite<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Celebrating Hanukkah at the White House<\/h3>\n

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