{"id":35683,"date":"2011-10-11T14:14:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=35683"},"modified":"2011-10-14T08:31:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:31:52","slug":"supremacism-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=35683","title":{"rendered":"Supremacism Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk October 11, 2011<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Supremacism-revisited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35684\" title=\"Supremacism revisited\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Supremacism-revisited-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Supremacism-revisited-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Supremacism-revisited.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a>A few days ago I compared two critiques of my new book \u2018The Wandering Who\u201d. One was by rabid Zionist Mark Gardner and the other by American academic Kevin MacDonald. I called my piece \u2018<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/gilad-atzmon-supremacists-on-the-wandering-who.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Supremacists on The Wandering Who<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In my article I labeled Gardner as a \u2018Jewish Supremacist\u2019 and MacDonald as a \u2018White Supremacist\u2019.\u00a0However, since the publication of my column it has been pointed out by a few readers that I may have been insufficiently careful in the way I attributed supremacism to Kevin MacDonald.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The definition of supremacism is actually pretty straightforward. It is the belief that a particular race, species, ethnic group, religion, gender, sexual orientation, belief system or culture is superior to others, and thus entitles those who identify with it <strong>to dominate, control or rule<\/strong> those who do not. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What is clear beyond any doubt is that such a definition fits Zionist ideology, discourse or practice like a glove. Zionism is driven by the belief that Jewish people are entitled to <strong>dominate, control and rule <\/strong>their supposed \u2018promised land\u2019 at the expense of its indigenous population i.e. the Palestinians.\u00a0\u00a0 But is this only true of Zionism? Is not any Jewish \u2018progressive\u2019 discourse, driven by tribal and racial inclinations towards segregation and determined to enforce on others how their struggle must be conducted, is not this also fundamentally supremacist? \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">My point is actually very simple and, also it seems, devastating. I believe that every single Jewish political discourse is chauvinist to the bone and is either already supremacist or on the verge of becoming supremacist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But what about Kevin MacDonald? Is he a White Supremacist? Well, now I\u2018m not so sure. He\u2019s certainly concerned with his white heritage and, like many Jews, he is also concerned with his genetic pool. MacDonald&#8217;s world view is clearly shaped by biological determinism and this is something I am very uncomfortable with.\u00a0 Yet, does he insist upon privilege? Does he seek to <strong>\u2018dominate\u2019, \u2018control\u2019 or \u2018rule\u2019 <\/strong>other non-white people? I\u2019m not so sure, but I\u2019m certainly going to look into it and it may take some time. But I will come with an answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Projection<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I also asked myself, why did I label MacDonald as a White Supremacist without really elaborating on the topic or explaining myself? \u00a0My answer is slightly embarrassing. \u00a0For quite a while, I\u2019ve seen the \u2018White Supremacist\u2019 tag attached to MacDonald and to so many other people, and at some point I must have let my guard down and allowed this highly charged terminology to infiltrate my vocabulary. \u00a0I didn\u2019t even notice the glaring fact that those who have bombarded us with this inflammatory label are themselves the ultimate supremacists &#8211; \u00a0ADL, Zionists and even some Jewish \u2018anti\u2019 Zionists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s now clear to me why Jewish ethnic leaders toss around the \u2018White Supremacist\u2019 label. It is there to divert attention from the true depth of their own Jewish Supremacism, an ideological tendency deeply embedded in every form of Jewish identity politics. For every Jewish political collective is a \u2018Jews only\u2019 exclusive club concerned primarily with Jewish particular interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is more than likely that what we have here is a clear case of projection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Projection is basically a psychological defense mechanism whereby one \u2018projects\u2019 one&#8217;s own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. It seems likely that many amongst those who attribute supremacism to others are themselves supremacists. I will obviously have to look into my own psyche and find out why, on this occasion, I tossed around the supremacist tag. I guess that my escape from Jewishness is not yet complete and from time to time I follow my tribal instinct. In retrospect, this is, indeed, a matter for regret.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Heritage<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I ended my piece last week by quoting some beautiful lines by Indian Guru Satya Sai Baba suggesting that they depict fairly my thoughts about race, ethnicity and origin:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;There is only one RACE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The race of humankind<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is only one religion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The religion of LOVE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is only ONE language<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">the language of the HEART&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">(Sri Satya Sai Baba)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">May I now add just a few words of my own? Though I agree with Sai Baba that there is only one race, the race of humankind, I also contend that we are also very different from each other, and that this differentiation is actually precious and it is this diversity that makes life meaningful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I would love to see all people maintain their culture and heritage but certainly not at the expense of others. Let me be precise. As far as I am concerned, it is totally <em>kosher<\/em> for an orthodox Jew to celebrate his or her heritage in his or her environment. However, a \u2018progressive\u2019 Jew opposing the burka in the name of \u2018women rights\u2019 may as well be regarded as <em>\u2018kosher\u2019 <\/em>by some but as far as I am concerned, it is also nothing less than sheer supremacism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/gilad-atzmon-supremacism-revisited.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I agree with Sai Baba that there is only one race, the race of humankind, I also contend that we are also very different from each other, and that this differentiation is actually precious <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35840,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions\/35840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}