Category — Immigration

I remember when I got in a big fight with Jewschool over immigration (actually, I’m in a mini one right now), and how I was shocked at the hysteria that surrounded my call to consider mass immigration limits from those populations that may not be risk-free pools of labor.

Imagine how a gentile feels when the Jews all gang up on him.

This happens time after time.

Steve Sailer writes,

Unfortunately, the way Jewish-American power promotes its interests in this country—by imposing a code of silence about Jewish power, by blackballing anybody who speaks out on any issue even tangentially related to Jewish influence, and by demonizing immigration restrictionists—has far-reaching debilitating effects on America.

Is Sailer right? Should people be allowed to debate issues that are uncomfortable to us — be they immigration issues or IQ related matters, or is that just crazy talk? Obviously I think these issues should be open to discussion, but it does appear that many powerful Jews and Jewish groups do think that is crazy talk, and silence discussion by shrieking “racism/anti-Semite!”

What confuses me is that if Sailer is right that IQ is off limits for discussion because of the Jews, then why do most Jews reject affirmative action? They seem connected, but perhaps they are two different things, even if causative? In other words, the Jews block discussion about IQ and other intelligence disparities, and then other minority groups — but not the Jews — demand affirmative action to remedy a situation that can only be occurring due to racism, since no aptitude gap compared to whites is allowed for anything.

The JTA reports,

A Paris teen is in a coma after being beaten in what French Jewish leaders are calling an anti-Semitic act.

The 17-year-old boy was beaten over the head with metal bars Saturday night in eastern Paris. Media reports offered varying figures on the number of attackers, who were black, ranging from six to 30.

They smashed his skull.

Why would the press feel these black gangs were anti-semitic and targeted this young man (who was wearing a yarmulke) because he was Jewish?

The National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism said that Jewish community leaders in the low-income 19th district of Paris had warned officials last week about groups of young blacks wandering through the neighborhood park threatening to attack Jews.

So anyway, please join the mainstream Jewish community in fighting to keep immigration to this country open to everyone, and let’s all find a way to blame this on the racism of white French people–and not the poor African-Muslim gangs who themselves are clearly only acting out from understandable socio-economic frustration by seeking out individual Jews to attack.

Do you know how many mainstream American Jewish organizations have rethought their position on immigration, and decided that maybe massive Muslim immigration is not in our interest?

That would be zero.

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Failed Messiah reports,

A plant employee identified as “Source 11” told authorities that he/she was hired without presenting employment documents or filling out any forms. The worker’s first paycheck had a different person’s name on it, which was then cashed at another part of the plant.

Undocumented workers were paid $5 an hour for their first three or four months on the job, the employee said…

But wait! There’s more!

…and then received a salary increase to $6 per hour.…

Holy Kishke! That’s a 20% raise after only 3 (or 4) months! Do YOU get that kind of raise after only four months on the job?

And remember…it’s in cash.;) You can take those extra wages to the trust fund.

Underage? No problemo, señor!

And there are plenty of openings. Now that the Feds have arrested 6-700 illegals.

You know why this is happening? Because of Anti-Semitism. CLEARLY Rubashkin is a victim of those who HATE FRUM PEOPLE!!!!

Please show your support. Call the Agriprocessors hotline @ 1-800-MUMZERS, and tell them not to let the anti-Semites bring them down!

It happened again. I realize that whenever I suggest that the Jewish community should reconsider its reflexively pro-immigration stand from anywhere and everywhere I am called a “crypto-fascist” and “evil,” but…at the risk of staining my otherwise stellar reputation with the social-left, I still think we do need to reexamine our reflexively pro-immigration stand from anywhere and everywhere.

Being called a “crypto-fascist” sucks. But you know what sucks more?

This.

Remember Hassan Askari? The Muslim guy who helped the Jews on the subway? He’s a great guy. No doubt. Everyone was kvelling. I got emails about that, in hopes that maybe this would change my curmudgeonly mind about mass immigration of…well, you know…

But once again, my progressive friends of conscience got just a little bit too worked up too quickly. What was the Muslim reaction to Askari? Well…apparently, believe it or not, it is a bit more…mixed.

The Jewish Week reports,

But the honor for Q train hero Hassan Askari that might carry the weightiest message is the one coming this week from the only newspaper serving the Muslim community of the Greater New York area. That’s because, according to the president of the Queens-based Tri-State Muslim, there is some ambivalence about it.

“There are some in our community who are not too sure that what Hassan did was really Islamic,�? said Salaudeen Nausrudeen. We totally disagree. If I were being beaten up, I would certainly want others to defend me regardless of my background.�? The paper is honoring Askari, Nausrudeen said, in the hope of setting a positive example for young Muslims who might otherwise be inclined to listen to more extremist messages[...]

Nausrudeen said that several people who attended a Dec. 21 event in Queens honoring Askari that was co-sponsored by his newspaper and leaders of the New York Bangladeshi community “made clear that they did not agree with Hassan’s brave act. We are hoping that if more people have a chance to hear his message, it will help to change their way of thinking.�?

Askari recalls that during the Dec. 21 event a young man of Arab background raised his hand and said to Askari: “I applaud your courage in doing what you did. But I myself would never save a Jew.�?

Those were the people AT THE DINNER. Imagine the views of those…who declined to go to the dinner.

Mohammed is now the second most popular name in Britain. A close second.

No big whoop! One world. One religion. No problemo.

Full Story.

In my previous post over the Nick Griffin issue, Joey Kurtzman noted in the comments that,

“As for my own views on immigration, I’m not really capable of approaching immigration as a political issue. My family got here when there were no immigration laws beyond not having jaundice, and the whole coming-to-America narrative is too sentimental for me. So given that it *is* a legitimate political issue, and that immigration can’t be totally unchecked otherwise half the planet would move here, I don’t think that on this issue I really have anything of value to say.�?

I think much of the Jewish community gets weak in the knees when it comes to immigration issues, which leaves the activist pro-immigration Jewish groups positioned to speak for the Jewish community generally.

I would argue that this sentimental silence is a problem, because:

1) The economic realities are not being addressed. While the vocal defenders are the hippies, mass immigration is not being pushed by them or “”those seeking to come out of the shadows to seek a better life…,” it is being pushed by corporations seeking to drive the cost of labor down by increasing the supply.

2) This country has done quite well with European-Americans (a.k.a. “Whites”) in power. It is particularly speculative for the Jewish community to desire a serious change in power. Such speculation is something you do as a side venture. You do not bet your house, never mind your country, on a dubious bet, where the best you could hope for is more of the same. And we have done well here. We have done mind boggling well here. To be neutral on something this crucial is bizarre. This is a stupendous risk the social liberals are agitating for, with little explanation of where they draw the line, outside of those individuals known to be a danger (oh how responsible of them, they don’t want immigrants with a terrorist background).

3) Significant amounts of white and black Americans appear to be against mass immigration. We owe it to them to consider their concerns seriously. We dismiss their concerns at our own peril as well.

4) There have been major problems with specific Muslim immigrant groups in European countries that should make us bang the alarm and mobilize to make sure such situations do not occur here. Again, all reasons offered by the social left as to why they may not happened here because it hasn’t happened so far are speculative. The most logical possibility, or at least, a reasonable factor–is that Muslim communities lack sufficient numbers. We have a lot to lose by risking that they achieve such numbers through immigration.

American Jews need to separate their immigrant past from today’s current immigration realities. And it isn’t just social left groups — whose job it is to pretend we and all other minorities are all in the same boat against white — conflating the two. Rather, all the so-called mainstream “defense�? groups are in cahoots with those pushing mass immigration from pretty much anywhere. The Neocons are as well. Don’t look to them for help…as we know, according the Neocons, everyone in the world just wants to be exactly like us.

It is time for fair-minded people not bound by party orthodoxy to grapple with the issue of immigration, and to be honest with themselves. For instance, would accepting 5,000,000 immigrants from each and every Muslim country be a good idea for either the U.S. or for the Jewish community? Would this be a good bet? Remember, HAVING MUSLIM FRIENDS WHO ARE WONDERFUL DOES NOT PROVE IT IS A GOOD BET.

If people like Joey Kurtzman can’t “add anything valuable” because of nostalgia, then the Jewish community is going to continue to appear to present a unified voice in support of any and every pro-immigration policy and proposed legislation, no matter how risky.

Is this what your great-grandparents and great-great-parents would advise? I believe most of our ancestors would have recognized the importance of this issue today, and would strongly advise against a reflexively pro-immigration stand because of their memory.

There is much too much at stake to sit out on this one because of sentimentality.

Joey Kurtzman insists I am wrong about Nick Griffin. He says that Griffin is a Nazi, and that I am needlessly hairsplitting between the British National Party and a hardline neo-Nazi one whose logo Jewcy used to represent Griffin, even though it’s the wrong group and one shouldn’t do that period and we both know that but whatever, that wasn’t the main point even though it was implied but fine, there is no contest on that so, no, I guess you really didn’t need to go into it.

Anyway.

I have to say that I was starting to feel a little unsettled that I was attempting to mitigate the disreputation of a man considered a Nazi by everyone at Jewcy. Three different Jewcy writers conflated Nick Griffin’s with those of neo-nazis.

But one does not. Mr. John Derbyshire, a top notch columnist who writes for Jewcy, wrote two years ago (though not on Jewcy) that,

Nick Griffin, the BNP head, has been conducting a purge of Stalinesque ruthlessness against the old anti-Semitic National Front types. FrontPageMag’s Robert Locke tells the story here. All the BNP’s xenophobic propaganda is now concentrated against Muslims. Jews are O.K., on the principle that my enemy’s enemy is my friend.

I think I may know where our disconnect may be – looking to a prominent non-Jewish conservative columnist is helpful. Let’s look at Derbyshire’s analysis a little further…

The Far Right may not be your cup of tea; but they’re out there, and with intelligent leadership, a tailwind of economic disgruntlement, and the dawning realization among white people in the West that they have, by foolish policies, made themselves into a minority in their own countries,

Derbyshire, a paleoconservative, shares a concern over immigration with the far-right, even though he himself is not far-right. That concern is exacerbated when the mass immigrant population in question is deemed not only as different from, but hostile to the host country’s majority population and culture. Hence, Derbyshire will view resistance to Muslim immigration itself as no longer a strictly far-right issue, even if the organization pushing immigration restriction itself remains far-right. Derbyshire never the less perceived a shift towards legitimacy.

I am guessing that Joey does not necessarily see a need to differentiate between taking a hard-line on such racial and cultural sentiments over immigration and focusing on “the Jewish Question,” and therefore sees no reason to alter his perception of Griffin’s BNP, despite his shift of focus away from “the Jewish Question.”

If this is the case, what Jewcy and I are arguing about is not really Griffin at all, but our disparate views about aspects of immigration itself. But if that’s the case, Jewcy needs to bring back Mr. Derbyshire, and debate him themselves on immigration, and ask him the tougher questions they think they have, and offer more nuanced defenses than that poor HIAS director—properly bound and reasonably gagged by organizational mandate so as not to risk a casualty of any significant value — whom they offered up as a sacrifice to their own nagging doubts.

Arab and black “children of immigrants” are rioting in France, and the AP Newswire seems to be sympathizing with the rioters, noting,

“Youths, many of them Arab and black children of immigrants, again appeared to be lashing out at police and other targets seen to represent a French establishment they feel has left them behind.”

Isn’t that a satisfactory reason to shoot policemen and attack–wait for it–the FIREMEN?!? CLEARLY the FIREMEN have not done ENOUGH to make sure these assholes “don’t feel left behind.”

Am I being overly sensitive to language and an ascribed motive that sounds a bit absurd? What does “feel they left behind” really mean? Is that the reason for all of this anti-social activity?

And the AP notes that these people are “trapped in poor neighborhoods.”

If so, perhaps these people should return to their former, originating countries in Africa, like say, Algeria or Somalia, where they will surely be treated in a more ecumenical fashion, and the dictators in charge–or leaders of the various warring factions– will sit down with them (even after they shoot at them, of course) and ask, “What can we do to make you feel more a part of our respectful and inclusive multi-cultural liberal-democratic society?”

Please wish the great Sarkozy much love and strength in his resolve. We Jews need to offer European nations solidarity as they are besieged by fundamentalist inspired violence, and assure them that they have every right to take proper and stern measures to ensure their nation’s well being and security. They need our nod of understanding. We must give it to them. Or we are both morally deficient, and really, really naive.

“This party has finally cast off the leg iron of anti-Semitism and not a moment too soon.” — Nick Griffin, 2005

Jewcy has printed two separate post about tonight’s debate including David Irving and Nick Griffin. The debate about the debate, as framed by the luftmentschen hipsters, is only one of free speech versus limits on free speech. I would like to focus on something different.

Firstly, forget David Irving, who, as a Holocaust Denier “historian,�? is less interesting to me, and indeed, a man who can only be defended on free speech grounds. But Nick Griffin, the head of the far-right BNP, is more interesting. We should not be conflating these two men. They disagree on many things. Not least of all, the Jews. And yet, Jewcy chose a symbol of November 9th Society to represent the debate, even though the November 9th Society is a hardline neo-Nazi party that is quite critical of the British National Party for being mere “conservatives on steroids.�? That Jewcy chose their logo (replete with swastika, of course) to represent Nick Griffin is as risible as it is shrill.

The BNP is the most popular overtly anti-Muslim group in England. Now I know I should find that horrible, and I know for a fact that they say horrible things that I find disgraceful. But I also know that England—like so much of Europe—is under siege. The book “Londonistan�? enjoys popularity because of this reality. And it is a reality.

Now, you can (and some surely will) point to overt and disturbing antisemitism of select members of the BNP. But that isn’t the BNP’s policy. More importantly, antisemitism isn’t the BNP’s focus. Islam is. Absolutely. And Griffin is a critical voice – even if not always the most delicate one – in urging the British to stand up to those who seek to Islamify England’s own wonderful culture and norms. But Peter Tatchell is disingenuous about that focus, writing,

“Nick Griffin is the leader of a far right party, the BNP, which has a history of promoting racism, homophobia, antisemitism and prejudice against Muslims.�?

As if the BNP’s concern over Islamicization is irrational, only fueled by “prejudice,” and low on the list of BNP concerns. In fact, under Griffin’s leadership, the BNP does not promote antisemitism. And though Griffin has been ineffective in ridding the BNP of antisemitic elements, he has been quite successful in changing its focus.

And a little fairness to the British people, please. I don’t believe they are headed to fascism. I don’t think that’s the kind of people we are dealing with. We are dealing with the greatest resistors to Nazism, and that is no small footnote in their collective conscious. Churchill is considered by the British people to be the greatest Briton – ever.

What the BNP could accomplish is pushing the envelope on reducing or even ending Muslim immigration, as well as pressuring England to stop ever-increasing capitulation to fundamentalist Muslim demands. And quite frankly, I don’t see either of those achievable goals as a bad thing at all. But that’s for the British themselves to work out. They don’t need the likes of us protecting them from Nick Griffin’s ideas, but there is more reason to not want Griffin silenced than the sole issue of free speech. And Jewcy, which at least is sometimes willing to ask the tougher questions, has elected to instead confine itself to an easy one, through dishonest conflation. And that, dear readers, is a wasted opportunity.