JUDAIZATION OF AMERICA REACHING ABSURD LEVELS

By Richard Edmondson

 Did you know the US State Department has a “Special Envoy on the Holocaust”? Did you know they are now throwing Yiddish words into the national spelling bee?

Did you know that public radio stations recently broadcast a 50-minute feature highlighting the fact that Superman’s creator was Jewish and that the original comic book character was intentionally portrayed as being full of “diaspora sadness”?

Some of what follows may sound like it belongs in the realm of parody or burlesque, but what it goes to show is that the “Judaization” of America—a process that has been underway for several decades now—has truly begun to reach absurd levels. The holocaust was over nearly 70 years ago. Few people in America today, relatively speaking, lived through it, and the vast bulk of the country’s current population had not even been born yet when US servicemen returned home from the war and began what has quaintly been come to be known as the “baby boom.” So why on earth would we have need of a “Special Envoy on Holocaust Issues”? We don’t. But there is indeed such an official position—within the US State Department.

The envoy’s duties are described as developing and implementing “U.S. policy with respect to the return of Holocaust-era assets to their rightful owners, compensation for wrongs committed during the Holocaust, and Holocaust remembrance.” A top priority seems to be pressuring central and eastern European countries into paying holocaust reparations, or as the official State Department job description puts it, “Much of the Office’s work relates to bringing closure to issues left outstanding during the Cold War.”

 In my article Swindler’s List: A Brief Look at the Holocaust Reparations Racket I discussed what commonly is referred to as the “second round” of holocaust reparations, a period immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall in which Jewish claims negotiators turned their attention to the former East Block countries. Prior to this time, these nations had escaped paying reparations for their alleged crimes of the holocaust period, but with the fall of the Soviet Union suddenly they were vulnerable. Jews began demanding payments, in some cases gargantuan amounts, from such countries as Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. Of course to one degree or another there was resistance at being bled in such a manner.

Enter the US as enforcer. In the Swindler’s List article I discussed how class action lawsuits began to be filed in US courts, how the House Banking Committee began holding hearings on the matter, and how prominent US officials, including former President Clinton, called for the “terrible injustice of the past” to be rectified. I also mentioned that, in addition to the countries of Eastern Europe, attention began also to be focused on major Swiss banks. Here again there was resistance, but gradually, one by one, the Swiss banks, too, began to pay up, and as I mentioned in my article, the Holocaust racketeers have so far managed to extort some $1.25 billion from them. At any rate, presiding over this mess and keeping the spigot flowing seems to be the “special envoy’s” major area of concern.

The position is currently filled by one Douglas Davidson, who has had a lengthy government career, both at the State Department and as an assistant press secretary at the White House, and who is actually mentioned by name in a recent article in the JTA. That story focuses on the reparations issue as it pertains to Poland, a country “seen as having the world’s worst record on the restitution of Jewish property lost during the Holocaust.” How wretched! But of course efforts are underway to put an end to this impertinence. “Officials of Jewish groups seeking restitution say they will be making a renewed push to put the restitution issue on Congress’ agenda,” and as you might imagine, Congress is one place they won’t have any trouble finding ample support. Why already, it seems, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), co-chair of the senate’s Committee on Security and cooperation in Europe, has “sought reassurances” from Secretary of State John Kerry that he would “continue to press Poland on the issue.” Be advised this could be tricky, though, as Poland not only is a “stalwart American ally,” but also a “bulwark against an increasingly belligerent Russia,” and ratcheting up the pressure on the Polish government too strenuously could pose an “acute dilemma.” Jews—both those in the US government as well as the Jewish organizations gunning for supplementary reparations payments—will need to proceed very cautiously. Not to fear, however.

Our man Douglas Davidson is “deeply involved in advancing the restitution issue,” the JTA informs us. So that’s the State Department’s “Special Envoy on Holocaust Issues.” Now you might think that other matters of concern to Jews, such as, say, rising levels of anti-Semitism, would also come under this official’s purview, but au contraire. The same US State Department that employs Davidson has on-staff also a “Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.” This position, we are informed here, “was established by the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004,” and is currently filled by Ira Forman. Formerly head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Forman, it seems, is a rather temperamental sort. Another article, yet again from the JTA, describes him as “an unabashed partisan” as well as “a very Jewish unabashed partisan,” and some concern is expressed that all this unabashedness could prove to be a problem. But the writer reassuringly offers the view that in her famous opinion Forman “has the ability to step outside of his partisan self.” Now aren’t we relieved? Yes, it’s a bird, it’s a plane…etc., etc.

On June 14, Jewish Hollywood’s latest Superman remake will open in theaters, and last week public radio stations in America obligingly aired what in essence was a 50-minute promo of the new film. Highlighted in the program, a podcast of which can be found here, is the really, really super-incredibly interesting fact that Superman’s creators were two Jewish high school boys—and in addition to hearing all about their lives, triumphs, disappointments and what-not, we also are treated to comments from analysts who give us the scoop on how the Superman story strongly reflects certain aspects of Jewish identity…and of course how this is especially so in the new movie! Krypton, for instance, is described as being “like an ideal Jewish suburb—all the men are highly scientific and cerebral.” And then there is the story of the baby Superman blasting off from the planet in a rocket just before it explodes, landing on earth, and being raised by a Kansas couple. Now how could anyone possibly overlook the parallel here with the tale of the infant Moses being found in a basket in some reeds along the Nile River and raised by the Pharaoh’s daughter? Huh? That’s right!

The Superman story was inspired by the Book of Exodus! You didn’t know that, did you? So…exploding planet (“the end of a great civilization,” says one commenter), baby comes to earth…um…this must mean Superman is now living in, yep, you guessed it—the diaspora!

Superman is a tragic figure. I think he’s full of sadness. I think it’s diaspora sadness. He’s away from home. He never really belongs. Home doesn’t exist to him anymore. Home has been destroyed. The new home that he’s made he can never quite be himself in to the degree that he has to have two different personalities.

So says one of the erudite and very cerebral analysts interviewed on the program. By the way, we are informed also as an aside that the creators of Batman and Robin and Captain America were Jewish as well. Why so many Jews involved in comic book productions? The program gives us an answer. It is simply a matter of “the bookish Jew who just couldn’t get a franchise in the slick magazines because he was Jewish.” This of course isn’t the first time public radio stations in America have demonstrated navel-contemplation-level preoccupations with things Jewish. Earlier this year the Mondoweiss blog posted an article entitled, “NPR Can’t Stop Talking About Jews,” containing the following lead paragraph:

Last Sunday, March 17, was St. Patrick’s Day, and I turned on my local public-radio outlet just in time to hear how National Public Radio news was celebrating the occasion: with a 4-minute, 28-second segment on something called the Loyal League of Yiddish Sons of Erin, a now-defunct New York organization of Jews born in Ireland.

The article is authored by Henry Norr, who also mentions a program on a woman who runs a website dedicated co collecting customized Passover haggadot; a book entitled FDR and the Jews and an interview with its two authors (both Jewish); a feature on a Lower East Side store that sells “Jewish soulfood”; and finally not one, but two, reports on Philip Roth’s 80^th birthday—all airing on NPR that same month. And that’s in addition to all NPR’s coverage of Israel. Norr tells of a search he did at NPR.org in an effort to assess the number of times major American religions are mentioned on air. He calls it a “pretty crude indicator,” but found the results “nevertheless quite striking.” Jews were third highest on the list, with 423 mentions.

They were topped by Muslims and Catholics, with 608 and 460 respectively. This may seem surprising, but upon closer inspection Norr found that Muslims were mentioned in “stories about international politics, particularly past, present, and likely future U.S. wars,” while the Catholic number “was obviously inflated” by stories on pedophile priests and the recent election of the new pope. Other religions were mentioned as follows: Baptist—92 Methodist—52 Lutheran—12 Pentecostal—15 Presbyterian—23 Mormon—106 Episcopalian/Anglican—7 Evangelical—99 Churches of Christ—6 Jehovah’s Witness—3 Buddhist—47 Factoring in instances of the word “Protestant” and “Christian,” Norr found that Christians (collectively), who comprise 75.99 percent of the population, tallied up a total of 581 mentions.

Now compare that to the 423 mentions of Jews, who make up less than two percent of the population. Norr’s conclusion? That NPR “devotes a level of loving attention to Jewish traditions, culture, and history that it displays toward no other religious or ethnic group.” Perhaps it comes as no great surprise, then, that contestants in the national spelling bee are being asked to spell Yiddish words. A 13-year-old boy by the name of Arvind Mahankali recently took top place in the competition—by spelling the word “knaidel.”

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