Race-conscious Jews

Eugene Girin writes at vdare about the rise of white racial consciousness among Jews. He mentions in particular Rabbi Mayer Schiller and Mike Berman, who is participating in an effort to start up a non-Nazi-friendly alternative to American Renaissance. Girin continues:

Things are rapidly changing especially quickly on the college campuses of New York City. The presence of large numbers of racially realist Jews from the former Soviet Union, responsible for standing up to Black and Hispanic hoodlums in south Brooklyn and central Queens, make some gatherings of Jewish students seem like AR conferences.

The growth of a politically significant degree of white racial identification among Jews is something greatly to be desired. That Girin’s evidence adds up to such a phenomenon is not established. In particular, Rabbi Schiller is a questionable example of Girin’s thesis. While Schiller was a major intellectual presence on the white right in the early 1990s, he has been publicly silent on racial issues for the past decade and apparently silent on all political issues for the last five years. Also, Schiller, as a Hasidic Jew with extremely unusual beliefs, was not representative of any broader segment of Jewry, but only represented himself. The same could frankly be said of other people of Jewish ancestry who are believers in the white West, such as myself.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 03, 2006 04:55 PM | Send