Fwd: ZGram - 2/19/2004 - "White Nationalists - a possible ally?" - Part I

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>Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever
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>February 19, 2004
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>Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
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>A Zundel supporter sent me this stunningly outspoken article, 
>written by a Black Muslim who was part of the South African struggle 
>against apartheid.  I am making it a two-part Zgram.  It has some 
>thoughts - some spoken, some embedded - that long needed to be said, 
>and I am glad they are now on the table. It challenges some pretty 
>cherished shibboleths.  
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>Your hackles will go up reading this powerful essay, but you are 
>bound to start thinking along paths where most of us have never trod 
>before. It was found on the Israel Shamir website and carries this 
>preface by Shamir:
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>Should the friends of Palestine cooperate with staunchly 
>anti-Zionist European and American Nationalist forces? The very 
>question is a recipe for trouble. The Jews consider the Nationalists 
>their worst enemies, while others are afraid that these contacts 
>will be perceived as 'antisemitism' and cause  the Jews in the 
>movement to slam the door. In case of danger, the Jewish friends of 
>Palestine immediately raise the spectre of White racism on behalf 
>of Blacks and Muslim immigrants: "they [Nationalists] are against 
>Muslims, Jews and Blacks", goes the line - even if the White 
>Nationalists actually court Black Nationalists.
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>Is this fear of Nationalism justified? Should the  Blacks and the 
>Muslim immigrants acquiesce with their role of Human Shield  for the 
>Jews?
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>Now, we bring in a strong and clear new voice, Joh Domingo ( HIS BIO 
>BELOW), an African friend of Palestine with a long experience of 
>anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. He calls to distinguish 
>between racism and nationalism. His line is stark: "The important 
>thing to remember about White Nationalists (a.k.a. Supremacists) is 
>that they are isolationist,  not international Cabalists that want 
>to rule the world. Certainly there are scoundrels amongst them, but 
>since when is that a crime? Who does not have their scoundrels?  If 
>we are concerned that Americans are duped into believing the lies of 
>the judeo-cons, then White Supremacist are an improvement  on the 
>average American Joe who go along with the slaughter in Iraq and 
>Palestine. Let's first stop the theft, and dispossession, and 
>slaughter of the  non-Judeopean people, then we can "re-educate" 
>White Supremacist - or not.  Until then, they are allies because 
>they are not my enemy".
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>Here is the actual article - Part I.  I take the liberty of bolding 
>concepts I consider to be crucial to understanding what this author 
>is really trying to convey.
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>   White Nationalists - a possible ally?  By Joh Domingo
>   Today we talk about things unthinkable a few years ago. Tomorrow 
>we will do  things unthinkable today. Struggle is theatre, and the 
>Palestinian struggle has become the Broadway of the liberation 
>movement. This struggle has moved from the seedy halls to become a 
>smash hit because they have the benefit  of the greatest publicity 
>machine of all time, the Jewish dominated Mass Media of the United 
>States. All that remains is the final act, with its incredible 
>finale.
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>   Common wisdom has it that Israel was conceived as a response to 
>Racism, and  has morphed into the Racist monster we see today. For 
>many liberals, to oppose Zionism is to oppose Racism; is to oppose 
>anti-Semitism. But they fail  to see the intricate relationship 
>between Nationalism and Racism. While Nationalism can be both a 
>positive and negative natural force, Racism is a totally negative 
>construct feeding on negative ethnocentric sentiments and involves 
>acts of dispossession and the subjugation of others. Racism is a 
>denial of the valid opposing claims of others and requires the 
>absence of a nationalist consciousness in opposition to it. It can 
>survive for centuries,  providing those oppressed by Racism accept 
>the frame of reference provided  by the Racist. Absent this 
>condition, Racism falters against the resistance  provided by a 
>countervailing nationalist consciousness. For this reason, [a] true 
>Racist always has to ensure that the distinction between Racism and 
>Nationalism is obscured. An individual asserting that he as good as 
>any is piddling compared to a homogeneous group asserting their 
>PRIDE in their cultural heritage. Asserting your pride in your 
>cultural heritage does not carry  with it a need that others be 
>ashamed of theirs.
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>   Antisemitism can mean many things: from acute hatred of Jews, to 
>objection  to Jewish cultural domination, to mild mockery of Jewish 
>values. But what is nationalism, if not the mocking of those that 
>mock you, thereby building  up the antibodies to protect you from 
>the scourge of Racism? Examined in this light, the cry of 
>"antisemitism" can be seen to be the ultimate racist tool, designed 
>to ensure the domination of a racist discourse.
>   Why Zionism is Racism but antisemitism is not.
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>   Because of the deliberate skewing of the discourse as cover for 
>Racist domination, we are led to believe that someone championing 
>the virtues of his ethnic background is the same as someone 
>promoting the idea of the racial domination of others. Hence, anyone 
>providing context that presents his race  in a positive light, as 
>opposed to a competing culture, is equated with the  worst Racist 
>Supremacist doctrines of the Apartheid and Nazi regimes. At the same 
>time, a Racist Oppressor can be presented as an enlightened humanist 
>if he hides his nationalism while denouncing the thoughts of 
>competing nationalists. Yitzhak Rabin, a racist supremacist if there 
>ever was one, who  presided over the deaths and torture of tens of 
>thousands, is presented as  a saint next to David Duke, the ex-Grand 
>Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who struggles to maintain his livelihood 
>and culture in his own land. While it is true that the KKK are 
>rogues, and have proven that they are capable of sliding into Racist 
>atrocities of a Rabin given the opportunity; a comparison  fails the 
>equivalency test. Rabin is lauded and presented as champion of 
>enlightenment, while the ex-Grand Wizard struggles to even find 
>voice amongst  his own kind and is completely marginalized in his 
>own country.
>   Even the worse Racist in South Africa never tried to squeeze the 
>life out of African Society. Apartheid was monstrous, but it was 
>never Ethnocide. It  is a triumph of Zionist propaganda that they 
>have managed to convince us that they are merely as bad as Jim Crows 
>America. It is a triumph that they have managed to limit us to 
>comparing Zionism with Apartheid. Such a comparison is an insult - 
>to Apartheid. I don't make this statement lightly, Desmo nd Tutu and 
>Mandela; Alistair Sparks and Ronnie Kasrils have said similar 
>things. http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news-0416.html
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>   The dominant Racist Supremacists always speak of 
>"self-determination" and " preserving the culture" of their 
>opponents. They speak of "peace" and "living side by side in 
>harmony", but their multiculturalism is nothing but cover for the 
>suppression of a competing force. Subconsciously accepting that 
>their own nationalism was a powerful force in subjugating their 
>opponents, they seek to deprive them of the same weapon by appealing 
>to the outrage of  the oppressed. They champion the rights of the 
>oppressed in words, while remaining ever vigilant against the 
>expression of a competing nationalism. Such expressions of 
>opposition is "bad" nationalism, while their openly Racist supremacy 
>is considered "accidental", "inevitable" and "self-preservation". 
>Always, the dominant supremacist maintains that his nationalism is a 
>product of historical circumstance while the nationalism of the 
>dominated is the product of wrong thinking and evidence of their 
>backwardness, bigotry and hatred.
>   Such is the dialectic enforced by the strong. Having achieved 
>their position by virtue of their nationalism, they relegate it to 
>its basest level and  deny access to it to their opponents. Having 
>misused it to their own ends,  they now denounce their strongest 
>converts, and proclaim it an evil, to be  opposed by all right 
>thinking people, and especially to be denied its utilization by 
>their opponents.
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>   But resistance is at its core the application of pressure. We know 
>that when the bleating gets loudest, the pressure is being applied 
>correctly. Nationalism has time and time again proven itself to be a 
>particularly effective  form of pressure on a dominant Racist Regime.
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>     Zionism is dispossession; dispossession is an integral part of 
>Racism. Nationalism without dispossession is a legitimate 
>countervailing force against  other competing nationalism. 
>Antisemitism of White Nationalists (called White Supremacy by their 
>adversaries) is a reaction to Jewish racist assertion  in White 
>societies. As such, it is a mild form of nationalism. From a 
>White-Nationalist point of view, it can be seen to be a moral 
>imperative and necessary to combat the Jewish war against their 
>values and heritage. They do , after all, compete to occupy the same 
>space.
>   Let me tell you how frustrating it was dealing with White liberals 
>in South  Africa who championed racial equality but denied their own 
>racism. In the  end, it was better to ignore white liberals 
>altogether and adopt racist attitudes toward them. Only then was the 
>struggle able to escalate, proving clearly that they had been a 
>ballast all along. White Afrikaner supremacists were indispensable 
>allies once they decided to cross over. They had no qualms about 
>smuggling weapons, stealing weapons from Military armory's and 
>generally engaging in sabotage. Today, these Afrikaners still live 
>in South Africa and support a vibrant opposition party. In the end, 
>the liberals left  South Africa once privilege ended, the Afrikaners 
>remained. As a Black Man  who has resisted White Supremacy for most 
>of my life, I am now sympathetic to White Nationalists. It was a 
>White Nationalist who in the end handed Mandela the keys to the 
>Presidential suite, without conditions.
>  [Nationalism] is valid for Palestine, too. It is not necessary that 
>the Palestinian struggle be conducted on a lily-white sheet. David 
>Duke was the grand Wizard  of the Ku Klux Klan. They hanged black 
>people from tree trunks. What they did was however small change 
>compared to what the Ku Klux Knesset does on a daily basis. Today 
>the White Nationalists are downtrodden and discriminated -against 
>people in America. Yet, their ideas have a resonance with many 
>Americans, especially on the Palestine issue. Don't underestimate 
>the ideological pull of these hillbillies with library cards. The 
>can make a big difference where it counts the most - with the 
>average WASP. From what I remember , WASP's are still a majority in 
>the States.
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