Jewish Daily Forward: “The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia”

By Jonas E. Alexis:

Thugs and gangsters during the Charlottesville debacle have progressively become pawns in a revolutionary or subversive movement, which always turns out to be bad for the United States and much of the world.

The Jewish Daily Forward, the “American magazine published monthly in New York City for a Jewish-American audience,” has implicitly or indirectly grabbed the ideological bull by the horn when it declared that the original Antifa—the self-styled anti-fascist movement which has recently created chaos during the Charlottesville debacle—“was a Jewish anti-Nazi militia.”

The Antifa was essentially a terrorist cell, in the sense that members of the group went about terrorizing their opponents with numerous threats. Mark B. Williams of the Jewish Daily Forward declares:

“The Antifa’s role in fighting Nazis in the streets reminded me of my dad’s story about his much beloved but ‘kind of crooked’ first cousin, Jake ‘Cocky Jake’ (and sometimes, ‘Jack’) Rothseid.

“Cocky Jake was the black sheep of the family, a guy who was connected with the Jewish mob that ran Newark in the 1930’s. It wasn’t that Jake was a hit man who ran around killing people; he wasn’t exactly Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, or Dutch Schultz. He was more like the local neighborhood wise guy. He was the guy who knew a guy who knew another guy who could get things “taken care of” when legal remedies were not feasible.

“My father always told me that the only time his family was ever really proud of Jake, given his line of work, was when they heard that he’d been involved with busting up pro-Nazi rallies in Newark that were taking place shortly prior to US entry into World War II.”[1]

Williams also says that those “pro-Nazi rallies” and movements had a specific agenda then: keeping the US from entering World War II. But Williams went on to say that “Most Americans of the time were deeply isolationist. The last thing they wanted to do was send American boys to fight and die in another European war.”[2] That is quite true. But if Neo-Nazis supported the belief of the majority of Americans that America shouldn’t have been involved in World War II, does that prove that the idea was false?

Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that Americans did not support US involvement in World War II, and this is one reason why his administration specifically looked for a false flag operation. That false flag operation came to be known as the Pearl Harbor debacle, which led to devastating events such as the rape of Japan after World War II. This also led to other catastrophes such as sending Americans of Japanese descent into what one ought to call concentration camps.

As Thomas Goodrich and I have recently pointed out, this was a pernicious activity which deprived those Japanese of their basic human rights. The establishment has been brazenly talking about “how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler,”[3] but the official narrative, which lacks historical truth and objective reality, has never talked about the serious consequences of the war.

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Going back to the Forward article, Williams says that the Jewish community tried to stop so-called Neo-Nazis from exercising free speech in America. Williams writes:

“The leading lights of the Jewish community asked the local police and Sheriff’s offices to stop these gatherings, but, getting no help, decided to raise the matter to a higher authority. They appealed for protection to the Jewish mob boss of Newark, Abner “Longie” Zwillman. Zwillman agreed to help. He had his chief enforcer, ex-prize fighter Sidney Nathan Abramowitz (better known as “Nat Arno”, the name by which he is immortalized in the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame) organize a “civil rights group”, which they called “the Minutemen.”

“My cousin Cocky Jake was a card-carrying member of the Minutemen, and his picture appears in newspaper accounts of the day. The Minutemen were essentially an armed group of Jewish mobsters, thugs, and wise guys like Jake. When Nat Arno gave the word that the Nazis were assembling, these denizens of the saloons, pool halls and other dens of iniquity in North Jersey would leave their usual haunts and head to the Nazi rallies. Much like today’s Antifa, the Minutemen’s preferred tools of persuasion were not logic and reason, but baseball bats, brass knuckles, rubber coated pipes and the occasional stink bomb.”[4]

Read the last sentence again and see if there is a parallel here. The Minutemen didn’t appeal to “logic and reason” to buttress their point. They grabbed their “baseball bats, brass knuckles, rubber coated pipes and the occasional stink bomb” to confront their perceived enemies. “The Minutemen were largely successful. Most of these pro-Nazi rallies were broken up before they got started. And the Nazis managed to get away with just a few broken bones and bruises, as Longie had decreed that no one was to be killed during these events.”[5]

Then Williams drops the political bomb, which literally exposes the new Antifa as an essentially Jewish activity:

“My father is long gone, as are Cocky Jake and his friends in the Minutemen, Longie Zwillman, and the rest of the characters that ran the Jewish mob in Newark back then. Unfortunately, it seems that the Nazis are still around, but then, so are the people resisting them on the streets. I wonder if the members of today’s Antifa would be surprised to learn that they are replicating a proud lineage of Jewish gangsters who, years ago, took a brief respite from the rackets and the pool halls to do some good for a change.

“I’m not sure if there’s a heaven for wise guys. Even if there is, my guess is they’d have to check their baseball bats and brass knuckles at the door. But I like to think that somewhere, Cocky Jake is looking down at all this and thinking, ‘Give ‘em one for me, kid.’”[6]

Thugs and gangsters during the Charlottesville debacle obviously did not know their own history; they did not realize that they were repeating what their predecessors had done. They have progressively become pawns in a revolutionary or subversive movement, which always turns out to be bad for the United States and much of the world. The masters of the universe obviously want to pit the so-called races against each other—specifically blacks and whites in the United States. And if you doubt that statement, then consider this.

Former Harvard professor and Jewish provocateur Noel Ignatiev, also former Communist in the 1950s who later became part of the Maoist New Communist Movement, has said unapologetically that it is ontologically or genetically impossible to separate what he calls “whiteness” from “oppression.”

“There can be no white race,” he diabolically argues, “without the phenomenon of white supremacists.” In order to “abolish racial oppression,” he moves on to say, “you do away with whiteness. Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.”

How do you “do away with whiteness” in the twenty-first century? Well, you literally discriminate against those people just because they happened to be “white.”[7] (Here we are talking about “white” as a skin color and not as an ideology—a huge distinction). And in order to discriminate against those people, you make up ambiguous and unnecessary terms such as “diversity,” even though this “diversity” ideology has been a perennial problem in the economic and academic world.[8]

The simple fact is that no one is applying this “diversity” claptrap in the NBA or the NFL. What we are seeing here is that subversive programs like affirmative action are essentially racial discrimination. Plain and simple. Thomas Sowell himself has written extensively on this, saying things like that affirmative action has been a total failure around the world.[9]

But little did people like Sowell know that affirmative action was essentially a Zionist project, and the New York Times itself admitted this way back in 1979.[10]

The logic is pretty straightforward: programs like affirmative action were hatched by the social manipulators of this world because they knew that those programs are subterfuge which they perceived would logically lead to conflict in the academic world. And conflicts between blacks and whites always turn out to be good for those manipulators. (We have already pointed out in a previous article that only organizations like the Anti-Defamation League are benefitting from the Charlottesville debacle.[12])

And when things have turned out to be really bad over the years, Jewish organizations such as the American Jewish Congress changed their views on affirmative action, despite the fact that they have promoted it for decades.[13]

The simple fact is that blacks do not need detrimental programs like affirmative action. As Stephan Thernstrom of Harvard himself has put it, “Immense progress was made by black Americans before the idea of racial preferences was seriously entertained by anyone. By some measures, in fact, the pace of black progress was more rapid in the 1940s and 1950s than it had been since.”[14]

“The historical evidence,” Thernstrom further adds, “certainly calls into question the common assumption that preferential policies are a sine qua non for black progress. Many of the advances black Americans have been since the Great Depression occurred before anything that can be termed affirmative action existed.”[15]

Thernstrom backs his claims with extensive historical accounts and statistical data. Keep also in mind that affirmative action was implemented in several schools around the country during the 1960s. In short, affirmative action even calls into question what Martin Luther King himself articulated, that “people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Which brings us back to Noel Ignatiev: Why is he judging people by the color of their skin and not by the content of their character? In response to the charge that he is promoting hatred, Ignatiev said:

“We do not hate you or anyone else for the color of her skin. What we hate is a system that confers privileges (and burdens) on people because of their color. It is not fair skin that makes people white; it is fair skin in a certain kind of society, one that attaches social importance to skin color. When we say we want to abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin.

“We mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the white race as a social category. Consider this parallel: To be against royalty does not mean wanting to kill the king. It means wanting to do away with crowns, thrones, titles, and the privileges attached to them. In our view, whiteness has a lot in common with royalty: they are both social formations that carry unearned advantages.”

I wish Ignatiev would pick up a copy of Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and read it carefully because there is no way to universalize what he is mightily articulating here, particularly when it comes to the Israeli regime, which has separate laws for Palestinians and Israelis. Israel even has separate bus lines![16]

The Israelis were planning to completely separate Palestinians from using certain buses in 2015,[17] but they quickly realized that such a move would have ruined the entire Zionist project. If Ignatiev is really serious, then he needs to academically document “Jewish privilege” in Israel.

One can also argue that there is a sort of “Jewish privilege” when it comes to World War II reparations. Germany has over the years been forced to give billions upon billions of dollars to Jewish organizations for what happened in World War II, but not a single dime has gone to the victims of the Stalin regime.

As I have argued elsewhere, racism is also deeply imbedded in Israel. Bob Dreyfus of the Nation reported in 2013 that:

“fully one-third of Israelis say that unlawful, vigilante violence against non-Jewish African immigrants is fine with them.

“Equally, 86 percent of Israelis who voted for the right-wing Shas party and 66 percent of Likud voters agree with the statements of far-right Israeli politician Miri Regev that African immigrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, are a “cancer” in the Israeli body politic…

“Israel is building refugee camps — let’s not use the loaded term ‘concentration camps’ — for many of the estimated 55,000 Eritrean, Sudanese and other African refugees from civil wars and conflicts who’ve entered Israel, mostly undocumented, over the last decade or so.”[18]

The Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has been reported on these issues since 2009.[19] And these are not just words and mere rhetoric with little consequences. Consider this. On May 28 of 2012, five young Israelis smashed the door of an internet café owned by Yorusalem Mestun, a 22 year-old. They “pulled a knife on her, while her Jewish neighbours looked on. The police came, checked her visa and left, without, she said, offering help or sympathy.”[20]

Also in May, some Israeli settlers set fire to a West Bank village and shot some unarmed Palestinians.[21] It was later discovered that during the incident, Israeli youth tied up and beat one Palestinian who was already wounded.[22]

On May 24, 2012, Amnesty International released a report, declaring that Israel

“frequently uses excessive, sometimes lethal, force against demonstrators in the West Bank and civilians in Gaza…Israel has engaged in the demolition of Palestinian homes and other facilities in the West Bank, as well is inside Israel itself, where homes of Palestinian citizens are destroyed in ‘unrecognized’ villages in the Negev desert.”[23]

If you think that those are isolated cases, then you ain’t seen nothing yet. “Racism on the part of Israeli Jews against Muslim Arabs in Israel exist in institutional policies, personal attitudes, the media, education, immigration rights, housing,[3] social life and legal policies. Some elements within the Ashkenazi Israeli Jewish population have also been described as holding discriminatory attitudes towards fellow Jews of other backgrounds, including against Ethiopian Jews, Indian Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Sephardi Jews, etc.”

If there is a country that has institutionalized racism, it is the nation of Israel. Israeli academics such as Sammy Smooha were writing about this even in the late 1970s.[24] The U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Israel and the Occupied Territories itself declared back in 2004 that the Israeli government did “little to reduce institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country’s Arab citizens.”

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So, is Ignatiev justified in saying that “the goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists”? What if we do some thought experiment here? What if we replace the “white race” with “the Jewish race” or the “black race” or the “Mexican race”? Has any member of the Ku Klux Klan even remotely approached such a racist language? Isn’t Ignatiev’s language here worse than the Jim Crow laws in the South?

Granted, Ignatiev has somewhat criticized the state of Israel, and there is some truth to what he is saying about how Protestants persecuted the Irish Catholics both in Ireland and the United States.[25] But that doesn’t allow him to project an equally wicked ideology onto America and disrupt the social order.

Ignatiev says that “every group within white America,” which includes “labor unionists, ethnic groups, college students, schoolteachers, taxpayers and white women,” has at some point in history “advanced its particular and narrowly defined interests at the expense of black people as a race.” Ignatiev says that his goals is to “keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.”[26]

Ignatiev is obviously trying to create trouble here. And his revolutionary antecedents have been doing exactly that since the beginning of time. This is one reason why they have supported writers like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, W. E. B. Dubois, etc. Jewish radicals like Marx Lieber, who became Langston Hughes’s literary agent, believed that blacks should concentrate their talent on revolutionary work.

“[Lieber’s] profitable production of Erskine Caldwell’s play Tobacco Road permitted him to indulge his social passions. He kept reminding Hughes and the other writers he represented of their leftist political obligations while representing them in negotiations with bourgeois publishers.”[27] Lieber eventually helped Hughes gain recognition by selling one of Hughes’s poems, “Slave on the Block,” to Scribner’s magazine.

Other blacks gained renown in a similar way, including Baldwin, “whose talent was first recognized and nurtured by Jewish editors of small but influential magazines” such as Commentary, New Leader, and Partisan Review.[28]

When Baldwin’s “The Harlem Ghetto” first appeared in Commentary, sociologist Nathan Glazer, a member of its editorial board, praised Baldwin as a talented black writer, “how remarkable we didn’t yet know.”[29]

To this end, the editors of Commentary asked Baldwin to write a piece dealing with the issues of blacks and Jews, which Baldwin reluctantly agreed to do. For Baldwin, this issue was puzzling because he saw blacks suffering under the hands of Jewish exploiters. He declared, “When we were growing up in Harlem our demoralizing series of landlords were Jewish, and we hated them.”[30]

To sum up, subversive activities always lead to chaos and hatred. People like Ignatiev need to drop their subversive activities and embrace practical reason, which logically leads to metaphysical Logos. Until they do that, people of various stripes will continue to resist their worldview.

[1] Mark B. Williams, “The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia,” Forward, August 24, 2017.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ishaan Tharoor, “Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler,” Washington Post, May 8, 2015.

[4] Williams, “The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia,” Forward, August 24, 2017.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid.

[7] “’Whites suffer more racism than blacks’: Study shows white American people believe they are more discriminated against,” Daily Mail, May 24, 2011.

[8] See for example Erik Sherman, “How Corporate Diversity Programs Alienate White Men,” Fortune, January 13, 2016.

[9] Thomas Sowell, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004); for other studies on similar issues, see Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr., Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It (New York: Basic Books, 2012); Francis J. Beckwith and Todd E. Jones, ed., Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? (New York: Prometheus Books, 1997); Abigail M. Thernstrom, Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).

[10] Arthur Hertzberg, “Jews, Blacks and Affirmative Action,” NY Times, September 5, 1979.

[11] Ibid.

[12] “ADL: Online Donations Up 1000% After Charlottesville,” Forward, August 23, 2017.

[13] With affirmative action again an issue, Jews temper views,” The Jewish News of Northern California, January 31, 2003.

[14] Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 95.

[15] Ibid., 184.

[16] Chaim Levinson, “Israel Introduces ‘Palestinian Only’ Bus Lines, Following Complaints From Jewish Settlers,” Haaretz, March 3, 2013; “Israel Begins Separating Palestinians, Israelis on West Bank Buses,” Haaretz, May 20, 2015.

[17] Ruth Eglash, “Israel announces — then scraps — plan for separate buses for Palestinians,” Washington Post, May 20, 2015; Peter Beaumont, “Israel scraps scheme to ban Palestinians from buses,” Guardian, May 20, 2015.

[18] Bob Dreyfuss, “Racism in Israel,” The Nation, December 23, 2013.

[19] Gideon Levy, “Ethiopian Student Affair Shows Prevalent Racism in Israel,” Haaretz, September 3, 2009.

[20] “Keep Out: Racial Tension is Rising as Black Asylum-Seekers Pour In,” Economist, June 2, 2012.

[21] Ibid; also Jason Glaser, “Israeli Settlers Set Fire to West Bank Village, Shoot Guns at Unarmed Palestinians,” Antiwar.com, May 21, 2012; “Settler Shoots Palestinian in Clash Near Nablus,” Jerusalem Post, May 26, 2012.

[22] Gili Cohen, “IDF Inquiry Finds Israeli Youth Tied and Beat Palestinian After Shot by Settlers,” Haaretz, June 3, 2012.

[23] “Amnesty International: Israel Frequently Uses Excessive Force Against Palestinians,” Haaretz, May 24, 2012.

[24] Sammy Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).

[25] E. Michael Jones has written on this in Libido Dominandi and The Slaughter of Cities.

[26] “Harvard professor argues for ‘abolishing’ white race,” Washington Times, September 4, 2002.

[27] Murray Friedman, What Went Wrong?: The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 112-113.

[28] Ibid., 113.

[29] Ibid.

[30] Ibid.[1] Mark B. Williams, “The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia,” Forward, August 24, 2017.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ishaan Tharoor, “Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler,” Washington Post, May 8, 2015.

[4] Williams, “The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia,” Forward, August 24, 2017.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid.

[7] “’Whites suffer more racism than blacks’: Study shows white American people believe they are more discriminated against,” Daily Mail, May 24, 2011.

[8] See for example Erik Sherman, “How Corporate Diversity Programs Alienate White Men,” Fortune, January 13, 2016.

[9] Thomas Sowell, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004); for other studies on similar issues, see Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr., Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It (New York: Basic Books, 2012); Francis J. Beckwith and Todd E. Jones, ed., Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? (New York: Prometheus Books, 1997); Abigail M. Thernstrom, Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).

[10] Arthur Hertzberg, “Jews, Blacks and Affirmative Action,” NY Times, September 5, 1979.

[11] Ibid.

[12] “ADL: Online Donations Up 1000% After Charlottesville,” Forward, August 23, 2017.

[13] With affirmative action again an issue, Jews temper views,” The Jewish News of Northern California, January 31, 2003.

[14] Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 95.

[15] Ibid., 184.

[16] Chaim Levinson, “Israel Introduces ‘Palestinian Only’ Bus Lines, Following Complaints From Jewish Settlers,” Haaretz, March 3, 2013; “Israel Begins Separating Palestinians, Israelis on West Bank Buses,” Haaretz, May 20, 2015.

[17] Ruth Eglash, “Israel announces — then scraps — plan for separate buses for Palestinians,” Washington Post, May 20, 2015; Peter Beaumont, “Israel scraps scheme to ban Palestinians from buses,” Guardian, May 20, 2015.

[18] Bob Dreyfuss, “Racism in Israel,” The Nation, December 23, 2013.

[19] Gideon Levy, “Ethiopian Student Affair Shows Prevalent Racism in Israel,” Haaretz, September 3, 2009.

[20] “Keep Out: Racial Tension is Rising as Black Asylum-Seekers Pour In,” Economist, June 2, 2012.

[21] Ibid; also Jason Glaser, “Israeli Settlers Set Fire to West Bank Village, Shoot Guns at Unarmed Palestinians,” Antiwar.com, May 21, 2012; “Settler Shoots Palestinian in Clash Near Nablus,” Jerusalem Post, May 26, 2012.

[22] Gili Cohen, “IDF Inquiry Finds Israeli Youth Tied and Beat Palestinian After Shot by Settlers,” Haaretz, June 3, 2012.

[23] “Amnesty International: Israel Frequently Uses Excessive Force Against Palestinians,” Haaretz, May 24, 2012.

[24] Sammy Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).

[25] E. Michael Jones has written on this in Libido Dominandi and The Slaughter of Cities.

[26] “Harvard professor argues for ‘abolishing’ white race,” Washington Times, September 4, 2002.

[27] Murray Friedman, What Went Wrong?: The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 112-113.

[28] Ibid., 113.

[29] Ibid.

[30] Ibid.