THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

I'M TOO BIGOTED TO BE ANTI-SEMITIC | 2003-05-10

No one seems to have noticed it but me, but a person who is paranoid has to have a gigantic ego.

Many pencil-necked leftists have told me through the years that they were being watched by the CIA.

I didn't say it, but what I was thinking was, "What in heaven's name gives you the idea that you are important enough to be watched all the time?"

On the television show "Seinfeld," Jerry Seinfeld had an uncle -- apparently drawn from experience -- who kept saying people were anti-Semitic. If a waiter brought him cold coffee, it was because the waiter was anti-Semitic.

Like everybody who criticizes the Israeli Lobby, I get accused of being anti-Semitic.

When the space shuttle disaster occurred I got an anonymous e-mail saying I was probably happy that happened because a Jew (an Israeli) was killed.

A lot of gentile Americans were killed on that shuttle, but that never occurred to the person.

Did it occur to this guy that even if I were anti-Semitic, the death of my fellow gentiles might bother me?

Of course not. He assumed that I was as totally obsessed with Jews as he was.

When a respectable conservative is accused of anti-Semitism, he always gives that speech about how he is more against anti-Semitism than Sharom is and how he thinks about the evils of anti-Semitism day and night, and so forth.

Ad nauseum.

Making that knee-jerk respectable conservative speech would turn my stomach. I am as interested in Jews as Jews are interested in people who were raised as country Methodists like me.

Anti-Semites don't make me scream like a self-righteous conservative.

Anti-Semites BORE me. For me, listening to an anti-Semite is as dull as listening to a Rabbi's sermon. They are both obsessed with Jews.

Jews, as Jews, interest me not at all.

The Israeli Lobby interests me because it is a real threat to our national interests. The Anti-Defamation League says the white race must go.

They say that anyone who mentions saving the white race is a white racist which means it is anti-Semitism. The Methodist Church says the same thing, which is why I left it.

A Jewish Professor at Harvard, Noel Ignatiev, stated this position honestly and bluntly

"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."

There are pro-white Jews and pro-white Methodists, and I appreciate them deeply.

But I consider my enemies to be my enemies, and for once I can honestly say that is regardless of race, color, creed, sexual preference or what kind of pie they like for dessert.