If you’ve been around Jews for any period, you’ve likely discovered their tendency to exaggerate whatever they feel passionately about. Hyperbole seems to come easy to them. The sky is always falling. Doom is right around the corner. And, of course, it’s always directed at them because of their ethn…
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More... This Commenter This Thread Hide Thread Display All CommentsAgreeDisagreeThanksLOLTrollThese buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment. They are ONLY available to recent, frequent commenters who have saved their Name+Email using the 'Remember My Information' checkbox, and may also ONLY be used three times during any eight hour period.Ignore Commenter Follow Commenter Search Text Case Sensitive Exact Words Include Comments SearchClearCancelIf you’ve been around Jews for any period, you’ve likely discovered their tendency to exaggerate whatever they feel passionately about. Hyperbole seems to come easy to them. The sky is always falling. Doom is right around the corner. And, of course, it’s always directed at them because of their ethnic identity. This powerful sense of group endangerment and historical grievance is associated with a hyperbolic style of Jewish thought that runs repeatedly through Jewish rhetoric. Chernin’s comment that “any negativity, criticism, or reproach, even from one of our own, takes on exaggerated dimensions” is particularly important. In the Jewish mind, all criticism must be suppressed because not to do so would be to risk another Holocaust: “There is no such thing as overreaction to an anti-Semitic incident, no such thing as exaggerating the omnipresent danger. Anyone who scoffed at the idea that there were dangerous portents in American society hadn’t learned ‘the lesson of the Holocaust.’ ”23 Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary, a premier neoconservative journal published by the American Jewish Committee, provides an example: [M]y own view is that what had befallen the Jews of Europe inculcated a subliminal lesson. . . . The lesson was that anti-Semitism, even the relatively harmless genteel variety that enforced quotas against Jewish students or kept their parents from joining fashionable clubs or getting jobs in prestigious Wall Street law firms, could end in mass murder.24 This is a “slippery slope” argument with a vengeance. The schema is as follows: Criticism of Jews indicates dislike of Jews; this leads to hostility toward Jews, which leads to Hitler and eventually to mass murder. Therefore all criticism of Jews must be suppressed. With this sort of logic, it is easy to dismiss arguments about Palestinian rights on the West Bank and Gaza because “the survival of Israel” is at stake. (“Background Traits for Jewish Activism,” p. 12). As an example of this, it’s common for Jews to view all personal criticism of them as individuals as collective criticism of them as a people. It’s not that other ethnic groups don’t also engage in exaggeration and overreach at times, but only that Jews seem to have uniquely strong proclivities toward this sort of thing. One could say they have even perfected it. There’s a long history of non-Jews noticing it too. Many Jews even concede this habit of theirs. They make no apologies for it either. It’s perfectly natural to them. Yet like the Old Testament proverb that describes the evil man who is in continual fear that someone is chasing after him even though there isn’t (28:1), so also Jews often make whatever negative circumstances they find themselves in to be worse than they are or turn out to be. Their paranoia invariably leads them to faulty conclusions about the motivations of others. They are quick to impugn the character of anyone at the slightest perceived offense. This often leads to the most unfair and grossest of accusations, “anti-Semitism” being the most common. For instance, the Jewish host of Democracy Now! (Amy Goodman) in 2002 asked the former Israeli Minister, Shulamit Aloni, what she thought about people in the U.S. who are critical of the Israeli government being called “anti-Semitic.” Her response illustrates precisely my point: “Well, it’s a trick. We always use it. When from Europe somebody’s criticizing Israel, then we bring out the Holocaust. When in this country people are criticizing Israel, then they are anti-Semitic . . . They are not ready to hear criticism.” This reaction and strategy among Jews are perhaps understandable due to their tiny demographic in the U.S. comprising only about 1.8% of the overall population. This leads them to use their historic victim status and small numbers to blow things out of proportion in order to gain sympathy and approval from a gullible public. Jews can be confident that their strategy will be supported by the U.S. government because “the Tribe” disproportionately influences much of the federal government, including society’s most important secondary institutions such as the news media, Hollywood, academia, and an array of social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Congress on both sides of the political aisle is unabashedly committed to the Jewish people and Israel. In fact, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has even gone on record to declare: “I have said to people when they ask me if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid — and I don’t even call it aid — our cooperation with Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are” (Conference of the Israel-American Council, December 2, 2018). History for at least the past 140 years is replete with examples of Jewish hysteria and overreach. Let’s look briefly at a few of them. (1) Jews have claimed that great atrocities were committed against them in both Russia and Poland simply because of their Jewish ethnicity or religion. These ‘pogroms’ were instituted by the Russian and Polish governments, and they targeted Jews in the most inhumane ways. The persecutions were also carried out by local villagers. As a result, Jews were driven from their homes and businesses, and it’s claimed they suffered greatly at the hands of Russian and Polish Christians. An article published in The Occidental Observer written by Andrew Joyce carefully examined such claims and found them in large part to be unfounded (“A Critical Look at the Polish ‘Pogroms’ of 1914–1920,’ May 1, 2022). Joyce cites the words of William Hagen (Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920 [Cambridge University Press, 2018]) who assiduously investigated the matter: “Jewish reports tended toward exaggeration” (p.173). Joyce notes that “From the outset, Hagen is skeptical of contemporary Jewish accounts that alleged spontaneous mass shootings. He opens the book by making it clear the documentary record has “gaps or blindspots” and “doubtless exaggeration occurred. . . . I have sought out multiple accounts so as to minimize bias.” He later argues that “resentment-laden animosity colored many such [Jewish] reports, which tended, in an atmosphere heavy with collective paranoia and hysteria, to exaggerate Jewish losses.” He even cites one brief but telling remark from Henry Morgenthau himself, who, although promoting atrocity propaganda, once admitted that “there is also no question but that some of the Jewish leaders [in Poland] had exaggerated” (A Critical Look at the Polish ‘Pogroms’ of 1914–1920). This is not merely Hagen’s investigative conclusions, but also that of several other authors who discovered that Jewish reports of intense sufferings and prolonged mistreatment by the Polish people against them to be largely inflated and embellished. The common assumption is that persecution of Jews always stems from irrational hatred when, in fact, the evidence strongly suggests that most of it is due to tensions between competing ethnic groups. Usury, fraud, various forms of thievery, and the multiple financial schemes that Jews engage in invariably provokes a backlash, one that sometimes leads to violence. Jews like gypsies are parasitical, and both groups often get the boot when people are angered and fed up with their deceitful ways. There is nothing irrational about it. Andrew Joyce addressed the so-called Russian ‘pogroms’ in a series of articles also published in The Occidental Observer in May of 2012 (“Revisiting the 19th-century Russian Pogroms“). Joyce pulled his information from a wide variety of sources. One author stood out—the late John Doyle Klier and his monumental works: Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History [Cambridge University Press: 2004] and Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881–82 [Cambridge University Press: 2011]. Like the previously mentioned author, William Hagen, Klier is led to the same conclusions – namely, that Jews grossly exaggerated the events they declared to the world. (2) Jews claim that “six million” of their people were murdered in the Holocaust and that this ‘liquidation’ of Jews was allegedly official Nazi policy ordered by Hitler himself. Jews were then systematically rounded up and forced to live in “death camps” where millions of Jews were gassed, tortured, and medically experimented on. Given the exaggerations apparent in other Jewish claims of persecution, it would not be surprising to find similar exaggeration for the holocaust. Comparably few people are aware that the “six million” figure does not have its origin exclusively in the events of the Holocaust. The expression, in fact, was repeatedly employed by Jews as having symbolic, mystical, and kabbalistic significance prior to the outbreak of WW1. Interestingly, while Jews are allowed to interpret the “six million” number in a symbolic or allegorical way, this is not permissible for non-Jews. They must interpret it literally. No deviation is permitted. The double standard should be obvious. The expression was routinely used by Jews beginning in 1850 among various newspapers, articles, and books which sought to highlight the sufferings of Jews in Russia. Over 250 separate pre-WW2 references to the “six million” can be documented in The New York Times, The Jewish Criterion, and a plethora of other American and Jewish newspapers and periodicals. American-Zionist leader, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Zionist pressure groups such as The World Jewish Congress and The American Jewish Congress made sure that Jews were always portrayed as innocent victims and just on the verge of complete annihilation. The constant call was for the world to recognize the plight of Jews and to rescue them from the hands of their oppressors. For those interested in reviewing the documentation for this, two books are, in my opinions, required reading: Don Heddesheimer, The First Holocaust: The Surprising Origin of the Six Million Figure (Castle Hill Publishers: 2021); and Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry (Castle Hill Publishers, 2015). Whether one agrees with the Jewish narrative of the Holocaust or not, there is little doubt that the “six million” figure is but one more example of Jewish exaggeration and overreach. (3) Along with the “six million” number, there are also numerous outrageous claims made by Jews during and after World War II. For instance, that the Nazis made bars of soap and lampshades from Jewish skin. Nazis were alleged to have routinely committed the most unimaginable atrocities against Jews. Only later was much of it discredited and shown, once again, to have originated from Allied and Jewish propaganda. Some of the most bizarre and unbelievable claims made by Jews as to what occurred inside the Nazi work camps are common (portable gas chambers, throwing Jewish babies into the air and bayoneting them, “masturbation machines” in which Jewish males were masturbated to death, etc.). Jewish survival stories tend to be particularly fanciful, and many of them have been discredited upon closer examination. Behind them all are motives of greed and gaining sympathy for Jewish people. One such story involves Misha Defonseca (real name: Monique de Wael): “Desperate to be reunited with her parents, Misha travelled through war-torn Europe, becoming trapped in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. After escaping over a wall, she travelled thousands of miles to Ukraine, Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, France and back to Belgium. During her arduous journey Misha said she stayed with a pair of wolves she named Maman Rita and Ita. . . . I was like the wolves — a hunted animal, and one that would be killed on sight. . . . Later she said she joined a pack of six adult wolves and four pups” (Grant Rollings, The U.S. Sun [8/4/2021]). Turns out her wolf pack story was just a pack of lies. Misha reluctantly confessed her fakery when the matter was later investigated. She also had to return the millions she had profited from the story she weaved. A good many of these Holocaust stories are so far-fetched that it’s hard to believe that intelligent people would take them seriously. Yet when it comes to the industry and religion of the Holocaust, one must bypass all critical thought and exercise only blind faith. The Holocaust and spreading its message to the world is so important to Jews, in fact, that many of them believe it’s the key to their ethnic solidarity. It’s integral to who they are. Their belief in it is what holds them together, perhaps for some of them even more so than their belief in Yahweh and the Talmud. Again, fanciful stories and claims about the Holocaust serve as examples of typical Jewish hyperbole. Mind you, I’m not saying that many Jews did not suffer and die during WW2 (so also did many non-Jews – even more so!). There were atrocities committed by almost all the involved parties (some more than others). Yet the Holocaust illustrates how deeply wedded Jews are to propaganda, and how they are largely unable to restrain themselves from spreading the most hysterical claims to the world that we are expected to believe without question. A good many Jews are offended when the same reviews and critical investigations that are applied to other historical events are applied to the Holocaust story. This event alone cannot be challenged. It’s not subject to the critical eye, and those who think otherwise soon discover the power of influential Jews. It shows again the religious nature of the Jewish Holocaust narrative. (4) Additional examples of Jewish hysterical claims can be seen in more recent events, such as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how it’s reported in the pro-Jewish American press. Israelis are almost always portrayed by Western media as innocent victims, while the Palestinians are always portrayed as terrorists and instigators. Since Jews largely control and influence our media, there is little nuance and context given. (5) The Israeli government has claimed for over a decade that Iran has manufactured nuclear weapons and that a strike against Israel and America is surely imminent. Remember when Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, addressed a joint-meeting of congress in March of 2015 – you know, the one where he was given 29 standing ovations? He warned against what he called a “bad deal” that was being negotiated at the time between the Obama administration and Iran to freeze Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu argued that any deal with Iran would lead it to create nuclear weapons within “about a year by U.S. assessment, even shorter by Israel’s.” Well, almost eight years has elapsed since that speech, and there is still no proof that Iran has nuclear weapons and intends to use them against Israel or any other nation. Netanyahu’s exaggerated claims and congress’s willingness to lap it up validated the former Israeli prime minister’s claim in 2001 when he said, “America is a thing you can move very easily.” LINK (6) That same level of Jewish-fueled hysteria occurred after 9-11 when a brood of Jewish neocons in the Bush administration persuaded President Bush that Iraq possessed “weapons of mass destruction.” It was later discovered to a be bold-faced lie, one that led to the complete ruin of the Iraqi nation and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. These same Jewish neocons along with their compliant stooge, George W. Bush, led the U.S. to also invade Afghanistan. The foolishness and devastation of that two-decade quagmire should be obvious to all. Our withdraw from Afghanistan in August of 2021 leaving behind billions in military weapons only served to confirm it. Israel and its subservient puppet, the U.S., has also engaged in a series of unjustified military strikes against Syria. The U.S. opposes Syria not because it poses a threat to the American people, but because the Israeli government perceives it to be an enemy-state, a regional threat to them. The pattern seems to always be the same in all these conflicts. Anytime Israel feels threatened, it declares to the world a series of hysterical allegations all which spell doom to the Jewish people. Same as the hyperbolic claims by Jews prior to and du… truncated (173,832 more characters in archive)