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Did Jonathan Pollard Really Cause Antisemitism?

Bytut editor

Aug 9, 2015

DR GOEBELS

THE ALGEMEINER –  Did jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s actions provoke anti-semitism in the United States? 

In the days leading up to the July 28 revelation that the U.S. has granted Pollard parole and that he will be released from federal prison on Nov. 20, that charge was made by former State Department counsel Abraham Sofaer. Commenting on then-unconfirmed reports that Pollard would be paroled, Sofaer—who was part of the U.S. team that investigated the Pollard affair in the 1980s—claimed Pollard “created a terrible situation for American Jews who then obviously [were] all the more suspected.”

The fear that Pollard’s actions would cause antisemitism was articulated at the time of his arrest by many prominent American Jews, conservatives and liberals alike. Well-known political columnist William Safire wrote that Pollard had encouraged “antisemites who charge that Jews everywhere are at best afflicted with dual loyalty and at worst are agents of a vast fifth column.” Henry Siegman, the former director of the American Jewish Congress, charged that the affair had caused “discomfort” to U.S. Jews and left them feeling “compromised”.

Many Israelis, however, saw things differently. Shlomo Avineri, a Hebrew University political science professor who worked as director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry under prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, publicly deplored the “nervousness, insecurity, and even cringing” of U.S. Jews.

“Today, American Jewish leaders by their protestations of over-zealous loyalty to the United States at a moment when no one is really questioning it, are saying that America in the long run is no different from France and Germany,” Avineri wrote in 1987. “When you have to over-identify, there is no other proof needed that you think that your non-Jewish neighbors are looking askance at your Americanism. You are condemned by your own protestations of loyalty and flag-waving.”

Measured by the traditional method—the Anti-Defamation League’s annual tally of antisemitic incidents—there is no evidence antisemitism increased as a result of the Pollard affair. In fact, in 1986, the year following Pollard’s arrest, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. actually decreased by 7 percent. That figure increased the following year, and each year through 1991, but then in 1992 it decreased again (by 8 percent), before rising again in 1993. It is hard to see how Pollard could have had anything to do with this ebb and flow.

Measured another way, by the appointment of Jews to senior government policymaking positions, there likewise seems to be little evidence to confirm the Pollard-linked fears about Jews in government becoming distrusted. In fact, Jews became even more prominent in Israel-related positions after the Pollard arrest than before it: Daniel Kurtzer, Dennis Ross, Aaron Miller, Richard Haas, Martin Indyk, and others played significant roles in shaping American policy toward Israel throughout the 1990s and beyond. Evidently, their superiors felt they could trust them to faithfully implement U.S. policy—even when it involved tension with Israel—despite the fact that they were Jews.

So much for the dire prediction by American Jewish leaders made to the Jerusalem Post in 1987 that Pollard’s actions “might make it considerably harder for Jews to rise to high positions in the State and Defense Departments.”

Even many years after Pollard’s arrest, such fears lingered. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro, discussing the Pollard case with theWashington Post in 1998, complained, “We work so hard to establish ourselves and to get where we are, [only] to have somebody screw it up.”

But the idea that Pollard had “screwed it up” for other Jews in the U.S. government was more speculation than reality. Political scientist Daniel Elazar, in his analysis of American Jewish responses to the Pollard arrest, was “astounded” by “the level of American Jewish insecurity.” He found that the dual loyalty issue “was raised almost exclusively by Jews,” not by non-Jews. He noted that it was brought especially frequently by Jews in the media, “most of whom were highly assimilated but still apparently needed to demonstrate their ‘bona fides’ as Americans.”

Jewish activists in the U.S. during the Holocaust years encountered similar fears among Jewish leaders. The president of the American Jewish Committee tried to block publication of a Bergson Group newspaper advertisement in 1943, reasoning that sharply worded criticism of the Allies’ Jewish refugee policy “could well bring on pogroms in the U.S.” New York Congressman Sol Bloom sought to have the group’s leader, Peter Bergson, deported on the grounds that “he would eventually provoke sufficient antagonism among the citizens of the United States to cause antisemitic pogroms.” Prominent Reform Jewish leader Rabbi Stephen S. Wise went so far as to claim that Bergson was “as great an enemy of the Jews as Hitler, for the reason that his activities could only lead to increased antisemitism.”

In the end, Bergson was not deported, the controversial newspaper ad (and nearly 200 others) were published, and the Bergson Group even organized a march by more than 400 rabbis to the White House. Yet no pogroms ensued.

Jewish fears of being seen as disloyal were just as misplaced in the 1940s as they were in the 1980s, and as they are today. Abraham Sofaer’s worries about Pollard are simply not supported by evidence.

Dr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and coeditor of the “Online Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust.”

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  1. Just goes to show how stupid Americans are and how well they’re brain washed and distracted by the Jew media.

  2. These quotes about Jews desiring to be quiet or hide anything regarding where the great lies about the holocaust began are the complete opposite of the truth. They worked out in the open, identifying themselves as Jews and behind the scene paying Churchill huge sums of money to attack Germany and lobbying FDR to join England in the attack. If not for the Jews, there would have been no WW II and Germany would not have had to ship the suspected traitors off east where war and disease resulted in their deaths. The Jews began their war mongering immediately upon Hitler’s election to office. This rally took place less than 2 months after Hitler was elected. And while they lied, saying Jews were being abused, that is turning the truth upside down. Jews were leading and provoking murders of Germans, hoping still to defeat them by throwing Hitler out while his gov’t was still weak. And with these actions, almost everybody began supporting the gov’t.
    anti-German rally and the beginning of war mongering that pushed the US into attacking Germany for the second time in 25 years; prominent Jews leading the hatred:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myh-dqvUgYA
    Charles Lindbergh on the Jews leading efforts to push the US into WW II:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeRB0axvAh0
    Even the Germans biggest enemies noticed it. In early 1938 the Polish ambassador to the US, Jerzy Potocki reported back to Warsaw on his observations of the American political scene:
    The pressure of the Jews on President Roosevelt and on the State Department is becoming ever more powerful… The Jews are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe….
    And of course their activities in England and the rest of Europe were much greater than in the far off USA.
    And here is a discussion of how the great lie began. David Irving speech – 1988
    American Judge Francis Biddle, Nuremberg Trials judge; from his private diary

    I don’t believe a word of this.
    British Psychological Warfare Executive, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, in charge of the PWE Victor Cavendish-Bentinck writing in 1944 words to the following effect,

    We’ve had a good run for our money with this gas chamber lie. But really we’ve got to be a bit careful because eventually it’s going to be exposed and then our entire psychological warfare effort will be brought down with it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tSBvGJCb9U

  4. What ‘anti semitism,’ in the US ?
    US Federal Reserve ,pandering Republicans, Rothdchilds FOX/Kosher Conservative, Hebrew Liberals….left/right matrix.
    Hollywood. Delusional Christians…the US loves their Jew masters.
    The Rosenberg’s, did not wake up the fools,why should Pollard ?
    Thankyou Peter for your posts.
    All must get David Irving s books !
    See David Irving Action Report.com.

  6. Peter—Excellent breakdown of what happened leading up to the war, during and after. There might have been pressure on FDR, but that was for the benefit of the public. He was on board from the very beginning of his reign as just another selected president of the Zionist controlled oval office. In the words of General Patton…”we fought against the wrong people.” Japan, Germany and Italy were fighting against communism, when the jewish spun WW2 broke out.
    As for the Anti-semitism con…it’s about as real as the holohoax. Technically, this article does nothing but promote that it actually has an value. It is nothing but a psychological weapon to silence criticism of the Babylonian Talmudic Jews and also to cover up the real war crimes by the ZioAllies. RhineMeadow Death Camps, ordered by Eisenhower. The rape of over 2.1 million German and Eastern European women/girls. The torture and murder of anyone from Germany by the jewish Bolsheviks in Poland, the Armenian Genocide, the Holodomor Genocide, The jewish run Gulags, the Jewish run Polish Death Camps, Dresden, Hamburg and other cities, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima.
    The US didn’t take prisoners in the Pacific. They shot to kill, took no prisoners. In fact they were so worked up by the Zionist propaganda, they enjoyed torturing many first before killing them.
    Two excellent videos that will change the way you look at all history… thegreateststorynevertold.tv and NWO: Communism by the Backdoor, by Dennis Wise. Both do a great job of exposing the lies and deception behind our Rockefeller/Carnegie history.
    As for Pollard, I don’t know why he wasn’t given the death penalty to begin with…oh, yes I do.

  7. Thanks Peter for looking at the big picture over the longer term. Very pertinent video clips.
    Yes: “If not for the Jews, there would have been no WW II”; no WW I either; no Great Depression; Democrat President Woodrow Wilson would not have been elected (thanks to their man Theodore Roosevelt for that); the Federal Reserve system would not have been established (RIP USA after that); the list could go on and on.
    Was FDR “lobbied”? No need for that. He was directed, and was surrounded by advisers, and aided and abetted by numerous comrades in positions of great authority serving their nation, not the USA. Like his cousin, Theodore, FDR was their man.
    The point being: “the Jews” are organized to a level way beyond any level ever achieved by Gentiles. That’s a fact that Gentiles must stop ignoring.
    Does it matter to “the Jews” if Gentiles hate them? Yes it does matter to them. They love it. A saying that Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) was said to be fond of: “Let them hate, so long as they fear”.
    Fear them? Yes, it would be insane not to fear them. But we, too, can use our capacity for reason – we can do that, can’t we? And we need to use our capacity for reason, and work out how can we organize ourselves to overcome the power of the tiny minority of humankind which rules us.
    The biggest obstacle that I can see is that Gentiles are extremely divided, and have no basis for mutual trust on which to build. That factor seems to be almost universally ignored.
    Thanks again Peter.

  8. antiGENTILISM is the problem. Cavemen did not sit around their caves:
    GROK: “HEY, me hate Jews.”
    HORG: “What a Jew?”
    GROK: “Me not know …. but me hate”
    Then non-Jews sat for tens of thousands of years waiting for a Jew to come along, so we could all be mean for no reason. Sorry, what happened was Jews created a social system of Xenophobic Tribalism (look it up) wherein THEY hate all NON-Jews, and this hate of all non-Tribe members has, naturally, caused People to not like them.
    “antisemitism” could NOT EXIST until semitism CREATED IT.
    anti-semitic … that’s what they called Jesus of Nazareth in the Galilee …
    JUDAS ISCARIOT was a JEW beloved by the Temple Priests.
    Judaism is neither a race or a religion, it is Xenophobic Tribalism.
    XENOPHOBIC: n.
    A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
    TRIBALISM: n.
    1. The organization, culture, or beliefs of a tribe.
    2. A strong feeling of identity with and loyalty to one’s tribe or group.
    Quick summation? They are the enemy of anyone who is not a TRIBAL MEMBER …… and only “tolerate” Gentiles.
    The World should insist Israel live by the standards Israel demands of others. Be judged as Ye judge others. If Israel wants to be recognized, Israel must recognize the EQUALITY and HUMANITY of ALL People. Quit calling NON-Jews SHISKA, GOYIM, GENTILE. If Israel wants Hamas to ‘repudiate’ their charter, Israel must REPUDIATE their manual of hate, the TORAH, which openly proclaims that all ‘gentiles’ should be ‘Hewers of wood, and bearers of water’ …….. for Israel.
    Israel must recognize the Native People’s RIGHT to a Palestinian state.
    Israel REFUSES to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty or open It’s NUKES to inspection, Israel should have the exact same sanctions that were put on Iran.

  9. PROsemitism ——- If there is an “antisemitism” there must be : “PROsemitism” PROsemitism must be a supporter of “semitism”, which ODDLY means Judaism even though most Jews are NOT semites and SUNNIsemites and SHIITTEsemites and CHRISTIANsemites are ignored. So, what are you supporting if you are a PROsemite? Well first of all we must define Judaism:
    Judaism is neither a race or a religion, it is Xenophobic Tribalism.
    XENOPHOBIC: n.
    A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
    TRIBALISM: n.
    1. The organization, culture, or beliefs of a tribe.
    2. A strong feeling of identity with and loyalty to one’s tribe or group.
    So right off the get-go you hate all NON-Jews, NON-members of YOUR group(TRIBE).
    THAT means, that if I am not one of the TRIBE, you do not like me.
    Since Jews brand all NON-Jews “gentile” and automatically denigrate them, to be PROsemitic one must by definition be ANTI-GENTILE.
    They hate all NON-Jews so fundamentally, that they have to SPECIFICALLY NAME what they grudgingly term “RIGHTEOUS GENTILES”. Those are NON-Jewish HUMANS that went so far out of their way to help/save Jews that the Jews were FORCED to ACKNOWLEDGE the humanity of that specific ‘gentile”. You see, PROsemites do not acknowledge the EQUALITY of spirituality and humanity of “gentiles”
    According to the SPLC & ADL an organization is a “HATE GROUP” if it has
    “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people”.
    Jews have HATED CHRIST and his followers for 2,000 years. Go ask your Jewish friends to “acknowledge” Jesus Christ.
    Jesus Christ was an anti-semite according to the Temple Priests who HEREM(excommunicated) Him just prior to crucifixion.
    JUDAS ISCARIOT was a Jew —- in good standing with the Temple Priests.
    Israeli Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs, Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan, from the settler party Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) gave an interview [Heb] to the Israeli daily Ma’ariv 12/30/2013 on his party’s stance against gay marriage.
    Here’s a snippet from the interview. Remember, this man is a high ranking government official in the only “democracy” in the Middle East.
    Q: What will you do if the Knesset votes on a bill legalizing gay marriage?
    A: No way. Also, a Jew cannot marry a gentile.
    Q: Is that the same thing?
    A: We don’t recognize either of them. And anyway, a Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he’s gay.
    xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel.” “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat… That is why gentiles were created…” – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Former Chief Rabbi of Israel

  10. Thank you. I’m glad that people appreciate what I’m posting. I told a friend that I sense a big change in how many people think. But she was right when she said she’s concerned things might not be changing fast enough. But this is another great website helping to spread the truth on the internet while the mainstream media tries to hide the truth from people.

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