Famous Antisemites for $200...Elon?

Those incredibly stupid, yet totally crafty Jews are at it again, says Billionaire Musk about the Hebrew menace that threatens space lasers + the American Way of Life!

The “problem”, as Elon sees it.

“I lay the blame and responsibility at the door of the church.” The speaker was a Polish Jew whose family had escaped from Poland to Switzerland, where they were happy to live out the war, later also noting that Switzerland was the first to adopt the letter J as a designator for its Jewish passport holders. So much for nonaligned. “There is no way that you can read the Bible and come away from it feeling better about Jews.”

But his response came as a query had been laid out during a time where I could still be shocked by such things, as a result of me meeting a Greek antisemite I knew who had never even met a Jew, and anticipated that he would not like any that he met if he were to meet them. “I mean look at what they do,” he said, right around the time he, himself, had been arrested for international drug trafficking. “Every Jew I’ve had to deal with since I got here from Greece has screwed me over.”

Getting bested in business by someone is not being screwed over by an entire people. All bets are off though if your business is international drug trafficking.

But he was not mollified. “You don’t know them like I know them.”

And what did I know, growing up with Hasidim in Crown Heights, going to seders, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, studying Modern Jewish Thought in college, what could I possibly know?

Heinrich Himmler once comfortably stated “no one gets out of our kettle alive.”

“It’s easy to explain and I don’t blame the church necessarily,” said Noam Freedman, a mensch by every measure, former owner and originator of a store by the Twin Towers that used to sell Fire and Police gear to firefighters and cops before 9/11 and then made a killing selling the same post-9/11 to tourists. “A small minority community that prizes intellectual achievement and has a penchant for nonviolence…” is bound to run into detractors Freedman believes.

And detractors they have had, consistently and continually over time. Aggressive detractors, from the destruction of the Temple to the Spanish Inquisition to Russian pogroms and the crowning expanse of Nazi Germany where Heinrich Himmler once comfortably stated “no one gets out of our kettle alive.” All bent to the destruction of Jewry.

So when Elon Musk wades, and stumbles, into thousands of years of history to hoist an opinion on us that states that Jewish communities, “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” His post then references “hordes of minorities” flooding Western (read: white) countries, a prevailing antisemitic conspiracy theory and an explainer for the upcoming Rahowa, or racial holy war.

And if you had missed this on Twitter (fuck calling it X), Musk gleefully re-shared it with the comment addendum “You have said the actual truth.” So said the richest man in the world, a title itself that should be exhibit number 1 against Jewish global hegemony.

All of which makes me think of George Steiner’s The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. In it a squad of Mossad agents have been dispatched to the jungle to find and transport Hitler back to Jerusalem for trial. Sketchy jungle comms have led to the team not hearing headquarters last proviso and that they should not, under any circumstance, speak to Hitler. “You must not let him speak ... his tongue is like no other,” they were finally told in a communique that never made it through.

He [Hitler] was, he said, a benefactor to Jews and laid claim to single-handedly creating Israel.

The Hitler of the story though is frail and broken at story beginning but as they trek through the jungle he does, indeed, start to talk. His rebop follows the Musk line and lays out that the concept of a “chosen people” and “master race”? He got that from Jews. In fact, he claims, his entire program, excepting the actual extirpation of European Jewry he got from Jews.

He was, he said, a benefactor to Jews and laid claim to single-handedly creating Israel. The Mossad agents, resisting at first, are weakening on their trek and by book end and the mock trial they have in the jungle when they suspect that they will never make it back to Jerusalem, ends with one of their team rising to scream “Proven!” after Hitler hits his summation.

Unsurprisingly the controversy created here was violent and immediate. The Jewish author Steiner, who himself rejected Jewish nationalism and was an avowed critic of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, came under particularly sharp focus where it was noted that there was no active narrative distinction between Steiner’s views and his created Hitler’s. Theater showings were accompanied by walk outs, pickets and boycotts.

Steiner for his part, despite hearing that many believed that audiences by play end were applauding Hitler and not the play, felt that he had done nothing revolutionary and pointed to speeches by Satan in Paradise Lost or The Grand Inquistitor’s monologue in The Brothers Karamazov as explainers for that particular narrative take.

All of which still left Musk flat-footed when in response to his muddled take on Jews, the few major corporations that still advertise at Twitter/X, pulled their ads, or paused them. In an all-hands response Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino within 24 hours touted that their company had made “efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination.”

It is risible were we not living in a Post-October 7th world (curiously a day after German-American day) where the world witnessed parasailers machine gunning music festival goers to death and Hamas raping and then subsequently kidnapping hundreds of other semites, in this instance Israelis. A turn of events that would have activated violent existential responses from all but the most-already defeated countries were it to have happened to them.

[I]f you’re going to walk like an Jew hating duck, and quack like a Jew hating duck, please get comfortable with being a Jew hating duck.

So Musk has an opinion, like we all have, and presumably an asshole, like we all have, however his unforced error here proves that sharing less of your asshole like your opinion goes a long way toward having people not think you are an asshole. But Musk isn’t alone as his fanboys that sit at the nexus of Andrew Tate, MAGA world, and Joe Rogan, have piped up with a variation of the Charlottesville cry for justice: “Jew will not replace us!”

And their support post-October 7th is echoed in universities and IG feeds that are not distinguishing between the government in Israel and Jews. Undergirding this support you’ll find a raft of antisemitism’s greatest hits as the West lets fly and shares with us what they “really think” and all of it is sad, sadly misguided and strident in its purported correctness.

Which is precisely why Musk is a figure of contempt here because unlike me, and very possibly you, he is in a position to actually do something useful, helpful and smart. Billions of dollars makes that possible. So when owner of said-billions of dollars whiffs it as bad as, or even worse, than any of us sitting around on Sunday in our underwear could have done, it gives one pause.

Because the solution, as spelled out by Hitler, or Hamas, always points in the same final direction. Which makes me wonder if the world actually believes that peace in the Middle East arrives with the absence of Israel, and moreover has anything to do with Musk’s belief in the so-called outsized influence of “Jews”.

However in that time honored Internet tradition the smirking Musk will, in all likelihood, claim that he was misunderstood, that good guys abound on “both sides”, that he has lots of Jewish friends, and since when has he said anything very specifically antisemitic anyway?

November 15th?

Well, other than that….!?

Listen if you’re going to walk like an Jew hating duck, and quack like a Jew hating duck, please get comfortable with being a Jew hating duck. Especially as my neck is now sore from all of the head shaking. In other words be as racist as you want, just don’t try to sell me your offense at being called what it is that you are.

I mean, in the end, why would you care anyway?

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