White Suprematist theories are a relatively new reality, although the phenomenon was boiling for decades in the underground of the extremist world. Long before Internet and social media took over our life and updated our realities, in the post-Cold War World the extremist rats were extremely active to get together. The speed of Internet only made possible their unity and the creation of a common platform that is appearing in different hideous ways all over the world, from America as far as Australia and New Zealand. One day, it might be worth sharing the results of observing for many years the sources and inspiration of all those self-declared 'white' people.
The Australian terrorist that attacked a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 49 people had a mixed-up 'intellectual' background. Besides the 'Mein Kampf' and the symbols usually weared or tattoed by the European far-right, such as the 'Schwarze Sonne'/'black sun', his social media traces shows his respect for the British anti-Semite Oswals Mosely, the Serbian nationalism - apparently he loved especially a song dedicated to the war criminal Radovan Karadzic of Bosnian-Serb origin - if you know a little bit about the movement around the 'Tigers', leaded by Arkan - Zeljko Raznatovic - whose symbols and music makes a good section of the YouTube and other online mediums - and also was inspired by the writings of a - still - reverred far-right leader of the inter-war Romanian Christian-mystical ideology, Codreanu. An eclectic mix which makes clear the widespread variety of the white supremacist ideology nowadays.
Similarly with the Norway terrorist - with whom he shared almost the same ideological roots - Anders Behring Breivik, that killed in 2011 77 persons, the New Zealand terrorist uttered the following regarding the Jews: 'A Jew living in Israel is no enemy of mine, so long as the do not seek to subvert or harm my people'. As for president Trump, people with a different background - religious or ethnic - are just 'invaders', and as long as they are away, they do not raise any special problem. Although it is hard to think that president Trump, whose daughter Ivanka is a convert to Judaism and whose son married a Jew had clearly the Jews in mind, his stance on issues regarding the Middle East might be extremely harmful for the Jewish state. It might encourage Jews to emigrate to Israel in big numbers - a dream of so many millenarist Evangelical American religious groups, who are convinced that once all the Jews are in Israel the Messiah will come (end of the world story, see the rapture) - but will also nurture the white supremacist circles who are doing so well around this bizarre American administration. In the last two years, Evangelical organisations openly and deeply in love with Jews supported at least a third of costs of immigrant relocation - especially former communist countries - to Israel and Bibi Netanyahu thanked them and took part to various joint events they patronized. Political interests apparently were so urgent that it seems he forgot to spend a bit of time reading a couple of good books - not only biographies of American politicians from the times when politician meant more than being an outsider, accidentally voted into the mainstream.
Talking again about Bibi, many may be a bit surprised - if not shocked or deeply disgusted - about his open friendship with the far-right Austrian parties or the very far-right Orban Viktor of Hungary - the fact that this political support created dissent in the already divided local Jewish community it was not that important anyway. Those two parties - and many more - would be more than happy to see Jews out of their countries, as they are busy anyway annihilating and discriminating other minorities - the National Guards in Hungary attacking and killing Roma for years under the tolerant eyes of the same Orban Viktor are examples that were greatly overviewed from the memo.
The same Bibi - this post is not about him - offended often Jewish communities around the world when he asked the Jews to come to Israel. Although a noble aim and a topic at heart to many Jews, many might be a bit offended by anyone - particularly a politician - telling you where to live, with whom and for how long. Especially after the versed politician shook hands with a political party - Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) who's obsessed about who is doing what and with whom. (He, the B., also promised to legalize cannabis which makes sense for the medical lobby, but also for...doesn't matter for whom, we are all high anyway). Otzma Yehudit, which openly supports the extremist ideology of Meir Kahane, declared terrorist both in Israel and USA, has an outstanding anti-Arab rhetoric, aiming to forbid sexual contacts between Jews and non-Jews and according to their 'political' program wants to encourage 'aliyah' ('moving of Jews to Israel) in order to stabilize the Jewish majority and to combat 'the disease of assimilation'.
Some might hear far echoes of the Jabotinsky ideology - which was planned anyway for the ears of the Jews living in diaspora - whose personal secretary was Benzion Netanyahu, Bibi's academic father. But reshaping old ideologies, created for specific conditions, into ways to answer the urgencies of the short-term political aims is toxic. As very toxic is also this unclear combination of far-right interpretations and obsessions.
A bon entendeur, salut!
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