What is Anti-Semitism?

By Martin Kerr

Three Definitions

There are three very different definitions of "anti-Semitism": the standard dictionary definition, the National Socialist definition, and the Jewish definition.

Before looking at these three contrasting definitions, one distraction needs to be disposed of: anti-Semitism, if it is to have any real meaning at all, refers only to Jews, and not to Arabs. I have met White Nationalists from time to time, who have told me that they are not anti-Semitic, because they have "nothing against the Arabs." Conversely, one prominent movement scholar told me that, "I am a true anti-Semite: I hate both Arabs and Jews equally."

While it is true that both Hebrew and Arabic are part of the Semitic language family, anti-Semitism does not refer to linguistics, but to race or ethnicity. No one is opposed to either Jews or Arabs based on the origin or structure of their indigenous languages: when we use the term "anti-Semitism," we are referring only and specifically to the Jews.

Here, then, are three definitions of anti-Semitism:

(1) The standard dictionary definition of anti-Semitism is that it means hostility towards Jews. I have at hand the Tenth Edition of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Here is the full definition:

"Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group," (p. 52)

This is the definition that most non-Jews use.

(2) We National Socialists, however, have a more penetrating insight into the Jewish problem than do the editors down at Merriam Webster. Here is a basic and concise NS definition:

Anti-Semitism is the natural and normal defensive reaction of non-Jews to typical Jewish behavior.

This is by no means a complete or comprehensive definition, but it is accurate, from an NS standpoint, in so far as it goes.

Many National Socialists have begun to use the term “counter-Semite” in place of “anti-Semite.” This newer designation has the advantage of stressing the defensive nature of our struggle against the Jews. It is also largely free of the negative connotations that the Jews have attached to “anti-Semite.”

(3) The Jews themselves, have a very different functional definition of what it means to be anti-Semitic (or anti-Jewish or anti-Zionist).

For the Jews, anti-Semitism consists of opposition to Jewish goals.

Thus, for practical purposes, the Jews define anyone who opposes Jewish goals as a functional anti-Semite, whether that person actually dislikes the Jews or not.

By way of example, the Jews consider the National Rifle Association to be an anti-Semitic organization, not because it attacks the Jews (it does not), but because it opposes the Jewish goal of disarming White Americans. The fact that some Jews are NRA members is completely beside the point.

The Case of Huey Long

Or consider the case of the great American populist leader Huey P. Long (1893-1935). Long, a Democrat, served as US senator from Louisiana and as governor of that state. Although in his private beliefs he was undoubtedly a White racialist, as were all White Southerners of his day, he did not make racialism or anti-Semitism a part of his political outreach. In fact, he was known as a racial moderate by the prevailing standards. Nevertheless, he appealed primarily to White workers and farmers. His famous "Share the Wealth" program was similar in spirit to the social-economic programs of the National Socialists and Fascists in Europe.

So although he did not criticize the Jews, they felt threatened by him, fearing that he represented the beginning of an American fascist upsurge. Further, some members of his staff were anti-Semitic (such as Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith), although Long himself was not. Long had aspirations to challenge the incumbent president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, known as a great friend of the Jews, in the 1936 presidential election. But it was not to be: on September 8, 1935, Huey Long was shot to death in the rotunda of the Louisiana state capitol by a Jewish gunman, Carl Weiss. Another anti-Semitic threat nipped in the bud!

Jimmy Carter: Anti-Semite?

As paradoxical as it sounds, one can even be pro-Jewish, as in the case of many Christian evangelicals, and still be considered by the Jews as an anti-Semite, if one opposes Jewish goals. Indeed, the Jews reserve their deepest hatred for those who seek to convert them to Christianity, not because these missionaries hate the Jews, but because they love them so much!

Former US president Jimmy Carter is an excellent modern example of a prominent White person who has been denounced by the Jews as an "anti-Semite – despite  the fact that he is actually pro-Jewish 99 percent of the time. It is that other one percent that is the deal-breaker.

Carter was the 39th president of the United States (1977-1981) and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He has spent his entire public life in the service of the liberal Jewish agenda. His public stands on issues such a race, immigration, gun control, feminism, and homosexual rights are right out of the leftwing Jewish playbook.

But in one area, he has chosen to follow his own path, rather than that of the Jews: Israel.

As president, he often angered the Jewish community by his refusal to adopt a slavishly pro-Israeli position in the Middle East. Instead, he insisted on treating the Palestinians and the Israelis as equals. But although infuriated by the independence of this uppity Gentile, public Jewish criticism of Carter was muted. The president of the United States is an enormously powerful man; some might say that he is the single most powerful man in the world. Attacking him as an anti-Semite on the flimsy grounds that he stood up to Israel now and then might have unexpected political blowback. So, at the time, most Jews held their tongue.

In 2006, however, Carter was no longer president, and he went one step too far: he published a book on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict entitled Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. In this book, he roundly castigated the Jews for their racist policies towards the Palestinian people. This public criticism of Israel as a Jewish supremacist "apartheid state" made the Jews apoplectic.

In 2007, Carter further angered the Jews when he denounced the Israelis for maintaining a secret arsenal of 150 nuclear weapons, in defiance of accepted international norms.

That did it: Carter, lifelong friend and benefactor of the Jews, became an "anti-Semite." He was defined by the Jews as an anti-Semite not because he was truly against the Jewish people, but because he opposed Jewish goals on one single issue – support for Israel.

Carter was no doubt deeply wounded by having the Jews turn on him so viciously, although as an experienced politician, this development could hardly have been surprising to him.

In 2009, on the occasion of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, he offered a groveling public apology to the Jews for anything that he had said or written that might have offended them. But the damage was done: the Jews know that, from their standpoint, Carter is an unreliable ally: by their definition, he has revealed himself as an anti-Semite.

‘Jew-Haters’ and ‘Righteous Gentiles’

Those who openly criticize the Jews fall into a special sub-category of anti-Semite: the Jews refer to such a critic as a "blatant anti-Semite," or, for the someone whom they really, really fear, as a "Jew-hater." Other adjectival intensifiers include: “vehement anti-Semite," "vitriolic anti-Semite," "virulent anti-Semite" and "violent anti-Semite." (They really seem to like the letter “v” in this context.)

For the Jews, the opposite of an anti-Semite is a "righteous Gentile." This is a non-Jew who enthusiastically puts Jewish interests and welfare before all else, including his own safety and prosperity, and even before his own kin.

For Jews, there are really only two categories of non-Jews: "anti-Semites" (those willing to say "no" to them on occasion) and "righteous goyim" (willing slaves).

So, in the eyes of the Jews, those are your only two choices: anti-Semite or willing slave.

Which of the two are YOU?

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Source: This is an expanded version of an article which first appeared in NS Bulletin Number 357 (Fourth Quarter 2017 / JdF 128). The NS Bulletin is an official print publication of the NEW ORDER.