Several months ago, I noticed that The Civic Platform blog, edited by an intellectually-inclined individual who identifies himself as Friedrich Braun, had suddenly been taken down and the domain name abandoned. Although curious, I chose not to pursue the issue, thinking it was a privacy gig.
On November 22nd, 2009, I found out why he had taken his blog down. It's because Friedrich Braun has changed his attitude on the Jewish Question. A change of 180 degrees, I might add. Braun now believes we should reach out to Jews and form alliances with them. And not just alliances; he wants us to actively welcome Jews into the White Nationalist community.
He lays out his case on the
Majority Rights website. To ensure preservation of context, the entire post is replicated below:
There are few sites active on the international White Nationalist/Revolutionary Nationalist scene that have provoked me to thought more than this one. None did more to open my eyes to the necessity of building a new philosophical worldview if we wanted to succeed in our struggle. This idea that we must first present a moral and philosophical alternative to the ills of modernity is not new. It is a reiteration of an argument that the French New Right, for example, has been trying to make since the ‘70’s with questionable success and while being the victim of periodic witch-hunts.
Now, there’s also an element of narcissism at play as I’m in agreement with Guessedworker, in particular, on all important issues and I feel an uncanny kinship of spirit. But, that being said, since I’ve done a 180 degree turn on the J.Q. some people who’ve known me have suffered a “whiplash” (to quote Hunter Wallace). I’ve been called a Jew lover, a race traitor, and accused of being romantically involved with a Jewish woman.
There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that anti-Semitism is a political loser and no longer a potent organizing force in the western world. I’ve come to the conclusion that only a Right friendly to the Jewish community and Israel can succeed in the western political arena; a Right that admits Jews and places them in positions of authority; a Right that welcomes Jews in a tangible effort to show them that they must not fear the Right. I don’t believe that the Right will gain any traction without first abandoning anti-Semitism, Holocaust-denial, anti-Zionism, or National Socialist nostalgia. All these points are not only completely irrelevant but an insurmountable stumbling block to success.
There are plenty of racialist and Right-wing Jews with whom we can build alliances. We know their names. White Nationalism has been wedded to anti-Semitism since the 1960’s and it has proven to be a total and unmitigated disaster. What has White Nationalism achieved in the post-war era? Nothing. It has lost every single battle. So let’s be bold and try a different approach. At five to midnight, persisting in failure is not an option. A friendly disposition to Jewry will get White Nationalists, among other things, access to mainstream media and the political arena.
I realize that the hostility of traditional Jewish organizations won’t lessen, but their anathemas won’t generate as much bite, since a Jewish presence at various organizational echelons will render those attacks relatively harmless.
The inescapable fact is that in the post-war era any mention by White Nationalists of Jews provokes in the general population, in a Pavlovian sort of way, dark images of Adolf Hitler, concentration camps, Kristallnacht, Jürgen Stroop ruthlessly pacifying the Warsaw Ghetto, etc., etc., etc. People everywhere in the West have been conditioned by a brilliant marketing campaign to regard any movement of ethnic or racial solidarity among Whites in terms of Nazi phantasmagoria. Therefore, we must counter and neutralize this imagery by including Jews at all levels and adopting a Zionist line.
Let me add that my intentions aren’t purely tactical in nature. I really believe that the inclusion of Jews can be a great asset. The Jews, as we all know, are a highly intelligent, driven, energetic, rich, and influential minority with a vast international network of co-ethnics and money (the lifeblood of politics). I would prefer to have them inside the tent.
I’m not being particularly original in my proposition, the great Oswald Spengler had a falling out with the National Socialists over the Jewish Question. Hans Frank (Adolf Hitler’s lawyer) recounted after the war that Oswald Spengler warned him that National Socialist anti-Semitism would have disastrous consequences for the Reich. He argued that the Jewish intellect should be harnessed by National Socialists and not rejected by pointing to what the Jew Benjamin Disraeli did for British expansionism – nobody did more to build the British Empire than that clever Sephardic Jew. Can anyone doubt Germany would’ve won the war had National Socialists listened to the grand old man? Someone who actually voted for them, had a swastika flying in front of his house, and had Germany’s best interests at heart.
Will Jews want to collaborate with White Nationalists? I believe that some will if they see that we’re acting in good faith. Jews everywhere have moved to the Right in the last decade. In Europe, the ongoing immigration/invasion from mostly Muslim countries naturally hostile to Israel and Jewry threatens their financial interests, political hegemony, and is a physical threat. They represent a very ripe fruit for a nativist, anti-immigrationist party.
As far as I know, only Geert Wilders’s the Party of Freedom and the Vlaams Belang have fully taken advantage of Jewish fears of Muslim immigration (is it a coincidence that they’re the most successful racially-based movements in Europe now and on the verge of seizing power?). But I also see other parties moving increasing in that direction. I believe that the BNP and Marine Le Pen’s Front National will take the path I’m showing as well.
It’s time to change our discourse and modus operandi and adopt a winning strategy.
Reaction has been forthcoming, and mostly unsupportive. Hunter Wallace expresses his disagreement on
Occidental Dissent. The latter leads to
a post that shows Braun had publicized his changed views as early as July, about the time he took down The Civic Platform. Criticism is also forthcoming on the
Vanguard News Network Forum, with its
webmaster Alex Linder stating,
"His arguments work just as well for 'racism' or 'white nationalism' as a whole as for jew-crit. Indeed, they work for any position not favored by the majority. Of course, 'Friedrich Braun' doesn't intend them seriously as arguments. The question is why he flips on a dime and starts braying against us now. The answer is that jew-truthing is gaining traction. It is his concern to arrest that trend. Who put him up to it - who knows? Take 'Braun's' curious hysteria as an indication that we are making progress, is my advice."And Jewish reaction?
Israpundit has picked up on this story, and has not exactly started dancing the hora. In
this post, Ted Belman merely states that he is "far from convinced", and that the article "reeks with racialism and antisemitism". So even though Braun is clearly promoting philosemitism, a Jewish pundit still considers it anti-Semitic. This gives creedence to those who claim that inviting Jews into the WN movement will not impress them.
Note that Friedrich Braun promotes no such reconciliation with Poles, who are White. Braun has been quite critical of Poles in the past, as I documented in
this post. Interesting that a White Nationalist would have a better opinion of Jews than Poles.
Obviously, Braun is frustrated by a continuing dichotomy in WN philosophy. It is almost axiomatic that Jews who would otherwise be considered White by David Lane's standard are barred from the WN community, regardless of their attitude and actions towards us. The ordinary Jew on the street is considered just as
non grata as the most virulent Jewish supremacist.
I share Braun's frustration with this all-or-nothing approach. By failing to distinguish between "good Jew" and "bad Jew", we offer all stick and no carrot. We deny ourselves the opportunity to perhaps divide and conquer. Even Dr. David Duke has moved away from the all-or-nothing approach; by entitling his most recent book
"Jewish Supremacism" (ordering information
HERE), Dr. Duke shows that he takes no issue with Jewish existence, but instead with a particularly malignant form of behavior known as Jewish supremacism.
One other area where Braun gets it right is the fact that mainstream whites are more sensitized to racial issues than Jewish issues. Whites who are being vexed by brown foreigners who babble in incomprehensible tongues don't really give a shit how many Jews died in the Holocaust, and are bored to tears over dry treatises on gas chamber technology. What they are more interested in is how to deal with - and preferably stop - the mudflow into their neighborhoods. Some WN organizations, such as the
NSM,
Freedom14,
North East White Pride,
ECWU, and
Keystone United, have picked up on this, and instead of spamming the White population with Holocaustianity, hand out flyers on illegal immigration through the pro-White perspective. These organizations have become more successful because they have become more RELEVANT; in fact, Keystone United was even permitted to
participate in a local diversity forum in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
But for Friedrich Braun to lurch all the way over to full-throttle philosemitism is ludicrous, and is unlikely to bear fruit. Let's look at the track record of another philosemitic WN, Jared Taylor of American Renaissance. At the
2006 AR Conference, Dr. David Duke began to address the crowd, saying
"There is a power in the world that dominates our media, influences our government and that has led to the internal destruction of our will and our spirit...", but before he could continue, Michael Hart, a squat, balding Jewish astrophysicist from Maryland, catapulted from his seat, strode toward Duke, and shrieked,
"You fucking Nazi, you've disgraced this meeting", then stormed out. So even where we invite Jews to participate, they show no gratitude.
Thus the track record shows that inviting Jews to make common cause with us is unlikely to bear significant fruit in the short term. Nevertheless, if, for the sake of argument, we were to proceed on this course of action, we would have to make it perfectly clear that such alliances would be on OUR terms, not theirs. Jews who want to be considered White would have to show by pro-White activism that they consider themselves White first, and Jewish second. On that issue there can be no compromise. Nevertheless, Friedrich Braun has opened up a debate which has been needed for quite a while, and he should not be considered a heretic.
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