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It seems that there has not been a worse time since the formation of Israel to be a diaspora Jew.

The friends and allies that the diaspora has traditionally counted on are beginning to turn on them with the same determination and ferocity that gentiles have always possessed on the eve of a pogrom or mass expulsion. The writing is on the wall, and many Jews, thankfully, are beginning to notice.

Columbia University in New York City, once the bastion of intellectual Jewry, has lately been the epicenter of overt anti-Jewish feeling. Of course, this entails the increasingly menacing protests over the current war in Gaza. These resemble the anti-war protests of the Vietnam War era in that they are serious, sometimes violent, and coming entirely from the Left. It’s gotten so bad (or good, depending on your perspective) that Columbia’s rabbinical leaders have recently urged Jewish students to stay home. According to a WhatsApp message from Columbia’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus:

What we are witnessing around campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made clear that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy.

It deeply pains me to say that I recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.

The “events of the last few days” refers to the anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia, which resulted in over 100 arrests. Many of these protestors were Arabs themselves, or otherwise not white. Further, there have been thousands of similar protests across America these past few months. I wrote about a particularly nasty one involving a menorah at Harvard not too long ago.

This is the future. And while these Left-wing protestors are no friends of the dissident Right or white people in general (which is why they protest Donald Trump with equal venom), the part of my brain which processes immediate gratification wants all this to continue. Regardless of how one feels about the war in Gaza — I would describe my position as qualified neutrality — we should have absolutely no sympathy for diaspora Jews in this situation.

This is a golem of their own creation, and the blowback they are experiencing couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people. For the CliffsNotes rundown of why I say this, Jews were instrumental in the passing of Brown v. Board of Education as well as the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, and have been in the vanguard of integration and immigration efforts ever since. Diaspora Jews have been dedicated to the erasure of the white supermajority in America, as well of white identity in general, for decades. Now that they have gotten what they have always wanted, they’re beginning to realize that maybe they shouldn’t have wanted it in the first place. The irony is too delicious for me not to enjoy.

But I cannot enjoy it for long. After all, there is a war going on. Many thousands are being killed, with all the grief and misery and everything else war brings with it. Plus, the refugees have to go somewhere, which will likely soon be to a diversified neighborhood near you. I know that the Gaza War is a red-on-red conflict, as are all the violent protests currently ongoing in major American cities, and it has somewhat enhanced the Right’s clout as Jews begin to shift in that direction. But I’m sure it’s keeping others besides me on edge as we wait for this regional conflict to grow into something global.

One thing I think most of us can agree upon, however, is that the Jewish diaspora is either reaching or has reached its apogee in power and influence outside of Israel. Being a political people who cannot seem to survive among gentiles without playing major roles in politics, diaspora Jews will not have a home unless they have a political home. This, I believe, stems from their inherent neuroticism, insecurity, clannishness, and self-serving natures, which unfortunately combine well with their high average intelligence and plethora of talents. This will naturally put them at odds with gentile populations from time to time — especially when their leadership adopts more of their vices than virtues, as we are seeing today.

If we can take the reverse of Clausewitz’s famous dictum that war “is the continuation of political intercourse by other means,” then perhaps for many diaspora Jews, politics is the continuation of war by other means — meaning that when gentiles practice politics, Jews practice war.

Everything makes more sense when you think about it that way, doesn’t it?

In any event, diaspora Jews are beginning to realize that their comfy political spaces are dwindling. A diversified Left, especially among young people, is vociferously rejecting them over Gaza, and indeed over Zionism in general. The mainstream Right is getting tired of all the forever wars in the Middle East, and, if its unwavering support for Donald Trump is any indication, would prefer a more isolationist and populist approach to international relations moving forward. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in Ben Shapiro’s recent spats with Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson — two America-firsters who view Israel as a foreign country with interests separate from those of the United States. This of course is heresy for neoconservatives such as Shapiro and his ilk over at the Daily Caller. Amid all the resulting invective, Shapiro is taking on the role of William F. Buckley in trying to gatekeep the respectable Right. But he is learning that Owens and Carlson enjoy far greater status in the public’s eye than Joe Sobran and Sam Francis ever did, as brilliant as those two certainly were.

Beyond this, what’s left? The dead center. The moderates, the liberals, the conservatives — basically, the baby boomers. Sadly, this population is dwindling as well, but by natural rather than political causes.

The only remaining bastion of support diaspora Jews enjoy these days, aside from that of the political establishment — whose qualified backing is disproportionately secured by threats, bribery, and blackmail — is the evangelical Christian Right. These are people who believe in a Biblical mandate for supporting Israel. Some even see the Gaza War as a sign that we are entering the End Times, and that we must be prepared to accept Jews as our brothers and sisters once Jesus walk the Earth again. Thus, of course Evangelicals will remain steadfast in their support for Israel.

Won’t they?

I asked myself this very question while researching this essay. How has the war in Gaza impacted Evangelical support for Israel and Jews in general? According to many news sources, the answer is: not at all. As soon as it started, Evangelicals enthusiastically lined up to give Israel record financial support and went there in large numbers to volunteer. According to the Religion News Service:

“Evangelicals as a bloc are about the only friends that Israel has,” said Joel Rosenberg, a longtime political strategist, novelist and editor-in-chief of All Israel News, an evangelical pro-Israel news and commentary site.

Rosenberg, who became an Israeli citizen about a decade ago and identifies as a Jewish believer in Jesus, told Religion News Service that he saw more Israelis at the NRB [National Religious Broadcasters meeting] this year than in the past.

That’s in large part due to the close ties between Israel and evangelicals, who are more loyal than other groups, said Rosenberg, host of The Rosenberg Report for the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

“Where else are you going to find people who will listen, and then have a platform and a motive to act,” he said.

Then again, nearly all of the articles I could find were published shortly after the war began last October. This would make sense, given Jewish prominence in the media and the need for wartime propaganda. But less on the topic seems to have been published in the past few months as the body count continues to rise to appalling numbers, which is an exceedingly bad look for Israel. So pillar of salt taken. However, I did spot one Haaretz article which suggested that perhaps the unwavering Evangelical support is starting to waver a bit. According to another article from 2021, Evangelical support, especially among the younger crowd, has been slipping. So who knows?

The tea leaves on this tragic imbroglio are telling me that diaspora Jews have a real Hobson’s dilemma on their hands. Either they have their meat with dairy or they have their dairy with meat. If they abandon Israel, they will lose the support of the Evangelical Right, and if they don’t abandon Israel, they will lose the support of the anti-Zionist Left. Obviously, this state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely.

This is why I feel diaspora Jews are at their apogee of power and influence in the West. It’s only downhill from here, unless they get wise to race realism and the nativist needs of whites — truly, their best friends throughout all of this — and then shift hard and fast to the Right and mean it. (I know, I know, unlikely.) It’s either that or they pack up and schlep themselves to Israel.

The dissident Right should naturally do nothing to discourage them from either option. After all, the one thing diaspora Jews cannot do right now is nothing.