Yes, "symbolic redemption" is the name of the game and there couldn't be two better candidates to supply it.
The Palestinians, a Western fetish object for the past half century, whose narrative of heroic rebels fighting for freedom and justice against colonial imperialism was crafted by the Soviet Union—and like so many spawns of the Soviets, what for them was a cynical strategy for power became holy writ for their Western academic epigones, who never met a radical pose they didn't like, esp if it meant they could stay safe on campus getting checks and tenure while other people bled and died for their status games and fantasies of leading revolutions. This is why every Palestinian grievance is confirmed and sanctified, why their every wound and calorie is detailed and tallied and every massacre they commit is reframed as a righteous battle against Oppression—Communism is a proxy Christianity with Karl as its prophet and capitalism as its Satan and the Palestinians are now the Communist Christ, the sacred spotless victim at the center of their moral universe, the savior we must bleed, kill and die for.
And against them is Israel with its sins of continuing to exist and refusing to be erased, currently being transformed into the newest iteration of the ancient Jewish scapegoat. (The Jewish scapegoat gets loaded with all the supposed crimes and neuroses of each age, as assigned by various moral, political, and ideological entrepreneurs. One generation they're too foreign, then they're too ubiquitous; then they're too capitalist, then they're too communist; then they're too weak and bookish, then they're too martial and aggressive etc etc.) Now the jargon-crafting moral bullies of Left Academia are the ones who get to create and desseminate the new list of crimes to be loaded atop the Jewish scapegoat: settler-colonial white-supremacist imperialist ethnostate apartheid genocide etc. And turning Israel into a pariah state and ultimately destroying it is the goal with "symbolic redemption" the reward.
Jew hate is back in style, which usually means that what comes next are marches denouncing Jews (uh, I mean "Israel"), pogroms, political extremism, conspiracy theories, fights in the street, social unraveling—we've checked a few of those boxes already.
After a few decades asleep and narcotized by cash and clicks, History is back!
Ha! same, especially after reading some of these disturbing posts. I really wasn't expecting another global explosion of Jew hate in my lifetime—not after I sat through all those Never Again! docs/presentations...but just about everyone imagines that they would be one of the brave few who stood up to the Nazis, and just about everyone is wrong.
The people with glaring personality disorders had to go somewhere, after wokism collapsed. Politics and trying to control the world is a normal place for people with extremely defective psychology. The problem for them though is that they're all the worst people and therefore can only work each other up into ever greater stupidity amd hysteria and sideline themselves eventually into being no more than irrelevant public nuisance again. Third worldism is merely a movement of individual dysfunction that will gain some power by terrifying the normies for a while, but collectives of Cluster Bs will never build anything true or good.
This sets out so clearly what I’ve struggled to get my head around. Why the legions of well-meaning, but too-intense, busy-body types suddenly donned keffiyehs and water-melon earrings etc.
Intriguing essay. I always thought this was why Hitchens moved from Marxist to Neoconservative so effortlessly. Once working class material concerns were no longer fashionable, his revolutionary imagination took him to the Mideast.
As soon as Riboua tied the cause of Gaza to leftist revitalization, I knew what I was looking at. No surer way to become one of history's losers than to align yourself with international anti-Semitism.
Deeply shocked by the wave of antisemitism flooding Western European and North American metropoles and campuses (!) I'm aware of the need of an explanation for this phenomenon. But I wouldn't consider just a mouth piece of Francisco Franco this way replacing one evil by another.
53 years ago French author Jean Raspali wrote Camp of the Saints. He forsaw the migrant invasions which today plague western civilization with uncanny foresight ..a man before his time..a prophet . He only got one thing wrong.
In the novel, citizens of western nations , of all origins prepared to resist the arriving hordes which approached the west by old dilapidated ships. They began arming themselves with guns to shoot the migrants as they arrived on the beaches. Even citizens of 3rd world origin began to assist Europeans in their self defense.
Today, instead of defending against migrant invasion, citizens of 3rd world origin, even their children, are actively working to destabilize western civilization , sowing chaos in the streets, colleges and media. Most uncanny of all, many European leaders are assisting the barbarians in their stated goals of the destruction of western civilization. its really unbelievable..
If i were a religious man I'd say that Satan himself has possessed the souls of leaders such as kier starmer, manny macron , mark carney, Pedro Sanchez and billionaire activists like soros as well as figures in media such as Greenwald, and finklestein etc. traitors such as ilhan Omar, mehdi hasan, hasan piker , candace owens and Tucker Carlson and fuentes are islamo nazi/ neo nazi additions to this subversive satanic stew.
It shows you the sad state of affairs when deeply flawed and imperfect men like Donald Trump and Netanyahu, who the people have chosen, are the ones who're are defending western civilization from encroaching evil. People see the menace ..theyre not stupid..and if elections are interfered with and the will of people in western society is thwarted by deception and censorship by woke liberal governments there'll be civil war.
Jean Raspali died 6 years ago. If he could see what was going on he'd turn over in his grave. People like me can only shake our heads and wonder if we've gone insane.
This article explains better than most how it revitalised those who were defeated, marginalised from the structure of power (expelled from the Labour Party, or defeated by a demagogue in the USA), that left them demoralised and rudderless.
Palestenianism made them Holly again, with its mythical accessories, that replaces Che Guevara’s beret. Their hate easily focused on an old “symbol of hate” easily recognisable after centuries of elaboration, The Jew under its latest attire The Zionist.
True, peoples’ search for meaning is a powerful driver of behavior. Your identification of Third-Worldism as a manifestation of that drive is an excellent insight.
However, it is also worth noting that the Achilles heel of the movement is that fighting international ideological battles is a luxury past-time for privileged people whose local material needs have already been satisfied. This quest does not connect with people who need to pay the rent and put gas in the tank this week, and hence, while very dangerous, it has a natural limitation in the constituency of voters who will support its candidates, rather than the broad constituency that a mass movement needs in order to succeed. A case in point is the polling in the Senate race in Michigan where privileged whites support the supposed liberator El-Sayed, while blacks, the supposed beneficiaries of the movement, support Stevens.
You correctly observe that Third-Worldism operates best where material needs are not being satisfied by the existing economic system, but the socialism of Third-World does not offer a viable answer. Paris, get your bow.
What, we in the west simply aren't allowed to vocally oppose the devastation wrought in our names and with our tax dollars or we're some sort of Orientalist voyeuristic LARPers? This isn't very convincing!
I heard a gulf Arab man speaking to an European parliamentary committee .. he said that he considers islamo fascist fanatics living in the west as more dangerous than those in the Muslim world
The ones in the west have a greater ability to sow chaos , hate and violence due to the greater civil liberties they enjoy. Their activities are severely curtailed in the gulf states….except for terrorist financing and propoganda in countries like qatar. They have , in the west, weaponized the wests respect for human rights into a civilizational suicide pact. It was this that the gulf Arab found stupefying.
Why would western democracies assist their mortal enemies in their stated purpose of the destruction of western civilization? The populations of many countries are turning to extremist parties in their desperation to fight back agaisnt this barbaric menance.. centrist parties are becomimg more extreme.
Buts thats neither here nor there. The essential paradigm of this issue of western based islamo fascists versus islamo fascist in The Muslim world is sociological and psychological ..in the Muslim world..apart from the more civilized and controlled gulf states…chaos, war and economic deprivation reign supreme. It's understandable that many people turn to islamo fascism out of frustration at their suffering and lack of opportunity..it offers a quick violent path to power ,money and women..this ideology rewards ignorance, mediocrity and violence. Their state of mind..their mens rea..is utterly predictable.
However the islamo fascist in the west is a whole other kettle of fish..one thats much more disturbing, dark and utterly evil.
They left the arab/muslim world..ostensibly for a better life..perhaps they left of their own accord..perhaps they were driven out because they were deemed to radical by the authoritarian regimes they were born into. Imagine..Muslim dictatorships relieving themselves of extremist islamo fascists…dumping their detritus into the west. It would be funny if the consequences weren't existential for western civilization.
They arrive here in our open societies on student visas, as refugees or as economic migrants. Many do make a sincere effort to integrate..raise their families..inculcating their kids with western values…but many…far far too many dont. They rail against western values and traditions while collecting welfare and have multiple children..whom they indoctrinate with their hate for the kaffir….they sow chaos in our streets and college campuses..they left dysfunctional societies because their lives were terrible..death and destruction surrounding them and they arrive here and want to replicate in our cities the nihilist doctrines which caused them to flee in the first place..instead of taking advantage of their freedom they wish to recreate the submissive slave ideologies which destroyed the societies they fled..this state of mind..the psychotic savagery which impels it is truly frightening..
But thats not the worst of it…the worst of it is that western liberal governments..Western college campuses and woke leftists and activist globalist billionaires are actively supporting and encouraging this destructive modus operendi under the guise of diversity, openness and multiculturalism. It's their culture..we must be tolerant the woke useful idiots exclaim ..while the russian Chinese and Iranian totalitarian axis rub their hands in glee.
People in The west have had enough of this insanity. They understand that persecution of jews are the canaries in the coal mine and if the jews are dealt with..if israel is defeated then they are next. Already there's been 50 years of terrorism in the west..tens of thousands dead..non Muslims are being butchered throughout the Muslim world and this savagery will only accelerate. Traitors like ilhan Omar..tucker carlson fuentes..mandami ...khan in London ..Rashida, hasan piker..even gigi Hadid, Bernie Sanders..fincklestein, greenwald are cheering this islamo nazi genocidal ..suicidal doctrine on. After this is over and if the west survives there must be consequences for this blatant murderous treason.
The penitentiary was developed by Quakers around 1800 in Pennsylvania to deal more humanely with criminals to become moral honest citizens by requiring them to contemplate their crimes in cells..like monks and become penitent. It's an 18th century religious concept in a 21st century materialist world.
Convicts haven't engaged un penitence in decades ..if they ever did. They just become more crazed in their solitude and loneliness..but thats besides the point.
In the last 50 years a perverse metastasis has occurred in penitentiaries across western civilization..most notably in France, Britain , The united states and Canada.
They've become breeding grounds for the islamization and radicalization of tens of thousands of dangerous psychopathic convicts.
In New York state prisons for example, there are 4 main groups of Muslims. Sunni, Shia, N.O.I ( nation of islam, led by the notorious jew hater and ex-Calypso singer Louis farrakan ) and the God Bodies.
They all push an extreme totalitarian vision of islam . The god bodies are particularly bizarre..believing that their bodies are god himself...or allah..Arm..Leg..Leg..Arm..Head..
Ergo..Allah. get it? They believe that white men are the spawn of satan who arrived on planet earth 200 years ago and wiped out black civilization taking over the planet and that Ceasar, napoleon and king Richard were all black men.
Th other groups are slightly less demented...NOI are like a black muslim fascist group who believe in segregation of the races..they all dress alike with white shirts and bow ties and impose strick discipline on their members...their meeting resemble a cult like space with no one allowed to talk out of turn..with a rule of strict silence except for the groups leader.
They're a mirror image of white neo nazi groups...they believe that the jew controls america and uses the white man to oppress the blacks ( while white neo nazis believe that jews control america and use blacks to oppress the whites ) jews are so convenient no?
Many black men convicted of rape become muslims as a form of protection since theyre the largest gangs. Even whites with fucked up crimes convert to protect themselves ..guys with names like Mohamed Goldstein..I shit you not..another named Ahmed O'Reilly..beware of the kaffir ..laddie!
They aggressively prosletise seeking new converts. After 2001 a moderate Muslim Sufi organization tried to provide religious materials to new York convicts but were rejected by state authorities in favor of the Saudi salafist religious doctrine. I guess they had a bigger lobbying budget..after 911 who could blame them.
It seems bureaucrats in the west in positions of power dont mind that islamo nazi radicalization occurs in correctional systems. Christian men go into prison and come out terrorists..Muslim men come out suicide bombers..this metastisis occurs under the nose of the government..an insane modus operendi.
Yes, "symbolic redemption" is the name of the game and there couldn't be two better candidates to supply it.
The Palestinians, a Western fetish object for the past half century, whose narrative of heroic rebels fighting for freedom and justice against colonial imperialism was crafted by the Soviet Union—and like so many spawns of the Soviets, what for them was a cynical strategy for power became holy writ for their Western academic epigones, who never met a radical pose they didn't like, esp if it meant they could stay safe on campus getting checks and tenure while other people bled and died for their status games and fantasies of leading revolutions. This is why every Palestinian grievance is confirmed and sanctified, why their every wound and calorie is detailed and tallied and every massacre they commit is reframed as a righteous battle against Oppression—Communism is a proxy Christianity with Karl as its prophet and capitalism as its Satan and the Palestinians are now the Communist Christ, the sacred spotless victim at the center of their moral universe, the savior we must bleed, kill and die for.
And against them is Israel with its sins of continuing to exist and refusing to be erased, currently being transformed into the newest iteration of the ancient Jewish scapegoat. (The Jewish scapegoat gets loaded with all the supposed crimes and neuroses of each age, as assigned by various moral, political, and ideological entrepreneurs. One generation they're too foreign, then they're too ubiquitous; then they're too capitalist, then they're too communist; then they're too weak and bookish, then they're too martial and aggressive etc etc.) Now the jargon-crafting moral bullies of Left Academia are the ones who get to create and desseminate the new list of crimes to be loaded atop the Jewish scapegoat: settler-colonial white-supremacist imperialist ethnostate apartheid genocide etc. And turning Israel into a pariah state and ultimately destroying it is the goal with "symbolic redemption" the reward.
Jew hate is back in style, which usually means that what comes next are marches denouncing Jews (uh, I mean "Israel"), pogroms, political extremism, conspiracy theories, fights in the street, social unraveling—we've checked a few of those boxes already.
After a few decades asleep and narcotized by cash and clicks, History is back!
Thanks for the great work...
Wowzer: CP you rock, that was ebullient, a rant for the ages.
As you know, I’ve jotted down some of your pronouncements:
“ the homeostasis of hate” is an apt shorthand for your rant and perfectly describes the predicament of Jews.
I’m glad I found this author : political science 101.
Thanks again for all the kind words!
It’s a rare thing for me. Kindness.
Ha! same, especially after reading some of these disturbing posts. I really wasn't expecting another global explosion of Jew hate in my lifetime—not after I sat through all those Never Again! docs/presentations...but just about everyone imagines that they would be one of the brave few who stood up to the Nazis, and just about everyone is wrong.
I’m goyim but people take me for a Hebrew because of my diamond boy alias, I take some serious abuse and sometimes I egg them on.
This author is so good for me. She’s like an instant crash course in PoliSci.
You read Mansour? Cannot recommend highly enough. His essays are as rich as most books.
https://critiqueanddigest.substack.com/archive
The people with glaring personality disorders had to go somewhere, after wokism collapsed. Politics and trying to control the world is a normal place for people with extremely defective psychology. The problem for them though is that they're all the worst people and therefore can only work each other up into ever greater stupidity amd hysteria and sideline themselves eventually into being no more than irrelevant public nuisance again. Third worldism is merely a movement of individual dysfunction that will gain some power by terrifying the normies for a while, but collectives of Cluster Bs will never build anything true or good.
Excellent!
This sets out so clearly what I’ve struggled to get my head around. Why the legions of well-meaning, but too-intense, busy-body types suddenly donned keffiyehs and water-melon earrings etc.
A very convincing analysis.
So well said
Intriguing essay. I always thought this was why Hitchens moved from Marxist to Neoconservative so effortlessly. Once working class material concerns were no longer fashionable, his revolutionary imagination took him to the Mideast.
Thank you
As soon as Riboua tied the cause of Gaza to leftist revitalization, I knew what I was looking at. No surer way to become one of history's losers than to align yourself with international anti-Semitism.
Deeply shocked by the wave of antisemitism flooding Western European and North American metropoles and campuses (!) I'm aware of the need of an explanation for this phenomenon. But I wouldn't consider just a mouth piece of Francisco Franco this way replacing one evil by another.
53 years ago French author Jean Raspali wrote Camp of the Saints. He forsaw the migrant invasions which today plague western civilization with uncanny foresight ..a man before his time..a prophet . He only got one thing wrong.
In the novel, citizens of western nations , of all origins prepared to resist the arriving hordes which approached the west by old dilapidated ships. They began arming themselves with guns to shoot the migrants as they arrived on the beaches. Even citizens of 3rd world origin began to assist Europeans in their self defense.
Today, instead of defending against migrant invasion, citizens of 3rd world origin, even their children, are actively working to destabilize western civilization , sowing chaos in the streets, colleges and media. Most uncanny of all, many European leaders are assisting the barbarians in their stated goals of the destruction of western civilization. its really unbelievable..
If i were a religious man I'd say that Satan himself has possessed the souls of leaders such as kier starmer, manny macron , mark carney, Pedro Sanchez and billionaire activists like soros as well as figures in media such as Greenwald, and finklestein etc. traitors such as ilhan Omar, mehdi hasan, hasan piker , candace owens and Tucker Carlson and fuentes are islamo nazi/ neo nazi additions to this subversive satanic stew.
It shows you the sad state of affairs when deeply flawed and imperfect men like Donald Trump and Netanyahu, who the people have chosen, are the ones who're are defending western civilization from encroaching evil. People see the menace ..theyre not stupid..and if elections are interfered with and the will of people in western society is thwarted by deception and censorship by woke liberal governments there'll be civil war.
Jean Raspali died 6 years ago. If he could see what was going on he'd turn over in his grave. People like me can only shake our heads and wonder if we've gone insane.
This article explains better than most how it revitalised those who were defeated, marginalised from the structure of power (expelled from the Labour Party, or defeated by a demagogue in the USA), that left them demoralised and rudderless.
Palestenianism made them Holly again, with its mythical accessories, that replaces Che Guevara’s beret. Their hate easily focused on an old “symbol of hate” easily recognisable after centuries of elaboration, The Jew under its latest attire The Zionist.
True, peoples’ search for meaning is a powerful driver of behavior. Your identification of Third-Worldism as a manifestation of that drive is an excellent insight.
However, it is also worth noting that the Achilles heel of the movement is that fighting international ideological battles is a luxury past-time for privileged people whose local material needs have already been satisfied. This quest does not connect with people who need to pay the rent and put gas in the tank this week, and hence, while very dangerous, it has a natural limitation in the constituency of voters who will support its candidates, rather than the broad constituency that a mass movement needs in order to succeed. A case in point is the polling in the Senate race in Michigan where privileged whites support the supposed liberator El-Sayed, while blacks, the supposed beneficiaries of the movement, support Stevens.
You correctly observe that Third-Worldism operates best where material needs are not being satisfied by the existing economic system, but the socialism of Third-World does not offer a viable answer. Paris, get your bow.
What, we in the west simply aren't allowed to vocally oppose the devastation wrought in our names and with our tax dollars or we're some sort of Orientalist voyeuristic LARPers? This isn't very convincing!
I heard a gulf Arab man speaking to an European parliamentary committee .. he said that he considers islamo fascist fanatics living in the west as more dangerous than those in the Muslim world
The ones in the west have a greater ability to sow chaos , hate and violence due to the greater civil liberties they enjoy. Their activities are severely curtailed in the gulf states….except for terrorist financing and propoganda in countries like qatar. They have , in the west, weaponized the wests respect for human rights into a civilizational suicide pact. It was this that the gulf Arab found stupefying.
Why would western democracies assist their mortal enemies in their stated purpose of the destruction of western civilization? The populations of many countries are turning to extremist parties in their desperation to fight back agaisnt this barbaric menance.. centrist parties are becomimg more extreme.
Buts thats neither here nor there. The essential paradigm of this issue of western based islamo fascists versus islamo fascist in The Muslim world is sociological and psychological ..in the Muslim world..apart from the more civilized and controlled gulf states…chaos, war and economic deprivation reign supreme. It's understandable that many people turn to islamo fascism out of frustration at their suffering and lack of opportunity..it offers a quick violent path to power ,money and women..this ideology rewards ignorance, mediocrity and violence. Their state of mind..their mens rea..is utterly predictable.
However the islamo fascist in the west is a whole other kettle of fish..one thats much more disturbing, dark and utterly evil.
They left the arab/muslim world..ostensibly for a better life..perhaps they left of their own accord..perhaps they were driven out because they were deemed to radical by the authoritarian regimes they were born into. Imagine..Muslim dictatorships relieving themselves of extremist islamo fascists…dumping their detritus into the west. It would be funny if the consequences weren't existential for western civilization.
They arrive here in our open societies on student visas, as refugees or as economic migrants. Many do make a sincere effort to integrate..raise their families..inculcating their kids with western values…but many…far far too many dont. They rail against western values and traditions while collecting welfare and have multiple children..whom they indoctrinate with their hate for the kaffir….they sow chaos in our streets and college campuses..they left dysfunctional societies because their lives were terrible..death and destruction surrounding them and they arrive here and want to replicate in our cities the nihilist doctrines which caused them to flee in the first place..instead of taking advantage of their freedom they wish to recreate the submissive slave ideologies which destroyed the societies they fled..this state of mind..the psychotic savagery which impels it is truly frightening..
But thats not the worst of it…the worst of it is that western liberal governments..Western college campuses and woke leftists and activist globalist billionaires are actively supporting and encouraging this destructive modus operendi under the guise of diversity, openness and multiculturalism. It's their culture..we must be tolerant the woke useful idiots exclaim ..while the russian Chinese and Iranian totalitarian axis rub their hands in glee.
People in The west have had enough of this insanity. They understand that persecution of jews are the canaries in the coal mine and if the jews are dealt with..if israel is defeated then they are next. Already there's been 50 years of terrorism in the west..tens of thousands dead..non Muslims are being butchered throughout the Muslim world and this savagery will only accelerate. Traitors like ilhan Omar..tucker carlson fuentes..mandami ...khan in London ..Rashida, hasan piker..even gigi Hadid, Bernie Sanders..fincklestein, greenwald are cheering this islamo nazi genocidal ..suicidal doctrine on. After this is over and if the west survives there must be consequences for this blatant murderous treason.
WESTERN PENITENTIARIES
ISLAMO NAZI INDOCTRINATION FACILITIES
The penitentiary was developed by Quakers around 1800 in Pennsylvania to deal more humanely with criminals to become moral honest citizens by requiring them to contemplate their crimes in cells..like monks and become penitent. It's an 18th century religious concept in a 21st century materialist world.
Convicts haven't engaged un penitence in decades ..if they ever did. They just become more crazed in their solitude and loneliness..but thats besides the point.
In the last 50 years a perverse metastasis has occurred in penitentiaries across western civilization..most notably in France, Britain , The united states and Canada.
They've become breeding grounds for the islamization and radicalization of tens of thousands of dangerous psychopathic convicts.
In New York state prisons for example, there are 4 main groups of Muslims. Sunni, Shia, N.O.I ( nation of islam, led by the notorious jew hater and ex-Calypso singer Louis farrakan ) and the God Bodies.
They all push an extreme totalitarian vision of islam . The god bodies are particularly bizarre..believing that their bodies are god himself...or allah..Arm..Leg..Leg..Arm..Head..
Ergo..Allah. get it? They believe that white men are the spawn of satan who arrived on planet earth 200 years ago and wiped out black civilization taking over the planet and that Ceasar, napoleon and king Richard were all black men.
Th other groups are slightly less demented...NOI are like a black muslim fascist group who believe in segregation of the races..they all dress alike with white shirts and bow ties and impose strick discipline on their members...their meeting resemble a cult like space with no one allowed to talk out of turn..with a rule of strict silence except for the groups leader.
They're a mirror image of white neo nazi groups...they believe that the jew controls america and uses the white man to oppress the blacks ( while white neo nazis believe that jews control america and use blacks to oppress the whites ) jews are so convenient no?
Many black men convicted of rape become muslims as a form of protection since theyre the largest gangs. Even whites with fucked up crimes convert to protect themselves ..guys with names like Mohamed Goldstein..I shit you not..another named Ahmed O'Reilly..beware of the kaffir ..laddie!
They aggressively prosletise seeking new converts. After 2001 a moderate Muslim Sufi organization tried to provide religious materials to new York convicts but were rejected by state authorities in favor of the Saudi salafist religious doctrine. I guess they had a bigger lobbying budget..after 911 who could blame them.
It seems bureaucrats in the west in positions of power dont mind that islamo nazi radicalization occurs in correctional systems. Christian men go into prison and come out terrorists..Muslim men come out suicide bombers..this metastisis occurs under the nose of the government..an insane modus operendi.