Dear JTR, I am an anti-Zionist Jew who has just recently come across your website. The information you have collected on your site is impeccable to say the least. I whole heartedly agree with you about Israel's racism, as well as ethnocentrism, perpetual victimhood, and the morally corrupt influence of the Israel lobby in the Jewish community, issues which are of dire need of being addressed within the community itself.

Thank you. It is always refreshing to hear some openness and honesty about this from someone of Jewish heritage. I am sorry to tell you that in the avalanche of Jewish dissimulation, self-delusion, and blanket condemnation of this web site, it is feels shocking to hear from someone like you.

However, I do have some issues that I would like to respectably discuss. One thing which I disagree with you on is your analysis of Jewish power. Largely, the perception of Jewish power is due to organizations such as AIPAC, WZO, and ADL. They inflate "Jewish influence" in Washington's handling of world affairs in order to inflate their own importance. They have hijacked Jewry for their own political gains, and reinforced myths about a worldwide Jewish control conspiracy in doing so, with tactics that include media censorship, throwing around the label of anti-Semite, exploiting the Nazi holocaust, and utilyzing the resources of the rich Jewish elite who are similarly as morally corrupt. One can easily buy into their claims of Jewish power and either bow down to it or speak out against it; or, one can recognize it for the facade it truly is.

There is some truth in what you say. But I don't believe you are accurate in portraying the Jewish rank-and-file as being entirely misrepresented by powerful Jewish groups that claim to represent them. We cite a lot of studies and surveys by Jewish scholars and organizations about Jewish American interests and concerns. A sampling of them, per Israel, are here. People like you are a very, very small minority. I have seen no evidence whatsoever that suggests otherwise. I'm sure you know that. Frankly, your position here goes not only against the Jewish Lobby organizations, but also against Jewish American political convention.

The United States foriegn policy does not revolve around the interests of Israel and their American Zionist counterparts. The US utilyzes Israel for purposes of consolidating their own power. Israel is a strategic asset in the US hegemonic power scheme, evidenced by Israel's role as watchdog of the region, keeping anti-Western Arab forces in Syria, Egypt, Jordan, etc in line.

Again, there is some truth in what you say here, in the sense that Judeocentric pro-Israelism is not the ONLY ingredient in U.S. foreign policy. Of course not. But the bottom line is: How is America's foreign policy interests in the Middle East best served? Not by collusion with Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, invasion of Iraq, and a total alienation of the Arab world from the United States. One of the best books on the Jewish/Zionist takeover of U.S. foreign policy is ex-Congressman Paul Finley's "They Dare to Speak Out." We've got an entire, long chapter on Jewish influence in government here. More recent information about this subject can be found here.

Israel serves as a fine island in the Middle East for American geopolitical interests, in terms of policing and repressing by force the Arab world. But that policy is itself astoundingly short-sighted. And immoral. And, in the long term, it is self-defeating to selfish U.S. oil interests and so forth. While it is true there are many variables in our political world, it is also clear that overwhelming Jewish American allegiance to apartheid Israel is a MAJOR factor in America's corrupt Middle East foreign policy. I do not think this is difficult to evidence. We cite article after article about various aspects of it.

When supporting Israel does not hold an advantage to the US, the US won't support it.

There is no practical advantage in supporting Israel now. Israel has no oil. The Arab/Muslim world has oil. Which group would one logically expect American foreign policy -- left to purely selfish concerns -- to cultivate as bedfellows? There are other factors at work here. But the major one is the powerful pro-Israel Jewish Lobby.

Such was the case when the US sold weapons to the Saudis despite strong Israeli resentment,

That was the Carter administration, hated by many Jews to this day for its lack of pure groveling to Israel. I note to you that what the Jewish community got in return for the Saudi arms shipment was, literally, U.S. government support for the giant Washington DC Holocaust museum -- a pro-Israel propaganda gold mine. Politics are dirty. Jewish author James Young wrote an entire book about the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Initially promoted by three Jewish members of the Carter administration, it was conceived as a political concession to Jewish lobbying groups "to," says Young, "placate Jewish supporters angered by [Carter's] sale of F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. All such memorial decisions are made in political time, contingent on political realities." [Young, p. 293]

or when the US left Israel out of the Iraq coalition despite Israeli bloodthirst.

Israel was "left out," formally, for obvious political reasons -- the inevitable backlash (against Israeli participation in the "vulturizing" of Iraq) by the Arab and Muslim world. Israel IS, however, participating in the rape ("reconstruction") of Iraq, albeit discretely. We've got citations here about various aspects of it -- Israeli training of U.S. assassination squads in Iraq, the construction of an Israeli-based telecommunications infrastructure in Iraq, a Jewish scholar caught looting Iraqi art treasures, etc.

AIPAC's lobbying is not aimed at the hardline hawks who know of Israel's strategic importance. It's aimed at scaring everyone else into supporting Israel by creating the illusion of an almighty Jewish power entity.

AIPAC is very powerful. The ADL is very powerful. MANY Jewish groups are very powerful. And all the research we've seen underscores that MOST American Jews -- the wealthiest per capita ethnic community in America -- support these organizations.

Besides keeping American politicians in line with the already established policy, they and their rich Jewish supporters are not the reason this policy exists to begin with. Politics aside, Jewish economic power is also a myth. Many Jews went into finances as a result of discrimination in other fields of work.

I'm sorry, but your position is the stuff of legend. At the very least, it is a one-sided view of Jewish history. Very long samplings of real Jewish history may be found here, here, and here. And Jewish "economic power" is no myth. What's your evidence (against everything we post at this web site) that proves your case? The notion that Jews "went into finances as a result of discrimination in other fields of work" is a gross oversimplification of history. Jews were also "discriminatory" against non-Jews as a communal entity, in every sense. Jewish tradition also did not endorse manual labor. Most of Eastern European non-Jews were peasants who were serfs in a feudal system. Jews were not part of it -- they were exploitive mediators between impoverished human chattel and the aristocracy, as usurers, arendators, "tax collectors," and so forth. To highlight the European world as one that solely "discriminated" against Jews is an absurd rendition of history, when most non-Jews were bought and sold for centuries as virtual slaves. Jews were not subject to this form of "discrimination," and, in fact, were activists and profiteers in it.

Some Jews profited quite nicely from this profession, and decided to flaunt both their wealth and their Jewishness. Like the African-American rapper who flaunts their wealth in MTV music videos, this is not to suggest that the majority of Jews are included in this economic elite.

American Jewry is, per capita, the wealthiest ethnic group in America. In 1999 45% of the richest 100 people in America were Jewish (as 2.5% of the American population). We have many, many citations about this kind of thing, some are here, and it is available to you at this web site if you're interested in looking for it. If you want to argue this material further, I'll pull out some citations and online links to slow you down on this track of argument.

It is a facade they use as a power card in Hollywood, the music industry, international finance, etc, turning Jewishness into a marketable value. In reality, these fields are controlled by WHITES, both Jewish and non.

Sir, this web site meticulously documents, with bibliographic reference, the fact that Jews dominate the music industry, Hollywood, the art world, and so forth. Again, if you insist upon bulling forward with your assertions (but no evidence) I'll have to rebut you with some specific bibliographic references and online links. It would be easier for me, though, if you'd just peruse the web site for a while and save me the time and energy. I assure you we've got the documentation available to you that refutes your premise here.

Before the 1950's, Jews were not considered to be white.

Your evidence for this assertion? The fact that Jews are considered "white," and, say, not African-American, has been an enormous propeller in their upward mobility through culture. The fact is that many Jews changed their surnames to Smith, Miller, Jones, and so forth and then passed as "white." They were "Jews" among other Jews, and behind closed doors. To this day, the Jewish community frames themselves as an oppressed minority, or as part of the white power structure, as their needs and interests suit them.

However, since then they have been largely assimilated, as detailed in the book "How Jews Became White Folks and What this says about Race in America". Thus, one should examine the dominance whites have over the global economy, rather than just focusing in on one segment of the white power elite.

Wait a minute. Above you said Jews weren't considered "white." Now you admit they're part of the "white power elite." You can't have it both ways. And why is it fair, do you think, to toxify "whites" as global oppressor when Jews (who slip in and out of this "white" category as behooves their interests) are so crucially a part of it? It is NOT "whites" who run the nerve centers of popular American culture. Jews dominate the mass media, the music industry, the publishing industry, U.S. government foreign policy, and on and on. We document this, in detail, at this web site. Again, this web site is very, very large. It's clear that you have not yet scanned those parts of this site that clearly rebut some of your premises about Jewish power and influence.

I hope my insights have been helpful. Forgive me for not giving my real name, as I have been recieving death threats from Zionist fanatics who I'm sure would be even more inflammed if they discovered my name on your web site. Sincerely, (Adam)

Well, thank you for your comments. If you'd care to discuss these issues further, in more detail, I will respond as I have time.

My sense, at this juncture, is that your position is to displace and diffuse blame on the powerful Jewish community into the broader "white" community for the brutal chaos in the Middle East, and so much else. You are attempting to veil (intentionally or inadvertently) Judeocentrism and the Jewish Lobby (and its astounding influence) from public view, and in this matter, you serve it.