I do not think Jews are living in 1938 Germany. But it really has seemed lately liked I’ve transitioned to the anti-Semitism beat. Besides posting several items on the topic during the past few days, I spent last night at UC Irvine, listening to a speech from Norman Finkelstein, who has certainly been called an anti-Semite, and that followed two weeks of researching and writing a profile of Kevin MacDonald, a psychology professor at Cal State Long Beach whose books have been compared to “Mein Kampf.”
In the above video, which is 41 minutes long, MacDonald appears on the TV program “Current Issues,” hosted by Palestinian American Hesham Tillawi. The focus of their conversation is the negative influence and clannish behavior of Jews. At the 17-minute mark, MacDonald describes his opinions, detailed in a three-volume series and subsequent essays that can be found at kevinmacdonald.net, as “rational” anti-Semitism.
MacDonald once served as an expert witness for Holocaust-denier David Irving, and many of his theories of Judaism as a “group evolutionary strategy” are controversial. The least palatable are that Judaism has a built in eugenics program—the study of Talmud, which, he claims, stemmed the reproduction of dumber members of the Tribe—and that anti-Semitism, even Nazism, were gentile responses to Jewish success.
He’s been on the faculty of Cal State Long Beach 23 years now, having achieved full tenure in 1994. But the university is under increasing pressure from some of MacDonald’s colleagues and outside organizations to denounce his writings, which, obviously, have very little to do with child psychology and, to his credit, have been kept out of the classroom.
Under the headline, “The Professor Anti-Semites Love,” MacDonald carries this week’s cover for The Jewish Journal. It’s a long profile—from his childhood in Oshkosh to the origins of his research to the contents of his books and the battle against him—so I’ll just mention now the biggest problem MacDonald has had: his anti-Semitic admirers.
As a warning, there will be some very vulgar language from someone who would like to see the fulfillment of the Final Solution:
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