Controlling Anti-Jewish Stereotypes: The Case of
the "Hook-Nosed Jew"
Dr. Lasha Darkmoon
July
18, 2009
One of my interests in life
is the bizarre phenomenon of anti-Jewish
propaganda manufactured by elite and
well-organized cadres of Jews.
Israel Shamir, in his controversial book
Cabbala of Power, makes an
interesting point about “hook-nosed Jews.” It
seems that many Jews, far from shrinking from
mention of their noses, never lose an
opportunity to reinforce this particular
stereotype by referring to their own noses
negatively if there is no one else around to do
so. When Jewish cemeteries are vandalized or
swastikas are found defacing walls, the culprits
on numerous occasions have turned out to be
Jews. (See, e.g.,
here and
here.) So it is with the legendary
“Jewish nose”: a protected species of stereotype
deliberately nurtured and kept alive by
organized Jewry for propaganda purposes.
Shamir recounts several of these instances.
David Mamet, Jewish American playwright, once
noticed a bumper sticker on a car: “Israel, Out
of the Settlements!” Mamet took umbrage. “This
could well be translated,” he huffed, “as
Hook-nosed Jews, Die!”
Writing an article for
The Age,
a Jewish publication, Graham Barrett slyly
invoked the same carefully cultivated
stereotype. “The retired Malaysian Prime
Minister,” he told his readers, “took a parting
snipe at the ‘hook-nosed Jews’ who rule the
world by proxy.”
But
this is ridiculous. The
Malaysian Prime Minister, as
everyone knows, made no reference to
“hooked-nosed Jews.” And Mamet is simply
fantasizing about the attitudes of someone who
was taking an entirely reasonable point of view
on the Middle East. In his twisted world, any
criticism of Israel, no matter how reasonable,
is just another crazed statement of a Jew-hater
whose images of Jews come right out of a
Der Sturmer cartoon.
David Mamet
Imagines How Critics of Israel See Jews
With
the reader’s permission, I shall continue my
disquisition on Jewish noses for a bit. The
legendary ‘Jewish nose’, though fairly common
among non-Jews, appears to cause our Jewish
cousins extra
special anguish.
Rhinoplasty, invented by German-Jewish surgeon
Jacques Joseph in the 1890s, largely caught on
because its earliest and most enthusiastic
customers were Jews. When Jewish comedienne
Fanny Brice had her nose job, Dorothy Parker
(herself half Jewish) quipped: “Fanny has cut
off her nose to spite her race!” Since then,
many famous Jews have gone under the knife,
including Natalie Portman (Herschlag), Winona
Ryder (Horowitz), Gwyneth Paltrow (Paltrowitz),
and Sarah Jessica Parker (Bar-Kahn).
Though this would appear
to be a relatively frivolous subject, the
intelligent reader will understand that it is
not the Jewish nose
per se
that is of interest
to me. I am
really interested in Jewish power — in this
case, the power to suppress any public
discussion of a Jewish stereotype based to a
considerable extent on the reality of Jewish
noses. It’s really the same as Jewish ability to
suppress statements that Jews have inordinate
influence on the media. Truth is irrelevant.
In fact, it is the whole
cluster of alleged anti-Semitic stereotypes and
fabricated “canards“ that hover over any
discussion of organized Jewry, or of Israel, and
which make it almost impossible for anyone to
discuss Jewish issues without being branded
“anti-Semitic.”
“Eagle County is on the lookout for a Big-nosed
Jew!”
screams the inflammatory headline in a recent
edition of the
Denver Post. Apparently
a man who broke into someone’s house was spotted
by a member of the public who then went on to
give the police a description of the burglar:
a man of
medium height, medium weight, nondescript
looking face, baseball cap pulled low. Helpful?
The cops didn’t seem to think so — until the
witness suddenly blurts, “Oh yeah, he had this
big Jewish nose!”
Light suddenly dawns. The cops grin. The pieces
of the jigsaw are beginning to slip into place.
Hey, with a description like that you can’t go
wrong! You’ve more or less got your man.
Denver Post reporter
Susan Greene, who describes herself
as Jewish, tackles the story with considerable
aplomb, making all the right politically correct
noises. First of all, the witness who described
the burglar as having a “big Jewish nose” was
clearly an anti-Semite. He should have watched
his language, the bigoted lout. The cops were
equally insensitive for taking down the
witness’s toxic words without so much as a
murmur. As for the local newspapers, how could
their editors have been so stupid as to
legitimize anti-Semitism by giving traction to
the stereotype that Jews had funny cartoon
noses?
One Adam Sutner, quoted
in the Denver Post,
is beside himself with rage. The whole sordid
affair reminds him of “one of Joseph Goebbels’
finer works of propaganda.” Reporter Greene
notes caustically: If the “scary Semitic
sneakthief” (burglar) had horns, the bigoted
witness “failed to mention it.”
Needless to say, the ADL has
been quick to complain. The editors of local
rags, beating their breasts in anguish at their
own insensitivity, offer unparalleled apologies.
“This has shaken my confidence in my own
ability,” one of them confides dolefully. Being
Jewish, however, he hopes to be forgiven. The
remainder, the goyim contingent, need to grovel
a bit longer before absolution is granted.
“As a Jew with a nose, I’m
sitting out this debate,” reporter Greene
concludes on a wistful note.
What is the point of this
storm-in-a-teacup brouhaha? Is it the need to
create distractions? Are the goyim being lured
into thinking about Jewish noses in order to
deflect their attention from Jewish crimes?
Forget Madoff,
mister, think about our goddamn noses!
No, I don’t think so.
The point I am making is
this: if you can brainwash the lumpengoyim to
such an extent that they dare not even refer to
a “Jewish nose” for fear of offending Jews, then
you have nothing to worry about in regard to the
Jews’ real sins:
hijacking US foreign policy in the
interests of serving the racialist, apartheid
state of Israel while at the same time being the
main force responsible for erecting the
culture of Western suicide,
including especially the attack on traditional
values and the sacral core of life. These, after
all, are the things that matter. Not the Jewish
nose.
But let’s get back to Jewish
noses.
In
Cabbala of Power Shamir
describes an email from a stranger called ‘Sam
Jones’. It said: “Your valiant efforts and
writings are appreciated throughout this nation.
I deeply share your contempt for the
hook-nosed Zionist vermin.
Every dirty Jew should be put back into the
ovens. Thanks once again for your help in
conveying this vital message.”
Shamir reveals that his
unknown correspondent’s email address was
finally traced to a certain Zionist provocateur.
The same mischief maker had been bombarding
Jeff Blankfort with similar emails,
but Jeff saw through his game. The
phrase “hook-nosed Jew” is always a giveaway,
Shamir notes — “a clear sign of the Jewish
effort to turn antizionist or anti-Judaic
polemics into racist ones.”
If the “Jewish nose” ceased
to exist, organized Jewry would be all the
poorer for the loss of a valuable propaganda
tool. In fact, if anti-Semitism didn’t exist, it
might have to be invented.
Many of these bogus
“insults” to Jews follow a predictable pattern.
An initial gaffe that purportedly wounds the
feelings of millions of traumatized Jews all
over the world is invariably followed by howls
of protest from Jew and gentile alike.
Apologize, or be damned!
A groveling apology follows.
Here are two cases which
help to illustrate the point that Jew and
gentile, these ancient ideological enemies, are
now locked in a sadomasochistic bondage game in
which the Jew wields the whip and the non-Jew
cowers and cringes.
In October 2007, celeb
actress Halle Berry appeared on “The Tonight
Show” where she made an
innocuous joke about the Jewish
nose. Berry had been showing photographs of
herself taken the previous day, using the Mac
program Photo Booth, which distorts images like
in a fun-house mirror. Commenting on the first
picture, in which her nose looked like an
enormous gherkin, Berry foolishly blurted:
“Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!”
A stunned silence. Host
Leno blinks and veils his troubled eyes. “I’m
glad you said that and not me,” he sighs. Berry
tenses,
her eyes
literally popping out on stalks. “Ohmigod,” she
whispers, “have I just like ruined my career?”
Let’s assume it was a
genuine gaffe and not a publicity stunt for
Jewish noses.
Wasn’t it a subtle kind of
cat-and-mouse cruelty to put this lovely actress
through her subsequent humiliation? To force her
to grovel? For a start, why, pray tell, does her
career have to depend on the Jews? How come the
Jews have managed to achieve a position of such
total transcendence in America that they can now
ruin someone’s career just for referring to
their noses?
After a long and unnecessary
apology for offending precisely no one, Berry
concluded pathetically on this note
of abject contrition: “It just came out of my
mouth. I didn’t mean to offend anybody. I
didn’t. I didn’t mean any harm. I am so sorry,
and I apologize.
Oh Mr. Foxman, why weren’t
you there to receive the lady’s kiss on the sole
of your sainted foot?
The second incident of goy
humiliation has nothing to do with the Jewish
nose—a subject which, I confess, is now
beginning to fatigue me. It is the famous
incident involving one of America’s most hated
men, the monster who made that unforgettable
movie in Latin and Aramaic celebrating the
passion and death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because he’d had the
chutzpah to make this “anti-Semitic” movie which
in every way was the antithesis of the type of
filth and feculence that now oozes from the
sewers of Hollywood, Mel Gibson was a marked
man. They were waiting for him to slip up. And
slip up he did — big time.
I
hardly need to repeat the story. I will
summarize. Gibson got drunk. He was then
arrested, and in the course of his close
encounter with the cops, he made a few unhelpful
and inappropriate remarks. He didn’t tell the
cops that it might be a good idea to boil Jesus
Christ in excrement. No, he left that to
the Talmud. He didn’t call the Virgin Mary a
whore, either, though it’s true he referred to a
female cop as “sugar tits.” He didn’t tell
anyone to cut off other people’s testicles, as
Ariel Sharon, “man
of peace,” told Israeli soldiers to cut off
the testicles of Palestinian demonstrators in
the West Bank. (See
here, Chapter 4, note 111.)
No,
Mel went one step further. He insulted the
police officer arresting him by asking him the
politically incorrect question, “Are you a Jew?”
And then he spewed forth these sacrilegious
words: “F***ing
Jews! The Jews are responsible for all the wars
in the world! You mother****er, I’m gonna f***
you!”
Such a torrent of vile abuse
was clearly unprecedented, only made bearable in
subsequent newspaper reports by the judicious
use of asterisks.
Poor Mel! His doom was
sealed. He might as well have thrown himself
into a tank full of piranhas. His abject apology
to the Jews, like Halle Berry’s, could hardly
have provided a clearer testament to the almost
totalitarian power of the kings of contemporary
America.
Here, in slightly
abbreviated form, is Gibson’s
groveling apology:
After drinking alcohol on
Thursday night, I did a number of things that
were very wrong and for which I am ashamed. I
acted like a person completely out of control
and said things which are despicable. I am
deeply ashamed of everything I said and I
apologize to anyone who I have offended. I
disgraced myself and my family with my behavior
and for that I am truly sorry. I apologize for
any behavior unbecoming of me in my inebriated
state.
Six
apologies one after the other! Mel Gibson: Model
of contrition. Paradigm of penitence. And here
now is
Abe Foxman, one of the New Masters, a cold
and implacable Caiaphas:
Mel Gibson’s apology is
unremorseful and insufficient. It’s not a proper
apology. His tirade reveals his true self. We
hope that Hollywood now realize the bigot in
their midst and distance themselves from this
anti-Semite.
Jesus wept.
Meanwhile, the courageous
and insightful
James Petras expresses his concern
that in the land where Jesus walked, Jews were
recently seen to picnic round the
blood-spattered gates of Gaza. Here they were
free to participate in the gory bloodfest of the
2008-09 Palestinian mini-genocide enjoying their
favorite sport of shooting fish in a barrel.
Israeli T-shirts, some showing a pregnant
Palestinian woman with a crosshairs over her
stomach, bore the
heartless slogan, “One Shot Two
kills!” And IDF soldiers
were instructed by their superior
officers, “Do
anything you want!”
This has now been further
documented in the booklet "Breaking
the Silence" which compiles
testimonies of soldiers in "the
most moral army in the world":
Among the 54 testimonies are
stories revealing the use of "accepted
practices," the destruction of hundreds of
houses and mosques for no military purpose, the
firing of phosphorous gas in the direction of
populated areas, the killing of innocent victims
with small arms, the destruction of private
property, and most of all, a permissive
atmosphere in the command structure that enabled
soldiers to act without moral restrictions.
Don't
expect this report to
be discussed in the New York
Times any time soon.
I am too distressed to make
any further observations on the Jewish nose, so
let me conclude with these prophetic words by
Palestinian Christian and
ex-Jew Israel Shamir, as presented
by
TOO's Edmund
Connelly:
“The Jews” — Shamir makes a distinction between
organized Jewry and individual Jews — “intend to
turn Jerusalem into the supreme capital of the
world, and its rebuilt temple into the focal
point of the Spirit on Earth.” Should they
succeed, unspeakable despair will follow.
“Christianity will die, the spirit will depart
from the nations in our part of the world, and
our present dubious democracy will be supplanted
by a vast theocratic state. . . .
De-spiritualized and uprooted, homeless and
lonely, yesterday’s Masters of the World
[non-Jews] will become slaves in all but name.”
Even as I write, Americans
are being dispossessed of their country. It is
being stolen from under their noses and most of
them do not know it. Europeans, too, are losing
control of their homelands.
We are all Palestinians now.
Dr. Lasha Darkmoon (email
her) is an academic, age 31, with higher
degrees in classics. A published poet and
translator, she is also a political
activist with a special interest in Middle
Eastern affairs. ‘Lasha Darkmoon’ is a pen
name.
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