In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League published a scathing report on Ron Unz, a Californian billionaire of Jewish descent, who has become one of the leading purveyors of antisemitism in the United States. His Jewish background makes his addled viciousness, to some, that much more believable. He’s a favorite of David Duke and Kevin MacDonald.
Here is that ADL report:
Ron Unz, a California businessman and founder of the Unz Review website, whom ADL has written about previously and described as a funder of anti-Israel activists, has embraced hardcore anti-Semitism. In recent months Unz has denied the Holocaust, endorsed the claim that Jews consume the blood of non-Jews, and has claimed that Jews control the media, hate non-Jews, and worship Satan….
On July 30, Unz takes on two of the most well-known anti-Semitic incidents from the late 19th century and early 20th centuries: the arrest of Alfred Dreyfus, an innocent Jewish artillery officer who, in a well-documented outburst of anti-Semitism in France, was put on trial for treason in 1894; and the anti-Semitic lynching in 1915 of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman in Georgia who was convicted after a sham trial for the murder of a young girl who worked in his factory.
Unz attempts to justify the treason charges against Dreyfus, arguing that “Jews had been the leading culprits behind several huge financial scandals that impoverished large numbers of small investors” a few years before the Dreyfus incident and that “anti-Dreyfusards” were probably angry that “a Jewish military spy from a very wealthy family might be able to walk free using similar tactics.”
Unz similarly presumes that Frank was guilty and justifies his lynching by asserting that “the outpouring of popular anger against Frank was produced by the vast ocean of Jewish money …that was committed to the legal efforts to save the life of someone widely regarded as a brutal murderer,” and “the lynch-mob that hung Frank was viewed by the community as merely enforcing his official death sentence by extra-judicial means.”
On August 27, Unz published a long anti-Semitic essay about Holocaust denial. After reviewing the history of Holocaust denial very sympathetically and in remarkable detail, Unz concludes that: “it far more likely than not that the standard Holocaust narrative is at least substantially false, and quite possibly, almost entirely so.”
Unz’s long essays read as extended book reviews on anti-Semitic themes. Throughout, he takes care to note the anti-Semitic texts which he finds so compelling, and even provides digitized versions of these texts for the edification of his readers. Though he uses the works of others to help him make his points, and sometimes claims that he cannot vouch for the veracity of any particular point, there is no mistaking the blatant anti-Semitism that suffuses the articles in this series. Unz may enjoy claiming that he merely presents “alternative views” not covered by the mainstream media, but in fact, he is acting as a loudspeaker for vicious anti-Semitism.
Because Unz comes from a Jewish background, readers may find his many false assertions about Jews more believable. Anti-Semites from David Duke to Kevin MacDonald have taken particular delight in Unz’s anti-Jewish views. His publication attracts far-right readers as well as some people in the mainstream.
The ADL has said all that need be said about this most peculiar specimen. There’s nothing left to add. But there is a kind of unsavory coda to the unsavory Bizarre Story of Ron Unz, and her name is Valerie Plame. You may remember her brief moment of fame: she was the vulgar blonde va-va-va-voom bombshell who was outed as a C.I.A. agent back in 2003, as apparent payback for her husband Joseph Wilson, a member of the Foreign Service, writing an article about his failure to find enriched yellowcake uranium in Niger that Saddam Hussein might have tried to obtain, and calling into question the legitimacy of going to war against Iraq.
Since leaving Washington, Plame and her late husband made their home in Santa Fe. And now she is running for Congress. She has built up quite a warchest, twice as large as that of her nearest competitor. She tells voters that because of her notoriety (or as she calls it, “fame”), her phone calls in Washington will be returned, and – here’s her doubtful assumption – that because of all those calls being returned, she’ll be able to get things done for her constituents. Once people find out about her antisemitic tweets, the only people returning her calls will be Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Plame was recently given an adoring write-up in the Washington Post, that described her, as the New York Times Opinion writer Bari Weiss has noted, in glowing terms: “There we learn that Ms. Plame looks ‘astoundingly good, at 56, as if the high-altitude desert air has preserved her skin since the day she arrived here 12 years ago.’ Yet nowhere in the long article does the reader learn that two years ago, Ms. Plame tweeted an essay called ‘American Jews Are Driving America’s Wars’ by a man famous for his anti-Jewish conspiracy thinking on a website that flirts with Holocaust denial. She also shared an article that linked Israel to the Sept. 11 attacks. It somehow didn’t merit mention.”
Here’s a bit more detail on Valerie Plame’s Jewish problem, from the Jerusalem Post:
In 2017 she tweeted an article titled “America’s Jews are driving America’s Wars” which showed a photo of Bill Kristol. Challenged on the offensive headline and antisemitic tweet, she told people to “calm down, re-tweets don’t imply endorsements. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish.” She walked back that claim later and said she had “skimmed” the piece. However she has consistently been contradictory about the tweet, first claiming that the article was provocative and thoughtful, and then claiming that she had just skimmed it. The headline, “America’s Jews are driving America’s wars” is antisemitic. There is no “thoughtfulness” in it. And it doesn’t say “neocons,” a term that has been repackaged too often to mean “Jews.”
Then there is this from Business Insider:
“OK folks, look, I messed up. I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest,” Wilson tweeted. “I missed gross undercurrents to this article & didn’t do my homework on the platform this piece came from. Now that I see it, it’s obvious.”
And this, from a follow-up article:
“I made a mistake and should not have retweeted that article,” Wilson said in an email. “I sincerely apologized. I was just so focused on the neocons lust for war: ‘If you liked the Iraq war, you’ll love an Iranian one.'”
She continued:
“On a personal note, one should not tweet while moving, 8 workmen are in a small space, the dog is going nuts, and kids are texting one asking for things they forgot for school. Social media very unforgiving.
I feel badly and will gladly shake the hand of anyone who has never made a mistake.”
This was not the first or second time, but one of many times when Valerie Plame has told us what she really thinks about Jews. She has a record of posting anitisemitic content online, as well as having been heard making jokes about “rich Jews.” Would she care to deny that? Is she hoping we will believe that, she just “messed up” because she’s “not perfect and makes mistakes”? What “mistakes” led her to tweet an article about Israelis dancing in celebration of the World Trade Center attacks? What “mistake” did she make in tweeting an article about “America’s Jews” from The Unz Review, giving Ford’s The International Jew a run for its money?
If you are a resident of New Mexico, or if you know someone in New Mexico, I hope you will share this information with as many people as possible, to make sure that they do not vote for, and will work relentlessly against the candidacy of, Valerie Plame. Lady Caroline Lamb once described Lord Byron as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” The evidence will show — see above — that Ron Unz is mad, Valerie Plame is bad, and both are dangerous to know.
One more thing. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would no doubt welcome Valerie Plame as a new member of “The Squad.” Please do your best to disappoint them.
RonaldB says
I like the Unz website. On principle, he gives space for columns and views that would otherwise be completely censored by the nexus of mainstream press and financial services. He also provides free editions of books that have been deplatformed by the likes of Amazon, such as McDonald’s Culture of Critique, which is most probably anti-Semitic. Of course, the comments sections are extensive. They give ample opportunity to refute points of view. I guess getting someone’s work deplatformed is easier than refuting it, so even if statements can be easily or extensively refuted, it becomes less work to simply get them banned.
Valerie Plame and her husband knowledgeably called into question the phony Bush administration claim that Saddam Hussein was working on nuclear weapons. Perhaps if the Bush administration had chosen to engage their criticisms rather than slander them, we’d be a trillion dollars ahead, have saved at least 4,000 deaths of US soldiers, and would still enjoy an independent Iraq as the natural enemy of the predatory Iran rather than the puppet we have now.
It’s so easy to refute the claim of blood use in Jewish ceremonies, it’s almost as easy as simply crying “anti-Semite”. Let’s have a bit more commitment to reasoned debate rather than panic-peddling.
Ronald says
@ RonaldB, I remember that the Israelis bombed the Osiraq nuclear reactor. So Iraq was working on nuclear WMD at various times. And there was considerable evidence that Saadam worked on biological warfare and used it against the Kurds. While Bush 1 was right to limit his action to defend Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Bush 2 erred in trying to remake Iraqi society. Easy to say this in hindsight. The use of anti-Semitism is toxic because the Jews are a small people who have been harmed and lies travel around the world many times before refutation, especially nowadays. I don’t share your complacency. Plame and Unz must be exposed and stopped.
Torcuato says
Well said.
Roland says
@RonaldB. I don’t share your complacency. After all, Saddam built a nuclear reactor, Osiraq, that was bombed by the Israelis. And Saddam worked on chemical and biological weapons that he used against the Kurds. And lies about Jews and Israel travel around the world many times before they are corrected.
mortimer says
We should not be complacent about anti-Semitism, because it is NOT easy to refute a quick libellous accusation. It takes lengthy, detailed discussion (with footnotes and references to refute and disprove even stupid accusation (such as the blood libel or the Protocols of Zion), but it is so easy to make a stupid, libellous claim.
Ron Unz was raised speaking Yiddish. He is a man of rare, outstanding intellect and education. There is no explanation for this anti-Semitism. Does anyone know if this man is hearing voices?
RonaldB says
Hey. It took me a whole five minutes to get 3 links refuting the blood libel, including one that the ADL wouldn’t think of including: that multiple Popes actively opposed the spread of the blood libel accusation. It was just so much work to get the material to answer a broad charge of blood libel. Much easier to just deplatform anyone with an opinion I don’t like or know that is untrue, dangerous, and stupid. The ADL is well-practiced in deplatforming opinions and commentators they don’t like.
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/glossary-terms/blood-libel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/g10-jews.asp
Ron Unz gladly gives platform space to people diametrically opposed to his opinions. He is a true man. One such issue is immigrant crime rate. Unz claims immigrants do not raise the crime rates. Virtually everyone else using his website disagrees with him.
Koosemo says
Well said!
Stephanos Spartan says
This site is becoming over the top Israel obsessed. The Unz review is one of the few articulate platforms left for critical thinking and iconoclastic dragon slaying.Should be recommended reading for any sane person tired of propaganda and spin.
gravenimage says
How *dare* you filthy Infidels care about democratic Israel and not want to see her destroyed by Jihadists? Bad dhimmis!
Unz hates Jews, Israel, and is an apologist for Hitler. Ugly stuff.
RonaldB says
Let me note here that Jihad Watch also provides a platform for opinions dissenting from the articles. I almost totally disagree with Fitzgerald on this issue, but still get carried in the comments. So, what we need is open discussion of all issues; it’s not so important if you start out with the “correct” opinion or not.
But, I’ll emphasize: the Unz site carried opinions and analyses you don’t get elsewhere. If you disagree or think they’re scurrilous, then state your arguments. Truth flourishes with free discussion; it withers when only the “accepted” opinions are allowed.
Wellington says
It is my conviction, RonaldB, that Bush 43 was eminently correct in taking out Saddam Hussein (and his sons) because he was a megalomaniac out of control. Moreover, every major intelligence agency thought SH was still hiding WMDs (and don’t forget he was THE ONLY tyrant who had them AND HAD USED them). Where Bush erred was in trying to build a democracy in an Islamic nation, which is a fool’s errand. He should have dispatched SH and a few others and installed a Mubarak type from the Iraqi Army to run Iraq and, perhaps, with a few American Special Forces still left around—but that’s it.
As for Joe Wilson and his then wife, Valerie Plame, I look upon both of them as self-promoting Deep State types. Wilson did not tell the truth because he neglected to mention, and this is a fact, that in 1999 SH sent people to Niger to inquire about yellowcake. Bush 43 was being given conflicting information from Italian Intelligence, French Intelligence and British Intelligence. I could see where he couldn’t take the chance that SH certainly didn’t at least attempt to get yellowcake from Niger, which the former Prime Minister Wilson interviewed, Mayaki, thought was the case.
Hope you are doing well. Take care.
RonaldB says
Hello Wellington
I always love hearing from you, and if we happen to disagree on an issue, I know I have to debate a logical, well-informed opponent.
So, in this case, I disagree.
Your thesis is that our deposing (and murdering) Hussein was necessary and justified because of the ambiguity of his nuclear ambitions. Our mistake was to try to mould Iraq into a Jeffersonian democracy. Instead, we should have simply promoted one of Hussein’s generals into the position of dictator, maintained Hussein’s system of social and military control, and left it at that.
The scenario sounds enticing at first. One has to consider that US interventions in the region have almost uniformly been unmitigated disasters. I say “almost” because our resupply of Israel during the Yom Kippur War was probably a big plus. Other than that, the US has uniformly been associated with disastrous effects.
Consider that Iraq is majority Shi’ite. Hussein, as a minority Sunni, served the dual purposes of keeping Iraq together and the Shi’ites under control, and maintaining unflagging hostility to Iran. It’s not so easy to find someone else as brutal and unscrupulous who could maintain those objectives. You remember that Hussein never stayed in one place, but was always obsessively concerned with being assassinated. The Iranians are master assassins. Like I say, not so easy to find someone to hold Iraq together and resist the Iranian influence.
I would suggest the better way would have been to treat Hussein the way the Israelis treat the Palestinians. Accept that they are an irritant that can be managed, but not eliminated as a threat. The US had Hussein’s Iraq pretty firmly under control; it controlled his airspace, and the US military had pretty good access to inspecting Iraq’s installations. You know the old saying: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Wellington says
Thanks for your reply, RonaldB. The problem with Saddam Hussein was not just his nuclear ambitions but two other matters as well: 1) He was not abiding by the terms of the 1991 truce which ended the Gulf War (e.g., he was almost daily firing on British and American jets patrolling the two no-fly zones); and 2) He was completely out of control, a megalomaniac who was regularly killing his own people, sometimes in horrible ways (Bush 43 was appalled when told about SH’s having people slowly dipped in acid). It is one thing to back an authoritarian type because the country he runs is incapable of democracy, but there comes a point where such a type is completely unreliable because of egomania and horrible deeds—this fit SH completely so. We simply could not allow him to remain in power He had to go as I see it.
But we’re in agreement on the nation-building nonsense. Outside of the West, not many nations are capable of establishing a truly free polity with a capitalistic system (and not crony capitalism, something which the Left regularly does not distinguish from true capitalism) and backed up by a decent legal system and a proper moral code. In short, most of the world is dismal, none more so than the over fifty nations of the Islamic sphere of mankind.
Best to you and yours this holiday season. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
DAvid says
There is no homogeneous Jewish religion rather a spectrum of Frankists, Chabad and Talmudic sects, not necessarily of the same mind. Many can see that Zionists(Jewish) bankers are responsible for wars and many of their “scriptures” are about destroying the non -Jew as with Islam and the kaffers. Remember it is said Karl Marx first used the term racist to control members of the communist party. Racist and anti-semitic maybe seen as similar here in their control features. If we remove these labels, (liberal, conservative anti Semite Islamophobic (my favorite as a way of covering some of the most brutal crimes against humanity) it is often easier to see facts. God’s speed all
gravenimage says
DAvid wrote:
There is no homogeneous Jewish religion rather a spectrum of Frankists, Chabad and Talmudic sects, not necessarily of the same mind.
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Judaism is indeed a coherent whole. There are differences of opinion, but only because there is freedom of conscience in Judaism, just as there is in Christianity.
More:
Many can see that Zionists(Jewish) bankers are responsible for wars and many of their “scriptures” are about destroying the non -Jew as with Islam and the kaffers.
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This is standard antisemtic drivel. Note that DAvid is unable to cite anything here.
More:
Remember it is said Karl Marx first used the term racist to control members of the communist party. Racist and anti-semitic maybe seen as similar here in their control features. If we remove these labels, (liberal, conservative anti Semite Islamophobic (my favorite as a way of covering some of the most brutal crimes against humanity) it is often easier to see facts. God’s speed all
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The term “racism” appears to date to the early 20th century:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism#note-1
Karl Marx died in 1883.. I can find no indication that he ever used the term racism.
Then, Communism was often extremely antisemitic. Jews were savagely persecuted in the Soviet Union.
Wellington says
+1
Koosemo says
+1
Omar says
Valerie will definitely get elected. New Mexico is sick and rotten to the core. Albuquerque is the only city anywhere that held elections and voted to allow full term abortions. People fly in worldwide for their specially catered abortions. Start delivery on that private plane. The special guest ambulance service will hold the head, or feet, inside til you can get to the clinic. Hotels staffed solely for the rich middle eastern clientele and the oriental mistake. 13 people went to jail for bribing our fine governor Richardson and Obama dropped all funding for Richardson’s FBI investigation to return his backing BHO instead of the clintoon facade. Want a young girl for a little fun. Santa Fe has whatever you are looking for. SF is the center for pedophile traffic. Just ask Jeffery, Oh wait he is dead but his 50 thousand breeding farm is in NM… Please stay away from NM. No tourists means less torture and misery here. Ski in Colorado. Hike in Montana.
Carol the 1st says
The article below has lots of information and it compares New Mexico to a honeycomb with possibly more rotten cells than the public would be able to contemplate or “handle”:
Jeffrey Epstein Chose New Mexico for a Reason
https://newrepublic.com/article/154761/jeffrey-epstein-zorro-ranch-new-mexico-history