When Victims Rule (pdf)

THE ACCUSATION OF ANTI-SEMITISM (PT. 1)
in Galicia [Poland], as a nickname for the Armenians, whom, for some reason,
they look upon as descendants of that eternally despised people.” [ROBACK,
p. 141] “Goy” (the categorical term for non-Jews), of course, means “an illiterate,
coarse or lowbrow person.” A “goyische kop,” continues Roback, is a “Gentile
head. A dunce, bonehead. It may be noted that the Gentiles referred to here
were peasants, but the Jewish folk mind denies far-sighted, sensitive intelligence,
understanding, and brilliance even to highly trained and distinguished
non-Jews.” [ROBACK, p. 139-140] (Traditional Jewish defamations of those of
African descent will be discussed more extensively elsewhere).
Here’s a Jewish joke about their Italian neighbors (in Brooklyn, New York):
“Why do Italian men leave their fly open? To help them count to eleven.”
[REIDER, J., 1985, p. 44]
A joke from Jewish circles (published in 1981) celebrating Jewish intelligence,
Gentile stupidity, and Jewish fraud, runs like this:
“On a train in czarist Russia, a Jew is eating a whitefish, wrapped in
paper. A Gentile, sitting across the aisle, begins to taunt him with various
anti-Semitic epithets. Finally, he asks the Jew, ‘What makes you Jews
so smart?’ ‘All right,’ replies the Jew, ‘I guess I’ll have to tell you. It’s because
we eat the head of the whitefish.’ ‘Well, if that’s the secret,’ says the
Gentile, ‘then I can be as smart as you are.’ ‘That’s right,’ says the Jew,
‘And in fact, I happen to have an extra whitefish head with me. You can
have it for five kopecks.’ The Gentile pays for the fish head and begins
to eat. An hour later the train stops at a station for a few minutes. The
Gentile leaves the train and comes back. ‘Listen, Jew,’ he says, ‘You sold
me that whitefish head for five kopecks. But I just saw a whole whitefish
at the market for three kopecks.’ ‘See,’ replies the Jew, ‘You’re getting
smarter already.’” [NOVAK/WALDOKS, 1981, p. 91]
“Not surprisingly,” note William Novak and Moshe Waldoks about the
above joke, “anti-goyism is rarely stressed in public discussions of Judaism ...
But centuries of hostility between Gentiles and Jews have led to a large body of
aggressive and unpleasant feelings on both sides.” [NOVAK/WALDOKS, p. 91]
Another extremely disturbing joke circulated in Jewish circles (one directly paralleling
the vicious “Too bad Hitler didn’t get all the Jews” tone) is noted by
Jewish authors Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter, who cite the work of
Jewish psychoanalyst Theodore Reik:
“Reik explains Jewish wit as a safety valve that transforms perceived
hostility toward non-Jews in a manner designed to reduce the danger of
retaliation. Sometimes, however, Jewish jokes (told, of course, among
Jews only) reveal the anger quite directly: ‘Little Moritz sees an historical
film showing the early persecutions of the Christians. During a Roman
circus scene in which many Christians are thrown to the lions, Moritz
breaks out in sobs and says to his mother: ‘Look at that poor lion there,
it has not got any Goy to eat!’ Under the guise of duty for the neglected
beast is an old hatred and repressed cruelty towards Gentiles. It breaks
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