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2012] THE SUCCESSFUL ANTISEMITE 309 Simonini murders, sometimes with passion, sometimes without. He throws away life as though it were a tissue. His paranoid view of the world is convinced that “Jews become doctors and pharmacists in order to control Christian bodies as well as minds” (Eco 2011, 44). Baum (2005) has addressed the question of whether antisemitism is a mental disease. Although Baum does not postulate mental illness as a cause, in a research paper of Christian and Muslim antisemites, he finds statistical correlations that suggest: The more one held antisemitic beliefs, the more likely they were to harbor psychotic thinking. Conversely, the opposite was true. Persons who believed the less antisemitic stereotypes had less pathological thought. Diana is a strange character in the novel, an American expat who has attained some popularity as a mystic. She is a woman who switches into bizarre personalities and is used as a propaganda source by Simonini and others. She is another clearly insane character caught up with the successful antisemites. After Simonini has intercourse with the drugged Diana, he murders her. He stashes her body in his favorite sewer, a sewer in which he has also stashed several other victims. This sewer is an integral part of Simonini. Anthony Julius, referring to the writing of his book about antisemitism in England, observed that: “Writing this book has been somewhat like swimming long distance in a sewer” (Julius 2010, x). The metaphor of a stinking sewer is an apt one for the vilest aspect of humanity. Many of the mentally ill are stuck in this nightmarish environment. Simonini returns regularly. This rank, insensate place, one that a healthy person would choose to exit from as soon as possible, is as much a part of him as his right arm. There is some indication that the successful antisemite—those with same traits as Simonini and Asa Carter—may be mentally ill. Asa Carter wrote the touching The Education of Little Tree, which was a runaway best-seller. He later claimed it was an authentic autobiography as an American Indian child in the 1930s. The entire work, however, was one of fiction. Carter as well had renamed himself four times before he died. Each name had a different personality. Carter probably knew he was lying when he clamed some of the names were not connected to him. The real Asa (Ace) was a Klu Klux Klan organizer. He was so antisemitic that in the 1950s even native Alabama citizens protested him. He organized violent racist groups. He shot two men in an argument over finances of his racist group. He was a speechwriter—unacknowledged but well paid—for George Wallace in his most racist days.
310 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 4:305 Carter edited a racist newspaper called The Southerner. When his book became a best seller, he denied his past. What did this antisemite have in common with Simonini? He was a liar, an attempted murderer, a hater; if not a multiple personality, he showed very different personalities to the world. He was a talented speaker and writer who intended to make a wellpaying career in hate. None of his five immediate family members went to his funeral. Understanding the successful antisemitic leader’s mind is an important tool in countering the damage they do. Umberto Eco in The Prague Cemetery may have given us some insight into those psyches. *David Sokol is a psychologist, author, and visual artist, whose short documentary video, MUFTI; the Man Who Collaborated with the Nazis to Create the Evil Legacy of Modern Jihad, was awarded “Best Short Film” at the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism Conference, October 2010. His articles will appear in the forthcoming edition of the JSA and in the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. www.David-Sokol.com. REFERENCES Baum, Steven K. 2005. Antisemitism as Mental Illness. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Scholars Conference, Holocaust and the Churches, Pomona, NJ. ———. 2012. Antisemitism Explained. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Eco, Umberto. 2011. The Prague Cemetery. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt. Julius, Anthony. 2010. Trials of the Diaspora. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Martin, Andrew. 2011. “Umberto Eco on The Prague Cemetery,” Paris Review Daily, November 15, 2011. Shapiro, James. 1996. Shakespeare and the Jews. New York: Columbia Press.
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