Copy of Scapegoat - Andrea Dworkin - pdf

Jew-Hate / Woman-Hate
also a consequence of the composition of the English people. Four million
surplus women. Four million women sexually unsatisfied, artificially
creating a host of problems in order to excite or appease their senses. Not
being able to embrace one man, they embrace humanity. ”69
In the German far-right tradition, anti-Semites and political conservatives
“saw women’s liberation as a Jewish-socialist attempt to cut the patriarchal
roots that made Christian Germanic Kultur and society great. ”70
The fact that, then as now, “many leading feminists were socialists of Jewish
origin, educated, secular... ”71 suggested that feminism was a Jewish
subversion. As racist Eugen Duehring concluded, “This deformed
ephemeral phase of thought may be put down in the main to the discredit
of Hebrew women. ”72 The assassination of Rosa Luxemburg marked the
violent expression of a synthesized hate: feminist, socialist, and Jew, her
political leadership, her agitation, her organizing were an intolerable
provocation.
When on September 15, 1935, “the Nuremberg Laws repealed the entire
history of Jewish emancipation and transported the community back
to the Middle Ages, ”73 this legal end of Jewish citizenship was also a set of
sexual proscriptions; Germans and Jews could neither marry each other
nor have sexual intercourse. The Jewish contagion was fundamentally sexual;
and German blood had to be protected from Jewish blood, the circumcized
penis being the blood instrument of the rapist Jew and the
Jewish female’s blood inhering in her sexual organs and when she passed
blood. The Jewish woman was now revealed as base, provocative, sensual,
foreign, evil, the enticer of innocent German men. Despite all this punishment
and legal terror, “[i]n Hamburg, a Jewish brothel was set up to
service clients without running afoul of the law. ”74 Male Jews, however
disenfranchised as citizens, were not to be denied sexual access at will to
prostituted Jewish women: lower, poorer, more displaced than they themselves
were.
Hitler’s social policy was unambiguous and unequivocal. He wanted
“Aryan’ victory over the Jew and male triumph over the emancipated
woman. ”75 As Nazi theorist Gottfried Feder argued, “The insane dogma
of equality led as surely to the emancipation of the Jews as to the emancipation
of women. The Jew stole the woman from us. . . We must kill the
dragon to restore her to her holy position as servant and maid. ”76
In 1933 the Nazis had outlawed birth control, further criminalized the
aborting of “Aryan” fetuses, and forced “unfit Aryans” to be sterilized. As
Claudia Koonz writes in Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family