UPDATED 2018 The horrible anti-Semitism of the ‘Jewish’ prof and doyenne of the liberal SF Literati, Farah Mendlesohn

There is a belated 2018 UPDATE! to this article. Just scroll down to the lowest part of this article, or search for ‘2018 UPDATE’.

Scroll down for the update, dated June 7th 2014. A reply to Farah Mendlesohn’s Tweets on this very article. Precedes the 2018 update of course.

Those readers who follow this blog, and who are not anti-Semitic (and that means not anti-Israel) and keep an eye on, or are cognizant of all the anti-Semitism among the genre Left (as with the Left as a whole, from the anti-Semitic US president Obama to NPR and the BBC), and the role played by self-hating genre Jews in running cover for and cheering on their liberal Gentile colleagues and peers in their Jew hate as Israel hate, their know-nothingness, their moral relativism, their lying; may be a little surprised that I have never before mentioned the Jew in Name Only Farah Mendlesohn’s extreme modern-day anti-Semitism/Jew hatred, i.e. her rabid anti-Israelism. I mean given how she is a caricature of the anti-Semitic Islamophile liberal humanities prof, and given her high-profile position in promoting science fiction/imaginative fiction, as a genre worthy of academic commentary. She is also a genre editor.

Well here is that article. I’ll get round to her Jewish self-hatred in a mo’.

Farah Mendlesohn is, as her Wiki page informs us, “Head of Department in the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University. She was previously Reader inScience Fiction and Fantasy Literature in the Media Department at Middlesex University. She writes on the history of American religions and British and American science fiction and fantasy. She received her D. Phil. in History from the University of York in 1997. She was the editor of Foundation – The International Review of Science Fiction from 2002 to 2007. She formerly was reviews editor of Quaker Studies.”

One wonders what history that is, that she specialized in, Marxist Revisionism?

She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction with Edward James.

Glorifying Terrorism is a book from 2007, that she edited, reviewed here at Strange Horizons. It’s apparently some kind of protest fiction against the British government’s outlawing of the “glorification of terrorism” via its Terrorism Act of 2006, which is supposedly reactionary. Make of that what you will.

One assumes Farah Mendlesohn and her contributors mean ‘glorifying terrorism’ in an ironic post-modernist way. Or some such. I don’t really care to know.

Telling that the contributors to the Glorifying Terrorism anthology include several vicious anti-Semites from genre pro ranks, including Hal Duncan, Charles Stross, Lavie Tidhar and Ken MacLeod. So it’s entirely appropriate that the anti-Jewish ‘Jewess’ Farah Mendlesohn is such an anthology’s editor.

I do actually mention in passing Farah Mendlesohn’s anti-Semitism in this blog article of mine (one of the updates), with a link to this article here (from The Palestine Chronicle), a smoking gun of in-your-face Leftist Jew hatred, that shows Mendlesohn up for the self-loathing liberal bigot that she is. I have also mentioned her in passing in my Mieville series, but didn’t begin to get to grips with her anti-Semitism there.

Staying on track with the petition she signed back in January 2009 (link from The Palestine Chronicle above), along with other anti-Semitic British academics, protesting Israel’s fight in the Gaza War of 2008/2009, i.e. the Jews fighting back against a conflict initiated by HAMAS with its targeting civilian Jewish populations with rocket attack after rocket attack at the end of 2008. Of course to Jew-hating Leftists and their Islamist allies, its imperialist aggression and a war crime for Jews to ever fight back against the peaceful and progressive Jihad, in any way whatsoever. It’s a petition that also featured in the extremely anti-Semitic The Guardian. It’s a petition that openly and explicitly hopes for, indeed prays for Israel’s defeat at the hands of HAMAS.

If you think I’m kidding, here is a choice quote from that petition:

“Israel must lose. It is not enough to call for another ceasefire, or more humanitarian assistance.”

The talking points in that petition, simply tiresome heard-it-all-before Jew hatred passed off as Middle-East analysis, and the predictable whitewash of the HAMAS Jihad against the Jews. I am not going to bother fisking that petition myself, it has been done effectively by others. That Gaza conflict between Israel and HAMAS would culminate in the anti-Semitic Richard Goldstone Report orchestrated by the Jew-hating UN, now a report so utterly discredited, that Goldstone himself has tried to distance himself from it.

Safe to say that since then (never mind at the time and before then), Farah M and her fellow bleeding heart petitioners have never bothered to sign any public petition expressing outrage, anger and self-righteous venting and spleening against any jihadist group or organization anywhere, never mind HAMAS’s rocket attacks on Jewish civilians that initiated that very Gaza conflict (Jihadist attacks from Gaza easily numbering over ten thousand rockets, missiles, mortar strikes since 2005 in fact). In fact simply no outrage, anger, no condemnation via any petition whatsoever from Farah Mendlesohn and her fellow British liberal progressive academics against any jihadist Muslims extremist groups anywhere in the world. Not the Taliban’s ongoing jihad, not Boko Haram’s twenty year reign of terrror in Nigeria that has now degenerated into full-scale civil war, not the jihadist fighting in Libya, now ongoing and intensifying, not the jihadist terror in Algeria, Yemen, Mauritania, Chad and Mali (ongoing and intensifying), and not Muslim Brotherhood tyranny and terror in Egypt. Not jihadist conflict in Kashmir and Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines. Not the jihadist mass murder in Darfur, not Hezbollah’s tyranny and murder in Lebanon, not the oppressive tyranny and state sponsorship of jihadist terror from Iran. Not the Sunni and Shi’ite fanatics and factions in Iraq slaughtering one another with abandon, seemingly without end, and no condemnatory petition against the murderous parties in Syria’s Civil War in which over one hundred and seventy thousand people have been killed to date, including tens of thousands of civilians. Nothing. Nada. Rien. Zilch. No public petition from those profs on that front. No public petition from any of them, Farah Mendlesohn included, protesting against Sharia Law anywhere in the world, from Afghanistan to Nigeria, Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, Brunei to the Sudan. Sharia Law is murderously homophobic and murderously misogynistic. Pay No Mind.

Even if Israel were guilty of war crimes against Gaza in the 2008/2009 war, which it wasn’t, such brazen and indisputable double standards re Israel and the barbarity, mass murder, oppression and tyranny within the Muslim world ALONE, by these self-righteous anti-Israel pro-Palestinian liberals, can only be accounted for by naked anti-Semitism/Jew hatred. It is naked anti-Semitism in principle. Of course it’s worse than just double standards, it’s a moral inversion. Gaza Muslim fanatics from HAMAS and allies initiated its 2008/9 conflict with Israel by targeting Jewish civilians for death and maiming by rocket and missile attacks, and Israel responded by fighting back against the HAMAS Muslim extremists. HAMAS is guilty of using civilians as human shields, an actual war crime. Anti-Semitic anti-Israel spin to the contrary.

Mendlesohn was, as to be expected, one of those harshly critical of  Elizabeth Moon when that whole ‘Islam Citizenship’ thing blew up. I mention that (and Mendlesohn in this regard in passing) over here. Farah M was one of those commenting at anti-Israel ‘Jew’ Lavie Tidhar’s blog in this respect. Like Tidhar and all the other anti-Israel Jews and Gentiles, Farah M had nothing PUBLIC to say about James P Hogan going public with his Holocaust Denialism. And of course heard nothing from her when I outed Dave Truesdale Tangent editor as a Holocaust Revisionist. Then again ditto the entire genre community. Even now. Years later. Mendlesohn is thanked by hardcore Jew hater and fellow British prof China Mieville in the Acknowledgments to his book The City & The City. It’s not as if Mieville’s hardcore Jew hatred bothers Farah at all, after all it’s clear to her, as with anti-Semite Lavie Tidhar, that Mieville’s anti-Semitism is nothing of the kind. As with Tidhar (and Mieville), she is sympathetic and supportive of BDS activism against Israel (as the petition she signed makes clear, it explicitly calls for a boycott against Israel). And the BDS gangsterism against Israel is horrible and extreme Jew hatred, nothing less than that.

No genre pro (as far as I know) in the genre community has had boo to say about Farah M’s self-hating Jew status. Then again no well-known genre writer, editor, agent, publisher (not talking the very few genre fans here, such as Jordan Bassior and a few others) in the genre community has boo to say about any other self-hating genre Jews, calling out their self-hatred for what it is. Not with respect to Lavie Tidhar, Anna Tambour, Charles Stross, Rachel Swirsky, Felix Gilman, Rose Fox, Scott Edelman, Laura Anne Gilman, Nir Yaniv, conservative and former SFWA president Paul Levinson and others. Then again no notable genre pro, or hardly any, has boo to say about the hardcore Jew hatred from Mieville and his buddy Nick Mamatas, not the Jew hatred from Ken McLeod, not from Kathryn Cramer, not Iain Banks (not notable genre folk in Banks’s case. Liberal genre Jewry such as David Brin and Neil Gaiman fawned all over him, sobbing at his passing). Jews in the genre community have had plenty to say, for and against, re the whole kerfluffle and nervous breakdown that was the Resnick-Malzberg ‘sexist’ SFWA Bulletin affair (just google it and see how many thousands of blogs, Twitterfeeds and websites crop up), plenty of outrage there. Over less than nothing. Plenty of commentary on Harlan Ellison grabbing Connie Willis’s breast. I can’t remember if it was her left or right breast, if I ever knew. Only James May (aka ‘Fail Burton’) and myself called out far Leftist Charles Stross for his blaming “crazy white guys… the provisional wing of the Tea Party” for the Boston marathon bombing the day it happened, Sarah Hoyt’s blog has since publicized this fact. Otherwise nothing but silence. Can you imagine if a conservative genre writer had blamed “crazy black guys from the New Black Panther Party” for that same bombing? There would be a massive response, the head honchos at SFWA would get involved, an urgent meeting would be called, a storm of behind-the-scenes gossipy e-mails would result. Subsequent commentary and venting from near every SF liberal genre writer, editor and fanboy with a blog. A Twitterstorm. His agent would drop him. It would make the mainstream media.

Can you imagine if a conservative genre writer remarked in some silly flame-war he got involved in, “Butt-fucking is just mentorship between a man and a child.”? Well there would likewise be huge outrage in the SF blogosphere, calls for said writer to be fired from any membership in the SFWA or similar, his agent would drop him as if he were a wet turd. A massive SF Twitterstorm. And rightly so. However because that remark was *actually written* by a Jew-hating genre communist writer, namely Nick Mamatas, the response is well…. NOTHING. I mean I am the only one who blogged on it. Seriously. Can you imagine if a conservative genre writer said his favourite blogger was David Duke, or a popular British National Party blogger, or any KKK white supremacist blogger you care to name? Of course a hue and cry, and such a person would quickly become persona non grata, and rightly so. However because communist Nick Mamatas’s favourite blogger (Mamatas is explicit on this point) is a fellow communist who gives unequivocal support for HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH, it’s all just hunky dory, nothing to see here. I am the only one who has called Mamatas out on it, the only person. Mieville has written for that Jew-hating Lenin’s Tomb blog btw.

And what of all the shrill commentary on the disinvite of Jonathan Ross from a GoH speech at the Hugos this year (it even made the New Statesman for crying out loud, the linked article)? In fact Farah Mendlesohn resigned from Loncon 3 over all this! And of course plenty of outrage re Elizabeth Moon. I got over three hundred thousand returns on Google for ‘Elizabeth Moon’ and ‘Islam’.

James Hogan’s Holocaust Revisionism, go here for the actual level of outrage (my specific reply to the genre Thought Police’s Chesya Burke in this regard), barely a pip. Especially from genre Jewry.

The taboo of refusing to face up to the most extreme and hardcore Jew hatred in the genre community came to its absurd nadir with SF’s 49th nervous breakdown, the Dave Truesdale SFWA petition earlier this year, itself a fall-out from the Malzberg-Resnick witch-hunt. Nobody there, heatedly arguing and throwing insults at one another, on both sides of the Truesdale Petition affair, could be bothered to mention the fact that Tangent editor Dave Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist. Even after they all became clued up to my relevant article on that front. And remember plenty of Jewish personalities signed the petition. Even now, the sounds of cowardly silence. The only actual returns you get on Google, to explicit allusions of *Dave Truesdale’s indisputable Holocaust Revisionism* are to this blog (and Dybbuk Press’s Tim Lieder refusing to recognize that Truesdale is a Holocaust Denier)! Don’t want to open that can of worms! Oh My God  it will lead down a road nobody wants to travel… Genre Jewry themselves bar entry to that road. They guard it with sticks, clubs, harpoons and nunchaku. Scared To Death.

Why should Gentile supporters of Israel in the genre community call out any anti-Semitic personalities in the self-same genre community (predominantly liberal but also conservative), when Jewry is too cowered, scared stiff, quaking and quivering, and riddled through with self-loathing and ignorance, to do what they should do? In fact it is genre Jewry who are leading the way in defending, promoting, rationalizing and lying for the cause of liberal and progressive Jew hatred as anti-Israelism. In and out of the genre community. Liberal genre Jewry, at best cowards, at worst self-hating Jews. It’s that simple. I don’t mean every single one of them, but most of them. For sure.

As with their fellow liberal Jews who don’t know Frank Herbert from Frank Sinatra, who don’t know nor care about Science Fiction. Genre liberal Jewry are a mirror, a microcosm of contemporary left-wing Jewry. After all, liberal American Jews overwhelmingly voted for a Jew-hater, Barack Obama. Twice over. As I write this up, the cat is out of the bag. As if it wasn’t before. Obama has given the green light for the US government to fund the Fatah-HAMAS unity government that has come into existence this very week. That’s where the ‘peace talks’ with the jihadist terror group Al Fatah/PA have gotten Israel. I predicted more or less, this ongoing catastrophe for Israel over here, when these farcical now suspended talks began.

And the real horror, the real consequences have yet to hit home.

It’s only just begun.

Not that Farah Mendlesohn knows nor cares. Israel is the villain to her. And her disgusting ilk. ‘Jewish’ and Gentile alike. It’s just a coincidence that they share their hatred of Israel with HONEST Jew haters of the neo-Nazi white supremacist type and the Muslim extremists they actually support. Nothing to see there. Move along.

As for almost ALL liberal genre Jews, far Left and mainstream Left, they are predictably consistent, in ways that are increasingly debased, delusional and asinine. That is their deafening silence, if not a big thumbs up, on the Jew hatred of their genre colleagues is entirely consistent with their voting for (or supported if not American) that Jew-hater Barack Obama, TWICE OVER, whose policies and whose administration increasingly threaten Israel’s very existence. In the name of alliance and friendship.

I am no longer at the end of my tether. I am past that point.

Sleep well liberal North American and British Jews. You’re not living in Tel Aviv nor Haifa after all. So what do you care?

To be blunt: go to hell.

 

the coin flips again and again, and again, and again
as our sanity walks away
all this discussion though politically correct
is dead beyond destruction
though it leaves me quite erect

and as the final sunset rolls behind the earth
and the clock is finally dead
I’ll look at you, you’ll look at me
and we’ll cry a lot
but this will be what we said
this will be what we said

Look where all this talking got us, baby.

Live
‘White, Discussion’
From the album Throwing Copper (1994)

 

UPDATE JUNE 7th

Yawn. So a predictable Twitter response to this article, as you would expect really (aside from facebook). Anyhow here are Farah Mendlesohn’s Tweets (June 5th and 6th), the featured self-hating genre Jew of the month.

Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem
Apparently I am an anti Semite. https://seasonoftheredwolf.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/the-horrible-anti-semitism-of-the-jewish-prof-and-doyenne-of-the-liberal-sf-literati-farah-mendlesohn/ …. (No, I’ve not read it all. I’m not daft.). Thank you @NMamatas for alerting me.

 

Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem
The best bit about hate reviews is taking their words and use it as a tag. I like being “the liberal doyenne of sf literati” #RedWolf

 

Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem
It just occurred to me that I didn’t actually know what “doyenne” meant. I am now ludicrously flattered (see last night;s twitter stream).

 

Notice how she thanks Nick Mamatas, the Jew-hating communist for alerting her to this article. Birds of a feather… Very much proves my point about Mendlesohn’s anti-Semitism.

Notice (no not you the Jew-hating genre Thought Police, you are not even conscious in any meaningful sense of the term) how Nick Mamatas is so shameless, he has no problem giving public attention to this article; when I make mention of the fact that his favourite blogger (with the evidential link) is a Hezbollah and HAMAS supporter, Richard Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb (Seymour also a fan – and vice-versa – of the odious George Galloway, a proud HAMAS fundraiser and one of the most notorious Jew haters in Britain, which is saying a lot). That and the fact that I give a link to an article above evidencing his NAMBLA friendly remark, that don’t bother Mamatas neither. He and his gang are soooooo supershameless. Naturally it don’t bother Farah M, giving him the hat tip. She probably didn’t read that far, like she says. And if she did, it wouldn’t have made any difference of course.

I am really surprised you didn’t know what ‘doyenne’ meant Farah, aren’t you a fucking professor? And in the liberal arts, or some-such pseudo-artistic folderol? Aren’t you an editor of uh books? Hey, here’s a word I know you won’t know the meaning of, you can look it up, but you won’t, it’s ‘dhimmi’. That’s what you are. You and your fellow progressive bigots. Also a ‘useful idiot’. As in useful idiot of the Jihad, but you don’t need to look that up, even though you don’t get it naturally enough. How about ‘dupe’? You know what that means, surely?

Farah admits to not having read the whole article, well naturally. Not that it would make a difference if she did, in one ear and out the other. Actually not even in the ear, since it all reads like Zulu or Mandarin to these folk. Cognitive Dissonance pure and simple. You’re not daft!! Want to bet? Your daftness and worse is the subject of this article after all.

One wouldn’t have a clue what this article was about, and all its allusions, going by Mendlesohn’s Tweets (and any of her fellow dunderheads). The core point being that obscene anti-Semitic petition she signed in 2009 (pay no mind to linked articles written by actual scholars exposing that petition for the Jew-hate gibberish that it is, and the subsequently discredited Goldstone Report vilifying Israel, and even the Golstone Report isn’t as bad as that Jew-hate petition Mendlesohn signed!), Farah’s support for BDS against Israel (check the petition), and how buddy buddy she is with so many Jew haters whose Far Left anti-Semitic politics she shares, Mamatas and Mieville among them.

One wonders how would these self-hating Jews like Farah Mendlesohn (never mind the Gentile Jew-hating far Left) react if Israel were actually destroyed by these Jew-hating Jews’ allies, the Muslim extremists? Unfortunately this is not a fanciful fantasy scenario, and it’s becoming less fanciful with every passing day. (Abbas knows, the jihadists in the Middle-East and Iran know, with the ostensible leader of the ‘Free World’ being a hardcore Jew hater himself, and having their back, now may be the best time to act on their Jew-hate genocidal fantasies. Who knows who will next occupy the White House after all?) I mean from a psychological viewpoint, how would these self-hating Jews cope with the destruction of Israel? Blame Israel? Sure, but what else? Block it out, and focus on some new cause no doubt, since Jew-nation baiting would no longer be remotely plausible if Israel is destroyed, and those devil Zionists are pushed into the sea, exterminated and/or forced to flee to God knows where. Jew-hating Gentiles (whether liberals, communists, socialists and conservatives among them), will most likely just return to old-fashioned HONEST Jew hatred. Not that they ever left it behind really… And what are you going to do then, anti-Israel Diaspora Jews? (As for anti-Israel Israeli Jews, well who knows where they will be!) What will you hide your self-loathing behind then? Will self-hating Jews just rewrite their personal history, reinvent themselves as mournful Zionists? There is no self-deception and bizarro collective deception I wouldn’t put past these people. They are still selling the Jew-hating Holocaust Denying jihadist Mahmoud Abbas as our peace partner, even now that he has signed a unity deal with HAMAS in the PA government (now to be funded by American and European taxpayers, in violation of these countries’ own laws. Pay No Mind). They are in every way, literally and clinically insane.

And the attitude of so-called right-thinking, but actually cowardly Likudniks goes like this, ‘better not offend that Jew hater Obama, otherwise he will hate us, and do nothing on Iran and fund HAMAS’.

I digress… Actually I don’t.

Farah ‘I’m not daft’ Mendlesohn take a bow.

If only you were a unique Jewish specimen, as rare as four-leaf clover.

Unfortunately you are not.

Anything but.

2018 UPDATE

This is belated, but worth mentioning even more to Farah M’s relentless and persistent and oblivious! Jew hatred; to anybody who stumbles onto this old article. So in light of the subsequent explosion of hardcore Jew hatred in UK Labour over the next couple of years, after I had published this original article back in June 2014 (and who knows what is to come?!), with the ascent of Hamas and Hezbollah fan Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of that party in 2015 (who Farah M is naturally a big fan of, but of course); well look at what went down later in March 2018, on Twitter…

Just one of so many Jew-hate scandals re Jeremy Corbyn and the UK Left, was one revolving around an anti-Semitic mural Corbyn gave the thumbs up to, and then lied about it, when he was called out on it years later. Stephen Pollard with the details here. This linked article from The Jewish Chronicle is from March 2018. As Pollard writes there:

The work, Freedom for Humanity, was painted near Brick Lane in London’s East End by “graffiti artist” Kalen Ockerman, who goes by the name of Mear One.

Its intent was obvious. It showed businessmen and bankers sitting counting their money. Not only did they look like obvious caricatures of Jews – in a style reminiscent of Nazi propaganda in the 1930s – the artist himself confirmed they were intended as such, writing: “Some of the older white Jewish folk in the local community had an issue with me portraying their beloved #Rothschild or #Warburg etc as the demons they are.”

Anyone with even a basic knowledge of politics, history and the world would see that the work was caricaturing Jews. And, to be blunt, anyone denying that is indulging in sophistry of the most pathetically unconvincing kind.

Indeed, the then Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfar Rahman, himself ordered council officials to “do everything possible” to remove the mural, agreeing that “the images of the bankers perpetuate anti-Semitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial institutions.”

To repeat: this was not a controversial view. The artist himself held it, publicly.

 

More of the ugly details at the link.

Left-winger Paul Bernal made allusions to Labour’s Jew-hate problem on Twitter during the same time period (March 2018); Farah M had something to say on her Twitter feed about it, in response to Bernal. And it is an explicit allusion to the mural. Man there is no hatred like self-hatred…

Here is Paul Bernal’s Twitter commentary, Farah M’s commentary (and Bernal’s) in reply follows:

Paul Bernal @PaulbernalUK

(1) Labour has an anti-Semitism problem. (2) There are some nasty pieces of work trying to take advantage of that for their own purposes. (3) Others have anti-Semitism problems too.

Don’t let (2) and (3) distract you from facing up to (1).

My view.

12:19 PM – 26 Mar 2018

 Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem  Mar 27

Replying to @PaulbernalUK

Jewish member here. Still waiting to experience anti Semitism in the Labour Party after 30 yrs. Have had plenty of bad experiences tho with fellow Jews in the party shouting me down for not being a Zionist. So excuse me if I am wondering what the agenda is here.

Paul Bernal @PaulbernalUK Mar 27

Replying to @effjayem

There’s certainly an agenda – that was my point (2). I’m delighted you haven’t experienced any anti-Semitism too! The bigger problem that I see is people failing to recognise anti-Semitism – hence those defending that mural as just being anti-Capitalist.

Farah Mendlesohn‏ @effjayem Mar 27

frankly not recognising issues with the mural is fine by me. It means the old stereotypes have faded. It doesn’t mean people who don’t recognise them are anti Semitic

 

Wow. None of this surprises. It’s consistent with a ‘Jewish’ Jeremy Corbyn fan, and of course Farah M’s explicit support for Hamas before then. What would the Jew-hating Left and Labour do without the likes of Jew hating Jews such as Farah M, running cover for the former?

Firstly, Paul Bernal is way too diplomatic, too soft on Farah here, he lets her off the hook. Plus he is clueless about her dark history, her support for Hamas elucidated on above. To cut to the chase, Farah M is letting us know that she has never experienced any Jew hatred from Labour! A ‘Jewess’ who swoons over Hamas and Hezbollah supporter Corbyn, a ‘Jewess’ who gives unequivocal support to Hamas (which calls for the liquidation of all Jewry on its charter) wouldn’t know Jew hatred if she walked into a neo-Nazi rally or a Hezbollah one.

And further, she lets us know that if people don’t recognize a vicious anti-Semitic caricature for what it is (the Jew bankers who control the world economy), because the Jew hatred runs so deep and is so universal, people don’t even see it for what it is, then it ain’t Jew hatred! So says Hamas supporter Farah M.

In other words, Farah M’s Jewish self-loathing runs so deep, she can’t see it for what it is; just like the Jew hatred that courses so deep within the putrid bowels of UK Labour, it runs so deep within the Left that the Left is ‘consciously’ oblivious to it. ‘A horrible anti-Semitic mural is not anti-Semitic because people are too ignorant to recognize it as playing off anti-Semitic caricatures, that one finds in Nazi and neo-Nazi literature likewise’. So says Farah M in so many words. Ah the twisted ‘mind’ of a self-hating Jew is really something. She is right up there with Anna Tambour isn’t she? And that’s just within the genre community.

Charles Stross in friendly anti-Israel Twitter banter with anti-Semite Max Blumenthal, the pseudo-scholar whose Israel hatred inspired the neo-Nazi killer Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. of the Kansas Jewish Community Center murders

I have posted up a fair bit on the anti-Israel ‘Jewish’ SF writer Charles Stross over the course of this blog enterprise. His anti-Israel/anti-Semitic zeitgeist is something I have remarked on or alluded to in several articles, along with his love affair with moral and cultural relativism, and Islamophilia (i.e. he’s a typical idiot far Leftist). This one here though is a real doozy, although honestly it’s just more of the same. Frankly it’s all so predictable.

There is a fair bit of typical and odious left-wing ‘the bogey man that is the evil conservative Christian’ blather from the likes of Stross and Max Blumenthal (and others) here in Twitter conversation from October 24th 2013, and the sinister and frankly bigoted tainting of Israel and the Mossad – a transparent guilt by association – with the alleged quasi-fascist agenda of the American Christian Right. I can’t even be bothered to dissect and fisk it all. Note the source that the anti-Semitic ‘Jew’ Max Blumenthal cites, the electronic intifada, is one of the most dishonest and horribly Jew-hating (as in ‘new’ Jew-hating i.e. Israel hating) ‘news’ propaganda outlets on the WorldWideWeb. There is a mountain of info out there on the lying and demonization of Israel, the Jew among the nations, from the electronic intifada ‘news source’. Naturally together with its consistent lying and misrepresentations of Israel, and its anti-Semitic support for BDS against Israel, the electronic intifada whitewashes and even lauds the Jihad against the Jews, and naturally likewise whitewashes the Jihad against everybody else for that matter, in the Middle-East and beyond.

Here anyhow is the Twitter conversation from October 2013:

Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal Oct 24

Israeli legal group funded partly by Pastor John Hagee unmasked as Mossad proxy http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-lawyers-group-shurat-hadin-unmasked-mossad-proxy …

John Skylar @JohnSkylar Oct 24

@MaxBlumenthal @cstross The major verified fact in this article is that Israel discovered evidence to a law firm that supports Israel. So?

Charlie Stross@cstross Oct 24

. @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal Mossad directing funding by a Dominionist fundamentalist whack-job doesn’t strike you as … odd?

John Skylar @JohnSkylar Oct 24

@cstross @MaxBlumenthal Of the things the Mossad has done, this is the biggest non-story in their history.

The Library Mole @kawelch Oct 24

@cstross @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal In America? Just another day.

Charlie Stross @cstross Oct 24

. @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal It’s not like they stole a freighter with 240 tons of uranium or anything, but I’m still fascinated 1/2

Charlie Stross @cstross Oct 24

. @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal 2/2 by the US Christian right’s support for the Israeli Jewish right (who they can’t abide, theologically).

John Skylar @JohnSkylar Oct 24

@cstross @MaxBlumenthal I dig. As a member of the Jewish middle, the Christian money creeps me out, I’ll be honest. Funding the apocalypse?

Jeff Eaton @eaton Oct 24

@cstross @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal Important to remember that end-times theology holds that all good Jews will become Christians.

Jeff Eaton @eaton Oct 24

@cstross @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal So, the theological differences are only temporary!

Charlie Stross @cstross Oct 24

. @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal It’s like the Aryan Nations cuddling up to the Nation of Islam. Cute, in a creepy way—who’ll stab who first?

Julio Escajedo @MorganBlackhand Oct 24

@cstross “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” or something like that.

Charlie Stross @cstross Oct 24

@JohnSkylar I got a whole horror novel out of that theme …

John Skylar @JohnSkylar Oct 24

@eaton @cstross @MaxBlumenthal Yeah, because I really need Christians to tell me if I’m good or not.

John Skylar @JohnSkylar Oct 24

@cstross Yeah, especially in the AN/NoI terms you put it, it sounds like there’s a cyberpunk thriller this news fell out of…(1/2)

The Library Mole @kawelch Oct 24

@cstross @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal The Christian Right loves Israel because that’s where Armageddon will start. +

John Skylar @JohnSkylar Oct 24

@cstross …even better would be a preacher funding Mossad cyberwarfare to bring about a nuclear war or something. (2/)

The Library Mole @kawelch Oct 24

@cstross @JohnSkylar @MaxBlumenthal + it’s just a coincidence that there are Jews there…

John Skylar @JohnSkylar Oct 24

@cstross @MaxBlumenthal I think let’s stay away from comparing Israel to major anti-Semitic organizations, though, eh?

So much horrible, delusional, confused and bigoted gibberish there (against pro-Israel conservative Christians and Israel), and total trust from all the Tweeters there in the anti-Semitic hate site electronic intifada, Blumenthal’s go-to-source naturally enough. Stross blabbering on in his usual oblivious bigoted ‘anti-fascist’ fascist style, re his warped allusions to the Aryan Nation and the Jew-hating Sharia supporting Nation of Islam. As for the Tweet sent Stross’s way amidst that poisonous and odious Twitter hate-fest, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”… !! Indeed. My irony meter explodes. Then again if I had a dollar for every time my irony meter exploded when pouring over Twitter rants from anti-Semitic left-wing extremists, I would be sunning myself on board my yacht off the Caribbean by now. Uh is Israel equivalent to the Jew-hating Sharia supporting Nation of Islam now Stross, or is the Jew among the nations rather more like the genocidally Jew-hating Aryan Nation?! How are conservative Christians who dare have the gall to support Israel – the Jew among the nations – against Muslim extremists and fascists, the latter openly dedicated to another Holocaust of Jewry, uh… “Aryan Nation” i.e. neo-Nazis?! Maybe Stross means it the other way around, pro-Israel Christians are equivalent to the Jew-hating Nation of Islam. Sigh. Stross as he can be relied on, gives all the evidence that ‘progressive’ and ‘enlightened’ in far Left newspeak really means fascist and bigoted, so there you go. Calling Dr Freud. Even Skylar gets nervous there at the end, vaguely sensing where all this is leading, in fact where it has already led, that is to explicit, indisputable and ugly in-your-face anti-Semitism; rather than keeping it in the bounds of respectably dishonest and fashionable Israel hatred and hatred of conservative gentiles who support Israel (which Sklyar is just fine with of course).

Yeah it’s Christians (and the Mossad it appears) who are not anti-Israel who threaten the Apocalypse, not Blumenthal and gang’s fellow anti-Zionists, the Jew-hating Muslim extremists from HAMAS, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood to the Assad Syrian regime and the Iranian regime. Well it is so in the fairyland world of the Jew-hating far Left, and notably the Jew-hating far Left ‘Jews’.

Max Blumenthal is one of the most prominent of the new generation of Israel hating American far Left ‘Jews’ (succeeding the now elderly Jew-hating ‘Jew’ Noam Chomsky one supposes, who Stross also admires of course). Blumenthal is the author of a recent anti-Semitic book on Israel, one praised by Jew haters of every stripe (and yes white supremacist neo-Nazi types too, David Duke included. And that is the crux of the matter, the main point of this article), Muslim extremists and Jew-hating liberal types. Gee I wonder what explains Charles Stross’s fellow anti-Israel Twitter mate Max Blumenthal being fawned over by David Duke and… uh what’s the title of this article again? The lies in this Blumenthal book about the Jew nation (published by the far Left anti-Semitic The Nation‘s book imprint) and the whitewashing of the crimes of Muslim extremists against Jews and others can fill a whole book itself.

Here is an article from the left-leaning Forward, a Jewish Affairs online magazine, on just how extreme the Judenhass is in Max Blumenthal’s book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. As the article points out, even the very left-wing The Nation’s liberal columnist Eric Alterman (even as The Nation‘s book imprint published the book!!), in reviewing the book, commented:

‘ “I expected to disagree with its analysis,” he wrote. “I did not expect it to be remotely as awful as it is…. It is no exaggeration to say that this book could have been published by the Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club (if it existed).” ‘

Blumenthal gladly preens his Israel bashing credentials to the fawning Press TV, the Iranian regime’s propaganda arm in the English language world (there’s that enemy of my enemy is my friend again, Charlie S). Then again, Blumenthal has compared Israel to Nazi Germany. So it’s hardly surprising that Blumenthal is a fan of electronic intifada and that Stross implicitly gives his thumbs up to that anti-Semitic well of poison. Birds of a feather… Enemy of my enemy…

Naturally the anti-Semitic Jew Charles Stross has a high regard for Blumenthal (as his friendly Twitter conversation with Max B attests to) and – to repeat the point – has no problem with Blumenthal’s Jew-hating source, electronic intifada likewise. The thing is their Twitter banter is not about recipes for Thai chicken, Latin American or African politics, the Great Recession or the ongoing Hi-Tech information revolution, science fiction and whatever else. The buddy buddy Stross, Blumenthal and friends Twitter conversation centers on Christian conservatives who dare support the Jooooo nation, and how fascist that all is apparently. And that’s why it is so sinister, uninformed, delusional and yes bigoted.

The anti-Semitic news source Mondoweiss (founded by surprise surprise another extremely anti-Semitic Jew Philip Weiss), is where Blumenthal posts up a lot of his Jew-hate rants, including his admiration for anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Stephen Walt (who blames Israel for pushing America into war in Iraq); in fact there is nothing but endless, relentless and persistent Jew nation bashing (all of Blumenthal’s articles on Israel without exception are nothing but lies and distortions, and a parroting of Jew-hate Palestinian propaganda besides) from Blumenthal and Mondoweiss. You would never know about the ongoing mass murder, torture, killings, bombings, terror, tyranny and oppression of jihadists from Syria to Nigeria, Kashmir and the Sinai, Somalia to Thailand, Gaza to Iran and Yemen to Afghanistan going by Blumenthal and Mondoweiss. That’s what makes them such OBVIOUS Jew haters, aside from their tiresome demonization of Israel. Philip Weiss gave his support to Hezbollah during the 2009 Lebanon election, saying  “I hope Hezbollah wins…. Nobody else seems to care for the poor people in Southern Lebanon.” Weiss also believes in a sinister and oppressive Jewish conspiracy in the halls of American political power and the US media, and has given support to the extremely anti-Semitic BDS movement against Israel (check same link/s).

In fact hardcore genre Jew-hate writer China Mieville gets fawning treatment over baseless fact free anti-Israel commentary (i.e. his usual Jew-hate animus) at Mondoweiss this very month, the day after the Kansas City area murders in fact (April 14th).

It is truly difficult to get the warped and poisoned mindset, the ‘thinking’ of Jews like Blumenthal (never mind Weiss), his Twitter buddy Stross, and the latter’s fellow anti-Semitic ‘Jewish’ buddy Lavie Tidhar (and Anna Tambour for that matter, among plenty of others in the genre community alone) in which it is the conservative Christian and the Jew nation alike who are the foremost fascist bogey creatures threatening life, liberty and authentic civilization; not Muslim extremists (Sunni and Shi’ite) who are at the present time slaughtering and maiming people from Egypt to Syria and Nigeria, Christians included, cutting off the clitorises of girls from Egypt to Somalia, persecuting homosexuals from Iran to Saudi Arabia, threatening Jews with another holocaust, and a nuclear holocaust at that. Then again, Stross is always consistent in this regard. He blamed the Tea Party for the Boston Marathon bombing a year ago after all. Check the updated lowest part of that article for Stross’s endorsement of an anti-Semitic tweet falsely accusing Israel of  “ethnic cleansing”, an accusation that was easily debunked. Then again, check the lowest part of this article (the update) for how Stross dismissed my series on Holocaust Denialism within the genre community, without reading a single word therein, as nothing but a paranoid fantasy on my part; when encouraged to do so by his fellow anti-Semite Paul Graham Raven, who had dismissed that series likewise without reading a single word therein. Like I say Stross is predictable and consistent, in the worst way.  

Now with the killing of three people (two of whom were gentiles) at the Overland Park Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom in the Kansas City area by the former KKK white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. aka Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. on April 13th, who was heard to shout ‘heil Hitler’ as he was sent away in a police cruiser; it turns out Miller/Cross Jr. is an admirer of the Israel hatred of Stross’s Twitter buddy, Max Blumenthal. Blumenthal tweets desperately to try and blame the Kansas murders on random American gun violence (along with the other Israel-hating Jew Mira Bar-Hillel, same link) and in the process downplays and dismisses the obvious murderous Jew hatred here; and then it is outed that Cross Jr. is a big fan of the ‘Jew’ Blumenthal and commends the latter’s writings on Israel and its apparently nefarious agendas! The thing is Blumenthal has the gall, the chutzpah – it’s beyond chutzpah – to then blog on Cross/Miller Jr’s killings, makes sure to give it an anti-Israel (and anti-Christian conservative) spin, because it’s always about Israel in the eyes of Jew-hating Leftists like Max B, even when it isn’t (that’s what makes them such obvious Jew haters for one); but Maxie B can’t be bothered to take in the fact that Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. is a big fan of Max Blumenthal himself, when it comes to all things Israel related! In fact Blumenthal has the gall to compare Frazier Cross’s Nazi ideology to Zionism! Uh Projection Blumenthal, Projection. 

Here is Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr. on Blumenthal (posted up by him at the Vanguard News Network, a neo-Nazi forum akin to StormFront, in turn akin to the now defunct Asimov’s Discussion Forum). Note that he’s also a fan of that anti-Semitic Republican crackpot, Ron Paul. Former SFWA president, the ‘Jewish’ prof Paul Levinson is a big fan of the Jew hater Ron Paul btw.

This is some big dookee, yaw’ll.

http://runronpaul.com/interviews/isr…on-paul-obama/

Jew journalist Max Blumenthal exposes and explains this attempt by a foreign government Israel, to buy the presidential election for the neo-con, war-mongering republican establishment.

Like I’ve been saying, the kikes simply do not trust a lame-duck black president with the name Hussein. Jews fear his re-election, thus this jewish Super PAC to defeat him.

 

If a Jew-hating Hitler admiring KKK killer gushing over the writings of a far Left ‘progressive’ Jew’s Middle-East oeuvre surprises you (and gushing over Ron Paul likewise), you are not paying attention. Didn’t surprise me in the slightest, nor did it surprise me that Stross was all buddy buddy with Blumenthal on Twitter, especially when it came to political ‘news’. In fact how did I discover all this? It was so easy. After it came out that Blumenthal inspired the ‘political philosophy’ of the KKK murderer, I thought to myself, ‘I wonder who is on record for gushing over the Jew hater Blumenthal (and the worst anti-Semites are the far Left ‘Jews’. The very worst) among the Jew-hating genre liberals?’ I thought to myself, I wouldn’t be surprised if  somebody like Stross has gone all gaga over Blumenthal, since Stross routinely gushes over Jew-nation hating Jews (check Stross related articles at this blog), so I did an Internet search and Bingo!

UPDATE September 2015: I just thought I would add a further exposé on Blumenthal’s Judenhass. I know it’s flogging a dead horse at this point, but still it’s worth checking out. From the link (CAMERA, a site exposing anti-Jewish bias in the US media), pasted below:

It’s all on the record: Blumenthal lied, for example, when misquoting Zionist founding father Chaim Weizmann. Helied when claiming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the September 11 attacks. He lied when falsely attributing a statement to Ariel Sharon. He lied when misquoting CAMERA. He lied about supposed Zionist collaboration with Nazi Germany. He lied about Israel opening dams to flood the Gaza Strip. He lied about Israeli Bedouin; about a Netanyahu-backed “Jewish state” law; about Israeli funding for a radical NGO; about Israeli support for a Palestinian state; and about the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians.

So why wouldn’t he lie, on Chicago public radio, about the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel? Below, in chronological order, are some of Blumenthal’s falsehoods on the Sept. 21 edition of Wordview.

UPDATED 2016 David Duke in Wonderland: The Dave Truesdale Petition re the SFWA Thought Police and the hatred that dares not to be acknowledged. Least of all by genre Jewry

This article has been updated (once again) on 7th September 2016. It relates to the Dave Truesdale expulsion from MidAmeriCon 11 held in Kansas City in late August 2016. Consult the lowest part of this article beginning ‘7th September 2016 UPDATE’. 

The (February) 2015 update naturally precedes the 2016 update.

There are three updates published in March 2014, one on March 6th, another on March 7th. There is a further 16th March Update, lower down. It pertains to Tweets (dated 13th March) from genre Thought Police airheads, Tweedledum and Tweedledee from SF Signal, and two of their followers.

The March 6th 2014 update is preceded by the March 7th update, which is in turn an update on the 19th February 2014 update. The reasons for this are apparent when reading through this article. The March 7th update follows naturally from the Feb 19th update, since it addresses my discovery of the identity/ies of the donotlink gang (my Feb 19th update) and their commentary on this very article.

The March 6th update pertains to, well best you read for yourselves…

Also minor editing, updates to original article dated 24th February and March 7th 2014.

 

Yeah I know I said I was done with this blog, the previous post from back in August last year being a thorough overview of the blog’s history; but a recent political brouhaha in SF circles was too good, or too bad really, to pass up. I wouldn’t even have mentioned it, it’s just that predictably nobody else has…

So Holocaust Revisionist, Tangent editor Dave Truesdale, not one of SF’s wallflowers, decides that he’s the one to take the fight to the SFWA and its Bulletin and the admittedly odious (but entirely predictable) decision of the SFWA to police Thought Crimes via pre-censorship (one of the roles it appears of the new Bulletin editor and a committee appointed for that purpose), in order to ensure that nothing could ever offend and ruffle the feathers of the genre Thought Police, who are clearly in charge of things over at the SFWA. As if one didn’t know that already. Truesdale does this via a petition he has drawn up and gotten a whole bunch of genre figures to sign (the latter signing an edited version of said petition), all detailed in the relevant links below. All this naturally a consequence of the whole Resnick-Malzberg kerfluffle, a shameful and pathetic witch-hunt if ever there was one. The SFWA doubles down when it comes to its straight-jacketed idiocy. Truesdale is a former SFWA Bulletin editor.

From Truesdale himself, his account of the latest of SF’s nervous breakdowns (as Steve Davidson puts it), over at his Tangent magazine.

Here is conservative SFF writer Sarah Hoyt on this affair. Here is Gary Farber, a noted blogger on SF and politics, arguing with David Brin and David Gerrold (the latter two signed the petition) about all this on Facebook. All  three are Jews. Dave Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism, uh what you say, it exists only in an alternative reality. We live in a multiverse apparently. Welcome to the world according to liberal American Jews. Yeah they probably (but I can’t be sure) don’t know about my blog, at the end of the day no dice. They don’t want to know.  

This is the best link of the lot, some anonymous insider commentary over this whole affair, that has been made publicly available.

Natalie Luhrs gives an overview of this latest kerfluffle over at radishreviews, and yes Luhrs is a clueless moral relativist Thought Police enforcer so you know what her take is going to be.

The actual petition is over here. Luhrs informs us that this was what was originally circulating.

Luhrs needless to say doesn’t think much of the Truesdale petition. There’s a whole back and forth in the comments to her blog post, whether First Amendment Rights have anything to do with it, as the SFWA is a private organization, and can publish what they please and not publish what they don’t please, and other issues blabla. To repeat myself, whilst I have made it very clear that I see the Resnick-Malzberg kerfluffle as a nutty witch-hunt; a petition response to it by the likes of Truesdale, signed on to by heavyweight genre personalities – Truesdale naturally appears to sees himself as some kind of Galileo with the SFWA in the role of the Inquisition – is not the way to go. Frankly I think the way to go is to ignore the SFWA altogether and have nothing to do with that pathetic organization. The morons who run the show in that circus, whether they are actually a majority or just a vocal minority, ought simply to be ignored, mocked and ridiculed, not treated as the respectable and reasoned Voice of American Science Fiction. One cannot appeal to their reason, their sense of fair play, their moderation, their decency, for they have none of these qualities. That’s because they are nuts, stark raving and dumb dumb dumb. Humourless ideologues. The intelligent thing to do here would be to walk away from the SFWA, rescind one’s membership, not pay any dues, have nothing to do with the SFWA; as it is clearly hijacked by far Left gangsters who call the shots in that madhouse. Heck Truesdale isn’t even a member of the SFWA for crying out loud.

However the crux of the matter is this – this is a petition drawn up by Dave Truesdale, A HOLOCAUST DENIER/REVISIONIST!!

Hello is there anybody in the pro SF genre community who is sane? Anybody? Hello, Ground Control to Major Tom…

So let’s get this straight: Tangent editor, former SFWA Bulletin editor and Holocaust Revisionist Dave Truesdale writes up a petition to express opposition to the inevitable fall-out from the SFWA over the Resnick-Malzberg farrago (whether Truesdale has a point or two to make or is talking nonsense is not relevant to the point I am making) and a whole bunch of genre figures sign it, in explicit support of Truesdale’s petition, and many of them are heavyweight genre personalities. Of the four original signatories to Truesdale’s ‘rough draft’ – Resnick, Malzberg, Silverberg and Benford – three of them are Jewish!! Namely Resnick, Malzberg and Silverberg. That initial draft includes the back and forth between Truesdale and the ‘Jewish’ Steven Gould, president of the SFWA. Sheeeeeeeeesh.

Luhr’s blog posting detailing all this has 203 comments to it (last I checked). Among the commentators are Lisa Goldstein (Thought Police enforcer), Greg Benford, Mary Robinette Kowal (Thought Police enforcer) and Robert Silverberg. There is a fair bit of heated argument therein.

The signatories of the Truesdale petition include:

Gene Wolfe, Jerry Pournelle, Harlan Ellison, Sheila Finch, Jack McDevitt, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Barry N. Malzberg, Norman Spinrad, Gregory Benford, C. J. Cherryh, Mike Resnick, David Gerrold, Jack Dann, Paul Levinson, Nancy Kress, Susan Shwartz, Harry Turtledove, David Brin, Mercedes Lackey, Cyd Athens, Allen Steele, Chuck Rothman, Amy Sterling Casil, Lillian Csernica, Brad R. Torgersen, Mary Turzillo, Vernor Vinge, Jay Werkheiser, Janis Ian and Darrell Schweitzer.

Aside from those already mentioned, namely Silverberg, Rensick and Malzberg; the signatories Brin, Shwartz, Ellison, Levinson, Turtledove, Dann, Gerrold, Ian, Rothman (who as that link on his name verifies, refuses to acknowledge that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist!) and Schweitzer are Jewish (that I know of). Also consult this article (the update at the bottom of the article) for why Paul Levinson, a former president of the SFWA, likewise has no excuse for signing the petition. Also this article (an update) for why Susan Shwartz has no excuse. The other genre Jews get off easy (and they don’t necessarily deserve it… ).

Ground Control to Major Tom, commencing countdown, engines on…

I am on planet Zog, get me out of here.

I just gotta digress a little to mention something – Janis Ian!! The singer! And yes Jewish singer. Yes same Janis Ian. To those of you old enough to remember, remember the 1980 movie Foxes with a young Jodie Foster (good movie btw), well remember that song from the movie Fly too High? That was Ian. I love that song, brings back memories. Her other hit was At Seventeen. And her Stars is a haunting, beautiful track and worth noting as well (covered by Nina Simone, Ian’s friend at one time). Yeah Ian got involved in SF later. Bizarro. OK digression over.

Now nobody in the comments to that radishreviews blog posting and all the others in the SF blogosphere and the Twitterverse huffing and puffing about the Truesdale petition, both for and against, can be bothered to mention that DAVE TRUESDALE IS A FUCKING HOLOCAUST DENIER/REVISIONIST. 

Not one person, genre writer, editor, or fan. 

Not one. [I later discovered one reference to my outing of Truesdale for his Holocaust Revisionism when this whole Petition affair aired. I initially missed it. It was from one B Lynch (Twitter handle @BLynchBooks). See this Twitter thread over here, dated 10th February 2014. Note the thread is peppered with very left-wing pro-SFWA folk, and thus anti-Petition orientated. However at least B Lynch acknowledged the elephant in the room, to his credit.]

I mean I may have missed a cryptic reference to the Red Wolf outing Truesdale as a Holocaust Revisionist, perhaps on Twitter, I don’t know. [Turns out I did, see above addition] That is over the last week, when this petition went public and made news in the SF Internet world. But for sure no public EXPLICIT reference was made anywhere to Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism and my uncovering all this at this very blog. Way back in 2011. I will point out that there has been some traffic to my blog series on Truesdale since this whole petition made news, but not much. So I knew there was no real reference to Truesdale filling the shoes of the late James P Hogan anywhere in the SF Internet sphere. And certainly everybody is keeping mum. It’s just that some people web searching for ‘Dave Truesdale’ in light of his recent petition, have stumbled upon my blog, that’s all.

So Truesdale has no credibility here, whatsoever. Who cares what Truedale thinks about anything relating to political affairs and controversies, in and out of the genre community, given that he is a Holocaust Revisionist? That should be an OBVIOUS  rhetorical question, but chillingly I am the only person asking it.

And somebody coming along and saying Truesdale has been accused of Holocaust Revisionism or is an alleged Holocaust Revisionist, still would not be good enough. Frankly it would be pathetic because Truesdale is indisputably a Holocaust Denier/Revisionist. To even debate it or argue over it would be wincingly obtuse, as I have made clear. Although extreme obtuseness is the default setting for the genre community.

So let me point out what nobody else has here: those signing a petition – drawn up by a HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST – against the fall-out from what I myself have gone on record as considering a ridiculous and shameful witch-hunt, are how can I put it, being more than a little counter-productive and well … oblivious! To put it mildly. Would they sign up a similar or identical petition drawn up by the odious Theodore Beale, a misogynist, homophobe, anti-black racist and anti-Semite? I would think not, because Beale is simply beyond the pale (and has even been expelled from the SFWA). And not only to the idiot far Left moral relativists in the community, but to anybody who is not a reactionary redneck who knows what Beale has to say on gays, women, blacks…

If Holocaust Revisionist genre writer James P Hogan was still living, and he drew up the petition rather than Truesdale, would all those Jewish genre figures sign it? If Hogan was still alive and came to Resnick’s and Malzberg’s defense, would the latter two be all polite and welcome Hogan’s aid? Would the Jewish Steven Gould, the president of the SFWA, still be so polite in any hypothetical e-mail replies to Hogan in such a scenario, even if disagreeing with Hogan (the way Gould has been politely disagreeing with Truesdale)? Would Gould bother to reply at all?

Remember it was with Hogan’s death, that Truesdale outed himself as a Holocaust Denier/Revisionist (it’s all in the archives of this blog, in the series I have already linked to further up. I am not going over that ground again for the love of Odin. If you are brain dead as many are in this community, that is your problem, not mine).

Yet Truesdale, the Holocaust Revisionist, apparently is not beyond the pale! It is absurd. It’s a black comedy and I swear it’s beyond me to articulate the punch line, if there is one.

What are the signatories going to say? Jewish and Gentile, but especially Jewish. Are they going to pull a Rothman (aka a Lieder), and deny that Truesdale the Holocaust Revisionist is a Holocaust Revisionist?! Even the harshly anti-Israel Nick Mamatas has conceded that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist (he did so at his blog after getting involved in a flame-war with myself). Do these Jewish genre figures not know about how I have exposed Truesdale as a Holocaust Revisionist?! A review of this blog’s contents will reveal that even though this blog is predictably out in the wilderness (especially since I haven’t blogged in about half a year), plenty genre figures, Jewish and Gentile, know all about the Season of the Red Wolf. The archives have not gone away. This blog is still up.

Are they going to say, yes they know Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist, but what does it matter? Are they going to say… well what could they say? Say they didn’t know about my blog, or they didn’t want to know or don’t want to know, which begs a few questions… Are they going to say my series on Truesdale and gang is too difficult to comprehend, it’s too much like Quantum Mechanics? Well only if you are a brain-dead cretin really. And yes there are more than a few out there. No kidding. Or to repeat myself – are they going to do a Lieder/Rothman, or a Stross? I fucking hope not, for their sakes. And Susan Shwartz for one has no excuse.

Oh wait I know what they will do. They will do what they have already done. Ignore the brontosaurus in the fridge, ignore the fact that Dave Tuesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist/Denier. That’s it.

Now the sane readers of this blog (a distinct minority for sure) may rightly ask the question, since it is an obvious one to ask: why don’t Truesdale’s detractors and the critics of the Petition’s signatories – and naturally several of these critics are Jewish (eg. Lisa Goldstein), even as the inadvertent catalysts for all this, Resnick and Malzberg, are Jewish – not criticize them for signing a petition drawn up by a Holocaust Fucking Denier?! And not point out that Truesdale himself is a Holocaust Denier?! Whatever the merits or otherwise of Truesdale’s petition, whichever side you take, who cares for a petition that is naturally going to be perceived as heavily political and divisive, that is drawn up by a Holocaust Revisionist? I mean when you are up against the genre Thought Police airheads who call the shots, better not to rally around the agitprop of a Holocaust Denier. You think?

One of the answers to this question, and plenty of  the petition’s critics know all about this blog of mine, is that the petition’s critics are largely my own.

As the archives of this blog reveal, I have offended greatly the far Left Thought Police brigade that dominates SF (of which Luhrs is definitely a member), with their moral and cultural relativism, their ‘new’ anti-Semitism at worst or their apologetics for new anti-Semitism at best, their going along with the Thought Crime of Islamophobia, their humourless militant feminism (witness this latest nervous breakdown that catalyzed this very article) and related. However what really sticks out there is the SF genre’s Leftists largely being guilty of either fashionable anti-Semitism as disingenuous anti-Israelism or apologetics and whitewashing of contemporary anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Israelism (just see my chapters 10 and 11 in my China Mieville series for what I am getting at).

So the PC Thought Police of the genre community – Luhrs, Lisa Goldstein and Mary Robinette Kowal included – have tied their hands, they have painted themselves into a corner. They can’t point out the fact that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist without pointing to this blog with a thumbs up, since I and I alone have revealed the ugly facts in all their gory details re Truesdale, I alone have the smoking gun; but that would mean acknowledging that I have exposed very real anti-Semitism in the pro genre community. It would mean giving me even grudging and lukewarm praise. Now the same genre figures – writers, editors, fans, and they include John Scalzi himself, a former president of the SFWA – who have dismissed me as a loon and worse (as has Truesdale) are cognitively incapable of that. It is not only that they would have to swallow a bitter pill and have their egos take a bit of a battering. It is something more sinister. They would have to pay even passing recognition to anti-Semitism in the here and now, in our wider society and notably in the genre community itself and this bigotry’s pathetic and flimsy disguises. Because after all, there is a domino effect. What psychoanalysts call free-ranging associations. If they acknowledge the work I have done exposing Truesdale as a Holocaust Revisionist, then well what about the other anti-Semites I have exposed at this blog (even though not guilty of Holocaust Revisionism)? The latter new anti-Semitism the more acceptable, respectable and fashionable kind for sure, but anti-Semitism and extreme and vicious anti-Semitism at that. Many (I’m not saying all of them) of these genre Leftists critical of the Truesdale Petition and the signatories, are left-wing anti-Semites or apologists for liberal anti-Semites or scared to death of acknowledging any of this… To throw a spanner in the works, at least one of the petition’s signatories, namely Rothman, denies that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist (never mind the fact that I don’t think much of the witch hunt against Resnick and Malzberg and its consequent fall-out re the SFWA; their militant over-the-top feminism in other words).

In other words, facing the ugly facts re Truesdale would open up a can of worms that the SF community as a whole is desperate to keep closed. To acknowledge Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism, would mean unraveling a helluva lot more than Truesdale’s extreme obtuseness, hypocrisy and bigotry to which he is naturally oblivious. I mean by this that these genre cultural relativist liberals openly mocking Truesdale and those who have signed the petition, don’t want to go anywhere near China Mieville’s Jew hatred, genre Court Jewry covering for Mieville and worse, Kathryn Cramer’s anti-Semitism, the late Iain Banks’s likewise (the Jewish Brin and the Jewish Gaiman fawned all over him with his passing), the anti-Semitism of so many others, from Hal Duncan to Michael Bishop and Ken McLeod, the embarrassing screw-ups of Felix Gilman, Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, the Jewish self-loathing of Anna Tambour, Lavie Tidhar and Charles Stross, and let’s be honest here, not just these three. Hardly.

There is Scott Edelman, Rose Fox, Felix Gilman, Laura Anne Gilman, Nir Yaniv, Cory Doctorow, Rachel Swirsky (aside from small fry such as relatively well-known genre fan Mark Pontin. Tim Lieder is more mad than anything else. He is just off his rocker, all emotion no brain). And there is the hardcore Jewish self-loathing of prof Farah Mendlesohn, a caricature of the Israel hating far Left liberal ‘Jewish’ professor (now at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK). I have never even bothered mentioning her before at this blog! God knows how many others… The thing is there is a plague of self-hating Jews among the liberal Ashkenazi set, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It’s anything but uncommon, anything but. [To any self-hating genre Jews out there I forgot to mention, and I know there are a lot of you, this is how you know you are a self-hating Jew, even as you will naturally deny it – if you think my articles on the Jew-hating Gentiles I criticize at this blog, such as Mieville, Kathryn Cramer, Mamatas, Michael Bishop, Hal Duncan and others, and the self-hating Jews such as Stross and Tidhar, are wrong-headed, inaccurate, unfair, delusional, fallacious, rather than plain speaking and factual, then you are a self-hating Jew. If you can’t be bothered to read any of that, but go along with what the fashionably dumb anti-Israel genre Left say about the Season of the Red Wolf anyhow, then you are likewise a self-hating Jew. You don’t have to agree with everything I write, hardly. However if you don’t get the fundamentals here, then you are what you are. Naturally enough if you are not Jewish but concur with the self-hating Jews re the Season of the Red Wolf, then you are just a Gentile Jew-hater]

Getting back on track, all this rabid anti-Semitism and more detailed at my blog, with the smoking guns, the original source material whether they be forum commentary, tweets, blog postings, letters… Heck the previous article to this one gives a comprehensive overview of  this blog’s history, a brief description of each and every blog article that I have posted up, with a clickable link to them all. This article is number 107. [Later edit: I have moved that article, ‘the Zombie Chronicles’ and updated it, hence the link above is not valid any longer, that article is now here]

For example, Nick Mamatas has tweeted contempt the way of the Truesdale petition and Truesdale himself, yet cannot bring up the fact that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist, even though he is the only genre pro who has publicly and grudgingly conceded the point that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist (even if  a little cryptically). Mamatas cannot do so, because Mamatas wouldn’t want to be reminded of this embarrassing foul-up of his (tangentially related to my exposé of Truesdale), even as he has just lied about it all, misrepresented the facts at his blog, as he had to do, to save face. Not that anybody cares, but still… And associated with that foul-up of Mamatas’s, the broader picture of left-wing anti-Semitism, which Mamatas would not want to go anywhere near. In fact he vehemently denies (to myself) that left-wing anti-Semitism even exists! And yes Mamatas is himself anti-Semitic. That’s just the thing.

Another case in point, Charles Stross, Mamatas’s fellow anti-Israel genre writer (the Jews being among the most egregious offenders in this regard), who is on record for blaming “the provisional wing of the Tea Party” for the Boston marathon bombing the day it happened, likewise tweets contempt the way of Truesdale re the SFWA petition. Stross the Jew in Name Only, who is ‘cognizant’ of this blog, can’t be bothered to mention Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism naturally enough. Then again Stross dismissed that Holocaust Revisionism series of mine with an offhand Tweet (lowest part of the article), without reading a single word of it; the catalyzed encouragement in this regard came by way of his fellow anti-Semite and far Leftist, the British academic Paul Graham Raven, who never read a single word in that series neither.

I mean for the likes of the anti-Israel (i.e. anti-Semitic) genre Left that pretends no anti-Semitism whatsoever, to acknowledge that I have exposed Truesdale as a Holocaust Revisionist, would mean recognizing that I have actually exposed extreme anti-Semitism; and this begs the question – so why do the self-same left-wing genre Thought Police openly pour scorn, mockery and disdain on the Red Wolf blogger exposing extreme anti-Semitism (Holocaust Revisionism)? The question only has one answer, and it’s not a pretty one. It’s worse than just having egg on their faces. It’s much worse than that. It would mean having to face their flimsily disguised prejudice against Jewry head on, sans disguise, a prejudice they don’t even begin to acknowledge. Or at best, their cowardice in the face of this prejudice from within the genre community. And naturally all this has to be avoided at all costs. 

The result of this pervasive taboo that is the stubborn refusal to acknowledge all anti-Semitism – from genre Jewry as much as Gentiles, if anything genre Jewry are the most stringent enforcers of this taboo – couldn’t be clearer, more nakedly revealed than over this latest political affair in genre circles. In no other political brouhaha in the SF genre community is this taboo more obviously apparent, glaring in neon colours, than this latest one re the Truesdale SFWA petition. The fact that Truesdale is James P Hogan’s successor in the worst possible way, and the fact that NOBODY – not Truesdale’s dismissive critics, Jewish and Gentile alike, and naturally not Jewish genre heavyweight writers in support of Truesdale’s petition – can appear to acknowledge this publicly, is all the proof you need of this taboo in operation. And where it has led the community. Flat bang into Alice in David Dukeville land. Cannot make this up.

So if none of  these genre figures, including well-known Jewish writers of considerable reputation, could care about acknowledging a SF peer’s Holocaust Revisionism, they could care even less, not a smidgen of pigeon shit’s worth, for contemporary ‘new’ anti-Semitism in the genre community, that is as dishonest and relentless anti-Israelism, as demonization of the Jew nation. 

Mieville, Mamatas, Kathryn Cramer, Tambour and gang can breathe easy.

Then again they already knew that.

Heck like Truesdale, they will tell you they are not anti-Semitic in the slightest. And the PC Thought Police who get their panties all twisted over the Truesdale petition, but cannot be bothered to mention the fact of Truesdale’s Holocaust Denialism even as many of them are ‘cognizant’ of this blog, are these anti-Semites’ staunchest and most loyal defenders.

Perhaps another point is worth mentioning re these Jewish genre writers and fandom. They don’t want to acknowledge anti-Semitism and would rather focus on ridiculous and pathetic side-shows, because acknowledging anti-Semitism and its pervasiveness both in and out of the genre community means facing an ugly reality and by association, Iran’s drive for a nuclear bomb arsenal, the White House’s appeasement of Iran, Israel standing alone and with anything but courage and resolve, Kerry’s threats against the Jews (and American Jewish leaders grovelling before Kerry as I write this up, and praising him to the skies as a gag gag genuine peace-maker. This grovelling and fawning before Jew haters is not just a problem unique to the Jewish genre Left naturally enough, it is a pervasive problem among Jewry itself), the Muslim fanaticism widespread in the Middle-East, all that region’s turmoil. The sense that history is repeating in the most terrible way…

These Jewish genre folk (never mind non-Jews) are in the escapism business, it’s been in many cases their livelihood.

And in escapism they will stay, till death or ugly brutal reality comes crashing down over their heads.

Whichever comes first.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

And scary.

UPDATED  19th February

Hilarious.

So, sure as you would expect, a couple of genre folk pick up this article on their ‘SF gossip’ surfing – and of course it is just too juicy to ignore – so they tell their mates and I get a spike in traffic (17th and 18th Feb).

Now I know they are all most likely of the moral relativist far Left Thought Police persuasion, namely those critical of the Truesdale Petition, all huffing and puffing about alleged sexism, but scared to death of acknowledging even the most base Jew hatred in (and out of) the genre community; and as I make clear further up, Jewish genre folk critical of the Truesdale petition, Jewish feminists especially, are those most shamefully guilty in this respect (given their deafening silence on all forms of extreme anti-Semitism from their genre peers, whilst getting high blood pressure from trumped up charges of sexism).

The thing is, and this is why I think that those (in the main) who have suddenly come to the blog to check this article out, are of the far Left variety that I scathingly mock in this very article and elsewhere; they are scared stiff to acknowledge to myself who they are exactly and where the traffic is coming from. They have covered their tracks. In my blog stats, it tells me my hits are coming  from … donotlink.com

Here is a techie’s take on the donotlink service:

We’re all aware that every time you link to a web site, you inevitably push it up in search engine rankings. Over time, that means a site will appear at the top of a Google search result. Sometimes you want to link to those sites without helping them boost their search results. Do Not Link is a service for just that.

Do Not Link is easy to use. Just drop the URL of the questionable site into Do Not Link and it gives you a URL that won’t push up those results in search engines. It’s simple, but super handy for linking to those awful trolling articles you really want to talk about but don’t want to push up in Google or to fraudllent sites you need to talk about but don’t want to help out. 

Of course, it’s subjective. One person’s “awful trolling article” is another person’s admirable exposé or similar. Yet when it comes to the genre Thought Police, if it is them, they would clearly see this article as ideal for use by Do Not Link. Namely an article they really want to talk about, but don’t want to push up in Google, and let me add, an article whose author (in this case the Red Wolf) they don’t want cottoning on to who exactly is checking out his blog. If you click on the donotlink tag from your blog stats, it just redirects you back to your own blog.

There is another reason that favours the genre Thought Police visiting here (rather than say the petition’s supporters in the main), that reinforces the point I make above. Namely the articles these anonymous folk are checking out at this blog all of a sudden, is very revealing of the mindset of the Thought Police, and only the scared stiff Thought Police. Why do I say that? Well sure they have been directed to this article, but you would think if they were intelligent, open-minded kind of folk, who were truly concerned about bigotry, as the moral relativist Leftists pretend to be, that they would actually trawl through the Truesdale series (where I expose Truesdale as a Holocaust Revisionist, among other Jew-hate group think gangsterism from others, including editor Sam Hidaka) to see for themselves. After all the smoking gun isn’t in this article, it’s in the Truesdale-centered series (for the most part) that I link to in this original article. Yet very very few of the donotlink gang even bothered. Hardly any. And those very few that did, clicked on the Introduction and the chapter 7 I link to further up. None of the other uh eleven articles in that series. Well hardly anybody. And not the pivotal flame-war itself from the Asimov’s Forum (well one person that was it) in Postscript Part A, not the other smoking gun chapters 2, 3 and 4. The thing is in that very introduction to that series I link to right up at the beginning of this article (where I first mention that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist), I give a brief overview of that series, with clickable links to all the other twelve articles in that series, and descriptions of each and every article. I made that series very easy to navigate and follow. Makes no difference to those coming to this blog all of a sudden. The thing is to the moral relativist genre twits who see sexism and anti-black racism under every bush, cat and supermarket trolley (yes there is sexism and anti-black racism, but these guys go overboard), it truly is a case of anti-Semitism yaaaaaaaawn. Whatever. I mean I am explicit in this very article of the anti-Semitism from the likes of Mieville, Cramer, Mamatas, Tambour and others, yet nobody, or hardly anybody, was remotely interested in following up on any of that, and checking out my articles on these characters (well very very few hits there).

This is a pattern that I have seen constantly from the genre Thought Police, when they used to tweet contempt and dismissal my way. They would focus on the article they were Tweeting or (rarely) blogging contempt for, get it all wrong naturally enough, and ignore all the articles around, including the most recent posts of mine at the time, no matter what the headings/titles of the articles were…

It proves the point I make about the genre Thought Police, scared to death of recognizing, even in passing, even vaguely, anti-Semitism and moral relativism in all or any of its aspects.

And no the traffic is not coming in the main from the Theodore Beale bots and paleocon and right-wing or libertarian types, I took that into consideration. Sure some of those guys have a lot in common with the left-wing Thought Police genre folk (when it comes to anti-Semitism), but they could care less about covering their tracks. They don’t give a hoot. It’s not their style.

I did take into consideration that the ‘donotlink gang’ could be others in support of the petition (whether their names are on the petition or not), they naturally don’t want egg on their faces neither. In fact if you think about it, they have even more to lose here than the genre Thought Police!

After all, those signing a petition drawn up by a Holocaust Revisionist, the Jews especially, have blundered. And this is the ONLY blog that reveals that.

I do think that if the traffic was coming from those in support of the Truesdale petition, they would be far more likely to actually trawl through my Holocaust Revisionism series. To see what Truesdale actually has to say re the Holocaust, to scrutinize that series for themselves. That’s just a little bit of speculation on my part. Or would they all respond as Rothman did, and run away as quickly as possible (I don’t mean deny that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist, as Rothman did)? I don’t think so. Yet I cannot be entirely sure naturally enough.

However I will speculate that for the most part at least, it’s the loony Left brigade popping in, given the number of visitors, given the fact that the ‘fingerprints’ of these visitors is typical of genre Thought Police swarming (i.e. their general lack of real interest and follow-up, desperation to cover their tracks).

It was most likely a combination largely of critics and a few supporters of the Truesdale petition. There are a very few in-house closed SF related forums, the SFWA members’ forum just being one of them…

Yet note the persistent silence on Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism, even after my article was quietly publicized by genre folk behind closed doors. Do a Google search on ‘Dave Truesdale’ and the ‘Holocaust’, and the only returns are to my blog (I’m not counting those url news aggregators and similar). Didn’t pick up anything on Twitter, Facebook likewise re Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism, and I mean in the last few days, never mind before that.

Proves my point exactly.

Proves the point of the very title of this article I chose, ‘ …the hatred that dares not to be acknowledged. Least of all by genre Jewry’.

These folk cannot begin to acknowledge publicly Truesdale’s Holocaust Denial/Revisionism. The fact that the vast majority of them cannot even be bothered to read up my series here where I expose Truesdale indisputably and unequivocally – never mind how my critics (the moral relativist self-righteous Left so concerned *apparently* about bigotry of all types) are so transparently desperate to publicly not disclose any of this – means they are scared to death about acknowledging Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism even to themselves! As the archives of this blog reveal (check out the harebrained obscene responses from the likes of Mark Pontin, Tim Lieder, Felix Gilman, Paul Graham Raven, Charles Stross and Chuck Rothman to that Holocaust Revisionism series! Never mind Nick Mamatas’s blunder. No none of  them actually bothered to read that series. That’s just the point. Mamatas a little bit, after his blunder). And these people cannot stand Truesdale and they are not afraid to say it (they have labeled him sexist, reactionary and whatever else), except to acknowledge his Holocaust Revisionism naturally enough! Never mind all the ‘new’ left-wing anti-Semitism from genre pros that I reveal at this blog, and I’m just skating the surface.

And they cannot publicly acknowledge Truesdale’s obscene bigotry and the more fashionable liberal anti-Semitism for all the reasons I have already stated in this main pre-updated article.

And those folk – especially the Jews – who signed the petition, the only excuse is that you didn’t know about my blog (even didn’t want to know and still don’t want to know. I know for a fact that such an excuse, ‘oh didn’t know about the Truesdale exposé at your blog’ is not warranted in every case…), because it’s not only in the Truesdale centered series from April/May 2011 that Truesdale’s Holocaust Denial/Revisionism is brought to public attention. I continually brought up the point of Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism (always with a link or two), if anything excessively so, in late 2011, 2012, 2013, as the context and circumstances warranted.

To sum up, Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism embarrasses everybody, those who signed the petition, but those critical of Truesdale as well! Because the latter (like the former) cannot even now acknowledge Truesdale’s Holocaust Denial/Revisionism, even as they openly imply that he is a sexist cave-man (on Twitter, blogs, Facebook), but not an anti-Semite! The former (those who signed the petition or supported it in whatever way) cannot call out the Thought Police for absurd hypocrisy, accusing the former of sexism whilst remaining silent on Truesdale’s Holocaust Denial, because the former signed the Truesdale petition (and so many of them are Jews)!

You have to laugh. I mean it’s a black comedy. Oh My God I used the term black comedy. Probably proves to the Thought Police that I’m a racist now. He said ‘black comedy’, he did, he did, I knew he was a white supremacist KKK type. Now we have the evidence for it.

If you know the genre Thought Police, you will know that I am only half joking. These people are that crazy.

These genre Thought Police must be bemoaning the fact that I am not one of them, that is not one in thrall to Islamophilia, Jew-nation hatred that pretends it’s nothing of the sort, and a dupe of humourless militant feminism, in thrall to trumped up sexism gibberish; or at best that I am not one of the quivering Jews desperate to keep quiet about all this anti-Semitism of whatever type, and sweep it all under the carpet. If I were one of them, they would be tweeting and blogging about my exposé of Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism with delight, a big thumbs up and openly linking to this very article. They would be praising me to the skies, I would have heroic status among them, they would be all… ‘good on the Red Wolf, three cheers for the Red Wolf’. I would be all over the liberal SF blogosphere, Facebook and the SF Twitterverse.

Pertinently enough, I published this on the 5th May 2011, in part 8 of my Holocaust Revisionism series:

As a consequence – even though I don’t really expect any *public* outrage from any notable Jewish figure/s in the genre community to these revelations – I am calling for a professional disassociation/s from Dave Truesdale in light of his clearly outing himself as a Holocaust Denier/Revisionist. However he may want to spin it.

Public outrage! Hahahahaahaaaaaaa. Yeah well, it was a very safe bet. Hey the Jew exposing hardcore Jew hatred in the genre community is out in Antarctica. What else is new? These Jews would only express an opinion if Truesdale grabbed some genre female’s breasts at a Con somewhere (think Ellison and Willis), or make sure to give a public opinion about the SFWA Bulletin editorial/committee decisions and procedures in the wake of the recent Malzberg-Resnick kerfluffle. As it turned out. Now that’s something they will hurl themselves into! And be vocal about. Whether for or against.

Actually these genre Jews are a microcosm for liberal American Jewry as a whole (not just American Jews to be fair).

Really you have to laugh. I am. I mean it is fucking hilarious. As Richard Pryor pointed out, “comedy is tragedy”.

It is indeed.

UPDATED 7th March

So guess what! I discovered the source of the donotlink gang! OK this whole brouhaha has long since died down, but I mention it here anyhow, for the sake of the record. For the sake of completeness.

It didn’t take a Sherlock Holmes intellect or detective work. It was Natalie Luhrs herself and her followers on Twitter. Here are the relevant Tweets.

Natalie Luhrs ‏@eilatan Feb 17
YOU GUYS. This dude is, well. http://www.donotlink.com/dGW (TW: accusations of anti-Semitism and pointing out authors who may be/are Jewish)

Michigan J Octopus ‏@emilytheslayer Feb 17
@eilatan right, him, I’d almost forgotten about him.

Natalie Luhrs ‏@eilatan Feb 17
@emilytheslayer This is my first encounter, I think?

Michigan J Octopus ‏@emilytheslayer Feb 17
@eilatan he is Known.

Natalie Luhrs ‏@eilatan Feb 17
@emilytheslayer So I have gathered.

Ann Somerville ‏@ann_somerville Feb 17
@eilatan …then you obvs didn’t care and SO YOU ARE THE WORST JEW/PERSON ON THE PLANET. But no enforcement of thought there

Natalie Luhrs ‏@eilatan Feb 17
@ann_somerville …I’m a non-denominational Christian deist. So yes: I am a terrible Jew.

Ann Somerville ‏@ann_somerville Feb 17
@eilatan UNCLEAN UNCLEAN!

Natalie Luhrs ‏@eilatan Feb 17
@ann_somerville Pretty much, yeah.

Kip Manley ‏@kiplet Feb 17
@eilatan He actually mentioned ME in one of his rants, which tells you rather a lot.

Natalie Luhrs
‏@eilatan
@kiplet That he’s an equal opportunity ranter? Are you Thought Police, too?

Kip Manley ‏@kiplet Feb 17
@eilatan I’m nothing! I’m nobody! I said something nice to somebody non grata on Twitter, and So.

Natalie Luhrs ‏@eilatan Feb 17
@kiplet How Dare You.

Kip Manley ‏@kiplet Feb 17
@eilatan So many lines to cross, so little time.

Natalie Luhrs ‏@eilatan Feb 17
@kiplet I know! This genre-destruction is a lot of work.

There you have it! So I was right, it was genre Thought Police, and only genre Thought Police. Yes the donotlink url takes you to this article naturally enough. Notice how none of the Tweeters can be bothered to mention what this article is actually about at all, just supposedly not to be trusted hysterical and over-the-top allusions to anti-Semitism (Ann Somerville’s tweets are asinine, ridiculous and less than rational), not their context, not even vague or hazy allusions to their actual content. As if they would know. They don’t want to know. Scared stiff. They can’t even be bothered to mention that I accuse Truesdale of Holocaust Revisionism, when it is central to this whole piece! Nada on that front. They tiptoe around it like it’s not even there. Like I write further up, hardly any of Luhrs’s followers (as it turned out) even bothered to check out the case for Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism themselves. And of course I don’t accuse Luhrs of anti-Semitism. You would never know that going by her and her gang’s twit Tweeting. Very oversensitive there, aren’t we? Of course Luhrs and gang don’t give a damn about acknowledging any even extreme anti-Semitism from their genre peers and colleagues, even genre peers they consider reprehensible and even quasi-fascist. As their tweeting on  this very article proves emphatically and beyond reasonable doubt! Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism is greeted not even with a yawn, not even that. It’s not remotely addressed by these folk.

As far as kiplet/Kip Manley is concerned, sure he’s a nobody in SF circles, but I mention him in passing over here, given the context of his tweeting parley with Rose Fox, who is a somebody in SF (and Charles Platt’s daughter), and Fox has been the focus of several articles of mine. Not that you would ever know that from Manley, nor the first thing about what that was all about.

So Luhrs and gang are predictably obtuse, scared stiff not only of acknowledging even vaguely, even cryptically the charge of Truesdale’s Holocaust Denialism from the Red Wolf (never mind the actual smoking gun evidence I link to in this respect!), even as they consider him a reactionary sexist cave-man; because scared stiff naturally of going anywhere near the more run-of-the-mill anti-Semitism that infects the liberal genre community (and detailed in the archives of this blog) and wider liberal society like a cancer.  And naturally the fact that I don’t think much of their hysterical trumped up sexism charges against all and sundry. Their quaking tweeting on my blog and this very original article *specifically*, where the 16 ton brontosaurus in the room is not even vaguely alluded to (i.e. Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism), and the pathetic attempt by Luhrs to cover her tracks and not boost my profile on search engines, only proves my point about the genre Thought Police and why one cannot take them remotely seriously. That is their in-your-face moral relativism, their blunt and stubborn refusal to acknowledge even the most extreme, albeit oblivious Jew hatred that is Holocaust Revisionism (from a conservative SF editor/critic they all hate no less!) for all the reasons I already state further up.

So their response to the red wolf blogger, the one who  gives them the revelation that Truesdale – who they hate – is a Holocaust Fucking Revisionist, (and all the evidence they could ever need in that department, not that they want to know!) can be summed up as…

Luhrs: I’m a non-denominational Christian deist, so I’m a terrible Jew 

Somerville: Unclean Unclean!

It’s just so pathetic. Such extreme cognitive dissonance. Boggles the mind.

FURTHER UPDATE 6th March

Just thought I would mention this, because it is even more black comedy gold.

So guess what? Tim Lieder of Dybbuk Press, one of my biggest uh fans, blogs on this very article, and he continues to repeat his cretinous ‘beyond full retard’ MO (just check those Lieder articles). Namely Dave Truesdale ain’t no Holocaust Denier/Revisionist, in Lieder’s eyes! Well if you know all about my Lieder series, you will know that already. Lieder has stuck to his guns on that front persistently, no matter how I have exposed him, that is exposed Lieder for not knowing what he is talking about. Never mind Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism (and others like editor Sam Hidaka [if anything I let Hidaka off the hook too much] and short story writer Marian Powell).

Here is Lieder, in Tim ‘where is my mind?’ Lieder style. Lieder you are truly in class of your own. http://marlowe1.livejournal.com/2190617.html

He entitles his post on me, ‘The Hobgoblin of Small Minds – aka Furry Jew rants again’. To those who don’t know about my altercations with Lieder, he labels me the Furry Jew.

Some choice quotes:

You can’t keep an internet crank down – https://seasonoftheredwolf.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/david-duke-in-wonderland-the-dave-truesdale-petition-re-the-sffwa-thought-police-and-the-hatred-that-dares-not-to-be-acknowledged-least-of-all-by-genre-jewry/ – Apparently Furry Jew has released another tl;dr wall of text in order to repeat his assertion that Dave Truesdale is a Holocaust denier. He goes by a bunch of things that Truesdale wrote about the dead James Hogan that were less than “Fuck that Guy” levels of acrimony.

And just so we are clear. James Hogan actually was a Holocaust denier so fuck that guy.

What drives Furry Jew at the moment is the fact that Dave Truesdale’s entire SFWA “the PC Police don’t want to us to see nekkid ladies” petition was argued and discussed without ONCE anyone citing Furry Jew’s long and tedious expose concerning Truesdale’s alleged Holocaust denial. Oh sure, a sane and rational person could think that it wasn’t important to the conversation or that it was something that couldn’t be shoehorned into a conversation that was already full of topics like sexism, editorial oversight, the proper audience for a trade magazine, First Amendment, red baiting and old people.

But Furry Jew is not sane or rational. In fact Furry Jew sees himself as the crusader against all that is anti-Semitic and Communist.

He also says nice things about anti-Semitic racist POS Vox Day (aka Theodore Beale) but what’s a little anti-Semitism between friends?

That’s all to be expected from Lieder, he has been endlessly denying Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism from Day One. And if you want to know why and how, it’s all in my Lieder articles. And other delusional garbage in that vein from Lieder (yeah I don’t know why I bother with him, he’s such a hack, a wannabe hack really, but he is so witless, such an easy target, so delusional, that I find him endlessly fascinating). Fuck Hogan, but not his fellow Holocaust Revisionist Dave Truesdale, hey Lieder? You king of supreme witlessness you.

And as I make clear in this original article, Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism is relevant because the debate/argument here is inherently political, since it covers topics such as alleged misogyny and alleged sexism, not issues relating to science fiction criticism per se. And why would any Jewish genre pro writer/editor/fan especially, have any dealings whatsoever, professional or otherwise, with a Holocaust Fucking Revisionist?! Lieder of course doesn’t think that an issue. Then again what to expect from the witless Lieder? The reasons that Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism is not brought up by anybody, whether for or against the petition, is already covered in this article, but it’s through the holes in the head of poor Tim Lieder. Then again to Lieder, the Holocaust Denier Truesdale with all his wormy Holocaust Revisionist newspeak ain’t no Holocaust Denier.

I say nice things about Vox Day aka Theodore Beale???!!!

I write further up above re Beale:

Would they sign up a similar or identical petition drawn up by the odious Theodore Beale, a misogynist, homophobe, anti-black racist and anti-Semite? I would think not, because Beale is simply beyond the pale (and has even been expelled from the SFWA). And not only to the idiot far Left moral relativists in the community, but to anybody who is not a reactionary redneck who knows what Beale has to say on gays, women, blacks…

If that’s saying nice things about Beale, I wonder what not nice things about Beale would sound like to Lieder! So Lieder just transparently and breezily lies here, as is his style. I don’t even think he knows he does it. Fails basic reading comprehension. Lieder is confused here and projecting his witless and moronic knee-jerk defense of his anti-Semitic, anti-Israel peer Nick Mamatas, onto me (re Beale). It’s what catalyzed Lieder’s fever-brained attacks on my blog in the first place. Lieder doesn’t even notice further up in  this very article, that I allude to the fact that even Mamatas has grudgingly (albeit cryptically) acknowledged Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism.

Also Lieder, re the Emerson allusion that is “the hobgoblin of small minds”, the full quote is “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” In your case, your persistent and obscenely dimwitted denial of Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism is “foolishly consistent”. To put it mildly. Thing is it is way worse than that, it is so obscenely delusional and cretinous, beyond witless, that words fail me. The Thesaurus fails me. One ought to invent a neologism for Lieder’s specific off-the-charts asininity. Maybe we should call it a Liederism/Liederist, or a Lieder…

FURTHER UPDATE MARCH 16th

So some further Tweeting from other genre Thought Police airheads re this article, not that their Tweeting has anything whatsoever to do with this article, or even the actual contents of my blog, but that’s the nature of it all of course. I was of two minds whether to even bother posting them up and commentating on them, given that Tweedledum Fred Kiesche and Tweedledee Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin on Twitter) of SF Signal are such minor players on the SF scene (yet along with that other lightweight Tim Lieder, they are among my biggest ‘fans’) and they are just so tiresome and pathetic, even by the standards of the idiot Left Thought Police (which is saying a lot!). Twit Tweets from two of their twit followers included, notably Shaun Duke (whose Tweets catalyze it all), a contributor/co-host of the Skiffy and Fanty SFF website.

Tweets all date from March 13th:

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
It shouldn’t surprise these folks that sf fandom’s “left” really have no interest in hanging out with James May. Look what he writes.

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@shaunduke Which James May? (I know of two…)

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@FredKiesche The one that imagines himself as an sff writer.

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@shaunduke That *still* doesn’t narrow in down but I’ll just assume it’s nobody I know!

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@FredKiesche Search “James May John Scalzi” without quotes. You’ll find what I’m talking about 🙂

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@shaunduke And the first thing returned is another blogger, Romeo Woof Woof, that keeps threatening to retire (but never has). Thanks.

R. A. Kennedy ‏@RomeoRites
@FredKiesche @shaunduke Romeo Woof Woof? I’m guessing that’s not me.

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@RomeoRites @shaunduke In this case I was sort of using NATO phonetic alphabet.

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@FredKiesche Is…is that bad? Do I want to know?

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@shaunduke Ask @PrinceJvstin . MY BRAIN HURTS SO MUCH NOW, I THOUGHT HE WAS RETIRED //thud//

Paul Weimer ‏@PrinceJvstin
@FredKiesche @shaunduke he’s still not retired? Good grief.

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@PrinceJvstin Ye Gods and Little Fishes, no. https://seasonoftheredwolf.wordpress.com/

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@shaunduke Don’t say I didn’t warn you. https://seasonoftheredwolf.wordpress.com/

Paul Weimer ‏@PrinceJvstin
@FredKiesche you are going to have me read him again?! Between him, Hoyt and VD, I’ll go mad

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@PrinceJvstin I think his style has gone more confused. Makes those two look like models of editorial clarity.

Paul Weimer ‏@PrinceJvstin
@FredKiesche he hadn’t posted since August. I thought he was done. Alas!

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@FredKiesche @RomeoRites Bleck. This guy is a giant raving coocoo pants.

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@FredKiesche @RomeoRites I’m not sure he knows the difference between “analysis” and “bald assertion.”

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@FredKiesche @RomeoRites Bald

R. A. Kennedy ‏@RomeoRites
@shaunduke @FredKiesche Oh I see, kinda like, “He who must not be named.” Lest he reveal himself. He can yap on, that’s for sure.

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@RomeoRites @shaunduke Mostly because when you use his name, he’ll pick it up from tweets and work you into his next blog “essay”.

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@PrinceJvstin Updated an entry from mid-February to March 9. Still not scraped off our respective shoes.

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@RomeoRites @FredKiesche You can’t even use his nicknames now. He’ll find those, too.

R. A. Kennedy ‏@RomeoRites
@shaunduke @FredKiesche Bleddy hell! Like Blogron or Bloggermort. Dafter than a half scraped carrot.

Fred Kiesche ‏@FredKiesche
@RomeoRites @shaunduke Now we’re just insulting carrots.

R. A. Kennedy ‏@RomeoRites
@FredKiesche @shaunduke If that’s one of his nicknames, I’ll be for the chop.

shaunduke ‏@shaunduke
@RomeoRites @FredKiesche Bloggermort

R. A. Kennedy ‏@RomeoRites
@shaunduke @FredKiesche I like that name.

These Tweets are even more pathetic than Natalie Luhrs’s and followers, and I didn’t think that really possible; on the other hand when it comes to the idiot Left in the genre community, there are no limits to their obscene asininity. In fact these Tweets follow the very predictable and inadvertently revealing pattern that is the obscene brain-deadness of Kiesche and Weimar and their dumb dumb followers, given their previous tweeting on this blog, notably here. In that article Anna Tambour’s extreme, ugly and indisputable anti-Semitism is alluded to in all its naked glory, and Kiesche and Weimer can only tweet mindless insults my way (see self-same article). Then there is this Iain Banks themed article, in which the then living Iain Banks’s pathological and vicious Jew hatred is alluded to, and the exact same derisive tweeting from Tweedledum & Tweedledee came my way (and in the process they were sucking up to one of my nemeses, the extreme anti-Israel ‘Jew’ Lavie Tidhar. Check that Banks article for their Tweets).

Tweedeldum and Tweedledee and gang aren’t bothered by the fact that they save their worst invective for me, when tweeting on my blog articles revealing with considerable evidence, the most base and extreme anti-Semitism; namely this one, in which Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism is the very centerpiece around which everything else is decoration. And they hate Truesdale, like all the Thought Police! And the other two mentioned directly above, namely the articles on the anti-Semites Anna Tambour and Iain Banks respectively.

What this tells us about Kiesche, Weimer and their peanut gallery is naturally lost on them. Oblivious. Then again I said as much in that Tambour focused article.

As with Luhrs and her gang (Ann Somerville included), note how these morons ignore the actual central hub of this whole lengthy essay, around which everything else I write revolves. Namely Dave Truesdale’s Holocaust Fucking Revisionism. And to repeat myself, the likes of Kiesche, Weimar and gang hate Truesdale, they hate his politics (as with Luhrs and her followers). In fact you would have no idea at all that my latest blog post is about, you know, a right-wing SF critic/editor’s Holocaust Denialism! going by these idiot Twitterers’ Twit Tweeting; and that my blog as a whole has as its central theme, the exposé of  anti-Semitism in the genre community. As I once remarked to Tobias Buckell who likewise thinks that the  most pathetic name-calling directed my way somehow shores up his position and refutes mine:

No I wouldn’t expect a coherent answer from the likes of Stross and Buckell (and the Apex SF crew as a whole). That’s not possible. Going by Buckell’s tweet ‘seriously whack shit’ (and Stross’s tweets likewise for that matter), nobody would know what on earth I was actually writing about. I mean I could be writing about calling for the excavation of the lost ruins of Atlantis under Antarctica, the invasion of China, bombing the Martians, endorsing some David Icke conspiracy on alien lizards in the White House feeding on human sacrifices, bringing back eugenics or remaking Heaven’s Gate going by Stross’s and Buckell’s fact-free tweets. Simply lame.

These idiots are so desperate to shore up their shaky delusions, which are numerous, that they really do uh think that calling me lame names sans evidence, somehow demolishes my argument/s. It’s not the ad hominems that are the problem in and of themselves, it’s that they don’t even attempt to back up their low opinion of myself with any even vague attempt or pretense of evidence or facts. Sure I call them idiots too, but I make it clear why they are such. Hmm let’s see, this is the only blog pointing out that amidst SF’s 49th nervous breakdown, namely the Truesdale SFWA petition, nobody on either side of the kerfluffle can be bothered to mention the fact that Truesdale is a Holocaust Denier/Revisionist. Then again this is the only blog that has the smoking gun re Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism. The response to these considerable revelations in this very article by the Red Wolf, from Tweedledum and Tweedelee and gang on Twitter: The Red Wolf/Romeo Woof Woof is confused, my style is worse than Hoyt and Vox Day, I’m dumber than a carrot. That’s insulting to carrots. Their ‘brains’ hurt. Let’s invent a new nickname for Romeo Woof Woof, Bloggermort!

Notice the heavy implication that I’m to the right of the reactionary Vox Day, when I’m not even a conservative and actually call out Vox Day in this article (and elsewhere) as a racist and a misogynist, a homophobic reactionary. Then again since when did these Thought Police idiots care for what I actually write. They have their bogey man to cast stones at, how else can they feel better about themselves?

Yaaaaaaawn. Projection Projection Projection. Wonder if these guys know what that is?
Truth is I think Tweedledum and Tweedledee and followers would miss me if I retired completely.

It’s difficult to know who is dumber – Tweedledum & Tweedledee and their little sect or Tim Lieder? How to quantify and measure it? Kiesche and Weimar and their gang of morons can’t be bothered to mention what this article – heck this very blog – *is actually about* (I don’t think that they actually know); they just dismiss me with name calling, which the Fairies have told ’em, really works! Then there is Tim Lieder who to his credit actually mentions the charge of Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism; Tweedledum and Tweedledee and their blind mice can’t be bothered to mention the man’s very name, any more than their fellow Thought Police peers, Luhrs and gang. However Lieder then undoes this lead (as in being less dumb, yeah it’s relative) he has on Tweedledum and Tweedledee by saying that I have no evidence for Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism! Of course Lieder has done this repeatedly (whilst simultaneously denying that he does it, just click on that latest Lieder gibberish blog post directed my way). And as a consequence, one could argue that Lieder sneaks ahead of Luhrs, Somerville etc., along with Kiesche, Wiemer, Duke, R. A. Kennedy in the obscene zombie obtuseness championship stakes. But it’s a close call, gotta say.

Further update (I know so many):

Look at this from the Jewish writer Jack Dann (who signed the petition), dated 16th February 2014, TWO DAYS after this original article went online.  Dann thanks Holocaust Denier Truesdale:

Tangent Online is airing a 1947 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.” Dave Truesdale dedicated the Tangent Online episode to yours truly because  I wrote a homage to Fitzgerald called “The Diamond Pit”. Thanks, Dave. That was very kind!

FEBRUARY 2015 UPDATE

It’s interesting – although that might not be the right word – to relate the fact that Dave Truesdale remains very much persona grata, among the big old movers and shakers in SF. That is he is still very much accepted by his peers, Jewish and Gentile alike. Rather, more accurately, those who were just fine communicating with him prior to this very revelation from February 2014, never mind when it was all first publicized. That is those folk who signed the Truesdale Petition, or at the very least some of them, major writers and editors… Why do I say that? Here is the Jewish Mike Resnick, with an article from Tangent (very much still Truesdale’s baby) dated January 2015. Note the buddy buddy intro, which I assume is written by Truesdale. Even if it isn’t (well who else?), Resnick has no problem whatsoever writing for Truesdale’s mag, Tangent. This, to repeat the point, is in 2015. RESNICK DOESN’T WANT TO KNOW. Liberal genre ‘Jewry’ just don’t want to know. Like liberal American Jews in general, not wanting to know about how Obama’s embrace of the Iranian mullahs threatens Israel’s very survival. And more in that vein. As in Obama’s frenzied Jew hatred in general. Could Care Less. Microcosm of SFF genre Jews reflects the macrocosm of liberal Jews as a whole. Could Care Less.

Also this Tangent article dated October 2014 written by Gregory Benford, about his trip to Africa. Interesting that he also penned this previous article at Tangent, dated September 2014. I say interesting, because it’s about LonCon 2014, and how Benford, a giant in the field, perceived it as riddled through with unpleasant PC Marxism and related Leftist histrionics and neuroses. I’m sure. Yet Benford chooses to tell us all about it at Holocaust Revisionist Truesdale’s place on the World Wide Web. Hello? Oh wait this chilling ‘zombie chronicles’ nightmare is unending. As in the larger world, a microcosm of the macrocosm. Hey what’s the denial of the genocide of Jews at the hands of the Nazis, among Gentile and Jewish friends anyhow, compared to British Marxist pomposity, smugness and stupidity? Pathetic. I have to say that Benford and Resnick really have no excuse at this point in time. They just don’t want to know, do they? I mean what else is their excuse, if they can be said to have one?

Truesdale penned  this review article at the SF Site (of his fellow anti-Semite Kathryn Cramer’s one book that she co-edited, by the by). It is dated 2014. This may or may not be post-PetitionGate. The SF Site appears to be run at least in part, by the Jewish Steven H Silver (who is well aware of the charges leveled at Truesdale).

Also, Breitbart.com which is a popular conservative news source covering politics, Hollywood, media and the like, had an article posted up on the Conservative vs SJW morons of the SFF community, in February 2015. It pertains to the politics of the Hugos and how it has all been hijacked by the Social Justice Warriors and their censorship and ostracization of those they don’t like from that awards scene (like Larry Correia and others); and how the latter have responded. Namely the ‘Sad Puppies’ thing. A few other things are mentioned. I agree with most of the article. There are however a few road bumps. Aside from its whitewashing of Theodore Beale aka Vox Day’s misogyny and indisputable anti-black racism, there is this:

Their victims [the victims of the SJ Warriors – red wolf] are littered across the SFF community. In 2013, the Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) were targeted by a shirtstorm-like cyber-mob of digital puritans after one of their cover editions was deemed to be “too sexual.” The controversy did not die down until two of its most respected writers, Mike Resnick and Barry Malzburg, were dismissed from the publication. This occurred despite a vigorous counter-campaign by liberal members of the sci-fi community, including twelve Nebula award winners and three former presidents of the SFWA. 

Now if you click on the underlined ‘counter-campaign’, it takes you of course to the petition drafted up by Truesdale at Tangentonline, with all its signatories. This Breitbart article is from February 2015. Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism (wot’s that guv’nor?) is being self-censored as much from the Right as from the Left. Does Not Surprise Me in the Slightest.

If a real big scandal occurs in the SFF genre community, and nobody talks about it, was there a scandal to begin with? If liberal American Jews in the genre community, and in general, behave like cowards at best and self-loathing worms at worst, in the face of hardcore anti-Semitism (whether that anti-Semitism comes from conservatives, liberals or Muslims), and nobody calls them out on it – does that mean they are in the clear?

7th September 2016 UPDATE

I think it worth adding some additional info here, to those who may stumble across this article. Relating to SF’s 212th nervous breakdown, the expulsion of Dave Truesdale from MidAmeriCon II held in Kansas City, Mo in late August 2016.

Even though this happened in 2016, I’m certainly not going to be writing up any new separate articles on Truesdale! Enough is enough.

Truesdale was expelled after he went on a political rant as moderator on a panel on 19th August (other speakers included Gordon Van Gelder, far Lefty Aussie Jonathan Strahan who has a strong antipathy to Israel btw, Sheila Williams and Neil Clarke) entitled ‘The State of Short Fiction’. Some appear to have bandied the panel as ‘The Golden Age of SF’. Truesdale has made his talk (the audio) publicly available at Tangent.

Truesdale being Truesdale, complained about the stifling left-wing politicization of American Science Fiction, the alleged stifling of its creativeness and free expression by Social Justice Warrior spoilers, and the latters’ endless histrionics. And related. All this ranting on a SF Con panel having nothing to do with any of this.

How Truesdale just loves to see himself as a Galileo-like figure fighting the Inquisition that Truesdale perceives as the US SF Establishment. Truesdale has a real Martyr’s Complex.

Far Left cretin supreme Jim Hines’s blog posting on the Truesdale expulsion (and here is why I call him a cretin supreme), which sees Paul Levinson (pro-Truesdale) and Charles Stross (anti-Truesdale) exchange insults in the comments. Hines’s blog posting has a lot of other links to this affair, and is probably the definitive link in this regard.

For what it’s worth, and to repeat myself somewhat excessively, both Levinson and Stross are Jews in Name Only, both are extremely antipathetic to Israel. Stross is of course hardcore in his ‘new’ anti-Semitism. An irony thus lost on most everybody, never mind these two odious characters, is that Stross and Levinson are more alike than they could ever know.

Levinson the Jew in Name Only, in his mindless defense of Truesdale the Holocaust Denier, constantly references the ugly bullying of the infamous Joe McCarthy and even brings up Goebbels’s sinister propaganda tactics!!! All in defense mind you of Dave Truesdale the Holocaust Denier!! Paul Levinson the ‘Jew’ who still does not know nor care that I have exposed Truesdale as a Holocaust Denier. He’s more scared of my blog than the idiot Jew-hating Marxists of the genre community. And yes to remind my readers, he is technically ‘aware’ of this blog’s existence.

Naturally the likes of Vox Day, John C Wright (who qualifies as Truesdale’s hagiographer)  all go along with Truesdale’s Martyr Act in a forum where it was arguably inappropriate and uncalled for.

It made Reddit naturally enough, if you want to take a gander just do a search there. Jason Sanford weighs in.

Genre writer Jeb Kinnison weighs in, and writes at his blog:

Dave’s beliefs are well-known, and for some programming people to ask him to volunteer then have other ConCom people judge him severely for his immoderate moderation would seem to repel future moderators from volunteering.

Really, Dave’s beliefs are well-known? Which ones?? His Holocaust Denialism? Really? Oh Kinnison is not going there, if he even has the vaguest clue.

Here is the uh Jewish Moshe Feder, an editor at Tor on all this on Facebook. A liberal Jew who ends up defending Truesdale’s right to speak, and standing against his expulsion. The supposedly Jewish Darrel Schweitzer concurs (same Facebook link), seemingly having done a U-Turn on this issue. Both are clearly utterly oblivious to Truesdale’s Holocaust Denialism. The only excuse they have is they have never heard of this blog. That however begs the question: why not? I am willing to bet every dollar I have in the bank both are utterly oblivious to Barack Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton’s, and even Bernie Sanders’s Jew hatred as well. Because hating Israel has nothing to do with Jew hatred, and what Israel hatred anyhow? I betcha. All this is related to their oblivious screw-up re Truesdale. It is all interlinked. Heads in the sand.

A blog posting at Fantasy Literature, a genre book and audio review site.

So did MidAmeriCon do the right thing here re Truesdale? I mean aside from the fact that Truesdale is a Holocaust Fucking Denier!! which begs the question, why is a Holocaust Fucking Denier/Revisionist even welcome as a moderator or speaker on a WorldCon panel, but I will come to that…

Both sides arguments arguably have merit. Admittedly it is just easier for me to support the expulsion, because Truesdale is um a Holocaust Denier folks. However we have to look at all this as a separate issue entirely and judge it on its own merits. Well maybe. The thing is I actually do agree with the liberals in SF circles – even a broken clock is right twice a day – that Truesdale pontificating about the politics of the SF scene in such a forum was unnecessarily divisive, ill-timed and unseemly. What the hell did he do it for? He was moderating on a panel about the state of short fiction for crying out loud. What on earth does this have to do with the SJW irritants in SF circles, besides absolutely nothing? It’s just Truesdale’s ego and his love for making controversy and hugging the spotlight and his politics of SF uber alles ranting, that gets the better of him. If he was ministering, lecturing and preaching on SJWs in SF circles at his blog or website, that’s just fine. I do that after all. At his platform he can do whatever he pleases. But that’s not what he did.

I find myself sympathizing to a degree with the left-wing SF commentator ‘Marion’ who wrote at her blog Deeds & Words the following:

If Truesdale were a tie-dyed-in-the-wool liberal, haranguing about the corporatization of the Democratic Party while tossing “Feel the Bern” bumper stickers into the audience, it would have been just as selfish and just as bad.

Yes that is a good point. If some far Left SF personality had done the same thing and used that panel that had nothing to do with the ugliness of contemporary politics, to wax on about how wonderful the Bern or Jeremy Corbyn are, and fume about Donald Trump as the new Hitler, I would likewise think it rude and unseemly. An out-and-out expulsion may not be warranted unless the person concerned was very rude; and fact is it would not happen in such a case anyhow because I would expect a double standard here from the Left leaning SF establishment. However that wouldn’t change the issue per se. Namely self-righteously pulpiteering on divisive politics, as if we don’t have enough of it – whether from a right-wing angle as in Truesdale’s case, or a left-wing PoV hypothetically speaking – is still improper, ill-becoming and unnecessarily rude in such a forum. Is an expulsion though too extreme? Thing is why was he really expelled? Is this it? Probably. A part of me just thinks, who cares, good on the Con organizers for expelling a Holocaust Denier even as I am the only one who says it!! and good riddance to Truesdale. Please God he is not invited to be a moderator at any other Con. Ever again.

However even if such a position has merit, the Con organizers did screw up here by even inviting Truesdale to be a moderator on a panel at a WorldCon – any panel – to begin with. For two reasons.

Firstly, I mean it was so predictable that Truesdale would do EXACTLY what he did. Which is fine I guess if you don’t mind and feel that political prattle was just fine and appropriate for the panel discussion. As one Twitter user put it, Truesdale is gonna Truesdale. So as at least one commentator at Jim Hines’s relevant blog entry points out, given that Truesdale’s behaviour was entirely predictable and should easily have been foreseen, what excuses do Con organizers have for inviting Truesdale to be a moderator in the first place? I mean if they feel that they don’t want to hear from conservative and yes reactionary political voices in such a forum or consider it inappropriate…

I mean other than willful blindness that is.

And now really this is where I have no choice but to bring this up, once again… Sigh.

Yes I repeat myself and repeat myself and repeat myself. I am compelled to do so as long as I blog, because it’s always the same old same old…

The real reason that Truesdale should never have been on any World Con panel is…

THE FACT THAT TRUESDALE IS A HOLOCAUST DENIER/REVISIONIST. And is there really any excuse in 2016 for WorldCon organizers not to know this?

Naturally none of the commentators at Hines’s blog entry – including the idiot Hines who is technically ‘aware’ of this blog – bring up Truesdale’s uh dissident views on the annihilation of European Jewry. (Any more than the uh Jews Feder and Schweitzer make mention of it because they don’t appear to know at all and they clearly don’t want to know about anything touching on anti-Semitism, in and out of the genre community. As with all of liberal so-called Jewry. Scared to death of going anywhere near acknowledging the monster that is Jew hatred) Pathetic. Sure I don’t expect all genre pros and fandom to know about my blog, but you know plenty do. Then again what else to expect?

As of late 2016, a Google search for ‘Dave Truesdale’ and ‘Tangent’ still brings up the Season of the Red Wolf exposés of Dave Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism on page 2 of Google search results, if not on page 1 any longer. A search of the archives of this blog shows that many of the genre’s pro writers, editors, fans (including former SWFA president John Scalzi) have had plenty to Tweet and on occasion blog and Facebook prattle on re the Season of the Red Wolf. Even if largely dismissive in a way that is frankly as sinister as it is oblivious. I mean I am exposing anti-Semitism in the mad mad mad and witless genre community of dullards duh. However the point I want to make is what excuse do at least some of the movers and shakers in SF who are ‘cognizant’ of this blog have for not alerting at least some of the Con organizers to the fact that Truesdale is a Holocaust Revisionist? I mean this is a WorldCon after all.

Well as I relate time and time and time again, everybody – so-called Jewish and Gentile alike – is scared stiff of recognizing the existence of Jew hatred. It is a taboo. Make that a HUGE TABOO. Don’t want to go there. At all costs.

So two and a half years after the Truesdale petition was signed onto by these oblivious genre Jews, we have people agreeing with Truesdale’s expulsion from MidAmeriCon II on the one hand, and those harshly disagreeing and defending poor innocent Galileo wannabe Tangent editor Dave Truesdale on the other hand. Naturally none of them bring up the fact that Truesdale is a Holocaust Denier (and yes Holocaust Denialism is Holocaust Revisionism and vice versa). Because we can’t go there now!

Obviously those defending Truesdale conveniently ignore/are oblivious to that ugly monster of extreme and oblivious Judenhass in Truesdale’s cupboard! But so are those who support the decision of the head honchos at the Con to expel Truesdale. That is the latter also ignore Truesdale’s Holocaust Denialism, sweeping it under the rug or play at Hear no anti-Semitism See no anti-Semitism Speak of no anti-Semitism. That is the liberal modus operandi and the Jewish modus operandi likewise. Even as it appears to be in the interest of the latter group to make mention of it! Even as it appears to be akin to military generals in a war not using their most heavy weaponry such as artillery and fighter bombers they have in their arsenal to target enemy combatants in a desperate battle, and instead merely make use of small arms fire from infantry troops.

I will just say that the exact same psychological and sociological dynamics are at play here once again re the willful silence on Truesdale’s Holocaust Revisionism from liberal SF folk who consider Truesdale to be a reactionary, misogynist and racist. But not an anti-Semite!! It’s the same Black Comedy. Over and over and over again, for as long as Truesdale makes a scene in the SF public sphere.

Naturally airheads like the Jew in Name Only Charles Stross, and Jim Hines for that matter, would never use Truesdale’s Holocaust Denialism against the ‘Jew’ Paul Levinson!! and for that matter any other Jews defending Truesdale such as Feder and Schweitzer. That is because the source in this regard – the Red Wolf – makes Stross and Hines come off just as badly as Levinson and other genre so-called Jewry. In fact Stross comes off far worse than anybody here. Just check what I write re Stross (and Graham Raven) further up. In summation, Levinson, Hines and Stross are all technically so-called aware of this very blog (well as aware as zombies can ever be), and none of them can mention the monster in Truesdale’s cupboard. Levinson I am willing to bet couldn’t ever bring himself to click on any link to the Red Wolf blog. Ever. Not even to my article on Levinson himself I am willing to bet. I don’t have Ron Paul banners anywhere for one, so he just couldn’t bring himself to go anywhere near…

Hence what I mean by the black comedy that is unending. I’m the pro-Israel anti-Islamist Zionist Jew (well yes I am indeed), hence an evil right-wing ZioCon in the eyes of the Loony Left (yes they are), and so everything I write must thus be tinged with madness… So Stross and Hines for that matter, both of whom have launched the most asinine insults my way – and the way of any and all other ‘Islamophobes’ such as Elizabeth Moon – have tied their own hands re Truesdale’s most egregious and obscene bigotry, namely the latter’s Holocaust Denialism.

So naturally not one of the liberals, communists, socialists, anarchists and assorted Social Justice Warriors in the SF genre community – having painted themselves into a corner re the Red Wolf blogger – dares make mention that the likes of Vox Day, the ‘Jewish’ Paul Levinson, John C Wright and other right-wing whiners and even uh liberal Jews! are not doing themselves any favours and do not have a leg to stand on. Namely those running to the defense of a Holocaust Denier/Revisionist! ranting about perceived political slights and stifling of opposition political viewpoints in official SF circles, are being extremely hypocritical, absurd, obscene and counter-productive. And utterly oblivious. If not sinister. To put it mildly. That is the SF right-wing community who have complained about the poor Holocaust Revisionist Dave Truesdale’s alleged mistreatment at MidAmeriCon II – American SF’s very own Giordano Bruno being burned at the stake, well in the mind of Truesdale at least – only serves to justify the suspicions liberals and Jewish liberals among them, have about right-wing folk in general. It proves that it’s not just idiot liberals who are guilty of the most idiotic identity politics. So is the Right. In and out of the genre community. Hey Dave Truesdale is the anti-PC Right’s Holocaust Revisionist not the Left’s Holocaust Revisionist. So he’s just fine, sparkling and good and all is right with the Right. To the right-wing spectrum of the SF community. What to expect from the Mel Gibson lovers/defenders really? The Right’s Jew haters are just fine to the Right. It’s only the Left’s Jew haters that are ugly and bigoted. If the latter can even be said to exist at all.

When people who complain about Political Correctness turn out to be Holocaust Deniers, well that is the neo-Nazi definition of Political Correctness at work. The PC definition used by the alt.right brigade of white supremacists across the West, the successors to the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society, the BNP types in the UK. The kind of far right-wing folk who think Political Correctness is the refusal to face up to the prejudicial belief that black people are innately inferior to white people and Jim Crow and apartheid in South Africa were good things which we ought to wax nostalgic over; and likewise think PC is the refusal to acknowledge Jews as nefarious all-powerful trouble makers, prone to evil, greed and malice. The kind of right-wing homophobic reactionaries who think it’s PC softness and immorality to consider gay rights a basic human right, rather than an affront to civilization or what passes for the latter anyhow.

This has nothing to do with the kind of actual PC rubbish I myself have decried at this blog, as do other bloggers, journalists and commentators around the world, from Mark Steyn to Douglas Murray, historian Bat Ye’or, gay writer Bruce Bawer, Allen West, Geert Wilders, Pat Condell, Steve Emerson, the late murdered Pim Fortuyn, Ezra Levant to the late Oriana Fallaci. And plenty others. Namely the kind of moral and cultural relativism the Left routinely engages in; the Left’s Islamophilia most pertinently, related denialism and apologetics for the Jihad International, respectable and fashionable anti-Semitism as anti-Israelism/anti-Zionism/post-Zionism, asinine America hating and related hatred of the West and associated Western self-loathing and the resultant ever intensifying Western Civilizational Suicide.

If this is how it is not only in SF circles but the wider world: namely a choice between left-wing Islamophiles and Israel haters (that is disingenuous sophisticated Jew haters who pretend they are nothing of the sort) and alt.right John Bircher types who are more nakedly and crudely anti-Semitic and anti-black racists and homophobes, then God help us. And that is how it looks from here. Increasingly so. I know there is a significant silent wedge of people in the SF genre community – and out of it for that matter – who just roll their eyes at both political camps here who have more in common than not, but the silence is itself a problem.

A Holocaust Denier/Revisionist is no icon of Truth Telling to the Power of the left-wing American SF Establishment. That’s for definite! And you will only read that here. From the Red Wolf. No other genre Jew – writer, fan, editor, publisher – dares make public mention of it! Some do a helluva lot worse. 

There is something else that should be put on the public record re Truesdale’s expulsion that otherwise would not be known about. When Truesdale was expelled from MidAmeriCon on the 20th August, there was a sudden spike in my blog stats (that very day), and I mean to this self-same Dave Truesdale Petition article from 2014 (naturally before this September 2016 update). This spike remained over the next few days, with the highest number of visitors to this particular article by a long shot, being on the 24th August. This is all relative when you are blogging on the Internet equivalent of the Outback, but even so… This article was discussed on Facebook (among a small group of people), behind the scenes. No mention was made on Twitter nor any blog. I do not know the group or the identities of the folk involved. Were at least some of these people among the organizers/honchos from MidAmeriCon? I don’t know. I can only speculate here. But clearly the timing here is not a meaningless coincidence.

Interesting no?

The Jew at the end of his tether

This article is unlike anything else that I have ever published at this blog. That is it does not concern the Science Fiction genre community. It is an article that would easily belong in a general Jewish and Israeli newspaper, website or blog. However its theme is not only contemporary anti-Semitism, but how things are rapidly unfolding in a way that would frighten and disturb even the most pessimistic Israel supporter, Jewish or Gentile, and gladden the hearts of Jew-haters everywhere, be they Muslim jihadists, far right-wing white supremacists, Jew-hating Western liberals, socialists, communists, goy and ‘Jewish’ alike.

The news that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu decided to release over one hundred Palestinian terrorists/jihadists in order to get ‘peace talks’ with the Palestinian Authority under M Abbas restarted at the end of July, sent tremors of shock and anger through the hearts and minds of all Jews with any real sense, both in Israel and abroad. That he clearly did so under relentless pressure from the Obama administration is obvious enough.

Bluntly speaking Netanyahu decided to release dozens of Palestinian terrorists in order to appease and capitulate to the demands of the Muslim extremist Palestinian Authority/PA and Fatah, headed as it is by a Holocaust Denying jihadist Mahmoud Abbas who has dedicated his life to the destruction of Israel (he co-founded the PLO in 1964, which calls for the destruction of Israel on its charter) and whose administration has always glorified suicide bombers and other terrorist acts against Jews, naming streets after them, praising them in their media and mosques, and the like. Then again Fatah/the PA has carried out numerous suicide bombing attacks and other terrorist atrocities through its armed wing, the al–Aqsa Martyrs‘ Brigades. All this aided and abetted by the US State Department and the EU, since they finance the PA to a large degree. I’m not even talking about Hamas here.

What even many of Netanyahu’s critics miss here is that if Abbas and the PA insist we free over a hundred terrorist prisoners from Israeli jails, who Abbas sees as heroic political prisoners, and justice and ‘peace concerns’ demand their release; then Abbas and the PA don’t want peace, they emphatically reject peace and support jihadist terror against the Jews. In that case why enter into so-called peace talks with unambiguous supporters of the jihad against the Jews? This does not appear to occur to Netanyahu and the other fools on the Israeli Left. Or if it does, they have decided to ignore this obvious fact. Sure Kerry and Obama are happy. But neither of them have Israel’s interests at heart, and only naive fools or anti-Semites think otherwise.

Gonen Ginat is one of the relatively few to point this out. He writes at Israel HaYom (‘Israel Today’, in English):

The problem is this: In demanding the release of racist murderers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is declaring that he is not a partner. Racially motivated murders are the polar opposite of peace. You can’t negotiate peace while simultaneously revering terrorists as heroes. Anyone demanding the release of racist killers is thereby declaring that he is not interested in peace.

As soon as the request for the release of these despicable killers was submitted, we should have announced that anyone who makes such a demand is basically proving that they do not want peace. The fact that Abbas is a Holocaust denier seeking to free racist murderers should render him unfit as a partner for anything.

The pathetic rationalist defense of Netanyahu’s capitulation to those who wish us ill, Palestinian jihadists and their liberal allies in the West alike; namely ‘it’s just realpolitik, and Bibi can’t afford to offend the White House, America is too powerful blabla’ don’t know what they are talking about. Bibi can’t afford to offend the anti-Semitic Obama administration, otherwise the anti-Semitic Obama administration would wish us ill. As if it doesn’t already. As if it doesn’t act accordingly. The White House has betrayed us on Iran, we are all alone there. We are betrayed by them time and time again, all over the show. Obama and Kerry, the US Democratic Party have a knife in our backs, and Bibi like something out of a Marquis de Sade ‘vision’, begs for the knife to go in even deeper, so the rest of us can feel the pain. And American liberal ‘Jews’ voted for this Jew-hating US admininstration, and that includes of course our US genre ‘Jewish’ liberals. Twice over.

Even if by some miracle, not a single one of these released terrorists goes back to jihadist terror or is thwarted in some way or somehow (and don’t count on that at all); all we have done is capitulate to jihadists and their dupes in the White House. In principle, it is no different to the appeasement of fascism by Britain and France in the 1930s. Abbas and his fellow Muslim fanatics are only encouraged in their Jew-hate bloodlust by what they rightly see as Netanyahu’s weakness, his fear. They smell it. And so in all likelihood, a new intifada of some sort against the Jews will begin in earnest. Sooner or later. The very real enemy of the sovereign Jewish state is not only the jihadists, the Muslim extremists in the Middle-East and beyond who seek to wipe Israel off the map; that includes the PA/Fatah, who the Western Left and the Israeli Left mislabel moderates and peace partners. The enemy is also the Obama White House, the US State Department, the US media and other powerful organs in the US that seek to aid and abet the jihadists in sheeps’ clothing, in the latters’ genocidal goal. All in the name of peace naturally enough. The US Left and Muslim Brotherhood supporting White House and Democractic Party are no better than the Jew-hating European Union. Most American Jews do not understand this at all, they are brain-dead. As if that isn’t bad enough, Israel’s so-called right-wing hawk prime minister goes along with this phased plan for Israel’s destruction; he who begs for mercy from the Jew-hating Abbas and the Jew-hating White House alike.

There is something far more chilling than even the concern for an upcoming Palestinian intifada… Netanyahu’s surrender to the Palestinian ‘moderate’ jihadists under Abbas, means we can have no faith in Bibi’s leadership in dealing with the existential threat from the far more powerful Iranian regime. Or anywhere else for that matter.

Well-known Middle-East analyst Barry Rubin gives possibly the best analysis of what is probably going on behind the scenes, and gives the best explanation I have seen on the pressure Netanyahu has likely been put under and will continue to be put under by both the Jew-hating EU and the Jew-hating Obama administration, to get Israel’s PM to capitulate to the demands of the genocidal Jew-hating PA/Fatah. The latter’s duplicity and lying is notorious, and their end goal remains the destruction of Israel. The PA are actually honest about this end goal, to their own people at least. The Western media and governments, including the US, just lie and cover up this genocidal Jew-hatred of the PA and Fatah notably enough. To be transparent about it would give away what sympathy and support for the Palestinians is all about – namely Jew-hatred. Never mind  that Hamas can overthrow the PA easily enough, once Israel has abandoned the West Bank, as happened in Gaza.

Bibi has been put between a rock and a hard place. However he has still made the wrong choice. Even taking into account everything Rubin says. Either we stand up to the Jew-hating Obama administration and its EU allies and call out their Jew-hatred for what it is, or we go along with the phased plan for Israel’s destruction, a plan which goes under the banner slogan of ‘peace and justice for the Palestinians’. Bibi has opted for the latter and in doing so has betrayed his origins, his past as a brave soldier, his brother who died at Entebbe, his brilliant historian father. He has betrayed Israel, the Jews and the truth itself.

In fact it is predictably The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick who puts it best of all, pulling no punches about what Netanyahu’s cowardice means (and she uses that exact word, cowardice), the PA and Abbas’s genocidal Jew-hatred and the support the latter have from the True Believers Kerry and Obama.

Israel cannot continue to survive with a PM who capitulates under pressure from Jew-haters, whether they be Muslim Arab Jew-haters or American and European Jew-haters. And it won’t. We have survived the foolishness of Olmert and Rabin before Netanyahu. However now the threats are not from the Palestinian extremists alone (that includes Fatah and Hamas, among others), we have Iran (the big one), a chaotic Egypt and Syria, a Hamas ruled Gaza, a powerful enemy in Turkey that was once an ally not that long ago, a Jordan that can fall to the Muslim Brotherhood… If that wasn’t all bad enough, the Europeans are as anti-Semitic as they have ever been, and the world’s (declining) superpower arms our enemies to the teeth and calls for the Jews – and only the Jews – to surrender ever more territory and security affairs to the Muslim extremist Palestinian Authority. Or else. The betrayal from liberal American Jews is especially disgusting. A betrayal they are utterly oblivious to. Yet how has Bibi – he who unlike the brain-dead liberal American Jews theoretically knows better – done better? He – unlike the brain-dead American Jewish Left – knows that appeasement and concessions to jihadists and terrorists of every stripe only makes things worse for Israel and only intensifies the jihad against the Jews. And yet he has gone ahead with appeasement to Muslim fascists, it’s straight out of the Neville Chamberlain playbook. Inexcusable and indefensible.

Even as the surrender of Gaza by Israel in 2005 has resulted in a Hamas take-over and a rocket siege on south-western Israel, even as the surrender of southern Lebanon has seen a Hezbollah take-over. Even as Israel gave up the Sinai in ’79, and now it is in chaos, and bands of jihadists are battling Egyptian army units there as I type this… And given all this, the West – with its cultural history of murderous Jew-hatred – still expects Israel to surrender its whole eastern buffer zone, that actually almost cuts Israel clean in half. These are not good intentions by the US and the EU; given Israel’s very recent past experience, of giving up territory in return for Muslim fanatics to fill the gap. And Jewry for the most part has its collective head buried in the sand. Too afraid to face facts. Yet it has always been the refusal to face facts that results in even more chaos and catastrophe. See the lead-up to World War Two for example.

The very obsessiveness by the Obama White House and the West as a whole with the Israel-Palestinian ‘peace talks’ is a form of Jew-hatred. Even most pro-Israel folk it would appear don’t understand this. Why is it Jew-hatred?

Two main reasons.

One: Why does the West not focus on getting peace talks started in Nigeria, given the undeclared civil war there initiated by Muslim against Christians, where has the White House done anything for peace talks in Sudan, in Darfur? Where are the peace talks re East Africa, given the endless turmoil and conflict there, what about the Russians and the Chechens? When did the White House obsess about getting peace talks started between Tamils and Sinhalese in the Sri Lankan Civil War that raged for decades? What about Kashmir? What about Thailand and the Philippines where they face their own Muslim insurgencies? The White House, the EU are AWOL on that front. What about the Syrian civil war? Why doesn’t the White House insist that both sides come to the negotiating table, instead of agreeing to arm the Sunni Muslim fanatical rebels? Now all these conflicts are far worse in their savagery and loss of life than the Palestinian-Israel conflicts over the decades. The only explanation is that since none of the above mentioned conflicts (and I can mention plenty others) concern the Jews, the West, the EU and Obama and Kerry and their ilk could care less. Either this does not occur to the Israeli government, ie they are as dumb as the dumbest liberal Jews in Name Only, or they are spineless. Or both.

Two: The so-called peace talks between Israel and the PA are nothing but the destruction of Israel through diplomacy talks. C’est tout. Israel must agree to surrender increasing amounts of territory in the West Bank along with security operations to Muslim jihadists aka the Palestinian Authority and Fatah. In return for a worthless piece of paper signed and stamped by the Muslim extremist Palestinian Authority. Never mind – to repeat myself – the risk of Hamas taking over after an Israeli withdrawal, so the Palestinians can have their own state. That’s exactly what happened after Israel left Gaza. There was no talk of a Palestinian state when the West Bank was part of Jordan. It’s only now that it is part of Israel (as a result of the 1967 War initiated by the Arab Muslim states), that the ruse is afoot to get Israel to abandon control of the territory to Muslim extremists, so the latter can have another go at driving the Jews into the sea. Israel without the West Bank as a huge buffer zone cannot defend itself from an all out assault from its enemies in the region. Without the West Bank under its control, it is doubtful Israel could have pulled through by the skin of its teeth against the Soviet backed Arab armies in ’73. Naturally the Muslim Middle-East, hostile to Israel’s very existence, seeks Israel’s destruction. Naturally the Jew-hating West (for the most part), responsible in multiple ways for the extermination of six million Jews during World War Two, does too. Even if it’s not a conscious, deliberate plan on the part of the West, but an unconscious one. The fact that it appears to be the latter is no cause for comfort. However it’s not the job of the Jew nation’s government to go along with the end-goal that is the Shoah Part Two.

Yet Bibi Netanyahu is doing just that.

And as a consequence, given that Israel is under more existential danger than it was in ’73, ’67 and ’48 before that, I do not see how Israel can survive. It would be a hard enough job against very hard odds, even without a Neville Chamberlain as PM. Yet we have an Appeaser to the Muslim Jihad as the PM of Israel… Only Jew-haters can delight in this.

One of the depressing things that I have noticed about even pro-Israel religious Jewish and Christian conservative folk the last couple of years, one picks this up on the Internet, is how they think Israel can and must survive… Namely God will come to the aid of the Jews, even if at the last moment. No matter how well-meaning this is, how sincere, it is so wincing. The real world doesn’t work like that. Personally I think God exists. But it doesn’t work like that. God did not send his angels to save the Jews from Dachau and Treblinka, the angels did not disappear the train tracks to Auschwitz. And what of other victims of genocide? Where was God to save the Armenians from the Turks? What of the destruction of the native people on both American continents, Australian aborigines, and African people destroyed and enslaved by the European powers? What of the millions upon millions of victims of the Jihad over the centuries, whether they be Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, pagan, Jewish and Muslims themselves? God does not interfere in the world, not in that way. Men are free to do as they will, and only other men can either stop them if they can, or aid them in one way or another.

Ron Rosenbaum’s words from 2004 unfortunately have more relevance and a chilling resonance today than when he first penned them:

“The second Holocaust. It’s a phrase we may have to begin thinking about. A possibility we may have to contemplate. A reality we may have to witness.”

History is repeating. I wish I were wrong, way off base.

If only.

In Stanislaw Lem’s memoir Highcastle, of his childhood and adolescence in Poland before World War Two and with the wisdom of hindsight, that is the knowledge of the subsequent destruction of his people (Lem was Jewish and spent the war in hiding from the Nazis), Lem wrote:

In the thirties no one saw this coming. Though there was sometimes trouble. From the balcony of our apartment, crouching, I watched mounted police charge a crowd of demonstrators – it was during the funeral of Kozak. As rocks clattered on the metal shutters which the merchants used to try to save their windows, I saw one policeman in a shining helmet pulled off his horse. But this passed like a sudden storm, and when the janitors swept the broken glass off the sidewalk, peace returned, and nuns – my father’s grateful patients – brought from their garden great armfuls of grafted lilacs, which we put under running water in the bathtub, and on the “Merry Lvov” station we listened to the comedians Toncio and Szezepiec and the funny monologues, with much throat-clearing  from Mr. Stroncio, and I told my parents that I wouldn’t go to gymnasium because you had to wear knickerbockers, which I hated because they tickled under the knee. We were like ants bustling in an anthill over which the heel of a boot is raised. Some saw its shadow, or thought they did, but everyone, the uneasy included, ran about their usual business until the very last minute, ran with enthusiasm, devotion – to secure, to appease, to tame the future. Adults and children, we were all made equal by the blessing of ignorance, without which one cannot live.

Why Conservatism cannot save Science Fiction from the depths of idiot moral relativist PC Leftism in which it is ensnared

The town was peopled with sleepwalkers, whose trance was broken only on the rare occasions when at night their wounds, to all appearance closed, suddenly reopened. Then, waking with a start, they would run their fingers over the wounds with a sort of absentminded curiosity, twisting their lips, and in a flash their grief blazed up again, and abruptly there rose before them the mournful visage of their love. In the morning they harked back to normal conditions, in other words, the plague.

What impression, it may be asked, did these exiles of the plague make on the observer? The answer is simple; they made none. Or, to put it differently, they looked like everybody else, nondescript. They shared in the torpor of the town and in its puerile agitations. They lost every trace of a critical spirit, while gaining an air of sang-froid. You could see, for instance, even the most intelligent among them making a show like all the rest of studying the newspapers or listening to the radio, in the hope apparently of finding some reason to believe the plague would shortly end. They seemed to derive fantastic hopes or equally exaggerated fears from reading the linens that some journalist had scribbled at random, yawning with boredom at his desk. Meanwhile they drank their beer, nursed their sick, idled, or doped themselves with work, filed documents in offices, or played the phonograph at home, without betraying any difference from the rest of us. In other words, they had ceased to choose for themselves; plague had leveled out discrimination.

The Plague
Albert Camus
Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert

 

Warning: This is an article that will most probably offend absolutely everybody across the political spectrum. Just to let you know in advance.

Readers of this blog can verify for themselves that I have no patience, in fact only utter contempt, for the anti-intellectual, repressive, moral and cultural relativist and notably anti-Semitic Left, their apologetics and worse for reactionary Islam/ism; and the odious Left’s near-universalism within the rotting corpse that is the SF genre community’s publishing and awards industry and its very low level of artistic merit and consequent further artistic stifling of said community and its already woeful lack of heavyweight cultural pretensions.

This liberal rottenness is of course evidenced throughout Western liberal society. Nowhere more so than the out-of-control Obama administration, its amateurish Chicago gangsterism, its ingratiating appeasement and empowerment of far right-wing Islamism, its anti-Semitism, its numerous scandals that are starting to make the Nixon White House look like a bunch of Keystone Cops by comparison. Yet even the US government’s know-nothingness, sleaze, bigotry and bullying is only a symptom of the rot, its depth and pervasiveness in American and indeed Western society. The Obama White House, the State Department, the IRS itself are only the rotten fruits from a very rotten tree. None of this occurs in a vacuum.

As I wrote in the previous article and repeat here – The SF genre community is an interesting case study in the very worst of the Western Left (in terms of its destructive groupthink, not its influence naturally enough) and the kind of zeitgeist that mirrors the  arrogance and know-nothingness, the race baiting of the Obama White House (I have no nostalgic fondness for the incompetent Bush Jr and his administration). A zeitgeist, a way of looking at the world, that is replete with self-loathing, condescension to the Third World ‘Other’, anti-Semitism, moral cowardice, reverse racism identity politics, know-nothingness, juvenile emotionalism and just plain Thought Police gangsterism.

Those of us not enamoured of idiot gangster Leftism, its racist identity politics and the support such fashionable and indisputable reverse racism has in the left-wing SF genre community, are very much in the wilderness. When former SFFWA head cheese John Scalzi is so guilty, it sends a message of just where this community is coming from, and where it is headed. Of course that’s not all the sinister Leftism that Scalzi gets caught up in. This reverse racism/PC race baiting identity politics is increasingly integral to the political Left’s make-up, and allied, associated all too often with new anti-Semitism and its twin, odious and sinister pro-Palestinianism that is likewise increasingly integral to the Left’s make-up. That’s why identity politics in whatever form should get our warning radar up. Of course when it comes to liberal American Jews (in and out of the genre community), it’s a case of – warning radar wot? Reverse racism identity politics wot? Liberal anti-Semitism wot? Syria and Iran wot? Muslim Brotherhood wot?

James May’s exposés of the odious far Left identity politics prejudice and over-the-top grievance theater coming from the likes of Scalzi, genre hacks such as Saladin Ahmed (also a Jew hater btw), Aliette de Bodard, K Tempest Bradford and many many others, has gotten very similar if not identical ‘criticisms’ to his essay/s that I have and from the same genre characters often enough, John Scalzi included. I do not want to repeat that all again here, so to those so interested, check the prior article at this blog for the details. It is however all very pertinent and relevant to what I get at over here… The witch-hunt against Barry Malzberg and Mike Resnick over a fabricated and trumped up charge of sexism is just the latest delusional gangsterism from the mad mad genre Thought Police.

So what are the alternatives to the imbecilic stranglehold that far Leftism has on the genre community?

Well the Gatekeepers no longer work like they used to; there is independent publishing, e-books and other mediums/outlets for those who don’t give a fig for the far Left’s stranglehold on science and imaginative fiction on both sides of the Atlantic. And it’s starting to have an impact even as the twits in the Ivory Towers, from the SFFWA and Tor to many of the Nebula awards voters, don’t pay any attention and just hold up their noses. And the Marxists from the British Isles who run things Science Fictional over there, well if it could be worse than the US of A… These oh so PC know-nothing liberals don’t get how they will be laughed at by future generations  for their clownishness, their harebrained stupidity, their easy bigotry, but it’s not funny. Well in a black comedy kind of way.

Got your hopes up? Well not me. Not At All.

And here’s why…

You cannot revive a corpse.

The problem with conservative voices in science fiction, and I mean contemporary conservative voices in science fiction, is that they are … conservative. That is political conservatism tends toward reactionary thinking, wishful thinking about the Golden Age Past that never was, prudishness, embarrassing shilling for Big Corporate Dreams, apologetics for organized religion, knee-jerk, shallow and cheap patriotism.

It is the other end of the swing of the pendulum to which the know-nothing Left respond/ed with PC über–idiocy. Like Young Earth Creationists and ultra-Darwinian fundamentalists reacting to one another. What do you think gave birth to all the Dawkinsbots in the first place? No not science as Dawkins and his ilk like to pretend to themselves, but literal Biblical Creationism. They continue their kindergarten spats to this day, in the same old rut. The real science surely lies elsewhere, although I guarantee you that most SF writers and fans don’t know. Since most all of them don’t know any real science. However each side will paint you by the opposite number if you don’t go along with their equally narrow and wrong-headed warped perceptions of Nature and her evolution.

Same in politics.

If I am not a Jew sympathetic to or keen to ingratiate and appease a (Muslim) society that is overwhelmingly anti-Semitic, religious extremist, homophobic, misogynistic, anti-science, superstitious, then I must be a right-wing redneckhillbilly neo-ConCheneylovin’ gunfreakwingnut. If I don’t care for the reactionary tendencies of the Right and their equally vapid superficiality, then I’m a liberal pinkocommunist Obamlovin’ fruticakemoonbat. Unfortunately I do not exaggerate. Things have gotten this obtusely polarized in a Western society where a willful dumbed down zombification is the order of the day, and increasingly so. Whether such a society/so-called civilization can survive and should is a whole other issue, but not unrelated. If there are any responses to this article, it will almost certainly be (depending on who it’s coming from) of the ‘Red Wolf is a pinkocommunistfemministmoonbat’ or ‘Red Wolf is farrightwingnut’ variety. And preempting that here makes no difference. Where ideology rules, whether liberal or conservative, nuance and reason go out the window. As does reading comprehension.

The thing is I don’t see any fresh second wind blowing from conservatives, that can set things aright, that can negate the effects of horrible Leftism on a genre that I would arguably rank on its literary merits a teeeny weeny bit higher than cornball romance shlock but lower than say the Western or crime novel. And if it sounds like I am channeling Stanislaw Lem, well I admit as much. That’s because he knew what he was talking about. And for that he earned the ire of the SFWA. They never rebutted him. They only proved his point by receiving with open arms, the churned out shlock (after shlock after shlock), rewarding it with praise and in-house mutual backscratching. Yet things have gotten so so much worse since Lem berated American science fiction for its lack of literariness, its cornball pseudo-drama, its lack of science, real plotting, subtext, subversiveness, pacing, character development, its lack of real ideas. And the near blanket blindness of fandom to real literary merit, their utter lack of discernment. The all-round shittiness of it all in other words. Yet despite Lem’s dismissal of American and English language SF, there were good writers back then, and a fandom that did appreciate their output. Even if it was all on the margins. Now there’s pretty much nothing.

It’s so bad that artistically I would rank the SF genre at least as low as the offal produced by Hollywood. And there is a parallel there, since Hollywood did on occasion produce some gems, masterpieces even, amidst all the turkeys. Now there are only bloated turkeys really, sequels to sequels to movies based on video games or some-such, all with the budgets of the annual GNP of small Latin American countries. In other words, it is increasingly dumbed down all over. Our culture is dead. It is an anti-culture.

Can anybody imagine the kind of dreck that got nominated for Nebulas this last year even being nominated in say 1980? Me neither. Most likely a new nadir that speaks volumes, but it’s been very bad for a long long while. It’s an open secret, even among the liberals that run the show. If you don’t get what chilling message is being sent by the nominations of the derivative palubum that is N K Jemisin’s and S Ahmed’s books for the Nebula Award, then stop reading right here. That tells you just how bad it is. The Nebulas are now officially an unfunny joke if they weren’t before. The period say 1960-1990 is a relative Golden Age compared to where Science Fiction is now. It’s so bad I don’t go near it. This whole blog is motivated I suppose by some kind of weird attachment to the interests of my youth. I know it’s absurd. I never said it wasn’t.

I will give a concrete real world example of a recent ‘political event’ in science fiction politics to elucidate just why conservatism and a conservative audience cannot save science fiction. Firstly I generalize and oversimplify when I talk about Conservatism. There are PaleoCons of the Ron Paul variety, conservative libertarians, religious conservatives (which itself consists of YECers, Intelligent Design supporters, theistic evolutionists), atheist conservatives, Objectivists. And so many more divisions, sub-types, overlaps. Conservatives disagree heatedly among themselves on pretty much everything under the sun – economics, social issues and political/international affairs, immigration controversies etc. And I haven’t even gotten into the Republican-lite/RINOS/Tories thing and whether they can be said to be conservatives at all, except in name. In fact you cannot pigeonhole conservatives and if you do you are misrepresenting them. So when I speak of conservatives and conservative SF, it is necessarily overly simplistic. To be fair it is an oversimplification to group liberals as all alike, although in the genre community they do appear more prone not only to groupthink, but the identical types of groupthink and increasingly so. That’s just my take of course.

Here is the thing re conservatives and liberals dueling for the heart and soul of Science Fiction, yeah it’s a rigged game I know, and why I see no hope at all across the political spectrum.

Recently Steven Gould succeeded John Scalzi as president of the SFFWA. He easily won the contested election against conservative writer Theodore Beale aka Vox Day. Rachel Swirsky is the VP at SFFWA. In case anybody out there wonders what I have to say about the fact that there are two uh Jews as president and VP of the SFWA respectively, and the fact that there is a lot of horrible albeit de rigueur anti-Semitism among the genre pro field on both sides of the Atlantic (what this blog is all about of course)… Well this is what I have to say: anybody who knows where Gould and Swirsky’s politics lie, knows that it’s business as usual, on all fronts. How do you think Gould and Swirsky got their jobs in the first place? Gould and Swirsky have gone along with Scalzi’s capitulation – the absurd investigative Task Force – to the witch-hunters re the Thought Crime of Resnick’s and Malzberg’s. So one would have to be the most naive rube to expect anything other than Deafening Silence on Jew hatred (both the old-fashioned kind and especially the new more ‘sophisticated’ kind) among the pro genre community, from the likes of Gould and Swirsky. So if you are expecting some kind of courageous speaking out against the oldest, albeit still very fashionable hatred, that pervades the liberal SF genre community (as it does the Left as a whole) from these two characters; all I can say is, do you want to make me laugh? I mean not that anybody excepts that of course!

In fact Gould is on the record with defending the disgusting racist identity politics from Scalzi, Jemisin and Ahmed, the only way he can, via a pathetic shoot the messenger (James May that is) personal attack of the Scalzi variety. Given that, what do you think the Jew haters (who pretend they are not) in the genre community have to fear from somebody like Steve Gould and his deputy? Yeah exactly. Less than nothing. The triumph of Court Jewdom in (and out of) the US pro genre community only encourages that festering and even in-your-face Jew hatred by pretending that such bigotry is either not there at all or perversely is anti-racism (‘peace and justice for the Palestinians’/anti-Zionism). All this neo-Orwellian insanity follows the same perverse motifs as the new racist identity politics of course. They are all rotten fruit from the identical rotten roots. Yet as I have written elsewhere, the flood is coming and where do these Court Jews in and out of the genre community think they are going to find shelter? When do you think any of them will find their conscience? Their consciousness for that matter? When it’s too late to matter? Cowardice is habit forming. And even then – when it’s too late – I wouldn’t bet on anything other than the persistence of their meek cowering silence and ingratiation to the Jew haters in their midst. Just as the Soviet Party faithful sentenced to death in Stalin’s show trials, loudly declared their loyalty to the Party and Stalin even as they were lined up to be shot. When the Jew haters are liberals, they can count on a free ride and even active support from Court Jewdom (and if you doubt me in this respect, just check this blog’s archives). No matter how bad it gets with the Jew-hating Left, liberal Jews (in and out of the genre community) largely continue to ignore the problem and focus on other things (like the evil Republicans, the Tea Party, the NRA etc). Yet the Jew hatred is getting worse with every passing month. It really is.

All this brings me to Theodore Beale aka Vox Day, the voice for ‘conservative sanity’ in the Science Fiction genre community. So he thinks. Yes Beale does have on occasion some sensible things to say, about the moral relativist and cultural relativist far Left insanity that pervades the SF genre community, and the odious liberal gate-keeping of the commercial and ‘artistic’ award circus. However Beale is – to put it as politely and diplomatically as possible – not the most reasonable alternative to the status quo. It’s not that he’s a little cranky, or odd, who isn’t in the genre community? Who isn’t period? It’s that his um opinions on women and homosexuality are simply eyebrow raising. There is no other way to put it.

Now I don’t care for RationalWiki any more than I care for Wiki on controversial issues. RationalWiki’s bias to so-called enlightenment values that are not always such is apparent and in-your-face. It appears to have a clear anti-religious and scientific materialist agenda, an agenda that hews to the liberal status quo across the board, and RationalWiki may well suffer from moral and cultural relativist delusions that Western liberalism suffers from as a whole. I mention this because this is Beale’s page at RationalWiki. However there are some quotes there attributed to Beale – I am talking about what he has to say about women and homosexuality – that make one wonder if they are for real or at least intended to be tongue-in-cheek. Well they are for real and no they are not intended to be sarcastic.

Here are some of his choice remarks on gays for example:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2010/08/ending-gay-defect.html

I am not entirely convinced that all orientational challenges are birth defects; like most things homosexuality is likely a combination of nature and nurture. But even if we set all moral and religious tradition aside, (the wisdom of which is of course debatable), there can still be no question that to the extent nature is responsible, homosexuality is a birth defect from every relevant secular, material, and sociological perspective. Defective is not synonymous with bad. Blind people aren’t bad and yet scientists seek to give them sight. Deaf people aren’t bad and yet scientists seek to help them hear. So, there is no need to condemn gays in any way in order for scientists to help them achieve sexual normality.

I am not going to bother going into details on why the above is just misguided, disturbing and contradictory. Either you see it or you don’t. Homosexuality is “a combination of nature…” and yet it is “a birth defect”. And ‘civilized society’ needs to treat it as such. The path down which this kind of thinking leads is not one I care to go down… Beale appears to be sincere in that he intends no personal malice or hatred to homosexuals – he makes it clear he doesn’t see homosexuality as bad per se. And yet Beale does give comfort and justification to those who are hateful to homosexuals. However Beale may vociferously deny it and not intend it at all. This is why Beale’s self-deceptive thinking on this front is so dangerous and beyond the pale. [PS No I am not gay myself, although I know some people think so]

On women in science and well, women, he is arguably misogynistic. And no I don’t take seriously the claims of militant feminists here at all, since the latter have no credibility whatsoever (witness the Malzberg and Resnick witch-hunt after all); but Beale’s more mainstream critics and his own *actual remarks* here speak for themselves (I mean one just needs to quote Beale without comment):
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/03/13/vox-days-misogyny/

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2009/08/there-is-no-marital-rape.html

Now if Beale were just reacting and mocking the idiotic extremes of far Left feminism (and militant feminism in the academy for that matter), and its anti-male prejudice and out-and-out imbecility (as exemplified by the Malzberg-Resnick kerfluffle), I would and do concur. The militant feminists are the flip side of the coin to old-fashioned misogyny and excessive patriarchy in our society. However the problem with Beale is that he appears to go further than that, and his remarks on women as a whole appear to be persistently and consistently troubling, a little over-the-top.

The thing is Beale easily alienates or risks alienating (one assumes) half the genre community with his breezy, negative remarks on the female sex. One would think he would want as many readers as possible, as much support as he could get from SFFWA voters, when everything is rigged against you. Does Beale not realize that there are as likely to be as many genre females who are infuriated with moronic Leftism and its hold on the genre, as males? Or does Beale think that women are disproportionately in favor of selling the political status quo? Even if he does believe that, does he really want to alienate the women who don’t care for how feminism has lost its way (when it comes to militant feminism, plenty of women just roll their eyes); and women who don’t care for the Left’s and the genre Left’s love affair/apologetics for reactionary Islam? Well that’s the message Beale could easily be construed as sending out.

More recently Beale has gotten into a spat with N K Jemisin, radical US feminist genre writer over the latter’s controversial speech in Australia (just google it if you can be bothered). One wonders when Jemisin will be visiting Egypt or the Sudan or any nation in the Persian Gulf to let us know about what she thinks of how women and girls are treated there by Sharia law; but as they say when hell freezes over…  Yet Beale’s response to Jemisin falls into the same trap, the same mold, they are both reacting off one another with stereotypes, superficial finger-pointing and offensive generalizations that are fallacious. He is reactionary, she is well a far Leftist (enough said).

Another thing that I cannot leave out, is that Beale is in bitter dispute with the SFWA given that he accuses the latter of unfair discrimination and negative attacks against Beale’s person at the latter’s (private) forums, and similar issues. Given the snakes’ nest and vile gossipy nature of the SFWA, and the latter’s odious far Left political bent on top of all that; well I’m not on the side of the SFWA here. However I don’t know what has gone on behind the scenes and thus I cannot comment on this with any real knowledge whatsoever, so will leave off. If anybody is so interested, Beale has quite a lot to say about it at his blog.

The thing is conservatives who cheer him on either haven’t noticed his uh problematic side, or they don’t care to notice, or they simply share his reactionary tendencies. We have common enemies after all, and you know let’s not look to closely at our embarrassing relatives who are effective leaders and sell lots of books… The enemy of my enemy is my friend, goes the thinking on both sides of the aisle. And this is symptomatic of why there is no hope for conservative SF. And conservatism really. The same lack of concern of prejudice, that infects the Left like a cancer. Misogyny? Yawn. Well depends on how you look at it. Gays shmays. Whatever. The far Left are misogynistic too, horribly so. This is especially the case with far Left feminists, but who knows that? Given liberal militant feminists’ running cover for reactionary Islam (as liberals are wont to do as a whole), and the latter’s in-your-face misogyny; well this shows up a core of  self-loathing, of masochism, of a strong anti-female streak within the militant feminist Movement. The ironies with the Left are beyond compare. That’s a whole other thing, beyond this article’s general scope. Just read the authentic feminist Phyllis Chesler’s Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman and The Death of Feminism. Not that these feminists ever will. None of the Left’s misogyny and the genre Left’s misogyny (that they don’t begin to recognize at all, along with the anti-Semitism) excuse such misogyny if it comes from conservative circles, in and out of the genre community. And so partisans on both sides of the aisle will point fingers at the other and close ranks. We have dragons to fight after all, and you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. So it goes. Yeah well count me out.

In other words, Gould had no real competition. Although Fordham U prof Paul Levinson has served as president of the SFWA, and Levinson is a political crackpot. I’m sure there are plenty of genre pro writers and wannabe writers who don’t care for the status quo and the business-as-usual approach from Gould, but Beale as the alternative is no viable alternative.

And as I make clear further up, Scalzi is guilty of PC identity politics and its explicit racism, and likewise doesn’t have the tiniest problem whatsoever with extreme Jew hatred from the genre community. Ditto Scalzi’s successor, Court Jew Steven Gould. So how is Scalzi better than Beale? How is Gould? Other than the fact that Scalzi’s identity politics prejudice and enforcement of deafening silence to Jew hatred from genre writers is just going along with the zeitgeist of our times; that is the genre Thought Police’s prejudices are respectable prejudices and Beale’s are not. Scalzi (and Gould) aren’t any better than Beale and neither are the formers’ supporters.

The thing is though that Beale’s reactionary slant isn’t the way forward, heck by definition reactionary thinking is going back to the past and past mistakes. It’s answering the horrible prejudices of Scalzi and his ilk with Beale’s own neuroses. And it makes no sense to say that Beale’s prejudices are preferable to Scalzi’s or vice versa. Yet Scalzi’s race-baiting has its seal of approval from liberal America, from the White House itself, from a dumb media, the Ivy League. And it’s all branded as anti-racism, anti-prejudice. That’s what makes Scalzi and the genre Thought Police’s prejudices so very scary.

Here’s another one of my beefs with conservative SF. Does anybody think the books of self-admitted conservative writers today have more real artistic merit than the books of the brain-dead Leftists? On average? Anybody? I mean say by the standards of The Man in the High Castle, Beyond Apollo, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Last Men in London, Fiasco, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, More than Human, Stranger in a Strange Land, Earth Abides? And if you answer with an affirmative, you are either being disingenuous or you are guilty of exactly what Lem was getting at in his criticism of American SF fandom. No critical discernment whatsoever. If you answer: ‘where is the artistic merit in Scalzi’s inane pap, in Gould’s output, and the genre Left’s derivative and mediocre fiction as a whole?’, you are missing the point by a mile. Devouring P K Dick and whatever B grade pulp dreck you can think of at the same level of appreciation and a ‘hey it’s all the same to me, enjoyed both books’ throwaway line is just wincing. It’s as if somebody would rank at the same level, films such as Spiderman 3 or Transformers Dark Side of the Dirge to say Judgement at Nuremberg and Lawrence of Arabia. Now if you say it’s rather odd or even impossible to see Spiderman as the artistic and cultural equivalent of Lawrence of Arabia, I have an answer for you. Well sure it is. But we are talking about SF fandom here. And fandom’s critical appreciation and discernment of the literary merits or otherwise of genre ‘literature’ – and this applies across the political spectrum – is simply lacking. Like the general public when it comes to taste in movies. Yes I really do think that genre fandom is every bit as uh ‘cultured’ as the general public. As in not. And if that strikes the reader as elitist, well then so be it. It’s not just me saying this about fandom, Lem said it. And he’s right. These people, or way too many of them, have no sense of real discernment whatsoever. I am not saying that there is something wrong with enjoying popcorn thrillers at their own level. I’m saying a lot of genre fandom simply can’t tell the difference between popcorn pulp thrillers/tired derivative drama and more ennobling creative endeavors, or if they can they simply don’t care for the very large chasm in quality at all. And that’s kind of worrying. Well it certainly explains a lot.

Getting back to why there is no hope for conservative SF per se as an artistic, genuine LITERATURE; well look at the state of conservative art and culture as a whole… Woeful. I mean what art and culture? The really bad, recent Ayn Rand film adaptation Atlas Shrugged being a case in point. Then again given the source material… Then again many conservatives – and not just those hypnotized by Objectivism – think Atlas Shrugged the book is High Art or at least Big Thinking. How do you argue with people who believe that? It’s like arguing with liberals who believe that Michael Moore is anything other than a know-nothing, dishonest partisan hack. Hey if you want to believe that Ayn Rand or Michael Moore are Truth Tellers to Power, believe it. I’m not going to change your mind.

Where both liberals and conservatives can make good art, music, books is where they drop the ideological axe grinding and focus on real people, real interesting concepts, real drama and dilemmas. I will give a more concrete illustration of what I am getting at. The anti-Americanism of liberal politics and liberal political ‘literature’ and art is as embarrassing, wincing and as stupid as the ‘ra ra America is the greatest country in the world’ empty nationalism of the Right. The former is also just plain bigotry. A middle way, a sensible path devoid of excessive nationalism on the one hand and self-loathing shame on the other hand appears a razor edged narrow balancing wire these days. If a genre or non-genre political novel/fiction is set in an America or UK (or a future America) where the dénouement tends toward either self-flagellating Leftism, ‘we are worse than North Korea and the Taliban’ garbage or empty headed flag waving ‘America and Brittania are all that stands for Civilization as we Know it and the Hordes of Barbarians wanting to tear it all down’ (not that there aren’t barbarians out there) – well either way it ain’t art. It ain’t authentic meaty, nuanced literature. It may be lots of things, but  real literature it is not. It’s fluff and nonsense. It’s ideological axe-grinding. It can never be anything more.

Sean Penn is a liberal know-nothing if there was one, his shameful nadir his support for the left-wing fascist Jew-hating Venezuelan dictator, the late Hugo Chavez. And remember Penn is part Jewish. Yet Penn is a great actor and he has directed some masterful films. That’s because he never let or used to let his idiot Leftism get in the way of his considerable talents. Where he does, such as in the dishonest propaganda flick Fair Game, it’s a disaster. Reactionary anti-Semite Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the greatest writers who ever lived, since he was a Big Ideas man and a Serious Thinker. British genre writer Ian Watson is a very good science fiction writer, when he isn’t slumming it. His liberalism is neither here nor there. That’s because he is fascinated by real human conundrums, he is truly knowledgeable on the obscurer corners in science, art, literature, religion and he is a Thinker with a capital T. And it all comes through in his science fiction. And it’s why most SF fandom don’t appear to read him, if they have even heard of him.

I think Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is a good novel, even if I cannot stand Gaiman’s paint-by-the-numbers Lefty politics. Get A Clue Neil. Your fellow liberals tend to hate you. You’re a Yid after all. As I have written here, your “good man and a friend for almost 30 years”, the late Iain Banks technically speaking, actually hated you. Never mind Neil. Go back to sleep. Yet American Gods is good because Gaiman writes about real people, with real flaws, not caricatures and he is deeply knowledgeable about mythology and it informs his stories in ways that impress. He writes about the Things that Matter. His politics don’t come through too much. Terry Bisson can also write some great stuff, it’s because he is a talented quality writer. His Leftism doesn’t interfere too much in his better work. The late non-genre Portuguese writer José Saramago was a very good writer, his far Leftism and for that matter his Jew hatred, doesn’t get in the way of that. That’s because he concentrated on real human drama and serious, meaty issues and with a discerning eye and pen.

The late genre writer John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up is deservedly considered a classic. That’s because it is predicated on the real societal tragedy that is environmental destruction and ecological despoliation and its horrific consequences. Nowadays hysterical groupthink liberal political activism masquerades as ‘environmental science concerns’; the consequence is genre pap written by know-nothing scientific illiterate airhead genre liberals beholden to an incredibly destructive pseudo-scientific cult that is ironically and irrationally religious i.e. ‘the climate change/global warming genre’ or whatever they want to call it. Yeah I know it has a proper name, I don’t care to remember it. Perhaps a new nadir, if that’s possible, in liberal genre palubum. When are we going to have the ‘Palestinian chic’ sub-genre? Oh wait it’s already around, I’ve missed it right? Thank God. Maybe it’s the next big novel coming from China Mieville, with a foreword by his fawning Court Jew Lavie “the Palestinians have become the true Jews” Tidhar. I know don’t tell me, the Palestinian chic narrative is already there in Mieville. It’s in the subtext. Yawn. Well I don’t read Mieville. Oh My God What Am I Missing? I don’t want to know. Really.

There aren’t many real thinkers  in the genre community, I’ll tell you that much. They are almost as rare as synagogues in Afghanistan. Maybe rarer.

Even modern political SF can be good (at least a large chunk of the political science fiction from the last century, where it was not hampered so much by the current moral relativist garbage), as long as it is not over-the-top or expresses a saner liberal sensibility circa 1950s-1970. Lucius Shepard’s Life During Wartime from the mid-eighties is a good novel (perhaps his best) because its politics are not odious twenty-first century Left. Michelangelo Antonioni‘s only American film Zabriskie Point (1970) is a (non-genre) film that heavily polarized its audience. For all its flaws, I think it a minor gem. Its flaws are artistic, not political. And where it is political, and it is very liberal politically, it’s from a time when liberals for all their excesses did not march arm in arm with jihadists to uh protest against Jews defending their right to life.

Famous and masterful science fiction films such as 2001, the Russian Solaris, The Man who fell to Earth, Planet of the Apes (1968), Blade Runner will be watched please God by future generations; because their themes and concerns are universal, dare I say it religious, getting to grips with real human conflicts and difficulties concerning Good and Evil, conflicts that transcend petty and dated political pap. It’s not a coincidence that such films are adaptations or drawn from the ideas of truly masterful genre writers – Clarke, Lem, Tevis, Boulle (not technically a genre writer of course), and P K Dick respectively. The far Left garbage film V for Vendetta (2005) is the definitive cinematic guide to the sinister moral and cultural relativist, self-loathing psychoses of our times, filtered through a genre lens. A woefully dishonest updated adaptation of a very good left-wing political 1980s British comic by Alan Moore, a comic/graphic novel that I liked. Although – scarily enough – I doubt most all liberal genre folk on both sides of the Atlantic would get what is so wrong with that film, or would criticize it for all the wrong reasons (such as poor acting).

And if we look at the other side… It may be unfair to say that conservative ‘art’ is at the level of the Hallmark channel, safe, insipid, prudish, superficial, but on the other hand just how unfair is that really? I mean sure it’s a generalization.

And getting back to conservative SF, what is it about conservative SF that stands out? Yes military SF. I have nothing against the likes of David Drake and John Ringo. I’m sure I would enjoy a beer with these guys, probably even like them at a personal level, but I would never read their books. Not ever. Their output is not literature, it’s not even an approximation of it, as can almost be the case with a good Western or a crime novel. And if this is the kind of stuff you like to read, not merely as popcorn escapism, but you think it is telling you Something Valuable About Our World and Humanity; well then … don’t tell me what good literature is, across the board. Because I ain’t listening. You have nothing to say. You can’t have it both ways. If you read conservative or just plain military SF as escapism, fine. But then don’t complain about the really awful state of science fiction and how it is drowning in PC stale Leftism. Who are you to complain? Since you clearly don’t read SF for its ‘literary quality’ to begin with. If you read military SF because well you think it’s quality science fiction, then how would you know the state of science fiction is so dreckful to begin with? You wouldn’t. Your problem is just that the genre is not rewarding with awards and book contracts the ideological dreck you like, it’s replete with ideological dreck you don’t like. Pot to kettle.

So what to do? Nothing is gonna change. It’s all bad to the bone. It cannot be reformed. It’s like Congress. Reform? You’re kidding right? Like the Democrats and Republicans, who you gonna pick? The whole system is busted, it’s rotten to the core. Its systemic corruption, greed and deep-seated know-nothingness across the political system. And in multiple ways. There can be no reform, no real change. Yet people are going to go on believing, their party can be reformed, we just need to get rid of the RINOs or the sleaze and corruption from the Democratic side blah blah. You know what it is to give CPR to a corpse that’s been rotting for weeks, the maggots having eaten right through to the bone, and not letting that bother you? Yes a sickening madness. You think the American and Western political circuses can be redeemed, whatever your personal politics? People are so naive. Worse. True Believers across the political divides.

Getting back to the science fiction circus…

This is what to do, my advice at any rate. Take it or ignore it.

Look at science fiction the way an outsider to the whole genre would. Somebody who actually has some discernment, open-mindedness, sensitivity, somebody who has read and appreciated a wide literature; from Dickens to Tolstoy, from Hemingway to Hermann Hesse. Somebody not enamoured of any kind of ideological axe-grinding. Somebody with an interest in history, science, anthropology, psychology, religion and mythology. Somebody who doesn’t take The NY Times as gospel, and not Atlas Shrugged and Fox News neither. In other words, somebody who wouldn’t fit in the asylum for the juvenile insane that is the SF genre community. Now this somebody who does not go to the library or bookstores to pick up the latest Robert Jordan or Turtledove, somebody who wouldn’t necessarily know Heinlein from Frank Herbert, then out of curiosity investigates science fiction. And not just a cursory or superficial look-in, but a serious look-in, its history and its current status. What would he discover? What do you think?

He would discover that it is a field that is potentially subversive, actually subversive on very very rare occasions, offers in principle great possibilities that no other genre can offer, and that in its past has given us some good, even masterful creative novels, novellas and short stories. However its artistic status today is well – to repeat myself- so woeful that it is past embarrassing. In fact our prospective somebody would sooner be caught with a brown paper bag carrying a book on the Roswell aliens and a Left Behind tract, a ‘porn for truckers’ rag than the average SF novel we see out there on the book racks today. Heck I know I would. I remember Harlan Ellison (some decades ago now) with the typical protest-too-much-inferiority-complex of so many genre writers, going on about how SF has arrived and it no longer has to prove itself. It’s out of the ghetto. Well you know considering how SF if anything is deteriorating – and who would have thought that even possible say three decades back? – Ellison is so very wrong. SF is still in the ghetto. Actually it’s not even good enough for the ghetto where the Western and crime novel are. It’s in the grave. Yup it’s been demoted from the ghetto. It’s no longer even good enough for the ghetto. Now if science fiction can only raise itself to the level of say the crime novel, if it could only get back to the ghetto! That would be a step up.

I have a nine year old nephew who reads a lot, who is clearly talented in maths and science, quiet, shy, sensitive, a bookish tendency, not good at sports. I am afraid that in his adolescence he may discover science fiction. He is the type who probably will. I need to warn him off. I will tell him this: ‘kid, there is good SF and there is bad SF. Signal to noise is very low. Most of it is just horrible and can even cause brain damage. Most all of the good stuff was published before I was born or when I was your age and a little older maybe. Here is what is worthwhile reading (give him my personal list), yes I’m sure I will miss out quite a few good novels, even lots of good novels. I hardly know or care to know about all the writers out there, past and present. The point is I don’t want you reading too much SF kid. If you read a few dozen SF novels in your whole adolescence and young adulthood, in your whole life, it is more than enough. A few dozen novels at the most is just fine (from my personal favourite list of course and I mean here SF in the narrow and ‘pure’ sense. I don’t include broader magical realism, William Burroughs, Calvino, Borges, 1984 – that kind of thing). Oh yeah there are lots of good short stories that have been published, worth reading a fair number of short stories, published in the main a long time ago now.’

The real meat in books lies elsewhere. The time it takes to read several big bloated door-stopper SF books of uneven quality can be better used to read everything from Plato to Philip Roth, Euripides to Lawrence Durrell, Gogol to Twain. And what of non-fiction? Any person curious about the world and humanity has a natural interest in history, psychology, biography, religion (having nothing to do with being religious) and even if not inclined to science, at least something on its history and controversies. Life is short and in between working, getting laid (hopefully), cooking, doing the laundry, listening to music, hanging out with friends, there ain’t all the time in the world for reading. And there is too much to know, about everything that is interesting and worth knowing at least a little about. If you could live for five hundred years, have a couple of hours every day for reading, day in and day out; you would not come close to reading all the worth-while books out there, fiction and non-fiction, all the books that are worth delving into. Just on biography, history, mythology, anthropology alone, one would need the lifetime of a Methuselah. Never mind more esoteric subjects, never mind serious literature (I’m not talking genre literature).

Clearly the obvious reason why so many of these science fiction and imaginative fiction writers are so embarrassingly free of even basic knowledge of the sciences (and why their cluelessness impacts so negatively on their fiction) is that they simply don’t read any science, nothing weighty by any means; they are too busy reading science fiction and fantasy to the exclusion of science. Clearly one of the reasons why the liberal SF community is so clueless as to the reality of the world today, evinced by the formers’ cultural relativism, is that they don’t read any authentic or wide history. They are reading too much genre pap instead. Of course the Western Left who don’t know Le Guin from Lester Del Rey, Aldiss from Zelazny (i.e. probably most liberals), are likewise for the most part ignorant of science and history. Hence the tragic triumph of modern-day know-nothing liberalism and to a lesser degree reactionary conservatism everywhere. Other people not sucked into SF just have their own escapes is all. Reality TV, shallow political activism, heroin addiction, facebook, booze, football, Sudoku, whatever else.

What am I getting at? The short of it is this: Leave science fiction behind.

Don’t even pay attention to the SFFWA, to the Nebulas, don’t subscribe to any of the mags, read non-genre literature, even crime novels. Read history, science, biographies, anthropology. Read real literature. Anything but science fiction and fantasy and whatever else in between. I except the very very small number of genre fiction output that is worth reading, largely part of the past. And if your response is: so why are you bothering to tell SF fans this, on a SF-centric blog after all? Well why preach to the converted? Those outsiders who rightly hold up their noses to SF, because they sense rightly that it’s junk. I preach to those who are still not converted, who still care about science fiction. Even if all I’m really doing is just letting off some steam.

Leave science fiction behind. With Notable Exceptions. Past and Present. You’ll be so glad you did.

I wouldn’t quite say, we have to destroy science fiction in order to save it, well… But at the least we have to leave it behind in order to save it. In order that something new can rise from the ashes. Of course that’s not going to happen. You can’t change the SF genre community, even if you agree with everything or pretty much everything I say here. And how many people would? Way too few. That’s the thing. There is just too much inertial stupidity, too many ideological axe-grinders, too little concern for real quality writing (and the Writers’ Workshops don’t appear to have improved things at all. For all I know they may be part of the problem), and these twits call the shots. It would be easier to reform Congress. So leave SF to itself, let it twist in the wind and become increasingly irrelevant, as with the mainstream media.

In closing here is an admittedly cruel analogy: Science Fiction needs to be viewed in the same way, from the lens that a middle-aged man remembers an infatuation with a pretty girl in his school class from back when he was 15. She had a little puppy fat, but man she was cute and got your heart racing, and the smile she had, it finished you, turned you to jelly. You haven’t seen her in thirty years. You wonder about her sometimes, thinking about what could have been. And then by some chance, you see her for the first time in thirty years. Well, she’s got three kids now, she’s put on a lot of weight, her hair is stringy, her eyes have lost that spark, she’s tired and her skin is pallid. She doesn’t exactly set your heart racing, in fact just the opposite. Of course you ain’t so hot yourself any more, beer-bellied, slack muscles, receding hairline, same tired eyes. She’s thinking of you what you are thinking of her. You are polite to one another – how’s it been, good to see you. But really after saying goodbye, you both wish you hadn’t set eyes on each other, taints the memories, taints what was; for all the fumbling and awkwardness of those teen years, there was promise and real beauty back then. And now it’s gone, broken and lost.

Like Science Fiction.

Actually the analogy to middle-age is not fair on tired middle-aged folk past their prime. Science Fiction is more accurately a very old crone, on life support, oxygen mask, and suffering from Alzheimer’s, not even remembering her name or the names of her children, can’t feed herself and needs help going to the bathroom. You just want to see her out of her misery.

It was fun while it lasted. Well maybe. It was nice knowing you even if I never introduced you to my relatives. Can you blame me? Now drift off slowly from dementia into oblivion. I mean I don’t wish it on you. Yet clearly that’s where you are going and there is nothing I can do about it. Got bigger fish to fry.

 

Old M. Michel’s temperature had gone down to 99 and, though he still looked very weak, he was smiling.
“He’s better, doctor, isn’t he?” his wife inquired.
“Well, it’s a bit too early to say.”
At noon the sick man’s temperature shot up abruptly to 104, he was in constant delirium and had started vomiting again. The ganglia in the neck were painful to the touch, and the old man seemed to be straining to hold his head as far as possible from his body. His wife sat at the foot of the bed, her hands on the counterpane, gently clasping his feet. She gazed at Rieux imploringly.
“Listen,” he said, “we’ll have to move him to a hospital and try a special treatment. I’ll ring up for the ambulance.”
Two hours later the doctor and Mme Michel were in the ambulance bending over the sick man. Rambling words were issuing from the gaping mouth, thickly coated now with sores. He kept on repeating: “Them rats! Them damned rats!” His face had gone livid, a grayish green, his lips were bloodless, his breath came in sudden gasps. His limbs spread out by the ganglia, embedded in the berth as if he were trying to bury himself in it or a voice from the depths of the earth were summoning him below, the unhappy man seemed to be stifling under some unseen pressure. His wife was sobbing…
“Isn’t there any hope left, doctor?”
“He’s dead.”

The Plague
Albert Camus
Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert

Leftist writers Barry Malzberg & Mike Resnick get mugged by the genre Thought Police. An additional perspective on a huge kerfluffle over nothing. In other news, Iran goes nuclear

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regarded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapses; when we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man’s worthlessness – until redeemed – the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state.

Our difficulty in believing the – for want of a better word – political inspiration of the Devil is due in great part to the fact that he is called up and damned not only by our social antagonists but by our own side, whatever it may be. The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the Church’s enemies relied no less upon the Old Boy to keep the human mind enthralled. Luther was himself accused of alliance with Hell, and he in turn accused his enemies. To complicate matters further, he believed that he had had contact with the Devil and had argued theology with him. I am not surprised at this, for at my own university a professor of history – a Lutheran, by the way – used to assemble his graduate students, draw the shades, and commune in the classroom with Erasmus. He was never, to my knowledge, officially scoffed at for this, the reason being that the university officials, like most of us, are the children of a history which still sucks at the Devil’s teats. At this writing, only England has held back before the temptations of contemporary diabolism. In the countries of the Communist ideology, all resistance of any import is linked to the totally malign capitalist succubi, and in America any man who is not reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell. Political opposition, thereby, is given an inhumane overlay which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized intercourse. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. Once such an equation is effectively made, society becomes a congerie of plots and counterplots, and the main role of government changes from that of the arbiter to that of the scourge of God.

The results of this process are no different now from what they ever were, except sometimes in the degree of cruelty inflicted, and not always even in that department. Normally the actions and deeds of a man were all that society felt comfortable in judging, The secret intent of an action was left to the ministers, priests, and rabbis to deal with. When diabolism rises, however, actions are the least important manifests of the true nature of a man. The Devil, as Reverend Hale said, is a wily one, and, until an hour before he fell, even God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Act One
The Crucible
Arthur Miller

 

You know the genre Thought Police never cease to amaze me, in terms of the depths of their immoral depravity, delusions, gangsterism; yet they continue to seek to outdo themselves, set new precedents in terms of their Politically Correct Lunacy. I know I should never be surprised by them, and yet I have to admit their madness and I do mean madness is beyond my ability to articulate…

And they – the genre Thought Police – have arguably set a new nadir with the Barry Malzberg-Mike Resnick SFFWA Bulletin kerfluffle over I swear absolutely nothing. And it has gotten so out of control that it’s even made news in The Guardian and Slate.

There are literally thousands of blog articles, forum commentary, twittering twits on their twit feeds blabbing on about absolutely nothing. It’s official if it wasn’t before – the SFFWA and fandom is overrun by a vocal minority of very very mad people, who have ruined and are ruining science fiction.

The ballyhoo in American science fiction circles revolving around the Barry Malzberg-Mike Rensick Dialogues at the SFFWA Bulletin, the internal magazine of that pointless organization, only shows how deep the political rot goes there. It really doesn’t get worse – or does it? – than that kind of militant feminist kickback (to nothing at all!) and shrill imbecility in response to Resnick’s and Malzberg’s harmless banter. Talk about genre Thought Police sheeeesh.

Clearly if any heterosexual men give the slightest whiff of evidence for their shock gasp heterosexuality in the most non-offensive manner (well to those of us still possessing some sanity), it’s a criminal offense. Beautiful women cannot be called… beautiful and ‘knock-outs’. They cannot even be called ‘ladies’. I kid you not. It crosses the line to the genre Thought Police. Well the line is crossed alright, into PC insanity. Calling women ‘ladies’ is about as offensive as calling men uh ‘gentlemen’. As in not. To those of us not stark raving nuts.

Likewise apparently we must pretend all women are equally attractive or non-attractive I suppose. We must lie outrageously. Maybe we should pretend all men and women have as much sexual arousal and attractiveness to the opposite sex, as you know we have to assorted pieces of machinery, teapots, umbrellas, ashtrays and asphalt driveways, trees and armchairs, clouds and crumpets. Well clearly. What about gay men and women? Are gay men and women entitled to give voice, in even the mildest way, to their sexuality? Or not? Do the Thought Police have a universal standard here? What if some gay genre female calls another woman (straight or gay) very beautiful, even a knock-out? Is that allowed? Or not? If it is permitted for gay women to actually reveal their sexuality, but straight men are not, isn’t that a hypocritical double standard? Hahahahaha.

Maybe Resnick and Malzberg have to pretend they are asexual or eunuchs or dead. Clearly, since they cannot give the teeniest hint of being heterosexual males. It’s offensive to the genre feminists for heterosexual males to be sigh heterosexual or actually show any signs of life in this department. Well to lots of genre feminists at any rate. What about heterosexual women, are they allowed to give voice to their heterosexuality? If some female heterosexual genre writers call some good-looking guy in the genre community (living or dead) very handsome, even with a good bod, have they crossed a line into outrageous sexism? Does anybody really think so? Would any men out there (straight or gay) be offended by genre women calling any genre male figure handsome, even oh my God very handsome and even oh my God having a nice body? I mean assuming there are a few good-looking well-sculpted men out there in the genre community! Or is it one set of rules for heterosexual males and another for females? Is it one set of rules for gays for that matter and another for hetero males? And if you are going to be consistent here: that is if you think it’s sexist for straight women to call a man incredibly handsome with a good body even Oh My God, and if you think likewise it is sexist for gay people (men, women, bisexuals, transsexuals) to call any man/woman sexy or very attractive and likewise them calling women … shudder … ladies; then you are no less idiotic and delusional for all that. The short of it is this: these people are fucking insane and they cannot be reasoned with, only subjected to the ridicule they deserve.

Oh yeah notice how none of these genre militant feminist Thought Police have the teeniest problem whatsoever with the hardcore and near universally tolerated Jew hatred from the self-same genre community (that I have exposed over here. I’m naturally in the wilderness). And Resnick and Malzberg – both Jewish – naturally don’t go there… Does this even occur to them? Do they even have the vaguest idea? Who knows? Frankly and bluntly speaking – given that Malzberg and Resnick are baby-boomer Jewish liberals, I don’t necessarily think they truly recognize the plague that is the new anti-Semitism, nor its pervasiveness and depth in (and out of) the liberal genre community.

Andrew Fox, US genre writer gives a sensible and thoughtful overview (and thus one of very few with any backbone really) of the kerfluffle over nothing, that tells us more about Resnick’s and Malzberg’s critics, than it does about Malzberg and Resnick.

The thing is Resnick and Malzberg appear to be truly shocked at the depths and pervasiveness of this ‘liberal fascism’. [A minor pedantic nitpicking quibble where I disagree with Fox, is that what we are witnessing is indeed a ‘liberal fascism’; merely because this invented non-scandal is a bullying tyranny not being exercised by a state apparatus, doesn’t make it less fascist, as far as the common meaning of the word is appreciated. That is all this Thought Police gangsterism against Resnick and Malzberg follows the modus operandi of fascism, the ‘spirit’ of fascism. Although pedantically and technically speaking Fox makes a valid point] The thing is why are Resnick and Malzberg so dismayed? This is the reality of the far Left in America and the West today, and the far Left run the in-house circus that is the SFFWA and associated organs. Such a bullying and dishonest hucksterism, shrill histrionics, and yes witch-hunting is actively encouraged by Obama nation; it reflects the very zeitgeist of the Obama administration, and if you don’t recognize that you don’t know jack. Resnick and Malzberg are baby-boomer Jewish old-school liberals who have been left behind by the new Far Left PC Thought Police and the latter’s descent into self-parody and Alinskyite bullying. To be fair who isn’t left behind by the zeitgeist of the generation that follows? And even I am shocked by the sheer depravity, idiocy and gangsterism of the Left and the far Left these days and they are of my generation, and I keep a close eye on their gangsterism, bullying and lying. Got to admit it’s hard to keep up.

Now I am not going to merely add to what has already been said on this front by Andrew Fox, what would be the point? He puts it better than I could. I do think it though worth bringing a fresh perspective and adding a few points re this whole kerfluffle that I haven’t really seen mentioned much, if at all. From the perspective of this very blog, not only have I been detailing the horrors, hypocrisies and bigotry of the genre Thought Police over the last few years, I have also been a victim of their mau-mauing attacks (as Fox rightly labels it). One James May has also been doing sterling work exposing the racist identity politics operating at the heart of the American science fiction community. And there are connections, common strands to the Malzberg/Resnick brouhaha and the kind of gangsterism, bullying and bigotry of the reverse racism identity politics in the SF genre community exposed by James May and the new (and old) anti-Semitism exposed in ugly detail at this blog. One should add the sinister mislabeling  of authentic criticisms of Islam as the prejudicial thought crime of ‘Islamophobia’ to the mix… That’s where a broader bird’s eye view is needed.

The SF genre community is an interesting case study in the very worst of the Western Left (in terms of its destructive groupthink, not its influence. My God I hope its influence is minimal) and the kind of worldview that mirrors the  arrogance and know-nothingness, the race baiting of the Obama White House (I have no nostalgic fondness for the incompetent Bush Jr and his administration). A zeitgeist, a way of looking at the world, that is replete with self-loathing, condescension to the Third World ‘Other’, anti-Semitism, moral cowardice, moral and cultural relativism, reverse racism identity politics, know-nothingness, appeasement to Muslim extremism, juvenile emotionalism, self-righteousness and just plain Thought Police gangsterism.

Those of us not enamoured of idiot gangster Leftism, its racist identity politics and the support such fashionable and indisputable reverse racism has in the left-wing SF genre community (I mean when former SFFWA head cheese John Scalzi is so guilty, it sends a message of just where this community is coming from, and where it is headed. Of course that’s not all the sinister Leftism that Scalzi gets caught up in), are very much out in the wilderness. This reverse racism/PC race baiting identity politics is increasingly integral to the political Left’s make-up, and allied, associated all too often with new anti-Semitism and its twin, odious and sinister pro-Palestinianism that is likewise increasingly integral to the Left’s make-up. That’s why identity politics in whatever form should get our warning radar up. Of course when it comes to liberal American Jews (in and out of the genre community), it’s a case of – warning radar wot? Reverse racism identity politics wot? Liberal anti-Semitism wot? Syria and Iran wot? Muslim Brotherhood wot?

It’s interesting that James May the author of extensive and well-written exposés (see links above and others at his website) of the odious identity politics prejudices coming from the likes of Scalzi, K Tempest Bradford, Saladin Ahmed (Lavie Tidhar’s good buddy) among so many others, has gotten very similar if not identical ‘criticisms’ to his essay/s that I have and from the same genre characters often enough, Scalzi included; in my case for exposing another form of fashionable prejudice that pervades the Left and the genre Left at that, de rigueur anti-Semitism and its notable cover-up by genre pros and fandom. Namely pathetic ad hominems, transparent misrepresentations, guilt by false association (in May’s case The Write Agenda), charges of bigotry (it’s called projection genre Thought Police) and the fact that he and I have written sigh long articles. Really that’s supposed to be a logical take-down. Yeah really. Your articles are long ergo they are fallacious and illogical. Then again what to expect from the likes of Scalzi and his non-Thinking Gang? Scalzi ‘thinks’ calling me a “real asshole” refutes the points I make, so does his echo-chamber. Scalzi and gang’s pathetic name-calling directed my way got even worse than that (just check the Scalzi articles at this blog. Also worth mentioning here that Scalzi *literally* sucks up to hardcore Jew hater China Mieville. Check the lowest part of that article for the details). Scalzi and his gang are predictably and consistently, mind-numbingly obtuse across the board. All their ‘criticisms’ safely channeled through the genre Left’s echo-chambers.

It’s disturbing in the extreme but not at all that surprising, that when you are explicitly exposing Jew hatred and extreme Judenhass at that, from within the genre community, you are dismissed as totally loco. It doesn’t seem to occur to Scalzi and gang that Jew haters feel the same way, about myself and my blog. Nothing to see here. Move along.

The pretty much identical illogical and fallacious shoot the messenger responses that May and myself have gotten to our articles on allied controversies and issues from vocal elements within the SF genre Left community, only goes to prove the respective points we make, and then some. How bad and pervasive is ideologically respectable prejudice among the genre Left? As bad as it gets. Worse than I could have even begun to imagine a decade ago. No decency, no thoughtfulness, nuance, no respect for basic logic and reason, nor History 101, nor contemporary reality; only an IDEOLOGY that is racist at its core and in multiple ways. All this a standard Invasion of the Body Snatchers groupthink – oh the irony – that is mandatory among the movers and shakers of science fiction.

This air-headed identity politics nonsense, a fashionable prejudice it all may be, along with the disingenuous new anti-Semitism and the pushing of the fabricated thought crime of  ‘Islamophobia’ (a thought crime invented by Muslim radicals in the West and marketed by their useful Western idiots) that I have exposed in detail at this very blog, is all inseparable from the fallacious trumped up charges of sexism directed the way of Resnick and Malzberg by these far Left gangsters. That is the lines between reverse racism identity politics, new anti-Semitism (as anti-Israelism and anti-Zionism) and its twin, the selling of ‘Islamophobia’ as an authentic prejudice, and far Left militant feminism are  blurred, overlap, if there are any lines at all. They are all of a piece. They are all four big pieces or chunks of the same absurdist Leftist behemoth ideology defended hook or crook by the Thought Police (in and out of the genre community). Each cannot be seen in isolation, but only as part of  a whole.

Laura Resnick, Mike Resnick’s daughter, cheered John Scalzi on at the latter’s comments section to his pathetic blog entry attacking James May for exposing Scalzi’s PC identity politics bigotry. Certainly such identity grievance politics is very much a fashionable prejudice among many on the American and Western Left, and scarily so. Now what goes around comes around. Many of the liberal ‘progressive’ identity politics folk who are all on board with Scalzi and Ahmed against May naturally enough, given the latter’s very real exposé of the formers’ bigotry, essentially see Laura Resnick’s father as sexist. Oh Well. What you gonna do? Laura Resnick (given that the genre Thought Police now go after her father) gets mugged by the ugly reality of her erstwhile allies, bitten by the monster she has helped to feed. 

The genre liberal progressive PC Thought Police (Scalzi included) have dismissed myself (the Jew exposing Jew hatred from within the pro genre field) with the same language and in the same style that Scalzi and gang dismissed May. I doubt Laura Resnick the Jewess would ever connect the dots. And she clearly wouldn’t want to. She’s one of the gang that attacked May in the most knee-jerk and mindless fashion after all.

Would the Jewish Mike Resnick and the Jewish Malzberg ever make the connections? Who knows? Let me spell it out – Many of the far Left Thought Police folk attacking Resnick and Malzberg in the most mindless, delusional manner are literally the same folk who have attacked the likes of James May and myself for exposing reverse racism and anti-Semitism (and PC Islamophilia) among the genre Left respectively (in my case not only the Left). In other words, so many (not necessarily all) of the genre gangster dimwits attacking Resnick and Malzberg over the latters’ non-existent sexism, are also guilty of new anti-Semitism or apologetics and whitewashing of the new Jew hatred. Interestingly former SFFWA head cheese John Scalzi  is complicit in all three distinct but inseparable shameful and sinister idiocies. That is his going along zombie style with far Left racist identity politics (his spat with James May is notable in this regard), his going along with the delusional attacks against Resnick and Malzberg (yup he has) and his likewise going along with the Thought Police’s running cover for the pro genre community’s Jew haters… Scalzi is just the very visible tip of the iceberg.

In fact an ecclesiastical inquisitional court uh sorry I mean Task Force has been set up by outgoing witchfinder gener… uh I mean president of the SFWA, Scalzi himself, to investigate Resnick’s and Malzberg’s Thought Crime. And Set Things Right, I’m sure. Whew what a relief! This Thought Crime Travesty occurred under Scalzi’s watch you see? Scalzi feels personally responsible! Incoming witchfinder gen… uh I mean new president of the SFWA Steve Gould will help to oversee this House of UnAmerican Activit… uh ecclesiastical cour… uh Task Force, and his able lieutenant Rachel Swirsky will bravely aid him here, among other witchfind.. uh Task Force investigators.

Imagine if these same witchfinders – remember Gould and Swirsky are Jewish – set up a Task Force to investigate anti-Semitism in the genre pro community? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Actually in all seriousness, I wouldn’t approve of such a Task Force, it would mean falling into the same trap as the Thought Police. All one can do is expose these anti-Semites for who they are, and leave it at that. Anyway none of these bumbling witchfinder wannabes would even recognize anti-Semitism for what it is these days! Imagine our bumbling anti-Semitic genre liberals and their fawning Court Jews investigating anti-Semitism in the genre community!?! It would be like the mafia investigating the IRS, or maybe that’s the IRS investigating the mafia! Reality has overtaken satire and parody. As with the genre Thought Police. It’s official if it wasn’t before – they have descended into self-parody. The US SF pro genre community has crossed over into George Orwell meets Terry Pratchett territory.

Our genre Thought Police would and do find any straight shooter calling de rigueur liberal anti-Semitism exactly what it is, all so incomprehensible. Court Jew Scotty ‘where is my mind?’ Edelman says as much to Scalzi re myself and my blog, and the latter and his echo-chamber concur naturally enough. It’s all like Quantum Mechanics to them. ‘Anti-Israelism, anti-Zionism? What’s that got to do with anti-Semitism?’ Heck these morons (including every single Court Jew) can’t even hold conservative Tangent editor and former SFWA Bulletin editor! Holocaust Revisionist Dave Truesdale’s feet to the fire (who they all hate anyway); so not accepting Israel’s right to exist (editor Kathryn Cramer), supporting BDS against Israel (Mieville and the late Iain Banks notably) and expressing glowing admiration and high praise for extreme Jew haters such as Richard Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb, the UK Socialist Workers Party (Nick Mamatas, Ken McLeod and plenty others) means less than nothing to our hyped up PC liberal genre Thought Police. Court Jewry included. And what of the near universal admiration for Hezbollah supporter and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Noam Chomsky among the genre (and non-genre) far Left? And speaking of Mamatas, he can indulge in the most obscene and harebrained NAMBLA friendly commentary, and it ain’t a problem whatsoever, not to the genre Thought Police who have nothing to say here. What did he say? Just check my linked article, I have the smoking gun. Yes he really did say “Butt-fucking is just mentorship between a man and a child”. Yes really he did. And then lied about what he wrote, when called out on it. The context of that whole NAMBLA horror remark is worth checking out. There is – to repeat – naturally nothing but Deafening Silence from the genre Thought Police on this front. Shocking, but who could be surprised? Compare and Contrast to the ridiculous witch-hunt against Resnick and Malzberg over Less than Nothing.

I wouldn’t necessarily even compare these amateur genre witch hunters to Joe McCarthy, it’s not fair on McCarthy.

Predictably one of the genre community’s most reliable witch hunters Jim Hines (frothed on considerably re the Elizabeth Moon Islam ‘Citizenship’ affair and has launched the most pathetic lame personal attack my way, you know the way of the blogger exposing anti-Semitism in the genre community. Let me out of the mad house somebody, anybody) offers a convenient self-righteous round up of those who call for the shaming of the witches Resnick and Malzberg.

By the way, I am not saying or leaving in the air the idea that the vitriol directed the way of Malzberg and Resnick is especially vicious because they are Jews and many of the Thought Police attacking these two are also Jew haters or at the least apologists for anti-Semites (even as they pretend they are not); aside from being humorless enforcers of militant feminism. They would surely have faced the same vitriol if they were WASP genre writers rather than Jews, and had made the same non-offensive (to non-insane people) heterosexual male comments. I am saying that nobody appears to have recognized the fact (or at least made it explicit) that many of these people attacking Malzberg and Resnick are also anti-Semites or at the least apologists for anti-Semites. And Malzberg and Resnick may not recognize this disquieting and pernicious fact. Laura Resnick certainly does not.

The thing is it is all of a piece – the militant mad feminism of today in which feminists see nothing wrong in accusing men of being sexist for merely acknowledging their heterosexuality (whilst self-same militant feminists have little if anything to say about honour killings, cliterodectomies, physical beatings and the denial of basic civil liberties and legal rights to women and girls across East, North and North-West Africa, the Muslim Middle-East and large swathes of Asia in Sharia ruled nations and territories), reverse racism identity politics, the delusional and malevolent marketing of ‘Islamophobia’ as bigotry and new anti-Semitism.

Leftists Malzberg and Resnick have been mugged by the reality of the mad bad Left of today, but not in the way that Jewish liberals usually are… That is not with respect to the mad bad Left’s in-your-face Jew hatred. Nevertheless it is the latter that is as much of a problem with the Left and the genre Left at that, as is their militant and insane hyped PC feminism that is clearly misandrist. Malzberg and Resnick may have been rudely awakened to the reality of the feminism of today that has nothing on the mainstream feminism of the 1960s; yet the reality of the Left’s and the genre Left’s Jew hatred (and the complicity of genre Court Jewry in tolerating that hatred and worse) is not something they appear to have recognized. That is in that regard they have yet to be mugged by the ugly contemporary liberal reality. Well that’s how it looks from here.

Let me spell this out: The likes of China Mieville and the late Iain Banks are guilty of the most extreme and transparent anti-Semitism, and hardly anybody says boo. Court Jewry cover for Mieville in the most pathetic and scandalous fashion, even the likes of the Jewish Neil Gaiman and the Jewish David Brin fawn all over the Jew hater Banks upon the latter’s death. Genre editor Kathryn Cramer is likewise a hardcore Jew hater and I am the only one who has called her out on it, at least explicitly (compare that with all the fanfare over Cramer and racefail!). And if you are  a self-hating Jew, well you can get away with anything. The anti-Semitism of Banks, Mieville, Tambour, Cramer (and others) is something the genre Left clearly don’t have a problem with. Whatsoever. This begs the question – why? The answer is obvious enough. Mieville, Cramer, Banks, Tambour and others exposed at this very blog for their anti-Semitism are hardly atypical. Their anti-Semitic bigotry disturbingly reflects the Left’s own anti-Semitic bigotry and/or cowardice in tolerating the former. Such an ugly reality has possibly yet to dawn on the likes of Mike Resnick (certainly his daughter) and Barry Malzberg. One doubts that they are aware of the complicity and cowardice of genre Court Jewry in aiding and abetting the acceptability and respectability of  anti-Semitism in genre circles.

Or to put it in so many words: the most shameless Jew hatred from genre pros, Holocaust Denialism included, is greeted with a shrug and even hand waving dismissal from the genre Left (Court Jews such as Felix Gilman, Charles Stross and Chuck Rothman included. Dybbuk Press‘s Tim Lieder is in a league all of his own in this respect); harmless banter from Resnick and Malzberg in which they acknowledge the fact that they are heterosexual men is greeted with such a shrill hue and cry that it catalyzes the resignation of Jean Rabe from the SFFWA Bulletin and spills over into the mainstream media.

Let me be even more blunt and tendentious, unfortunately it is necessary.

Hardly anybody had anything to say about James Hogan’s Holocaust Denialism, not when he was living and not upon his death (see my response to the genre Thought Police’s Chesya Burke in this regard. She inadvertently proved my point for me). As far as conservative Tangent editor Dave Truesdale is concerned, his Holocaust Denialism has been denied! (see this blog’s archives and the links above are pertinent for the ugly details here) or simply ignored. And yet it wouldn’t necessarily occur to the likes of the Jews Resnick and Malzberg, the victims of this absurdist ideological witch-hunt, to point out what I point out in this very paragraph (and the ones above). What I mean is it would have to be pointed out to them. And that would mean having to recognize the ugly anti-Semitism and its easy tolerance in the genre community; along with the complicity of genre Court Jewry in covering and cowering and even furthering this oldest hatred. And who dares to open up that can of worms?

Remember I write and publish this online, when Iran actually goes nuclear (yes it’s now basically official), with all its chilling implications. And yet the focus for these so-called futurists and ‘thinkers’ in their own minds, these genre liberals in general (Jewish and Gentile), is on this non-scandal. And the focus from liberals as a whole is on the legal victory of gay marriage in the US. This is where their ‘minds’ are at. This is where their priorities are. This is frankly a form of madness, a denialism so extreme, that it goes beyond words…

Science Fiction in America (and the UK), that is in its official capacity is bad to the bone. The SFFWA cannot be reformed. It is high time for all those who have any sense of decency and a functioning moral compass to leave the SFFWA if it is commercially viable for them to do so, and forge their own path. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum. Leave the asylum. It is the only option.

Tributes pour in for the anti-Semite Iain Banks upon his passing. Imagine if he hated black people or gays rather than the Jews…

So famed genre (and non-genre) writer Iain Banks died just very recently (9th June) after a fairly short battle with cancer. That’s the Jew hater Iain Banks died after a short battle with cancer. He was 59.

So many tributes from so many people all over the world, notably his fellow writers.  There is nothing wrong of course with paying tribute to the writer as a writer per se, even though he was a hardcore Jew hater. After all he was a critically acclaimed writer and a very popular one. This one from the British Guardian gives a good overview. Here for one from the UK Mirror.

Banks’s fellow Jew hater, genre writer and childhood friend Ken McLeod remarked “It really is terrible news”.

This tribute from The BookSeller.

Tributes from the likes of Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, politician and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, to actors Ewan McGregor and Jamie Bell. Naturally enough just so many genre writers.

So?

So the thing is nobody appears to bother mentioning that he was a vicious Jew hater who in classic liberal style, pretended he was nothing of the sort. Of course one may say it’s not really appropriate to bring up his flaws and shortcomings, given not only his relatively premature death but the manner of it. Sure you could argue that. Okay. Of course the thing is Banks’s Jew hatred is just a part of the culture, and the culture of the elite British chattering classes in particular (yeah couldn’t resist the pun).

However if I were say a Jewish writer, I would just choose not to say anything at all upon Banks’s death. I mean his Jew hatred was an open secret. Heck it’s not even a secret of any kind. Of course to the liberal genre folk (and liberals in general), it’s a case of ‘what Jew hatred, wot? He was just a critic of Israel’.

Yet what of Jewish genre folk? I am not even going to bother with the usual pathetic bunch of Court Jews, who have already revealed their hand on this front, when Banks announced he was dying. That would be superfluous at this point.

Yet this is very much worth mentioning.

There is a very revealing tweet from famous Brit Jewish genre writer Neil Gaiman upon Banks’s passing. Here it is:

Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman ‏@neilhimself 9 Jun

Iain Banks is dead. I’m crying in an empty house. A good man and a friend for almost 30 years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047 …

Gaiman also wrote a blog post in Banks’s memory. All very weepy.

So the um Jewish Gaiman was all teary over the Jew hater Banks shedding his mortal coil. Banks’s Jew hatred didn’t bother the Jewish Gaiman at all. Either Gaiman rather disgracefully just chose to ignore it in favor of Banks’s talent as a writer, or Gaiman was simply oblivious of Banks’s politics, or way worse than that, Gaiman doesn’t begin to recognize hardcore Jew hatred for what it is. Or he just doesn’t give a damn dearies. The uh Jew Neil Gaiman informs us that the Jew hater Banks was a “good man and a friend”. Chilling. The only way to spin Gaiman’s remarks on Banks in a relatively positive light, is to speculate that Gaiman is totally ignorant of Banks’s sinister and ugly politics. I’ll tell you this much – if any notable Jewish genre writers are going to be speaking out against the Jew hatred in the genre pro field, well it’s not likely going to be coming from liberal Jewry. That’s for sure. And if not now, when? Remember Banks’s anti-Semitism is praised to the skies by the most notorious far right-wing white supremacist neo-Nazi Forum on the English language World Wide Web. Yes that’s Stormfront. Yeah I know those openly and thankfully honest Jew hating white supremacists have just misunderstood Banks’s intent *sarc*.

Gaiman’s tribute to Banks is mentioned at plenty of the nooks and crannies on the internet general news sources and literary news sources (including in the links above) where tributes to Iain Banks have been carried. Gaiman and liberal Jewry like him don’t get that a character like Banks technically *and actually* hated Gaiman, since Banks was an anti-Semite. Even as Banks would emphatically have denied it and Gaiman would probably just scratch his head in incomprehension. This is such a simple and obvious point that it is easily missed, even by pro-Israel folk infuriated by liberal Jewry’s cowardice and ingratiation with liberal Jew haters.

It’s worth adding that David Brin, another heavyweight Jewish genre writer had nothing but nice things to say about Banks upon the latter’s death. So everything I say about Gaiman above, ditto Brin. Brin has also not been one to shy away from politics (just like his late father Herb Brin, a well-known and deservedly respected Zionist in his day). David Brin has often commented on the stupidity of the false and simplistic Left vs Right political narrative over the years, and the excesses of both groups, and the prejudices that infect people across the political spectrum. Yet when it comes to Brin’s liberal genre colleagues, as is evidenced by his remarks on Banks, all that supposed recognition of the Left’s excesses just goes out the window. Then again, Brin is clearly liberal himself. Hey Brin, Banks technically and actually hated you for the same reasons he hated Gaiman (and even self-hating genre Court Jewry). That’s ’cause he was a Jew hater see?

Yet Brin glossing over Banks’s Jew hatred like it isn’t there is in keeping with Brin’s out-of-touch eggheadedness. Here after all is Brin fulminating against Frank Miller given the latter’s contempt for the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The Jew hatred that infects OWS in a big way is utterly off the radar to Brin. Clueless. Brin wrote on neo-conservatives and Islamism/Muslim extremism back during the Bush Jr presidency. Hey I never cared for the ‘neo-cons’ (which is often just a code word for Jew) and expressed opposition to both American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but in the twenty-first century it is the Western Left that is increasingly in open alliance with or engaged in ingratiating apologetics and whitewashing of Islam/ism. I don’t think conservatives are really any better at all. Just one reason why all this talk of Left and Right is so much nonsense. Yet my point is Brin is typical of a certain kind of Jewish baby-boomer know-it-all intellectual, stuck in 1970 in so many ways. You don’t know it all Brin, you just think you do.

So the popular Jewish genre writer David Brin has no problem bashing Frank Miller by name, over the latter’s contempt for the OWS Movement, never mind that the OWS Movement is horribly anti-Semitic. Self-same Brin gives a warm tribute to a hardcore Jew hating colleague Iain Banks upon the latter’s death. Come again?

The thing with Gaiman and Brin is not only are they Jewish, they are to belabour the point, genre writers who are both critically acclaimed and popular. Hence they are influential within the genre community. One does have to wonder how much self-censorship there is from genre Jewry when it comes to their anti-Semitic peers (such as Banks), for reasons that are commercially motivated. That is since Banks’s new anti-Semitism is a respectable and very much acceptable prejudice within (and without) the liberal genre community, any Jewish genre figure risks alienating and offending genre liberals by calling out NEW anti-Semitism for what it is. Whilst I think this may be a factor in explaining genre Jewry’s silence in the face of anti-Semitism as anti-Israelism from their genre colleagues and peers, I don’t think it is necessarily the dominant reason. I think other considerations matter more. Namely the fact that Jewish genre writers such as Gaiman and Brin are true blue liberals (arguably Brin to a lesser degree and yes it’s very debatable), and hence as with liberal Jewry in general, they are willfully and perversely blind to the Left’s anti-Semitism. To such Jews, their Leftism/liberalism matters more to them than their Jewishness, and it would appear life itself.

These days such cowering and pathetic ingratiation with liberal Jew haters, by and from liberal Jews, well that should go without saying really. And let me repeat the point that it is so revealing. That is speaking out against modern day contemporary liberal anti-Semitism is not necessarily going to be coming from this generation of genre figures. It would certainly appear so. If ever. As in the wider world I guess, liberal genre Jewry is if anything part of the problem…

Can you imagine when conservative genre writer Orson Scott Card passes away (as he must one day)? I guarantee you much will be made of his alleged/real homophobia. However if you are a liberal Jew hater notable in the arts and academia, you are not only given a free ride, but liberal Jewry will ensure it. They will do all they can to practically enforce it. In fact they will tend to grovel all over and praise such a Jew hater as a saint. Do you think when Card dies, Gay Pride groups will be singing his praises? Groups such as GLAD and the Gay Activists Alliance? Gay genre writers and gay genre fandom? Heck the liberal genre community as a whole?

Of course not.

However Jewry (so-called and especially liberal Jewry) is something else. They really are. To call such Jews pathetic is to downgrade the very meaning of the word.

The far Left ‘Jewish’ writer Lavie Tidhar tweets in sympathy for Stephen Hawking’s boycott of Israel. What else to expect from Lavie “the Palestinians have become the true Jews” Tidhar?

This tweet from Israeli SF writer and editor (of The Apex Book of World SF and winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for his novel Osama) Lavie Tidhar on 9th May:

Jewish Quarterly  @JewishQuarterly

Noam Sheizaf on the Steven Hawking affair http://972mag.com/stephen-hawkings-message-to-israeli-elites-the-occupation-has-a-price/70719/ …
Retweeted by Lavie Tidhar

Yeah well, no surprise there.

Tidhar, like other anti-Israel far Left Jews, is determined to sink deeper and deeper into the mire of self-contempt and masochistic psychopathology, the more danger the only civilized nation in the Middle-East – that’s the Jew among the nations yes shock gasp Israel – is actually in; and the more intransigent, powerful and numerous grow Israel’s Muslim fanatical neighbours (Palestinians included aka Tidhar’s ‘true Jews’). And yes just because Sheizaf – the author of that article and CEO of the horribly anti-Semitic 972mag – is Jewish, doesn’t mean he can’t be anti-Semitic. 972mag publishes plenty anti-Semitic offal. Under the banner of truth telling, peace seeking and human rights naturally enough. All of the time.

So Tidhar actually goes on record with justifying, rationalizing Hawking’s disgusting anti-Semitic boycott of Israel, and he alludes to an article by the odious, extremely anti-Israel journalist Noam Sheizaf in this respect. Sheizaf is beloved by anti-Semites of all stripes, as is Hawking all of a sudden, given the latter’s outing himself as a Jew-hater. The comments to that harebrained fact-free article of Sheizaf’s at his 972mag – cheering on for the most part Sheizaf’s know-nothingness, wishful thinking and out-and-out delusions – are frightening and disturbing. Many of the commentators easily cross the line from woeful ignorance to horrible anti-Semitism and brazen mendacity. Well they are cheering on Sheizaf’s delusional and yes bigoted rant, so what to expect? Sheizaf’s articles are reprinted and praised at numerous horribly anti-Semitic websites such as LivefromOccupiedPalestine and so many others (Sheizaf is praised on the usual far Left anti-Zionist propaganda organs where hardcore Jew-haters such as Hezbollah supporters Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein are heavily featured, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists such as Stephen Walt).

An example of just a small sampling of the dishonest and disgusting anti-Zionist and yes anti-Semitic activism of 972mag‘s personnel.

Sheizaf is sympathetic to supporters and agitators for BDS against Israel (just do the research, well there is his sympathy for Hawking’s boycott of course!) and refused to serve in the Israeli armed forces (the IDF is all that stands between the Jews and another Holocaust, although you wouldn’t know it from the likes of Sheizaf and Tidhar).

Here are some articles in antidote to Sheizaf’s gleeful praise/sympathy for Hawking’s anti-Semitism. 

As Ari Lieberman writes:

But beyond Hawking’s sheer hypocrisy in utilizing Israeli technology to improve his own quality of life is his insincerity in boycotting the Middle East’s only democracy while ignoring the Arab world’s depravity, xenophobia, homophobia and misogyny. Hawking has provided ample example of Britain’s transition from old-school anti-Semitism to what famed human rights activist Natan Sharansky described as new anti-Semitism, a malevolent form of anti-Semitism masquerading as anti-Zionism.

I have written just why support for BDS in any way is horribly anti-Semitic, in my China Mieville series over here, so no need to repeat all that. There are links to articles there on just why support for BDS against Israel is anti-Semitic. It’s actually extreme Jew-hatred. Of course Iain Banks likewise supports the BDS campaign against Israel, and yes he is likewise a Jew-hater. Or do you think the notorious neo-Nazi Stormfront internet forum have just misunderstood Banks, yeah?

Tidhar of course doesn’t have the tiniest problem with Mieville’s and for that matter Iain Banks’s extreme Jew-hatred (see first Banks linked article above), their support for BDS against Israel included. Hardly. Then again Tidhar can always be counted on to push egregious, dishonest and yes bigoted anti-Israel screeds, and relied upon to ignore Palestinian Muslim extremism, which is pervasive. Well the latter are Tidhar’s “true Jews”. So it’s no surprise really that Tidhar would out himself in the most extreme manner, as a useful idiot for those seeking Israel’s destruction (the latter group includes Muslim fanatics masquerading as moderates and their anti-Semitic Western allies across the political spectrum, notably the Far Left).

Tidhar makes it clear by his sympathy for the BDS justifying Sheizaf (and Hawking’s boycott) and his having no problem whatsoever with the BDS supporting genre Jew-haters Iain Banks and China Mieville (as this blog easily verifies), just what his obscene beyond the pale opinion is on the Jew-hate BDS movement against Israel.

It’s worth remarking that many of Tidhar’s  family (remember Tidhar grew up on a kibbutz in Israel) perished in the Holocaust. Tidhar informs us here at SF Signal:

My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war: the majority of my family died at Auschwitz.

Tidhar is one for the psychiatrist’s couch but frankly I don’t think he and his ilk (and there are a lot of ‘Jews’ like this) can be helped. Beyond the wub. Beyond the beyond.

It’s interesting that his uh mental condition and family background isn’t that different – if at all – from his mate, another far Left ‘Jewish’ genre writer, the Australian Anna Tambour. After all on the now defunct Night Shade Books Discussion Forum, on the self-same thread (from 2005) in which Tambour reminded us of family members who perished in the Holocaust, Tambour put up an approving link to an article on ‘greedy Jews’ from a Muslim extremist website, (that denies the Holocaust whilst calling for another one) an article she reminds us is “milder than it might have been”! Tidhar is theoretically ‘aware’ of this, yet Tidhar had no problem with Tambour’s extreme self-loathing as you can see for yourselves. None whatsoever. Well of course not.

It would be worth examining the roots of both Tambour’s and Tidhar’s neuroses here, but I can’t be bothered to do this really and I’m sure even the reader who is a supporter of this blog couldn’t care too much about the complex psychopathological dynamics here. However briefly it is worth mentioning that Tambour and Tidhar clearly have a very strong identification with and psychological scars from the fact that they had family members perish in the Nazi death camps. As such, this identification with the ‘good Jews of World War 2’, the helpless and defenseless, humiliated Jews massacred in the millions is in contrast to the ‘bad Jews’: the Jews of contemporary Israel. The latter, who dare to have an army, an air-force, who dare to defend themselves with real weaponry Oh My God against the Muslim jihadists that outnumber the former, and openly call for a repeat of the Nazi Holocaust even as the jihadists tend to deny that horror ever occurred. Such ‘strong Jews’ who stand against those who wish to commit another Shoah, is a cause of great shame to ‘progressive’ Jews such as Tidhar and Tambour. Such ‘well-armed Jews’ are in sharp contrast to the good helpless as lambs and annihilated Jews of Europe, the Jewry that Tidhar and Tambour identify with at a very deep emotional level. In other words, to oversimplify, Tidar and Tambour are caught up in imagery, not reality. It’s not just ironic, it’s somewhat paradoxical. There is more to Tidhar and Tambour’s severe neuroses than this of course, since other ‘progressive’ Jewry who never had family members perish in the Holocaust, share their pro-Palestinian pathology. That’s a whole other thing…

It is worth adding that a notable, well infamous pro-Palestinian ‘Jew’ whose parents were Holocaust survivors (at least his mother) is the US political activist and prof Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein gave his cheering support to Hezbollah in the aftermath of the war with Israel in 2006 (as did Fink’s mate Noam Chomsky, well Chomsky gave his support to Hezbollah just before that war). Finkelstein’s endless lying about Israel and Israel’s supporters, his whitewashing of and his support for Islamist tyranny and terror is something else. There is way more psychopathology, self-loathing and out-and-out chicanery to Finkelstein than I can bother bringing up here. His endless misrepresentations, lies, libels and fabrications is why he never got tenure at DePaul university; although you wouldn’t know that from Finkelstein’s end naturally enough.

Hack anti-Israel far Left genre writer Will Shetterly (who used to be buddy buddy with Tidhar, but now they are all sore with one another aaaawww, after this went down with Tidhar’s anti-Israel buddy Nick Mamatas) shills for Finkelstein in a big way (and other Jew-haters such as the late Alexander Cockburn of counterpunch). The thing is Finkelstein has since made something of a Freudian slip, acknowledging that the BDS movement against Israel is horribly anti-Semitic. Really he did. Finkelstein has been overpraised for this surprising revelation by the pro-Israel folk, for giving away the store; after all Finkelstein is still harshly anti-Israel and yes anti-Jewish. The relevance to us though, is that somebody like Finkelstein (a Hezbollah supporter for crying out loud) is calling out the BDS supporters not only for the Jew-haters that they are, but for having a strong genocidal bent. Well it takes one to know one. To far Left ‘Jewish’ genre writers like Tidhar and Stross, BDS against Israel isn’t remotely anti-Semitic, never mind extremely so (aside from this article, the recent articles on Iain Banks are relevant and even before that, China Mieville).

To be fair to Shetterly he has been highly and vocally critical of the airheaded, asinine and bigoted identity politics of the genre Left (probably since the flame-war with Nick Mamatas or thereabouts). Of course when it comes to the Joooooooos, oh I mean Israel the Jooooooo nation, well that’s a different story! But I digress…

It’s interesting that Finkelstein’s buddy, Noam Chomsky that is, may have played a role in pressuring Hawking to boycott the conference in Israel. As I have amply evidenced at this blog, Chomsky is a vicious anti-Semitic Jew. Tidhar and his buddy Charles Stross (and of course the genre Left in general) have nothing but nice things to say about this very loud-mouthed anti-Semitic ‘Jewish’ propagandist.

It’s worth repeating the point that even Norman Finkelstein, the Hezbollah supporting ‘Jew’, gets how anti-Semitic BDS against Israel actually is. The likes of SF Court Jew Tidhar (and what of Charles Stross?) clearly don’t think there is the tiniest ounce of Jew-hatred in the BDS Movement (and Sheizaf and his ilk likewise). And what of the rest of the ‘progressive’ liberal genre community? Shocking.

Naturally the ‘progressive’ genre community has no problem with Tidhar and Tambour’s (and Stross’s for that matter) ugly political masochism, their perverse moral inversions, their useful idiot status in service, no matter how unconscious or unwitting, to those who hate them (and you too dear reader even if you hate me) to death. Why would they? The ‘progressives’ have no problem whatsoever with the relentless and harebrained modern-day Jew-hatred from the likes of Mieville, Banks, Mamatas, Kathryn Cramer, Ken MacLeod, Michael Bishop, Hal Duncan (just check this blog’s archives) and naturally so many others I don’t even bother with. At least the latter have the excuse that they are not Jewish. Coming to think of it, NOBODY has one word of *actual public and explicit contempt* to direct the way of conservative Tangent editor Dave Truesdale given his Holocaust Revisionism, so what else to expect? The reason/s for this deafening silence re anti-Semitism from liberal genre writers, editors, publishers is obvious enough, so obvious I am not even going to state it. I mean aside from the usual moral cowardice… And if the latter reason predominates rather than a more obvious reason, well it is no less disturbing for all that. I mean there is an army of moral relativist fashionably prejudiced zombies out there (and not a few of them are uh Jewish), and that’s just in the genre community.

Chilling.

As Eichmann told it, the most potent factor in the soothing of his own conscience was the simple fact that he could see no one, no one at all, who actually was against the Final Solution. He did encounter one exception, however, which he mentioned several times, and which must have made a deep impression on him. This happened in Hungary when he was negotiating with Dr. Kastner over Himmler’s offer to release one million Jews in exchange for ten thousand trucks. Kastner, apparently emboldened by the new turn of affairs, had asked Eichmann to stop “the death mills at Auschwitz,” and Eichmann had answered that he would do it “with the greatest pleasure” (herzlich gern) but that, alas, it was outside his competence and outside the competence of his superiors – as indeed it was. Of course, he’ did not expect the Jews to share the general enthusiasm over their destruction, but he did expect more than compliance, he expected – and received, to a truly extraordinary degree – their cooperation. This was “of course the very cornerstone” of everything he did, as it had been the very cornerstone of his activities in Vienna. Without Jewish help in administrative and police work – the final rounding up of Jews in Berlin was, as I have mentioned, done entirely by Jewish police – there would have been either complete chaos or an impossibly severe drain on German manpower. (“There can be no doubt that, without, the cooperation of the victims, it would hardly have been possible for a few thousand people, most of whom, moreover, worked in offices, to liquidate many hundreds of thousands of other people. . . . Over the whole way to their deaths the Polish Jews got to see hardly more than a handful of Germans.” Thus R. Pendorf in the publication mentioned above. To an even greater extent this applies to those Jews who were transported to Poland to find their deaths there.) Hence, the establishing of Quisling governments in occupied territories was always accompanied by the organization of a central Jewish office, and, as we shall see later, where the Nazis did not succeed in setting up a puppet government, they also failed to enlist the cooperation of the Jews. But whereas the members of the Quisling governments were usually taken from the opposition parties, the members of the Jewish Councils were as a rule the locally recognized Jewish leaders, to whom the Nazis gave enormous powers – until they, too, were deported, to Theresienstadt or Bergen-Belsen, if they happened to be from Central or Western Europe, to Auschwitz if they were from an Eastern European community.

To a Jew this role of the Jewish leaders in the destruction of their own people is undoubtedly the darkest chapter of the whole dark story. It had been known about before, but it has now been exposed for the first time in all its pathetic and sordid detail by Raul Hilberg, whose standard work The Destruction of the European Jews I mentioned before. In the matter of cooperation, there was no distinction between the highly assimilated Jewish communities of Central and Western Europe and the Yiddish-speaking masses of the East. In Amsterdam as in Warsaw, in Berlin as in Budapest, Jewish officials could be trusted to compile the lists of persons and of their property, to secure money from the deportees to defray the expenses of their deportation and extermination, to keep track of vacated apartments, to supply police forces to help seize Jews and get them on trains, until, as a last gesture, they handed over the assets of the Jewish community in good order for final confiscation. They distributed the Yellow Star badges, and sometimes, as in Warsaw, “the sale of the armbands became a regular business; there were ordinary armbands of cloth and fancy plastic armbands which were washable.” In the Nazi-inspired, but not Nazi-dictated, manifestoes they issued, we still can sense how they enjoyed their new power – “The Central Jewish Council has been granted the right of absolute disposal over all Jewish spiritual and material wealth and over all Jewish manpower,” as the first announcement of the Budapest Council phrased it. We know how the Jewish officials felt when they became instruments of murder – like captains “whose ships were about to sink and who succeeded in bringing them safe to port by casting overboard a great part of their precious cargo”; like saviors who “with a hundred victims save a thousand people, with a thousand ten thousand.” The truth was even more gruesome. Dr. Kastner, in Hungary, for instance, saved exactly 1,684 people with approximately 476,000 victims. In order not to leave the selection to “blind fate,” “truly holy principles” were needed “as the guiding force of the weak human hand which puts down on paper the name of the ‘unknown person and with this decides his life or death.” And whom did these “holy principles” single out for salvation? Those “who had worked all their lives for the zibur [community]” – i.e., the functionaries – and the “most prominent Jews,” as Kastner says in his report.

No one bothered to swear the Jewish officials to secrecy; they were voluntary “bearers of secrets,” either in order to assure quiet and prevent panic, as in Dr. Kastner’s case, or out of “humane” considerations, such as that “living in the expectation of death by gassing would only be the harder,” as in the case of Dr. Leo Baeck, former Chief Rabbi of Berlin. During the Eichmann trial, one witness pointed out the unfortunate consequences of this kind of “humanity” – people volunteered for deportation from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz and denounced those who tried to tell them the truth as being “not sane.” We know the physiognomies of the Jewish leaders during the Nazi period very well; they ranged all the way from Chaim Rumkowski, Eldest of the Jews in Lódz, called Chaim I, who issued currency notes bearing his signature and postage stamps engraved with his portrait, and who rode around in a broken-down horse-drawn carriage; through Leo Baeck, scholarly, mild-mannered, highly educated, who believed Jewish policemen would be “more gentle and helpful” and would “make the ordeal easier” (whereas in fact they were, of course, more brutal and less corruptible, since so much more was at stake for them); to, finally, a few who committed suicide – like Adam Czerniakow, chairman of the Warsaw Jewish Council, who was not a rabbi but an unbeliever, a Polish-speaking Jewish engineer, but who must still have remembered the rabbinical saying: “Let them kill you, but don’t cross the line.”

Hannah Arendt
Taken from Chapter VII: The Wannsee Conference, or Pontius Pilate
Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil

Iain Banks’s anti-Semitism and support for a boycott against Israel cheered by the prominent neo-Nazi internet hate forum Stormfront

Man, what does this tell you?

Well nothing of course if you are one of the anti-Israel moral relativist liberal genre Thought Police. Nothing to see here, move along…

It’s worth reading the commentators at that openly white supremacist neo-Nazi forum (they tag themselves the ‘White Nationalist Community’), nostalgic for the good old days of fascist exterminationist Europe and the KKK sensibility. This group may well be the biggest OPENLY FASCIST HATE SITE on the English language net, according to Wiki the first major one. How they cheer Iain Banks for his extreme anti-Jewish prejudice! Of course to the genre Thought Police, Banks does not have an anti-Semitic bone in his body. I’m the bigot (and worse) apparently. Calling Dr Freud…

The darkly comical thing about the Stormfront posters is that whilst they commend, cheer and praise him for his Jew hatred oh I mean anti-Israelism, they vent their fury at him for not hating black folk! So it’s a case of ‘yeah Iain Banks gets it on the Jews, but he has abandoned the superior white Aryan race to the black hordes’.

How would Banks respond to the fact that his extreme anti-Israelism which Banks pretends is not anti-Semitic in the slightest, (even though Israel is the only country in the Middle-East any infidel atheist could possibly live in) is cheered on by one of the most – if not the most – notorious neo-Nazi web forums in the English language world?

It’s just a meaningless coincidence, they misread his intentions and meaning? Yeah right. Maybe Banks would shrill, ‘they hate me because I don’t hate blacks like them’. Actually that’s true enough, as far as it goes, but they love you for your Jew hatred Banks. At least these proud neo-Nazis are honest about their Jew hatred, unlike you Iain Banks and China Mieville. And soooo many others in the genre community (just trawl through this blog’s archives for one).

I have alluded to – quite explicitly – the merging of the far Left with the far Right before at this blog, given their common enemy, the Joooooos. Namely this second article in my Nick Mamatas series, where I also refer to an article by Dave Rich, that covers this very ground and in the UK too, entitled ‘The Barriers Come Down: Anti-Semitism and coalitions of extremes’. The British based CIF Watch, which monitors anti-Semitism from the notorious anti-Semitic left-wing The Guardian newspaper and its Jew-hating Comment is Free section on the web, comes to the same conclusions wrt the merging of far Left and far Right, in their anti-Semitic animus and the very shared dynamics and tropes of their respective extreme anti-Semitism. In fact an article from CIF Watch (2009) in this regard points to the identical anti-Semitic paranoia emerging from Comment is Free and the Stormfront forum itself!

As I have written about here, the ‘Jewish’ far Leftist genre characters Charles Stross and Lavie Tidhar, and the likes of liberal genre editor Jonathan Strahan, clearly don’t appear to think Banks has an anti-Semitic bone in his body. Hardly. As In Not At All. My first article detailing Banks’s anti-Semitism (a fair time before he announced he was dying from cancer).

Charles Stross on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing, warns against empty speculation as to the identity of the terrorists. Proceeds immediately to speculate that the perpetrators are most likely the “provisional wing of the Tea Party”

Surprised?

You shouldn’t be if you know Stross’s addled PC left-wing moral relativist politics.

Yes the day of the Boston Marathon terror bombing, Stross – whilst warning that we shouldn’t speculate about the possible identity of the perpetrators the day of the attack, when too little was known – nevertheless proceeds to contradict himself in the comments section to that self-same entry on the very same day. Stross originally commented under a blog entry entitled ‘PSA: Ignore the news’ the following:

Terrible though the bombings may be, we won’t learn anything significant about the responsible parties for some time: and in the meantime I see no reason to allow my emotional state to be manipulated for the benefit of advertisers

Stross then proceeds with his 180 degree sharp u-turn roughly one hour later (post dated April 16, 2013 06:55), and obscenely and obtusely remarks in dunderhead style, in the comments section (bold emphasis is mine):

(If I had to bet on who did it, though, my money wouldn’t be on North Koreans or Islamicists; given that it was Patriot day and a tax year filing date, and Massachusetts has something of a rep for being full of pinko commies in certain circles, my money is on crazy white guys with a political axe to grind: the provisional wing of the Tea Party, if you like. Honourable runner-up: an FBI entrapment operation gone horribly wrong, because if you go looking for idiots who can be incited to terrorism and incite them, sooner or later one of them will get over-enthusiastic and won’t wait for you to supply the explosives they’re supposed to be arrested in possession of.)

Of course as we all know the perpetrators turned out to be – shocka – Muslim extremist terrorists (ethnically Chechnyan but apparently originally from Kyrgyzstan). I mean what are the odds? Muslim extremist terrorists targeted American citizens for death and maiming, and not those eeeeeeevilright-wing gun-tottingBiblethumping inbredTeaPartyhickflagwavingredneckhillbillies. Oh My God who would have thunk it?

How can we hold Stross accountable for his error, slander, his baseless evidence free libel against the conservative Tea Party movement (it was tax filing day and Patriot’s Day for crying out loud!), and his understandable oversight in neglecting the likelihood of the bogey that is Muslim extremism? I mean given the Tea Party’s long support and carrying out of terrorism against American citizenry, like uh 9-11 itself and the Fort Hood attack and the bombings of American embassies abroad and the Times Square attack and numerous others, well who wouldn’t have made Stross’s error? Uh hang on…

Look it’s perfectly understandable: I mean yeah there was the Tim McVeigh Oklahoma bombing and the Waco Koresh/Adventist tragedy, and the 2011 Tucson Arizona Loughner shootings, the 2012 James Holmes Aurora cinema Colarado shootings and more recently the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. And we all know that “the provisional wing of the Tea Party” was to blame there, so… Uh wait a minute, maybe not. Never mind it’s all the same thing. White Americans who were not Muslim terrorists were responsible for all that, so we can tie it all in via Sherlock Holmes logic to the uh Tea Party, well if we don’t look to closely at any of that um.  After all numerous left-wing media talking heads were practically praying that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect/s turned out to be far right-wing conservative/s. As Roger Kimball wrote: “First came the prediction and the fervent, trembling hope — the unspeakable yearning — that the perpetrator of this slaughter would turn out to be a tea partier, an anti-government right-winger, or at least a white male Christian of some description.”

And we all know how wise and knowing and prescient left-wing pontificators are. Uh wait…

Many of the like-mindless commentators at Stross’s blog entry then harp on about the heavy-handedness of the Boston SWAT teams and cops in hunting down the suspects, when the news comes out of the manhunt in Watertown, the killing of the MIT police officer and the news that the perpetrators are the suspects in the Marathon bombing, and they are…  Chechen Muslims or Chechen-American Muslims. Of course there is also the desperate evasion by the Strossbots to the in-your-face fact that the suspects being hunted are not the evil Tea Party fanatics *sarc*, but you know Muslim extremists.

Thankfully one or two commentators – not beholden to the liberal zeitgeist of blameevilGreatSatanAmericaforevyerthingunderthesun – get in a sensible and sane few posts edgewise.

At least Stross allows such comments, but no mea culpa from him on his wrongly and disgracefully slandering conservative America for a terrorist attack actually carried out by – I still can’t get over it, who would have imagined it? – Muslim extremist terrorists. Stross is absent there, nothing to say, he’s gone awol on that front.

Look it’s an understandable error on Stross’s part, who wouldn’t have imagined the Tea Party’s patriotic fringe “provisional wing” (that doesn’t exist but whatever) murdering and maiming their fellow American citizens in the name of um well uh… I mean look at how the TeaParty’s inbredhickflagwavingbloodlustfulNRAgunghohillbillythugs PROVISIONAL WING celebrated when news of the Boston bombings broke! Oh wait that was Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Ah well we all know that if Palestinians celebrate the murder and maiming of Americans, American children included, it’s all the fault of the Joooooos anyway, uh I mean Israel or at least America, or both. Well according to the far Left apologists for the Jihad at any rate.

Well look there is an understandable knee-jerk free association between Tea Parties and Boston, so let’s give these liberal idiots – Stross included – a break! I mean if these terrorist bombings had taken place in say New Orleans, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, St Louis etc; maybe Stross and other progressive liberals who knee-jerk blamed this incident of Muslim extremist terror on uh right-wing European Americans, wouldn’t have falsely conflated the two? It was the Boston thing yeah? The name ‘Boston’, the association, the symbolism, it just begged for a Tea Party tagging!

In all seriousness, being a liberal just means never having to say you are sorry, or feel any shame whatsoever. That’s even if one blames, sans evidence, a conservative fringe and smears the Tea Party movement (with its zero record of terrorist bombing history), for a terrorist BOMBING attack in the US that the recent historical record shows is more likely to be committed by Muslim extremists than any other disaffected group. And as it turns out, was committed by Muslim extremists. Of course Stross’s odious notion was an echoing of a widespread and disturbing liberal zeitgeist; as John Hayward rightly and tellingly put it in the very title of his article re the Boston bombing, the hunt for the elusive Tea Party murderer continues.

And newsflash to dimwitted Leftists, Stross included: Crazy, white guys can be Muslim extremists too. Religion and religious fundamentalism have nothing to do with creed and ethnicity whatsoever.

Oh my God I know I am a racist evil Islamophobe. Just ask my critics, like uh Charles Stross and the rest of the genre thought police.

UPDATE May 13th

So Stross – who naturally had nothing to say via Twitter in response to this article, well what’s he going to say?! Admit his disgusting foul-up? Pulleeez – nevertheless continues in odious, sinister idiot Left mode. Not long after screwing up David Sirota of Salon style re the Boston bombings, what does he do? He retweets with approval, a disgustingly anti-Semitic tweet from one self-identified and clearly anti-Israel communist John Gordon, namely this (from May 2nd or 3rd):

John Gordon John Gordon @jgordonshare

Israel had perfected ethnic cleansing. Methodical, planned, optimized. http://econ.st/18AbITj
Retweeted by Charles Stross

The Jew-hate drivel article from The Economist is over here. Uh there is no ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank. I can hear the exact same terminology, the identical libel and slur from uh neo-Nazis, Muslim extremists the world over, and Jew-hating far Leftists alike and anti-Semitic conservatives (the latter two groups usually pretend they are not anti-Semitic of course). It turned out that The Economist article was based on uh nothing but the most base misrespresentation, gross distortion and spin. Or to put it more blunty, it was a lie.

The politically centrist blogger Elder of Ziyon gives the details:

I can believe 200 homes being demolished – there is illegal building all the time, and structures get knocked down – but is it possible that Israel “evicted 400 Palestinians from the West Bank” this year?

That would be a major story that everyone missed, if true.

Sure enough, I found the document that the Economist based this on. It is not a UN document, but rather written by an alphabet soup of anti-Israel NGOs, hosted on the UN website.

Here’s what it says:

In 2013, 203 Palestinian structures have been demolished thus far, displacing 379 people, including 222 children, and otherwise affecting an additional 541 people’s ability to earn an the income or access water and other basic services.

Nobody was evicted from the West Bank.

The Economist replaced “displaced” with “evicted” and then added “from the West Bank.”

I have no idea whether the document is accurate to begin with – clearly, the unnamed reporter didn’t make even a weak attempt to verify the facts with Israeli officials, something any real journalist, no matter how biased, would at least pretend to do.

Even if the NGO document is correct, the Economist’s misrepresenting of it is not a simple error, but evidence that the article was written with the initial goal of demonizing Israel. They might – and should – issue a correction, but the “mistake” is not the story. The story is how they could have made that mistake to begin with, and what it says about the objectivity of the story itself.

Interestingly Stross’s big mate Lavie “the Palestinians have become the true Jews” Tidhar has attacked this very blogger, Elder of Ziyon. Well Tidhar would, after all this blogger has done a good job unearthing and exposing with something called facts, Jew-hatred across the political spectrum. When Tidhar isn’t mocking sans facts, bloggers such as myself and Elder of Ziyon, who let us not forget are exposing extreme Jew-hatred (genre and non-genre respectively); he is like Stross swooning all over Jew-haters, genre or otherwise (for example Iain Banks and Noam Chomsky in both their cases. And yes I provide extensive evidence for Banks’s and Chomsky’s extreme Judenhass at this very blog).

Further update:

Charles Stross’s Jewish self-loathing would later on reach a new nadir though (which is really saying something!). Over here for the ugly details, obscenely bigoted and delusional.