----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 6:06 PM Subject: Re: 100 Best Non Fiction list of Counterpunch
>Jack Beatty with the immortal chapter, "The Khazars Take Over The Democratic
>Party." Gotta watch out for those Khazars, must be some ex-Trotskyists doing
>some "deep entry" "French turn-cum realignment maneuver" I'll call Social
>Democrats, USA and DSA and the CPUSA and ask if they have any Khazars
>there. Is Nathan a Khazar? BTW, what is a Khazar?
The linking of anticommunism with antisemitism continued in the 1950's, and provided a major subtext for the McCarthy Period. Praise for John Beaty's 1951 book The Iron Curtain Over America came from a slew of retired generals and admirals, and Senator William A. Langer, former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote: "I think it ought to be compulsory reading in every public school in America." The false and fantastic thesis of the book concerns the descendants of the Khazars, whose tiny ruling oligarchy centuries ago converted to Judaism and then dispersed across Europe. According to Beaty and other authors, the Asiatic descendants of the Khazars founded and controlled the Russian Communist Party as a step toward destroying western Christian civilization. A related and equally false corollary is that many Jews in the US are descendants of the Khazars and thus likely candidates for enlistment by foreign Khazarite Jewish communists as subversives and spies. The view adds a racialist antisemitic element to the conspiracist stew.
In 1962 the antisemitic four-page semi-monthly newspaper Common Sense published by Conde McGinley hit a circulation high of 90,000 with its message of the "Zionist Invisible Government" plotting to establish a "World Government" under a "Red Dictatorship" led by "Asiatic Marxist Jews," a racialized version of the Khazar myth. The warnings of a "Zionist Occupational Government" popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by the Posse Comitatus, Christian Identity, Aryan Nations, and other Christian Patriot groups are the heirs to this premise.