Judaism In Israel Updates
Brad A. Greenberg writes for the Jewish Journal about academic Kevin MacDonald:
Awaiting feedback from his publisher 15 years ago, MacDonald sent his manuscript to a colleague in the psychology department at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). MacDonald, 64, has been deemed America’s “foremost anti-Semitic thinker” by civil rights experts. A tenured psychology professor who lent his expertise to Holocaust denier David Irving, MacDonald has suggested restricting college enrollment and increasing taxes for Jews to mediate what he perceives as inequities with non-Jewish whites.
The books have become sacred scripture for white supremacists, and a growing number of MacDonald’s colleagues have urged the university to denounce his writings.
“He is repackaging traditional anti-Jewish beliefs in contemporary pseudo-scientific language,” said Jeffrey Blutinger, a history professor leading the push against MacDonald. “Oshkosh was a great town to grow up in,” MacDonald said in a recent conversation. “There weren’t any Jewish families at all. Nobody talked about Jews. Almost three decades later, when MacDonald began connecting Jewish power and success to evolutionary strategies, he would identify his leftist years as the first time Jews used his gentile face to promote what he considered their group agenda. It wasn’t until the ’90s that MacDonald began to see Jewish communities as inimical entities slowly destroying their hosts.
http://www.revver.com/video/807801/heeb-magazines-hollywood-issue-at-von-dutch-v/
http://www.revver.com/video/807821/lunch-with-the-homeless/
“Jews are inevitably going to be an elite,” he said. MacDonald’s core complaint is Jewish influence on immigration laws. “European people in this country will be a minority in a few years,” MacDonald said. Tall and lanky, with white hair and a disarming smile, MacDonald hardly looks like America’s scariest academic. Until 2000, MacDonald was largely unknown on campus. During the past six weeks, the anthropology and history departments, as well as the Jewish studies program, all have issued statements denouncing MacDonald’s work as “professionally irresponsible and morally untenable”; the psychology department voted to disassociate from his writings because of their popularity with “extremist groups.”
MacDonald’s intellectual pursuits began innocently. The article made MacDonald think of animals.
My earliest research on the behavior of Jews focused on that, and you see wolf packs do that.”
MacDonald began to think of Judaism as the vehicle through which an evolutionary strategy was mechanized. “A People that Shall Dwell Alone” lays the foundation for MacDonald’s theory of Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy and briefly discusses other groups that he believes employ similar strategies: Gypsies, the Amish, Chinese living abroad.
Jews, he pointed out, are taught they are different — God’s chosen — and they are encouraged to live lives that benefit other Jews. “The incredible elaboration of Jewish religious law in these writings suggests that this mass of material is the result of intense intellectual competition within the Jewish community and that the resulting Torah then provided an arena for intellectual competition within the Jewish community.”
Posted on: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 4:34 am 
Religion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.