Update 3

A link rebutting Ilana Mercer that I posted at EPJ:

“Nelson Mandela and the Jews,” Sam Davidson,  Counter Currents

(I have no idea who Davidson is but his account tallies with other reading I’ve done. If it turns out he’s actually a frothing anti-Semite, that’s too bad, but it still doesn’t change the facts he dug up.)

Update 2

After Mercer’s response at EPJ, I added a link to an article documenting my claim that Mandela was inducted into communism by Communist Jews who were fronts (wittingly or not) for the Rothschild financial cartel, known euphemistically as the power-elite.

I haven’t added all those links yet, because some of the original articles are at “anti-Semitic’ sites and I would like to sort out which parts I agree with.

Secondly, as LRC is never tired of repeating in relation to Muslim terrorists, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom-fighter.

I linked and then delinked Tom Di Lorenzo’s article on Mandela, which is a much more accurate piece than Mercer’s, except that Di Lorenzo also omits several very salient aspects of the whole story. That is why I delinked it, after a closer read.

I’ll post on all that later in more detail as I’m awfully rushed and do not want to return to blogging for awhile.

(December 12.  I see that Charles Burris at LRC has done some of the work for me.  Just as I called the communists who inducted Mandela into their movement dupes, he calls them useful idiots. While many (not all) were well-meaning, they allowed themselves to be conned and used by the Rothschild cartel).

Update:

It seems that Mandela was more than just a fellow-traveler of communism, as I’d thought, but an active member of the communist party, something which had been rumored but was only recently  confirmed by the party itself.

So  I’m wrong on that.

But my criticism of Mercer on the whole is accurate.

Mandela’s career was  part of a nationalistic struggle that was subverted by the power-elites. Mandela was a terrorist in the same sense George Washington and Patrick Henry were.

Mandela’s communism was like that of the Vietnamese and other colonized people.

Do you need to be a communist to be a freedom-fighter? Of course not.

But, in the third world, the communists were the most sympathetic toward native people. That is precisely why they had credibility with people. That is why communism spread.

The Afrikaner nationalist party was also Bolshevik. So communism was part of the spirit of the times and must be understood in that context.

Apart from Christians, it was only some communists who actually helped oppressed third-world people in various ways….and I don’t mean politically.

I mean in humanitarian ways.

Many communists were only idealistic and naive.

All were dupes, of course. But to simply call Mandela an evil terrorist and blame him entirely for the mess in South Africa is uninformed, ungenerous, and finally, untrue.

COMMENT

I made a comment at EconomicPolicyJournal on Ilana Mercer’s narrative about Nelson Mandela and the ANC that focuses on Mandela’s socialism (that part is correct) while omitting naming the ideologues and financiers who actively promoted Mandela, every step of the way.

This creates a false narrative blaming only black people for what is happening in South Africa.

After I wrote the comment (anonymously) a couple of people responded positively to it.

Ms. Mercer graciously replied, pointing out that people were misrepresenting her writing.

Fair enough. But she still dodged the question I asked, which is this: Why blame only black people for what is happening in South Africa (murder of farmers), when the whole scenario has come about over decades, with the instigation and active connivance of white liberals, especially Jewish liberals?

Is socialism/communism not a doctrine born in the West?

Wasn’t Mandela educated in the West? Wasn’t he recruited by mostly Jewish communists?

Wasn’t he funded, supported, instigated and abetted by these Jewish communist revolutionaries?

Wasn’t what he did no different from what Israeli forces did in establishing Israel, with far MORE justification, since South Africa is where blacks lived?

Violence shouldn’t be condoned. But to omit crucial facts turns a narrative into witting or unwitting propaganda

The Anglo-Jewish elites have used the colored populations as guinea-pigs for their theories, destroyed their communities, stifled their true patriots and planted opportunists and lackeys, and then, instead of shouldering some responsibility, have blamed the targets solely.

And yet, in slavishness, third-world intellectuals keep imitating their mouth-pieces, assenting to  their false and pernicious leadership.

If we were to blame ordinary Americans solely for what their  rulers have foisted on them, would that be fair? Are youngsters in today’s West, undisciplined, narcissistic, and irresponsible as many of them are,  completely at fault or have their elders failed them? Hasn’t the government literally brain-washed them?

Can readers be blamed for being ill-informed about the world, when the media conspires against the truth?

Another point: After posting on EPJ, I noticed that my article about Wikileaks at Veterans Today was showing up on my first Google page with Gilad Atzmon’s picture and name under the title, then followed by my name.

1. VT STAFF: ZIONIST MINDCONTROL – The Case Against Wikileaks …

   

   www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/…/the-case-against-wikileaks-i…?

   by Gilad Atzmon

   Dec 12, 2010 – By Lila Rajiva STAFF WRITER. (Part II of this ongoing series is now also available at Veterans Today). Let me first say that harassing Julian …

Atzmon, author of “The Wandering Who,” interrogates Jewish identity as such, claiming there is no such thing.  I don’t. He’s a socialist. I’m not.  So why is his name plastered over my article in a Google search? Why does it even show up that way?

[Note: I contributed my Wikileaks articles to Gordon Duff, not because I had any but a brief contact with his site and that was only so my pieces could reach a wide audience without being dismissed completely as anti-American. If I’d posted them at Dissident Voice only, that would have been the case.

I would have liked to send them to LRC but by then many of LRC’s positions had begun to grate on me and they seemed to have become close to my enemies at Agora Inc.  I disliked their timidity on the Goldman story, for one thing.  {They got better at it with time, hopefully after reading some of my criticism of them on that.]

The Wikileaks pieces (December 2010) were published around the time the Daily Bell was hosting a troll called Al Kyder, who actually threatened me with a libel action, claiming it was originating from Assange’s legal team. That threat (almost certainly spurious), the Bell’s strange “perception management”  and its owners ties to the banking industry and to Agora Inc. became uncomfortable for me and I stopped posting there.  I liked Duff’s in-your-face attitude in posting pieces on Mossad and Israel,  but I considered some of the contributors at his site war criminals, so I stopped after the Wikileaks pieces.

I did ask Duff (formerly of US intelligence, so he writes on his website), whether he knew who was behind the many attacks on me both before and after my Assange articles, but he didn’t know. He told me it was unlikely to be anyone in the government, since my language is generally temperate, even when I don’t mince words.

Duff did think some part of it might have had to do with the ADL’s decision to coordinate attacks on journalists who were critical of Wikileaks.

Apart from that, and apart from an exchange regarding the troll (Ryals) who’s libeled me over the internet, I’ve had no contact with Duff.

One more point. Duff was one of the few people courteous enough to block Ryals’ flaming on his forum. That of course led to the accusation, also plastered over the net, that I was “censoring” Ryals.

As for Gilad Atzmon, I’ve never even exchanged an email with him. He’s written for Counterpunch and knows other contributors there, but not me. I once made a few critical comments on an article of his at Veterans Today.  That’s it.

That meager association has led the spooks, psychotics,  and operatives on the net to get their jaddis in a bunch and accuse me of all sorts of malfeasance.

This is the not the first time I’ve seen this kind of thing. In fact, it’s the second incident with the VT site. I took a screen shot, so I have a record even if the site changes it. No idea if  the error is just a technical glitch or web mischief.

Another odd thing was the deletion of a comment  I made at EPJ under a post about Gene Callahan suggesting that Callahan’s remark about “brainwashed” libertarians referred not to those who believe in the non-aggression principle but to those who  think it can be assumed when making an argument for libertarianism.

[That is, Callahn called those who refused to see the circularity of their defense of libertarianism brain-washed.]

The comment was mild and didn’t take sides with Callahan, who seems to be unpopular at EPJ, or with Bob Wenzel.

Added, Dec. 9: I deleted a passage here about this deleted comment because I now wonder if what was deleted was mine. It might have been someone else’s comment and mine simply never went through at all.

Anyway, in the comment, I  was simply trying to say that Callahan’s remark didn’t seem all that nasty. Libs say such things all the time.  In fact libs often do make very circular arguments and any attempt to show them the circularity is met with cries of  statist, authoritarian, evil, etc. After some time, you begin to think, why bother?

I certainly didn’t say anything about cartoon libertarians, as Brennan at Bleeding Heart Libertarians has.   Brennan’s remarks annoyed Wenzel:

Robert WenzelDecember 6, 2013 at 11:10 PM

I am quoting the headline to your [Lila: Brennan’s] post!

As for your entire post, I still haven’t been able to understand what your thought process is in the post, given that it is so poorly written, as commeters  [sic] above have noted. Further your asshole remark about “cartoon libertarians” and then linking to EPJ suggests you don’t deserve to be read carefully.

I also deleted a paragraph in this post in which I gave Jason Brennan the first Rajiva award for outspokenness under fire, for his spirited attacks on N. Stephan Kinsella, Hoppe, Rothbard, and Block, all of whom I have criticized for much the same reason as he does – for the weakness of their arguments.

I like Brennan’s refusal to bow to the Olympian pronouncements of some libertarians and his determination to be for a freer world on his own terms, rather than on someone else’s.

That doesn’t mean I endorse anything else he says.

So why did I delete that paragraph? Because some libertarians, being utter sheep, would immediately take an appreciative comment about a BLH’er as a sign of secretive anti-Rothbardian alliances, a nefarious agenda, covert co-option of libertarianism, and other unspeakable crimes and acts of treachery on the part of unwashed statists.

Nope. None of the above.

Just a big mouth ….trying to press rewind on yet another impulsive blog-post.

Note:

Ilana Mercer is a classical liberal, as I am.

Brennan and Wenzel are both hard anti-state capitalists (or anarcho-capitalists), although I am not sure that is an accurate term. Brennan is an anti-Rothbardian and Wenzel is a Rothbardian.

I am a  classical liberal of an intellectual conservative bend.

ORIGINAL POST

Dear Ilana,

You are a lovely lady with a brilliant mind. I admire you…
Until you become dishonest about something, which I concede, is probably hard for you to see.
But let me try.

Mandela wasn’t a socialist of the kind you are trying to make him out to be (Che).

He spoke well of Zionism and Jews and learned his guerilla fighting from ISRAEL not Castro:-

“Mandela’s memoirs are full of positive references to Jews and even Israel. He recalls that he learned about guerilla warfare not from Fidel Castro, but from Arthur Goldreich, a South African Jew who fought with the Palmach during Israel’s War of Independence. He relates the anecdote that the only airline willing to fly his friend, Walter Sisulu, to Europe without a passport was Israel’s own El Al. And the ultimate smoking gun—the equation of Israel’s democracy with apartheid—doesn’t exist.”

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/05/nelson-mandela-and-zionism/

More importantly, Mandela was backed and instigated every step of the way by Jewish helpers like Joe Slovo (whom you don’t mention) and the entire Jewish liberal elite (that you don’t mention).

Most importantly, he was also financed by Jewish billionaires, like Igor Ichikowitz ( whom you don’t mention).

(http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/the-simon-round-interview/70252/the-billionaire-who-raised-money-nelson-mandela)

You quietly ignore the fact that the African National Movement, like so many other “nationalist” movements, was instigated and manipulated by the globalist cartel, which, to put it gently, was not black, but rather closer to you.

In fact, it is largely Jewish or Anglo-Jewish. Just as the black liberation movement in this country was instigated and helped by white liberals, whose funding can be traced back to foundations and trusts, run by Jews.

But, if anyone points that out, you would suddenly call that anti-Semitic, right?

Meanwhile, dear lady, you also missed this:

Electronic Intifada:

“Yesterday I wrote a piece entitled “Israel’s House of Horrors” about the openly murderous statements of Israeli cabinet ministers. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, I read a news article on the website of The Jerusalem Post that Israel’s former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu — one of the most senior theocrats in the Jewish State “ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings” (“Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza,” The Jerusalem Post, 30 May, 2007).

The Jerusalem Post reported that Mordechai made this ruling in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert citing biblical authority. The letter was published in a weekly journal distributed in synagogues throughout Israel. The report states that “According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets.”

Eliayahu’s son, Shmuel Eliayhu, himself chief rabbi of Safad, amplified his father’s comments, stating: “If they don’t stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand.” He added, “And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don’t stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop.”

This kind of genocidal hatred of Palestinians is not unusual in Israel.”

http://electronicintifada.net/content/top-israeli-rabbis-advocate-genocide/6974

Again, Ilana, I think you’re great and your defense of European culture is great.
But, if we’re going to be honest, let’s really be honest.

SECOND COMMENT

More at Conwebwatch about the disingenuous propaganda of Ilana Mercer here:

1. Pined for a eugenicist and racist immigration law
2. Misrepresented the numbers on leprosy to portray non-white immigrants as diseased
3. Misrepresented the nature of some of the targets of black killing in Africa, who were really
violent white supremacists
4. Expressed preference for white rule in a black country, S. Africa.

Ilana Mercer is in denial or ignorant about the globalist cartel, which is natural.

But no one else needs to be.
Racial violence in S Africa or in the US is the direct result of the activities of the cartel.

Note: Ms. Mercer responded that ConWebWatch was lying and misrepresenting her book. I accept that. I apologize if she felt libeled by that comment.

However, my major objection to her narrative still stands.