The Real Jewish Supremacy

Why Israel Pushed Candace Owens Over the Lip of Insanity

The actual Jewish supremacy is the space in the mind of the Jew where his collective guilt should be. Candace Owens, joining a long, long list of historical Jew-haters and -baiters, doth when claiming she sees all human beings as equal, protest too much. I don’t mean just because she’s a bitter, bigoted antisemite. It’s deeper. She honestly senses, as many antisemites do, that she is inferior in some way. And since Israel is the proof, it’s Israel that brought it out of her.

Israel is the proof that Jews weren’t holding back because we lacked power. The proposition—which has its roots in the holy Torah but has furiously flowered among self-hating Jews and then (and only then, these gentiles lagging in inventiveness) among the Nazis—is that Jews would be just as supremacist, racist, and oppressive as anyone else, given the power. As Candace sees it, even though “Jewish supremacy” never put members of other faiths in ghettos, raped and murdered them in crusades, forcibly converted them in inquisitions, retained them as second-class dhimmis, made them scapegoats for pogroms, or liquidated them in death camps, it would have, if it ever had the opportunity (That others were powerful enough and did so does not interest Ms. Owens). We are all lucky that the Jewish religion, with its unique commitment to the righteousness of only its way and its people (Candace sees you opening your mouth to object and requests that you hold your comments until she’s done “just asking questions”), always happened to be small and powerless. Therefore, Judaism demanded a subterfuge so cunning it could not be detected and so subtle it was as if it didn’t exist to achieve its nefarious ends. The Jews weaponize both the holocaust and antisemitism as well as intifada and jihad, and we begin to wonder, is there any kind of killing them that they just won't mention?

So much—so little?—for Candace’s intellectual contribution.

That’s why Israel defending itself drove her insane.

Because though the antisemites try their best to deny it, the Jews in Israel—the Jews with power—have not much abused it. There is plenty of evil to that state, admittedly. Yet the admission itself is triumphant because it is the regular human evil of regular human states, things like greed and boredom and lack of discipline and fear at the edges. There is no inherent Jewish teaching that enforces a collective silence or assent among the Jews like one finds when seeking, e.g., the hundred-times-larger Muslim world for protest against Hamas. Even if the faults of the state are the faults of Judaism, somehow, Israelis still are more or less only as evil as the Americans, which we know because the same kind of argument attacks them. Although many have a political interest in painting everyday human life as unspeakably worse than terrorist states, dictatorships, or death cults, it isn’t. It isn’t in itself, nor even in the alleged terrible secrets that allow its “lies” to be upheld. This was a classic Soviet tactic: America must be worse than the Soviet Union because of all the subtle sins buried beneath the surface, turning Leave It To Beaver into an ironic, creepy, too-perfect hellscape. When one pointed out that no one in the USSR could eat beef or plead the 5th in the Lubyanka’s basement, one was told that one was unspeakably naive. Today, the populist right plays the same old communist game about the United States and Israel. Until what feels like ten minutes ago, Zionism was a left-wing cause celebre, which it turns out was simply a wilful choice by cult followers of an ideology rather than an inalterable principle at work.

We are now assured Israel is much worse than the worst dictatorships on earth. Zionists are Nazis, we hear all the time. But if the activists ceased to say these perverse words, the Zionist Nazis would cease to exist. The grand ideological oppression of the Zionists has failed to appear in a satisfying, total fashion.

Why is there such powerful psychological pressure to continue drawing the comparison? Because people once believed, as they shoved a Jewish face into the muck, that if Jews had the swords and the numbers, the roles would be reversed. So if there are no Zionist Nazis, we must create them. The Jews should be, must be, worse than the Nazis because they have the best available rationalization and excuse; because commensurate to the oppression is the subsequent revenge throughout the entire history of the world. If the Jews experienced a unique holocaust, or, even more sinister, have been greedily grasping at a holocaust oppression narrative, then if and when the Jews ever get power, the oppression and violence will be world-historical. (I think this is why, deep down, a lot of Europeans, in particular, were okay with the Jews getting a state—they were eager to have the “innocence” of the powerless Jew ruined, to be able to witness, at least in retrospect, the moral corruption latent in the whipping boy.) Then, tireless watchdogs like Ms. Owens will “keep it in check” because being shamed by the international community always keeps Nazis in check.

If the Jews do not become Nazis, that means anyone could not become a Nazi. It means that taking your oppression out on the world is not a human universal. It means you should be looking to live above any depth of suffering so that it is possible to transcend the cycle of violence and death. It means, in fact, many of the lessons that Christians, like Candace, claim to learn from the founder of their religion. Why this might be the case is above my pay grade and left as an exercise for the reader.

I think that deep down, the Jew-haters all know that nothing remotely like this has occurred and that the hilarious, grotesque narrative turning Palestinians into the six million is a stretch at best. What Ms. Owens doesn’t know is that her framing of the Jewish evil as “supremacist,” as convertible with the evil experienced by, say, African Americans—something shared by other black antisemites—is one that Jews in this country sincerely bought and propagated. It is the post-war liberal framing of the Holocaust, in which it was turned into a “genocide” that could have happened to anyone and been perpetrated by anyone. It is a lady at the crossroads, available to all, applicable as a metaphor to any cause for the tiny price of looking sad at the Anne Frank Museum or claiming to speak for the oppressed everywhere. Jews opened their arms wide to the Europeans and especially to the Americans and said, “Don’t worry, it’s not your fault, and now you finally understand what we have lived and died with for centuries. Let us build a better world whose unshakeable founding principle is human rights.” But this was a mistake. The Jews, in rejecting their uniqueness, yoked their fate to a world order that didn’t—fundamentally couldn’t—care about the Jews per se. It has become clear since Oct. 7 that Hitler was only stopped because he waged war on the world. Otherwise, the holocaust would have continued indefinitely, and the Jews of the allied countries would have been called war mongers and hated for speaking of the horrors they heard of. Jews in America put themselves in the hands of an ideology that, with minor quibbling differences, accepts that an Al Sharpton or Candace Owens expert on their own people’s oppression must undoubtedly know about Jews.

Candace Owens does not know. Expressing why she is pitiful is impolitic, but I will spell it out for you directly. She has leveraged her race into a successful career in demagoguery and now parlays her ressentiment into lashing out at the Jews. She is pitiful because she does not have millennia of the Torah in her chicken soup or dafina. If Candace Owens attained a nuclear state with one of the world’s most powerful armies and ruthless intelligence services at her command, she would not be a tenth as restrained as the Jews. She wouldn’t have so few grudges and hatreds in her soul. And she can feel it.

Here, then, are the two great sins of the Jews against the world. The Jewish Supremacy, as found among the Zionists, who have power but have not collectively used it to take vengeance. And the American Jews’ denial of that very difference, of that superiority. For which, in light of Candace and her ilk and an ever-thinner list of allies, the liberal American Jew’s patience ought to be wearing thin. It’s time for us to all admit something simple but of great moral weight. Being brutalized for centuries does not make you intelligent or wise. The Jews are exceptional for various historical and, if you’re inclined, metaphysical reasons. Do not try at home.