25A004 Salt of the Earth by Jim Davies, 1/28/2025

A heavy cost of free speech on the Net is that bigots can spout their poison at will on social media; and so make much more noise than their opinions deserve. Prominent among them are Jew-haters.

As detailed in The N-Word ZGBlog last July, people who believe in laws and punishment (ie, in governments) are accurately classed as fascists. That goes back at least 2,000 years in history and etymology. So, most people are fascist - mildly, harshly, or somewhere in between.

Certainly the German government of 1932-45 was harshly fascist, but it was also, unusually, bitterly anti-Jewish and carried the name "Nazi." Hence, any fascist who hates Jews can properly be called a Nazi. As unbelievers in government and punishment we anarchists are the only non-fascists around, and I've never heard of a Jew-hating anarchist; so in short: Jew-haters are Nazis.

Ugly and distracting though those Nazi comments on the Net are to read, I reckon freedom of speech is worth the price. It's just sad to see some are so saturated with hatred that they despise a class of people because of their birth.

I've met in my life several Jews, and probably many more whom I never noticed were Jewish. With only one minor exception, I value highly my memory of the interactions or friendships.

Otherwise, their company has been overwhelmingly positive. A good friend at Cambridge was John, whose arm was withered from birth and who died soon after those years; the photo shows him with his sister. His father had fled Germany in the 1930s; he was a scholar and during WW2 had worked for the BBC analyzing German radio broadcasts. The family welcomed me to their home one weekend.

During my time with IBM I encountered the nephew of a Jew who was the most prominent retailer in the UK; a young man of great wealth who ended up in the House of Lords. I recall him as highly intelligent but very courteous and gentle. The same description fits a colleague I met on the firm's Paris staff, a member of the Rothschild family.

Later on I was rescued from unemployment by the late Stan Golomb, a Jew of great vigor and integrity who built businesses up from nothing. Over the years we did well over a million dollars' worth of trade together, but without so much as a written contract, just a handshake. Unforgettable.

The most courageous Jewish man I got to know was Irwin Schiff, who after finding that the "income tax" has never been written into law, energetically set about spreading news of that fact. My book about that can be read here.

These days I lunch occasionally with a long-time friend and leading Libertarian, whose Jewish origins I never noticed for several years.

So in my experience being Jewish is a strong positive. It's amazing; they number only one person in over 500 worldwide, yet have a huge influence. How so?

The tribe was enslaved during part of its 3,000-year dominance by the Egyptian Empire, yet broke out of that status and formed its own country to the North East, as related in Exodus. So we might note that hard experience refined in them a powerful will to stay free and prosper.

When the Roman Empire displaced the Egyptian one the Jews were conquered, though not actually enslaved; and in A.D. 70 they rebelled. That was not as successful; many were killed and the rest eventually dispersed out of their homeland in the "diaspora." That placed members of the race all over Europe and beyond, but - amazingly - they kept their Jewish identity, and religion. That was both a remarkable achievement and a source of repression.

Because they were seen as "not one of us" they were regarded as outsiders (and in a sense that's true) and excluded, during the Middle Ages, from a whole range of professions. So they earned livings doing one of those not forbidden; and those included handling money, making fine personal decorations (which became known as jew-elry), writing and performing music, pursuing all kinds of scholarship, and doing it all diligently. No wonder they got smart. And little wonder that idle whiners, losers and Nazi bigots envy and hate them.

Will Jews continue to prosper and be prominent in business in the coming zero government society? - of course, why not! Success will spring only from ability, and they have that in plenty. The only area in which they won't excel is that of politics; for that occupation will no longer exist.