To Uncle Tom & Other Such Jews

updated again. I'd forgotten at the time, though I referred to the point. This starts here.

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A ludicrous figure. (The tweet's deleted, the text stays. see the image below.)

My first article in on 2/13/1969 was about 60's version of Max,Phil & Scott: "To Uncle Tom & Other Such Jews." http://t.co/Wfc2kRHgZC
— MJ (Mike) Rosenberg (@MJayRosenberg) July 3, 2014

[dead link] We are living in a time of exploding nationalisms. The blacks in America are the first to abjure the idea of assimilation, to realize the inherent lie in the concept of melting pot. Through black nationalism has developed a new black pride and hence the ticket to liberation

Today’s young American Jew is a good bit slower. He desperately wants assimilation: Jewishness embarrasses him. He finds the idea of Jewish nationalism, Israel not­ withstanding, laughable. The leftist Jewish student is today’s Uncle Tom. He scrapes along, demons­trating for a John Hatchett, asham­ed of his identity, and obsessed with it. He cannot accept the fact that he is seen as a Jew, that his destiny is that of the Jews, and that his only effectiveness is as a Jew. But he wants to be an “American,” a left­ist American, talking liberation and aspiring WASP. He is a ludicrous figure. 

"Max, Phil & Scott" are Blumenthal, Weiss and Scott Roth, publisher of Mondoweiss.

He cannot accept the fact that he is seen as a Jew, that his destiny is that of the Jews, and that his only effectiveness is as a Jew.

The ethnic nationalism and self-hated of Clarence Thomas.

“I don’t think this society has ever been color-blind. I grew up in Savannah, Georgia under segregation. It wasn’t color-blind and America is not color-blind today…Code words like ‘color-blind’ aren’t all that useful.” 

"here is nothing you can do to get past black skin. I don’t care how educated you are, how good you are—you’ll never have the same contacts or opportunities, you’ll never be seen as equal to whites."

The link's to Corey Robin, who has his own confusion. It's all as obvious as the relation of Farrakhan and Kahane, the Nazis and Stern, and Otto Weininger.

M.J. Rosenberg: repeats. The second time I made him regret something he posted.
Screen grab from google cache.  I'd forgotten that Kampeas didn't understand the problem either.
[updated: I added a pic of the relevant part of the linked file]

Updated, years latter, since I can't find the text anywhere else. I'm sure there are typos.

 The Village Voice, February 13, 1969, "To Uncle Tom & Other Such Jews." 

It is becoming increasingly fashionable in certain left-wing Jewish circles to put down everything Jewish. These Jewish leftists. still hung-up because they were not born Protestant, find that they can glibly resort to anti-Jewish stereotypes today without being referred to a good psychiatrist. It is now quite acceptable fo the Jew to attempt to ingratiate himself with the goyim by condemning what he has always been ashamed of. It's a sad sight. 

We are living in a time of exploding nationalisms. The blacks in America are the first to abjure the idea of assimilation, to realize the inherent lie in the concept of melting pot. Through black nationalism has developed a new black pride and hence the ticket to liberation. 

Today’s young American Jew is a good bit slower. He desperately wants assimilation: Jewishness embarrasses him. He finds the idea of Jewish nationalism, Israel notwithstanding, laughable. The leftist Jewish student is today‘s Uncle Tom. He scrapes along, demonstrating for a John Hatchett. ashamed of his identity. and obsessed with it. He cannot accept the fact that he is seen as a Jew, that his destiny is that of the Jews, and that his only effectiveness is as a Jew. But he wants to be an “American,” a leftist American, talking liberation and aspiring WASP. He is a ludicrous figure. 

He joins black nationalist groups, not as a Jew but as a white man. His whiteness. his precious whiteness, is too valuable to him for it to be relegated to a secondary position. He does not understand that his relevance to the black struggle is as a Jew and a fellow victim of endless white exploitation. He can comprehend the black struggle but only in the context of his own. His involvement in these black nationalist organizations make him a living lie. Blacks don't need his white leadership and they don‘t want it. The sad fact is that the Jewish Tom is an inevitable product of American civilization. But it is time that he realize that he, not today‘s black, is the invisible man; he, like yesterday's Negro, wanders in a no man‘s land. 

The Jew can be an ally of the black liberation movement and he should be. But first he must find himself. He must realize that his own struggle for liberation is a continuing one, that he too has much to fear and also much of which to be proud. The miracle of Israel, a national liberation deferred for 2000 years. should be his inspiration. The Jew did it alone, as the black knows he must, and he did it with guns. 

Therefore it is as a Jew that I must accept black nationalism.The black militants may or may not be the equivalent of the Irgun and Stern gang, but surely the parallel is there. The Jewish war of national liberation is different from that of the blacks or the Viet Cong only in that the Jews are closer to success, but what was won by Jewish fighters on the battlefields of Palestine will not be lost by Jewish moral cowards here in America. The black revolution also will succeed, but when it does the blacks will lose all their white "friends." They will be called "anti-progressive." They will labelled the aggressors. If they win again and again, they will be called “oppressors". As he does now, the black will surely stand alone. 

He can learn this much from the Jewish experience. When they slaughtered six million of us, the good people offered us sympathy, and nothing else. They uttered brotherly noises. It was when the fighting Jew arose from the blood and ashes of Europe that we began to lose our friends. The world began to accept our national existence but was prepared to mourn our imminent demise. Who can forget those “glorious” days before the Six Day War. All over the world good people demonstrated for Israel. One can almost picture the left's reaction to the death of Israel: never-ending sympathy rallies, leftists wearing the Star of David on black armbands. Israel could have come to represent the fight for freedom, the struggle to exist. Her people, driven to the sea, could have been martyrs. It would have been beautiful. But Israel won the war and in so doing she lost her “friends." Because she survived. she shall be punished. 

But that is not the issue: the absurdity of the left's anti-Israel position can be taken up on another day. The issue is one of Jewish pride. All those Jewish students who whisper the word “Jew” and lower their heads when a Philip Roth story is discussed in a literature course, the Mark Rudds who are prepared to die for the Vietnamese, the Biafrans, the Greeks. and the Czechs yet who reject Israel - these are our Uncle Toms (let's call them "Uncle Jakes-") and our shame. The Jew must accept his identity. He‘s, not just another white men. It‘s time he realizes he's a Jew, and he‘d better accept it. Many Jews are quick to criticize blacks for being impolitic enough to call us Jews in public. But that is what we are. From Hillel Club to the New Left is a short jump. And the inevitable jump back, by the Jewish Tom, is evert shorter. A man who cannot accept his own identity is a hypocrite and a liar when he pretends to accept someone else's. 

Black nationalism and Jewish nationalism will exist concurrently. To accept one you must accept the other. The black is Americas Jew: a common light must be waged. And yet when some black spokesman tells us we are poisoning his children's minds, when he calls us kikes, we must see him for what he is. Then he is just another goy using the Jew, the available and accepted victim, as scapegoat. We must then fight him as well. Thats the way it must be. We shall scrape for no one. 

And thus from this point on, I shall join no movement that does not accept and support my peoples' struggle. If I must choose between the Jewish cause and a "progressive" anti-Israel SDS, I shall choose the Jewish cause. If the barricades are erected. I will fight as a Jew. Not arbitrarily. not in support of the UFT, but in support of myself. In the final analysis, Mark Rudd and Albert Shanker will be on the same side - that's the lesson of the last 30 years. It will he learned. 

I[t has been written that after "the death camps. we retain but one supreme value: to exist.” Masada will not fall again. 

There is still time. but the burden of proof is net on the Jewish nationalist, it is on you. You who reject your identity and do not realize that it follows you wherever you go. You who are so trapped in your Long Island split level childhood that you can’t see straight. You who fight everything you are - and against the one element that gave you your goddam social consciousness: your Jewish social idealism. In the aftermath of the crematoriums, you are flippant. After Auschwitz, you are embarrassed. Thirty years after the holocaust, you have learned nothing and forgotten everything Ghetto Jew, you'd better do some fast thinking.