Just to remind everyone in America that hysteria over the Jewish Lobby has been in play throughout our lifetimes, though without the current pitch of hysteria, because dumbed-down social media didn't exist.
But never has the conversation been so very low and base as now. Especially with the antisemitic, MAGA-fracturing, Woke Right emerging so dramatically in the politics of every Western nation since the bloody Covid Hoax.
In 1974, PBS aired unchallenged William F Buckley Jr’s 1974 Firing Line episode “Jews and American Politics”, which remains a civilised bastion of fearless discourse from a time when speakers were serious about these conversations as a matter of honour and put their faces and names to them.
Stephen D Isaacs and Irish Catholic sociologist John Murray Cuddihy join Buckley to dissect the Jewish Lobby’s rise and the civilisational engine that fuels it. No disclaimers, no algorithmic slants – just three writers on old-fashioned TV naming facts and insights with surgical clarity. In November 2025, I doubt such a conversation on television would even be possible.
Cuddihy, the Irish Catholic, frames the deeper cost: Paul Valéry’s interior civilisation. Modernity and peace demand you internalise conflict – turn tribal brawls into self-dialogue. Yeats: “Out of our quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of our quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” The ordeal fractures shtetl unity under pluralism’s pressure. Fists become psyches. But he totally rejects relativism: this complexity is superior. Irish, Italians, Jews – all forged in the same fire because assimilating into dominant cultures requires it. The Lobby? It dominates because its architects mastered this inward quarrel: grievance to legislation.
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Now MAGA seem to be fracturing over the very same fault lines.
Trump rescinds his Marjorie Taylor Greene endorsement, branding her “wacky” and “traitor” for obsessively demanding the Epstein files and rejecting “not America First” Israel aid – while Israel has been busy fighting a war on behalf of Civilisation itself.
Thomas Massie draws Trump’s “weak RINO” fire for opposing so-called AIPAC “babysitters” and dual-citizen crap – while marrying dizzyingly soon after his wife’s death. Never underestimate the power of a brand new woman to sway a man’s politics... think Delilah.
The ever-tabloid Candace Owens ties AIPAC to Epstein conspiracies and Zionist hate, deploying Nazi tropes, such as under Trump this government is “Zionist occupied”; ZOG – Zionist Occupied Government isn’t just some edgy internet slang or neutral critique of foreign policy. It’s a core piece of neo-Nazi and white supremacist propaganda, cooked up in the 1970s to revive ancient antisemitic blood libels for a modern audience. It’s not “Nazi” in the 1930s’ Third Reich sense, but it’s the direct intellectual spawn of Nazi ideology, repackaged by American neo-Nazis to demonise Jews as a shadowy cabal pulling all the strings on Western governments.
Tucker Carlson plays master-flibbertigibbet silly-buggers with fascists (again), like Nick Fuentes; Megyn Kelly pointedly defends the increasingly frantic Owens as nothing but “brilliant” and Carlson as “a friend,” while bitchily commanding Mark Levin to “f**king put a lid on it, f**king Mark Levin!”
I’m watching all this thinking that AIPAC is always the eternal other. The other is not any of the talking-heads obsessed with making this their life-defining podcast topic.
Jews, understandably wary of extreme rhetoric coming from the right, and who tend to foolishly lean left if they can, built a successful lobby to win wars before they even start: in Congress and institutions, not blown-to-bits synagogues or shattered-glass businesses and shops. Duh.
Today’s Woke Right agitators like to think gloriously of themselves as reactionaries, but they grossly confuse a sound inner moral compass with safety in social media follows, for our hybrid times reward them with faceless, anonymous followers who skew the reality of true support behind some silly as f**k user-handles, or bots, who swell their self-image and delusions of support.
Dare we not to have these conversations again in person, since people seem to have a remarkable propensity to blank-out the political issues of the 20-50 years before they were born? Looking at you X-gens, Millennials and Gen-Z before you throw your lives and civilisation behind said reactionaries, who milk the shallowness of your time for popularity.
This article was originally published on the author’s website.
