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Goyim Don’t Exist, Or Do They Already?

Ariadna Theokopoulos | 13.02.2014 07:52

A Bulgarian, a Palestinian, a Finn, an Italian, a Czech, an Armenian, a Scott, an Egyptian and a Russian, and many others like them, have nothing else in common but their humanity. The same can be said about a Christian, a Muslim, a Sikh, a Zoroastrian and a Buddhist. Yet all these people, irrespective of their nationality or religion, all non-Jews worldwide, are viewed by Jews as a single category they call “Goyim” — or by the less pejorative term, “Gentiles” — because Jews see themselves as living in a bipolar world: Jews vs non-Jews.


By on February 12, 2014 in Ideology, Israel, Jewish Matters, Jewish Power, Judaism, Religion



Non-Jews have a conscious self-identity that may be anchored in their nationality, ethnicity, religion, even political, professional or artistic affiliation, or any combination of the above. But you will never meet one who consciously identifies as “Goy” because that is not part of the non-Jews’ worldview and self-image.

For Goyim, Goyim do not exist. I have never met anyone who says ”As a Goy, I think that…” or “I am a Goy, you too?” A non-Jew’s identity depends on an affirmative relationship with the divinity (seen as forgiving), with other people (family, nation, humanity), seen as concentric circles of belonging.

The opposite is true of Jews. Jewish identity, as has been observed by many, depends on a negative relationship with the rest of mankind, against which it defines itself by contrast, and which it views as posing an eternal ‘existential threat,’ and on a transactional relationship with the divinity (which it views as fearsome but appeasable by symbolic rituals and easy to fool, and whose “only child” the Tribe is). Jews maintain lists: lists of enemies, lists of Nobel Prize winners who were ethnic Jews, lists of all manner of other notable Jews — Jew or Not Jew? — because wanting to know on which part of the imaginary binary divide everyone is has always been a Jewish preoccupation. I once heard the question in Russian, asked in my presence by a Jewish woman who didn’t know that I had some rudiments of the language: “Iz nashih?” (“One of us?”) By placing themselves above and apart of the rest of mankind, Jews are effectively placing themselves outside of humanity.

Some say that the pathology of Jewish identity has nothing much to do with Judaism because most of the Jews (“progressives” in particular) have no sound knowledge of the Torah and the Talmud. By the same logic, the Bolshevik revolution had nothing much to do with marxism because most bolsheviks had never read the inverted dialectics of Marx and Engels or Lenin’s April Theses. The core of the Jewish identity from which everything else flows is the core of Judaism: supremacism and the goal of dominion over the world of Goyim.

Jews have been indoctrinated for centuries to believe that all the rest of the world forms a largely undifferentiated mass called Goyim who are fundamentally different, inferior, or not even fully human. These creatures hate and envy them for their superiority and in each of them lurks an ‘Amalek,’ a ‘Nazi,’ a ‘Jew hater” who at any time, if not dominated or controlled properly, will try to roast them in ovens, gas them or push them into the sea. It is a collective paranoia.

Just because you are paranoid, however, does not mean that you cannot turn your hallucinations into reality if you try hard enough. Organized Jewry, by trying hard, has succeeded from time to time in convincing non-Jews that the world is all about “us against them,” and that they are one community (Goyim) under siege by “them.” They made it real. It is a suicidal obsessive compulsive disorder fated to harm them because we are many, they are few. In fact the more successful they are in this effort to sell their paranoia to the non-Jews the greater the peril for them.

In France right now organized Jewry, aka the “French establishment,” seems completely blind to the brink they are approaching in the confrontation they have unleashed with the incredible alliance that has formed between different social classes, ethnic groups, political or religious affiliations, as a reaction to what has been termed Jewish tyranny. The resistance is all ‘anti-establishment’ and the establishment is solidly Jewish and/or pro-Israel. Like the imaginary Goyim in the scariest Jewish nightmares, these Jewish-created Goyim shout in all too real voices: “Jew, the France is not yours,” “Jew out.”

Where to from here? Will the non-Jews acknowledge themselves as “Goyim” more and more, and in more countries? Will their self-perception come to mirror that of the Jews, namely, being under an “existential threat?”

Ariadna Theokopoulos

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