The fol­low­ing arti­cle has been pub­lished on The Times of Israel (Blogs). 

Lurking dangers of the racist right

Julie Nathan
Times of Israel (Blogs)
August 30, 2018
On the fringes of soci­ety, beyond the gaze of main­stream pol­i­tics, there is a net­work of peo­ple prop­a­gat­ing and plan­ning an insid­i­ous and total­i­tar­i­an goal – eth­nic cleans­ing and geno­cide, under the rubric of their catch-cry ‘Race War Now’. This is not only occur­ring in Aus­tralia, but is part of an inter­na­tion­al racial­ist move­ment, and one that is gain­ing ground.
This racial­ist camp is com­posed of ultra-nation­al­ists, white suprema­cists and neo-Nazis. The term ‘racial­ists’ is used rather than ‘racists’ to indi­cate that an ide­ol­o­gy is the base of their racist views rather than sheer big­otry. In short, racial­ists are hos­tile to all peo­ple they con­sid­er to be non-Euro­peans, but Jews are seen as the pri­ma­ry ene­my.
The ideas behind the push for a ‘Race War Now’ can be traced back to The Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion, a com­plete­ly fab­ri­cat­ed doc­u­ment con­coct­ed by the Czarist secret police in the ear­ly 1900s which anti­semites claim ‘proves’ that ‘the Jews’ are plot­ting to con­trol the world. The updat­ed and mod­ernised ver­sion of this racial­ist con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry has become con­cre­tised around the twin ideas of ‘Cul­tur­al Marx­ism’ and ‘White Geno­cide’.
The ‘Cul­tur­al Marx­ism’ the­sis is a con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry con­cern­ing an alleged plot sup­pos­ed­ly con­ceived for the most part by Jew­ish aca­d­e­mics of the Frank­furt School of social the­o­ry and phi­los­o­phy who seek to under­mine and destroy Euro­pean West­ern cul­ture. This plot is said to be achieved through the pro­mo­tion of equal­i­ty, human rights, civ­il rights, fem­i­nism, homo­sex­u­al rights, abor­tion, mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism, sec­u­lar­ism and inter­na­tion­al­ism. In this way, ‘Cul­tur­al Marx­ism’ is por­trayed as the ide­o­log­i­cal weapon by which ‘tra­di­tion­al’ West­ern soci­etal val­ues are being under­mined, and the resilience of ‘white peo­ple’ to stand up for their own tra­di­tion­al cul­ture is being dimin­ished.
In sim­i­lar fash­ion, the relat­ed con­cept of ‘White Geno­cide’ is an alle­ga­tion of a Jew­ish plot to ‘destroy’ the Euro­pean races. The mythol­o­gy is that ‘the Jews,’ along with their ‘lack­eys’ of oth­er non-whites and left­ists, are plot­ting ‘White Geno­cide’ through mass immi­gra­tion of peo­ple of non-Euro­pean back­ground (‘non-whites’) into ‘white major­i­ty’ coun­tries. Those who sub­scribe to the the­o­ry of ‘White Geno­cide’ believe that in this way, peo­ple of eth­nic Euro­pean back­ground will become a minor­i­ty group, out­num­bered and dom­i­nat­ed in the coun­tries of Europe, North Amer­i­ca and Aus­trala­sia where once they were a major­i­ty of the pop­u­la­tion. This is the kind of feared ‘replace­ment’ that the marchers at the Char­lottesville ral­ly in the US in August 2017 were refer­ring to when they chant­ed “Jews will not replace us”.
A crude expres­sion of this idea takes the form of a poster pro­duced by the Aus­tralian neo-Nazi group, Antipodean Resis­tance. Its slo­gan is ‘Stop the Hordes’, with the “hordes” being iden­ti­fied in gross­ly racist terms as immi­grants of Arab, Indi­an, African and Chi­nese back­ground, and it is “the Jews”, sym­bol­ised by the Jew­ish Star of David, who are por­trayed as the hid­den hand behind non-white immi­gra­tion into Aus­tralia, and oth­er coun­tries with eth­nic Euro­pean majori­ties. The response to ‘White Geno­cide’, as espoused by many neo-Nazi and white suprema­cist groups, is ‘White Rev­o­lu­tion’.
Those racial­ists and white suprema­cists who sub­scribe to the ideas of an inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish con­spir­a­cy to con­trol the world, includ­ing the ideas of ‘Cul­tur­al Marx­ism’ and ‘White Geno­cide’, have for­mu­lat­ed their response – “GTKRWN” – the acronym stand­ing for “Gas The Kikes, Race War Now”. ‘Kike’ is a gross­ly deroga­to­ry term for ‘Jew’. The term “GTKRWN” is increas­ing­ly being used on count­less web­sites, social media pages, memes, images and hash­tags.
Dis­turbing­ly, there is a pletho­ra of calls online urg­ing peo­ple to kill Jews, and of images of Jews being hung, stabbed and shot, post­ed as joy­ful and inspi­ra­tional expres­sions of what indi­vid­u­als and groups desire. The provoca­tive and mur­der­ous pro­pa­gan­da posters by the Aus­tralian neo-Nazi group, Antipodean Resis­tance, call­ing to “Legalise the Exe­cu­tion of Jews” pro­vides a chill­ing exam­ple of the geno­ci­dal mind­set of racial­ists and their will­ing­ness to pub­licly dis­play and pro­mote their views.
This is what the ‘Race War Now’ nar­ra­tive espous­es. But what do its adher­ents actu­al­ly plan to do?
In gen­er­al, these racial­ists have a three step plan: stop all non-white immi­gra­tion, deport all non-whites (peo­ple of African, Asian, Arab, and oth­er non-Euro­pean back­ground), and kill all Jews. Some include Mus­lims in the depor­ta­tion plan, oth­ers do not. Once the Jews are ‘tak­en care of’ then any prob­lem with ‘the Mus­lims’ will be con­sid­ered either con­trol­lable or at an end, as these racial­ists see ‘the Mus­lim prob­lem’ as being one con­trived and orches­trat­ed by ‘the Jews’ as part of the ‘Jew­ish plot’ to destroy the West. How such a plan would actu­al­ly be imple­ment­ed is not read­i­ly known, although there is an abun­dance of lit­er­a­ture from which the racial­ists draw their inspi­ra­tion.
One major influ­ence is The Turn­er Diaries by William Pierce, pub­lished in 1978. It is a nov­el con­sist­ing of the diary of the cen­tral fic­tion­al char­ac­ter, Earl Turn­er, set in 1991–1993. The diary cov­ers the rev­o­lu­tion by ‘The Orga­ni­za­tion’, a neo-Nazi and white suprema­cist group, who wage mil­i­tary war against ‘The Sys­tem’, ie the US gov­ern­ment. The book advo­cates the vio­lent over­throw of demo­c­ra­t­ic gov­ern­ments by mil­i­tary actions, weapon­ry and bombs, may­hem and mur­der, and embraces an anti-Jew­ish and anti-black ide­ol­o­gy. When the vic­to­ri­ous neo-Nazis estab­lish their first state in a part of Cal­i­for­nia, the Jews are round­ed up and killed, the blacks and oth­er non-whites are expelled, and the so-called “race-trai­tors” are hanged from lamp-posts in the streets in an event known as the ‘Day of the Rope’.
Anoth­er increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar inspi­ra­tion is Siege by James Mason. Siege is a series of short essays writ­ten in the 1980s com­piled into a 457 page book. Accord­ing to the South­ern Pover­ty Law Cen­tre: “Mason and his writ­ings preach the prax­is of lead­er­less, cell-struc­tured ter­ror­ism and white rev­o­lu­tion.” Accord­ing to ProP­ub­li­ca, Siege com­mands that: “Now was the time for true believ­ers to go under­ground and launch a clan­des­tine guer­ril­la war aimed at bring­ing down “The Sys­tem.”.”
Clear­ly, these ‘Race War Now’ indi­vid­u­als and groups have no illu­sions that they could win pow­er by means of a pop­u­lar vote in a demo­c­ra­t­ic elec­tion. Their only chance at pow­er is through vio­lence, mur­der, ter­ror­ism and guer­ril­la war­fare. But first, they need to lay the ground­work and plant the seeds for ‘White Rev­o­lu­tion’ and ‘Race War’. The unfold­ing of this plan is in its ear­ly stages in Aus­tralia, but it is occur­ring, albeit on the fringes of soci­ety. Racial­ists are crawl­ing out from their dark crevices and open­ly seek­ing a path­way towards eth­nic cleans­ing and geno­cide.
The ‘Race War Now’ ide­ol­o­gy and its adher­ents are not on the con­ven­tion­al polit­i­cal radar. How­ev­er, giv­en their exis­tence and the mur­der­ous threat they pose to peo­ple and to free­dom and democ­ra­cy, they should not be ignored. They need to be exposed to the clear light of day, and the full force of the law should be brought to bear upon them when­ev­er they incite or car­ry out acts of vio­lence.
Julie Nathan is the Research Offi­cer for the Exec­u­tive Coun­cil of Aus­tralian Jew­ry, and author of the annu­al ECAJ Report on Anti­semitism in Aus­tralia.