Neocon Blogger Slanders Galloway and Jones

Kurt Nimmo | October 4 2005

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Patrick Devenny, a regular contributor over at David Horowitz’ Scaife-funded Moonbat blog and a Henry M. Jackson National Security Fellow at the neocon Center for Security Policy, has taken George Galloway to task for dispensing a bit of unabridged history. “During an interview on the Alex Jones show, Galloway declared that Israel and dirty tricks ‘had a long history together,’ while also calling Israel ‘a little settler state on the Mediterranean’ which ‘act(ed) as an advanced guard in the Arab world.’ The Alex Jones show is a good place for the airing of such insanity, it being a syndicated fringe radio show which charges—among other things—that secret societies rule the world and 9-11 was a government conspiracy,” Devenny rants, attempting to Smear Jones and Galloway at the same time. Devenny, as a purposeful neocon plugging away at Frank Gaffney’s warmongering think tank—funded not only by the aforementioned Scaife foundation but also the bingo magnate Irving Moskowitz, who bankrolls murderous Israeli settlers who are fond of shooting Palestinian children in the head—is a student of history by way of big time omission.

For instance, Devenny is unable to accept the historical fact political Zionism supported the rise of Hitler, an assertion he declares as “lunacy.” Of course, not all Zionists supported Hitler, but some of them did—for instance, the German Zionist Federation, an influential voice in European Zionism at the time. “Believing that the ideological similarities between the two movements—their contempt for liberalism, their common volkish racism and, of course, their mutual conviction that Germany could never be the homeland of its Jews—could induce the Nazis to support them, the [German Zionist Federation] solicited the patronage of Adolf Hitler, not once but repeatedly, after 1933,” writes Lenni Brenner. Devenny should read Rabbi Joachim Prinz, who wrote: “Everyone in Germany knew that only the Zionists could responsibly represent the Jews in dealings with the Nazi government.” Indeed, considering what happened to the Jews in Europe, Prinz’ words may be considered “lunacy” and no doubt modern day Zionists such as Devenny would rather forget such embarrassments—nonetheless, more than a few Zionists collaborated with the Nazis and this is part of the irrefutable historical record, now considered heretical.

As Brenner notes, Zionism embraced (and still does) “volkish racism,” and thus fascism was (and is) a natural tendency for reactionary Zionists of the Revisionist (now Likudite) strain. Vladimir Jabotinsky, whom former Israeli PM Menachem Begin considered “the greatest Jew since Herzl” (Theodor Herzl is considered the father of Zionism), vehemently rejected Nazism while embracing its ideological parent, Bentio Mussolini’s Italian fascism. Jabotinsky “incorporated Mussolini’s concepts into his own ideology and rarely publicly criticized his own followers for Fascist-style assaults” against Arabs and the British under the Mandate. “When the average Betari [a member of a Jewish youth organization dedicated to Zionist activism] put on his brownshirt he could be forgiven if he thought he was a member of a Fascist movement, and that Jabotinsky was his Duce.”

Granted, it is probably not realistic to assume Patrick Devenny would take the awkward (and routinely omitted) history of Zionism (and the ideological foundation of modern Likudism) into account when he rants against Galloway and Jones, two individuals he so effortlessly accuses of anti-Semitism and “holocaust denial.” It seriously irks Devenny that Galloway characterizes Israel as “a little settler state on the Mediterranean,” a fact so obvious it does not need elaboration (somebody should ask Devenny what he considers illegal Israeli settlements—in violation of international law—on occupied land on the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and, until recently, the Gaza Strip). Of course, for “volkish” Zionists such as Mr. Devenny, simply making note of such unavoidable realities is evidence of “increasing mania” and “the worst vitriol spouted by neo-Nazis and holocaust deniers.”

Finally, as a water boy for the Center for Security Policy, Patrick Devenny stands accused of promulgating war crimes, certainly a far worse crime than Galloway’s comparatively mild rebuke of Israel for its transparent colonialism and racist policies. As Jason Vest documents (The Men From JINSA and CSP), the Center for Security Policy was instrumental in pushing policies that eventually resulted in the invasion of Iraq (current body count: more than 100,000 innocent Iraqis). “Whenever you see someone identified in print or on TV as being with the Center for Security Policy or JINSA [the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs] championing a position on the grounds of ideology or principle—which they are unquestionably doing with conviction—you are, nonetheless, not informed that they’re also providing a sort of cover for other ideologues who just happen to stand to profit from hewing to the Likudnik and Pax Americana lines,” a veteran intelligence officer told Vest.

Patrick Devenny’s assigned task is to roundly excoriate critics of the “Likudnik and Pax Americana lines,” especially prominent critics such as George Galloway and Alex Jones. It is not to objectively consider history but rather bury it under a heap of lies and slander. However, factual history will always out and men such as Devenny and expose them for what they are—crass propagandists and apologists for mass murder and crimes against humanity.