"True story: a Jewess of my acquaintance, who happens to be a veteran of several mainstream Jewish organizations, tells of stumbling upon MacDonald’s essay “Understanding Jewish Influence.” As she read about the gobsmacking ability of Jews to obtain power and influence in Western societies, about our eminence in academia and law, about how our high intelligence and organizational skill are key to our ability to achieve such prominence, my friend’s chest swelled with ethno-religious pride and she forwarded the essay on to a former colleague of hers, also a functionary in a Jewish organization. The friend replied: “The article was written by a non-Jew! And an antisemite no less! Don’t forward it to anyone else!”"

First, if you are not prepared to use terms such as Negress, or Limey, don't use the term "Jewess"

Kurtzman doesn't speak for all Jews, or even most of them.

Second, the idea that Jews have attained lots of "power" is an antisemitic fantasy.

There used to be a Jewish joke in the 1920's Berlin where a gentile saw his Jewish friend reading an antisemitic paper. When asked about the Jew said, "when I read the Jewish press all I see are stories about pogroms, and antisemitic acts of brutality. When I read the antisemitic press I see articles about powerful Jews who control the media, the banks, in short the world."

Antisemites need to tell themselves that Jews are all powerful.

Third, if Jews are and were all powerful how do you account for their being so easily slaughtered during the Holocaust? In fact it was the smartest Jews of all that got killed in the Holocaust. The antisemites have an answer, "the Holocaust was a myth." Does MacDonald believe that too? If not, how does he account for the Holocaust?

Fourth,

As the Holocaust shows there is no correlation between survival and intelligence.

It is also true in contemporary Western culture where the smartest people have the fewest babies. This in itself contradicts MacDonald’s tendentious thesis.

Finally, the most telling evidence that MacDonald is all wet is that smart Jews like Kurtzman want to take him seriously.

Jackson Dyer