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Jonathan E Burack's avatar

I was about to send this to some friends and family I bother from time to time. But I figured I might as well post it here as well:

This is a big victory in what I believe is the most important issue facing not only our schools but the nation. Not Trump, not cost of living, not heath care issues, not billionaires, not debt or NATO, not even crime and immigration.

Antisemitism is the prime example in modern societies of what the French (and therefore too obscure) writer Rene Girard calls the Sacrificial Scapegoat mechanism. Once this Scapegoat arises and becomes the means by which the community externally focuses and expiates its internal aggressions, an inherently unstable dynamic gets underway. Because scapegoat sacrifices only dissipate the social aggression briefly and it returns to build itself up even more. We have seen this dynamic underway in wave after wave since Oct. 7, 2023. It has gone from encampments and marches to violent police clashes, to direct assaults on completely innocent bystanders, to murder.

In my opinion, no one is fighting this dynamic more trenchantly and effectively than Eli Steele (and his father) with the help of these two videos -- "Killing America" and "White Guilt." Obviously, these are also about DEI and our race conflicts. But I believe the way those have now helped to dredge up and supercharge Jew hatred is an even more dire challenge to America's core values and civilizational norms.

Eli Steele's avatar

Thank you, Jonathan. We try our best.

John Scabies's avatar

You can only get opinions this bad by confusing solidarity with Palestinians with hatred towards Jewish people

"This is a big victory in what I believe is the most important issue facing not only our schools but the nation. Not Trump, not cost of living, not heath care issues, not billionaires, not debt or NATO, not even crime and immigration."

An absolute staggeringly wrong opinion to have as an American in 2026, please stop confusing people being mean to you online for your horrible opinions with actual violence

Jan in NW FL's avatar

Great!!! But it’s tragic that it came to this. I can hardly wait to see the film sometime on streaming! You’re one of my heroes (along with your father)..authentic, courageous, articulate….the best!

Kiki R's avatar

Now when will they apologize to you and compensate you for the time and effort you had to expend defending your film against their propaganda? When will YouTube and Vimeo compensate you for pulling your film down?

Michael Constan's avatar

It's going to stay in the classroom until we teach university professors that ideology is not grounds for scientific thought. Max Weber told academia this in the 1910s, just as Nazism took root. The German universities already started attacking Jews in the 1920s, denying access and firing professors. Thank you for your work!

Reality Seeker's avatar

I just watched the full 38 minute film (on You Tube) LINKED ABOVE. Such a strong and effective examination. It is not limited to the issue of antisemitism, but goes beyond to expose the danger to all of America. YOU MUST WATCH KILLING AMERICA. Thank you Eli Steele

Eli Steele's avatar

Thank you for taking the time to do that.

Lissa's avatar

Thank you! This shows the power of your work!

HatChick's avatar

Thank you for this and all your work, Eli. 🙏

Leonard Pine's avatar

Living in the UK i hadn't been aware of much antisemitism in my country. As the news unfolded about Oct 7th 2023 i, like many across the world, was appalled at the footage emerging on the TV and the internet. Atrocities being committed by what i could only describe as 'inhuman savages'

Then a strange thing happened. There were people marching AGAINST Israel. In my country! All while Israel was still reeling from the worst atrocities on them since the Holocaust and even before they had generated a response to the attacks.

I was appalled and confused. Wasn't innocent people in Israel the victims here? As the weeks went by and i was seeing ever more larger and deranged protests (Or were they really celebrations?) i realised that the Jews were seen as the oppressors. It didn't matter that they were murdered, defiled and kidnapped. They were not the victims. It was justified.

In fact many people seemed of the opinion, 'How DARE you be the victims..'

I am now fully aware of the rampant and vile antisemitism in my country.

George Cervenka's avatar

Thank you for your work.

Stosh Wychulus's avatar

The so called "progressives" in the Democratic party are making Palestine a major focus for coming elections. Queers for Palestine are becoming a driving force , especially for young people. Democrats have not been this far on the wrong side of history since they were the party of slavery.

Both parties have been captured by their most authoritarian elements, and the choice of the lesser of the two evils is still evil. If you are not now politically homeless, you are not paying sufficient attention.

John Scabies's avatar

"Democrats have not been this far on the wrong side of history since they were the party of slavery."

Imagine looking at an issue where you're in disagreement with basically everyone on Earth except the population of Israel and the 5,000 most insane conservatives from a given country and thinking you're on the right side of it.

Spoiler: killing civilians on an industrial scale never looks good decades later and always reflects poorly on you! In 20 years when you are disavowing all of this stuff to look good you will remember this moment

Bridget Cresto's avatar

I’m glad you exist.

barry's avatar

As always, spot on! And, the anger in America continues to build. Against the “woke” takeover of institutions. The curious thing is the Democrats have this euphoria about the looming mid-terms. I doubt there will be a shellacking of Trump. People are too alert to the dangers of the woke machine which still requires much disassembly!

Sandra Pinches's avatar

There are some internal contradictions in the characterization of the behavior of the woke movement as "tribal." On a cognitive level woke activists "tribalize" imaginary racial, ethnic and sexual groups, reducing everyone they assign to these groups to unrealistic skin color categories, recent or remote national origin, "gender identity," etc. The woke then imagine themselves to be the Good, enlightened, educated people who are Saviors of the tribes they have created in their minds.

The woke do not, however, explicitly embrace their own actual tribe (or anyone else's for that matter). The members of the woke movement in the U.S. are overwhelmingly descendants of Europeans, but they claim to hate everything about "whiteness" and Western Civ. As you have argued, Mr. Steele, they are preoccupied with white guilt," often only performatively but also in many cases authentically. In this sense they reject their own ethnic tribal ancestries.

The core of the woke movement is a bunch of snobby, elitist, upper income white people jockeying to feel superior to all the other "white" descendants of Europeans. I think most of them are driven primarily by the need to feel superior as individuals over other individuals, including family members, friends, fellow students and coworkers, as well as strangers online. People with this relating style tend to have a lot of conflict in relationships with others, and they definitely are not "communal" unless they are at the top of the commune. I think that social justice activists are mostly at war with their fellow light skinned European descendants over in-group and individual status issues. When they bring up "disadvantaged, marginalized groups," most of the time they are triangulating a phantom third party into the conversation to use as a weapon against family members.

Christine A Linnenbach's avatar

Wow!! Great job! Go Eli!

Cynthia Ford's avatar

That's a great victory. I follow that area as I was born there, and I had family there. The area is wealthy, and Facebook HQ is nearby, Stanford, Google, Apple, etc. A black woman, who was hired to teach literature (if I recall), objected not to the DEI CRT curriculum, but to the characterization of Jews as oppressors. She was fired from De Anza for that, down the road in Cupertino. Many incidents at Stanford, esp in the Law school. Lots of furor around getting rid of gifted programs. The immigrant Chinese from the Mao era in Sunnyvale rose up and complained about the K-12 curriculum as it reminded them of the Cultural Revolution. A classical school opened in Atherton. Ethnic Studies began, I think, at SFSU, and the dept. is now openly affiliated with Hamas. But the great Kitty Millett, soldiers on there teaching Jewish Studies despite all of that. This is tech bro transhumanist technocracy territory, where they are hoping to create The Sand God. Congratulations on winning back a little bit of sanity. Godspeed.

Mike Kralis's avatar

Great work, Eli. The second to last paragraph should be read in every American jr. high and high school classroom. It’s the God’s honest truth.