Really, to understand the role the British Chief Rabbinate sees itself as having in British society, the best comparison I can think of is the Association of Headmasters of Public Schools. They share the same nineteenth-century British imperialism, totally sincerely too—the Chief Rabbinate cannot be accused of treachery to Britain, quite the reverse. Like the neocons in the USA, they are plus royaliste que le roi.
When looking at the office of the Chief Rabbinate, it is not relevant to talk about ‘left versus right’ in the usual sense, any more than it would be in relation to the Association of Headmasters of Public Schools, or the House of Bishops. An important attitude found in the supposedly ‘progressive’ public schools, that even from a ‘progressive’ point of view, British imperialism is a must, preferably in its nineteenth-century form, where we have the Gatling guns and the natives have not, explains this. Thus, the Anglo-Jewish élite can legitimately cover the entire conventional political spectrum, just as the non-Jewish scions of the public schools, or the Bishops, do—but the nominally ‘left’ or ‘progressive’ end of their spectrum is just as devoted to hard-line British imperialism as the nominally ‘right’ or ‘reactionary’ end of their spectrum. Once one begins to develop a sense for these ‘hardened networks,’ one also senses how closely inter-related they all are, and how they collectively reinforce the myth of the sacral British-Israel Imperium.
The only way to deal with all this is to examine the way in which the Jewish cultural superego maps onto the non-Jewish cultural superego, and it seems to me that it is the Hebrew language itself, with its echoes of infantile omnipotence and terror, derived mainly from the sonorous and usually mispronounced Hebrew proper names heard during childhood Bible study, which provides the psychological vehicle for this mapping. An effect of the monopolistic Rabbinical control over Hebrew language education is what I might call “the Harry Potterisation of the universe”—a phenomenon that infantilises adults, and explains why they join Freemasonry.
There are evident national security implications for any country that allows the Rabbinate to create a situation where no one teaches the Hebrew language without a Rabbinical hechsher (seal of approval)—the intelligence implications are staggering, actually. After WW2 Churchill set up a Central European Committee, with the aim of forming an “anti-Russian Confederation” of Central European nations, intended to give Britain total domination of Central Europe. MI6, supported by French intelligence and the Vatican, recruited Central and East European émigrés, MI5 established Masonic lodges among the exiles, and networks were set up in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and elsewhere, providing the basis for Intermarium, Prometheus, NTS, Gladio, etc. It can hardly be doubted that the Israeli Masonic Lodges (at least, those which cater to English speakers) are closely related to these networks.
My own position is that I dearly love Jewish Israeli street culture, and especially Jewish Israeli rock music, of which I have a lot. This is not the sort of attitude the Chief Rabbinate looks for in Hebrew students, but it has allowed me to drag into the open the interesting fact that even the language itself is being treated as their own private property. These Chief Rabbinate people are taking advantage of the colonial style of government over their own people that the British establishment itself admires so much—but I refuse to let them prevent me from talking to Israelis in their own tongue.
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