First Principles of White Identity: White Solidarity or Antisemitism

Counter-Currents

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For the white partisan, there are two intertwining and sometimes competing priorities: the establishment of white solidarity as a political constituency and opposition to Jewish power. Both may have value, but only one can be considered the First Principle or highest priority. Confusion on this issue can and has led to white replacement even in our own political movement, with nonwhites like Candace Owens, Myron Gaines, and Kanye West appropriating white Nationalist talking points to generate large engagement and financial windfalls.

A First Principle is a self-evident foundational proposition from which other truths are derived. Does opposition to Jewish power flow from white ethnic interests or are white ethnic interests derived from opposition to Jewish power? The argument against Jewish power is essentially that they are:

• the most powerful and nepotistic ethnic group in any multiracial nation
• that they act as a Fifth Column racial supremacist bloc
• have a particular racial animosity towards whites fed by ancient ethnic grievances
• that Jewish oligarchs have disproportionately pioneered vice industries deleterious to the moral character of Western nations (like pornography and opioids)
• disproportionately supportive of destructive programs like mass immigration, Black Lives Matter, and communism
• The power of the Jewish-Israeli lobby has hijacked American blood and treasure for the defense of Jewish racial interests while denouncing ethnic nationalism in Western countries as “white supremacy.”

Even if we grant the truthfulness of these propositions, we must recognize that the First Principle is white ethnic interests. Because without the primacy of that motive, there is nothing inherently bad about Jews taking an aggressive ethnic evolutionary strategy. It is only bad insofar as we believe:

1. Whites have a right to exist.
2. Whites have a right to sovereign nations.
3. Hurting whites is morally wrong.

To distill the point: opposing Jews is necessary only insofar as they are a threat to the political priorities, and indeed the survival of, whites.

On social media, many white partisans would refuse to acknowledge the distinction between the two priorities. It’s common to hear that they are effectively the same. To oppose Jewish interests is to support white interests. However, this is a sloppy generalization with severe consequences.

A major political realignment occurred in American Nationalist politics after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Criticism about the “optics” of the demonstration was directed at the participants and used, particularly by so-called Christian Nationalists like E. Michael Jones and Nicholas Fuentes, to redirect nationalist politics from explicit appeals to race. Because Jews are not Christians, it allowed the ascendant faction to go full tilt into Jewish criticism, making it effectively the First Principle.

The fruit of these seeds are now apparent for all to see. Like mainstream conservatives, Christian Nationalists have been chasing the public relations boost of diverse coalitions. When a Kanye West, Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, or Sneako espouses criticism of Jews they are vaulted to greater prominence and showered with financial contributions. The vaguely “white” leaders of the coalition boast mixed-race ancestry and use it to deflect criticism. The regular stock of the Groyper movement (for instance) are often Indians, Hispanics, blacks, and even Jews who have converted to Christianity. So although this coalition often pushes back against antiwhitism and mass immigration, whites have effectively been denied a movement by their people and for their people like every other race in America has.

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A godfather of this multiracial nationalism approach is E. Michael Jones, a Catholic ideologue well known in white identity politics because of his shared criticisms of Jewish power. In the aftermath of Charlottesville, Jones used the controversy to push his own message, winning converts who were active in the Alt-Right but realized that it might be less controversial to convert (or “convert”) to Catholicism in order to critique Jews as a religion rather than a race.

Recently Jones emphatically stated on Twitter that, “White unity is not compatible with Christianity.” Meanwhile he has encouraged black identity politics when talking to black commentators who criticize Jews.

Protestant commentators began to pick up on this style a bit as well. Brad Griffin, the former Communications Director for League of the South and a Charlottesville attendee, began attacking white atheists and pagans while expressing a preference for living among black Christians.

We can infer two things from this fork in the movement:

1. Centering attacks on religious belief or disbelief is inherently fractious and splits the already small pro-white coalition.
2. Christian nationalism can be a gateway to multiracialism
3. If Christian nationalism accepts nonwhite Christians, its only dominant link to white nationalism is criticism of Jews

A largely secular version of this has also sprouted, especially within the streaming scene and surging after the October 7, 2024, attack by Hamas in Israel. This faction, prominently including Lucas Gage, Sam Parker, Keith Woods, and Jake Shields intersects heavily with Fuentes and his Groyper coalition. This coterie of individuals promoted something called the Muslim-Christian alliance to partner in criticizing Jews.

During this time, it was suggested that Muslims in Europe are not so bad and that Islam might have actually been helpful to Europeans had Arabs conquered it. Pakistanis like Sulaiman Ahmed, who diminished the threat of grooming gangs in England and denied that England is a historically white country, were welcomed with open arms and given prominent VIP roles at Fuentes’ AFPAC conference.

Although the secular “Jew namer” coalition is popular and influential on social media, they have effectively split from organized White Nationalism, even referring to White Nationalists derisively as “wignats.” Instead of promoting white thinkers who have sacrificed for the cause, they promote multiracial podcast hosts like Sneako and Myron Gaines, a black-Arab from the ‘Fresh and Fit’ podcast. Andrew Tate, who is black, has often joined in boosting this community, giving Hitler salutes and using anti-black ethnic slurs for attention, even as he makes his money pimping vulnerable, impoverished white women in Romania. None of this, obviously, is white unity.

Harming Our Ability To Accurately Analyze the Political Landscape

Jews in aggregate are typically a hostile ethnic faction. But they are one among many. The problem is that there are conspiracy theorists who imbue them with a supernatural level of power to orchestrate everything around the world. Anything bad that happens must be the Jews who are everywhere and behind everything in a grand conspiracy. That is delusional.

If someone, anyone, does something they don’t like they suddenly become Jewish. Donald Trump? Jewish. Elon Musk? Jewish. Every white man or woman who sticks their neck out for their people is accused of being Jewish at some point too.

If a Jewish person does something that helps us, the Jew namers cannot bring themselves to admit it. It always has to be a scheme. So if some Jews, like those in the MAGA coalition, oppose illegal immigration, we have to trash their efforts because it must be some 4-D chess to lure us into complacency or improve their PR. We can’t just accept that we have an issue that we agree with them on.

Some commentators in the “Jew naming” sphere have gone so far out on a ledge bashing Trump for his Jewish and Israeli sympathies that they will viciously attack his supporters, ignoring all of the things we have in common like stopping illegal immigration or ending DEI programs and antiwhite discrimination. They would make the vast majority of white Americans, who support Trump, their enemies. That is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The first day of Donald Trump’s second term he signed a flurry of executive orders including many items he promised to the grassroots nationalist community like ending DEI, affirmative action, pardoning the January 6 prisoners, and empowering law enforcement to begin wide-scale deportations. Many were skeptical Trump would deliver because of his poor record of promise-keeping in his first term. But they were proved wrong.

And yet Trump’s most vocal critics on the right, largely unable to look past his Zionism towards issues of common cause, were implacable. Israel is the only issue that matters to them. They claim Trump is no better than Biden or Kamala even though the Israeli-Gaza conflict began during the Biden administration, which gave Netanyahu almost everything he wanted. Trump brokered a ceasefire on his way into office.

The illegal border crossings during Biden/Kamala’s 4 years in office constituted an unprecedented acceleration of the Great Replacement. Border crossings jumped from 646,822 in Trump’s final year to 3,201,770 border crossings in 2023 (with Biden’s final year yet to be fully tabulated as of this publication). Here is the full breakdowns in numbers:

While both numbers are unacceptably high, saying that 646,822 vs. 3,201,770 constitute the “same results” is either ignorance or disinformation. These people want to inflict the worst that the Democrats can throw at us to spite the Republicans. Because Trump is a Zionist, we should reject the good things he does for us. The opposite side of the analysis: the Democrat’s submission to Israel and Jewish billionaire donors, is ignored for some reason. Opposition to Zionism is simply not on the ballot either way, and yet the purity spiralers want to throw out the parts of our agenda there is support for.

This is dangerously clouded judgement. Opposition to any rival ethnic faction, including Jews, should never come before the interests of white people in our politics. We oppose other racial factions directly proportional to the threat they present for us. And there should always be a possibility of détente if our opposition is willing to align itself with our interests.

Jason Kessler is the author of Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, available now from Dissident Press. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter,Youtube, Odysee, and Gab. Also follow Dissident Press on Twitter/X.