movements, such as Freudian psychology, the Frankfurt School, and Boazian anthropology, that aim to undermine the European-derived civilization in the United States and replace it with a society more congenial to Jews. According, to his analysis, Jewish organizations have promoted policies and ideologies that have undermined the cultural cohesion of the West while practicing just the opposite for themselves. Specifically, he chided Jewish organizations for extol- ling multiculturalism in the West wi isting upon ethnic exclusivity in Is- racl, MacDonald argued that Jewish interest groups have sought to make American society more heterogeneous by promoting a liberal immigration pol- icy that opens the country’s borders to diverse populations from around the world. This policy diminishes the numbers of the European-derived majori thus making che emergence of a broad-based, racially exclusivist movement less likely, as Earl Raab, an associate of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), once color-

fully explained:

Ic was only after World War II that immigration law was drastically changed to eliminate such discrimination. In one of the fist picces of cevidence of its political coming-of-age, the Jewish community has a leadership role in effecting those changes. …!” The Census Bureau has just reported that about half of the American population will soon be non- white or non-European. And they will be American citizens. We have tipped beyond the point where a Nazi-Aryan party will be able to prevail in this country.

We have been nourishing the American climate of opposition to ethnic bigotry for about half a century. That climate has not yet been perfected, bur the heterogeneous nature of our population tends to make it irreversible and makes our constitutional constraints against bigotry more practical than ever.'*

Not surprisingly MacDonald’s trilogy has been well received by those in the racialist right, as it amounts to a theoretically sound justification for anti- Semitism. To his critics, MacDonald provides pseudo-intellectual support for the prejudices of anti-Semites. MacDonald’s popularity could portend a major change in the orientation of the American extreme right, which since the 1980s has been characterized by radicalism and a relatively uneducated mem- bership with litle pretense to intellectual sophistication. This approach, how- ever, was largely ineffectual; both government and various nongovernmental organizations effectively delegitimized and marginalized the movement. How- ever, a new breed of extreme right intellectuals with tempered rhetoric and im- pressive academic credentials could conceivably broaden the influence of the movement as it reaches out to a more respectable a

The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right

George Michael, 2006