The Jews begging to join the alt-right

The Jewish Alternative’s podcast, entitled The Skype Chat, appropriates what some alt-Reichers, hoping to evade Twitter censorship, have adopted as a code word for Jews. “Jew/kike=skype, Spic/Mexican = yahoo, gay (men) = butterfly,” explains one handy alt-right glossary. It joins the ranks of other alt-right podcasts like The Daily Shoah and Fash the Nation, something that must surely give nachas to the bubbies of its hosts, who go by the pseudonyms, “Ari ben Canaan” (the Zionist hero of Exodus played by Paul Newman) and “Reactionary Jew.” Ari sounds distressingly like Seth Rogen, if Seth Rogen dropped terms like “remove kebab,” (alt-right slang for ethnically cleansing Muslims), and mused about African immigrants “slinging their excrement on the Arc de Triomphe.”

Asked how Jews could make their peace with a movement that explicitly embraces an exclusionary white identity, Reactionary Jew responded that he actually doesn’t want his fellow Members of the Tribe to think of themselves as white; “they are fundamentally an other” who should nonetheless ally with white Christendom. Disclaiming white identity also has the benefit of annoying and confusing the left, which, according to Ari, “sees us as the whitest of the white” due to Jews’ cultural and political influence, high rates of educational attainment and wealth. Ironically, this way of thinking is very much in line with that of leading alt-right activists like the aforementioned Spencer, whom, when I once asked if Jews are white, cautiously replied, “Jews are Jews.”