Chabad (Lubavitch), Putin, Russian Oligarchs

Understanding Jewish Politics in Russia
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

While ordinary Chabadniks often describe Vladimir Putin as an evil thug, the Chabad leadership basks in its relationship with him. This contradiction has complex roots.

In the beginning the mainstream Jewish community in post-Soviet Russia was dominated by the Russian Jewish Oligarchs, who are a sort of mutant spinoff of Friedmanite Neoliberals (a gross simplification) and who for the most part became enemies of the Putin's policy of bringing privatized former Soviet state corporations back under governmental control.

The National Council for Soviet Jews, which is hostile to Russia, is Neocon-dominated. The Neocons themselves have been working with American Neoliberals in an attempt to wrest the oil and natural gas resources of former Soviet territories from domination by the Russian federation.

While the Lubavitcher leadership shares with the Zionist intelligentsia the basic drive for status, power, and wealth, Lubavitcher politics is relatively simple-minded and involves generic anti-goyism in combination with a desire to bring as many Jews as possible closer to the Lubavitcher way of thinking.

Not only are the Lubavitchers far less threatening from the standpoint of Putin because they lack the Neocon-Zionist-Neoliberal dreams of economic and strategic domination, but Lubavitcher mythology even glorifies the decision of the Alter Rebbe (Shneur Zalman) to seek close relations with the Russian government by supporting the Czar over Napoleon. Because the anti-Putin oligarchs tried to wage a propaganda war against Putin by flinging accusations of anti-Semitism, Putin probably found the Lubavitchers useful as a sort of PR shield.

In order to assure the choice of Lubavitcher Berel Lazar as Russian Chief Rabbi, Putin worked closely with wealthy Russian Jewish baal tshuvah Lev Leviev and with the Putin-friendly Russian Jewish oligarch Roman Abramovich, who was close to Georgian Jewish Oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili, who until his death led the opposition to the Neocon-supported Saakashvili regime in Georgia.

Ordinary Lubavitcher scorn for Putin and Russians in general is probably a consequence of traditional anti-goyish and anti-Russian attitudes of both American Jews and also Russian baalei tshuvah, who often believe falsely that anti-Semitism is built into Russian genes and that Russian Jewish history is a never ending tale of pogroms and persecutions that result from Russian anti-Semitic genetic programming.

Such beliefs are quite dangerous. Not only do they often morph into fanatic anti-Islamism and Muslim-baiting because Jews often fail to distinguish one group of gentiles from another (see list of Obsession-related blog entries at the end of this article), but Lubavitchers like many Jewish groups are totally convinced of their moral superiority to non-Jews and rarely feel any remorse or connection to anti-Gentile crimes that arise out of Jewish politics and business practices, whether exploitation so severe that Ukrainian peasantry had no recourse but rebellion or the mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide that have characterized both Soviet Ashkenazi and Zionist Ashkenazi politics.

Vladimir Putin told me a personal story in the Kremlin

This video includes excerpts from the speeches of Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, Attorney Alan Dershowitz, and footage of the legendary Chabad Lubavitch "Roll Call" at the 2006 International Conference of Shluchim.

Get the full video: The Banquet 5767-2006

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Backgrounder on Occult Mystical Zionism

Autonomous Transnational Jewish Political Elite

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

The transnational occult mystical Zionist political elite embodies probably the most heterogeneous current of Zionist thought. People like Abraham Isaac Kook, Tzvi Yehudah Kook, Menahem Shneerson (the Lubavitcher Rebbe), Jack Abramoff, Michael Medved, Moshe Tendler and Lev Leviev are occult mystical Zionists.

In general occult mystical Zionism represents a concretization and politization of neo-Platonic cabalistic ideas, which assume the superiority of Jewish souls over non-Jewish souls. Non-Jews are viewed as subhuman. For example, sexual intercourse with non-Jews is considered a form of bestiality.*

The Kookians, who for the most part own the National Religious Party (Mafdal) nowadays, view Zionism as the beginning of messianic redemption while Lubovitcher thinking is more anti-gentile (antigoyish) than pro-Zionist.

Agudat Yisrael, Degel haTorah, and Shas are religious parties that are less involved in the settlement movement and do not fully embrace the Messianic ideology of Gush Emunim or Neemanei Eretz Yisrael. These three religious parties**  are probably closer to the Lubovitcher anti-Gentile position. Degel haTorah is probably less mystical in its orientation, but it is highly religious and tries to reduce political questions to issues of Jewish law or Halakhah.

Because occult mystical nationalists can be found in all parties, the influence of occult mystical thinking in Zionism is more important than the number of the Knesset members indicates.

Hillel Kook, the nephew of Abraham Isaac Kook, was highly involved in Jabotinskianism, which is today represented in Kadimah, Likud, and Herut (חרות – התנועה הלאומית‎ -- not descended from Begin's Herut Party).

 

Avrum Burg is a religious nationalist Labor Zionist, who recently realized that Zionism is fundamentally flawed as an ideology. He has emigrated from Israel. If the occult and mysticism had constituted a larger component of his thinking, he would probably still be involved in Israeli politics.

 

Notes

 

* According Ezechiel 23:20, zirmat susim zirmatam which is interpreted as the seminal fluid of horse is their (non-Jewish) seminal fluid. Zirmah may also mean phallus or ejaculation.

 

** Maybe more correctly two parties because Agudat Yisrael and Degel haTorah run a common slate.

 

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