The Kvetcher’s sagacious blog Jewish Unease Towards Mass Immigration From Islamic Countries Spreads Left by DK which I discussed here has sparked an impressive and worthwhile controversy. As I mentioned here, it produced a valuable analysis demonstrating that US-born Hispanics are about twice as anti-Semitic as white Americans generally. And it stimulated two very interesting responses from “Jenny” a “native person”, of Wampanoag ancestry, who had some incisive remarks.

This in turn generated a vicious and verbose response from “Temoc”, who is clearly a professional, possibly employed by one of the Hispanic grant-eating outfits, but in my view, given the quality of his work, more likely from the ADL or the $PLC, probably under false colors:

First off, you are probably lying about being a native.

I was worried for Jenny a

lifelong liberal democrat…always…pro-Israel and passionately against anti-Semitism.

Not many ordinary citizens can take the scalding, violent abuse which is the trademark of these entities.

Happily, I was wrong. Jenny struck right back, and powerfully, in a post which deserves reading in full. She accepts that Temoc is a Mexican, but said:

I’m not surprised that someone whose ancestors committed genocide against the native peoples of what is now referred to as “Latin” America, and who also created the trans-Atlantic slave trade, would attempt to disrespect me, while at the same time attempt to exploit my people’s history. Your people slaughtered the indigenous peoples south of the border, and in fact attempted to do the same thing to the indigenous peoples in the southwest of what is now referred to as the United States.I know Afro Latinos who have written and spoken about the racist treatment they are treated to, especially by the brownest Mexican.

The fact that Mexico’s economy has been in the toilet up until NAFTA, is because your culture is corrupt, and unwilling to work hard to actually achieve reform. Your people prefer dirty backdoor dealings, bribes and other similar practices. In Spanish culture, there is no such thing as compromise. Equal rights is not a concept that is understood because the culture there promotes the concept of getting one over on others. Lift yourself up, so you can oppress others.

This is only part of what Jenny has to say!

Poor Kvetcher! A post to his own community has generated a nationally significant debate. Very likely the Frum will not appreciate this. Please thank him.

To Jenny: Please contact Peter Brimelow. VDARE.com is a Coalition. No Immigration skeptic is excluded. We can give your views (and energy!) major circulation.

A movie likely to be overlooked in the Oscar nominations is the fall cowboy flick, “Appaloosa,” but Viggo Mortensen deserves serious Best Supporting Actor consideration. Here’s my review in The American Conservative:

The bald and square-jawed actor Ed Harris has played American heroes and psycho killers since first drawing notice as astronaut John Glenn in 1983’s “The Right Stuff.” He’s now written and directed “Appaloosa,” an amiable Western about masculine camaraderie and honor adapted from the book by Robert B. Parker, the genre novelist who created Spenser, the Boston private eye. “Appaloosa” furnishes Harris and Viggo Mortensen (the King in “The Return of the King”) with plenty of wry lines for their portrayals of itinerant lawmen in the New Mexico of the 1880s.

Fish do not feel wet, we are told (although on what authority, I cannot say), and cowboys and Indians movies once felt no more awkward than cops and robbers films do today. Westerns were then less a genre than a natural, default mode. In the early 1970s, however, urban crime dramas, such as “The French Connection” and “The Godfather” replaced Westerns as the norm. The Western has since become a highly self-conscious genre, one almost immobilized by the weight of its pre-1970 cinema history.

As an actor, however, Harris appears unburdened by all the film school baggage the genre has accumulated. The straightforward “Appaloosa” provides two outstanding roles and sundry old-fashioned pleasures.

By churning out countless cowboy movies, Hollywood had helped enshrine the idea that America was built by frontier settlers. The decline of the Western coincided with the rise in self-consciousness of the descendents of Ellis Island immigrants. By 1970, the grandchildren of Ellis Island wished to assert a new vision. America, their movies implied, was built not by pioneers, but by Catholic and Jewish immigrants, especially the gangsters and policemen of the big cities.

Thus, Martin Scorsese spent over 30 years and more than $100 million to film the 1928 book Gangs of New York to push his mobocentric theory of American history back into the mid-19th Century. The tagline for his movie was “America Was Born in the Streets.”

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Here’s another outtake from the upcoming book The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Greg Cochran and Henry Harpending. If the stuff that wasn’t good enough to make the book is this good, how good is the actual going to be?

The first Neanderthal skeleton recognized as such was found in a limestone quarry in the Neander Valley in Germany in 1856. At first, this rather odd skeleton was thought to be that of some medieval guy crippled by arthritis (or a Celt, or a diseased Cossack): it was only identified as a representative of an extinct type of human somewhat later. This other human race was named after the site: spelling reform later changed its name to Neandertal and eventually most paleontologists followed, driven by obscure interdepartmental struggles. We’re sticking with ‘Neanderthal’, though: an archaic spelling seems only appropriate for a vanished species.

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Following the Miami demonstration, further evidence of the glories of immigration from the Middle East comes from Wilmington NC: Palestinian Americans rally in downtown Wilmington to raise awareness by Jon Evans WNECT Wilmington Jan 9, 2009 06:10 PM EST

More than 50 Palestinian Americans started the rally at Riverfront Park around 4:00 Friday afternoon. They were joined by many who are sympathetic to their cause.

Those involved in the rally were not protesting U.S. policy in the Middle East, but instead raising awareness, along with showing sympathy and support for the Palestinians still left behind in Gaza and the West Bank.

In contrast to the Miami performance, the North Carolina affair was orderly and well managed, judging by the film clip on WNECT’s web site. Also reasonable:

“The Israelis will tell you that Hamas started that by firing some missiles into Israeli towns and cities,” said organizer Musa Agil. “But they will not tell you that they have imposed a siege, a blockade on the Gaza strip for the past three years. So, the Palestinians in Gaza have been dying very slowly, and now they are dying in large numbers.”

Apart from wondering why an old Southern town like Wilmington needs Arab immigrants, VDARE.com readers will remember that Wilmington produced one of the more vivid examples of the War against Christmas this season, as documented by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic: Rudolph the Jewish-American Reindeer 10 Dec 2008, and discussed by us here

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” caused a stir at a New Hanover County (North Carolina) school. A parent complained about the song’s religious reference and got it pulled from her child’s kindergarten Christmas show at Murrayville Elementary School. The song was pulled “because it had the word Christmas in it,” said Rick Holliday, assistant school superintendent.

A Jewish mother, who didn’t want her name published, objected to what she called “religious overtones” in the song. So the principal agreed to pull it from the program.

So, on the one hand, a militant if disciplined Arab immigrant community. On the other, a Jewish community with at least some recklessly aggressive members. And in between – America.

Wonderful.