Contents
1. Archives completed.
2. Joan Griffith: Respect for Others
3. Eddie Chumney: Rabbi Lupin
4. STEPHEN SPYKERMAN: FURTHER COMMENTS
- RE: BRITISH ISRAELISM
1. Archives completed.
The missing postings of "Brit-Am Now"
have now been posted to us. Our
archives are complete.
I wish to thank everybody who sent
the postings to us. It helps us a
lot.
The postings contain valuable
information of historical
importance and items that we sometimes
need to refer back to.
2. Joan Griffith: Respect for Others
Hi Yair,
Re: principles of Brit-Am--
2. Self-Respect (no hatred of fellow
Israelite groups, no antisemitism)
Shouldn't that be just "Respect" (for
others)?
lol, I grew up in a family who argued
about religion since everyone
went to
a different church, yet we all maintained
the family relationship. That
is
probably too much to ask in this group!
But respect is good.
Joan Griffith
Almost everything is more complicated
than it seems, but almost nothing
is
hopeless.
Vincent Barnett
3. Eddie Chumney: Rabbi Lupin
Yair,
Rick Richardson is personal friends
with Rabbi Lapin. From what I know
or
know of about him, I admire the man.
We need more Rabbi Lapin's in the
Orthodox Jewish community.
Eddie Chumney
4. STEPHEN SPYKERMAN: FURTHER COMMENTS
- RE: BRITISH ISRAELISM
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 06:04:47 +0100
From: stephen@identityrevelation.com
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-105 - British
Israelism
TO: YAIR DAVIDY & BRIT AM
FROM: STEPHEN SPYKERMAN
4TH OCTOBER 2002 -
FURTHER COMMENTS - RE: BRITISH ISRAELISM
Dear Yair
I would like to make some further comments
on British Israelism. When I
made
the statement in Brit Am Now - 105
that the British Israel World
Federation
is cursed by God, I was simply applying
the covenant that God made with
Abraham and his descendants in Genesis
12: 3: "I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO
BLESS
YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM WHO CURSES
YOU".
Any organisation that incorporates
Jew-hating anti-Semitism in its
creed
automatically comes under this divine
curse. What has happened to the
B.I.
organisation is that a Jew-hating poison
has entered their system which
has
polluted their formerly righteous altar.
I agree with you Yair, that
not all
B.I. members are anty-semitic, and
I do not condemn the individual
member.
My problem is with the organisation
itself, which has become a vehicle
for
Jew-hating slander. One of their books
in their catalogue is entitled:
"The
Last Days of the Red Throne". When
I first came across the title I
assumed
in my innocence at the time that the
subject would be about Islam and
the
Muslim world. It proved to be the most
virulently anti-Semitic book I
have
ever seen. If anything the content
was worse than the infamous
"Protocols of
Zion". Had it been available prior
to and during the Second World War,
it
would most certainly have been favourite
bedtime reading for Adolph
Hitler
and Heinrich Himmler. It is the most
disgustingly racist book I have
ever
had the misfortune to look at, and
it most certainly is in direct
violation
of the British Race Relations Act.
This is only one of the highly
prejudicial books, and booklets in
their official catalogue. When I
pointed
these things out to their executive,
they refused point blanc to remove
them
from their literature.The problem is
that the executive of BIWF
actually
espouse and stand by these ideas themselves,
and they have polluted the
minds of their entire membership with
this poison. The evil and
insidious
ramifications of this mind pollution
has also spawned and felled the
racist "identity" movement in the United
States. Deservedly, the BIWF
membership is dwindling fast, and it
has been declining for the past
fifty
years.
God willing - soon they will be no
more!
I agree with you Yair that things were
not always this way with the
British
Israel movement. The early writers
of British-Israelism got their ideas
from
the pages of the Bible. A huge body
of literature was written and the
most
excellent scolarship and research was
done by people who had a genuine
love
for the Jews, as well as for the whole
house of Israel.
As with all subjects, some writers
presented their ideas more
responsibly
than others.The unfortunate fact that
that a number of 19th century
British-Israelism writers incorporated
racism into their beliefs brings
discredit on them personally.
It does not detract from the essentially
sound core of the concepts
they
were proclaiming.
THE CENTRAL ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER BRITISH-ISRAELISM
IS RACIST,
IMPERIALIST,
OR ELITIST; RATHER, IT IS WHETHER THE
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT - THAT THE
DESCENDANTS OF THE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL
STILL EXIST TODAY AND ARE FOUND
AMONG THE CELTIC & ANGLO-SAXON
NATIONS - IS TRUE OR FALSE.
Some of the leading 19th century believers
in Bitish Israelism equated
Britain's role of Empire and world
supremacy as being the divine
instrument
whereby God Himself would set up His
Kingdom here on earth. These
believers
in British Israel believed that they
are both Ephraim and Judah
combined,
and that the Messiah will rule from
the throne of David situated in
London.
They see London as the New Jerusalem
of the Messianic Kingdom to come.
In
their wide-of-the-mark Messianic vision,
they erroneously interpret the
Scriptures to say that the 'New Jerusalem'
would be established here in
this
England, this "green and pleasant"
land. From my experience of speaking
at
their Lancaster conference last year,
it appears that most of the
present
executive and many of its members still
hold to this theory. They
attach
great importance to the premise that
Britain, and by extension America
(Manasseh) too, constitute Ephraim
and Judah today. As far as they are
concerned, and it is not possible to
persuade them otherwise...
They have accepted the libelous and
spurious theories of Dr Arthur
Koestler,
as expounded in his book entitled:
"The Thirteenth Tribe."
Koestler's theories suited the British
Israel movement admirably, as it
fed
their well established prejudices that
the Jews are outside of God's
promises to Israel. In reality this
makes British Israelism into just
another form of REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY.
Thus under the influence of Arthur
Koestler, who though a Jew himself,
was a
Godless atheist and practitioner of
euthanasia, the B.I. movement came
to
see the Ashkenazi Jews as Edomite usurpers
and impostors, who in their
view
have been continuously responsible
for all the evils in the world. This
Jew-hating strand has attracted all
kinds of racial supremacists such
as the
National Alliance, the largest and
best organised, and most dangerous
neo-Nazi organisation in the United
States. Many other organisations
such as
Aryan Nation in the U.S, the National
Front in the U.K., as well as
many
other neo-Nazi variations on the theme
have embraced this same hateful
philosophy. In the United States it
has become quite a strong force
that has
become known as "the IDENTITY MOVEMENT",
who use British Israel
material to
support their poisonous fascist theories
of racial purity. Even the
very
word "identity" has been hijacked by
these organisations, as being
synomous
with racism.
When I passed my manuscript entitled:
"BRITAIN'S SECRET IDENTITY", to
my
friend Steve Collins in the United
States, he wrote back to me to say
that
under no circumstances must I use the
word "identity" in my book! To
have
the word "identity" in the title on
the front cover would mark the book
as
for racists only! I was horrified at
this, and could hardly believe it,
as in
Britain the word has no such connotation.
Then I received a letter from
a
publisher in the U.S. who said exactly
the same thing - he urged me not
to
use the word "identity" at all in my
book, and he suggested various
alternatives.
In view of this racist pollution into
the very body of the British
Israel
movement, is it any wonder that the
very name British Israelism has to
many
people become synonymous to the uttering
of a dirty word? It should
therefore come as no surprise to know
that the British Israel movement
has
become a mere shadow of its former
self. It has become a fossilised and
much
discredited organisation that lacks
the principled leadership and
dynamism
of its early founders, and now appears
to be in terminal decline.
Having said all of the above about
the British Israel movement, I do
want to
end this message on a positive note.
Naturally, as the Great British Empire
crumbled and declined almost
overnight, B.I. 's arrogant and highly
chauvinistic message, about the
Messianic Kingdom being set up in the
New Jerusalem of London, lost its
credibility in the 20th century. Even
so, the fact that many in the
British
Israel movement put a wrong 'interpretation'
on the historic fact that
Great
Britain is descended from Jacob, the
Patriarch of Israel, does not in
itself
discredit the veracity of the case.
It is true to say that in its early
days
the British Israel movement laid a
fine foundation of excellent
historical
research and scholarship which forms
a superb starting point for
further
study. It can be said therefore that
British Israelism has planted the
seeds
of something that has the most profound
implications for the modern
world
today.
Shalom
STEPHEN SPYKERMAN
stephen@