"Brit-Am Now"-109

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@



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