But now there is one incident that is so blatantly bigoted and such an example of the most crude form of anti-Jewish hatred that even we are surprised. At least the Mises Institute bigots try to cloak their prejudices in high-sounding terms. What we are discussing today has none of the pretence of intellectualism. It is pure, gutter anti-Semitism of the most rabid kind. And for it to appear on a libertarian web site (although one that appeals to the extreme Right in it’s content) is shocking. In fact Rightwatch has had three different people point us to this site.

First, let me tell you about the site and it’s founder/manager. The site is Freedom’s Phoenix run by Ernie Hancock of Phoenix, Arizona. Hancock is a very loud, rather abrasive activist. And he ran for National Chair of the Libertarian Party but was soundly trounced by Bill Redpath who took 3 votes for every one that Hancock received. He runs something called the Arizona Breakfast Club, a collection of far right types which was founded by Harry Everingham, a well-known activist in extreme Right circles until his death.

Hancock also was a producer of the Charles Goyette radio show when it was at Air America, the Left-wing broadcaster, and continues to work with Goyette at KFNX radio in Phoenix as well. Hancock doesn’t pretend to be an intellectual just an activist but he constantly makes sure he is in the public view and is heavily associated with libertarian ideas. So when his web site, Freedom’s Phoenix, start promoting the most extreme sort of anti-Jewish venom it is bad news for all libertarians.

The article in question is almost 50 years old. And it is a speech entitled “A Jewish Defector Warns America”. The article is a transcript of a speech by Benjamin Freedman who claimed to have been part high up in the Jewish conspiracy. Freedman’s claims are bogus. But he was well received by the neo-Nazi movement which still promotes his writings to this day. It is important to read what is on this “libertarian” web site before Freedman’s article. You can find it all here: http://www.freedomsphoenix.co...;From=News]

The introduction to the speech, as it appears on Hancock’s web site, says that Freedman “broke with organized Jewry after the Judeo-Communist victory of 1945” and spent the rest of his life “exposing the Jewish tyranny which has enveloped the United States.”

That sentence alone ought to chill the bones of any real libertarian. First, there is no such thing as “organized Jewry” then “organized Scots” or “organized Angolans”. This is merely the terms used by neoNazi proponents of a Jewish plot ot take over the world. And Hancock’s web site buys into all of this. The defeat of the Nazis in World War II is called a “Judeo-Communist victory” and it clearly claims that “Jewish tyranny... has enveloped the United States.” This is pretty raw. Hans Herman-Hoppe and the League of the South bigots at least try to sound intellectual. This is just pure anti-Semitism totally devoid of intellectualism.

The web site says Freedman “had been an insider at the highest levels of Jewish organizations and Jewish machinations to gain power over our nation.”

Now out of fairness one should state that Hancock links his site to other articles. But he and his team of friends pick who gets links and who doesn’t. They don’t happen by accident. And they link to things which they think people should read. So why read a tirade claiming a Jewish plot to destroy America? The way the site is set up once you are in Hancock’s site and click on an article it brings up the article with Hancock’s web site header on top of the page. So the heading “Freedom’s Phoenix” appears directly above the article. And what is below the article? Links to other articles.

So from Hancock's web site you get links to a series of vile anti-Jewish articles. You can link to one entitled “The Ship Wreckers” by George Lincoln Rockwell. Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party. And in the article which one can access from within Freedom’s Phoenix he says he discovered “Communism was Jewish” and “discovered a whole, secret world -- the world of the Jews.”

The Nazi Rockwell repeats some of the same claims made by Benjamin Freedman which claimed the Jews are not really Jews at all. Freedman, a convert to Catholicism, says: “The Jews -- I call them Jews to you, because they are known as Jews. I don't call them Jews.  I refer to them as so-called Jews, because I know what they are.” And to Freedman the Jews really are Khazars who converted to Judaism. Rockwell says the same thing: “most Jews are not even ‘Semites’ or descendants of the Hebrew people of Palestine... but most descendants of...Khazars.” And the Khazars, he writes “are pushing us around, forcing integration on us, degrading our culture with their filthy ‘art’ (chaos and pornography), and, worst of all, spreading the disease of Communism -- all while hiding in the robes of the Jewish ‘religion!’&r dquo;

What is interesting, in fact, is that the Freedman speech with Freedom’s Phoenix is promoting has a huge amount of overlap with Rockwell’s article. The Nazi Rockwell and the so-called Jewish defector Freedman are saying the same thing. Both Rockwell and Freedman are wrong. DNA studies show modern day Jews do indeed, have a genetic link to the Middle East and either have no or insignificant connections with the Khazars. A New York Times story on the topic can be read here: http://www.humanitas-internat...

Freedman’s “lecture” is basically a defense of the Nazi government and it’s tactics to solve “the Jewish Question.” Freedman repeats Nazi propaganda as factual including the idea that the Nazis were only retaliating against the Jews for numerous offences Jews committed against Germany, including betraying Germany in World War I. Freedman says the Jews” control the newspapers, the magazines, the radio, the television, the book publishing business, they have the ministers in the pulpit, they have the politicians on the soap boxes talking the same language...”

Freedman argues that it was Jews/Zionists/Communists who first declared war on Germany using a speech by American Jewish activist Samuel Untermeyer as proof. But there is no Jewish/Zionist monolith let alone one that includes the Communists. Jews and Zionists were divided over how to treat Germany. Untermeyer wanted a boycott, which is hardly a declaration of war. But German Jews opposed the measure. Polish Jews, however, supported the measure. Untermeyer’s speech in 1935 was understandable considering it came two years after the Nazis opened the first concentration camp at Dachau but he didn’t speak for any “organized Jewry”.

The Zionist Federation of Germany said that “boycott propaganda --- such as is currently being carried on against Germany in many ways --- is in essence un-Zionist...” And for the Zionist settlements in Palestine their largest trading partner was Germany. Some boycott! In reality there was conflict between various segments of the Jewish community because there is no such thing as “organized Jewry” but instead many competing groups.

Freedman also speaks fondly of the anti-Semite Conde McGinley and his publication “Common Sense” which exposed the “Jewish conspiracy”. Freedman was a sponsor of the publication and worked closely with it. And again Rockwell appears on the scene. He also attributes his enlightenment regarding the alleged “Jewish communist” plot to McGinley’s publication. McGinley published the “theories” of various Jew haters and supporters of Hitler. McGinley was so far to the fringe that even the House Committee on Un-American Activities declared them a hate group which promoted “some of the most vitriolic hate propaganda ever to come to the attention of the committee. Common Sense defines communism as ‘Judaism’ and devotes its pages almost exclusively to attacks on the Jewish, and to a lesser extent the Negro minorities in our Nation. Sympathy for the former Nazi regime in Germany also is injected into this propaganda.”

Now exactly why is it that a “libertarian” web site is promoting something like this?

 Notice: The piece was removed after this article was published.