[images
added by this website]  Jews,
who have typically been in the minority in
countries around the world, are compelled by an
evolutionary strategy that makes them push for
liberal policies, like immigration and diversity,
with the intent of weakening the power of the
majority that rules them
 -
- Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, April
25, 2007
 Law
center that tracks hate groups wants to know if
anti-Semitism is being taught
Probe
of Cal State Long Beach professor sought By Louis Sahagun
Times Staff Writer THE Southern Poverty Law Center
on Tuesday called
for an investigation
into the campus activities of Kevin
MacDonald [ ],
right, a Cal [University of
California] State Long Beach psychology
professor whose writings about Jews have been used
to support the views of white
supremacists. Of particular concern, according to a
center report to be published this week, are
MacDonald's theories suggesting that "Jews,
who have typically been in the minority in
countries around the world, are compelled by an
evolutionary strategy that makes them push for
liberal policies, like immigration and diversity,
with the intent of weakening the power of the
majority that rules them." The law center, which has collected statistics
for years on what it considers hate groups, wants
Cal State to look into what MacDonald is teaching
students and wants to shine a light on his
voluminous writings on Jews. "What we would like to know is why the
university seems intent on protecting Kevin
MacDonald rather than looking at his possible
violations of policy in the classroom," said
Heidi Beirich, the center's deputy director
and author of the report. "Our primary intent is
not to get rid of Kevin MacDonald, but to show the
world who he is, what he is doing."
[Website comment: It
might equally be said that MacD's primary intent is
not to get rid of the Jews, but to show the world
who they are, what they are
doing.] In an interview in his office Tuesday, the tall,
lanky MacDonald -- a fully tenured professor with a
doctorate in behavioral sciences from the
University of Connecticut -- insisted that although
he has written books on what he calls the
evolutionary psychology of Jews, "I have never
talked about Jews in my courses." - But he acknowledged that his
scholarly research has convinced him that not
every instance of anti-Semitism is
"irrational."
"Jews, as a group, have interests that sometimes
conflict with the interests of the people they live
among," said MacDonald, who teaches students
seeking a degree in child development. "In general,
Judaism is considered a complex and successful
survival mechanism, and at times they've been
victimized for it. I do think there is a biological
element at work here that's existed throughout the
centuries." As for the law center report's allegation that
his work has been used to lend a kind of legitimacy
to neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, he said,
"I do not agree with all the views people have, but
there is little I can do about that." Beirich sees it differently: "Not since Hitler's
'Mein Kampf' have anti-Semites had such a
comprehensive reference guide to what's 'wrong with
Jews.' His work is widely advertised and touted on
white supremacist websites and sold by neo-Nazi
outfits like National Vanguard Books, which
considers them 'the most important books of the
last 100 years.' " One of MacDonald's essays on Jews is highlighted
on the official website of former Ku Klux Klan
member David Duke, who said it contains "a
deeper intellectual understanding of the nature of
Jewish supremacism and its implications for
European Americans." MacDonald, 63, is no stranger to controversy. In
2000, he
testified on behalf of David Irving, a
controversial World War II historian who suffered a
stinging defeat in a London courtroom in a libel
suit he filed against another writer who described
him as a Holocaust denier. Irving
also served 13 months in prison in Austria
after pleading guilty to denying the Holocaust, a
crime in that country. MacDonald's actions
caused an uproar on the Cal State campus and the
creation of rules regarding the use and abuse of
academic material. They included a warning that it
is unethical for faculty to allow their work to be
used to support groups that disseminate racial or
ethnic superiority or racial or ethnic hatred. Yet, in a recent posting on his website,
MacDonald said that "I would like to suppose that
my work on Judaism at least meets the criteria of
good social science, even if I have come to the
point of seeing my subjects in a less than
flattering light. In the end, does it really matter
if my motivation at this point is less than
pristine? Isn't the only question whether I am
right?" - That kind of talk makes some
of his colleagues in the psychology department
at Cal State Long Beach
uncomfortable.
 Professor
Martin
Fiebert []said
he welcomed the law center's report about
his colleague of 20
years. "I think exposing bigotry and
cultural insensitivity is a good thing to do," he
said. "It may help him sell more books, but it will
also reveal his views to a larger audience."
Fiebert added: "The most troubling development
lately has been that [MacDonald] is widely
cited in neo-Nazi and white supremacist web pages.
Some of their issues were framed around his
willingness to say that being anti-Semitic is a
sort of badge of courage. "But even talking about these things is tricky,"
he said. "The last time things heated up, Kevin
went to his lawyer, then came back and said if his
job was threatened, he'd sue. So people stopped
talking about Kevin MacDonald." Cal State Long Beach psychology professor
William Kelemen [],
right, [Website
comment: an expert on "Interracial
Dating" and
on "Nicotine and Expectancy in Smokers' Cognitive
Processes"] said MacDonald's notions
about Jews "make me uncomfortable." "It's a radioactive topic," he said, "and it's
drawing a lot of attention, most of it
negative. "What is bizarre about it all," he added, "is
that these controversies seem to surface every few
years, yet no one seems to know what to do about
it." In a prepared statement Tuesday, university
officials would say only that "academic freedom
does not constrain or restrict the spectrum of
knowledge, whether that knowledge is popular or
unpopular." Beirich, however, said, "As it stands, a student
cannot get a degree in child development at Cal
State Long Beach without taking a course taught by
MacDonald. We have no idea what those students are
hearing or being taught, because no one is
overseeing what goes on in there."  Donate
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