Yoram Hazony may not like the end result of the nationalist movement he’s trying to build.
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As of right now, the biggest opponents of Yoram Hazony and his brand of national conservatism hasn’t been from globalists, but instead from other nationalists who feel he isn’t going far enough. Take the recent comments made between Hazony and the king of the Groypers, Nicholas Fuentes, who said Hazony was a “kosher nationalist.”
What did Hazony dare do? Not want to talk about racial IQ differences. This also caused Hazony to be declared a “science denialist” by VDARE writer Steve Sailer.
It must be awful to be Yoram Hazony, he has to both explain to people that his ideology is not racist and have to deal with the odd amount of racists in his movement who don’t like him because he’s not a racist.
Another Hazony critic is currently making a name for himself in this sphere. Allow me to introduce you to Hunter Wallace, the creator of Occidental Dissent-a website with the tagline “nationalism, populism, reaction.” He insults Hazony not just as a “Kosher nationalist,” but as an evil Zionist.
Here’s how he talks about National Conservatism in one article:
“In our view, this proves that National Conservatism is useless. It hasn’t had any practical application in the Trump administration. It is a LARP for conservatives. There is zero difference between mainstream conservatism and National Conservatism. Finally, it is ultimately about nothing but trying to create a Trojan Horse version of ‘nationalism’ that is Made in Israel and can be sold to the masses and policed by conservative elites for anti-Semitism.”
Isn’t he a peach?
Here’s what I do not understand: why do the moderates think the radicals can be appeased? As I documented in my first article on Yoram, if his ideology had been in place during the Truman years, his beloved state of Israel would not exist. He is the product of globalism yet he makes his money telling people how great nationalism is.
That’s not all, Hazony’s best friend Josh Hammer has even written an entire article called “The Pro-Israel Case Against U.S. Military Aid To Israel.” Even Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he feels the US gives too much in aid to the country he runs.
Of course, none of this matters to the anti-Zionist. In the same way it doesn’t matter that the United States does trade relations and gives aid to many countries with anti-Zionist leaders (Saudi Arabia, for example).
This is easily the biggest issue with the philosophy of Hazony from a marketing standpoint. He is never going to get any support from nationalists outside of Israel because nationalists outside of Israel, hate Israel.
Just look at the grandfather of Trumpism, Pat Buchanan, if you want more evidence of that. In an early issue of Buchanan’s magazine The American Conservative, a fellow by the name of Taki Theodoracopulos accused neo-conservative journalist Bill Kristol of being a spy for the Likud Party of Israel.
For those who wonder what happened to Taki, well in 2018 he wrote an article on D-Day in which he praised the German Wehrmacht,
Oh, and this isn’t the only way The American Conservative fits into this. Yoram’s biggest US cheerleader is easily another writer for The American Conservative, a fellow by the name of Rod Dreher, who currently serves as senior editor.
Dreher also spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Rome. He even defended this appearance on the 10th (the day I’m writing this article) on Buchanan’s old website.
Dreher is a hypocrite by the way. In 2003, he, like many Americans, supported going to war against Iraq. However, the nationalist movement seems to have forgiven him while others who reverse there status such as Max Boot, David Frum, and Ben Shapiro all still get hate. Where’s Dreher’s hate?
Oh, and don’t think Buchanan is off the hook as well. While he may be seen as an anti-war hero today, his history up until he ran for President in 1992 shows a completely different story. In fact, when he worked for Reagan he campaigned with Oliver North for a campaign that was borderline imperialism. When he worked for Nixon, not only did he support the war in Vietnam, he ruined the chances of an anti-war Republican named Pete McClosky in 1972 defeating Nixon by sending him checks that could be linked to “New York Jewish Money.” Hilariously, he fell for the exact same trick when Michael Moore pulled it on him in 1996.
I want to make it clear that I do not believe Hazony is a racist or an anti-Semite, that would be insane. I do believe he looks oddly similar to what Michael Moore looked like twenty-five years ago, but that’s neither here nor there.
I simply wish to make the point that Hazony is trying to start a movement that he will not wish to see the end of. The people who he’s trying to speak to hate him, plain and simple. The ideology that he supports allows hate to spread quite easily all things considered.
If Hazony does not learn this lesson soon either he dies before the war ends or the mask will fully slip off, and he won’t like the box he’s opened.
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Ephrom Josine is a libertarian political blogger/commentator, and a frequent contributor to The Liberty Hawk. In 2019, he published his first book Ramblings Of A Mad Man: Life As An Anarchist. You can find him on Twitter @EphromJosine1, writing near-daily on Medium @ephromjosine or weekly on Freedom First Blog.