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Readers of The Drudge Report might conclude that America’s prominent Catholics leaders are heading an anti-Obama revolution.

The reality is that outside the recent contraception controversy, these same people have marched lock-step with the president’s agenda, as well as that of “The Evil Party.”

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, called Alabama’s anti-illegal-immigration law (HB 56) “morally reprehensible.” Joseph McFadden, the Bishop of Harrisburg, upped the ante. McFadden, who plans to celebrate Mass in Spanish, told his flock that embracing the growing immigrant Latino community was an opportunity for everyone to enrich their lives: “It’s not a matter of saying ‘Welcome to God’s house.’ We have to allow ourselves to see them not as strangers, but as brothers and sisters.”

McFadden also called the state of immigration laws in this country a “crime,” as well as ineffective. He said the church would work toward pushing legislation that would help illegal immigrants: “The church doesn't want to encourage people to break the laws, but we have to realize that the law is broken.”

It should also be pointed out that the general tendency for Catholic schools to be enthusiastic supporters of “voucher” programs (such as the one introduced in Pennsylvania) will most likely lead to countless more contraception scandals. Such programs, which allow low-income students to attend private schools at tax-payer expense, are often portrayed as “free-market solutions”; in fact, they are schemes whereby private schools can gain access to government money. Funding always has strings attached, and schools shouldn't be surprised when the government feels it has the right to intervene in their internal affairs.

The crux of Byron Roth’s disagreement with Kevin MacDonald is essentially that Prof. MacDonald makes criticisms of Israeli nationalism that he would never make about European peoples. This critique is frequently leveled against Patrick Buchanan by writers like Larry Auster.

This is, in many ways, the inverse of one of the easiest criticisms some White Nationalists make about Jewish Leftists: namely, that they hypocritically support Israeli nationalism, while screaming that enforcing our immigration laws is “racist.”

If one were to try to sort out views on nationalism in Israel and the West, it could be neatly split into four categories:

1. Those who support ethno-politics for Israel but not for Europeans and the West.  (neoliberals and neoconservatives like Abe Foxman, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Kristol et al.)
2. Those who oppose ethno-politics for Israel and the West (Noam Chomsky, Max Blumenthal et al.)
3. Those who support ethno-politics in the West and in Israel  (Lawrence Auster, Diana West, Michael Savage)
4. Those who oppose ethno-politics for Israel but support it for the West (Pat Buchanan, Kevin MacDonald)

Presumably, the intellectually consistent views would be 2 and 3. Group 1 could be seen as Jewish hypocrites, and group 4 must be anti-Semitic.

It is not that simple, however.

At age 90 and already retired after making anti-Israeli remarks, Helen Thomas probably figured she had nothing to lose when she asserted,

We are owned by the propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is. We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.

Well, it turns out she does have a bit to lose. The Anti-Defamation league notes Thomas, “has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, which each year presents the Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has received more than 30 honorary degrees, and her alma mater, Wayne State University, has established an award for journalists in her honor. She has also been honored by the Freedom Forum.”

In a press release entitled  ADL Calls On J-Schools And Organizations To Rescind Honors To Helen Thomas After Latest Anti-Semitic Outburst , ADL President Abe Foxman demanded, “It is time for those schools and professional organizations that have honored Thomas in one form or another over the years to consider rescinding those honors in light of her pervasively anti-Semitic rhetoric. Professional associations and academic institutions should not want to be associated with an anti-Semite.”

Yet amazingly, in their indictment of Thomas, the ADL was upset that Thomas “went on to claim that she was made to pay a price for her remarks because of the power of the Jewish lobby in the United States.”

Let me get this straight, the Anti-Defamation League is demanding that Thomas be punished because she says that she was punished by Jewish groups?

The first to cave was Wayne State, which rescinded, with the ADL’s approval, their "Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in Media Award."

Isn’t diversity such a strength?

Like Rick Sanchez (A White Hispanic), Thomas, an Arab (who looks white, if not Jewish) views herself as a victim group that is more victimized than Jews.

To emphasize this point, Thomas and Sanchez mention that Jews have more political and media power than their groups. Jewish groups with political and media power then demand that the transgressors are punished for such blasphemy.

I shed no tears for their predicament. For all their squabbling, the ADL, Helen Thomas, and Rick Sanchez are all united in their opposition to a majority White America—something that those who think the Jews are the sole source of all our problems should keep in mind.

On an unrelated note, a number of schools have given honorary degrees to genocidal Black dictator Robert Mugabe. I am waiting for the ADL to object.