1/ “The forces of immigration restriction were temporarily successful with the immigration laws of 1921 and 1924, which passed despite the intense opposition of Jewish groups.” - p 263 2/ “Divine (1957, 8) notes, ‘Arrayed against [the restrictionist forces] in 1921 were only the spokespersons for the southeastern European immigrants, mainly Jewish leaders, whose protests were drowned out by the general cry for restriction.’” - p 263

1/ “Jewish involvement in altering the intellectual discussion of race and ethnicity appears to have had long term repercussions on U.S. immigration policy, but Jewish political involvement was ultimately of much greater significance.” - p 258 2/ “Jews have been ‘the single most persistent pressure group favoring a liberal immigration policy’ in the United States in the entire immigration debate beginning in 1881 (Neuringer 1971, 392-393).” - p 258

1/ “Finally, Jews have also been instrumental in organizing African Americans as a political force that served Jewish interests in diluting the political and cultural hegemony of non-Jewish European Americans.” - p 254 2/ “Jews played a very prominent role in organizing blacks beginning with the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and, despite increasing black anti-Semitism continuing into the present.” - p 254

1/ “One aspect of the Jewish interest in cultural pluralism in the United States has been that Jews have a perceived interest that the United States not be a homogeneous Christian culture.” - p 253 2/ “As Ivers (1995, 2) notes, ‘Jewish civil rights organizations have had an historic role in the postwar development of American church-state law and policy.’” - p 253

1/ “The ideology of racial equality was an important weapon on behalf of opening immigration up to all human groups.” - p 252 2/ “For example, in a 1951 statement to congress, the AJCongress stated, ‘The findings of science must force even the most prejudiced among us to accept...that intelligence, morality, and character, bear no relationship whatever to geography or place of birth.’” - p 252

1/ "...the decline in evolutionary theories of race and ethnicity facilitated a sea change in immigration policy..." 2/ "...'it became intellectually fashionable to discount the very existence of persistent ethnic differences.'"

1/ "the ultimate success of Jewish attitudes on immigration was also influenced by intellectual movements...particularly the work of...Boaz" 2/ "...a component of the intellectual zeitgeist of the 1920s was the prevalence of evolutionary theories on race and ethnicity..."

1/ "...Jewish intellectuals have been at the forefront in developing models of the United States as a...pluralistic society." 2/ "...the utility of cultural pluralism in serving internal Jewish group interests in maintaining cultural separatism..."

1/ "Derrida's political agenda is identical to that of the Frankfurt School: '...to deconstruct the workings of strong nation-states...'" 2/ "'The idea is to disarm the bombs...of identity that nation states build to defend themselves...'"

1/ "...influential Jewish social scientists and intellectuals have attempted to undermine gentile group strategies..." 2/ "...all forms of gentile collectivism are condemned as an indication of social or individual pathology."

1/ "The gentile elite is then said to take advantage of the situation...Jews are an ideal target for this projected hostility..." 2/ "'These characteristics are hated by the rulers because the ruled secretly long to possess them...'" - p 160

1/ "...the so-called Frankfort school of predominantly Jewish intellectuals...originating during the Weimar period in Germany." - p 152 2/ "The first generation of the Frankfurt school were all Jews..." #cultureofcritique #FrankfurtSchool

1/ "...psychoanalysis officially denied the importance of biologically based ethnic differences..." #cultureofcritique #Freud 2/ "In the promised utopian societies of the future, the category of Jew-gentile would be of no theoretical importance..."

1/ "...bear the mantle of science but deemphasize the importance of conflicts of interest between Jews and gentiles." #cultureofcritique 2/ "...anti-Semitism is viewed as a form of gentile psychopathology...stemming ultimately from a pathology-inducing society."

1/ "T.W. Adorno...utilized the language of social science...in the service of...patholigizing gentile culture..." #cultureofcritique 2/ "Eventually psychoanalysis became state supported in Germany, with every German citizen eligible for up to 300 hours of psychoanalysis"

1/ "...Freud had a great deal of hostility to Western culture, especially the Catholic Church and its ally, the Habsburg monarchy." 2/ "...Freud...proposes that he has been retracing the footsteps of Hannibal, the Semitic leader of Carthage against Rome..." #Freud

1/ "Many early proponents viewed psychoanalysis as a redemptive messianic movement..." #cultureofcritique 2/ "...psychoanalysis as a Jewish mission to the gentiles..." #cultureofcritique

1/ "...positive views of Judaism and negative views of gentile culture, the latter viewed as something to be conquered.." #cultureofcritique 2/ "Gentile society, and particularly the most salient institutions of gentile culture, were viewed stereotypically as evil."

"But the vanguard of the movement over the last fifty years has remained predominantly Jewish as it was from the beginning." "In 1906 all 17 members of the leadership of the movement were Jewish, and they strongly identified as Jews." #cultureofcritique

'whereas everybody else had lost from the Revolution, the Jews, and they alone, had benefited from it' #cultureofcritique #cultureofcritique

1/ "Ethnic identification was often unconscious, suggesting self-deception." #cultureofcritique 2/ "'Upon reflection, many concluded that they had always taken marriage to someone Jewish for granted.'" #cultureofcritique