Levels of Philosemitism

Different types of philosemites

I posted this powerful tweet to my X account and I felt like there are a lot of things that could have been said which were missing. So here is a full-length article:

There is a specific human type that never quite gets the scrutiny it deserves. Unlike the antisemite, who has been dissected with forensic obsession since 1945, the philosemite is also has been almost under no scrutiny despite being of the opposite end of the JQ obsession.

Now, I want to be precise here. I am not describing people who simply have Jewish friends, admire Jewish contributions to civilization, or support Israel’s right to exist as a geopolitical position. I am describing a distinct psychological type of people: the non-Jew for whom Jews have become a collective deity that must be worshipped and obeyed. The person whose identity, politics, and moral framework cannot be fully understood without reference to what they think about Jews.

Given that is what people on the far-right and far-left of the political spectrum are reduced too, it is only fair that we scrutinize the psychological profile of people who love Jews more than themselves.

I will start with the “least worst” type before I move into the absolute depths of hell:

The Goy

Level one. The bottom of the hierarchy.

The Goy, as I am using the term here, is not defined by active hostility or active sympathy. He is defined by intellectual vacancy combined with a default political position absorbed from the environment.

This type is typically old and grew up on watching television and has the exact same moral code as Jerry Seinfeld.

He supports Israel not because he has thought about it, or not because he was paid to do it, but because he was raised on Hollywood, which has for decades produced a particular narrative architecture around Jewish identity, World War II, and Israeli statehood. He absorbed it the way a child absorbs anything in the ambient environment: completely and uncritically.

Unlike the Zionist Influencer, he cannot make content about this. He lacks the verbal fluency. This is the type of person that would type “I stand with Israel” in comment section without being able to answer why.

The Goy is despised equally by Jews and antisemites alike. He belongs entirely to neither camp and serves no one’s interests well, including his own. In a different social structure he would be an antisemite, a communist or someone else because at its core the Goy has no personhood. A useful idiot

is what he is.