Both the critique of Iran negotiations...

Editor's note: ...and the broader historical argument raise the same underlying concern: why are politically connected figures like Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff who are both Jewish placed at the center of high-stakes diplomacy (also see Team Netanyahu/Trump Sinks Iran Talks; Kushner Beefs Up Rap-Sheet) despite clear questions about their experience and effectiveness? Rather than framing this around identity, the more grounded issue is whether U.S. policy is being shaped by insular networks of private influence and loyalty instead of competence and national interest. This echoes a wider skepticism about how power operates behind the scenes, both historically and in the present circumstances.
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Christianity as a Jewish evolutionary strategy

BY LAURENT GUYÉNOT | APRIL 12, 2026

This article was posted on Kevin MacDonald's website www.theoccidentalobserver on April 5. I reproduce it here with a postscriptum.

Introduction

In recent posts, I have made a series of arguments that the Christianization of the Roman Empire has been good for the Jews (here and here) and bad for the Gentiles (here and here), and that it has paved the way for the subversion and subjugation of Western civilization by Jewish Power. Since Christianity is a Jewish invention, it is hard to resist the theory that it was part of a grand Jewish conspiracy (that "aggressive and vindictive conspiracy … against the rest of the world" that is written "plain and clear" in the Hebrew Bible, as H. G. Wells tried to warn us about in The Fate of Homo Sapiens, 1939). However, no matter how hard I look for some clue that Christianity was from the start a Jewish psy-op to alienate the Romans rather than to save them, I do not find it. The vast number of Jews (mostly Hellenized Jews from the Diaspora) who converted to Christianity in the first century runs contrary to that theory. I find no reason for suspecting Paul, the real founder of Gentile Christianity, of being some sort of Israeli asset trying to deceive the gullible Goyim into believing things that he didn’t believe himself. The fact that he wrote "This is the truth" (Romans 9:1) doesn't mean he's lying. Yet, we do find in his letters the conviction that with the massive conversion of Gentiles to Christ, "all will be restored to [the Jews]" in the end (Romans 11:12).

So we are left with the firm conclusion that Christianity provided a decisive selective advantage to Israel in its millennia-long war against Rome, but no proof that it was secretly manufactured for that purpose. It is time, therefore, to call on professor Kevin MacDonald to help us solve this riddle. I will here discuss whether Christianity can fit within the general theory that he has developed in A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, With Diaspora Peoples (1994) and his subsequent volumes.

The great advantage of MacDonald's evolutionary psychology approach is that it bypasses the question of intentionality, and therefore allows us to study "group evolutionary strategies" without having to look for evidence of a conspiracy. Evolutionary psychology postulates that the various strategies that kin groups (clans, tribes, nations) develop for survival, reproduction, expansion and dominance in a competitive environment can be, at least in part, subconscious rather than clearly articulated. There is, in any ethnic group, a collective, transgenerational will to power operating below the threshold of individual consciousness. The group's collective mentality is not purely the product of biology, but involves ideology: through generations, culture becomes a second nature.

These assumptions coincide with the conclusions of sociology (Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Le Bon), that the average cognitions, emotions and behaviors of individuals are subconsciously determined by some form of group mind. To some extent which depends on the cohesion of the group, when individuals think, feel and want, it is the group that thinks, feels and wants through them. In the case of a highly sophisticated group such as the Jewish community, this principle works in highly sophisticated ways, but it still applies at some level. The paradigm of evolutionary psychology therefore makes it possible to understand Jewish strategies as involving a fair amount of self-deception, rather than mere deception.

As a national group, the Jews have two distinctive features. One is that they are a worldwide community. In their vast majority, they have lived and strived in the midst of foreign nations for more than two thousand years (since the Hellenistic period). For this, they have elaborated unique strategies that have become part of their ancestral cognitive habits. It is almost like they have developed a dual personality: a core personality for their Jewish environment, and a more flexible one for their Gentile environment. They do not necessarily experience this complexity as inconsistency or hypocrisy.

The other special feature of the Jews is that they are both an ethnic and a religious community, with the unique advantage that their most essential strategy for survival in foreign environments is also the central commandment of their religious scripture: strict endogamy.[1] In From Yahweh to Zion, I have argued that the Jews' peculiar collective behavior is not genetically determined, but culturally programmed. Their Bible tells the Jews that what is good for the Jews is good in absolute terms, and therefore must be good for the Gentiles too, even when they don’t like it. The mission of the Jews is to obey the Jews’ god by destroying the Gentiles’ gods, meaning whatever is sacred to them, including their ethnic or national identities, because these gods are either evil or fake, contrary to the Jews’ god who is the one and only true God.

Beside the elementary strategy of endogamy, MacDonald distinguishes two major sets of group strategies among Diaspora Jews: strategies by which they adapt to their environment, and strategies by which they modify their environment. The first kind of strategies is akin to the methods of crypsis or mimesis that can be observed in the animal world. The second kind has no equivalent in the animal world, and can even be considered a special faculty of the Jews.

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