Is New Acropolis antisemitic?

Since it is common to define New Acropolis as a neo-Nazi association, it is immediately assumed that they must also be antisemitic. If we look at objective facts, New Acropolis founded its first branch in Israel in 1986, and it is still active today. Delia Steinberg, who was the Maximum Commander after Livraga’s death, came from a Jewish family, and in the subjects on theological symbolism, Jewish mysticism — Kabbalah — is included in the curriculum.

However, Livraga considered Hitler to be a political avatara, and therefore these facts seem contradictory. For this reason, many ex-members who give their testimony often say: “New Acropolis is neo-Nazi, but not antisemitic.” Besides considering Hitler an “avatara,” Livraga also had other ideas about the links between Theosophy and the Thule Society (this is what Livraga says in Mando 23). These are some of the esoteric ideas, or inventions of Livraga, that underpin this preference for Hitler without being antisemitic.

Even so, below are some quotations from Jorge Livraga about his opinions regarding Jews, so that the position of NA and of its founder becomes somewhat clearer.

I have asked myself many times: How has a people like the Jews, with poor ideological baggage and in constant struggle with everyone, been able to survive intact for 4,000 years? Once, when I was at the Hilton in Tel Aviv, a fanatic was banging on the doors of those who had the TV on during the Sabbath; I was filled with indignation. But the philosophical habit of thinking helped me to understand the background of this seemingly savage way of cutting individual freedom. The one who did it (and who received insults from all those disturbed) truly believed he was fulfilling a sacred duty. Although he was probably not aware of it, he was preserving the UNION OF HIS PEOPLE AND REJECTING THAT WHICH, BEING EXTERNAL TO IT, COULD COME TO DESTROY IT.

There I realized where the secret lay of the strength of that ethnic group, inaccessible and closed to reason, in which even today a Jewish man has to marry a Jewish woman and vice versa. And where, in the diamond market, which is almost entirely in Jewish hands, deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are closed with a simple handshake... The papers and documents come later. Things are done “within the family.”

Our strength also lies in forming a great family, in which each acropolitan must see another acropolitan as a brother, the Probationers as his small children, and the M.M. as a father who, on the Spiritual Key, engendered them all, directly or indirectly.

We must purge and update ourselves in this regard, and although we cannot call ourselves “Brothers” because the term has been spoiled by orientalizing sects, we must preserve the Fraternal Spirit. We must help each other in every way, without fanaticism, of course. We are philosophers and we do not set up barriers of race or sex, but that should not incline us toward an exaggerated taste for more or less “infallible” “formulas.” I REPEAT: “TELL IT TO ME WITH MEMBERS.” TELL IT TO ME WITH YOUR FRUITFUL WORK IN MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE ACROPOLITANS, WHICH IS THE GREATEST THING A PERSON CAN BE AT THIS HISTORICAL MOMENT.

— Mando nº 73: ¿Mandos nacionales o discípulos? Jorge Ángel Livraga

A week ago I walked through a German city, Cologne, which was incinerated by bombs, reducing its population of more than a million inhabitants to the 40,000 famished beings that the triumphant “allied” armies found among its ruins. Many of those victims — women, the elderly, and children — had never taken part in a National-Socialist Rally. And not many kilometers away, the “Extermination Camps” for Jews rose up — perhaps not as many as “official” History claims, but not fewer than a million — many of whom did not even know what Communism was and were even opposed to it. What caused such a monstrous error? Fanaticism and physical racism. And if such monstrosities were caused by forms of racism and physical fanaticism... to what might spiritual racism-fanaticism lead us?

— Bastión nº 33-3: Fraternidad. Jorge Ángel Livraga

We are not Marxists, nor Nazis, nor Christians, nor Jews. We are acropolitans. This does not prevent each acropolitan, personally, from having their sympathies and antipathies, but they must take care, when expressing them, not to confuse their personal and fleeting tastes with the Acropolitan Philosophical Doctrinal Attitude.

— Bastión nº 89-1: Progreso y expansión de la OINA. Jorge Ángel Livraga