[Why is Hitler the historical foundation to the modern educational socialization process? Because of the vast social engineering process of Judeocentrism: the Holocaustization of Western culture, wherein Hitler was the greatest modern enemy of the Jews. In America, how many school kids can declare two things about the historical context to the "Holocaust": World War II?]
'Hitlerisation' is damaging pupils' historical knowledge,
Independent (UK), February 17 February 2003
"History lessons for secondary pupils are now dominated by the study of Adolf Hitler and the Second World War, the Government's school inspectors have found. A report by Ofsted, the school inspection body, warned that the 'Hitlerisation' of courses threatened to damage understanding of history, and could result in pupils leaving school ignorant of key events. Of all the history lessons monitored during the last school year, more lessons focussed on Hitler's Germany than on any other topic. Although the study of Hitler was 'properly treated' in secondary school lessons for the youngest pupils, the danger for older children was that they are forced to repeat the topic at latter stages of their education. The inspectors' warning echoes the concerns of eminent historians and the Prince of Wales who recently called for the 'narrow and fragmented' school syllabus to be abandoned."

THE HOLOCAUST YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT:

(Tens of millions of people were killed by Soviet Union communism. The Jewish dimension in the communist elite was great, including extraordinary prominence in the early terrorist communist secret police: the "Cheka." Information about Jewish influence in the hierarchy of this mass murder system is here).

Lethal Politics, by R.J. Rummel, University of Hawaii
"Probably 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party--the government--of the Soviet Union. This is about 178 people for each letter, comma, period, digit, and other characters in this book. Old and young, healthy and sick, men and women, and even infants and infirm, were killed in cold-blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions, they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all were guilty of ... nothing. Some were from the wrong class--bourgeoisie, land owners, aristocrats, kulaks. Some were from the wrong nation or race-- Ukrainians, Black Sea Greeks, Kalmyks, Volga Germans. Some were from the wrong political faction--Trotskyites, Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries. Or some were just their sons and daughters, wives and husbands, or mothers and fathers. And some were those occupied by the Red Army--Balts, Germans, Poles, Hungarians, Rumanians. Then some were simply in the way of social progress, like the mass of peasants or religious believers. Or some were eliminated because of their potential opposition, such as writers, teachers, churchmen; or the military high command; or even high and low Communist Party members themselves. In fact, we have witnessed in the Soviet Union a true egalitarian social cleansing and flushing: no group or class escaped, for everyone and anyone could have had counter-revolutionary ancestors, class lineage, counter-revolutionary ideas or thought, or be susceptible to them. And thus, almost anyone was arrested, interrogated, tortured, and after a forced confession of a plot to blow up the Kremlin, or some such, shot or sentenced to the dry guillotine--slow death by exposure, malnutrition, and overwork in a forced labor camp. Part of this mass killing was genocide, as in the wholesale murder of hundreds of thousands of Don Cossacks in 1919, the intentional starving of about 5,000,000 Ukrainian peasants to death in 1932-33, or the deportation to mass death of 50,000 to 60,000 Estonians in 1949. Part was mass murder, as of the wholesale extermination of perhaps 6,500,000 "kulaks" (in effect, the better off peasants and those resisting collectivization) from 1930 to 1937, the execution of perhaps a million Party members in the Great Terror of 1937-38,5 and the massacre of all Trotskyites in the forced labor camps.6 And part of the killing was so random and idiosyncratic that journalists and social scientists have no concept for it, as in hundreds of thousands of people being executed according to preset, government, quotas."

UWC President Responds to Anti-Ukrainian Article,
August 7, 2002, The New Pathway (Ukrainian newspaper; Toronto) p. 7
"On Sunday July 14, 2002 the well known 'The New York Times' magazine carried an article by Daniel Mendelson, a Jewish writer, in which he portrays his attempts to discover what happened to his uncle in Ukraine during World War II. Although several times he refers to the people he met in Ukraine as being plesant, what resonates throughout the articles are words fixed in his memory, 'the Ukrainians were the worst'. At one point he writes that '...after the Soviets took over that part of Galicia in 1939 -- there Jews there had two years of relative security thanks to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact...' Askold Lozynsky, President of the Ukrainian World Congress responded to this article in a letter to the magazine dated July 16, 2002 briefly describing Jewish-Ukrainian relations during that time. 'The Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine in 1939 brought the arrests and internments of tens of thousands of Ukrainians accused of patriotic activity. When the Soviets were forced to retreat from the Nazis in June 1941, they slaughtered their prisoners. This was accomplished with the assistance of local Communists, primarily of Jewish ethnicity. Unfortunately, this slaughter was not an aberration of Soviet activity in Ukraine or Jewish complicity. Earlier in 1932-33 the Soviets murdered some 7 million Ukrainian men, women and children through a strategically planned forced famine-genocide. The man entrusted by Joseph Stalin to carry out this crime was a Jew, Lazar Kaganovich.' Norman Davies, the renowned British historian has concluded that no nation lost more people in the 20th century than the Ukrainians. To a large degree this was a result of both Communist and Nazi activity in Ukraine. The Russians and the Germans were savage. But the Jews were the worst. They betrayed their neighbors and did it with such zeal!"

Who chooses the righteous gentiles? Court enters row about non-Jews honoured for Holocaust heroism,
Guardian (UK), November 14, 2002
"The Avenue of the Righteous records 19,141 names of gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews from Hitler's murderers ... But this week the Israeli courts waded into the process of selecting who to include on the list of righteous gentiles at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem amid a campaign to add two Germans - one of them a convicted war criminal who was at the centre of a recent Hollywood film - and to strike off a Ukrainian who Jewish survivors say has no place among heroes. The court case centres on Yad Vashem's refusal to proclaim a German Protestant minister, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a righteous gentile. The lawsuit was brought by the world body of reform Jews which claims that Bonhoeffer publicly criticised the Nazis and helped save Jews by sending them to Switzerland, ostensibly as spies for Germany, before he was arrested and executed in 1945 ... Yad Vashem's refusal to make public the information and discussions on which it selects righteous gentiles has prompted unusual legal challenges that threaten to taint the image of the organisation responsible for preserving the memory of the Jewish people's darkest hours. This week, a judge ruled that the memorial council is accountable to the Israeli public and that it must open its files under the country's freedom of information law ... Yad Vashem is facing a second, potentially more embarrassing lawsuit, to strip someone of their place among righteous gentiles. Stefan Wrzemczuk submitted his own application for recognition on the grounds that when he was a child he helped his mother lead Jews from Ludmir ghetto - then in Ukraine, now in Poland - to the protection of partisans in the surrounding forests. After Wrzemczuk had his name added to the wall of Righteous Among the Nations he emigrated to Israel in 1995 and received a regular government stipend. Four years ago, a group of Ludmir survivors denounced the story as a fabrication."

Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing,
[Note the Jewish dimensions to this crime, again, here]

Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution,
The Guardian (UK), January 25, 2003
"Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges. In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia. But Jewish leaders and some historians have reacted furiously to the book, and questioned Solzhenitsyn's motives in writing it, accusing him of factual inaccuracies and of fanning the flames of anti-semitism in Russia. Solzhenitsyn argues that some Jewish satire of the revolutionary period 'consciously or unconsciously descends on the Russians' as being behind the genocide. But he states that all the nation's ethnic groups must share the blame, and that people shy away from speaking the truth about the Jewish experience. In one remark which infuriated Russian Jews, he wrote: 'If I would care to generalise, and to say that the life of the Jews in the camps was especially hard, I could, and would not face reproach for an unjust national generalisation. But in the camps where I was kept, it was different. The Jews whose experience I saw - their life was softer than that of others.' Yet he added: 'But it is impossible to find the answer to the eternal question: who is to be blamed, who led us to our death? To explain the actions of the Kiev cheka [secret police] only by the fact that two thirds were Jews, is certainly incorrect.' Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, spent much of his life in Soviet prison camps, enduring persecution when he wrote about his experiences. He is currently in frail health, but in an interview given last month he said that Russia must come to terms with the Stalinist and revolutionary genocides - and that its Jewish population should be as offended at their own role in the purges as they are at the Soviet power that also persecuted them ... Solzhenitsyn's book has caused controversy in Russia, where one Jewish leader said it was 'not of any merit'. 'This is a mistake, but even geniuses make mistakes,' said Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress ... Professor Robert Service of Oxford University, an expert on 20th century Russian history, said that from what he had read about the book, Solzhenitsyn was 'absolutely right'. Researching a book on Lenin, Prof Service came across details of how Trotsky, who was of Jewish origin, asked the politburo in 1919 to ensure that Jews were enrolled in the Red army. Trotsky said that Jews were disproportionately represented in the Soviet civil bureaucracy, including the cheka. 'Trotsky's idea was that the spread of anti-semitism was [partly down to] objections about their entrance into the civil service. There is something in this; that they were not just passive spectators of the revolution. They were part-victims and part-perpetrators. It is not a question that anyone can write about without a huge amount of bravery, and [it] needs doing in Russia because the Jews are quite often written about by fanatics. Mr Solzhenitsyn's book seems much more measured than that.'"

MURDERS OF POLES IN KATYN,
Polish Defense League [The article below was published by "The Barnes Review", December 1997. "Ethnic Cleansing and Soviet Crimes Against Humanity", by Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski]
"The infamous Soviet inner state of Gulag (the acronym of Glavnoye Upravlenye Ispravitelno-Trudovikh Legerei, or the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) established in 1934, had a special branch of the security policy called Smersh composed mainly of Jewish commissars who murdered thousands of captives during the war of 1941-1945. The Soviet technology of mass execution was primitive, cheap but deadly efficient. In 1941, in the prison cells of the Soviet steamer Dzhurma, 12,000 captives had been frozen to death near Wrangel Island. A whole trainload of 1,650 Polish deportees died in the wintertime of 1940-1941 in unheated and overcrowded cattle cars near the death camp of Kolyma. Of the estimated 2,000,000 Polish civilians deported to the Russian Arctic regions of Gulag in the terrible railway convoys of 1939-1940, at leaat one half were dead within a year of their detention. More than 15,000 interned Polish officers, intellectuals, teachers and doctors disappeared in the Okchotzk Sea. They were transferred in April 1940 from three large Soviet detention camps located in Ostashkov, Kozielsk and Starobielsk ... When the German soldiers disclosed in 1943 the killing fields of Katyn to the shocked world, American President Franklin Roosevelt declared it all to be "a Nazi lie and Hitler's plot". The Soviet mass murder in Katyn was well-known to the British and American Intelligence services. Information passed to the Soviet Union by Eduard Pfeiffer, Jewish homosexual double agent and his British lover Maclean about a French plan of sending the fifteen thousand Polish officers from the Soviet detention camps to Syria - where Gen. S. Kopanski formed a new Polish Carpathian Brigade, certainly influenced Stalin's decision on "liquidation" of the intellectual elite of the Polish army defeated in 1939 by the German and Soviet armies. Six thousand Polish captives from Ostashkov and Starobielsk were transported to the Ukrainian town of Dergachi near Kharkov and executed in a similar way as in Katyn. Others were relocated to the coast of White Sea, placed on board two vessels and sunk in the icy waters. The mass executions of the Polish captives were organized by Y. Raichman, a Jewish commissar of NKVD under direct commands of Lavrentyi Beria ... After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Red Army committed several horrifying war crimes in the city of Lviv (Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg, Leopolis). But Rockwell Kent, an American tourist and "humanist", who was in the eastern Poland (western Ukraine) during the Soviet attack, greeted the Red Army because "the Jews would be safe". The local Jewish minority warmly welcomed the invading Soviets, who immediately appointed many prominent Jewish-origin members of the communist Party of Poland (KPP) as the commissars and executives of the newly created "Soviet Socialist Republic of United Ukraine".

[Jews apparently own copyright on the term "Nazi," and -- for that matter -- human suffering generally.]
Scotland Fury Over Loyalist's Nazi Comparison,
Scotland on Sunday, February 21, 2003
"A leading Orangeman has caused outrage by comparing the treatment of Loyalists in Scotland with that of Jews in Nazi Germany. Jim MacLean, grand master of the East of Scotland lodge, said Orangemen were treated as pariahs whose views could be dismissed out of hand. He claimed that First Minister Jack McConnell's crackdown on sectarianism was targeting the Orange Order in an attempt to 'marginalise and demonise' its members. MacLean's remarks have angered Jewish groups, one of which said last night that no-one was suggesting 'rounding up Orangemen and setting up factories to kill them'. However, MacLean's comments follow the recent trend among Loyalists to fly the Israeli flag. They see parallels between Israel's struggle for survival and the situation in Northern Ireland. Republicans, meanwhile, have identified themselves with the Palestinians, sympathising with what they see as their struggle against oppression. Now MacLean has taken the historical parallels to even greater extremes. He told Scotland on Sunday: 'Being a Loyalist in Scotland today is to some degree like being a Jew in Nazi Germany or in the last days of the Weimar Republi ... Professor Barry Kosmin, executive director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, said: 'The Jewish community is disturbed by constant references in the media and in political rhetoric whereby any perceived discrimination, prejudice or violent behaviour is automatically associated with Nazi Germany. There are many other historical events, regimes and analogies that could and should be drawn on for comparisons, rather than this constant harping on a unique tragedy, which has hurtful and emotive resonance.'"

[Jewish Totalitarian "Holocaustomania" as an integral part of the American architectural landscape:]
Ground Zero as a Laboratory For 'Jewish Architecture',
[Jewish] Forward, February 21, 2003
"The recent selection of Daniel Libeskind as one of two finalists in the competition to redesign the site of the former World Trade Center in lower Manhattan is, at the most obvious level, a personal triumph that testifies to his status as one of the world's most respected architects. But it also highlights the unprecedented rise to prominence in the last generation of Jews in the Western architectural profession. Until recently, Jewish achievements in the field of architecture paled in comparison with those attained in other cultural fields, such as literature, film, music and even painting. Although scattered figures such as Erich Mendelsohn, Richard Neutra and Louis Kahn gained notable recognition as masters of modern architecture in the first half of the century, it has really only been since the rise of postmodernism in the 1970s that Jewish architects have attained notable visibility and prominence as a group. Thus, any survey of contemporary architecture today would be incomplete without mentioning — besides Libeskind — such Jewish architects as Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, James Ingo Freed, Eric Owen Moss, Moshe Safdie, Robert A.M. Stern and Zvi Hecker, among others. Further still, the Jewish architectural productivity of recent years has been more manifestly 'Jewish' in orientation and expression than in earlier generation ... But even if no monolithically 'Jewish' style of architecture can be identified, it is nevertheless significant that Jewish concerns have increasingly begun to inform both the theoretical and aesthetic agendas of Jewish architects. The best evidence of this trend — and the most significant in light of the current competition to shape the future form of Ground Zero — is the architectural movement known as deconstructivism. Emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in no small part due to the efforts of two of its leading proponents, Libeskind and Eisenman, deconstructivism was a radical movement that cited the massive rupture in Western civilization caused by the Holocaust as grounds for rethinking and 'deconstructing' the entire discipline of Western architecture. Sharing the postmodern belief that the Holocaust's specifically modern origins require the abandonment of the 'project of modernity,' Libeskind and Eisenman in their many theoretical writings argued that the Nazi genocide provided compelling reason to abandon traditional architectural practice and to instead embrace an architecture of fragmentation, de-centeredness and loss that reflected the reality of the postmodern, post-humanist, post-Holocaust world. For more than a few years, deconstructivism's theoretical and aesthetic demands remained consigned to the drafting table. But since the turn of the millennium, deconstructivist projects have begun to be realized in physical form — most prominently Libeskind's recently completed Jewish Museum in Berlin (not by chance the same location for Eisenman's current work in progress, Germany's national Holocaust memorial). Given deconstructivism's theoretical roots in the Nazi genocide of the Jews, it is no surprise that it has lent itself well to serving as a commemorative form of architecture in Germany. But this same commitment to commemorating loss has made it uniquely poised to offer a compelling solution to the question of how to reconstruct Ground Zero in the wake of September 11. Significantly, Libeskind and Eisenman both provided separate entries to the initial competition to redesign the site of the former World Trade Center ... Should Daniel Libeskind succeed in gaining the commission, his design will represent the timely application of an architectural philosophy molded by the paradigmatic rupture of modern Jewish history — the Holocaust — to an architectural challenge unprecedented in American history. In the end, the traumas of Jewish memory may help to shape the future contours of American memory."

IMPERFECT JUSTICE Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II. By Stuart E. Eizenstat. Illustrated. 401 pp. New York: PublicAffairs. $30,
By SAMANTHA POWER, New York Times Review of Books, February 23, 2003
"Stuart E. Eizenstat, an ambassador to the European Union and an under secretary in the Clinton administration's State and Commerce Departments, is the American official most responsible for drawing attention to their [Holocaust survivor] fates, and for providing them a measure of reparative justice. As an American Jew, Eizenstat was upset by the Roosevelt administration's wartime denial of entry to Jewish refugees and its refusal to bomb Nazi train tracks leading to the death camps. He believed that like the Swiss bankers, German car manufacturers and Austrian art dealers, he needed to make amends for the sins of his nation. ''For me, this was not just another public policy challenge but a chance to help remove a cloud over the history of the United States,'' he writes in ''Imperfect Justice,'' a dense but readable memoir on his experiences negotiating the 'unfinished business' of the Holocaust. Eizenstat's efforts began in 1995, when he was assigned the 'limited mission' of helping bring about the return of Nazi-confiscated religious property in Eastern Europe ... Eizenstat describes how Swiss bankers were pressed into setting up a billion-dollar fund for holders of dormant bank accounts. This precedent then helped him broker deals with the Germans, Austrians and French ... Crucially, globalization was rendering European companies with branch offices in the United States far more vulnerable than ever before ... Just as Richard Holbrooke did with the Bosnian peace negotiations in 'To End a War,' Eizenstat provides readers with a look at how a gritty American negotiator can drive home a deal nobody especially likes but all learn to live with."

[Insights into the Jewish government cartel:]
First chapter of 'Imperfect Justice',
By Stuart E. Eizenstat, New York Times, February 23, 2003
"On a typically dreary, wet winter day in Brussels in January 1995, I was working in my office at the United States Mission to the European Union. Carolyn Keene, my longtime assistant, told me that Richard Holbrooke, assistant secretary of state for European affairs, was on the line. Dick and I had been friends and colleagues for almost twenty years. I had brought him to Atlanta in 1976 as a foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign, for which I was the chief policy adviser. After Carter's victory, I helped Dick become the youngest assistant secretary of state in modern history. I respected his boundless energy, creativity, and dedication to public service. And I recognized his ambition for higher office. This call would change my life. It would also help propel onto the world's agenda many shameful events that had long been buried in memory, often deliberately, and that only now were coming to light. Dick asked if I would undertake a special 'limited mission' that he assured me would take only a few months. He offered me the position, in addition to my regular duties in Brussels, of the State Department's special envoy to encourage the return of property confiscated from religious communities by the Nazis and then nationalized by Eastern European Communist governments. I would concentrate primarily on the Jewish communities facing the greatest barriers ... There was a special twist to Holbrooke's call. The previous spring, I had expected to be promoted to Holbrooke's position. He had hosted a dinner for Fran and me at his residence in Bonn, where he was serving as U.S. ambassador to Germany. Dick took pride in showing us the small framed picture of his grandfather, a German Jew, in full World War I military regalia, steel-pointed helmet and all, prominently displayed on an end table in his living room. He wanted his German guests to know that his grandfather had fought for the Kaiser-and by extension, to recognize the contributions that Jews had made to their country before, as he privately put it, 'they killed them all' in the Holocaust. As always, Dick was one step ahead of the news. He startled me by saying the post of assistant secretary of state for European affairs would soon fall vacant and that I would be asked by his other guest of the evening, Undersecretary of State Peter Tarnoff, to return to Washington and take the job. Sure enough, Peter pulled me off in a corner after dinner and made the offer ... Holbrooke's call did not arise from a sudden brainstorm. He was under political pressure from Edgar Bronfman, a friend of President Clinton's and the president of the World Jewish Congress; Israel Singer, its flamboyant, creative general secretary; and Elan Steinberg, a gifted publicist and the head of the congress's North American division, who were already deeply involved in encouraging property restitution in Eastern Europe. All three were leaders of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO); Bronfman was also its president. Singer, joined by Steinberg and Maram Stern, the World Jewish Congress' European director, had met with Holbrooke to seek the administration's support in restoring confiscated Jewish property. Holbrooke, whose highly developed political antenna could not let him forget Bronfman's close relationship with President Clinton, agreed and asked who should lead the government's effort. Stern, based in Brussels, had already briefed me on the problem. Without advising me in advance, he told Holbrooke I was the right person. This is a perfect example of a nongovernmental organization pushing its cause at the right time and using the levers of power to influence government policy. The leaders of the WJRO knew that they needed the U.S. government's help to accomplish anything in the former Communist lands."

ADL Denounces Peta for its 'Holocaust On Your Plate' Campaign; Calls Appeal for Jewish Community Support 'The Height Of Chutzpah' New York, NY, Anti-Defamation League, February 24, 2003
"The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights for its 'Holocaust on Your Plate' project for trivializing the murder of six million Jews and called its appeal for approval by the Jewish community 'outrageous, offensive and taking chutzpah to new heights.' Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, issued the following statement: 'The effort by PETA to compare the deliberate systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent. PETA's effort to seek 'approval' for their 'Holocaust on Your Plate' campaign is outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights. Rather than deepen our revulsion against what the Nazis did to the Jews, the project will undermine the struggle to understand the Holocaust and to find ways to make sure such catastrophes never happen again. Abusive treatment of animals should be opposed, but cannot and must not be compared to the Holocaust. The uniqueness of human life is the moral underpinning for those who resisted the hatred of Nazis and others ready to commit genocide even today."

Fugitive director Roman Polanski has picked up top honors in Europe for his Holocaust film "The Pianist,"
New York Post, February 27, 2003
"It looks like Hollywood may be ready to forgive fugitive director Roman Polanski - who confessed to having sex with a ninth grader - and give its top laurels to a man who can't even enter the United States without being arrested. A month ago, the idea would have seemed far-fetched - but an extraordinary plea from Polanski's victim, coupled with surprise victories at film awards in Paris and London over the weekend, have suddenly positioned Polanski and his Holocaust drama, 'The Pianist,' for upset wins at next month's Academy Awards ... Martin Scorsese had widely been considered the top pick for 'Gangs of New York,' but Polanski is now viewed as picking up momentum. Many in Hollywood believe that the tragedies in Polanski's life may make it easier for Oscar voters to overlook his 25-year-old statutory rape conviction. Like the hero of 'The Pianist,' Polish-born Polanski is a Holocaust survivor who hid from the Nazis as his mother perished in a concentration camp ... 'The feeling out here is that the man may have suffered enough for what he did,' said one Tinseltown insider. 'You have businessmen who steal millions of dollars getting off with a slap on wrist, so why not forgive and forget, as even his victim is asking?' As show business historian Neal Gabler put it, 'What we may be dealing with is: Can the Holocaust trump child molestation?'"

Court OKs Holocaust Suit vs. U.S.,
New York Post, February 28, 2003
"A federal judge has cleared the way for thousands of Holocaust survivors to collect treasure stolen from them in the final days of World War II that was later confiscated by the U.S. Army. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz [Jewish?] this week threw out the Army's bid to get her to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by Hungarian Jews. The government had argued that the class-action claims are too old, but Seitz told the Justice Department's attorney to produce an inventory of what was taken. 'Your superiors are dragging their feet,' she said. 'Their conduct is unacceptable.'"

["Holocaust writing contest!" What else do kids know about World War II in Jewry's massive social engineering project, but groveling to Judeocentrism and its declared justifications for racist Israel? The fruit of Jewish Totalitarianism: children in 2003 "promise" to "protect and listen" endlesssly to Jewish whining and demands about a fragment of a world war sixty years ago across the world. Question: What is the purpose of life, child? Answer: To protect Jewish ethnocentrism -- and never challenge it.]
Ink not yet dry on Nazi horrors. Holocaust writing contest inspires students to learn about the mistakes of the past,
Orange County Register (California), March 15, 2003
"The students had earned the chance to meet the survivors through a special knowledge of the Holocaust. They and nearly 70 Holocaust survivors filled the room as firsthand stories of that period brought tears to Goldstein's eyes. The students came from 59 junior high and high schools from Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles counties for Chapman University's fourth annual Holocaust Writing Contest. Two representatives from each school had been chosen for writing outstanding essays and poems about the Holocaust, and eight winners were chosen. ... First-place poem Jennifer Thompson, St. Columban School "The terrors of this life seem unbearable / But this child bears it / She prepares to speak of all the horrors / She prays the new generations will listen carefully / Generations that need to protect those / Criticized for their religion or race / And I, the child of the newest generation / Promise to protect and listen ..."

[Endless Jewish suing. Over half a century later, no stone is left unturned to sue someone about the Holocaust. Jews are also suing the U.S. government for not bombing Auschwitz, the U.S. Army, the whole country of Iran, etc. etc. etc. Isn't it time the state of Israel -- and all the Jews that support it -- are subjected to a class action suit on behalf of the displaced and murdered Palestinian people?]
French railway is sued by son of death camp Jews
Times Online (UK), March 17,2003
"Kurt Schaechter ... will take the SNCF, the French railway network, to court for an unprecedented hearing into its role in transporting French Jews to Nazi concentration camps between 1942 and 1944. M Schaechter, 82, is suing the state-owned railway for deporting his father, Emil, to the Sobibor concentration camp in 1943 and his mother, Margaret, to Auschwitz a year later. Neither returned ... Although this is by no means the first case to be brought against the SNCF over deportation, it is the first to have come to court. Previous criminal cases against the railway network failed because France did not adopt legislation enabling organisations as well as individuals to be prosecuted until 1994. Judges ruled that the legislation was not retroactive. M Schaechter is bringing a civil action, saying that the conditions in which his parents had been forced to travel were inhuman. 'If they had been taken in normal trains, it would have been difficult to sue the SNCF because it could have argued that it knew nothing about the extermination camps at the end of the journey. But when people were travelling like cattle and dying along the way, it is a different matter,' he said."

Daniel in the Deniers' Den,
by John Sack, (Written for Esquire, February 2001)
"The people who say the Holocaust didn’t happen asked me to speak at their recent international conference. The invitation surprised me, for I am a Jew who’s written about the Holocaust and (for Chrissakes, I feel like adding) certainly hasn’t denied it. To my eyes, however, the invitation, which came from the Institute for Historical Review, in Orange County, California, the central asylum for the delusion that the Germans didn’t kill any Jews and that the Holocaust is, quote, unquote, the Hoax of the Twentieth Century, was not just a wonderment: it was also a golden opportunity, a golden-engraved temptation ... Who are the Holocaust deniers? What are they like behind closed doors? And why are they motionless stones as avalanches of evidence crash onto them roaring, You’re wrong, you’re wrong? ... Until then I hadn’t known, for the Institute feared that I might divulge it to the Jewish Defense League, the Jews the FBI has called active terrorists, and that the League might initiate violence. It had done so at other conferences to other speakers than me. One had been punched, punched by a fist also holding a cherry pie, one had been beaten up, and one had been beaten up in Paris, Vichy, Lyon and Stockholm. A man who’s older than me—I’m seventy—he had been maced, thrown to the ground, and kicked in the head because of his imprudent belief that the Holocaust didn’t take place. For six weeks his jaw had been wired and he’d eaten through a soda straw ... All in all, the deniers that day and that weekend seemed the most middling of Middle Americans. Or better: despite their take on the Holocaust, they were affable, open-minded, intelligent, intellectual. Their eyes weren’t fires of unapproachable certitude and their lips weren’t lemon twists of astringent hate. Nazis and neo-Nazis they were certainly not. Nor were they antisemites. I’m sure many antisemites say the Holocaust didn’t happen (even as they take delight that it really did) but I met none that weekend."

[More Jewish hypocrisy: Jewish "Holocaust" deniers, as an institution, Armenian style:]
Armenia - Genocide Denied,
International Current Affairs, October 09, 2002
"This year an expected 500,000 people will visit the Holocaust Museum in Auschwitz, Poland. Israel, quite rightly, wants the world to remember the attempted extermination of European Jewry. But that wasn't the first genocide of the 20th century. Though few remember, in 1915 the Ottoman Turkish empire slaughtered its minority Armenian population. But the Turkish Government maintains the Armenian genocide never happened and it dismisses countless eyewitness testimonies as propaganda. Turkey receives endorsement from an unlikely source - it's Middle Eastern ally - Israel. But now prominent intellectuals in both Turkey and Israel are speaking out against their governments' policies of denial.
HALIL BERKTAY: That is why it is so important. It is a question of, it is a question of democracy and freedom of conscience and freedom of scientific research and all that, academic freedom, democracy and academic freedom in Turkey, and of the gradual maturing and relaxation of tensions in Turkish society. One place where you might expect the Armenians to find compassion and refuge is Israel. Both races have suffered the horrors of genocide. But, despite this common history, the opposite has happened. On this Armenian genocide poster in the old city of Jerusalem is scrawled in Hebrew, 'You deserve it.' The Israelis have become vocal deniers of the Armenian genocide and, worse still, they have colluded with other states to ensure it remains denied.
DR YAIR AURON, OPEN UNIVERSITY, TEL AVIV: Because, unfortunately, more and more Israel took sides with the Turkey side and, today, Israel in one way or another says that the Armenian genocide had not happened and this is unacceptable morally for me and, of course, it's incorrect historically speaking. GEORGE HINTILIAN, ARMENIAN HISTORIAN: To hear it from the Israeli people that our, we didn't have a genocide. or our genocide is simply 'atrocities' or 'tragedy', this is very painful for us and this is very artificial. The Armenians also feel the Israelis are forcing them out of Jerusalem. Armenia was the first territory in the world to convert to Christianity and in 500 AD, they established a community in the Holy City. They've been here ever since. A section of the old city is named the Armenian Quarter. In Jerusalem, the Armenians have been survivors, but since the creation of Israel in 1948, their community has shrunk to a fifth of its size. This church was to be a memorial to the Armenian holocaust but, in 1975, the Israelis stopped the community from building it, claiming they had no approval. For 27 years, it's remained skeleton-like, a half-built monument to a holocaust denied. And there is little the Armenians can do about it. The Israelis don't allow them any representation on the Jerusalem Municipality ...
Yair Auron is the author of the book, 'The Banality of Indifference'. It details the Israeli denial of the Armenian genocide. Auron is one of the few pushing for recognition of the Armenian genocide in Israel.
DR YAIR AURON: Unfortunately, there are segments in this society who want to keep the monopoly of the fact that we were victims. They think, wrongly in my opinion, that by recognising other genocides, maybe our monopoly will be damaged in one way or another. Samuel Avyatar says, in the future, the church will be built, but the Armenians remain sceptical, with good reason. Since Israel took control of their quarter in 1967, they haven't been granted a single building licence [in Jerusalem]. This also means no housing can be constructed. Like most Armenian youth, Hargot Kirkorian is preparing to emigrate. He doesn't see a future under Israeli administration. Despite having top grades, he can't find a job or a place at university.
HARGOT KIRKORIAN: The Israelis doesn't want you to advance in your life more than a certain limit. They draw a red line and that's where you can go, that is as far as you can reach. And I think that's really bad because they are, they are people that passed discrimination and they are doing it the same towards us and towards the Arabs. The Armenians have never challenged or opposed the state of Israel, but they are treated with the same suspicions and restrictions as the Palestinians ... For Israelis, if you're not a Jew, then you're an Arab. It doesn't matter what you are. That's how it works here in the Middle East. That's what they do to everybody. In my ID, it's written 'Armenian' but the policeman doesn't even care to look at it. He says, 'You're not Jewish. Then you're an Arab, probably.'
... The senior Israeli politician leading the denial is Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In a trip to Turkey in April 2000, Peres stated, 'We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to a holocaust occurred. It was a tragedy what the Armenians went through, but not a genocide.' Yair Auron sees Peres's position as pure political expediency, downgrading Armenian suffering to appease Turkey, Israel's only ally in a hostile region ...
CONGRESSMAN IN US CONGRESS: There reaches a point, my colleagues, when we must put people before politics. The American Congress was set to pass a resolution recognising the Armenian genocide. Both Israel and Turkey lobbied hard to stop the resolution and, at the last minute, it was dropped. GEORGE HINTILIAN: When we had the majority in the Senate and in the Congress, it was the Israeli Embassy and the Jewish lobby, and Mr Shimon Peres in person, who really influenced the decision not to be taken on the recognition of the Armenian genocide. The Israelis have demanded that the world never forget their holocaust, and deniers like David Irving are routinely vilified. Yair Auron says the contradiction with the Israeli attitude to the Armenian genocide is dangerous hypocrisy."

[Jewish convention: "Holocaust deniers" and "anti-Semites" = Nazism.]
Jewish Scholar: Holocaust Denial Poses Future Danger,
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register, April 2, 2003
"A prominent Jewish scholar and author believes the biggest threat posed by those who deny the Holocaust is a future danger - when few Holocaust survivors remain to speak the truth. Deborah Lipstadt, an Emory University professor, spoke at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling Tuesday night about researching the Holocaust denial movement and defending her written conclusions in a British courtroom. After a six-and-a-half-year legal fight and a three-month trial in London, Lipstadt won a libel case brought by an author whom she had labeled as a Holocaust denier. She visited Wheeling as part of the Holocaust Remembrance Series of West Liberty State College's Hughes Lecture Series. The West Virginia Humanities Council provided financial support for the program. 'Denial is a form of anti-Semitism. Many of the deniers are also virulent racists,' she charged. When deniers claim that the Holocaust is a myth, 'it is not a clear and present danger; it is a clear and future danger,' she commented. 'The ability of people to deny it becomes stronger as there are fewer people around to give first-hand accounts.' Offering a composite portrait, she said Holocaust deniers are anti-Semites and 'many are racists; many are supporters of national socialism (Nazism)."

The Holocaust in North Africa,
by Seth Ward, University of Denver, May 10, 1999
"Holocaust memory plays a central role in the narrative history of the Jewish People in our times. The destruction of European Jewry seems to be growing in its importance to Jewish identity. Almost every community has monuments, memorial services; thousands of youth go on the "March of the Living" from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Indeed, given the presence of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, of Holocaust units in the schools, of public memorials in cities and states—it is a part of the American narrative as well, and it is often argued that it speaks to all humanity. Why or whether this should be is beyond our scope here. But clearly the telling of the Holocaust is and ought to be a crucial part of the Jewish heritage."

Breaking News: Italy to get Shoah museum,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 10, 2003
"The Italian government granted $16 million for a national Holocaust museum."

[www.michelthomas.org]
Survivor fights L.A. Times in mock trial to clear his name,
Jewish Bulletin, April 11, 2003
"Michel Thomas barely escaped deportation to Auschwitz, fought in the French Resistance and captured the 'Hangman of Dachau.' But he has failed to get his day in court. In October 2001, Thomas filed a libel suit against the Los Angeles Times, alleging the newspaper defamed him and his accomplishments. The suit was dismissed, and appeals denied. In an attempt to achieve restitution, Thomas, 89, made his case before U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall last Friday, in a mock trial co-sponsored by the university's schools of law and journalism. It was an effort to reclaim his honor and good name, both of which Thomas felt were lost in the April 2001 Times article, 'Larger than Life,' by Roy Rivenburg. Thomas, who grew up in Germany and France and lost his family in the Holocaust, came trom New York to attend the trial. After the war he resided for many years in Los Angeles ... In his suit, Thomas alleged that the Times cast doubt on his accomplishments during World War II -- among them his presence at the liberation of Dachau, his discovery of 10 million Nazi Party membership cards and his service as an agent in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) ... Martha Goldstein, the Times' vice president of communications, indicated Monday that the university had not invited the Times to participate."

[By the same token, we await the multi-government commission that will investigate what kinds of reparations will be paid non-Jews for the Jewish Collective crimes of history.]
France told it owes Jews millions Commission submits findings on World War II reparations,
Toronto Star, April 16, 2003
"The French government and banks owe at least $94.7 million (U.S.) in reparations to Jews whose assets were seized by France's pro-Nazi regime during World War II, a commission said today. However, the finding by the Commission for the Indemnity of Victims of Despoliation, or CIVS, is not binding. It will be submitted to the government — which created the commission in 1999 — for a final review. The commission's announcement today was based on analyses of 5,500 requests by French Jews seeking restitution. Some 8,800 requests remain. Based on the initial requests, the commission recommended that the government pay $91 million in compensation and banks pay $3.7 million (all figures U.S.). During World War II, occupied France's collaborationist Vichy regime passed a series of laws ordering financial institutions to block Jewish accounts and sell off Jewish-owned stocks and bonds. The measures, which made Jews vulnerable to persecution and deportation, banned them from many professions and from owning businesses and property. A 2000 report by another government commission called the extent of wartime looting "stunning." That commission, headed by former French resistance fighter Jean Matteoli, said the Vichy regime confiscated $1.3 billion in assets from Jews during the war. Those assets included 50,000 businesses and property including bank accounts, insurance policies, art works and pianos. However, most property and money was returned to survivors or their heirs."

The Holocaust: A club to batter today's Jews?,
By Bradley Burston, Haaretz (Israel), May 2003
"Nearly six decades after the fires of Nazi extermination factories were extinguished, two and a half years of unrelenting Arab-Jewish bloodshed have lent an often perverse immediacy to the Holocaust, as both sides routinely draw parallels to an episode without parallel in human history. Appropriated to peddle causes as far afield as animal rights, has the Holocaust also become a club with which today's anti-Semites can batter today's Jews? ... [W]hen does criticism of Israel and Israeli actions cross the line into outright anti-Semitism. In the view of some, the widespread use of the image of the Jew-occupier as Nazi - a staple of portions of the Palestinian, Arab and pan-Muslim press - has led to a situation in which the Holocaust has become a tool to attack today's Jewry, both in Israel and throughout the world. But many critics of Israeli policy, including many Israelis and Jews abroad, counter that Israel itself has fostered anti-Semitism. They contend that hardline Israeli military and diplomatic policies toward the Palestinians have in turn hardened world opinion toward Israel and, by extension, Jews worldwide. Moreover, they say, rather than confront their critics with substantive arguments, Israel and its supporters worldwide have come to cry anti-Semitism whenever the Jewish state is being taken to task. The sides can no more agree on the lessons of the Holocaust than they can on what constitutes anti-Semitism ... While there are widespread debates over the definition of anti-Semitism - as in contentions that neo-conservative Jews advising the Bush administration enjoy undue influence and single-handedly pushed the White House into war against Saddam - there is little debate over cold statistics showing a significant rise in violent attacks against Jews last year when compared to the year before. The target of attacks is shifting from Jewish institutions like cemeteries and synagogues, to personal attacks against Jews or people believed to be Jews by their attackers, most of whom were Muslim, the study showed. The geographical focus of the attacks had also shifted, with a large number now taking place in Western Europe, especially in France, Great Britain and Belgium. 'There seems to be an attempt by Europeans to shrug off responsibility for the Holocaust, by claiming that the Jews in Israel use the same tactics against the Arabs that the Nazis employed against the Jews,' said World Jewish Congress Secrtetary-General Avi Becker. 'The rise is very worrying. We have reached a situation where even the publisher of Der Spiegel compared [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon to Hitler. I don't think it would be right to speak in terms of a new Holocaust at this stage, but there is no doubt that Jewish communities are at war.'"

Iraqi-Jewish expats to seek compensation for assets left behind,
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz (Israel), May 16, 2003
"In the wake of the war in Iraq, Iraqi Jews residing in the United States and Europe are weighing the possibility of filing class-action suits demanding compensation in lieu of property and assets that they were forced to leave behind. Prominent members of the Jewish community in New York report that since the end of the war, they have seen a wave of requests from Iraqi Jews seeking an organized appeal for compensation for property and assets confiscated by the Baghdad regime when they left the country in the 1950s. The requests have begun to come in at an increased rate recently to the main New York offices of the World Jewish Congress. The WJC is the organization that led the international campaign against Swiss banks and achieved a global agreement under which compensation was paid out to relatives of holders of dormant bank accounts who perished during the Holocaust. WJC director Dr. Avi Becker said Thursday that an Iraqi-Jewish lawyer from San Francisco had informed him that she intended to file a class-action suit and demand compensation for property and assets that had been in her family's possession and had been confiscated by the Iraqi government in 1951. She will be seeking the compensation from Iraqi funds currently frozen in the U.S. As a result of the plethora of requests, a conference has been scheduled in London next month to discuss the issue of 'the property of the Iraqi Jewish refugees' ... The matter of compensation for the Jews who formerly lived in Iraq will also be discussed at a session of the executive of the WJC [World Jewish Congress], due to be held next week in Jerusalem. The meeting is expected to be attended by Jewish delegates from the U.S. and Europe. The organization was treating the issue with 'much caution,' the WJC's Becker told Haaretz. 'The Congress will not deal with the matter without close coordination with the government of Israel,' he said."

The Other Side of Holocaust Denial,
By Henry Makow, Save the Males, May 19, 2003
"Although I am the grandson of Holocaust victims, I am embarrassed by some Jewish organizations that want to make the Jewish Holocaust the defining event of World War Two. This is seen in the boom in Holocaust Studies Programs, Holocaust Museums and Hollywood movies like 'The Pianist.' Canadian Media mogul Izzy Asper is behind a new $200 'Holocaust and Human Rights Museum' in Winnipeg. The very title equates Jewish persecution with all 'human rights.' The Second World War was a human calamity. Over 55 million people died. Why focus on the Jewish experience? This is the cause of anti Semitism in the first place. Jewish power brokers are perpetuating a vicious cycle. I am also troubled by the attempt to classify people like Ernst Zundel as a 'hate criminal.' Zundel's website claims only one million Jews were murdered, there were no gas chambers, and Hitler didn't intend genocide. Zundel's claims are repugnant, but he has a right to be wrong. Society needs people to dispute the historical record. One may be right. If spreading false information is a crime, shouldn't we also lock up Tom Brokaw? Canada has locked up Ernst Zundel. According to his wife, he is being mistreated in prison. He risks deportation as a 'security risk.' Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress concedes Zundel doesn't 'actually wield the stick' but 'provides oxygen' to extremists. That definition would curb everyone's freedom of speech. When questioning 'what is the truth' becomes 'hate', we have entered Orwell's '1984' era of thought crime. Don't kid yourself. This is the slippery slope to tyranny and Jewish organizations are partly to blame. We must stand up in defiance. The charge of hate is used selectively to disarm legitimate opposition. The definition of 'hatred' is very selective. For example lesbians spew hatred of men but they are never arrested. Feminists teach impressionable girls that all males are potentially violent sexual predators. That's OK. The Talmud is full of hatred against Christ and Christians, but that doesn't count either. Canadian MP Svend Robinson wants to make 'gay bashing' a hate crime. He isn't talking about violence against gays, which is a genuine crime. He would prevent society from defending itself from activists who teach children that heterosexual roles are not natural but homosexuality is. 'Hate' is a bogus charge anyway. Many so-called 'Anti Semites' have written me and most are not hateful or racist in the least. They are trying to defend their legitimate interests from a real and insidious attack. The arch anti-Semite Henry Ford, author of 'The International Jew' employed thousands of Jews in his factories. He worked closely with a Jew, Mme. Rosika Schwimmer on his Peace Ship crusade. Ford's Jewish architect Albert Kahn designed hundreds of buildings for him. Jewish powerbrokers use anti Semitism to disarm opposition to their political agenda. The promotion of the Jewish Holocaust maintains the Jews' status as the world's premier 'victims.' This gives them immunity from criticism. It makes people feel more favourable to them and more willing to accede to their direction and influence."

[Jews hold patent on a depcition of the "Holocaust."]
Exhibit comparing Holocaust, animals decried,
By Donovan Slack, Boston Globe, May 25, 2003
"Jewish groups yesterday angrily denounced a controversial animal rights campaign that compares the slaughter of animals for food to the Holocaust, calling an exhibit with photographs of emaciated Nazi death camp prisoners a 'horrific' publicity stunt. Gathered at the New England Holocaust Memorial -- less than a block from City Hall Plaza, where People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals erected a display of billboard photographs -- Jewish leaders took turns at a lectern, some of them recounting images of friends or family in camps. 'This outrageous campaign trivializes the memory of millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust and insults those who survived,' said Geoffrey H. Lewis, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. PETA's exhibit, which made its way to Boston yesterday after evoking similar reactions in 22 other cities, consists of several 6-by-10-foot billboards depicting pictures of Holocaust victims next to photos of masses of chickens and turkeys in warehouses. Known for radical stances and shock campaigns, PETA leaders yesterday were unapologetic. The images may be 'uncomfortable,' said 21-year-old PETA organizer and campaign creator Matt Prescott, but ''we need to get past our grief and begin to use it to teach lessons.' 'We need to use it as a context for teaching lessons of compassion and kindness,' he said. On the plaza, Prescott and two other PETA employees stood by the billboards set up next to the Government Center T stop and handed out fliers to anyone who would take them. A few enthusiastically took pamphlets. But passersby largely reacted negatively. 'I don't take things from insane people,'' snapped one man as he scurried into the station. 'This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen!' exclaimed Mark Vespucci, a federal employee on his lunch break, visibly flustered. 'I understand why you're doing this, but I think it's demoralizing.' Prescott tried to appeal to him. 'I'm Jewish,' Prescott said, adding that his mother's second cousins perished in Buchenwald ... Officials from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, which initially gave Prescott permission to use its Holocaust images for a 'project comparing the atrocities of the Holocaust to other forms of oppression throughout history,' said yesterday they were considering taking legal action against PETA."

Shadow of Shame,
CBS (60 Minutes), June 1, 2003
"The Holocaust. It’s constantly on television, at the movies, on stage, in countless relics and monuments, in the country's museums and in its schools. It is recalled every year on Nov. 9, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 assault on Germany's Jews. Even Germany's tiny Jewish community is a living emblem of what happened in that country. Half a million strong before the war, it’s a fraction of that now. As Morley Safer reports, most of Germany's Jews live quietly and see that country as one of the safest places in the world to raise their children. But one of the leaders of that community is anything but quiet. Michel Friedman, a television star with his own talk show and a Jew who gets on the nerves of a lot of Germans, never lets them forget that they must be careful about what they say. Friedman is the subject of a lot of German hate mail, a focal point for anti-Semitism. He acknowledges that Germans have tried to make up for their past, but adds 'I am not responsible that Germany invented the Holocaust. They are responsible, and that's a part of their life.' Most Germans would not argue the point. Even young Germans, born decades after the war, bear the burden. 'It's not always that we think about it. It's, we know it, we have this responsibility and we think about it when we make any decisions,' says Carsten Schneider who, at 27, is the youngest member of the German parliament. Young Germans live in a society devoted mostly to life, liberty and the pursuit of a good time, but psychologically they still carry the sins of their grandparents. In most German public schools, reckoning with the past is an academic requirement ... Is there a danger in raising generation after generation with this shame as the central characteristic of their society? 'No, not at all,' says Friedman ... More and more Germans are fed up with all this self-flagellation, and no one more fed up than 75-year-old Martin Walser, one of the country's most revered authors and a man who has been writing about the legacy of the Holocaust for 40 years. Like most everyone of a certain age in Germany, Walser has to grapple with his own personal history. His mother was an ardent member of the Nazi party, and at the age of 17, in 1944, Walser joined the German army. Walser is in no way a Holocaust denier, but he says that the constant dredging up of German history, on television, for instance, has become absurd. 'Hitler's doctors, Hitler's dogs, Hitler's fools, Hitler's generals,' he says. 'You know, and I said that's an abuse.' And another abuse, says Walser, is the way that other countries help to keep alive the image of Germany as a recovering Nazi. 'They treated a whole nation as a criminal on probation,’ he says.'And you have to keep alive this state of mind that you are not yet accepted, and that you are not yet a normal man or a normal nation.' A lot of Germans feel they've done everything in their power to face up to that past -- paying reparations, apologizing. What more, they ask, can they do? ... Last year, Walser published a novel that many considered to be a blatant anti-Semitic tract. It set off an agonizing debate about just how far a German writer, even an eminent literary figure, can go. Walser's detractors say that he crossed the line. His novel is a thinly disguised and very ugly portrait of the most powerful literary critic in Germany - Marcel Reich-Ranitzky - a Jew and a Holocaust survivor, and a television star with a brutal way of reviewing books. He trashed Walser's work, so Walser trashed him. In Walser's novel, the critic is portrayed as an all-powerful, lecherous, and abusive Jew - a figure that recalled for many the brutal anti-Semitic caricature of Jews in the years leading up to the Nazi period. The leading German newspaper refused to serialize the novel, calling it a document of hatred against Jews. Walser is outraged at the accusation and its repercussions. 'You just state it's anti-Semitic, and basta - that's like a death sentence,' he says. For Walser’s reputation, perhaps, but not for the book. The scandal turned the novel into a number one bestseller."

Holocaust Documentaries: Too Much of a Bad Thing?,
By BARRY GEWEN, New York Times, June 15, 2003
"'When I began exploring how films have grappled with the Holocaust in 1979, there were merely a few dozen titles to warrant attention,' Annette Insdorf writes in her encyclopedic study 'Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust.' But for the book's third edition, published this year, she lists, together with the fiction films, 69 documentaries made since 1990 alone — a rate of almost one every two months. Elsewhere she estimates that there are at least six completed Holocaust documentaries that do not get distribution for every one that does. And the stream has continued at flood tide into 2003. Last month "Secret Lives," Aviva Slesin's emotionally complex film about Jewish children hidden by gentile families during the Nazi era, opened in New York. Shortly after, PBS showed Charles Guggenheim's "Berga: Soldiers of Another War," about Jewish-American soldiers captured by the Germans. "Bonhoeffer," Martin Doblmeier's intellectual, spiritually suffused account of the anti-Nazi German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is opening on June 27, two days before A & E broadcasts Liz Garbus's "Nazi Officer's Wife," the biography of a Jewish woman who survived by assuming an Aryan identity and marrying a Nazi party member. But simply listing these new films raises a troubling question: Are too many Holocaust documentaries now being made? Has supply outstripped demand? It's a question that makes people uncomfortable. Who would want to appear callous in the face of such suffering, or, worse, anti-Semitic? Yet there are definite signs of Holocaust fatigue. Perhaps because she is a survivor, Ms. Slesin is more forthright than most. 'I can't bear to see evil over and over again,' she says. 'Even I roll my eyes when I hear about another Holocaust documentary" — but then she quickly adds, "until I see what it's about." Stephen Feinstein, the director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, has sat on a selection committee for a Jewish film festival when more than 15 Holocaust documentaries were submitted. With each year bringing still more films, he says, 'you can't see them all.' Many of the films have become formulaic, using the same German footage, the same static interviewing techniques. "Get out of the talking-head format," Mr. Feinstein advises. Raye Farr, the director of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, says that filmmakers are too often taking the easy way out, showing an 'increasing inclination to go for sentimentality." With an undertone of exasperation in her voice, she says, "Crying is not very edifying.' Why do filmmakers have such an abiding interest in the Holocaust? In part, they are simply reflecting the extraordinary phenomenon that the Holocaust has become in American life. Publishers churn out books on the subject in voluminous numbers, state governments legislate the teaching of the Holocaust in public schools, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington greets millions of visitors each year. It would be odd if filmmakers didn't share this general fascination. And yet many of them feel a particular urgency about their work. As the documentarian Joseph Dorman observed in a recent interview, anyone with a relative who went through the Holocaust has a 'natural desire' to tell that story. Most of these films are made not for any commercial reason, and not really with an educational intent. They are works of moral witness ... Sometimes, it seems that Holocaust documentaries have a lock on all the awards: they have won five Oscars over the last eight years ... There has been a tendency of late among documentary filmmakers to concentrate on the more 'positive' side — gentiles who opposed Hitler or rescued victims; Jewish resisters in the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere; and of course the survivors themselves. These individuals are often presented as inspirational (although, with the millions of victims who are not here to go before the camera, there is nothing inspirational about the Holocaust) ... Yale's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has a collection of more than 4,000 testimonies. The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, established by Steven Spielberg in 1994 following the success of "Schindler's List," is by far the largest. It houses more than 50,000 testimonies ... Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, speaks with the confidence and ebullience of a man who knows he sits astride a well-oiled machine. The center has its own movie division, Moriah Films, and it turns out a film about once every two years (not all of them about the Holocaust). Two, "Genocide" and "The Long Way Home," have won Oscars. Unlike everyone else involved in making Holocaust documentaries, Rabbi Hier says raising money has been "very easy," and since 1989 Moriah Films has collected about $15 million. The minimum gift the center accepts is $100,000 spread over five years, and Hollywood celebrities like Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Douglas have volunteered their services as narrators for the films. The scrambling documentarians clustered on the East Coast can only stare across the continent with envy at this odd coupling of Hollywood star power and the awesome atrocity of the Holocaust. But rich or poor, every Holocaust documentarian is working the same territory, and some critics complain that the basic plot line of the Holocaust has become too familiar by now to permit genuinely original work."

Fury as MPs compare Palestinians' treatment to Nazi ghettos,
By Marie Woolf, Independent (UK), June 2003
"Two MPS caused outrage yesterday by comparing the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza to the Nazi segregation of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto."

Democratic Party official resigns over e-mail,
Palm Beach Post, June 24, 2003
"A local Democratic Party functionary has quit after it was revealed he once offered friendly legal advice to a historian who was later branded an "active Holocaust denier" by a British court. Rob Ross, a Boca Raton attorney who in March was named finance committee chairman for the Palm Beach County Democratic Party, resigned during the weekend. Ross said he did not know about British historian David Irving's controversial views on the Holocaust when he sent Irving a 1998 e-mail. In the e-mail, which landed in several Democratic in-boxes in recent weeks, Ross called Irving critic Deborah Lipstadt a "pawn" of Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League and suggested that Irving file a racketeering complaint "alleging that there has been a long-standing international conspiracy by the ADL to ruin your reputation and spread false allegations regarding the quality of your research and writings." At the time, Irving was pursuing a libel suit in British court against Lipstadt, an Emory University professor whose 1994 book called Irving a Holocaust denier. When the suit went to trial in 2000, Irving called the gassing of millions of Jews in death camps a "big lie" during cross-examination. A judge ruled against Irving, calling him "anti-Semitic and racist" and "an active Holocaust denier." But Ross said that in 1998, two years before the trial, the Holocaust was never mentioned when he heard Irving give a lecture in Fort Lauderdale. After the lecture, Ross said he spoke briefly to Irving and Irving said that he was involved in a legal dispute, but did not say what it was about. Ross said he followed up with an e-mail a few weeks later. Although Ross' e-mail mentions Lipstadt by name, he said he did not know that the Holocaust was the central issue in the dispute between Irving and Lipstadt."

French Editor Jailed For “Questioning” Holocaust. Plantin, editor of Akribeia magazine was fined and jailed for questioning Holocaust,
By Hadi Yahmad, Islam Online, June 26, 2003
"An appeals court on Wednesday, June 25, upheld the six-month prison sentence of an editor who published works that called into question the scope of the Jewish Holocaust. Jean Plantin, editor of a magazine called Akribeia, the Greek word for "exactitude", was fined and given the sentence by a Lyon court for “doubting the occurrence of some crimes against humanity”, when it was "discovered" that Plantin had been awarded a Masters’ degree by the University of Lyon for a thesis which, in fact, denied the Holocaust. The lawyer for publisher Jean Plantin said he will appeal the decision to a higher court. A lower court found Plantin guilty in June 2000 and gave him a six-month suspended sentence for publishing materials challenging some aspects of the Holocaust, including the use of gas chambers to kill vast numbers of Jews during the war. The court also ordered Plantin to stop his activities. But prosecutors say Plantin continued to publish similar works, thus violating a condition of his suspended sentence ... On 13 January 1999, Plantin was arrested at his home and taken to a police station in Lyon, France where, for 24 hours, he was subjected to ignominious treatment. Then, back at his house, he saw his two computers and the disks containing his archives seized by French police, who also turned his collection of books and documents upside down, said The Campaign for Radical Truth in History website. Some journalists then set about launching "the Plantin affair", revealing that Jean Plantin had in 1990 obtained a master's degree in history for his paper entitled, "Paul Rassinier (1906-1967), socialiste, pacifiste et révisionniste" ("Socialist, Pacifist and Revisionist"). In the following year he earned the prestigious "diplôme d'études approfondies" ("diploma of advanced studies", known as the "DEA"), with his thesis, "Les Epidémies de typhus dans les camps de concentration nazis" ("The Typhus Epidemics in the Nazi Concentration Camps"). Neither of the two works exhibited a revisionist character. But suddenly, in 1999, certain organizations, particularly Jewish ones, have made it known that they consider that fact to be immaterial and that two professors who supervised J. Plantin's work, were guilty of revisionism (of "negationism", as they derisively term it), the website said. At first, the professors who were implicated, Régis Ladous and Yves Lequin, protested their good faith. Fallen prey to panic, both dodged their responsibilities. R. Ladous, for his part, went so far as to say that, if he had graded Plantin's thesis as "Très bien" (very good), it was only to show his scorn for a job which, in his eyes, was, it seems, "grotesque", it added. Then, the professors spontaneously tendered their resignations from their posts as overseers of the "DEA" studies program. These resignations were immediately accepted by the presidents of their respective universities. The judges of the Lyon court were to deliberate for five weeks before handing down their verdict of guilty. The computers and archives on disks seized at his house have been apparently permanently confiscated."

I Won't,
Irish Times, July 3, 2003
"Norman Finkelstein is the nearest you can get to a Jewish heretic. He is a Jew but an anti-Zionist; the son of Holocaust survivors but a ceaseless critic of what he terms "the Holocaust industry"; a left-wing historian whose views are often praised by revisionist right-wingers such as David Irving. He is a pugilist by inclination, never missing an opportunity to fire insults at his enemies among Jewish organisations in the US and Israel. They, it must be said, are not slow to respond in kind. Insults flew within minutes when Finkelstein appeared recently with an Israeli government spokesman on RTE Radio 1's Morning Ireland, and Cathal Mac Coille, the presenter, had to call the two off each other and beg for calm. "You're supposed to lie down and take the insults, and I'm not going to do it," Finkelstein says. "The level of arrogance of these people just boggles the mind." He believes Jewish organisations are "huckstering" the Holocaust by extracting huge sums in compensation that never get to the survivors. "What they have done, by turning the central tragedy of Jews in the 20th century into a weapon for shaking down people for money is pretty disgusting; it's wretched." He denounces some of the campaigns for reparations against Swiss banks and claims that more than $20 billion (E17.5 billion) has been collected in compensation claims arising from the Holocaust. Because he is Jewish, Finkelstein gets away with the kind of language others would never be allowed to use. He accuses Jewish organisations, for example, of conducting themselves "like a caricature from Der Sturmer", the notorious Jew-baiting magazine of the Nazis [see samples on the right]. He repeatedly refers to the organisations as "crooks" and has even called Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the "resident clown" of the Holocaust circus. The roots of his anger lie in his parents' experience. Finkelstein's father survived the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp; his mother lived in the ghetto and ended up in Majdanek camp. He describes both as confirmed atheists. His father received compensation from the German government. "I still remember the blue envelopes that came in every month. At the end of his life he was getting $600 a month, or a grand total of about $250,000. Even though there was no love lost between my father and the Germans - he hated them all - there was never any complaint about the money. The Germans were always very competent and efficient." In contrast, his mother's compensation was channelled through American Jewish organisations. "Even though they went through the same experiences, she got a grand total of $3,000 and no pension. That's what you get from Jewish organisations."

[Everyone knows World War II was only a Jewish tragedy, right? And the tens of millions of others who died don't count. The "Holocaust" has become the secular Jewish religion: if Jews aren't the Chosen People by religious consensus, then by damn they must be "unique" by virtue of their Holocaust.]
Romanian's Holocaust Remark Upsets Israel,
Earthlink (from Associated Press, July 25, 2003
"Israel issued a stern rebuke Friday to Romania after its president was quoted by a newspaper as saying the Holocaust was "not unique to the Jews." Israel summoned the Romanian ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, ministry spokesman David Saranga said. At the same time, Israel directed its ambassador in Bucharest to submit a strong protest to that government. This is the second time in two months that Romanian ambassador Valeria Mariana Stoica has received an official protest over a statement about the Holocaust. On June 13, the Romanian government denied there was a Holocaust within its borders. Following protests from Israel and Romania's Jewish community, the government acknowledged that its former leaders deported and exterminated Jews during World War II. In an interview with Israel's Haaretz newspaper published Friday, Romanian President Ion Iliescu said "the Holocaust was not unique to the Jewish population in Europe. Many others, including Poles, died in the same way." Iliescu noted his father, a communist, was sent to a camp and died a year after his release. "In the Romania of the Nazi period both Jews and communists were treated equally," he said. Dorel Dorian, a Romanian lawmaker who represents the Jewish community, said the Holocaust has a precise meaning as the attempted mass destruction of the Jews. "It's true that tens of millions of Poles, Ukrainians, communists and others also died, but for Jews it was a planned process of extermination," Dorian said. Israel asked the Romanian ambassador to clarify whether Iliescu's statements reflected the view of the Romanian government or just the president, Saranga said. Iliescu later said he was surprised by Israel's response to his comments. "I don't understand the reaction. I said the Holocaust was a phenomenon that affected the entire Europe. There is no Romanian, or German or Polish Holocaust. It was a general process, and some of its European components happened on Romania's territory," Iliescu told Romania's Mediafax news agency."

Romanian ambassador summoned over Holocaust remarks,
By Grig Davidovitz and Haaretz Service, Haaretz (Israel), July 27, 2003
"The Foreign Ministry has summoned the Romanian ambassador in Israel to find out whether the Romanian president's comments that the Holocaust was not unique to Jews reflect the position of his country's government, Israel Radio reported Friday. Romanian President Ion Iliescu's comments were "insensitive," Justice Minister Yosef (Tommy) Lapid said Friday ... In an interview with Haaretz, Iliescu compared the Jewish experience in the Holocaust to that of Poles and communists, said reparation suits should be postponed or rejected, and acquitted the Romanian people (though not the leaders) of wrongdoing during the Holocaust. The Romanian government last month denied its role in the Holocaust and then retracted the denial. "The Holocaust was not unique to the Jewish population in Europe. Many others, including Poles, died in the same way," Iliescu said. According to the president, "in the Romania of the Nazi period, Jews and communists were treated equally. My father was a communist activist and was sent to a camp. He died at the age of 44, less than a year after he returned" ... The Romanian president believes that in view of the country's current dire economic situation, the restitution suits demanding the return of Jewish property must be either postponed or rejected. "People are struggling with shortages, and at the same time, people are coming forward with claims because in Romanian history during World War II and afterward, property was nationalized. Does that mean the wretched Romanian citizen of today has to pay for what happened then? Is it worth it to skin those who are living today in distress? And just to compensate others? I don't find that appropriate."

"Dr Thomas Fudge's suppressed article is published: ... Holocaust, history and free speech: Part I Canterbury University history lecturer Thomas Fudge has resigned in protest at the university's refusal to publish this article defending a young academic against the charge of holocaust denial. It appears in two instalments, today and tomorrow. The Fate of Joel Hayward in New Zealand Hands: From Holocaust Historian to Holocaust? By Thomas A. Fudge, Focal Point Publications (originally from New Zealand Herald, July 23, 2003)
"For the past three years, newspapers, national periodicals and television programmes have provided coverage about the Joel Hayward affair, a story of a New Zealand student who wrote a controversial thesis. Contestable work and arguable conclusions are not uncommon in modern universities, but Hayward's unpublished work as a student seems to remain, after ten years, a point of unusual and continuing interest. Does Canterbury University support holocaust denial? The university answers no. Is Hayward a denier? He claims he is not. Does his thesis constitute holocaust denial? His critics say yes (some without having read it); others (who have read it) answer in the negative. In June 2002, Joel Hayward resigned as senior lecturer in history at Massey University where he had been respected as an effective teacher and productive scholar. His departure generated applause from some quarters. Others lamented academe's loss. What brought Hayward, a year and a half after the Hayward affair, still in the early stages of a potentially distinguished career, to this act of professional extinction? In 1993 Hayward was awarded a master of arts degree with first class honours in history by the University of Canterbury for a thesis ['The Fate of Jews in German Hands'] on the historiography of the Holocaust. He later wrote a PhD thesis, and in 1996 was appointed to a lectureship at Massey University. In late 1999, the MA thesis was publicly denounced. The New Zealand Jewish Council alleged that the work amounted to historical revisionism constituting Holocaust denial, and called on the University of Canterbury to revoke the degree. Hayward repeatedly apologised for any harm or distress his thesis might have caused, agreed to the extraordinary step of including an appendix to his thesis modifying his findings, co-operated with the subsequent investigation and appears to have made efforts to distance himself from Holocaust denial. Under pressure, the university appointed an independent working party to investigate the claims against the thesis. This committee consisted of retired High Court judge Sir Ian Barker and academics Professor Ann Trotter and Professor Stuart Macintyre. Their lengthy report concluded that the thesis was seriously flawed, and that Hayward should not have essayed a judgment in such a controversial area. The report did not recommend withdrawal of the thesis by the university and did not agree with the allegations that Hayward's argument was racist or motivated by malice. While the opinion that the thesis did not deserve the high marks it received was widely publicised in the media, no fewer than six serving or retired members of the history department persisted in their own judgment that it was a first-class effort. Notwithstanding the apparent finality of the report and its qualified exoneration of Hayward, during 2000, 2001, and 2002 Hayward received hundreds of pieces of hate mail, abusive telephone calls, threats against himself, his wife and small children, harassment at Massey University and continued negative media attention. Further attempts to publish, as well as efforts at finding other employment, have been unsuccessful. The issue therefore goes beyond the apparent concern over allegedly flawed (but unpublished) research. Is this issue really about academic values and freedom? ... The Barker inquiry found no evidence of malicious intent, dishonesty or deliberate efforts to circumvent the truth on Hayward's part. Is it possible that the outrage over the thesis itself was also a device for attacking Hayward? One of the complexities of the Hayward affair is its apparent relation to issues of academic freedom and intellectual fashions. Hayward's detractors claim that he is wrong in terms of both. One of his critics stated that academic freedom could exist without academic responsibility. However, considered legal opinion concluded that the interpretation being applied in the Hayward affair permitted a very limited right to academic freedom. Proponents of academic freedom insist that universities should be great storehouses of wisdom and learning, and students ought to be able to go there, learn and choose. Academic freedom implies there are no taboo subjects, no off-limits topics. The fuss made about this obscure piece of work fits rather awkwardly with the position taken by New Zealand academic libraries. Official statements read, "No library materials should be excluded ... because of the ... views of their authors [and] no library materials should be censored, restricted or removed from libraries because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval or pressure" ... The Jewish Holocaust is one of those delicate topics about which certain beliefs have become so fashionable as to be unassailable regardless of intellectual considerations. The Hayward affair elicited the pronouncement that at least in this country anyone wanting to question received notions about the Holocaust is controlled by accepted truth standards. The danger in this thinking lies in the ambiguity of the term "truth standards". What did Hayward say? The major issue appears to be the belief that Hayward rejected well-established facts about the Holocaust. His thesis examined the writings of some of those who question the Holocaust industry, which has reached significant political proportions in the past 30 years. Setting aside the question of whether Hayward's conclusions were really so exceptional, is it not the duty of universities and researchers to challenge conventional understandings? In his MA thesis, The Fate of Jews in German Hands: An Historical Enquiry into the Development and Significance of Holocaust Revisionism, Joel Hayward investigated Holocaust historiography, especially that branch of it regarded as revisionist. He concluded that some of the revisionist literature was unworthy of sustained scholarly consideration. Other approaches he found to be significant and worthy."

The memorial that betrays itself,
by Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (UK), August 7, 2003
"The Museum of Tolerance has problems nearer home to tackle but is driven by a pro-Zionist passion. For years, I've been hearing good things about the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. It has been lauded as one of the most innovative museums in the world, making ingenious use of state-of-the-art interactive tools to force visitors to confront their own prejudices and make them feel, not just understand, what it is like to be on the receiving end of rank bigotry. It is a favourite destination for school field trips, politicians wishing to flash their PC credentials, and liberal-minded movie stars looking for a good cause to endow. Recently, a judge in Orange County made a mandatory visit to the Museum of Tolerance part of the punishment he meted out to a white miscreant who had physically threatened his Iranian boss. Since the museum is about to open branches in New York and Jerusalem (the latter in a building designed by Frank Gehry), a visit seemed long overdue. So I went earlier this week. Only instead of the great educational experience I was expecting, I was bewildered, even angered by what I found. The exhibits, from start to finish, were manipulative, ideologically loaded and politically partisan in ways that utterly belie the museum's ostensibly disinterested educational purpose. First of all, there's the name. The museum chronicles slavery, race- baiting, blanket discrimination, murder and genocide - not only egregious instances of intolerance, but events which by their nature are also intolerable. Who exactly is supposed to tolerate what here? Then there is the museum's in-your-face presentation. Right at the start, visitors are invited to choose between a door marked "Prejudiced" and another marked "Unprejudiced", depending on the way they regard themselves. But the door marked "Un- prejudiced" is kept locked at all times - because, as the museum guide explains, there is bigotry in all of us. This is merely a harbinger of the hectoring tone to come - a tone that presupposes we all need to understand how hateful thoughts can lead to hateful words, and hateful words to hateful actions. The message wouldn't be so objectionable if it weren't so facile, if it weren't so far from a satisfactory explanation of why genocide occurs, and if it weren't rammed down your throat during the carefully orchestrated tour. At times I felt as if my group was being huddled together and bludgeoned into thinking: "You will be more tolerant! You will be more tolerant!" The museum's driving mission becomes clear as the panels and video screen displays devoted to the Ku Klux Klan, the 1992 LA Riots, the Rwandan genocide and the Yugoslav wars of secession fall away to make way for the subject that truly excites the passions of the curators, the Holocaust. Since the museum is run by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, whose LA headquarters are across the street, it is hardly surprising the Holocaust looms large. As a subject, it is of course entirely legitimate. But this is the Holocaust retold from a very specific pro- Zionist, religious Jewish perspective, and the politics become intrusive enough to seem both dishonest and downright vulgar. In the museum's over-simplistic version of events, no Jews were collaborators with the Nazis and all Germans were. The rest of the world is divided between the "righteous among nations" (who lobbied for the creation of the state of Israel after the war) and the ignominious others. Palestine is referred to as "the Jewish homeland", without regard for the Palestinians. The rise of Nazism is explained, in absurdly ahistorical terms, as the result of an anti-Semitism that "is never far beneath the surface when times are hard" - the implication being, as all pro-Israeli groups like to argue, that it is as dangerous now as it was then. I yearned for the more reflective, unabashedly moving Holocaust narratives of a Viktor Frankl or a Primo Levi (neither of whom, incidentally, feature in a bookstore filled with titles such as Meir Wagner's The Righteous of Switzerland and the inevitable Schindler's Ark). This is a museum that ignores its own purported message of tolerance, preferring to tell you what to think at every turn. As such, it betrays its own historical mission and reduces the deepest of human tragedies to mere propaganda. Its visitors deserve much better."

Poles Open Probe Into Jewish Role In Killings. Group Fingers WWII Partisans,
By MARC PERELMAN, [Jewish] FORWARD, August 8, 2003
"Poland's official National Institute of Remembrance, created to investigate historic crimes of the Nazi and communist eras, is currently investigating allegations that Jewish partisans participated in a massacre of civilians in Poland in early 1944. The institute launched the investigation in February 2001 at the request of the Canadian Polish Congress. Robert Janicki, deputy commissioner for prosecution of crimes against the Polish nation, told the Forward in a written statement that the institute was interviewing witnesses, including both victims and perpetrators, and was gathering archival material from several countries, but that no date had been set for the conclusion of the investigation. Still, the institute has issued some preliminary reports, which contain allegations that some 50 to 60 Jewish partisans were part of a 120-strong Soviet partisan unit that attacked the village of Koniuchy on January 29, 1944. At least 35 civilians were killed, and the village, now located in Lithuania and called Kaniuakai, was burned to the ground, according to the reports. The investigation, which has not been reported in the United States and was unknown to a series of scholars interviewed for this article, is creating unease among Jews because of its possible political motives ... Although relations between Poland and Israel have improved over the past decade, the affair is likely to fuel further acrimony in Polish-Jewish relations, which have been soured in recent years by disputes over the 1941 massacre of Jews by Poles in the village of Jedwabne, which some Poles blamed on German soldiers. The tensions spilled over into this country when a Polish-American leader made antisemitic remarks on the issue last year. While some observers expressed concerns about the intentions of the Canadian group, they said the Polish remembrance institute was a solid and reliable institution ... The fighting at Koniuchy is described in several Jewish accounts of partisans' battles, including "The Avengers," a book by Rich Cohen, published in 2000. The Jewish partisan units were part of a brigade commanded by the former Vilna ghetto fighter Abba Kovner, who went on to become a leading Israeli poet. In its letter to the institute calling for an investigation, the Canadian group cited several accounts by Jewish partisans to back up its allegations."

[Agree with Jews, that's kosher. Question Jews, that's forbidden -- even in a democracy. Criticize Jewish convention about the Holocaust, that's a "Nazi." There can be no debate about this.]
Freedom stops when denial starts,
by Dov Bing, New Zealand Herald, August 8, 2003
"In a democracy, academic freedom is a precious commodity. Protected by the 1989 Education Act, it cannot exist in New Zealand universities without matching responsibilities. Dr Thomas Fudge, in his article on Dr Hayward's Holocaust denial thesis, has fallen well short of academic responsibility, not only by incorrectly representing Hayward's thesis conclusions but by failing to distinguish between Holocaust revisionism and Holocaust denial. Revisionism is an honest endeavour undertaken by many academic historians. Each year there are thousands of new publications on Holocaust history. Many of these can be termed academic Holocaust revisionism. Holocaust denial is not history at all. Although Holocaust deniers may often deceptively refer to themselves as revisionists, they cannot be regarded as professional academic historians. Finding against David Irving in his unsuccessful suit for libel against historian Deborah Lipstadt (April 2000), Mr Justice Gray provides a clear and compelling definition of Holocaust denial. In his report on the Hayward thesis, undertaken for the University of Canterbury in 2000, Sir Ian Barker also concludes that Holocaust deniers are polemicists with an antipathy to the status of the Holocaust as a unique and defining phenomenon of the modern era. Many are anti-Semites with links to racist and extremist politics, observes the Barker report. According to Winston Smith, leader of the National Socialist White Peoples Party - formerly known as the American Nazi Party - the real purpose of Holocaust revisionism (or denial) is to make National Socialism an acceptable alternative again. If they can make people believe that the main features of the Holocaust are based on Allied war propaganda, the Nazis can rise again. Deniers operate on the fringes of society and have been trying for many years to gain a foothold in universities to make themselves respectable. Canterbury University is the only Western university that has awarded an MA to a Holocaust denial thesis. In defending Joel Hayward, Dr Fudge prefers to ignore the extent to which careful, recent definitions of Holocaust denial apply to Hayward's MA thesis, the flawed methodology referred to in the Barker report, and Hayward's failure to consider the dangerous implications of Holocaust denial's pseudo-academic facade, as noted in the Barker Report. If Holocaust denial has demonstrated anything, it is the fragility of memory, reason and history. Deniers try to project the appearance of being committed to the values they, in truth, adamantly oppose - reason, critical rules of evidence and historical distinction."

Germany starts laying the Holocaust to rest,
by Kate Connolly, Telegraph (UK), August 16, 2003
"A plot of prime land the size of three football pitches in the heart of Berlin will begin its transformation today into Germany's first memorial to the Jews from all over Europe who perished in the Holocaust. The stretch of land in the heart of what was once the capital of Hitler's Third Reich is now valued at around £200 million for its development potential alone. A model of the memorial is unveiled to the media The area will be "planted" with a field of 2,752 concrete slabs varying in height to resemble a "waving cornfield", according to the memorial's designer, the American architect Peter Eisenman. When the first slab is set in the ground today it will end 15 years of tortuous debate and deliberation. The memorial to the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust will dominate the city centre, will be visible from the air and is likely to become one of Berlin's most popular tourist attractions ... The project's backers courted controversy from the start by choosing as the memorial plot a swathe of land that is soaked in Berlin's dark 20th century history. When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the plot - now located between the Brandenburg Gate and the new glass skyscrapers of Potsdamer Platz - became part of the so-called no-man's land between east and west Berlin. But far more contentious was what still lies beneath the site, the existence of which city officials prefer to deny. The bunker of the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, and that of Adolf Hitler - reached by an underground passageway from his Chancellery which stood in nearby Voss Strasse - are situated respectively in the north-east and south-east corners of the memorial plot, identifiable only by the initiated few. "We wanted to put the memorial on the graves of the Third Reich, effectively covering up forever, putting a lid on their centre of power, however provocative that might sound," Mr Schulze-Rohr told The Telegraph. The group later provoked the ire of both politicians and Jewish groups when it attempted to jolt the public into taking an interest in the project by giving their own donations, with an advertising campaign in which huge billboards depicting idyllic Alpine landscapes read: "The Holocaust never happened". The aim was to suggest that this notion, widely shared in far-Right circles, would spread if the Holocaust was not commemorated with such memorials. An earlier suggestion put forward by artists to get each German citizen to pay for the name of one Holocaust victim to be engraved on the blocks of concrete was rejected by Ignatz Bubis, the late former head of Germany's Jewish community. He argued that it would create the idea that "Germans were paying off their guilt" for the Holocaust. Instead the names of four million Holocaust victims collected by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial centre in Tel Aviv will be displayed on an electronic ticker in an information centre which will stand next to the memorial, and will be read continuously over a loud speaker."

[Pass me another $200 chocolate-covered marshmellow over those dead Palestinians, please ...]
DRAINED POND'S NEIGHBORS THINK ONE AMONG THEM IS SCUM, By JEFFREY SLONIM, New York Post, August 17, 2003
"A benefit hosted by Spielberg's Shoah Foundation at former Sony America CEO Mickey Schulhof's Egypt Lane manse last month, raised $750,000 for his project of recording the testimony of Holocaust survivors. But Spielberg now reveals he didn't get much sleep the night before the event - he and wife Kate Capshaw were awoken by a 1:30 a.m. telephone call. "It was our daughter [Jessica Capshaw] calling to tell us she was engaged," Spielberg said. The event was a blast and after dinner, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker and Barry Levinson retired to the Shulhofs' lavishly decorated living room (Paola Schulhof owns an antiques store in town). On his return later this year to "The Producers," Broderick said, "Nathan remembers the entire play, every line, every song. At best, I remember three songs."

CATHOLIC BREAKS WITH POLISH-JEWISH DIALOGUE GROUP,
SFPOL (from Polonia Media Network/PMN)
"On May 5, 2003, Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride delivered her resignation to the National Polish American-Jewish American Council (NPAJAC), of which she had been a member for about seven years. She stated, “I can no longer serve as a member of an organization that excludes five million people [non-Jewish Poles] as victims of the Holocaust.” On March 18, 2003, Urbanowicz Gilbride received a letter from the above Council stating: "That definition [of the Holocaust], in its specificity, recognizes the reality of the differences between the treatment of Jews and non-Jews under the Nazi occupation of Poland.” It adds, “This definition is a critical and central part of the belief system of the Jewish community and the Council has always and still does accept it.” That letter was in response to a November 18, 2003, presentation “Teaching the Holocaust in U.S.A.” given by Urbanowicz Gilbride and referring to herself as a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor and what she had learned in the past 13 years of teaching about the Holocaust in schools, temples, churches and universities in U.S. and abroad. It was signed by the two co-chairs, John Pikarski and Martin Bresler. Urbanowicz Gilbride says, “The body of my presentation was dismissed as if my saying that I am a Catholic Holocaust survivor, everything I said is invalid.” After reading her resignation at the Council meeting, Rev. John Pawlikowski, NPAJAC member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), responded to her “That the USHMM recognizes only the six million Jews as victims of the Holocaust. The five million others have a ‘special place’ in the Museum.” Urbanowicz Gilbride responds, “I know that special place. It is in back of the room, where you are to sit quietly and speak only when you are spoken to. As a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor, I do not wish to be separated from my fellow co-victims, be they Jew or Gentile.” She recalls that the Council spent much time on Father Jankowski’s homily given in Poland, but discussion of Rabbi Friedman, who called the Pope a “dumb Pollack” and advised “do not hire Poles as maids, do not patronize Polish doctors, lawyers ...” barely took two minutes ... She adds that Polish NPAJAC members tried to bring up the story of Koniuchy, where Jews killed Poles during the war, but it was quickly dismissed by other members. In 1998, David Harris of American Jewish Committee, NPAJAC’s organization, wrote an emotional essay about Polish youth who were laughing as March of the Living students walked the streets near Auschwitz. He was also offended at Polish shops displaying holy pictures “deliberately,” instead of “welcome” signs. Harris wrote that this constitutes a sort of “holy war.” Urbanowicz Gilbride responded in a prepared statement at the next NPAJAC meeting in Chicago that Harris is quite conceited to want people to stop everything and “Welcome” him with signs when he passes by the window. Urbanowicz Gilbride states that “Copies of any article that appears in e-mails from the Council to praise Poles always seems to include ‘even though Poles are anti-Semites’ or ‘Poland is the most anti-Semitic country.’ We Poles could not write anything but compliments about Jews. Anything else would constitute anti-Semitism. Is that fair?” But what angered Urbanowicz Gilbride most was NPAJAC’s refusal to acknowledge Poles and others as co-victims of the Holocaust. She calls it “the final blow to any human being who wants unity, peace, and acknowledgement in history.” Urbanowicz Gilbride was born in Leonowka, Poland in 1934, the oldest of four children. She was interned in two slave labor camps. Her mother was also in two concentration camps. Her father and four children came to America in 1947. In 1989 she became a member of the Nassau County Holocaust Commission and served on its Educational Committee. In 1991 Urbanowicz Gilbride collected an “Oral History” of Polish Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the U.S. and donated the work to the U.S. Holocaust Museum."

New 'House of Terror' raises fear for Hungary's Jews,
by MICHAEL J. JORDAN, Jewish Bulletin (from Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
"Five months after it opened, Budapest's controversial "House of Terror" has emerged as one of the capital's most popular destinations among both young and old, regularly drawing crowds that endure two-hour lines in sweltering heat. However, rather than achieving its aim of memorializing the victims of totalitarian terror -- of both Hungarian wartime fascism and postwar communism -- critics say the lavish museum symbolizes the charged, right-wing atmosphere that has swept Hungar ... Hungary's Jews, though, are deeply troubled by the museum. They have several concerns: By presenting all victims as equal and all victimizers as equal, the museum diminishes the uniqueness of the Holocaust, not to mention the communist era; by painting Hungary as one of Germany's victims rather than an accomplice, it continues a trend in which right-wing Hungarian historians are whitewashing Hungary's role in the death of some 550,000 Hungarian Jews; and by devoting only one of nearly two dozen rooms exclusively to the Holocaust, it implies that communism was far worse than the Holocaust. Finally, though Jews are mentioned nowhere in the communist portion of the museum, the fact that the Hungarian right wing -- especially its media -- routinely highlights the Jewishness of some of Hungary's most notorious communists means that many visitors to the House of Terror receive an implicit message that Hungarian Jews are to blame for communism. "For several years, it's been in the air: They hint that communism was Jewish revenge for the Holocaust," said Gyorgy Litvan, a renowned Hungarian historian who as a teenaged Holocaust survivor was himself drawn to the Communist Party ... It opened in February, with two months left in a heated election campaign. The main opposition party was the Socialists, the increasingly centrist heirs of the Communist Party. Together with the small, liberal Alliance of Free Democrats, they attracted the vast majority of Jewish voters."

[Most "professional" historians seem to be functioning within an ideological cabal that dictates what "history" is and cannot be. If you disagree with their accepted convention, you must be a "Nazi." Resist totalitarian authority: Read. Get educated. Decide for yourself what is real and what is illusion.]
Fraud with Footnotes: Revisionism as Historicide,
by Neil Cameron, National Association of Scholars, August 26, 2003
"History professors who assign their students term papers on aspects of the Second World War, particularly with the Nazi concentration camps, sometimes find themselves handed bibliographies that include articles from the journal of the Institute of Historical Review. It is highly unlikely that any of these students have found these articles in any college or university library. They find them on the internet and recognize no difference between them and others they find elsewhere. However, despite its innocuous title, the IHR is not a scholarly foundation, but a crank front organization providing apologetics for Nazi Germany and "research" denying the Holocaust. Early neo-Nazi internet sites often boldly proclaimed their purposes, even including swastikas. But the IHR is more discreet, reprinting articles by obscure imitators of David Irving. The site blandly presents itself as a gathering place for 'dissenting' scholars, with no aim beyond a search for truth. Anything more than a superficial look ought to reveal what it is really all about. Unfortunately, the internet is the classic venue of the superficial look, especially for students doing term papers."

Board Rules To Deport Missouri Man Accused Of Being Nazi Guard. 82-Year-Old Suspect's Attorney Plans Appeal,
Kansas City Channel, August 28, 2003
"The deportation of a St. Louis area man suspected of being a former Nazi concentration camp guard was upheld by the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals on Thursday. The appeals board upheld a decision by the U.S. Immigration Court in St. Louis to deport Michael Negele to his native Romania. Negele's attorney says he plans to appeal the decision. The 82-year-old Negele is accused of serving as a guard at a concentration camp near Berlin and a Jewish ghetto in the former Czechoslovakia. Negele, who now lives in St. Peters, immigrated to the United States in 1950 and became a citizen five years later. His citizenship was stripped in 1999 and he has beenappealing his deportation since March 2001."

Sexy radio show chided for Holocaust 'banter',
By Etan Vlessing, itechnology.co (from Reuteres), August 28 2003
"Toronto - Canada's broadcast censors on Wednesday criticised the American talk radio show Loveline for allegedly making light of the Holocaust. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said Westwood One's Loveline show, hosted by Adam Carolla and Dr Drew Pinsky, breached industry codes on human rights by mocking "tragic historical events." During a December 23 broadcast on Toronto radio station CHMJ-AM, the Loveline hosts took a call from a telephone-sex operator seeking advice on how to make her callers stay on the line longer so she could earn more. 'Burn those Jews' Carolla and Pinsky drew a complaint when they advised the female caller to slip "subliminal" words such as "Holocaust," "Vietnam" and "cancer" into her erotic dialogue with male customers to extend the calls. The caller apparently had no idea what the Holocaust was, to the astonishment of the hosts. That advice led an offended listener to write to the CBSC, complaining that satirical comments injected by Carolla and Pinsky, including "burn those Jews" and "gas 'em in the shower, baby," were offensive, racist and ridiculed the Holocaust. The written complaint also noted "great laughter heard throughout" when the Holocaust references were made. The CBSC agreed, and in its ruling said the comments, while not unduly discriminatory, were improper. "The CBSC panel does not find that any of the comments quoted above were advocating violence toward the Jewish population," the ruling said. "On the other hand, it decided that the 'humorous constructs erected here on the base of great tragedy,' namely, the Holocaust in this instance, constituted improper comments." 'Gas 'em in the shower, baby' Defending CHMJ, programme director Tom Plasteras said the comedy surrounding the offending Loveline segment stemmed from the phone-sex operator's inability to understand what the hosts were suggesting and "had nothing to do with the Holocaust other than its representation as a word conjuring up horrible images." Calls to Westwood One were not returned. As a sanction, CHMJ will be required to air within three days a notice of the CBSC decision, indicating that it had breached industry codes on human rights. The CBSC administers voluntary industry codes of conduct for Canadian private TV and radio stations."

[Jews OWN the very concept of "Adolf Hitler." Adolf Hitler means murdered Jews, and nothing else. World War II-era history is necessarily filtered through the keyhole of modern Jewry. And the Jewish Lobby brings an entire bank to its knees.]
IN PRAISE OF HITLER - Bank asks for forgiveness, while Jews ponder what lessons are,
Virtual Jerusalem (from Jewish Telegraphic Agency),
"As Chicago Jewish leaders ponder what the long-term response should be to a bank's newsletter article that praised Adolf Hitler for his economic policies, bank president David Raub, the author of the article, admits that he made a ``shocking error" because he ``had tunnel vision blinders on to a shocking and astounding degree." Bank executives have apologized to the Jewish community, but the incident has left Chicago Jews shaken and wondering how such an article could have appeared, particularly in the newsletter of a bank catering to clients in the heavily Jewish North Shore suburbs. The incident began with an article in Outlook, described as a ``publication for trust clients and friends of the Glenview State Bank." The newsletter is distributed to about 500 of the bank's clients. The 1,500-word article from the newsletter also appeared on the bank's Web site (www.gsb.com). Glenview State Bank was ranked the 36th largest bank in the Chicago area as of June 2002, with deposits of $621.4 million. In the newsletter article, Raub, discussing the Great Depression of the 1930s and its similarities to today's economic situation, wrote that ``the world's leading statesmen seemed helpless to defeat" the ``falling prices, staggering unemployment and shattered stock markets" that marked the economic climate of the time. He continued: ``All except one. His name was Adolph Hitler. Unlike France and Britain, and unlike the United States, Germany spent most of the 1930s growing economically, not declining. If we can understand why Depression-era Germany resisted the disease, we may better understand how alarmed we should be." ``Hitler reduced unemployment in Germany three times as fast as America's Roosevelt" and other leaders, Raub wrote. ``He did not do this through public works programs like Roosevelt's, or armaments programs. (The German military certainly grew strongly during the Thirties, but so also did private employment)." Later in the article, in discussing consumer confidence, Raub wrote that ``America is showing that it stands for something more than its own narrow self-interest by taking on thankless jobs in Palestine, Africa and Iraq." The article ended by stating that the bank's investment managers are ``confident" and are ``buying and holding our favorite long-term growth stocks." The Jewish community responded immediately, according to Shoshana Buchholz-Miller, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League's Midwest office. The organization sent a letter to the bank, written by Regional Director Richard S. Hirschhaut. ``Hitler's economic policies cannot be divorced from his greater policies of virulent anti-Semitism, racism and genocide. Hitler used brute force, intimidation, and ethnic scapegoating to gain support, which are not the same as 'building confidence,'" Hirschhaut wrote. The letter goes on to say, ``To write of Hitler without the context of the millions of innocents he slaughtered and the tens of millions who died fighting against him is an insult to their memories. There are really no circumstances under which Hitler should be considered a good role model." After receiving the letter on July 29, bank officials on the same day posted a formal apology on their Web site, along with the ADL letter. The apology replaced the newsletter article, which was removed from the site."

IAF pilots perform fly-over at Auschwitz death camp,
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz (Isarel), September 4, 2003
"Ignoring protests by the National Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau and a heavy cloud cover, three Israel Air Force F-15 jets piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors circled over the former Nazi death camp in what was designed as a tribute to the memories of Holocaust victims. "It's a protest against the inhumanity of the Nazis on the Polish territory," said Israel's ambassador to Poland, Shevach Weiss. "It's a tribute to the ashes of those who were killed here." During the fly-over, the blue Star of David painted on the planes was visible on the ground, where some 200 Israel Defense Forces soldiers stood at attention at the former Birkenau death camp, adjacent to Auschwitz. In a short speech given from his aircraft and relayed to those on the ground, Brigadier-General Amir Eshel vowed to do everything possible to prevent anything similar to the Holocaust recurring. He also bade a symbolic farewell to his grandmother who was murdered in Auschwitz. The fly-over went ahead despite criticism by the Polish museum located at the site and a claim by a Polish aviation control spokeswoman that poor weather had led to the cancelation of the tribute. "The National Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau deplores the demonstration of Israeli military might in this place," the museum said in a statement issued Wednesday. "It's a cemetery, a place of silence and concentration," museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt said by telephone. "Flying the [F-15s] is a demonstration of military might which is an entirely inappropriate way to commemorate the victims." A statement from the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw said that the three jets - piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors - were to fly over the former death camp at noon. They were to have been accompanied by two Polish MiG-29 jets, Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman Sharon Feingold said ... Both the IDF and Foreign Ministry defended the fly-over plans, citing cooperation between Israel and Poland to remember the more than one million people who perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the vast majority of them Jews, from 1940 until its liberation on January 27, 1945. A total of six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Some 200 IDF soldiers were also to take part in a ceremony at Birkenau, the former death camp adjacent to Auschwitz, according to Israeli officials. "It's a joint Israeli-Polish initiative and for a noble cause," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled said. "We share a tragic history, and obviously it's being done in full cooperation." Organizers said the idea of the overflight was prompted purely by the coincidence of the planes being in Poland for the air show. Mensfelt said that the museum had not been consulted about the fly-over. He added that the International Auschwitz Council, an advisory body to the museum headed by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, an Auschwitz survivor and former Polish foreign minister, also "does not support such a way to commemorate the victims."

Jewish fury at property claims by expelled Germans,
By Kate Connolly, Telegraph (UK), July 7, 2003
"A pressure group of Germans driven from their homes at the end of the Second World War is prepared to take its fight for compensation to the American courts, modelling its struggle on Jewish compensation claims. The Prussian Claims Society has angered Jewish groups and caused outrage in Poland, which has long feared that some of the 12 million expelled in 1945 or their descendants would return to claim their properties. The fear has increased as Poland's entry into the European Union nears. Boguslaw Majewski, spokesman for the Polish foreign ministry, said: "What Poland is owed from the war has never been appropriately compensated but all outstanding claims from this time should be perceived to have been closed by now." The Bonn-based society, which is concentrating on reclaiming homes in Poland but will also back Sudeten Germans thrown out of the Czech Republic and of East Prussians from Russia, was established two years ago. Its leaders have said it would first take test cases to national courts and, if they failed, to the European and US courts. Rudi Pawelka, the society's head, said it would model its compensation battles on those of the US Jewish Claims Conference, which secured compensation for Holocaust victims. The comparison has greatly angered Jewish groups who have called it "offensive and hurtful".

Blacks and Jews Entangled,
by Edward S. Shapiro, First Things, 45 (August/September 1994)
"One curious manifestation of this was the Public Broadcasting System documentary film Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II. This film and an accompanying book that appeared simultaneously described the role of black soldiers in liberating Jews from the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps in April 1945. The film opened on November 9, 1992, the fifty-fourth anniversary of Kristallnacht, at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center with Jesse Jackson and other luminaries in attendance. One month later it was screened at the Apollo Theater in Harlem under the sponsorship of a group calling itself the Liberators Commemoration Committee. The screening was followed by a reception attended by black leaders, black veterans of World War II, and Holocaust survivors. Liberators could not have appeared at a more fortuitous time for new York City politicians and black and Jewish leaders. Mayor Dinkins hoped that it would lessen tensions between blacks and Jews that had been exacerbated by the 1991 riot in Crown Heights and the refusal in October 1992 of a Brooklyn jury to convict Lemrick Nelson of the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum. Dinkins had been elected in 1989 as the city's first black mayor, and he had emphasized during the election campaign that he could best heal the city's ethnic and racial divisions. Dinkins' hope for reelection depended on support among Jewish voters, and Liberators, with its premise that Jews and blacks shared a common agenda, was grist for his political mill. The New York City Board of Education planned to distribute copies of the documentary to all of the city's public junior and senior high schools, and Jewish philanthropists competed for the privilege of funding the operation. They hoped that the film could help stem the tide of increasing black anti-Semitism and repair the badly frayed black-Jewish liberal coalition. Liberators received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary even after doubts had been raised by black World War II veterans, Holocaust survivors, and Holocaust historians regarding the film's veracity. It soon became clear that black soldiers had never liberated Dachau and Buchenwald, although they had been in the vicinity. Jeffrey Goldberg, the New York bureau chief for the Forward, a Jewish English language weekly, blew the whistle on Liberators. In an essay titled "The Exaggerators," which appeared in the February 8, 1993 issue of the New Republic, Goldberg quoted the denials of both black soldiers and survivors that blacks had liberated Dachau and Buchenwald. The American Jewish Committee issued a fifteen-page report which concluded that Liberators contained "serious factual flaws well beyond what can be written off as 'artistic license.'" The black veterans were particularly angry regarding the liberties that had been taken with the truth. "I first went to Buchenwald in 1991 with PBS," one black soldier who appeared in the film told Goldberg. The black soldiers had had an enviable record of service in Europe in 1944 and 1945, and they did not want this record sullied by fantasies which, once discredited, could bring into question their wartime performance. E. G. McConnell, one of these soldiers, said, "We had been stripped of our history in our slavery, and I didn't want to come up with anything that could tarnish our record. But apparently some other people didn't mind a few lies." Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the controversy surrounding Liberators was not the deceit practiced by Nina Rosenblum, the film's Jewish cocreator, but her continuing refusal to recant even after the movie's misrepresentations had been exposed and the film and videotape had been withdrawn from circulation. She described as racists those whites who would deprive the black units of credit for liberating Dachau and Buchenwald. This she argued even though the black veterans themselves had been the first to raise doubts about the film. Rosenblum in fact described McConnell as "severely brain-damaged" due to being hit in the head with shrapnel during the war. The black veterans were not the only blacks who objected to the film. Blacks who had been involved in making the film soon realized that their artistic integrity had been compromised for the sake of Rosenblum's political and social agenda. Rosenblum was not the only Jew unwilling to allow the minor point of historical accuracy to detract from the laudable effort to cement black-Jewish relations. If the film was not factually true, they seemed to be saying, so much the worse for truth. Peggy Tishman, one of the cohosts for the Apollo showing, asked rhetorically, "Why would anybody want to exploit the idea that this is a fraud? What we're trying to do is make New York a better place for you and me to live." The truth of the film was subsidiary to its role in reviving the black-Jewish alliance. For Jews on the left, Liberators was a disaster not because it was a fraud but because it encouraged those elements within the Jewish community who were skeptical of the black-Jewish alliance. Letty Pogrebin, writing in the radical Jewish magazine Tikkun, feared that the controversy engendered by the film played into the hands of those political forces who sought to capitalize on black-Jewish hostility. For her, the dispute mandated a search for truth "at a level deeper than facts." "The film presents us with a problem of ethical slippage and well-intentioned embellishment," she wrote, but "not a hoax." "Truth must be defended, yes; but so must the liberal vision of Black advancement and the struggle for Black-Jewish harmony." It is precisely because Jews have presumed that blacks and Jews have common interests that they are so disappointed by the reluctance of Jesse Jackson and other black leaders to strongly condemn the anti-Semitic rantings of Louis Farrakhan and his ilk. This disappointment stems not only from the belief that blacks have not shown the proper gratitude for all that Jews have done for them. More important is the fact that black anti-Semitism throws doubt on an important element of the identity of American Jewish liberals and radicals-the presumption that blacks and Jews comprise a community of the oppressed and that Jews are never acting more true to their religious and ethnic heritage than when they are working side by side with blacks to create a society free of racial and religious prejudice. If anything, this belief of Jews in their special relationship with blacks encourages anti-Semitism. As Arch Puddington has argued ("Black Anti-Semitism and How it Grows," Commentary, April 1994), anti-Semites such as Farrakhan are encouraged in their anti-Semitism "in the knowledge that Jews, unlike other whites, will react not simply with anger, but with wounded innocence and appeals for 'dialogue' and 'healing.' Abandoning the fiction of the special relationship might thus have the paradoxical effect of contributing to a reduction of racial tensions."

[The Holocaust Industry gone berserk:]
Holocaust Insurance Effort Is Costing More Than It Wins,
by Joseph B Treaster, Focal Point Publications (from New York Times), September 17, 2003
"Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the chairman of a widely criticized commission to help Holocaust survivors collect claims from European insurance companies, said today that his organization had spent 60 percent more for operations than it had persuaded insurers to pay in claims. In testimony to the House Committee on Government Reform, Mr. Eagleburger said that since its founding five years ago, his organization, the International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims, had spent $56 million and obtained offers of claims payments of $35 million. He also said that while the commission had received 54,000 claims that it regarded as valid - a tiny fraction in relation to the millions of policies that experts say were sold in Europe at the time of the Holocaust - only 2,600, or less than 5 percent, have received offers of payment. Mr. Eagleburger said he did not know how many people had accepted the offers. He said the insurance companies had offered to pay an additional $7.5 million on 650 claims that had bypassed the commission and gone directly to the insurers. Mr. Eagleburger said he was encouraged that the pace of dealing with claims was increasing, but he added, "The numbers are nowhere near where they need to be."

[We've reached the stage where we need a careful world inventory. Let's do this right. Does the Galapagos Islands have a Holocaust museum? Zimbabwe? The Bikini Islands? Funds needed from the international till! All Carribbean cruise ships should also be required by law to have a Holocaust Shrine in every cabin. All Americans should also be forced to have a Holocaust patron saint booble-head dangling from their rear view mirror. And is the author of this article, "Daniel MacIsaac," a typo or a joke? Or are Jews remodeling the entirety of Ireland into a MacHolocaust museum too?]
Holocaust museum and center to be built soon in Ukrainian city,
By Daniel MacIsaac, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October 15, 2003
Ukrainian Jewish leaders have unveiled plans for a new major Holocaust museum and Jewish education center in the former Soviet Union. On Monday, representatives of the Dneprpetrovsk-based Tkuma Holocaust Research, Education and Memorial Center were in Kiev along with the planned institution´s sponsors — the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Claims Conference and the Jewish community of Dneprpetrovsk — to provide details about the $3 million center, which will be known as the Ukrainian Holocaust Memorial Museum. Construction is scheduled to begin Oct. 29 in Dneprpetrovsk. The Ukrainian government also is providing some funding for the project, though the amount is unclear. The multistory, multifunction complex, which incorporates a historic restored synagogue on the site, will serve as a memorial, community center and conference center, and will host lectures and seminars. "The Holocaust and the history of the Jewish communities of Ukraine are the main themes of the future museum," Tkuma official Mark Shlyak said. "The tragedy the Jewish people survived is one of the most significant events of 20th-century European history," he noted, but "there´s no museum in Ukraine that tells the history of Jewish life in Ukraine and about the Holocaust." Nearly a million Ukrainian Jews were murdered during World War II. The director of Tkuma, Igor Shchupak, stressed that the complex will place the Holocaust within the wider context of Jewish life in Ukraine while simultaneously promoting religious tolerance. Part of the exhibition will be devoted to Jewish life in Ukraine from the middle of the 18th century to the present, while also covering events like the Great Famine of 1932-1933, which affected all Ukrainians. Displays also will show Jewish life in other parts of the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991. A wide range of sources, including Jewish community members, are contributing photographs, documents and other artifacts. "It will be a complex not only for Jews but for all Ukrainians," Shchupak said. "The nature of totalitarianism is the foundation of genocide." Among the major international organizations contributing to the project is the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, one of the biggest providers of assistance to Jews in the former Soviet Union. Shchupak said Tkuma hopes the Dneprpetrovsk museum complex will be completed within two years.

PARTNERS IN PARANOIA,
by Joe Sobran, Sobrans, October 7, 2003
"If you want to understand some of America's foreign policy problems, you could do worse than to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It's a gruelingly didactic experience, but the message it labors to impart isn't necessarily the one you should draw. The carefully structured tour includes a film strip on the history of anti-Semitism which, you are encouraged to believe, culminated in the Nazi murder of six million Jews (and unspecified "millions" of "others," who don't seem to matter as much). It's heavily implied that Christianity is the source of anti-Semitism and all the sufferings of the Jews over the last two millennia. An earlier film strip, withdrawn after Christian protests, was even more explicit, blaming anti-Semitism on the four Gospels' accounts of Christ's death. Unlike other peoples, you gather, the Jews never brought any of their troubles on themselves. They were always the innocent victims of vicious Christians. Many Christian countries are named -- England, Spain, France, Poland, Germany, Russia, et cetera -- until you wonder how such an intelligent people acquired such a bad habit of migrating to anti-Semitic lands. You'd think that after a while they'd learn to take the precaution of sending a scout ahead to any prospective new home, who might return with the warning, "We'd better not move to Poland. The Poles hate us even worse than the Spanish do!" Perish the thought that Jewish behavior was ever a factor in provoking the hostility that, according to the Jews' own account, has so consistently greeted them in one country after another. But if Christian teaching is the root cause of anti-Semitism, why did anti-Semitism peak when Christianity was losing its influence? Why did it reach its crescendo under an apostate Christian, Adolf Hitler, rather than a devout believer? And why are Jews today far more unpopular in the Muslim world than in the West? Such a one-sided -- even paranoid -- polemical history invites skepticism. We are now hearing equally lopsided explanations of the unpopularity of the Jewish state of Israel. There again, we are told, Jews are always the faultless victims, and all frictions are the fault of the gentiles, in this case Arabs and Muslims. But Israel has had the good fortune to enjoy the patronage of a powerful country with a similar paranoid streak, the United States of America. Americans have been significantly described, by Abraham Lincoln, as "an almost chosen people." And many Americans still resist the idea that their country can ever be in the wrong about anything. When highly civilized, though perhaps unchosen, people like the French, the Germans, and the Belgians recently found American conduct in the Middle East arrogant and reckless, the welkin rang with American voices crying "anti-Americanism!" In fact our chauvinists use this charge in exactly the way Jewish chauvinists use the charge of anti-Semitism. No wonder so many people all over the world think America and Israel deserve each other. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon both represent their countries' most belligerently self-righteous tendencies, and they are thick as thieves. Both men have apologists who defend their most extreme measures, equate violence with defense, and regard criticism of the two countries as enmity or treason."

[Holocaust reparations are in large part used for the world Jewish Lobby's propaganda campaigns about Jewish victimization, as noted below -- not for individuals who are supposed to get such money. The Holocaust Industry is a business enterprise, first and foremost. And it is a billion dollar rip-off -- a fraud of colossal scale. And imagine. The Jewish Lobby managed to seize only a small percentage of the German property they claimed was stolen from Jews by the Nazis but this collective Jewish institution is the largest real estate owner in modern Germany! Imagine German Jewish influence and power in the Weimar (pre-Nazi) German Republic!]
Holocaust panel vilified,
By Jay Bushinsky, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, October 22, 2003
"Aging Holocaust survivors, many in their late 70s and 80s, are complaining they suffer from poverty, insufficient medical care and inadequate housing while the organization that is supposed to care for them sponsors costly educational projects and pays its executives lavish salaries. The criticisms are directed at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which consists of 24 Jewish organizations based in the United States and other countries. It funnels money allocated by the German government to Jews who were interned in Nazi death camps, were confined to ghettos and suffered religious and racial persecution during World War II. The claims conference, as it is popularly known, has financial reserves that exceed $1 billion, according to experts. The sum not only includes the constant and punctual flow of funds from the Berlin government, but also money from dormant Swiss bank accounts whose original owners perished in the Holocaust and life-insurance policies never redeemed by their beneficiaries. At the modest office of the Organization of Former Prisoners of the Nazis in downtown Jerusalem, Yosef Fuchs laughed when asked how much money he receives from the claims conference. He said it deposits 810 euros ($945) in his bank account every three months ... Israel Singer, president of the claims conference, justified its manifold activities beyond the transfer of payments to individual survivors, although he conceded that "the cultural activities must take second place to their needs." He said it was essential to act against "Holocaust denial" in Germany and to promote "informational projects" around the world. Mr. Singer stressed that he waived salary or other compensation for the work he does on behalf of the claims conference. He declined to comment on salaries paid to several of its top executives — $360,000 annually in one case. He also declined to discuss legal fees: $600,000 to an American attorney for services rendered ... Martin Stern, whose grandparents died in Auschwitz after being deported from Czechoslovakia in 1944, referred to the claims conference's demand that it be granted ownership of 98,417 properties in former East Germany that had no legally confirmed claimants when the communist regime collapsed. Ultimately, it gained possession of 8,089 of them, which were defined as having been "expropriated" from their original Jewish owners by the Nazis. "This turned the claims conference into reunified Germany's biggest single real estate owner," Mr. Stern said ... Critics say $40 million in administrative expenses by the International Commission of Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) is excessive. ICHEIC was set up in 1998 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the World Jewish Congress, Israel and several European insurance companies that issued policies to European Jews destined to perish in the Holocaust: Assicurazioni Generali, AXA, Alliance, Swiss Life and Winterthur Versicherung. A recent congressional hearing on its activities was told that its operations cost $58 million to date, while its disbursements to claimants of these policies was $36 million. It "makes deals without any intention of giving the money that accrues to anyone, but just to get into its own coffers," Mr. Stern said."

Holocaust Scholars Protest Attempt by Homes & Gardens to Suppress Hitler Article,
US Newsire, October 23, 2003
"Sixty-seven leading Holocaust scholars and educators have signed a petition urging the British magazine Homes & Gardens to halt its efforts to restrict public access to an article it published in 1938 portraying Adolf Hitler in glamorous terms. The controversy is the subject of a front-page story in this week's edition of the national Jewish weekly The Forward (Oct.24, 2003) The Homes & Gardens article, which appeared in the November 1938 issue of the magazine, was a laudatory feature about Hitler's vacation home in the Bavarian Alps. It cast Hitler in a positive light the very month that the Nazis' "Kristallnacht" pogroms devastated the German Jewish community. When a British journalist recently posted the 1938 article on his web site, the editor of Homes & Gardens demanded that he remove it, which he did. But the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies posted the full original article on its own Web site, http://www.WymanInstitute.org Sixty-seven Holocaust scholars and educators have signed a petition intiated by Prof. Paul Miller of McDaniel College, a member of the Wyman Institute's Academic Council. Prof. Miller explained: "It's important that people realize the Western media played a crucial role in making Hitler seem 'acceptable', even admirable, at a time when he was already engaged in the mass persecution of Germany's Jews."

Jewish Property in Muslim Countries: $100 Billion,
by Staff Writer, Jewish Post
"A group from Washington D.C. Justice for Jews from Arab Countries is demanding compensations amounting to $100 billion from Arab or Muslim countries because of loss of property or money by 900,000 Jews who lived there before 1948. According to this new organization only 8,000 Jews live in Arab or Muslim countries today. In Libya, for example, only 6 Jews. Most of these Jews from Arab countries or North-African countries have made aliyah to Israel. Most of them left because of persecution and Muslim anti-Semitism. Arabs tend to blame Zionism for this reality, as if Jews were accepted in the Muslim world as citizens and not just as victims or Dahimi in the Muslim terminology. For example, just learn the history of Jews in Yemen. This new organization approaches the issue from legal vantage point according to HA’ARETZ and its leader Stanley Urman. The issue of compensation was launched by many organizations or leaders such as Mordecai Ben-Porat in Israel, Dr. Heskel Haddad in the U.S.A. For example, they argued that Jews in Iraq left $2 billion in bank deposits. Jews owned a lot of land and real estate in Iraq. They lost everything in 1951, when they fled to Israel. Some fled to Great Britain. Recently, American Sephardic Federation under the leadership of Leon Levy and Vivian Romani launched a special educational campaign in order to teach Sephardim, victims of Muslim-Arab countries, about their rights. So: Muslim countries such as Libya, Arab countries such as Iraq, must pay!"

[This is the kind of story the Jewish Lobby will do anything to prevent from public airing. Don't look for it to appear too much -- if at all -- in American papers. What do you think the chances are that Israel will turn over Morel to justice? Don't hold your breath.]
Jew accused of German genocide,
by MARGARET NEIGHBOUR, The Scotsman (Scotland), October 24, 2003
"Poland is seeking the extradition from Israel of an elderly Polish-born Jew on charges of genocide for the deaths of German prisoners in a communist camp he commanded after the Second World War. The suspect, Solomon Morel, 83, is accused of causing the deaths of more than 1,500 inmates at the end of the war. Morel, who was held in Auschwitz and had more than 30 members of his family wiped out by Nazis and collaborators, was made the commander of the Swietochlowice camp in November 1945. He is accused of keeping German prisoners and Nazi collaborators in barbaric conditions, subjecting them to torture, beatings and starvation. An attempt to extradite him five years ago on charges of torture failed, after Israel ruled that the statute of limitations on the charges had run out. Polish special prosecutors have now upgraded the charges to genocide, for which there is no statute of limitation. Andrzej Arseniuk, a spokesman for prosecutors at the Institute of National Remembrance, which investigates Second World War and communist-era crimes, said that the new charges are based on testimony from former prisoners at the defunct camp, near the southern city of Katowice. "The testimony from former inmates living now in Germany significantly enriched the evidence. It documented Morel’s torture of at least 13 inmates known by name," said Leon Kieres, the head of the institute. "Now the charges say his intention was to exterminate for national and political reasons." ‘They told us: You are here, and you are here to die.’ ... Speaking after Israel’s rejection of the first extradition request five years ago, Dorota Boriczek recalled the almost commonplace brutality in the camp. "I knew Morel in the camp. He was a very brutal man," she said. "He was young then. He would come in at night. We could hear the cries of the men then. They would beat them and throw the bodies out of the window. "I was taken there when I was 14, with my mother. I still don’t know why we were there, and I still want to know. They told us when we arrived: ‘You are here, and you are here to die, although nobody will shoot you, because ammunition is too expensive’." Mrs Boriczek said conditions at the camp were barbaric."

[More evidence how the "Holocaust" is a political tool to ward off criticism of the Zionism and the Jewish Lobby, and how Westen culture becomes more and more Judeocentric. ]
Canada OKs Holocaust day in move seen as blow against anti-Semitism,
By Zev Kalin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Oct. 26, 2003
"The recent anti-Semitic remarks of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad were on many people´s minds as Canada´s Parliament unanimously passed a motion last week establishing a national Holocaust day. "The timing of this announcement could not be more appropriate," Frank Dimant, the executive vice president of B´nai Brith Canada, said on Oct. 21. "Once again, the Jews of the world find themselves at the epicenter of history, the targets of hate, vilification, and ultimately, violence. The words may be different, as may be the tactics, but the goals are the same." Leo Adler, director of national affairs for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, said,"The fact that all five parties unanimously supported this bill speaks volumes about Canada´s response to racists like Mahathir Mohamad." But Prime Minister Jean Chretien was criticized for his failure to condemn Mahathir, who told a meeting of Islamic leaders that "Jews rule this world by proxy." Mahathir later said world reaction to his comments proved his point. Adler said of Chretien, "It would have been nice for our prime minister to have been with us as well. Perhaps it´s symbolic in many ways that he´s not here today. Instead he chose to shake the hand of the Malaysian prime minister without condemning his inflammatory remarks." Instead, Chretien´s foreign affairs minister, Bill Graham, spoke out against Mahathir´s remarks. Criticism of Chretien was overshadowed by the unanimity of support for the Holocaust bill. Legislator Richard Marceau is credited by his cosponsors for being the initiative´s champion. "One of the most important things about this bill is that each and every parliamentarian, the elected officials of Canada, regardless of their party affiliation, passed this bill unanimously," Marceau said. "That is how strongly this country feels the Holocaust should be remembered."

[Note: This plaque below is is really a monument to the socialization successes of the Steven Spielberg movie. "Whoever saves a single life, saves the world entire." This is the stated theme, during a candle-lighting scene to begin the fabulously popular Spielberg movie about Jews under Nazi occupation, Schindler's List. Even taking this "life-saving" statement at face value, however, it is subject to interpretive manipulation. Some Jewish observers have noted that "this Talmudic saying, taken literally, is the ideological basis for an amoral survivalism," i.e., saving "a" life is merely self-survival. [CHEYETTE, p. 233] Yet this supposedly noble refrain is clouded even further.  In the talmudic Mishna, Sanhedrin 4:5, the original really says this: "Whoever destroys a single Jewish life, Scripture accounts it to him as though he had destroyed a whole world." It is quite particularist in its scope, i.e., it only cares about Jews, self-survival or not. Nonetheless, this literal fact does not hinder many Jewish non-Orthodox apologists from universalizing this chauvinist quote anyway. "Most Jews whose study of the Mishna," says Jacob Petuchowski, "is confined to the standard edition continue to invest this statement with a particularist limitation, while the few scholars who deal with textual criticism are aware of the greater universalistic breath of the original statement." [PETUCHOWKI, p. 8] When dropping the adverb "Jewish" from the seminal source, insists the likes of Petuchowski, one arrives at the "correct reading." "The Talmudic epigraph of Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List," adds Jewish scholar Peter Novick, "'Whoever saves one life saves the world entire,' surely reflected the universalist values of liberal Judaism as it had evolved in recent centuries. The observant knew that the traditional version, the one taught in all Orthodox yeshivot [religious schools], speaks of 'whoever saves the life of Israel.'" [NOVICK, P., 1999, p. 182-183]
Schindler Plaque Unveiled in Poland,
Washington Post, October 28, 2003; 7:53 AM
"Members of the Krakow Jewish community and U.S. college students unveiled a plaque Monday honoring German industrialist Oscar Schindler, whose campaign to save 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust was chronicled by the 1993 movie "Schindler's List." The black metal plaque, placed on Schindler's former "Emalia" factory in the southern city of Krakow, bears the Talmud quotation "He who saves one life, saves the whole world," in Polish, English and Hebrew, said Pawel Zielinski of the KCI S.A. company, who attended the ceremony. Schindler's World War II bravery in Nazi-occupied Poland was told in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning movie, which starred Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes ... The plaque was funded by the Jewish community of Krakow and students from Albion College in Michigan."

[All this Holocaust stuff is supposed to give Jews a higher moral ground. It does not. "Anti-Semitism" has had real causes throughout history: the deeds and actions of Jews. Look around you today. The organized Jewish community -- screwed with its dead roots into Israel -- is morally bankrupt and corrupt. The Holocaust has become the Jewish Shield to hide its collective moral failures from public view. Israel today is the expression of a collective Jewish illness. To this woman's credit, she clearly sees the parallels of Nazi and Jewish oppression.]
"Living With the Holocaust". The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors,
By Sara Roy, March for Justice, November 7, 2003
"Some months ago I was invited to reflect on my journey as a child of Holocaust survivors. This journey continues and shall continue until the day I die. Though I cannot possibly say everything, it seems especially poignant that I should be addressing this topic at a time when the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is descending so tragically into a moral abyss and when, for me at least, the very essence of Judaism, of what it means to be a Jew, seems to be descending with it. The Holocaust has been the defining feature of my life. It could not have been otherwise. I lost over 100 members of my family and extended family in the Nazi ghettos and death camps in Poland--grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, a sibling not yet born--people about whom I have heard so much throughout my life, people I never knew. They lived in Poland in Jewish communities called shtetls. In thinking about what I wanted to say about this journey, I tried to remember my very first conscious encounter with the Holocaust. Although I cannot be certain, I think it was the first time I noticed the number the Nazis had imprinted on my father's arm ... My home was filled with joy and optimism although punctuated at times by grief and loss. Israel and the notion of a Jewish homeland were very important to my parents. After all, the remnants of our family were there. But unlike many of their friends, my parents were not uncritical of Israel, insofar as they felt they could be. Obedience to a state was not an ultimate Jewish value, not for them, not after the Holocaust. Judaism provided the context for our life and for values and beliefs that were not dependent upon national boundaries, but transcended them... I visited Israel many times while growing up. As a child, I found it a beautiful, romantic, and peaceful place. As a teenager and young adult I began to feel certain contradictions that I could not fully explain but which centered on what seemed to be the almost complete absence in Israeli life and discourse of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, and even of the Holocaust itself. I would ask my aunt why these subjects were not discussed, and why Israelis didn't learn to speak Yiddish. My questions were often met with grim silence. Most painful to me was the denigration of the Holocaust and pre-state Jewish life by many of my Israeli friends. For them, those were times of shame, when Jews were weak and passive, inferior and unworthy, deserving not of our respect but of our disdain. "We will never allow ourselves to be slaughtered again or go so willingly to our slaughter," they would say. ... Despite many visits to Israel during my youth, I first went to the West Bank and Gaza in the summer of 1985, two and a half years before the first Palestinian uprising, to conduct fieldwork for my doctoral dissertation, which examined American economic assistance to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. My research focused on whether it was possible to promote economic development under conditions of military occupation. That summer changed my life because it was then that I came to understand and experience what occupation was and what it meant. I learned how occupation works, its impact on the economy, on daily life, and its grinding impact on people. I learned what it meant to have little control over one's life and, more importantly, over the lives of one's children. As with the Holocaust, I tried to remember my very first encounter with the occupation. One of my earliest encounters involved a group of Israeli soldiers, an old Palestinian man, and his donkey. Standing on a street with some Palestinian friends, I noticed an elderly Palestinian walking down the street, leading his donkey. A small child no more than three or four years old, clearly his grandson, was with him. Some Israeli soldiers standing nearby went up to the old man and stopped him. One soldier ambled over to the donkey and pried open its mouth. "Old man," he asked, "why are your donkey's teeth so yellow? Why aren't they white? Don't you brush your donkey 's teeth?" The old Palestinian was mortified, the little boy visibly upset. The soldier repeated his question, yelling this time, while the other soldiers laughed. The child began to cry and the old man just stood there silently, humiliated. This scene repeated itself while a crowd gathered. The soldier then ordered the old man to stand behind the donkey and demanded that he kiss the animal's behind. At first, the old man refused but as the soldier screamed at him and his grandson became hysterical, he bent down and did it. The soldiers laughed and walked away. They had achieved their goal: to humiliate him and those around him. We all stood there in silence, ashamed to look at each other, hearing nothing but the uncontrollable sobs of the little boy. The old man did not move for what seemed a very long time. He just stood there, demeaned and destroyed. I stood there too, in stunned disbelief. I immediately thought of the stories my parents had told me of how Jews had been treated by the Nazis in the 1930s, before the ghettos and death camps, of how Jews would be forced to clean sidewalks with toothbrushes and have their beards cut off in public. What happened to the old man was absolutely equivalent in principle, intent, and impact: to humiliate and dehumanize. In this instance, there was no difference between the German soldier and the Israeli one. Throughout that summer of 1985, I saw similar incidents: young Palestinian men being forced by Israeli soldiers to bark like dogs on their hands and knees or dance in the streets. In this critical respect, my first encounter with the occupation was the same as my first encounter with the Holocaust, with the number on my father' s arm. It spoke the same message: the denial of one's humanity. It is important to understand the very real differences in volume, scale, and horror between the Holocaust and the occupation and to be careful about comparing the two, but it is also important to recognize parallels where they do exist. As a child of Holocaust survivors I always wanted to be able in some way to experience and feel some aspect of what my parents endured, which, of course, was impossible. I listened to their stories, always wanting more, and shared their tears. I often would ask myself, what does sheer terror feel like? What does it look like? What does it mean to lose ones whole family so horrifically and so immediately, or to have an entire way of life extinguished so irrevocably? I would try to imagine myself in their place, but it was impossible. It was beyond my reach, too unfathomable. It was not until I lived with Palestinians under occupation that I found at least part of the answers to some of these questions. I was not searching for the answers; they were thrust upon me. I learned, for example, what sheer terror looked like from my friend Rabia, eighteen years old, who, frozen by fear and uncontrollable shaking, stood glued in the middle of a room we shared in a refugee camp, unable to move, while Israeli soldiers were trying to break down the front door to our shelter. I experienced terror while watching Israeli soldiers beat a pregnant women in her belly because she flashed a V-sign at them, and I was too paralyzed by fear to help her. I could more concretely understand the meaning of loss and displacement when I watched grown men sob and women scream as Israeli army bulldozers destroyed their home and everything in it because they built their house without a permit, which the Israeli authorities had refused to give them. It is perhaps in the concept of home and shelter that I find the most profound link between the Jews and the Palestinians, and perhaps, the most painful illustration of the meaning of occupation. I cannot begin to describe how horrible and obscene it is to watch the deliberate destruction of a family's home while that family watches, powerless to stop it. For Jews as for Palestinians, a house represents far more than a roof over one's head; it represents life itself. ... In the context of Jewish existence today, what does it mean to preserve the Jewish character of the State of Israel? Does it mean preserving a Jewish demographic majority through any means and continued Jewish domination of the Palestinian people and their land? What is the narrative that we as a people are creating, and what kind of voice are we seeking? What sort of meaning do we as Jews derive from the debasement and humiliation of Palestinians?"

[Another Holocaust Disneyland. If they really want the biggest crowds, we suggest naked Go-Go dancers on the roof and ten-dollar bills dropped out every day from passing hang-gliders.]
Memorial sparks outrage. Holocaust center aims to educate but to some, it's vulgar,
By Joel Kurth, The Detroit News, November 7, 2003
"The horror of the Holocaust is coming two doors down from Starbucks. The international debate about how best to memorialize the unthinkable is moving to one of Metro Detroit's busier intersections, as work wraps up on the $17 million Holocaust Memorial Center on Orchard Lake Road near Interstate 696. When the center opens in January, it'll replace a smaller one in West Bloomfield Township that was the nation's first, in 1984. About 100 have followed, but the divide remains over how best to teach the lessons of the Holocaust to the masses without trivializing genocide. The centers may exemplify both sides of the debate. The existing museum is in a plain brick building, noticeable only to those who seek it at the Jewish Community Campus. The new building is five times larger -- 51,000 square feet -- and tough to ignore: It looks like a Nazi death camp. "We're not hiding," said Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, 74, the center's director. "We want people to see the building. We want them to feel uneasy. We want them to feel its power, come inside and change their life." Wrapped in cable resembling barbed wire, the museum is painted in stripes like those Jews wore in death camps. Six conical skylights are tribute to the 6 million dead, but also remind some of gas chamber chimneys. A separate tower is meant to evoke a Nazi guard post. Challenging or exploitive? Powerful or tacky? Educational or entertainment? Opinions vary among neighbors, motorists, the 3,000 Michigan Holocaust survivors and nearly 100,000 Jews who live in Metro Detroit. The debate could lurk near the surface Sunday, when some 1,400 guests officially dedicate the center at a $300 a plate dinner at the Marriott Hotel in Detroit ... Almost invariably, the reaction to this building is 'We have never seen anything like it! This is the most powerful thing in the world!' " Rosenzveig said. That's one reaction. Here's another from survivor Rene Lichtman: "It's vulgar. "Does anyone want a concentration camp in their neighborhood?" asked Lichtman, 65, of West Bloomfield. "You don't teach people by punching them in the face every time they drive by. There's going to be a backlash." Similar debates have occurred nationwide since Holocaust survivors first began sharing their experiences en masse in the early 1980s, said Ken Waltzer, a Michigan State University professor who teaches the Holocaust. Now that trips to the death camps of Auschwitz and Belsen are as much a part of college students' trips to Europe as the Eiffel Tower, a delicate line has emerged between populism and exhibitionism, Waltzer said."

[Well, doc. I don't remember anything about anything. Just that I earned my stripes in the Holocaust."]
Holocaust survivors with Alzheimer's can relive old horrors,
BY TOM MCCANN Sanluisobispo.com (fromChicago Tribune), February 4, 2003
"Hela Fisk hides bread in cubbyholes in her bedroom. She becomes frightened if nurses mention the word "shower." At 89 and stricken with Alzheimer's disease, the petite grandmother of five relives the horror of the Holocaust as though it were happening now. Fisk and thousands of Chicago-area Jews who endured the Nazi purges have entered their 80s and 90s, and many now find themselves in health care facilities, struggling each day with age-related dementia. Their minds can no longer keep buried the tortured memories of concentration camps, gas chambers and loved ones killed before their eyes. Compounding the problem, many of the things that spark vivid flashbacks are found in hospitals and nursing homes: white lab coats, restraints and locked doors, antiseptic smells, people yelling in pain. In addition, many Holocaust survivors underwent excruciating experiments at the hands of German doctors. So for the last four years, a group of Chicago-area social workers has been training nursing home employees - some of whom know little about the Holocaust - to understand what the survivors are going through and offer tips on how to avoid triggering bad memories and violent reactions. Though the needs of aging Holocaust survivors have sparked discussions among geriatrics researchers and care providers around the world, this systematic approach is fairly recent. David Bier of the Council for Jewish Elderly said health care professionals in the Chicago area began to notice symptoms particular to Holocaust survivors in the early 1990s. As the problem grew, the council and other Jewish agencies decided four years ago to create the Holocaust Community Services program, which visits dozens of nursing homes in Chicago and the suburbs, giving history lessons and sensitivity seminars to everyone from nurse's aides to cooks and dishwashers. "All it takes is something little to provoke a flashback," Bier said. "It might be the sight of a military uniform. Or it might be a loud, confrontational voice." At one retirement home a few years ago, a young nurse started putting patients' wheelchairs in a row and telling them they were being lined up for the showers, Bier said. One woman, a Holocaust survivor, became combative and tried to flee, though the aide had no idea why. "For a person during the Holocaust, going to the shower meant going to the gas chambers. The memories are so traumatic, many can't even bear to hear the word," Bier said. Many nursing homes now give them baths, and others decorate shower stalls with flower and cartoon decals. Another common occurrence is the hoarding of food in pockets and drawers and under mattresses, as if hiding it from soldiers, Bier said. If a worker tries to take the food away from them, they often lash out. "We tell the employees to just give them some space, let them keep the food," Bier said. "For perishables like fruit or bread, you can quietly replace them with canned goods. They just want the safety of having it there."

The Birth of The Tragedy ­ The Victim Mentality Gilad Atzmon On Reason and Justice Every aggression enacted by one man against another can be judged on two different levels: the ethical level and the level of Reason. Ethical judgment is supposed to rule whether the aggression was morally right or wrong. Judging whether something is morally right or wrong involves application of one's intuitive faculties and therefore can't produce clear-cut conclusions. Reason on the other hand, traces the causes that led to the aggression, applying rational faculties; it looks into the available evidence, the psychological context, the legal system, precedent cases, etc. Reason employs rational and analytical considerations, therefore it can be reduced to an argument with irrefutable results. In order to establish whether the aggression was justified we must synthesise both ethical judgment and Reason. This synthesis is usually regarded as 'Justice'. It is important to note that this synthesis is far from being perfect or 'free of faults' but it is still the most acceptable process man can follow to achieve a fair judgment. Although ethical decision-making and Reason belong to very different categories of thought, man has proved capable of synthesising the two. This process of synthesis can become far more complicated when we face major scale aggression that portrays an obvious injustice. This is when politics gets involved. In the following paper I will try to scrutinise the political mechanism that specializes in robbing singular man of his ability to come up with an accountable fair judgement. I will try to look into major crimes against humanity and to assess the political game involved in the transformation of their significance into political power. I will try to argue that current western political power is based on the downgrading of man's notion of justice into the ethical mode devoid of Reason. I will also try to argue that this form of thinking is the birth of the 'victim mentality.' September 11th. The attack on the World Trade Centre was a major scale aggression enacted by very few terrorists against very many innocent civilians. No one can justify such an attack in moral terms. Yet this attack can and should be assessed as an act of aggression. In other words it should be analysed both in ethical terms and in terms of Reason. One is still entitled to ask for the Reason behind the attack: What is it that brought seventeen devoted men to commit such a suicidal atrocity? Should this attack be regarded as a declaration of war or rather as a form of retaliation? Is it just a mad, evil and murderous act or rather a legitimate struggle towards liberation? These kinds of questions are crucially important to ask, not because their answers are clear but precisely because their answers might be very vague. At the very least these questions might lead us to acknowledge our own rational boundaries. Raising these questions might even lead us to admit to the possibility of a different rationality, one that could legitimate putting our lives in great danger. The Americans should be the first to ask themselves these kinds of questions but sadly these questions are hardly heard in America. The reason for that is clear. On the surface, it is very sensible to argue that such questions are completely redundant since no rational explanation can justify an utterly inhumane crime. This argument is very popular and it is even seen as morally grounded but actually it is counter-productive. It makes society completely blinded to itself. More so, it makes society completely blinded to the possibility of other alternative and opposing worldviews. I would argue that the failure to ask for the reasons behind crimes against humanity is a fatal crime in itself. It is a sophisticated political manipulation that aims at maintaining the current world order in which the rich become richer and the poor are kept deprived forever. This mode of thought, which I will soon define as 'victim mentality', is probably the real and only enemy of western culture. If we agree that rational reasoning and proper argumentation are seen as the highest of western ideals, than we must agree that robbing man of these very faculties is a clear offence against those western ideals. The American administration's reaction to the September 11th atrocity presents an intentional avoidance of the questioning mechanism and search for Reason. It is based on the adoption a purely ethical approach. President G. W Bush rightly condemned the attack ethically but at the same time he saved himself and the American people from facing the Reason that led to that attack. G.W Bush clearly tried to redefine the notion of justice. It was no longer a synthesis between ethical judgment and Reason but rather a purely ethical judgment. As I said earlier on, when one deprives oneself of Reason the whole idea of justice becomes redundant. Justice is turned into a mere intuition. Jurisdiction is no longer needed because you can save the suspect from the trouble of defending himself, his crime is utterly unacceptable to start with. It is easy to explain why politicians prefer to degrade the whole idea of 'justice' into the purely ethical. First, since ethics applies the intuitive faculties, it allows policy makers to communicate with their supporters' intuitions rather than with their reasoning. Second, in the age of electronic media, a message should be strong, clear and short. It is far easier and effective to stimulate intuitions with metaphors and emotive language rather than to present a tedious 'well built' rational argument. Third, politicians would prefer to keep the demarcation line between Reason and ethics as evasive as possible because it allows them to redefine the notion of justice to fit their own political agenda (Reason can jeopardise such an act). Fourth, Avoidance of Reason saves politicians from providing their voters with any conclusive evidential ground. These explanations might throw some light on the bizarre rhetoric which stands at the core of the phoney 'War Against Terror'. We do not have to bring Bin Laden to court because he is too much of a criminal anyway. Let's just portray him as the 'devil himself' and then hunt him forever even if it means killing thousands of innocent civilians. We do not have to prove that Sadam holds an arsenal of 'weapons of mass destruction', it is enough just to dehumanise him and then to declare a third world war. The American administration wants us to follow our intuitions assuming that Bush's ones must be good enough - don't ever forget that he is an 'elected' president. He must therefore, represent the intuitions of the American 'democratic' people. As we should have realized by now, the 'War Against Terror' has so far led to very miserable results. America is still in very much the same danger if not a far greater one. If anything, now it is the whole world that finds itself under severe threat. Very much like its big brother, Israel, who declared it's own petite 'War Against Terror' is failing miserably too. The Palestinians, it seems, are more determined than ever to liberate themselves. It has been made clear that Israel's chances of survival as a Jewish state are very slim. The reason is simple. Single dimension justice i.e purely ethical, makes people blinded and when people are blinded they make many mistakes because they fail to see where they are going. The Origins of the 'Victim Mentality' Victims are people who find themselves suffering while being completely innocent (at least in their own eyes and within their personal or communal world view). I will try to argue that 'victim mentality' has a lot to do with the denial of Reason. In many cases the denial of Reason is fully understandable. For instance, a woman who has been violently raped might not find it interesting to learn about the personal difficulties that led the sex offender to force himself upon her. As a victim she might be willingly prepared to avoid Reason and to concentrate solely on dealing with her emotional and physical scars. This is perfectly understandable. Following the same pattern of thought, a family who lost their beloved son when a drunken lorry driver ran over him might not find it that crucially important to learn about the lorry driver's personal difficulties and the Reason that pushed him to excessive drinking. It is natural for victims to detach themselves from the very events and Reason that changed the course of their lives. However, these cases do not establish 'victim mentality' but rather a normal psychological pattern of repression. 'Victim mentality' is a political term that refers to something far more general. It refers to communities that adopt a complete rejection of Reason. We can find light traces of 'victim mentality' among marginal political groups such as 'feminist movements' and 'gay political groups'. Again, this is understandable given the discrimination against those very groups. It is far more interesting to find clear indications of 'victim mentality' within the very core of the world dominating groups. I am referring here to Zionist lobbies and the current American administration. These dominating groups regard the crimes against them as severe enough to support the rejection of Reason altogether. The 'victim' pattern adopted by Zionists is unique in history. The Jewish people definitely suffered the most devastating experiences of horror during their long history. The Holocaust is probably one of the most horrendous chapters on human record. But we must also remember that the Zionists were more than clever in using this disastrous episode as a catalyst for liberation. The Holocaust helped the Zionists to bring the UN to support the partition resolution (1947) that eventually led to the declaration of the state of Israel (1948). On the financial level, Jews received compensation from the German government soon after the end of the war. Though the Jews had very good reason to regard themselves as victims, they are not victims any more. Nowadays they have a state, a strong army and a big enough nuclear arsenal to turn our planet into a complete wilderness. Funnily enough Israelis and Jews all over the world still regard themselves as victims. More so, Israel, founded in the shadow of the Holocaust, has made the 'victim mentality' into a leading industry both in tourism and in diplomacy. The way to the complete endorsement of the 'victim mentality' was a continuous denial of Reason, a complete rejection of the very Reason that led to the holocaust in the first place. I would argue that facing the very Reason would help the Zionists understand why they lose popularity nowadays. While admitting that Jews had very good Reason to regard themselves as victims at a certain point in time, there is still room to argue that the Zionists could be the first to learn about the reasons that led to their own destruction. They could study the European far-right accusation concerning their domination in world banking and finance. They could learn about the bourgeois and capitalist concerns regarding Jewish involvement in revolutionary and anarchistic proletarian movements. About the xenophobic rejection of the ost juden and they could even learn about the Nazi allegations that they were planning to take over the world with 'Abstractions' (Marxism, Psychoanalysis and even Relative Theory and Catholicism). Irrespective of their validity, Israelis and Zionists never tried to face any of those accusations. Quite the opposite, they avoided them altogether by labelling them 'anti- Semite nonsense'. By doing so they established a notion of justice based solely on their own intuitive ethical judgment. For Israelis the use of Reason is viable as long as it supports their one and only intuition i.e. Jews have the right to live in Zion regardless of the consequences. This form of ignorance made the Israelis and Zionists unqualified to realize their own reality. Moreover, because the Israelis are no longer trained in the process of synthesizing Reason with ethical judgment, their capacity to establish solid arguments is pretty slim. It might sound funny (or very sad) but many Israelis do not distinguish anymore between Nazi war criminals and Palestinian innocent civilians. Many of the Israelis and Zionists go even further and tend to regard the whole gentile world as a vicious and merciless enemy. If the 'gentile world' (goim) means the human race we must admit that many Jews see themselves as facing a battle with the human race. (this might explain the enormous size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal). In general, every diplomatic condemnation of Israeli policy is taken by the Israeli people as an anti-Semitic offence. Following the Israeli election and the expected rise of right wing support it is clear now that the vast majority of the Jewish Israeli population do support the oppression of the Palestinian people, but even that doesn't stop them from regarding themselves as victims. I tend to link this bizarre state of mind - of being an oppressor and victim simultaneously - to the clear deterioration of the Israelis' use of Reason. I assume that the Jewish over-use of their holocaust memory is to be blamed. The Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who found his death in the Columbia disaster was so proud to carry with him to space victim symbols and holocaust souvenirs. Learning from the press that the Columbia expedition was a purely scientific mission, I am left wondering whether Ramon's scientific mission was to distribute the 'victim mentality' in outer space. Anyhow, less than an hour after the devastating crash, Sharon announced that Ramon "was a victim of science". No doubt the notion of victim is in a continuous terminological flux amongst devoted Zionists. The case of post September 11th America is very similar. The American Administration, like the post holocaust Jews, adopted a victim thinking pattern which allows them to make intuitive judgments without providing any real rational arguments. At the moment America is shooting and bombing anything that doesn't agree with America. Anyone who doesn't agree with America's policy is an 'Anti- American', "you are either with us or against us" said the American President copying the Zionist 'intuition' i.e. 'You either support Israel or you are an anti-Semite'. This form of American behaviour is based on a righteousness that is typical to the victim i.e. to people who deny Reason. The next crucial question to ask is whether we can do something about it? Can we help the Zionists or the Americans to escape this dead end journey? The answer is No. We can't do a thing. This is the birth of the new tragedy. We can't help the Israelis nor the American Administration because they are both kidnapped by their own 'victim mentality'. Unfortunately, we must let the Israelis destroy themselves, something they are starting to get very good at. We can only pray that the Bush presidency will end before he manages to destroy our planet. Why can't we help them? Because both the Americans and the Israelis have been hijacked by themselves. When you are imprisoned by the Other you might eventually liberate yourself but when you are imprisoned by yourself you might find yourself locked behind your own bars forever. Some interesting cases to think about. 1.The case of Ivan John Demjanjuk: The story of Ivan John Demjanjuk started in 1975 when a list of names of alleged Nazi war criminals was circulated in the US senate. The list originated in the KGB allegedly out of material captured by the Red Army. Mr Ivan John Demjanjuk was blamed for being 'Ivan The Terrible', a particularly sinister operator of a gas chamber in Treblinka death camp. Despite the American having identifying Demjanjuk as having being a guard at the geographically separate Sobibor camp it was the 'eyewitness survivors' who placed Damjanjuk at the Treblinka Camp. Demjanjuk went through eighteen years of legal battle. First he was denaturalised of his American citizenship (1985). Soon after he was extradited to Israel to stand trial as a war criminal. All along his legal battle Demjanjuk denied the charges. He claimed that he had never been 'Ivan the Terrible'. On April 18th 1987, twelve years after the whole legal saga started Damjanjuk was sentenced to death by the Israeli court. In 1990, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB archives were opened to the general public. Only then the shocking truth revealed itself, the 'Trawniki Certificate' that led to the suspicions against Ivan John Demjanjuk had been found to be a soviet forgery (done in order to frame the Ukrainians as Nazi supporters). Not long later the Israeli supreme court had to admit that the whole Demjanjuk saga was a fabrication from beginning to end. On 22 September 1993 Demjanjuk was released. The Israeli supreme court had to dismiss the 'eyewitness evidence'. The question to be ask is how can an eyewitness stand in front of an another old man he never saw before and blame him for being vicious murderer and a war criminal? This is what the eyewitnesses had to say in front of the court: "I am convinced that opposite me sits Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka" , Pinhas Epstien, 23.2.1987 "This man is Ivan, without a shadow of a doubt- Ivan from Treblinka. From the gas chambers-the man I am looking at now." (Eliyhau Rosenberg 25.2.1987) What kind of psychic mode leads to such a performance? Unless Mr Epstien and Rosenberg were complete villains which I doubt, I assume that it is the 'victim mentality' that should be blamed. It establishes a form of loathing that goes far beyond Reason. Both Epstien and Rosenberg must have been standing in front of a harmless and an innocent man while thinking to themselves "even if you are not 'Ivan the Terrible' you are the one". As we can see the victim mentality permits us to perform a new logic that allows one to be 'P' and not 'P'. 'It doesn't matter if you are not 'Ivan the terrible', as long as you are him". This kind of obvious logical contradiction becomes possible only when ethical judgment denies the existence of Reason completely. 2. Rabbi Farhi's case: On January 3 2003, Rabbi Farhi, a leading figure in the French Jewish community, was stabbed and his car was set on fire. According to Rabbi Farhi 's report to the police, he was attacked by a masked man who shouted "Allah hu Akbar", God is Great. This description didn't leave much room for the imagination. Rabbi Farhi was clearly marking out the religious orientation of the suspect. The attack was seen around the world as a devious anti-Semitic attack performed by an Islamic militant. Following worldwide outrage French President Jacques Chirac denounced the attack publicly by saying "this odious act arouses indignation". Two weeks later, the French papers Marianne and Le Figaro reported that some doubts regarding the Rabbi Farhi descriptions of the attack were raised by the police and a medical expert who checked him soon after the event. There was a severe mismatch between Rabbi Farhi's story and the physical injuries to be found on his body. According to the newspapers reports, it is more likely that the Rabbi stabbed himself and faked the whole saga. Did he or didn't he inflict his injuries on himself? The verdict is still out on that and I am not qualified to judge. What is interesting is the idea that people might injure themselves. Within Israeli reality this kind of event is more than possible. If the Zionist identity is associated with suffering, this very suffering becomes essential to its existence. In other words, unless Zionists find somebody to inflict pain on them they must inflict pain on themselves. It is not a coincidence that Jewish history is an endless chain of holocausts, pogroms and discrimination because suffering is crucial for the Jews, it helps them maintain their essential victim mentality. Israeli and Zionist media outlets cover any attack against Jews around the world assuming that it must be racially motivated i.e. anti Semitic. Jewish identity is intimately entangled with anti-Semitism. It is the Jew who needs to be hated. Most Israeli and Middle Eastern political analysts agree that Sharon's power is fuelled by Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians. Statistics prove that there have been more terror attacks under Sharon than under any of his predecessors. Sharon understands pretty well that he will remain in power as long as the Israelis are subject to terror attacks. In order to support his power, Sharon must make the Palestinians attack and the best way to encourage them to do so is to terrorise them. The Israeli army assassinates Palestinian political leaders and Civilians on a regular basis. The IDF deprives the Palestinian population of food and medical aid. If this is not enough, Sharon is delaying the building of the sinister 'separation wall' between Israel and the west Bank just to insure that Palestinian terrorists have a simple access to Israeli populated centres. Very much like the alleged Rabbi Farhi's saga, Sharon is dangerous to himself and his people, he puts their lives at a risk deliberately. In a society that is driven by broken ethics and a clear denial of Reason all those activities appear to be more than legitimate. Sadly enough for the American people, Bush is not too far behind his Israeli mentor. Very much like Sharon, Bush is doing his very best to infuriate the Arab people all around the world. He humiliates them and frames them continuously, he supports their biggest enemies as well as the most devious of their tyrannies. Like Sharon, Bush understands that only a major terrorist act against America can provide him with his people's support. I think that by now we are allowed to conclude that societies that are trapped in 'victim mentality' become hostages of their most direct enemies. A terrifying bond can be seen between our most devious western right wing leaders and the most merciless terrorist gangs: between Bush and Bin Laden and between Sharon and the different suicidal squads. The only question left to ask is what Tony Blair should to do amongst these two fanatic immoral hawks? At the end of the day, he is leader of the labour party. It is horrifying to admit but at the moment, only a massive terror attack against the UK could help Blair's sinking political career. Our prime minister is already in Bin Laden's hands. The British people must help him out. They can still do that only because they are not victims yet.

The Birth of The Tragedy ­ The Victim Mentality,
by Gilad Atzmon
"The Origins of the 'Victim Mentality' Victims are people who find themselves suffering while being completely innocent (at least in their own eyes and within their personal or communal world view). I will try to argue that 'victim mentality' has a lot to do with the denial of Reason ... 'Victim mentality' is a political term that refers to something far more general. It refers to communities that adopt a complete rejection of Reason. We can find light traces of 'victim mentality' among marginal political groups such as 'feminist movements' and 'gay political groups'. Again, this is understandable given the discrimination against those very groups. It is far more interesting to find clear indications of 'victim mentality' within the very core of the world dominating groups. I am referring here to Zionist lobbies and the current American administration. These dominating groups regard the crimes against them as severe enough to support the rejection of Reason altogether. The 'victim' pattern adopted by Zionists is unique in history. The Jewish people definitely suffered the most devastating experiences of horror during their long history. The Holocaust is probably one of the most horrendous chapters on human record. But we must also remember that the Zionists were more than clever in using this disastrous episode as a catalyst for liberation. The Holocaust helped the Zionists to bring the UN to support the partition resolution (1947) that eventually led to the declaration of the state of Israel (1948). On the financial level, Jews received compensation from the German government soon after the end of the war. Though the Jews had very good reason to regard themselves as victims, they are not victims any more. Nowadays they have a state, a strong army and a big enough nuclear arsenal to turn our planet into a complete wilderness. Funnily enough Israelis and Jews all over the world still regard themselves as victims. More so, Israel, founded in the shadow of the Holocaust, has made the 'victim mentality' into a leading industry both in tourism and in diplomacy. The way to the complete endorsement of the 'victim mentality' was a continuous denial of Reason, a complete rejection of the very Reason that led to the holocaust in the first place. I would argue that facing the very Reason would help the Zionists understand why they lose popularity nowadays. While admitting that Jews had very good Reason to regard themselves as victims at a certain point in time, there is still room to argue that the Zionists could be the first to learn about the reasons that led to their own destruction. They could study the European far-right accusation concerning their domination in world banking and finance. They could learn about the bourgeois and capitalist concerns regarding Jewish involvement in revolutionary and anarchistic proletarian movements. About the xenophobic rejection of the ost juden and they could even learn about the Nazi allegations that they were planning to take over the world with 'Abstractions' (Marxism, Psychoanalysis and even Relative Theory and Catholicism). Irrespective of their validity, Israelis and Zionists never tried to face any of those accusations. Quite the opposite, they avoided them altogether by labelling them 'anti- Semite nonsense'. By doing so they established a notion of justice based solely on their own intuitive ethical judgment. For Israelis the use of Reason is viable as long as it supports their one and only intuition i.e. Jews have the right to live in Zion regardless of the consequences. This form of ignorance made the Israelis and Zionists unqualified to realize their own reality. Moreover, because the Israelis are no longer trained in the process of synthesizing Reason with ethical judgment, their capacity to establish solid arguments is pretty slim. It might sound funny (or very sad) but many Israelis do not distinguish anymore between Nazi war criminals and Palestinian innocent civilians. Many of the Israelis and Zionists go even further and tend to regard the whole gentile world as a vicious and merciless enemy. If the 'gentile world' (goim) means the human race we must admit that many Jews see themselves as facing a battle with the human race. (this might explain the enormous size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal). In general, every diplomatic condemnation of Israeli policy is taken by the Israeli people as an anti-Semitic offence. Following the Israeli election and the expected rise of right wing support it is clear now that the vast majority of the Jewish Israeli population do support the oppression of the Palestinian people, but even that doesn't stop them from regarding themselves as victims. I tend to link this bizarre state of mind - of being an oppressor and victim simultaneously - to the clear deterioration of the Israelis' use of Reason. I assume that the Jewish over-use of their holocaust memory is to be blamed. The Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who found his death in the Columbia disaster was so proud to carry with him to space victim symbols and holocaust souvenirs. Learning from the press that the Columbia expedition was a purely scientific mission, I am left wondering whether Ramon's scientific mission was to distribute the 'victim mentality' in outer space. Anyhow, less than an hour after the devastating crash, Sharon announced that Ramon "was a victim of science".

[JTR contributor's comment: "Not really something to post on your news page, but you might be interested on these pages on the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dershowitz-Finkelstein_Affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_Industry
Jewish Supremacists and Pro-Israel types keep defacing the pages."]

[We think world Jewry should likewise be directed to some massive social engineering classes: how to respect other cultures, how to respect other religions, how to stop whining all the time, how to care about people WHO WEREN'T JEWISH that died in World War II, how to exhibit an ounce of humility once and a while, how to stop being so self-absorbed, how to accept responsibility, how to stop nagging in everyone's ear, etc. ]
Yad Vashem Responds to Poll in Italy Revealing Widespread Holocaust Denial and Anti-Semitism,
Israel National News, November 11, 200
"In light of the poll conducted yesterday in Italy, Yad Vashem calls upon the Italian government to step up educational efforts among its teachers and students, and to tighten its partnership with Yad Vashem in the field of education - including the sending of teachers from Italy to seminars held at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. The International School has conducted seminars in seven languages for teachers from many countries around the world. Among the findings from yesterday’s poll: 11% claim that the Jews are lying when they say millions were murdered in gas chambers, 8% believe Italian Jews ought to leave the country, and 22% say Jewish citizens of Italy “are not true Italians.” Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, Avner Shalev, said “I call upon Italy, which in February 2004 will become the chair of the Taskforce for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, to take the findings of the survey to heart and take decisive action to end anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in its borders. We believe in the use of pedagogical tools and all methods of public communication to fight the ignorance that leads to racism and anti-Semitism.” The Taskforce was established in May 1998, and today 15 nations belong to it. The Taskforce is a political vehicle, in which experts on the Holocaust from the participating nations play an integral part in the deliberations."

[Fine. And every time this kind of stuff goes down we need to demand a Jewish public apology for the racism, arrogance, chauvinism, ethnocentrism, et al in the Talmud, and Israel TODAY. At the very least, Jews need to "repudiate" the crimes of their OWN history. Anything less is a two-faced scam. We have a letter to Colin Powell too: "Dear Mr. Powell. Before you cave in to the Jewish Lobby, make sure you examine the voluminous and indicting evidence about Jewish racism, exploitation, and hypocrisy at the Jewish Tribal Review."
Holocaust Studies Institute Asks Powell to Repudiate Gen. Marshall's Bigotry; Secretary to be Honored by George C. Marshall Foundation,
U.S. Newswire, November 12, 2003
"On the eve of a dinner at which Secretary of State Colin Powell is slated to receive an award named for Gen. George C. Marshall, a Holocaust Studies institute has asked Powell to repudiate Marshall's troubling statements and actions regarding Jews and African-Americans during the 1930s and 1940s. "Despite Marshall's military leadership during and after World War Two, research has shown that he promoted a speaker who denied German atrocities against Jews in Poland, and that Marshall opposed racial integration of the U.S. army, calling it a 'Communist' initiative," according to Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. "We are asking Secretary Powell to repudiate Marshall's troubling statements and actions regarding Jews and African-Americans," Medoff said. The Washington Post (Nov. 12, 2003), reporting on tonight's George C. Marshall Foundation dinner in Washington, D.C., at which Powell will receive the award, referred to Powell's "well-known admiration for Marshall." Powell said "His concept of serving is very much part of my personal code." Powell has in his office a portrait of Marshall, who served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during the 1940s before becoming Secretary of State. Dr. Medoff, of the Wyman Institute, wrote in a letter to Secretary Powell today: "Perhaps you are unaware that General Marshall opposed integration of the army and regarded blacks as inferior; promoted a speaker who denied Nazi atrocities against the Jews; and remained a close personal supporter to General George Moseley even after Moseley delivered a series of anti-Semitic speeches in 1940. We hope that admirers of Marshall will reconsider their assessment of him, in view of these disturbing facts."

Fire Destroys Ind. Holocaust Museum,
Earthlink (from Associated Press), November 18, 2003
"A fire destroyed a museum founded by a Holocaust survivor early Tuesday and arson is suspected, a museum official said. The fire was reported at the CANDLES Museum just after midnight and gutted the building, a former printing plant south of the city's downtown. "The police said there was a brick that had broken the main glass door, and they threw something in there that was an accelerant," said Mary Wright, the museum's education director. "Even the display cases were practically burned down to the ground." Someone also wrote "Remember Timmy McVeigh" on a wall. McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was executed at a federal prison outside Terre Haute in 2001. "These are hateful people, people who have nothing to contribute to society except destruction," said Eva Kor, who founded the museum in 1995. "What a pitiful life, that people get up in the morning to go out and destroy. They are cowards." Fire investigators were being assisted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The Anti-Defamation League offered a $2,500 reward Tuesday for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible."

[This shouldn't be an issue. Everything about the Holocaust Industry has become a circus. Does the circus below provide dancing pink elephants? And if it brings in a few more gawkers, what's the concern?]
Circus at French Holocaust site sparks squabble among French Jews,
By Philip Carmel, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Novembe 24, 2003
"For years, French Holocaust survivors have been coming to a memorial in the Paris suburb of Drancy to mark the site from which tens of thousands of French Jews were shipped to their deaths at Auschwitz. In the years since, the memorial also has become the site of a housing complex and a traveling circus, which sets up a show once a year across from the memorial. Most Holocaust survivors didn’t seem to have a problem with sharing the site — until last week. On Nov. 20, a few dozen members of the Sons and Daughters of French Jewish Deportees showed up at the Drancy transit camp for the 60th anniversary of the departure of Convoy No. 62. The convoy, one of around 50 that left the site in 1943, consisted of 1,199 Jews bound for Auschwitz. When the group arrived, they found a few local Jews accompanied by Drancy’s mayor, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, protesting the circus. Last week, the Council of Jewish Communities in Seine Saint-Denis — a region in the capital’s eastern suburbs that includes Drancy — said the presence of the traveling circus at the site “represented a real desecration of the principal site to the memory of the ante-room of the Shoah.” In a statement, the council’s president, Sammy Ghozlan, called for the circus “to be dismantled without delay and before the ceremony commemorating the departure of Convoy 62 by the Sons and Daughters of French Jewish Deportees.” The CRIF umbrella organization of French Jews also condemned the presence of the circus encampment “as an outrage which cannot be tolerated.” However, the founder of the Sons and Daughters group, Serge Klarsfeld, said neither he nor his organization had been contacted by Ghozlan, and said he never had been bothered by the circus. The grounds the circus uses are controlled by the La Muette housing complex, built on the site after World War II. Klarsfeld says that seeing people shopping and going about their daily lives while he reads out the names of deported Jews does not detract from the commemoration. “The fact that people live here means that the buildings are protected,” Klarsfeld said. “If they weren’t here, they’d be destroyed.” “Here Jews suffered, and today people are not suffering. This is a living site. There are 450 apartments there. People eat and drink, they make love in the evening,” he said. “It has never bothered us.” The circus has come to the site every year since 1989, according to a spokesman for the nearby housing complex, but there were no protests there until this year. When Lagarde arrived at the site last week for the protest, he and Klarsfeld got into an argument, with Klarsfeld accusing the mayor of exploiting the circus’ presence for political gain."

[What a scam. Separation of church and state? Yes, but no separation of yeshiva (Jewish religous school) and state, as Jews bleed American taxpayers for -- quite literally -- their religious racism. More Holocaustomania crap to champion the WORST of Jewish tradition. The Jewish community is rife with corruption and fraud, everywhere, as usual. Throw out the usual "Holocaust" bait and even this band of Jewish Hitlers can reel in $500,000. Senator Lautenberg, the Jewish scamsters' mainline to the government pocketbook, is ALSO Jewish.]
Congress To Aid Lakewood Yeshiva,
By STEVEN I. WEISS, [Jewish] Forward, DECEMBER 19, 2003
"Congress is set to allocate $500,000 to Beth Medrash Govoha, known as the Lakewood yeshiva, for the establishment of a "Holocaust library." The grant was included in the 2004 Omnibus Appropriation Conference Agreement that is expected to be signed by President Bush later this month. According to congressional staffers, New Jersey's two senators, Democrats Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg, inserted the money into the bill after being lobbied by Rabbi Aharon Kotler, brother of the yeshiva's foremost religious leader, Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler. The allocation comes as attention is focusing on a book written by Rabbi Saadya Grama, a graduate of the yeshiva, arguing that gentiles are "completely evil" and Jews constitute a separate, genetically superior species. The book included endorsements from several of the top rabbis at the Lakewood yeshiva ... . The request for federal aid sent by Aharon Kotler to the senators requested funds for "Holocaust Memorial Libraries." "Beth Medrash Govoha's Holocaust Memorial Libraries will replace the institution's famous collections of books and manuscripts that were destroyed in the Holocaust," Kotler wrote ... Binyamin Speigel, the yeshiva's head librarian, said he could not provide details regarding the library. "We don't have a Holocaust library. It's in future plans," he told the Forward. Asked to provide more details, Speigel responded: "We don't have exact plans."

[The Holocaust, still, a half century later = $$$$$$$$$$$. And Israel wants MORE of the cash cow.]
Israelis Push for Bigger Cut of Shoah Funds,
By ELLI WOHLGELERNTER, FORWARD, December 5, 2003
"The Israeli government is demanding a dramatically increased role in running the agency that administers Holocaust-era reparations and restitution payments, in what government leaders frankly acknowledged was an effort to direct a larger share of restitution funds toward Israel. In a blunt and sometimes confrontational meeting here last week between Israeli Cabinet ministers and officials of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Israeli leaders said they were seeking "fair" representation — some cited a figure of 50% — on the conference's governing bodies. Participants said the Israelis strongly hinted that they would obtain the representation with or without the cooperation of the existing conference leadership. Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a participant who spoke on condition of anonymity, "came in and said, 'Guys, this game is over. The days when you were doing whatever you wanted to and basically were going to throw us a couple of crumbs — those days are over. We now want to be part of everything that goes on. And either it's going to happen nicely, or it's going to happen not nicely, because we are going to get it whatever way it is. '" The meeting was convened by Israel's minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky, and included Netanyahu, Health Minister Danny Naveh and Meir Sheetrit, a minister-without-portfolio assigned to the Finance Ministry. The Israelis told the Claims Conference leaders that Israel had been shortchanged in the distribution of unclaimed Holocaust-era funds, and that it was the duty of the Claims Conference to care for needy Israeli survivors who were suffering as a result of Israeli government budget cuts. In a series of exchanges that some participants described as "rude," Israeli officials questioned the right of the Claims Conference to represent the Jewish people, insisted that Israel was the legitimate spokesman for survivors worldwide and asserted Israel's right to use Holocaust restitution money for purposes such as defense and education in addition to care for aging survivors. Afterward, several participants expressed surprise at the Israelis' blunt tone."

[JTR commentator's addition: "Though I know better I find myself almost stunned into stupor by the arrogance of Jews. They simply have no regard for people other than themselves. That 18,000 Jews were allowed to live by the Japanese counts while during that same period the Japanese managed to kill more than 20 million Chinese is a matter of no concern to them. Somehow that more than 1000 Chinese died for every Jew rescued by the Japanese is to be forgotten or dismissed as being of no consequence. I am not America's greatest expert on the Far East, but I am absolutely sure the Chinese will not forget this insolence by Jews and how little other Americans protested this effrontery. I ask that those who wish please post this on websites that may be interested."]
China Backers Distort Holocaust History Says Wyman Institute,
U.S. Newswire, December 8, 2003
"A web site sympathetic to China is being challenged by a Holocaust Studies institute for falsely claiming that China rescued Jews from the Holocaust. The site, http://www.liberationgraphics.com, was the focus of a major Dec. 3 Washington Post feature story about its display of posters supporting Arab attacks on Israel. The site also includes extensive commentary asserting that the posters are not antisemitic and not necessarily even anti-Israel. The China controversy concerns a poster on the web site, which was published by the Chinese government in 1970. According to the web site, the poster "portrays five Palestinian militants launching into an attack." The accompanying text states: "Though allied with Palestine, China is not an enemy of Israel; the relationship is more complex. China practiced an 'open door' policy during World War II that provided desperately needed safe haven for many Jewish refugees from Shanghai, and elsewhere in Asia." Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, has sent a letter to the web site, asking that the text be corrected. Dr. Medoff wrote: "Large areas of China were under Japanese military occupation from 1931 until 1945, and immigration to Shanghai was controlled by the Japanese government, not the Chinese. The Japanese permitted thousands of German and Austrian Jews to settle in Shanghai during the 1930s, and allowed Polish Jewish refugees to settle there in 1940-1941. Many of the latter were able to escape Hitler thanks to the courageous efforts of Japan's acting consul-general in Lithuania, Sugihara Chiune (and his close ally, Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk). Historians estimate that altogether, about 18,000 Jews were saved from the Holocaust because of Japan's -- not China's -- Shanghai policy."

Germans fed up with war legacy,
December 12, 2003, The Guardian (UK)
"Almost 70% of Germans say they are annoyed at being held responsible for the Holocaust and many believe Jews use Germany's Nazi past to their advantage, a survey showed yesterday. The survey by Bielefeld University showed 69.9% were irritated at still being held responsible today for crimes against Jews. A quarter of 3,000 people surveyed also agreed with the statement: "Many Jews try to use Germany's Third Reich past to their advantage and want to make Germans pay for it." A further 30% said there was "some truth" to the statement. Almost two-thirds said they believed too many foreigners live in Germany, while 30% said foreigners should be sent home when jobs are scarce. Endorsing the survey, the German parliamentary president, Wolfgang Thierse, said he understood why so many people wanted to shed guilt for what happened before they were born. He said the survey did not prove there was widespread anti-Jewish sentiment. The authors of the survey said they found that Germans who were worried about security threats and losing their jobs had become more hostile to Jews, Muslims, and immigrants."

Trouble in 'Paradise,' Film Profiling Jewish Nazi Propaganda Filmmaker Disappoints, [paper edition, offline]
by George Robinson, Jewish Week, December 12, 2003, p. 43
"When the Nazis murdered Kurt Gerron in Auschwitz as the war was drawing to a close, they ended a life, an era and a conundrum. Gerron's meteoric rise and fall in German film, music hall and theatre, from would-be medical student to acclaimed singer, actor and director, then into exile and finally to the concentration camp of Terezin, could be taken as a metaphor for the entire Jewish-German experience in the first half of the 20th century. Except for one small but horrendous fact. When the Nazis wanted a propaganda film extolling the salubrious virtues of Terezin, a film that would be called 'The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City,' it was Gerron who directed the film ... Himmler and his underlings decided to make a 'newsreel' film about the joys of life in Terezin. Kurt Gerron was the perfect patsy, a Jew who was once an acclaimed filmmaker and was already on the scene. The result was a Faustian pact that puts all the compromises of all the directors who ever worked in Hollywood into shabby perspective."

[MORE "Holocaust $tudies?" No thanks. Whether 6 Jews were killed by the Nazis, or 6 trillion, it's all become a gigantic world scam to suffocate dissent against Jewish cultural and political hegemony. Jews think their historical suffering is the Chosen Suffering of Human History, others don't bleed as red, and therefore all must genuflect to sacred Israel. Bottom line: IsraHell is an immoral Hellhole, and world Jewish support for it is a moral crime.]
Anti-Semites are using the Holocaust,
By Yehoshua Amishav, Haaretz (Israel), December 29, 2003
"The press briefing held this month by the French government spokesman at the end of the first session of the special Interministerial Committee to Fight Racism and Anti-Semitism included a recommendation to teach more Holocaust studies, as an educational tool to fight this harsh phenomenon. The panel was established to conduct the war against increasing anti-Semitism in France. There seems to be an accepted axiom that historical knowledge of the attempt to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth in an unprecedented, orderly, scientific manner, will make those causing the ugly new wave to rethink their behavior. And if not - at least it will encourage those surrounding them, and the governments of countries tainted by anti-Semitism, to confront the anti-Semites. It is very doubtful, however, whether this assessment can pass the test of reality. In effect, the central question is where the greatest danger to Jews in Europe comes from today: from the incidental groups of young people consumed by hatred, who occasionally desecrate a Jewish cemetery, or from the academic and cultural elites, which are well aware of the history of the Old World? The answer would seem to be clear. When Mikis Theodorakis, the creator of the masterpiece "Mauthausen," calls the Jewish people "the root of evil," he isn't doing so from lack of knowledge about the Holocaust. Even an arch-anti-Semite such as the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammed, didn't deny the Holocaust in his famous speech of incitement; on the contrary, he specifically mentioned it when he pointed out that it didn't prevent Jewish domination of the world. And Portuguese Nobel Prize laureate Jose Saramago knows exactly what Auschwitz was, but that didn't prevent him from saying the abominable things we recall from his last visit to our region. At least in Europe there is no lack of knowledge today about the Holocaust. Many survivors are still with us, a great deal of literature and many museums provide information to anyone who wants it. A European Holocaust remembrance day has been officially declared. And even if it's true that younger generations don't know enough about it, that's a general problem. The dramatic development of the past three years is that blaming Israel, and condemnation of the Jews' support for Israel, are based with increasing frequency on the use of the memory of the Holocaust. It began during the Lebanon War about 20 years ago, until it grew and became a social consensus. Thus, almost any Israeli representative can hear remarks like: "You are doing to the Palestinians what they did to you in the Holocaust." This phenomenon is so widespread that a spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Belgium asked two years ago that Yad Vashem discontinue the ceremonies for honoring the "Righteous of the Nations" (non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust), because at almost every ceremony there was an incident involving such disgraceful comparisons by one of the participants. As for the memory of the Holocaust, clear rules have been set: Supporters of Israel are forbidden to mention it, since it is "a perverse exploitation of the blood of the victims to justify the horrors that Israel is committing," but its enemies are allowed to use it - to beat up on Israel and to prove that the Israeli government is a new Nazi regime. This approach shows just how strong the memory of the Holocaust is in Europe. Were that not the case, there would be no point in the mass marketing of comparisons of the Israelis to the Nazis, who represent absolute evil. As attorney Arno Klarsfeld wrote (Jerusalem Post, December 12) - the moment is fast approaching when the Jews will have to leave Europe or live as "political Marranos." That is the essence of the new anti-Semitism."

[What is this article about? Why do Jews insist upon tracking down and persecuting 90-year old men, to their last breath and drool? Why not get over it? Why not stand tall like moral people, and forgive oldsters in wheelchairs for alleged deeds over half century ago? Is there deep Jewish satisfaction in knocking over wheelchairs, rubbing faces in the dirt for those who can't stand up without help? If this is kosher, why doesn't Britain track down all the old Jewish terrorists (from Irgun, etc.) who committed crimes against the British people in the late 1940s? And when the tides some day turn, and the Arab world is empowered and Israel weak, will there be equivilant witch hunts throughout the world to hunt down Jews who supported the racist, apartheid Jewish state? When world Jewry has run out of "Nazis" to persecute, who's next to fill their appetite for revenge?]
Nazi Bounty Offered,
by TJ Reporter, Totally Jewish, Dec 30, 2003
"A major advertising campaign offering financial rewards in return for information on the whereabouts of nazi war criminals has been launched in Austria. Operation Last Chance was instigated by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal centre following similar successful campaigns in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 2002. Israel director of the centre Dr. Efraim Zuroff said: “This is really the last chance for Austria, which has not convicted a nazi war criminal in more than a quarter of a century, to finally take legal action against Austrian nazi murderers while justice can still be achieved.” The centre claims that since the launch of the project more it has received the names of more than 250 suspected former nazis, 67 of which have been submitted to local prosecutors in the eastern European countries. The centre’s directors have now announced that the campaign will be extended to Poland and Romania next year in an attempt to catch any war criminals still hiding out in the former eastern bloc. Established in 1977 by concentration camp survivor Simon Wiesenthal, the SWC has been successful in bringing many former nazi officers to justice."

[The Holocaust has nothing to do with America and its taxpayers, except to propagandize the myth of perpetual Jewish victimhood for the Jewish Lobby and racist Israel. Jews are picking American pockets -- as Malyasian prime minister Mohamad might say, "by proxy."]
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: A Decade of Increasing Taxpayer Funding,
By Janet McMahon, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2003, p. 9
"Since it first opened 10 years ago, one of Washington, DC’s most popular attractions has been the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, located adjacent to the National Mall. Created by a unanimous Act of Congress in 1980, the Museum describes its primary mission as “to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy.” As its Web site explains, the museum was “built on land donated by the federal government and funded with more than 200,000 private donations…As required by law, all funds for planning, constructing and equipping the museum were raised exclusively from private, tax-deductible contributions.” That was then, however. Now American taxpayers provide some 67 percent of the Holocaust Museum’s annual budget, this year to the tune of $38.4 million. Its funding for fiscal year 2004 was increased to $39,997,000. By comparison, this year the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts received less than $34 million in federal funding. That figure was cut to $32,560,000 for fiscal year 2004. On Oct. 12, 2000, moreover, then-President Bill Clinton signed legislation granting the museum permanent status as a federal agency, in effect locking in federal support. As a museum press release explained at the time, “Permanent status permits Congress to provide funding without having to review the federal role. Every U.S. government entity requires congressional authority before funds can be allocated; but not every federal institution is given permanent status.” It is Congress, of course, which allocates taxpayer dollars—specifically, in the case of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on interior and related agencies. In addition to the Department of Interior, “other agencies” for which the subcommittee is responsible include the National Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Kenndy Center. Washington Report readers who wish to keep track of how many of their tax dollars go to support the Holocaust Museum are therefore advised to pay attention to news reports on federal arts and humanities funding—and to continue reading beyond the first few paragraphs. It’s not only the legislative branch which supports the Holocaust Memorial Museum, however. On Sept. 3 the Anti-Defamation League—which a few years ago was ordered to cease spying on American citizens—proudly announced that it had been awarded a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to support a joint ADL/Holocaust Memorial Museum training program for law enforcement professionals. According to the ADL press release, the program “brings law enforcement officers to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC for an intensive program that challenges them to examine their relationship with the public and to explore issues of personal responsiblity and ethical conduct.” Americans well might wonder why, at a time when a memorial to World War II veterans who died for this country only now is being undertaken, when a national museum dedicated to Native Americans is just being completed, and when ground is far from being broken for a museum devoted to African Americans—the latter two groups having suffered here, at the hands of this country—the U.S. government places a higher priority on a museum dedicated to the victims and survivors of a European horror."

[More Jewish Thought Police -- of their own. Jews think they have a patent on the right to use the word "Nazi." It is interesting to note that Schlessinger, whose father was Jewish, but mother not, has subscribed to Judaism in large part because of an awakened allegiance to the Jewish Holocaust victimhood tradition. But, hey. Schlessinger. It's time to spin Catholic or Hindu or something. Dump the Whine Klan.]
Dr. Laura's Nazi Analogy Criticized by Holocaust Scholars,
U.S. Newswire, January 2, 2004
"A leading Holocaust Studies institute is urging radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to retract her comparison of U.S. day care centers to child-rearing practices in Nazi Germany. On her Jan. 2, 2004 show, Dr. Schlessinger read a letter from a listener who criticized the lack of one-on-one attention given to children in some day care centers, especially those calling themselves "Child Development Centers." Dr. Schlessinger commented that "it sounds like something out of Nazi Germany." The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, a research and education institute focusing on America's response to the Holocaust, is urging Dr. Schlessinger to retract her remark. Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael Medoff said: "Whatever their flaws, Child Development Centers are not comparable to Nazi Germany, a brutal fascist dictatorship that slaughtered six million Jews. Such analogies trivialize the Holocaust and undermine efforts to educate the public about the real nature of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Dr. Laura often urges her listeners to 'Go do the right thing'; we urge her to go do the right thing -- retract her comparison of day care centers to Nazi Germany."

[The Jewish insistence upon controlling popular discourse. The MoveOn organization, of course, dares to criticize Israel and here's another twisted, doublethink Anti-Defamation League trick to try to subvert morality by declaring MoveOn's expression of morality is immoral. The ADL is a corrupt shill for apartheid Israel, and has always been so.]
ADL Says Hitler Ad Should Never Have Appeared on MoveOn.org,
U.S. Newswire, January 5, 2004
"The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was deeply troubled that MoveOn.org had allowed an outrageous and highly offensive political ad that directly compared President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler to be posted on its Web site. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director and author of "Never Again: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism," issued the following statement: "It is shocking that a mainstream political group like MoveOn.org not only allowed this vile and outrageous comparison of the American President to Adolf Hitler to be entered into its "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest in the first place, but that they even went so far as to make it available to the public on the Internet. Those responsible for this contest at MoveOn.org should have immediately identified this advertisement as one going far beyond legitimate criticism and rejected it out of hand. Instead, they made an irresponsible decision that has given legitimacy to the exploitative manipulation of images in a campaign season. "MoveOn.org clearly would not have accepted a pornographic ad as legitimate criticism of a candidate. Why did they think that images of Hitler, the Nazi whose evil regime was responsible for the slaughter of millions of people during the Holocaust, was a fitting and credible expression of criticism of President Bush and his policies? Their lack of discretion cheapens the level of political discourse in America, and their comments explaining it were hardly comforting."

[This Shakedown will continue for the next three centuries, until someone says "Enough!"]
Los Angeles Times Reports Six New Holocaust Lawsuits,
U.S. Newswire, January 16, 2004
"Nearly six years after the first individual Holocaust insurance claim was filed against the Italian insurance company Assicurazioni Generali, six more Holocaust insurance claims were filed in Los Angeles Superior court on Thursday as reported in the Jan. 16, 2004 issue of the "Los Angeles Times." The suits claim that Generali wrote life insurance policies on thousands of victims of the Holocaust, but never paid the benefits to the survivors or their heirs. Attorney William Shernoff, of Claremont, Calif., who has spearheaded litigation on behalf of Holocaust survivors for the past six years, says, "These six plaintiffs seek not only the life insurance benefits, but other damages totaling millions of dollars due to Generali's bad faith in the handling of their Holocaust insurance claim," says Shernoff. Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Holocaust survivor Jean Greenstein recalled the three life insurance policies issued to his father by Generali, "I know my father had three policies because he gave them to me, and I sewed them into my pants. But when I got caught," the Germans seized the documents, he said. Greenstein told the Times that Generali paid him $2,806.80 on one policy, but said the company officials told him they could not find the other two policies, which Greenstein believe were worth much more. The six survivors and families join 12 other survivor families, also represented by Shernoff, who have previously filed lawsuits against Generali and now have their cases pending in Federal Court in New York under Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey. There are also three Holocaust class action suits alleging similar claims pending in New York with Judge Mukasey."

[Irish] Republican says Zionists will hijack Holocaust Day,
by Henry McDonald, The Observer (UK), Sunday January 18, 2004
"A former IRA bomber who is prominent in pro-Palestinian circles has denounced Belfast's Holocaust memorial day, claiming that it was being used to justify Israel's existence. Fheilim O hAdhmaill, a member of the IRA's England department during the early Nineties and a key figure in the Provos' campaign which, among others, claimed the lives of two children in Warrington, claimed that the Holocaust commemoration would be used by local Zionists. The college lecturer, who was sentenced to 17 years' jail for terrorist activities in Britain, pointed to the involvement in Holocaust Day later this month of Ronnie Appleton QC, a retired lawyer and leading figure in Belfast's Jewish community, as an example of a local 'Zionist' allegedly using the memorial day to promote Israel. In an email to members of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, which is dated 11 January, 2004, O hAdhmaill wrote: 'We should be particularly concerned that the current Holocaust commemoration ongoing in Belfast City Hall may be used by the organisers - and in particular by the chair, Ronnie Appleton - to justify the establishment of an apartheid state in the Middle East and the racist policies it adopts towards the local Palestinian population both within Israel and in the illegally occupied territories.' The former key figure in the Provos' British bombing campaign expressed concern for the deaths of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli Defence Forces. In his communiqué to pro-Palestinian activists, he tried to make direct comparisons between Nazism and Israeli policies on the West Bank and Gaza. 'Whether we are dealing with the racism of Nazi Germany, or apartheid South Africa or Israel, or the racism being suffered by ethnic minorities in Ireland, North and South, all such racism must be confronted and actively opposed. We should urge the population to remember the Holocaust, but we should also urge them to learn the lesson of the Holocaust.' When contacted by The Observer, O hAdhmaill admitted writing the email, but said he was being taken out of context. 'This was part of an ongoing discussion within the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and was not intended for public debate. I wouldn't attempt for a moment to minimise what happened in the Holocaust. 'I don't think there is anyone in Ireland who wouldn't give their wholehearted support to the Holocaust commemoration. But I don't apologise for saying that one of the lessons of the Holocaust is that racist ideologies can lead to such atrocities.'".

Austrians stunned by Nobel prize-winner's Nazi ideology,
CLARE CHAPMAN, Scotland on Sunday (Scotland), January 25, 2004
"In Vienna an eminent Austrian scientist who specialised in genetics and won the Nobel prize for his work on malaria has been revealed as an exponent of racial purity who advocated the forced sterilisation for people regarded as genetically impure. The discovery that Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a member of the Nazi party and backed Hitler’s ideas about racial purity has shocked Austrians, who have named schools, roads and hospitals after the respected former physician and psychiatrist. Wagner-Jauregg, considered one of the leading scientists of his time, was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1927 for his work in the field of malaria inoculation. He died in 1940, but, instead of being discredited after the war, his role promoting Nazi ideology and close links with them were swept under the carpet. The truth came to light after a Vienna city councillor, David Ellensohn, called for a review of all people awarded honorary status at the city’s central cemetery in the period under Nazi occupation. A team of historians was commissioned to examine the lives of more than 200 Austrians in this category. They found Wagner-Jauregg was a proponent of racial purity before the country became part of Hitler’s Third Reich in 1938. Member of the commission, Wolfgang Neugebauer from the Documentation Centre of the Austrian Resistance, has presented the findings to the Vienna City Council. Wagner-Jauregg applied to become a member of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP) in 1939 after calling for a ban on "people with mental diseases and people with criminal genes" from reproducing. According to his biographer, Madga Whitrow, his first attempt to join the party failed on account of "race". Whitrow said Wagner-Jauregg’s first wife, Balbine Frumkin, was Jewish. But in her biography she wrote: "It isn’t clear if his unhappy marriage to Frumkin fuelled his anti-Semitic sentiments."

French panel: Gov't should pay $154m to families of looted Jews,
Haaretz (Israel), February 10, 2004
"France should pay remaining compensation requests worth $154 million to families of Jews looted during the Nazi occupation during World War II, a government panel said yesterday. The recommendation by the Commission for the Indemnity of Victims of Despoliation was not binding. It now goes to the government for a final review. A French government report in 2000 found Jews were looted of a total of $1.5 billion in money and belongings during the occupation. Compensation has already been paid on about 90 percent of that amount. The commission, headed by Pierre Drai and known as CIVS, was charged with deciding who should receive the remaining portion. The commission said it had recommended that 9,717 of nearly 16,000 requests for compensation be honored. It said the French government should pay out $138 million of the total sum, while the rest is the responsibility of banks that held cash and other financial holdings of looted Jews. The recommendation, delivered to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin yesterday, wraps up the compensation commission's work on the question of Jews looted under anti-Semitic laws during the war."

[MORE "Holocaust education?" It is already everywhere shoved in our faces. How can you squeeze any more in? When are we permitted to come up for air? We are at the pure point where more enforced "Holocaust education" is causing more "anti-Semitism."]
Poll highlights need for fight against anti-semitism: Yad Vashem,
Yahoo! News, Jan 26, 2004
"Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said more education on the Nazi campaign to eliminate the Jews was needed to combat "Jew hatred" after a survey found more than one in seven Britons believe the scale of the slaughter was exaggerated. "The survey is additional proof that in order to battle anti-semitism, Holocaust education must be augmented," Yad Vashem director Avner Shalev said in a statement Monday. "We clearly see that the current wave of Jew hatred is based mainly on twisting of the facts regarding the Holocaust as well as the trivialisation of it." The findings of a survey conducted for the London-based Jewish Chronicle weekly newspaper published last week showed that 15 percent of those polled agreed with a question asking if the scale of the Holocaust had been exaggerated. Seventy percent disagreed with the statement, and 62 percent disagreed with it strongly, according to the survey. Nearly 20 percent of those questioned in the poll -- timed to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday -- also said that a Jewish prime minister of Britain would be less acceptable than a member of any other faith. Israel has expressed alarm at what it sees as a growth in anti-semitism within Europe. A recent survey for the European Union found that most people on the continent identified Israel as the biggest threat to world peace."

[The Endle$$ Funnel through Jewish conduits to apartheid Israel.]
Israel Makes Play for Swiss Bank Funds,
By NACHA CATTAN, Forward, February 6, 2004
"The Israeli government and an international Holocaust restitution organization with which it is allied are raising eyebrows — and hackles — with a proposal that 48% of any funds left unclaimed from the $1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement be assigned to Israeli charities and government ministries. The request comes in a proposal submitted by the government and its partner on restitution matters, the World Jewish Restitution Organization, on ways to allocate any moneys that may be left over from a 1998 legal settlement between Holocaust survivors and Swiss banks. The Brooklyn federal judge overseeing the settlement, Edward Korman, directed that proposals be submitted by January 31 for ways of using unclaimed funds to aid needy survivors. The Israeli proposal, one of several dozen proposals submitted to the court, recommends that only 17% of the leftover funds go to survivors in the former Soviet Union and 15% go to the United States. As much as $600 million may become available in unclaimed funds after the heirs to Swiss bank accounts are paid out. Under the original distribution plan, adopted by the judge in 2000, a small portion of the $1.25 billion settlement was to be used to benefit needy survivors around the world. Most of that so-called humanitarian fund was allocated to programs assisting destitute survivors in the former Soviet Union, where need was deemed greatest. The judge has agreed to reconsider that ruling. The World Jewish Restitution Organization is a partnership between Jewish groups and Israel, formed in 1992 to negotiate with European nations other than Germany and Austria over restitution of Holocaust-era properties. One member organization of the WJRO, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, refused to sign on to the Israeli proposal. Joint officials said there was not sufficient time to examine the proposal, but that when calculating need it seemed to overlook the support Israeli and American survivors already receive from their governments. Some leaders in the survivor community were critical of the Israeli proposal, saying they did not want to see restitution funds channeled to survivors through the "bureaucracy" of Israeli ministries. Israeli and American leaders of restitution efforts had resisted an earlier attempt by the Israeli government to access a separate restitution fund, saying they feared the money would be used to balance Israel's troubled government budget."

German lawyer denies Holocaust at incitement trial,
Jerusalem Post, February 6, 2004
"A notorious far-right attorney called the Holocaust a lie and cursed the German legal system Friday at the opening of his trial in the Berlin State Court on charges of incitement. Horst Mahler, a former leader of the far-right National Democratic Party, and two other men are charged with circulating anti-Semitic and xenophobic pamphlets on the internet in October 2000. Mahler is also charged with circulating other pamphlets at the party headquarters in 2002 that referred to anti-Semitism as "perfectly normal and a sign of solid mental health." Addressing the court Friday, Mahler, 68, again denied the Holocaust had happened. "It is a lie that we systematically murdered six million Jews," he said. Prosecutors warned the defendant he faced further charges if he continued with such statements, since Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. The internet pamphlet, titled "Call to Resistance by the Decent", urged the government to revoke foreigners' right to live or work in Germany. If found guilty the three men face up to three years in prison, or a fine. Mahler has appeared in court frequently over the past years for his beliefs. Last year a Mainz court found Mahler guilty of condoning a crime for saying the September 11 attacks were justified and fined him several thousand euros."

[The World Jewish Mafia visits Poland for another shake-down.]
Polish capital gives Jewish community title to property,
Yahoo! News, Feb 6, 2004
"The mayor of the Polish capital Warsaw has handed the Jewish community the title to part of a building complex built on the site of the city's synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in 1943. Several of the apartments of the building opposite the mayor's office are already used by city to house collections of Jewish memorabilia. The transfer of the property by Mayor Lech Kaczynski came during a visit to Warsaw by a delegation of the American Jewish Committee to press Poland for the restitution of private property held by Jews. Poland's restitution law provides for the return of property held by the Jewish community before 1939, but not private property. During a three-day visit to the capital, the Jewish representatives met Prime Minister Leszek Miller and parliamentary leader Marek Borowski. Their discussions centred on the question of restitution of Jewish assets and plans to build a dedicated Jewish history museum on the site of the former Warsaw ghetto. The introduction of a Holocaust Day was also discussed."

French Law to Also Hit Pupils Denying Holocaust,
Yahoo! News (from Reuters), Feb 10, 2004
"France's coming ban on religious emblems in state schools will also affect pupils denying the Holocaust or refusing to take part in biology or physical education courses, Education Minister Luc Ferry said Tuesday. Speaking before the National Assembly was due to vote for the ban in its first reading, he said the preamble to the law would make clear pupils must follow the official curriculum. He told Europe 1 radio this meant that "they have no right to contest the contents of a course, for example the program on the Holocaust in history or human reproduction in biology or (attending) physical education." Teachers have complained in recent years of growing problems with Muslim pupils who interrupt history classes to deny the Nazis slaughtered Jews; boycott classes on human reproduction, saying they are immodest; or refuse to attend physical education. They have also reported that Muslim pupils sometimes repeat anti-Semitic themes they see on Arabic satellite television. Paris is trying to block transmission of the Al Manar station, run by Lebanon's Hizbollah party. Ferry said the passage recalling pupils' obligations would be in the preamble to the law, which aims to ban conspicuous religious emblems from state schools in order to keep religious tensions out of the classroom. The law "will keep classrooms from being divided up into militant religious communities," he said, noting there had been a "spectacular rise in racism and anti-Semitism in the past three years."

[This is obscene. What's so special about Jews, as opposed to all other peoples' suffering in history? Jewish money. Jewish power. Jewish influence.]
Granholm signs bill to create day to remember Holocaust victims, survivors,
Detroit Free Press, Thursday, February 26, 2004
"Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Thursday signed legislation that creates a Holocaust Remembrance Day in Michigan to honor victims, survivors, rescuers and liberators. The day will fall on April 18 this year, but will rotate as it follows the Hebrew calendar, which is based on 19-year cycles. Holocaust Remembrance Day will be May 5 next year, April 25 in 2006, April 15 in 2007, May 1 in 2008, April 21 in 2009, and April 11 in 2010. April 19, 1943 is a key date in the history of the Holocaust. It was the beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprising when Jews, using homemade bombs and stolen weapons, resisted death camp deportation by the Nazis for 27 days. The term Holocaust refers to the killing of 6 million of Europe's 9 million Jews during the 1933-45 regime of German leader Adolf Hitler. Granholm said she was honored to sign the bill creating Holocaust Remembrance Day. "I encourage Michigan citizens to set aside Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Days of Remembrance as time to reflect on the need to be vigilant against hatred, intolerance, and tyranny today based on the lessons of the past," she said in a news release."

[Here we go: the Jewish link goes deeper and deeper for John Kerry. With Bush we have possible world war on behalf of the Jewish neo-cons that run his administration. Now Kerry has been anointed with the Ultimate Badge of Honor: genetic link to the most Hallowed of Holies -- the Holocaust. So if Kerry becomes President, do we get mandatory "Holocaust" tattoos on everyone's forehead, along with "his personal connection to Israel?" Just about every American has a relative who died in World War II. How come they're not sacred?]
Kerry relatives killed in Holocaust,
BY THOMAS FRANK, Newsday, March 1, 2004
"Since Sen. John Kerry discovered a year ago that his father's father was Jewish-born, he has struggled over whether and how to talk about his Jewish background. The roots are surprising for a Massachusetts politician with an Irish name and Catholic upbringing. Kerry did not know the extent of his Jewish roots until a year ago when a genealogist in Vienna, hired by The Boston Globe, discovered that Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick Kerry, a converted Catholic, was actually born Fritz Kohn to Jewish parents in what was Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic. Kerry, 60, has known for about 16 years that his paternal grandmother was born Jewish as Ida Lowe and converted to Catholicism. Sunday, the Vienna genealogist, Felix Gundacker, posted new findings on his Web site that the Nazis killed two of Ida Lowe's siblings -- a sister in the Treblinka concentration camp, and a brother in Theresienstadt, a Czechoslovakian ghetto that held Jews before they were taken to camps. "I'm very touched by the knowledge that one of my relatives was in the Holocaust," Kerry said in an interview last night. "It gives an even greater personal sense of connection [to the Holocaust] that is very real and very touching. It makes you wonder how horrible their lives must have been." Kerry initially embraced his grandfather's Jewish roots when they were discovered a year ago. Two days after the Globe published a long front-page story disclosing his grandfather's background, Kerry talked about it to a Jewish group in Florida to assert a personal connection to Israel. Kerry brought up his grandparents' heritage again in November, speaking to Jewish Democrats in Des Moines. Since then Kerry has shied away from the subject, even as he campaigned recently in New York and California, which hold presidential primaries Tuesday and have the largest Jewish populations in the country, accounting for about 42 percent of the 6.2 million Jews in the United States. Meeting with about 60 Jewish leaders and politicians Sunday in Manhattan, Kerry made no mention of his grandparents or any Jewish ties as he talked about Israel, according to two people at the meeting. "I talked about it a little bit when I first learned about it. Then people seemed to think, 'Oh, wow, now he's trying to be this or that,'" Kerry said Friday. A Republican strategist in Boston was quoted a year ago in the Globe warning that Kerry should be "very careful to make sure people don't think he's trying to be all things to all people." And after the speech in November, a Globe reporter pressed Kerry on whether he was identifying himself as Jewish. "It just seemed simpler to go on the way I've been," Kerry said. "I had a sense people were saying, 'Now he's trying to use that for political purposes or something,' and I don't want to do that. I don't want people to sense that there's some great transition. If it comes up, I mention it."

[The Jewish architect of the new Berlin Holocaust museum makes a joke about the Holocaust and the Jewish Lobby almost wants him gassed. How to handle this horror? We say fire him, tear down whatever is built so far, bring in another Jewish architect, and start over, placing duct tape over everyone's mouthes. Another few million dollars wasted, but hey. We gotta get it exactly right, don't we?]
Holocaust Memorial Architect's Gas Chamber Joke Misfires,
The Scotsman (Scotland), March 8, 2004
"A purported joke about Nazi gas chambers renewed an uproar over the future of Germany’s long-delayed Holocaust memorial and left its architect under fire today from Jewish leaders. Peter Eisenman, an American Jew, joked at a meeting of the project’s trustees last month that his dentist had asked him if his gold fillings came from a firm that supplied cyanide tablets for the gas chambers, German media reported. The architect has reportedly apologised to German Parliament President Wolfgang Thierse, who heads the board. “The so-called joke is a horror,” Albert Meyer, the head of Berlin’s Jewish community, said today. The quip was a “cynical slur on the memory of the murdered, gassed, shot and burned Jews” of the Nazi era, said Meyer’s predecessor, Alexander Brenner. Eisenman should ask himself whether he is “still acceptable” for the project, he said. Work on the 15-year-old Berlin project was halted in October after complaints that an anti-graffiti coating being used on the memorial was being made by Degussa , a company whose former subsidiary delivered Zyklon-B cyanide tablets to the Nazis for use in the death camp gas chambers. After an anguished debate, the project’s backers decided it should continue. Brenner opposed the move, but Eisenman supported it. The memorial will be made up of 2,700 vertical slabs memorialising the six million Jews who died under the Nazis, on a site near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. After lengthy disputes about the design, financing and politics of the project, construction on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe finally began last April."

[Right. Check out how Spielberg gets on his knees for Jewish movie subjects, and then note (in the article excerpt after this one) how he handles Italians.]
Spielberg’s ‘List’ teaching tolerance ten years on. Director hopes that ‘Schindler’s List’ and the Shoah Foundation it inspired will remain a living reminder of the horror of hatred,
MSNBC, March 18, 2004
"Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" won critical acclaim and numerous awards when it premiered a decade ago. Newly released on DVD, this movie about the Holocaust and its themes of intolerance, bigotry and hatred are as relevant now as then. “Today” host Katie Couric talked to Spielberg and asked him if “Schindler's List” is his most important work."

[The usual Jewish dual moral standard: they are two-faced exploiters. One standard is held for Jews, another for everyone else. The Jewish community is corrupt. And Hollywood is a Jewish mafia.]
Children's cartoon film 'Shark Tale',
By Rosario A. Iaconis, Alameda Times-Star, March 18, 2004
"There's a new breed of anthropomorphic fish roiling the briny deep. It's the undersea predator spawned by DreamWorks SKG in "Shark Tale," the upcoming children's cartoon adventure. Unlike Tinseltown's other aquatic role models, this animated bottom-feeder belongs to a vicious celluloid species: the "Sopranos" goombah stereotype. By grafting the bigoted imagery of "The Sopranos" -- along with a generous whiff of "Goodfellas" and "The Godfather" -- onto a computer-generated flick for kids, DreamWorks' Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen have crossed the line into the cinematic exploitation of children. Ethnic profiling, sinister crime families and mob rubouts are not the stuff of cutesy cartoon comedy. But the greater issue is the damage done to the self-esteem and psychological development of impressionable minors. Bigotry must not be nurtured at an early age; hatred should not come dressed in primary colors. Slated for release Oct. 1, "Shark Tale" is a computer-generated minstrel show filled with piscine mobsters who sleep, eat and kill with the fishes -- and sport such names as Don Lino, Luca, Frankie, Lenny and Angie. Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Michael Imperioli and Vincent Pastore provide the guttural voice-overs. And the plot would make Tony Soprano and Uncle Junior proud. More than a year ago, DreamWorks animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg said the "Shark Tale" milieu should not be hard for mob aficionados to fathom: "Imagine an underwater cityscape that is Chicago meets Las Vegas meets Miami." He has even boasted of the movie's reverential nods to "everything from 'The Untouchables' to 'Some Like It Hot' to all three 'Godfather' films." Is this appropriate children's fare? No, "Shark Tale" is a calculated attempt to cash in on the popularity of "The Sopranos" by introducing a new generation of youngsters to the anti-Italian intolerance that has become a staple of adult entertainment. DreamWorks hopes that kids will, quite literally, buy into the benighted notion that Italian-ness connotes organized crime. A sequel is already in the works ... Imagine the outrage in the Jewish community if DreamWorks unveiled "Gefilte Fish Inc.," an undersea mob comedy featuring the anthropomorphic likes of Meyer Sharksky, Scallops Shapiro, Bugsy Seagull and Arnold Squidstein."

[Another new Holocaust Scam: Serve your country by sucking up all the pro-Israel Judeocentric propaganda you can while working at a Holocaust museum. Serving Jews instead of serving your own military. Think about it.]
For Austrian man, service program is a chance to rectify pain of Shoah,
By Bram Eisenthal, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 18, 2004
"With anti-Semitism at its highest level in years, support for the Jewish community sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places. An Austrian program that provides an alternative to the country’s obligatory military service is placing young volunteers at Holocaust institutions around the world, including at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center. Opened in 1979, the center recently made news by building Canada’s first world-class Holocaust Museum, a $4.5 million entity that highlights the stories and artifacts of local Holocaust survivors. Montreal’s community of Holocaust survivors is the world’s largest after those in Israel and New York. The volunteer program, which has benefited Holocaust institutions around the world, is the brainchild of Andreas Maislinger. A former volunteer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial, Maislinger designed his “Holocaust Memory Service” — or “Gedenkdienst,” as it’s known in German — along the lines of a similar program in Germany. Through Maislinger’s program, young Austrian men and women have the option of serving at Holocaust institutions for 14 months instead of doing nine months of service in the army. The Gedenkdieners are sent all over the world. The first to come to Montreal was Judith Pfeiffer in 1995, and several have come to Montreal each year since. Currently, Rainer Steindler, 28, and Christian Ruepp, 26, are at the Montreal center, with Steindler’s stint due to end next month. Steindler grew up in Salzburg, which is not far from the Mauthausen concentration camp. “History was always part of my education and I met many Holocaust survivors over the years,” he told JTA. “Due to my interest, I decided to apply to the service.” Growing up, Steindler visited several major concentration camps — including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau — attended seminars, read literature and watched movies dealing with the Holocaust. Though Steindler’s background is not solely in history — he has a master’s degree in Roman linguistics and worked for a multimedia outfit in Salzburg — it became clear that the Gedenkdienst program would be a logical alternative to military service for him. “It seemed to be the most useful way I could serve my country,” he said. “For me, it is essential to remember the Holocaust, and how can you learn that if not from survivors and other Jews? Jack Dym, president of the Montreal center and museum, appreciates the value of the program to institutions like his — as well as to the Gedenkdieners themselves. “It’s inspiring to see how these young Austrians evolve in the process of their volunteerism,” Dym said. “They come knowing the cold hard facts of Holocaust history and return home with a profound personal connection to Holocaust survivors and the Jewish community.” Steindler chose Montreal because he wanted to work at the city’s Holocaust center."

Even Better Than a Schindler's List,
by Jason Roth, Culture Bashng
"What we need is a 24-hour Holocaust channel. Five Oscar-nominated Holocaust movies a year isn't enough. We need 365 days a year of Holocaust movies. With Holocaust commercials. For things like Holocaust theme parks, Holocaust dance clubs, and Holocaust-flavored breakfast cereals. Just to make sure we don't forget the Holocaust, we should tattoo the word "Holocaust" underneath the eyelids of newborn babies. For little boys, a Holocaust ceremony could replace circumcision. It could be the "Holocausting", followed by a ceremonial viewing of the Holocaust memorial video, followed by a drive back home over the Holocaust Memorial Bridge. To hurry home and eat the turkey. Cooked "Holocaust style", of course. We need Holocaust Awareness Educational Facilities. Not schools, where you learn how to add and spell, but places where you learn all about the Holocaust. At lunch, kids could be locked in the cafeteria, and cartoon animals could reenact the Holocaust. Kids could play Holocaust games. They could invite each other to Holocaust-themed birthday parties. They could take home Holocaust goodie bags, and go home, eat dinner, and have just enough time to do their Holocaust homework for Holocaust History. We could make laws to force us to remember the Holocaust. We could throw everyone in a gas chamber if they forget the Holocaust. We could throw everyone in a gas chamber if they remember the Holocaust. (Just so they don't forget the Holocaust.) We could have miniature Holocausts within the Holocaust, so no one forgets why we're having another Holocaust. If anyone escapes from one of the miniature Holocausts inside the big Holocaust, we could throw them back in the miniature Holocaust, or just leave them outside in the big Holocaust. We could have competing Holocausts. We could have Holocaust superbowls, where Holocausts vie against other Holocausts for Holocaust world championships. We could build Holocaust societies, and even alternate Holocaust realities, where Holocausts walk around, have jobs, and die in the Holocaust. Here's another idea: If you're going to make me relive the Holocaust, at least give me a fragment of understanding that will help me prevent it from happening again."

Spielberg tribute to 400 Italian concentration camp survivors,
Yahoo! News, march 26, 2004
"Film director Stephen Spielberg will produce a documentary about 400 Jewish concentration camp survivors to be shown in secondary schools across Italy, the Corriere della Sera daily quoted him as saying. "This summer, we're beginning a documentary about 400 Italian Jewish camp survivors, which will be distributed in Italian schools accompanied by a book," Spielberg said in an interview. The project is being financed by Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, set up a decade ago from the proceeds of his Oscar-winning Holocaust movie, "Schindler's List". "We hope to motivate teachers who hold the future in their hands, so that (Education) Minister Moratti includes it in the curriculum, allowing it to be seen by every single Italian student, along the lines of what has happened in German schools." The documentary will be directed by young Italian actor-director Mimmo Calopresti. Spielberg will receive one of Italy's highest honours, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, from President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi at a ceremony in Rome on April 14."

More articles on the Holocaust, pt. 3