| 1938: Columnist is sympathetic towards Jews in Germany - but not THAT sympatheticnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 Sep 04:45 AM Later this month, Ke | | Later this month, Ken Burns is releasing a documentary, The US and the Holocaust, on how the United States did not help Jews escape their doom.
Here is one example of how some Americans thought on the eve of the Holocaust. William Bruckart was a moderately successful and influential columnist in the 1930s, who published a regular syndicated column called Washington Digest. In December 1938, only ten months before World War II would break out and when there were no longer any illusions about Hitler's attacks on Jews, he wrote about how terrible Hitler was - but sympathy for German Jews was not enough reason for the US to allow Jews to immigrate. Danger of 'Jewish Problem' for United States in German 'Purge' Opening of Gates to Refugees Might Introduce Disturbing Influence.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. — Press service wires and cables and radio from abroad have been clogged for several weeks with hundreds of thousands of words about the plight of the Jews in Germany; about the abuses visited upon the Jewish race by the European madman, Hitler, and his camp followers; about the humanitarian pleas of our own President, Mr. Roosevelt, for appeasement of the conditions. There has been what I believe to be one of the greatest waves of emotion, waves of resentful national sentiment, that this country ever has known. I recall none like it, none as overwhelming...Read More |
From Ian: German president: 'Shameful' it took Berlin decades to agree on Munich compensation Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted shame over the decades that it took for Berlin to agree compensation for the bereaved families of Israeli victims in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack, saying Germany had avoided responsibility over the massacre for too long. "That it took 50 years to reach this agreement in the last days is indeed shameful," said Steinmeier, standing next to his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog, with whom he will be attending a commemoration ceremony in Munich on Monday. A row over the financial offer previously made by Berlin to victims' relatives had threatened to sour the ceremony, with families initially planning a boycott. But a deal was finally agreed on Wednesday offering $28 million (NIS 94.4 million) in compensation. It also — for the first time — sees the German state acknowledging its "responsibility" in failings that led to the carnage. In a speech at a state banquet for Herzog, Steinmeier acknowledged that "our responsibility as Germans includes shedding light on the many unanswered questions, the blind spots of the attack in Munich — and also the blind spots in our handling of the attack since then." "For far too long, we did not want to acknowledge the pain of the bereaved families. And for far too long, we...Read More |
Kenneth S. Stern was the lead author of the IHRA's (flawed) Working Definition of Antisemitism, and regarded as an expert on the topic. But his latest blog post at Times of Israel is incomprehensible, and appears to justify modern campus antisemitism. What should universities do when those Jewish students who are also Zionists are told they are not welcome in progressive spaces? After all, why should any student have to choose between their identity and their desire to be part of a political community? And if that's the "ask," pro-Israel Jewish students, whether desiring to join a progressive group or not, get the message, hurtful to them and harmful to the academic vibrancy of the campus: they either have to self-censor what they say about Israel, or risk the ostracism and pain of social shunning. ...But groups also have a right to be selective, to set their own rules for membership. The potential benefits may include allowing members to feel they share something important (such as a women's group or one based on ethnicity or religion). That applies to politics too. One wouldn't want to force a Young Republican club to include a Bernie Sanders supporter (or vice versa). ...Groups – including those on campus – have a right of association. Most famously, years...Read More |
This morning, angry protesters burned tires at the entrance of UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, upset at the lack of compensation for the 2014 Gaza war. As of this writing, no Western media has even mentioned this. The main UN agency that provides aid to Palestinians is shut down by Palestinians themselves, potentially affecting tens of thousands, but it doesn't fit the narrative so it doesn't get covered.
The last such protest in Gaza was in April. But other protests against UNRWA happen often, especially in Lebanon. And they are equally underrerported.
Notice the amount of security that UNRWA uses in Gaza. Heavy metal gates, with spikes on top, and barbed wire atop that. This is to protect UNRWA from the people it serves! * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
From Ian: 'Kill Salman Rushdie, not the Iran Deal!' The response to the assault on Rushdie is especially striking when compared to that of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and former government official, who broke with the Saudi government and moved to Washington, where he became a dissident and wrote a column for the Washington Post. The brutal killing of Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi government was front-page news for many months and continues to be mentioned whenever Saudi Arabia is discussed, and always with the allegation that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is personally responsible for the murder. After a few weeks of denial, the Saudi government accepted responsibility and arrested and tried the perpetrators. More importantly, the Saudis promised never to engage in extra-judicial and extra-territorial killings again. The contrast between the two cases begs the question of why Iran's now successful sponsorship of violence against Rushdie is being glossed over, even though Tehran also recently tried to assassinate several former US government officials who are now under Secret Service protection. The silence is likely because the Biden administration is desperate to re-enter the nuclear deal with Tehran, even as Iran reportedly refuses, as part of the deal, to renounce the prospect of killing US government officials. One view is that an agreement will also lead to extra Iranian...Read More |
The IDF released a report on the results of their investigation of the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. It says, According to all the investigations carried out, it appears that it is not possible to determine unequivocally by whom Shirin Abu-Aqla was killed, but it is more likely that Shirin was injured inadvertently [when] the IDF fired at those identified as Palestinian militants during a battle, during which a massive, indiscriminate and life-threatening shot was fired at the IDF soldiers. Along with this, it will be emphasized and clarified that throughout the incident, the fire of the IDF soldiers was aimed and intended to hit the terrorists who fired at our forces. Another possibility is that Shireen Abu-Aqla was hit by gunfire from Palestinian armed men, fired in her direction. The materials released add very little to what we already knew. They say, for example, that they examines the audio forensics evidence, but doesn't say what that evidence indicated. The only interesting detail is this diagram showing where the IDF identified incoming fire from (red dots.) It shows only one place north of the IDF vehicles, and it is immediately north. The report indicates that the IDF responded to "massive" fire that was from the north, the direction of Abu Akleh. This brings up more questions than it answers - there were clearly many bullets...Read More |
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis and massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed.
There are a number of details about the event that do not get the publicity they deserve.
One is that the terror attack was financed by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. The mastermind of the Munich attack, Mohammed Daoud Oudeh (Abu Daoud), says that both Yasir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas wished him luck and kissed him.
The second is that German security officials were tipped off three weeks before the attack by the German Embassy in Beirut from a Palestinian informant, and did not do anything to stop the attack.
The third inconvenient fact is that the Palestinian terrorists in Munich were aided by German neo-Nazis. At the time, it was assumed that German Leftists had been involved, but in this case the Palestinians allied with Nazis.
Another is that while the organization that took responsibility for the attack is still referred to a Black September, that organization was Fatah. Black September was a...Read More |
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