Category — Holocaustism

As some of you may be aware, there was a falling out between the race realist community and the Jews in 2006, in part because Jared Taylor refused to choose between Jews and Nazis. One of the core issues that has dogged Mr. Taylor, from race realist critics such as Lawrence Auster and Ian Jobling’s Inverted World, has been Mr. Taylor’s refusal to take a position on issues such as Holocaust denial. In fact, Mr. Taylor eventually clarified his facile claims of ignorance on the issue, only recently taking a position that accepted the Holocaust as fact, but allowing for the possibility of inflated numbers, perhaps to keep his “revisionist” friends from feeling completely betrayed.

It does appear that Taylor would have preferred a much more ambiguous position.

In March 2001, Taylor penned an essay, “Return to the Dark Ages,” that focused on defending Holocaust “revisionists” in the name of free speech.

But Taylor not only dispensed with the usual caveats (and yes, a man friends with and who is defending Holocaust deniers does need the usual caveats), but he depicted those who broke the laws and engaged in aspects of Holocaust denial in suspiciously heroic terms. Because Holocaust deniers are such wonderful people.

Of Henri Groulès, Taylor wrote,

He has devoted his life to good works for the poor and for immigrants, and has a reputation something like that of Mother Theresa.

Awwwwww.

But Taylor is not only a freedom fighter for the underdogs of Holocaust “revisionism,” he also assesses that Holocaust revisionism need not, and indeed, does not, lead to hatred of the Jews just because they massively lie (in theory) about their European tragedy and manipulate it for the sake of Zionism. Such a connection is (apparently) ridiculous.

“…it is unclear just how disputing the existence of gas chambers or the number of Nazi victims incites hatred against anyone. People are not suddenly going to start hating Jews just because a pamphlet convinces them the Nazis killed only one million rather than six million.”

Taylor’s logic is strange in that he doesn’t even understand the possibility of nefarious motives behind Holocaust denial. He only recognizes the possibility of non-judgmental truth seeking.

The section on Holocaust denial was deleted from the Wikipedia page on Jared Taylor, and relegated to the discussion page. I don’t understand this decision. The discussion of Holocaust denial is itself an important part of the history of warring factions within the Amren camp, and I believe this essay reveals Taylor’s earlier concessions to the revisionist camp, in terms of his moral support for their goals, their character, and even their motives, without directly addressing the veracity of their claims.

Roi Ben-Yehuda is hand-wringing over on Jewcy about the way Jews for Jesus are being treated in Israel. He is upset that the Jews for Jesus are not being accepted as Jews, and notes,

If we are going to say that Hitler and not Halacha determines who is a Jew, then we need to make room for Jews who also believe in Jesus — as Hitler would have done.

Ben-Yehuda has a good point, and I would note that when the Zionist Entity first decided that Hitler was the ultimate authority on who is a Jew, no one could have predicted this problem specifically, or that there would be problems generally. After all, why should there be problems when the Zionists reasonably decided to express their Jewish pride both religiously and as a nation by embracing Hitler as grand posek? Clearly, for their time, the Zionist Entity did the right thing, just…Jewish history took an unpredictable turn, and this ostensibly reasonable choice for an ultimate Jewish authority proved to have shortcomings…but you can’t blame the impeccable reasoning of the Zionists for its time.

I don’t know if you folks saw this, but I didn’t realize exactly how bad yet another (Hi, JAM!) LA kiruv organization is behaving.

When you look at intermarriage as a “spiritual Holocaust, ” you have to ask, where are the “spiritual” Nazis?

Rabbi Shlomo ‘Schwartzie’ Schwartz has the answer. That answer would be the gentile partner.

The LA Jewish Journal reported his lunatic tantrums against non-Jews who showed up at the Chai Center, and that,

Filled with foul language and content that can easily be construed as bigoted, sexist and threatening, the e-mails seem to contradict the rabbi’s aura of openness and non-judgmental warmth.

What are the emails that could be construed as somehow, in some way, “sexist” according to some? Let’s take a look at this prize.

“”How dare U B so nervy as 2 criticize me when U r the brazen hussy slut chasing after Jewish men (even when they R Orthodox & you KNOW tht it is against their G-d & religion). Shame on U 4 yr disgusting unpaid whoring ways 2 try & take Jewish men away from Jewish women. Hitler murdered Jews & U R also trying 2 exterminate Jews.”

Fortunately, though, Schwartzie explained the miscommunication to the JJ.

It’s destroying Jewish people,” he said, explaining his visceral abhorrence of intermarriage. “This is not just a sin and you shouldn’t do it, like don’t eat lobster.”

Fixing his blue eyes in a fierce stare, he tried to convey the vehemence of what he wants to get across to the women he calls “shiksas”: “You are a f—ing Nazi. You are killing a Jew and I hate you for that and I’ll piss on your grave. You are not going to kill my Jews.”

The guy has serious issues with gentiles. This is not the kind of leadership the secular Jewish community should be tolerating or supporting in any way. And I highly doubt that others in the LA kiruv community are unaware of his views. Which means they tolerate it.

The defense of his son Mendel is indicative of where the anger of many at the “spiritual Holocaust,” and their exceptionally negative feelings for gentiles, may ultimately be stemming from.

“[Mendel Schwartz] explained that his father’s outburst comes from his deep and personal commitment, as the son of Holocaust survivors, to do what he can to save Jews.”

The acceptance of a Judaism that is so hostile to western culture and so contemptuous of non-Jews resonates more frequently and more intensely with descendants of Holocaust survivors. By no means is it ubiquitous, but it is there. And blaming such behavior on the real Holocaust is not an acceptable excuse. Rather, it is a confession that one is unfit for leadership in the general Jewish community.

We don’t need more of this poison. Holocaustism plus haredi-kiruv should have no place in the liberal or secular Jewish community.

“It’s a profanation.” — The Kvetcher’s father’s assessment of the phenomenon of Jewish organizations and individuals who claim to speak on the political or cultural behalf of Holocaust victims.

A bizarre op-ed denouncing Heeb and the most important new writer of the decade was penned in Stupid Federation Paper. I am sorry I was late to this, but I only found out about it through Heeb, because I don’t usually read the Jewish Week because it is badly written, and filled with boring puff pieces about what wonderful things the United Jewish Communities did this week and will do next week WITH YOUR HELP!! They are such a joke.

I have accused Holocaustians of replacing Judaism with Holocaust identity, but clearly I am out of line. That never happens. They have it all in perspective. As Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, rabbi of Temple (Reform!) Beth El in Stamford, CT notes,

Just as the ancient rabbis believed in building a “fence around the Torah�? to safeguard the commandments, so must we build a “fence around Auschwitz�? to protect the memory of the slain.

Rabbi Hammerman’s issue is that Heeb’s David Deutsch and Shalom Auslander are more of a threat to the memory of the Holocaust than anti-semitic deniers. Leaving aside that the Holocaust is not, in fact, in ANY danger of being forgotten and that’s the least of our problems, Rabbi Hammerman adds,

“In a culture that revels in free expression to the point of unruliness, we need to establish some basic rules.

In my house, we have the Anne Frank Rule.

One night during a recent school vacation, my family was engaged in a stimulating round of “Apples to Apples�? — that popular game where a rotating judge picks a descriptive card (like “refreshing,�? or “feh!�?) and other contestants select cards that they hope the judge will consider the best possible match (like “Passover�? and “Alan Dershowitz�?). Naturally, we were playing the Jewish version.�?

Naturally.

I am pointing out this paragraph in part because quite frankly, I don’t know what this man is talking about, and hope you might be able to explain it. How do “Passover�? and “Alan Dershowitz�? make a match, exactly?

Why is this passive-aggressive liberal suburban Jew being given a platform to misappropriate Anne Frank as a cudgel for his nonsense? You don’t speak for Anne Frank, you putz!

It gets worse.

Ethan and Dan played “Crown Heights,�? “my bedroom,�? “J-Date�? and “Dennis Prager.�? I suppose any of those could have been the best match. But I held the trump card in my hand.

You see, I had just drawn “Anne Frank.�?

We have a little rule in my family, one suggested to us by a close friend. Whoever plays the “Anne Frank�? card automatically wins that hand. No questions asked. The idea is that it would be offensive to Anne’s memory, and by extension, all Holocaust victims, for Anne to lose to, say, “Joan Rivers�? or “potato kugel.�?

This is the asinine shit that the Jewish Week attacks Heeb with. This is the nonsense we are supposed to see value in handing down to the next generation. He wraps his bullshit with Anne Frank, and brazenly tells us that he is holding her as his personal trump card.

This is the stuff the Jewish Week publishes.

So now are you still angry at me for calling it Stupid Federation Paper?

Anyway, Heeb’s David Deutsch (Jewdar), the frummie who was fingered along with Auslander for rebuke by Hammerman and Stupid Federation Newspaper, has gone understandably apeshit.

Jewdar notes,

“As for Jewdar, we’ll play non-Holocaust themed games with our children, make sure they get a solid, non-Holocaust centered Jewish education, and grow up to celebrate Jewish life instead of obsessing over Jewish death.”

That’s probably much too old fashioned for Rabbi Hammerman.

To find out how to play Anne Frank Trump Card with the kids, or just hear Rabbi Hammerman and Gary Rosenblatt, the editor of the Stupid Federation Paper explain what is and isn’t okay with the internet, please join them at the JCP this Wednesday.

Shockingly, it’s a free event.

In the editorial “Fear Factor,” the Forward explains “the mystery of the power of the so-called Jewish lobby.” The Forward writes,

Most surprising, a parade of Jewish politicians and organizational leaders, the elite of what’s called the Jewish lobby, has spoken out aggressively to reject the rumors and defend Obama — but it hasn’t helped much. Early indications are that Jewish voters will spurn Obama in numbers large enough to hurt him. And all the efforts of the vaunted Jewish establishment haven’t convinced them otherwise.

That’s the secret of Jewish lobbying success: It’s not about the professional influence-peddlers and fundraisers. It’s about frightened, angry Jews, thousands of them, determined to stop anyone they suspect is against them. Once they get going, no one can talk them out of it. They feel powerless and vulnerable before enemies great and small, and they have the clout to do something about it. And they don’t always check the details before hitting the barricades.

Isn’t this phenomenon going to get worse as the Orthodox become a greater and greater percentage of of the Jewish community? After all, Orthodox Jews have a more pronounced perception of division between Jew and gentile, and are disproportionately descendants of Holocaust survivors, a heritage not known to allay Jewish paranoia.

The Simon Wiesenthal “That’s Anti-Semitic!” Center is doing exactly what they should be doing for who they are. Misappropriating the civil rights movement in order to bolster the illusion that they are somehow liberal and inclusive.

In addition to screening, “The Right to Dream,” they also sent out an email with books to read about the civil rights movement. Which, of course, you can buy at the museum’s gift shop.

It is important to understand that the “Museum of Tolerance” has nothing to do with tolerance nor Simon Wiesenthal. It should be named The Hauptmann Center, in honor of its extortion techniques.

To be blunt, Rabbi Marvin Hier is a gangster. Like Jesse Jackson, he beats people into submission and donations with name-calling or the threat of name-calling. Okay, he’s not AS bad as Jesse Jackson, but he is damned close, and Hier is OUR problem. Hier has personally contributed to rendering the term “Anti-Semitic” meaningless, and worse, even a proof of independent thinking, a refusal to bow to Jewish or Zionist pressures. He speaks on behalf of the Jewish community when he is a politically fringe character, and for damned good reason.

He makes Abe Foxman look moderate and restrained by comparison.

Hat tip: EV

What would you demand for forgiveness?

Seven Fat Cow negotiates…

For a long time, many of us have grumbled that Jewish victimology is a dead end, or worse. That promoting Holocaustism and lashing out at all critics of Israel and American Jewish policies were taking us to a place we do not want to go.

The Forward elucidates these concerns in its editorial, “Joe-Bashing and the Jews.�? We can rail at anti-Semitism, or note it privately, or we can spend our energy and focus correcting where we have gone wrong communally. As always, defense groups who claim to speak for the Jewish community are disproportionately at fault. They have no right to speak on the Jewish community’s behalf. They are causing us serious harm.

The Forward notes,

Ironically, when Israel’s foes successfully present themselves as underdogs and victims of Jewish bullying, the very attempt by Jews to fight back becomes evidence for the prosecution. And the more the Jewish community’s advocates try to respond with their old, familiar weapons of self-defense — the historic claims of victimhood and vulnerability — the less effective the weapons become.

American Jews have long presented themselves as fighting allies of the embattled Jewish state. Now the other side is firing back, using the Jewish community’s own weapons. American Jews are caught off guard, unprepared for the counterattack[...]

American Jews still have vast resources. They have many more friends than enemies. But a critical milestone has been passed: The post-Holocaust taboo on demonization of Jews is very nearly gone.

Pretty astute, huh? Too bad the Forward didn’t take a more explicit shot at the Neocons, the Jewish defense organizations, and Jewish communal “leaders�? and laymen who act like a bunch of whiny, hypersensitive crybabies. That would be badass, but I guess even the independent Forward doesn’t quite have the sack to…oh…oh wait…oh, my.

It doesn’t help when the biggest Jewish representative bodies allow themselves and their community to be identified in the public eye with a discredited administration and a larger conservative movement in terminal meltdown. It doesn’t help when Jews ignore or deny Israel’s genuine shortcomings. It doesn’t help when they overreact to criticism — hostile, benign or just clumsy — and intimidate their critics into resentful silence, reinforcing their enemies’ worst stereotypes.

We live in an era where we literally pump money into regimes whose interest it is to destroy the Zionist Entity, and pretty much any city in the West. The pumps are needles, feeding our addiction. In the U.S., only NYC has successfully resisted the oil addiction in a significant way. The blood-oil money supports terrorism, and supports the growth of fundamentalist Islam. It also—by the way–destroys our environment. It is destroying our environment quite quickly. On the bright side, oil money will probably lead to funding fundamentalist regimes successfully acquiring full-scale nuclear programs a few years before we really feel the full environmental repercussions of our petro-based economy.

So anyway, it is only natural and responsible that Big Aish is concerned…about Nazi Germany. Rabbi Yaakov Salomon explains why he is boycotting any product made in today’s democratic Germany.
This is Big Aish’s version of socially responsible living. This is how Rabbi Salomon expresses his concern for the West and for the Jewish people. He personally boycotts…not today’s Saudi Arabia, but 1940’s Germany.

If Big Aish had a responsible bone in its body, it would at the very least be advocating for a mass transit agenda, sufficient bike paths in every city, and alternative energy. It would explain the apparently oh-so-difficult to understand reality that increased fundamentalist power (from oil proceeds) is bad both for Jews, and for the West. Even for those in the West unconcerned with Jews.

But no, no, no. Clearly, God will take care of that without any hishtadulus (effort) on our part. No need for that. Haredim don’t do hishtadlus. Not today. That’s for the godless secular Jews, and “the modern.” Instead, as fundamentalist Holocaustians, Aish’s rabbi chose classic victimology with zero payoff, except to justify continued resentment with his public “personal” boycott which accomplishes…nothing.

Look at this nonsense — they show the problem — they show automobiles…and Big Aish’s only concern is that they are made in Germany. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

Rabbi Salomon wants to know what other Jews feel, not just think, about his very public “personal” boycott.

I feel he is being foolish. I feel both he and Big Aish are irresponsible.

The Jewish Cultural Devolution Continues

As some of you may be aware, Los Angeles is lucky enough to be
(finally!) getting “not one but two major Holocaust museums.�?

Of course, as someone committed to promoting Holocaustism and a death camp culture, both internally and for the world, I get a lot of nachas over this, and hope that every Jewish community sees the need to spend communal funds for two (or perhaps three or four) Holocaust museums in every city. Obviously, some of the smaller Jewish communities might only to be able to afford a Holocaust Museum AND a separate Holocaust memorial, but we should take our cues from LA, the city that has The Industry, and whose Jews know that, “There’s no business like the Shoah business.�?

I am personally not willing to state quite yet which museum I like more. But I will say that the Museum of Tolerance has one heck of a gift shop, and that’s a pretty important aspect of the experience for me.

But still, some people aren’t satisfied, because WE aren’t thinking big enough.

The Forward’s Rebecca Spence reports,

Yona Goldrich, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor and longtime museum board member who raised most of the funds for the memorial — he also contributed $1 million to the new building project — said that one Holocaust museum in a city the size of Los Angeles isn’t sufficient. “Even if you had 20 museums, it still wouldn’t tell the story,�? he said. “Even if they built a Holocaust museum on every street corner in Los Angeles, it wouldn’t be enough.�?

Oh, I couldn’t agree more. I personally would like to see all cities turned into Holocaust City-Museums in their entirety. Let’s start with one. Obviously, we will rename it, “The Metropolis of the Living.�?

Please don’t worry your pretty little heads about elderly Holocaust survivors living in poverty (we will honor their memory once they are dead), or on the need for universal Jewish day schools. There is no need for general Jewish education when we can just push the Holocaust. Because unfortunately, the Holocaust still isn’t completely synonymous with what all people think about when they think of Jews or Judaism, and we need to change that.

So don’t let Hitler win! Help build a Holocaust Museum on every city block, and when that doesn’t do shit…build some more.