By Hadding Scott ∙ May 4, 2019
This is an examination of the strange form of historical revision used by Dinesh D'Souza, in particular his invocation of the Holocaust supposedly to bludgeon the left, the way it is normally used by the left to bludgeon the right. First I look at how he arrived at this form of propaganda. "Hitler Didi" is…
By Hadding Scott ∙ February 12, 2019
Political Rhetoric and Profit Killing the SS by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard is a book inspired by motives other than the quest for truth. The birth of the idea for this book may have occurred on The O'Reilly Factor, 9 March 2016 when Bill O'Reilly did a program with guest Bernie Goldberg, with…
By Hadding Scott ∙ July 23, 2018
There was a big controversy following the publication by Recode on 18 July 2018 of a lengthy interview with the proprietor of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, wherein he told an interviewer, among other points having received less notice, that he would not ban “Holocaust denial” from Facebook, and he also said that people who dispute the Holocaust may…
By Hadding Scott ∙ January 31, 2018
It seems to be widely understood that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States largely because of an expectation that he might halt or at least drastically slow demographic change caused by immigration. Certainly for Ann Coulter, who forecast the imminent demise of the United States through immigration in her book Adios America!,…
By Hadding Scott ∙ December 1, 2017
Smithsonian “Smart News” of 11 October 2017 and Deutsche Welle of 9 October reported that a thirteen-page letter from a member of the Sonderkommando at Birkenau, discovered in 1980, has been rendered legible. Deutsche Welle says that the letter was written in late 1944, then “stuck in a thermos, wrapped in a leather pouch and buried in…
By Hadding Scott ∙ November 13, 2017
A few days ago, Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks show on YouTube was moderating a panel discussion at the second annual Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. When a Muslim on the panel said that Muslims should pursue moderation (thus implying that some Muslims had in some way gone wrong), Uygur undertook to defend Islam by…
By Hadding Scott ∙ June 30, 2017
The website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a page about the conflict in Syria where, it declares: "Seven decades after the Holocaust and despite promises of Never Again, a regime is targeting its own people while the international community stands by." (USHMM, Syria: Introduction) The same message was elaborated during a ceremony staged…
By Hadding Scott ∙ February 23, 2017
Leading Jewish Holocaustians recently attacked President Donald Trump for issuing a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day that did not specify that the victims were Jews. The result is that the public has been informed by Deborah Lipstadt that the Holocaust is by definition an exclusively Jewish matter, and by Yehuda Bauer that the old war propaganda…
By Hadding Scott ∙ January 31, 2017
If anything is certain about Josef Mengele, it is that he was not the monster that mass-media represented. In fact he was a man hounded and oppressed by reckless propaganda, culminating in Hollywood's depiction of him as the wealthy mastermind of a global Nazi conspiracy in The Boys from Brazil (1978) the year before his…
By Hadding Scott ∙ December 31, 2016
Monday through Thursday this week Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies has been hosting a conference, attended by about 200 Jewish educators, titled: “The Shoah and Jewish Identity: Challenges in Jewish Education.” (J. Sharon, Jerusalem Post, 28 December 2016) The consensus is that the Holocaust is now an important part of the Jewish identity….
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