Discussing the links between the orthodox Holocaust narrative and its impact on societal and political developments in the Middle East
By Jett Rucker ∙ November 10, 2015
Angela Merkel during the 51st Munich Security Conference 2015(photo by Marc Mueller; https://commons.wikimedia.org) Germany—or the German government and its taxpayers, anyway—is all things to all people, at least so far as money, weapons and even Lebensraum (living space) are concerned. While Germany was still digging itself out of its own rubble, in 1952, then-Chancellor Konrad…
By Jett Rucker ∙ November 8, 2015
Hitler talking to the Jerusalem Muftihttp://goo.gl/Eprz4J In one breathtaking stroke that only the head of the Israeli state could have even attempted, Binyamin Netanyahu outdid practically every revisionist in the world who ever addressed the subject of the Holocaust. The genocide of the Jews was not Hitler’s idea, nor immediate wish. Well, part of that…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1998
The spread of revisionism across the Middle East shows no sign on slowing. In February Roger Garaudy, the octogenarian French intellectual convicted of violating French law against denying the Holocaust (see SR 51 & 52), traveled to Egypt on the invitation of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and Information. On February 15 the official Egyptian…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ February 1, 1998
The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics … will examine one of the untruths which continues to wreak the most havoc after over half a century in today’s world, and not only in Israel: the myth of the 6 million Jews exterminated that has become a dogma justifying, sacralizing (as the very term “Holocaust” implies) all…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 1, 1998
The trial in Paris this January of French intellectual Roger Garaudy for authoring the Holocaust revisionist book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics has sparked an unprecedented explosion of support for revisionism across the Middle East. Political, intellectual, professional, labor and religious leaders, as well as ordinary citizens, have spoken out, demonstrated, and given their…
By Ray Hanania ∙ June 11, 2014
When Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, a Palestinian professor at Al-Quds University in occupied Jerusalem, organized a trip for his students to visit several former Nazi concentration camps, he sparked an important debate. Unfortunately, the debate has been one-sided focusing on Arab denial of the Holocaust while ignoring Israel's denial of its oppression of Palestinian rights. The…
By Jett Rucker ∙ December 1, 2013
The prospect of American military intervention in the Syrian imbroglio dominated global news through most of this September past. As the situation festered, it appeared that the Obama administration had in mind to fire a number of its super-accurate missiles into Syrian territory to “punish” the forces—said to be the legacy government of Syria—that had…
By Jett Rucker ∙ December 1, 2011
Israel, for reasons its rulers claim to be unable to divine, is beset by enemies—enemies, conveniently, much of whose territories abut the territory assigned Israel by the 1948 UN General Assembly resolution that led to its creation. This makes the territories adjoining Israel available for conquest and occupation to “prevent attacks on Israel” from them,…
By Lou A. Rollins ∙ April 1, 2011
by James Scott, Simon and Schuster, New York, N.Y., 2009, hardcover, 374 pages. “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”—familiar saying In June 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israeli air and naval forces attacked the American spy ship the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea killing 34 and wounding 171 of the crew members. James…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 28, 2013
Abraham Foxman,National DirectorAnti-Defamation League605 Third AvenueNew York, NY 10158-3560(212) 885-7700, www.adl.org 12 September 2013 Dear Mr. Foxman: With regard to the recent killings by chemical weapons in Syria, either by the Syrian State or others, you have been quoted as saying: “Our people have been exterminated by the use of gas. We cannot stand by…
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