‘Never Again for Anyone’: the Latest Anti-Semitic Campaign
Consider the thoughts of Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg, from Edison, New Jersey. Speaking to this author, he said: “No Holocaust survivor should ever turn against their own people or the state of Israel.”
Rosenberg was born to Holocaust survivors in Germany and came to the U.S. soon after. He has of late faced anti-Semitic attacks in New Jersey. In October 2010 he invited me to speak at his synagogue, where we discussed with members of his congregation how to defeat Holocaust obfuscation and the distortion of history.
Lying about history, when not distorting history, is exactly what Epstein and Meyer are doing. They know that not a single child or adult has been gassed in the Gaza Strip by the Israelis. Nonetheless, Meyer equates his survival with the fact that someone in the Gaza Strip lived through “Operation Cast Lead.” This anti-Zionism, which has nothing to do with free speech or the First Amendment, echoes everything glib and fraudulent about neo-Nazi, leftist, Islamist, and mainstream European propaganda against the Jewish state of Israel.
As Vladimir Jankélévitch — French philosopher, Holocaust survivor, and résistance fighter — analyzed as early as 1971, comparing Israel with Nazi Germany involves at least two forms of anti-Semitism:
1) An obfuscation of the Holocaust, as a form of “soft” Holocaust denial;
2) A defamation of the only democracy in the Middle East, the Jewish state of Israel.
The ugly campaign carrying on by the name of “Never Again for Anyone” has to stop immediately. It defiles the truth about the Shoah and spreads anti-Semitic propaganda on campus, around the American nation, and in Canada.
Public debates are a cornerstone of democracy. Equating Auschwitz with the Gaza Strip, as Hajo Meyer has done, has nothing to do with democracy, debate, or free speech. The organizers of the Rutgers event excluded some 400 pro-Israel and Jewish protesters from the event.
Rather than a standard of justice, a vicious double standard has been set up and propagated by credulous and weak liberal university campuses.
Author Hannah Sternberg put the Rutgers event and the entire campaign in a nutshell: “‘Never Again for Anyone’ is not about peace. It is about annihilation.” Now — not later, when it is all too late — we must seize the moment to combat this anti-Semitic campaign.
The table is now set. We have massive anti-Semitic propaganda sweeping the United States and Europe. So when Iran gets its nuclear bomb, who will really care if the Jews “get what they deserve” and are wiped off the map? After all, according to these people, the Jews are the “oppressors,” the Jews are the “problem,” so we need another “final solution” to deal with them.
It makes me ill and sad to think the world has learned nothing since 1945, when the last “final solution” was finally brought to a halt. Now we ARE forgetting and we ARE poisoning another generation both here an abroad against the very people we “claim” to support (although you would be hard pressed to find such “supporters” in the Obama administration). And when Iran gets its nuclear bomb and uses it on Israel (as it surely will), what will we do? Will we even bother to retaliate? At this point in time and with this president, I’m not really sure we will. And shame on us for that.
When someone with a just and virtuous heart learns of the tactics imagined, created, and employed by these people they wonder, what kind of human being has the ability to even imagine something as wicked as this? Every last damned one of them is WARPED by EVIL. This latest is breathtaking in its monstrosity.
This is what makes it so difficult for a certain amount of normal people in the middle: They are unable to believe in such Evil. They are happy to hear about every single moderate Muslim, because their old belief that the world is unable to kill 6 billion Jews again is supported by every sweet and moderate Muslim. They tend to ignore Hamas’ charter and things said by A’jad and Qaradawi and other people, as it makes their life uncomfortable. They doubt that there is such Evil. And that’s a desastre.
Sorry. I meant 6 million, of course.
“When someone with a just and virtuous heart learns of the tactics imagined, created, and employed by these people they wonder, what kind of human being has the ability to even imagine something as wicked as this? Every last damned one of them is WARPED by EVIL. This latest is breathtaking in its monstrosity.”
What motivates them ? I haven’t heard of these particular people prior to this article, but I have seen the same argument on a university campus when I was last at school.It was disgusting but pitiful.It made me cringe and caused a falling out with a life-long friend.No loss really.
I have thought about it since-many times. No doubt this state of degenerative reasoning is preyed upon by evil, the evil of those around these folks who think that if this perspective comes from Jewish people, it carries more weight.
I have come to think this is an outcome from a combination of things that occured in these people’s lives. Firstly, they may have been children of extremely fearful people to begin with or were never able to recover from the terror they were exposed to. They may have blamed their fellow victims for allowing the Holocaust to happen and the trauma they endured. Finally, they may feel guilt for surviving. Altogether, a pretty uncomfortable way to live life-sickening fear/unresolved anger/oppressive guilt.
It has to be a severe mental illness brought on by trauma. That is the only thing that makes sense. Obviously Israel is nothing whatsoever like Nazi Germany. Not even in the wildest imaginings. These ‘activists’ can torture the facts until the cows come home(and I have seen that many times at the Guardian forums) but they look ridiculous to the sane and informed.
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The problem here is a serious one though because these messages of distortion are targeting a very large body of young,inexperienced,uninformed know-it-all-university students. Will the listeners ever take the time to verify any of the facts or will they just take the emotional route ? I’m not hopeful because I know of two people teaching in university that propogate this misinformation, are too emotional to approach and are woefully ignorant on this topic.
The people who do this should be treated as damaged beyond recognition but a campaigne should be waged in order to counter them. I don’t believe they could continue if they were held in an atmosphere where they were challenged and rebutted.
You ignore the possibility they chose to be evil.
Rob,
Yes, there is always that too.
Coopting the morality of honorable people is one of the many strategies of the people who dedicate their lives to destroying freedom.
Agitators like this cause trouble, for sure, but the road to genocide is paved with indifference. Evil flourishes when good people do nothing.
We see that indifference right here on this website. Articles on other topics attract dozens or even hundreds of posts. Articles on antisemitism or Israel attract precious few. Most of the people who flock to this site probably read no more than the headline, and yawn.
Meanwhile, the storm clouds gather.
Indifference is a killer.
I don’t think it the world understands this isn’t about Jewish or even American. It’s about anyone who doesn’t believe in Islam. The lackadaisical attiude of our politicians and the rest of the non-muslim world, including ALL the major powers, toward the evidence will cause the situation to end up with anotehr Hitler episode only larger. Russia and China sit back and claim “they better not mess with me” and that’s a joke. These extremists will talke on anyoe to get to their supposed maker.
We should all sit “shiva” (Jewish period of mourning for the dead) for these useful idiots and supposed-jews, and post it on Ytube. That way it can officially be claimed that they are dead!
The blood libel “Israelis commit genocide against the Palestinians” is VERY EASY to debunk. Palestinian population has increased approximately 250% since 1967, from apx 1 million to apx. 2.5 million. Here is the demographic study. Please note, in order to hussle more money from the UN, Palestinians like to say their numbers are even larger. If this gang of liars is coming to a town near you, just go to university or whoever is hosting and show them this report.
Look at Ben Zimmerman’s, Mike Wise’s and Robert Seid book on the population of the Palestinians.
It is on line at http://www.biu.ac.il/Besa/MSPS65.pdf
The Arab population in the West Bank and Gaza grew from 942,000 in 1967 to
2,466,000 in 2003. We found that the PA had inflated their population
numbers, so that instead of the 3.8 million they claimed were in the WB and
Gaza in 2003, it was really 2, 466,000.
Either way, there was substantial growth, with the population growing over
250% in that time period according to our data. The PA data would suggest
even higher growth–almost 4 times the original population.
They apparently believe it’s the least competent genocide in history.
(Or, one can almost hear these cretins whining to themselves: “Those wily Jews! They hide their genocide by letting the victims’ population grow!”
“Those wily Jews! They hide their genocide by letting the victims’ population grow!”
That’s too good, must remember it
The campaign “Never Again for Anyone” this month went on tour across the United States — from D.C., New Jersey, and New York, to Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Toronto.
You do realize that Toronto is not in the United States, right? TOronto is the capital of the province of Ontario in Canada.
Just as there have been Citizens of the US who think Communism is an appropriate form of government; there have always been fringe Jewish groups, such as Neturei Karta, who feel the state of Israel should not exist.
That they distort the horrors of genocide by claiming that the state of Israel does this to people in Gaza is sad, but not surprising. It is a mental illness that causes these people to seek attention in the most awful way. We’re giving them the stage that they crave. They don’t care if we are publicizing their own self loathing.
So let’s agree that these people are loons and avoid them. Let the propagandists make whatever they want of such idiots. That’s all they are. Idiots. File them away among their ilk such as Jane Fonda and be done with them.
“Jewish anti-Semitism is a well-known phenomenon”
As is American anti-Americanism. Both are a symptom of the mental disorder called liberalism.
My apologies. I just posted another meassage without filling in my info.
When i post infrequently, I just forget.
Excellent post, Mr.(?) Heni.
I have not heard of this angle of attack on common sense and decency.
Um. It’s the arabs and muslims who are attacking people in the West. Not the other way around. Just look at the murder, rape, muggings and assualt statistics. White on brown crime is EXTREMELY rare. And the Israeli’s are simply defending themselves. The reverse is not true. They’re the ones who need to walk on eggshells. Not us.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The infamous Cold War espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has taken a new turn. Their son, Robert Meeropol, after years of denial, has finally admitted “his father deserved to have been convicted of the legal charges that led to his parents’ execution. ‘Yes, he was guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage,’ ” Meeropol told New York Times reporter, Sam Roberts.
That must have come as a body blow to the Times, which has long been a leader in the leftist campaign to exonerate the Rosenbergs and, as late as 2003, fifty years after their executions, was still editorializing, ”The Rosenbergs case still haunts American history, reminding us of the injustice that can be done when a nation gets caught up in hysteria.”
There may have been a degree of hysteria at the time when American schoolkids hid under their desks to shield themselves from The Bomb, a thermonuclear explosion compliments of the U.S.S.R., and their parents read newspapers detailing the Russian threat but there was no injustice in the case of the Rosenbergs and their accomplice, Morton Sobell.
Like Julius and Ethel, Sobell also pled not guilty. However, he got away with a sentence of 30 years and served less than 18 at Alcatraz and other federal prisons. Forty-two years after his release, he admitted his own and Julius Rosenberg’s guilt, also to Sam Roberts. Asked whether he were a spy who fed American nuclear secrets to Uncle Joe Stalin, the aged Sobell tried to mitigate his crimes and replied, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, call it that. I never thought of it as that in those terms.”
If there were any injustice in the Rosenberg-Sobell trials it lay in the fact Sobell, and Ethel Rosenberg’s brother and another accomplice, David Greenglass, didn’t also fry in Sing Sing’s Old Sparky, its electric chair. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4119)