"HOLOCAUST DENIAL" DIGEST
1. Freedom of Expression for Me, not for Thee
2. "Nazi Hunter Sees threat Worse than 'Holocaust Denial"
3. "U.S. Government appoints new Anti-Semitism Monitor"
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Editor's Note: "Holocaust denial" (note the strongly religious-heresy connotation, i.e. denial of an infallible truth), is an all-consuming obsession with Judaism and Zionism's thought cops. The crime of "denial" is a function of the religion of Holocaustianity itself, which serves as a rationale for the abridgment of freedom of speech. Israeli law Professor Amnon Rubinstein
announces (he does not attempt to
argue or
persuade) that doubting what Zionists and rabbis decree to be true ("The Holocaust" in all its myriad claims and manifestations) is
outside the protected perimeters of freedom of speech. The title of his essay, "Freedom of expression belongs to professors and students alike" is therefore, the usual Pharisee malarky and hypocrisy.
These imperial Israeli personalities are not above a little "Holocaust denial" of their own, however. Rubinstein, for example, casually dismisses the Israeli holocaust in Jenin as "
a famously imaginary massacre," while the inventor of the "Holocaust denial" taxonomy itself, Deborah Lipstadt, is on record denying the Allied holocaust in Dresden, Germany. But that's okay. Rubinstein and Lipstadt are members of the Holy People and as such, they have the sovereign right to deny holocausts against Germans and Palestinians; but don't
you get it into your noodle to doubt claims of gas chamber mass murder in Auschwitz. If you can grasp and submit to that logic, you're well on your way to rabbinic ordination. --Michael Hoffman
Freedom of expression belongs to professors and students alike
Amnon Rubinstein | Jerusalem Post | Nov. 23, 2009 | www.amnonrubinstein.org
According to a recent report in Ha'aretz, students at Tel Aviv University are complaining bitterly about leftist professors. The students are said to be hurt by the professors' positions, "but are afraid to express contrary views, lest this harm their grades."
So wrote Prof. Nira Hativa, head of the university's center for advancement of teaching. She added that in many end-of-year feedback forms, students complained about professors who "attack the state of Israel, the IDF, the Zionist movement and even worse than that."
She also added that the complaints allege that "Leftist professors, as distinct from rightist ones, feel absolutely free to express their political views, even when there is no relevance whatsoever to the subject they teach."
The head of the university's student union tells of similar student complaints, and the talkbacks to this news item - whatever their credibility - also told about students who are afraid to argue with such professors.
This news item did not surprise me. A small group of anti-Zionist, anti-Israel faculty members has turned Tel Aviv University into a podium from which to broadcast their political propaganda.
Two notable instances: a group of 30 professors signed a pro-Iranian petition last year warning against Israeli and American designs and "adventurism" against the Islamic Republic, without even mentioning its president's threat to wipe Israel off the map and his Holocaust-denying outbursts.
The second example was a conference held by the Tel Aviv Law School in which the subject was the alleged mistreatment of "political prisoners" (i.e. convicted Palestinian terrorists) that invited, as guest speaker, a released prisoner sentenced to 27 years in jail for throwing a bomb into a Jewish civilian bus.
This is not academic freedom. This is using academic podiums to deliver Israel-bashing propaganda. When I taught at Columbia University, I could see how TAU guest professors would stoke the flames of anti-Israel rhetoric; one of them insisted that the university show the film Jenin, Jenin, which charges Israel with perpetrating a
famously imaginary massacre.
The usual defense of these TAU excesses is that all professors are entitled to academic freedom. This is inherently true in principle.
Academic freedom, a special niche of the freedom of speech principle enshrined in Israeli law, should incorporate marginal and iconoclastic views. This is especially true in a society like Israel which suffers from a constant state of emergency and stress.
But academic freedom, like all human rights, is not unlimited. Austrian and German courts rightly decided that Holocaust denial is not protected speech; Jean Paul Sartre went further, believing that all anti-Semitic expressions are unprotected by the right to freedom of speech.
A call to boycott Israel, such as was made by a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University's political science department, is certainly unprotected, in a similar way to the Supreme Court's ruling that a party which seeks the destruction of Israel cannot run in the Knesset elections.
But there is one further point: academics cannot seek shelter behind their much-touted freedom, while denying the students' right to express their own opinions. If what is alleged in Ha'aretz is true, then these TAU professors are violating the law. Article 5 of the Student's Rights Law states this explicitly: "Every student has the freedom to express his views and opinions as to the contents of the syllabus and the values incorporated therein." In other words, the students, too, have a measure of academic freedom. If the allegations made by the students - probably mainly in TAU's social sciences departments - are true, the university is violating the students' lawful rights. (End quote; emphasis supplied)
The writer is a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a former education minister and Knesset member, as well as the recipient of the 2006 Israel Prize in Law.
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Editor's Note: The U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), led by Mr. Eli Rosenbaum, is a taxpayer-funded agency of the Federal government which never arrests or prosecutes Judaic Communist or Israeli war criminals. It is solely constituted as an extension of Israeli Talmudic vengeance against accused Nazis. This is an unconstitutional use of Federal power and a flagrant example of the manipulation of Big Government to serve the interests of a foreign power, but you won't hear a peep of protest from the Sarah Palins on the Right wing about it. What scares the yarmulkes off the OSI witch-hunters is that the previously sound-asleep goyim of Eastern Europe, who were on the receiving end of the loving caresses of the
Judiac Communist war criminals who ruled over them for decades, are starting to demand equal justice, always an affront to the Talmudic mentality. --Michael Hoffman
Nazi hunter sees threat worse than Holocaust denial
By Tom Tugend | The Jewish Journal | Nov. 23, 2009
European anti-Semites are pushing a new line “more pernicious than Holocaust denial” to denigrate the murder of six million Jews, warns veteran Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff. Particularly in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, prominent politicians are trying to persuade the European Union’s parliament to formally equate Nazi and Communist crimes as equally horrendous genocides.
The not so subtle subtext of this proposal is to point to persecutions by “Jewish Communists” of the patriotic citizens of the three countries during the post-war Soviet domination of the Baltic and East European countries.
A major goal of this campaign is to minimize or rationalize the active collaboration with the Nazis by the police and militia of the Baltic states in the killing of Jews, Zuroff said. Zuroff, who has been tracking down Nazis for 30 years as the point man for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, looked back last week on his triumphs and failures at a press conference and public talk at the Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, and in a new book,
Last Chance: One Man’s Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice (2009, Palgrave MacMillan).
During his talk surveying the high and low points of his career, Zuroff, a native New Yorker who heads the Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office, opened with some “good news.” During the last two months, four men on his list of the top 10 living men accused of Nazi war crimes have been extradited or readied for trial. They are former concentration camp guard John (Ivan) Demjanjuk; Sandor Kepiro, a former Hungarian policeman accused of participation in the Novi Sad massacre of 4,000 Serbs, Jews and Romas; Charles Zentai , a former Hungarian soldier who allegedly beat an 18-year old Jew to death for not wearing a yellow star; and Heinrich Boere, a leader of a Dutch SS death squad.
Since 2001, there have been 82 successful prosecutions of war criminals, but 702 cases are still on file and time is running out, Zuroff, 61, said. “I expect to continue my work for another three or four years, by which time the last of the war criminals will be gone,” he said. During a separate news conference, Zuroff made public a Wiesenthal Center study ranking more than 30 countries on their willingness and efforts to go after surviving Nazi war criminals. The best showing was by the United States, which has been responsible for 37 of the 82 successful legal actions worldwide against accused war criminals. Much of the credit goes to the
U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, whose director, Eli Rosenbaum, participated in the news conference.
In addition to the prosecutions, federal authorities have prevented more than 180 persons implicated in war crimes from entering the United States. Rosenbaum said that “It’s precisely because we have been proactive and so tenacious in pursuing these cases over decades that you see fewer now.” High marks for continued active prosecutions went to former Axis partners Germany and Italy. Poland has also been cooperative, but the kudos ended there. Countries taking little or no action include Norway and Sweden, which cited their statues of limitation as barriers to continued prosecution. Other countries remained largely passive, lacking either the political will or know-how to launch investigations, Zuroff said. These countries include Australia, Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuanian and the Ukraine. Asked to name his most successful and most frustrating cases during his Nazi hunting career, Zuroff named Kepiro in the former category and Dr. Aribert Heim in the latter. Kepiro, one of the alleged organizers of the Novi Sad massacre, was tracked down by Zuroff and his allies along a circuitous trail, running from Argentina to Scotland to Hungary. Heim, though not as well known as his fellow physician and SS officer Dr. Josef Mengele, was just as sadistic in his medical experiments and was nicknamed “Dr. Death” by inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Heim, an Austrian himself, was the top target of “Operation Last Chance,” with rewards totaling about $450,000 on his head and the target of police inquiries in 22 countries. After an intensive four-year hunt for Heim by Zuroff, the New York Times reported that Heim had found ultimate refuge in Cairo, had converted to Islam, and died in 1992. (End quote; emphasis supplied)
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Editor's Note: There is no U.S. "State Department special envoy to monitor and combat" anti-Christianism, anti-Germanism or anti-Palestinianism. Only so-called "anti-semitism" enjoys this unique protective "monitoring" (i.e. surveillance and spying) function of the Federal government. Partisan politicos please note: long before President Obama engaged this "special envoy", the State Department under Republican George W. Bush had it fully--and rabidly--implemented. Let's see what that great Jeffersonian Glenn Beck has to say about this outrageous violation of Jefferson's separation of Church and State doctrine, which went up in smoke many years ago - to be specific - on the day Ronald Reagan dedicated the synagogue disguised as the U.S. Holocaust Museum on priceless taxpayer-owned real estate in Washington D.C. --Michael Hoffman
New anti-Semitism monitor sees role as reactive, proactive
By Eric Fingerhut · Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) | November 23, 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) --
Hannah Rosenthal knows her new position fighting anti-Semitism will include responding to anti-Jewish attacks and rhetoric, but she also figures to be heavily involved in outreach, too. "I expect there will be some reactive things when hate rears its ugly head," said Rosenthal, who started work Monday as the State Department's new special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
"But I see some of this as proactive, being an ambassador and educator to organizations, to activists, to people in various parts of the world, on the importance of viewing anti-Semitism as a human rights issue."
Acknowledging it may sound a little "hokey," she said it's about "participating in some strategies that will build tolerance and make the world a better place."
Following a stint in the Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, Rosenthal served from 2000 to 2005 as executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), an umbrella group comprised of the major synagogue movements, national organizations and local Jewish communities across North America. Most recently she was the vice president for community relations for the not-for-profit WPS Health Insurance Co. in Madison, Wisc.
Rosenthal, 58, a former rabbinical student, is the daughter of a rabbi who was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. She says she comes from a family that "believed in relationship building and that the worst danger Jews face is isolation," so her personal and professional lives have been devoted to "enlarging the tent and enlarging the table." Conservative bloggers have criticized the nomination, noting that Rosenthal served on the advisory board of J Street, an organization that has called repeatedly for robust debate about Israel-Palestinian issues while backing U.S. pressure on Israel and the Palestinians in pursuit of a two-state solution, criticizing Israel's invasion of Gaza and opposing new anti-Iranian sanctions at this time. Critics also point to an opinion piece that she wrote in The New York Jewish Week in which she asserted that pro-Israel events were being "dominated by narrow, ultra-conservative views of what it means to be pro-Israel." Conservative bloggers also noted that Abraham Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, issued an open letter criticizing Rosenthal's claims. Foxman could not be reached for comment -- his office said he was on a plane. But the ADL did issue a statement quoting Foxman as saying that "this appointment signals the continued seriousness of America's resolve to fight anti-Semitism." Rosenthal said that she has served as a member of J Street's advisory council because "there's genuine concern about how we proceed in the Middle East and I happen to believe that the status quo is unacceptable." She believes that some of the controversy over J Street can be attributed to generational issues. "If the older generation doesn't look to the younger generation for ideas and support," she said, "we're going to be isolated and so will Israel." Rosenthal said the Middle East will be one of the areas with which she'll be dealing in her new job. "Some of the criticism Israel sees and its isolation in the United Nations clearly comes from a place of anti-Semtism, but not all of it does," she said. "We need to call out anti-Semitism when it's there."
Rosenthal said she also is concerned about the increase in Holocaust denial around the world, especially from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as reports of recent upsurges in anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Holocaust denial "is despicable," she said. "Anyone who denies the Holocaust happened must be confronted immediately."
Rosenthal said she didn't seek the anti-Semitism position -- she actually was advocating for someone else in the role -- when Obama administration official Michael Posner suggested she might be the right person for the job. Rosenthal knew Posner, now the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, from her time at JCPA. "I was comfortable in Madison, Wisc.," she said. "But he was very insistent." Rabbi Steve Gutow, who succeeded Rosenthal at the helm of JCPA and has known her since the early 1990s, said he thinks Rosenthal is "ideal for this position" because not only is she a committed Jew, but she has a talent for "seeing under the surface" and a "disarming way about her." Rosenthal has that "sort of let's have a conversation" type of personality, Gutow said, in which she can sit down with those who claim they are not anti-Semitic and "help them be able to see it." Rosenthal's predecessor in the anti-Semitism post, Gregg Rickman, said he doesn't know Rosenthal, but "I don't doubt for one second her qualifications and think she'll do a marvelous job." Rickman said he hopes she will pay particular attention to venues such as the U.N. Human Rights Council, which he said is dedicated to solely going after Israel, and Arab countries, where bias against Jews is often cloaked in clever language. "If she's unequivocal" on that, he said, "she'll be very successful." (End quote; emphasis supplied)
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