Stan Nadel http://www.jta.org/user/profile/43875 en-us zsilberman@washingtonjewishweek.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Or maybe Prokhorov is just cooperating with Putin by providing him with a safe alternative for disaffected voters--as opposed to real opposition groups. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 She's not her father, but her father and his Antisemitic buddies still play major roles in the party she represents. Why is it so difficult for some intelligent, concerned people to draw the obvious conclusion and not get suckered into supporting these supposedly "reformed" far right parties? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Edwards claims "It is disturbing to me that my clearly defined position regarding a two-state solution was questioned so quickly and intensely simply because I agreed to speak before a group of my constituents about these issues, not all of whom share the entirety of my views, nor I theirs. " But the press described this event as a fundraiser for the group and if that's true she's doing more than simply agreeing to speak to her constituents. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Dennis lives in a fantasy world if he thinks NYC high schools generally had rifle ranges. The clubs went to ranges to shoot but didn't have their own. And the club members used guns belonging to the ranges and kept there. They didn't own the guns and they certainly didn't carry them in the streets. Dennis must be a Texan or such like to imagine this--or way too young to know what life was like in the 1950s and 60s 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 As an ex NYer and former resident of the border region near Montreal I can tell Amnon that he has this backwards. Montreal bagels are too hard and too sweet, they are suitable only for feeding birds. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 If Gessen wants to be a historian she should learn a bit more history. She says the museum in Birobizhan ignores the "nearby" Japanese front in WWII as if that were a problem. Given that the USSR and Japan remained at peace until the Soviet declaration of war in the summer of 1945, just before the Japanese surrender, it is hardly surprising that it gets no attention as opposed to the German war that cost the USSR 27 million dead. We could uses a good history of Birobidzhan, but that really requires a good knowledge of Soviet history as a background and this comment by Gessen doesn't inspire confidence. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Meatball, Mordechai wasn't head of state and Achiminidjad isn't Jewish (and never was). 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 A non-Jewish friend who lived in Honduras for two years tells me that Antisemitism was in fact very widespread there--all across the political spectrum. But even more problematic is that the source for the alleged quote that underlies this whole story is the regime that overthrew Zelaya and which is desperate to smear him in order to undermine support for his return to office. Why are JTA and others so willing to take his enemies claims on this? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is terrible if true, but this article only mentions the source briefly and it turns out the source is the regime that overthrew Zelaya and which hates him and his supporters. Without corroboration I remain very suspicious of such a claim 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is in an old Estonian tradition of Antisemitism, he probably believes the Mossad was responsible for 9-11 too 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Excellent statement by the editor. As for Zolidus, s/he misses the point and confuses criticism with censorship. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "The Jew in exile from America" is a mistranslation. Eggers called Loewy an "Exile Jew from America" meaning he was a Jew who had gone into exile in the Nazi years and then returned--no that he was exiled from the US. The "Exile Jew from America" is a common neo-Nazi phrase used to turn Jews who escaped the death machinery into traitors rather than victims. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Davis isn't Fatah's Jew, he's their ex-Jew. The Guardian story this is drawn form says : "he is vague both about the circumstances of his conversion to Islam shortly before the wedding and where he now lives, describing those arrangements as "private". 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The region didn't lose Hungarian autonomy after WWi, it was simply part of Hungary before the Hungarians lost the war and Hungary was stripped of 60% of its territory. Romania grabbed this territory with its non Romanian population and has held on to it ever since and oppressed its peoples--Hungarians, Jews and Gypsies alike. I have no sympathy for Jobbik or the Hungarian Guard, but let's get the history right. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 from what I understand of the Byzantine structure of power in Iran it isn't at all clear to me that then President Rafsanjani had to have been involved in the AMIA bombing. The Revolutionary Guards could very well have gone ahead with only the approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Shaul Levy seems to be unaware of the KKKs history of Antisemitism and violence against Jews. He ought to learn about the subject before spouting off on it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Cold War Liberals (and ex Trotskyists) became neo-cons when their anti-Communist crusade against the Vietnamese was rejected by the majority of American liberals. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Such nicely measured personal abuse from Shaul Levy and JPeditor. I could reply in kind, but then they'd say I'm a mean foulmouthed leftist. Feh!!! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Santomauro is a Holocaust denier--referring to it as a "legend" indeed. Snyder does not suggest that there was no gassing with Zyklon B at Auschwitz when he refers to gassing with carbon monoxide in the earlier gas vans and gas chambers, but Santomauro tries to twist it that way. And of course he misrepresents his book--suggesting it is produced by Amazon rather than just sold there. The term scum of the earth comes to mind. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 No President can bind any of his successors to any policy--that's why we have elections. Treaties are another matter, but there is no treaty here and maybe even no presidential agreement. Liz Berney sholuld read the constitution before running for Congress. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Nice of Feldmajer to let V. Orban and Fidez off the hook this way, but Fidez paved the way for Jobbok, the Hungarian Guard, and this wave of Antsemitism. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 EWC displays his ignorance by making this claim--nobody who knows the history of the Nazis and their hatred of Socialists, Communists and Jews (who were all linked in Nazi ideology) would ever make the mistake of claiming the Nazis were leftists. This is just an unsubstantiated ideological claim by conservatives and right wingers to distance themselves from the crimes of their fellow right wingers, the Nazis--who were put in power in Germany by geting the support of the German conservative parties by the way. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 so far all of these have been cases of right wing or Islamic terorism--no matter what Marc B thinks. There have been no cases of left wing Antisemitic terrorism since the days of the Red Brigades in Germany and there is no evidence that there is any likelhood of any in the immediate future so I don´t see where Goldenberg gets off making an equivalence. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ben-Ariel is a stupid ignorant racist bigot. Referring to Emmett Till's lynching as alleged is like referring to the Holocaust as alleged--the grisly photos of both are easily found on the internet, but for Ben-Ariel it is just an excuse for a racist rant. Denying or minimizing the Nazi campaign against and widespread killing of Homosexual men is again like Holocaust denial and once again seems to be an expression of Ben-Ariel's bigotry. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 What rock does Pierre Goldshmid live under? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hitler didn't obsess over the anti-Gypsy hatred he shared with many other Europeans and so he didn't write about them in Mein kampf. For a while the Nazis even toyed with preserving the Gypsies as Aryans, but the pressure from German police and others for a "final solution to the Gypsy problem" brought them to conclude that genocide was the right way to go and they went ahead and killed larger proportions of the Austrian and German Gypsies that they did Jews. If Hikind's mother survived Auschwitz she can tell him about the Gypsy camp there and how they were all killed. Shame on him for such nasty stupidity. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is a bit misleading. It was not the membership of the UCU that voted for this, it was the unrepresentative annual meeting. Annual meetings have passed similar resolutions in the past which were then voted down by the membership. This time the annual meeting made sure that wouldn't happen by also voting to prohibit a membership vote on this question. With such undemocratic procedures the UCU is loosing all credibility and large numbers of members. Britsh academics shouldn't be tarred by the actions of the UCU leadership. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Austrian reports all say the teenagers were all all local from near Ebensee in Upper Austria, not from Salzburg as reported here. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Congratulations to JTA. this story is now all over the news here in Austria--but JTA got it out first. BTW, the general reaction is outrage and this has raised the broader issue of Antisemitism in Austria. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The play is indeed Antisemitic and the story is misleading in characterizing it as a play about Israel. It is precisely because it is about 7 "Jewish" children and not about 7 "Israeli" children that the Antisemitic nature of the play is indisputable. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This story may have generated headlines around the world, but this is the first I've heard about it and I live in Austria and read the papers and magazines here as well as watch the Austrian tv news. In other parts of Tirol they refused to accept Russian tourists--it was good for the Salzburg hotel business. As for the neo-Nazis at the Ebensee memorial, the police have reportedly arrested 4 teenagers, ages 14-16. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Is this a moderated forum or not? Tamar's slanderous comment calling Sen. Schumer [whose name she can't even spell] a kapo should never have been posted and should be removed. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Given current developments in Hungary, by the time Zental gets there the Hungarian Guard will probably get him put in the government. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 excellent Uri--good going! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Archbishop is an ass with his idiotic comparison of catholic and Jewish victims, of course, but his clearly false claim about Gypsy victims outnumbering Jewish victims shows that he is really an Antisemite 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "Jewish leaders in Belgium, Austria and Poland all told JTA they saw no specific anti-Semitism resulting from the financial crisis, nor did they see any strengthening of far-right groups in their countries." I don't know who JTA spoke to in Austria, but while it is true that open Antisemitism hasn't increased here (yet) there has been a noticeable rise in support for the far right of late and it seems unlikely that the economic crisis hasn't contributed to it. If unemployment takes off, as it has only just begun to do, the results could well be disasterous. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Let's see, the demonstrators threw stones and injured 15 policemen--so the police used tear gas and stun grenades on the counter demonstrators. Or is the story just badly written? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 On further thought have to say that a 15 or16 year old recruited into the SS was unlikely to be able to withstand the peer pressure to conform and it's hard for me to say that he should be held fully accountable for his actions there the way an adult would. Children who have committed atrocities in the Central African Lord's Resistance Army are treated as victims, not perpetrators and I'm not sure Kumpf shouldn't fall into that same category. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Austrian newspaper der Standard reports that Kumpf won't be prosecuted here because he was underage when he was an SS guard--only 17 at the time of the massacre at Trawaniki. It seems that a law allowing underage perpetrators to be prosecuted for war crimes that was passed under pressure from the Occupation authorities expired 20 years after the end of the War 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is the old German Nazi tactic of staging marches through working class neighborhoods to provoke publicity and violence--or the American Nazi march in Skokie for the same purpose. Shame on them for doing it and even more shame on them for taking up a Nazi tactic. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hitler and the Nazis had real problems with the Catholic Church and intended to subordinate it to the Nazi movement as they did Protestantism via the German Christians. That said, Hitler stil saw himself as a Catholic and was never excommunicated or otherwise rejected by the Church. As for Pius XII, the key to evaluating this document is to determine if these "Jews" were members of the Catholic Church. It would be nothing new if they were Catholics defined as Jews by Nazi race laws--and I suspect that's what was going on here. OTH, if they were Jews who were not Catholics and stil Jewish, this would require a reconsideration of Pius' role in the Holocaust. As for witchcraft persecutions, sure there were lots by Protestants, but there were tens of thousands of witchcraft suspects burned in Catholic countries too and they were hunted by the Benedictines and the Inquisition. Just look at Carlo Ginzburg's books based on the records of the Inquisition for some concrete examples. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 As Murray Anderson said, the Poles were in no position to resist the Germans plans for the death camps. In fact hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Poles were also murdered there. Polish Antisemitism was and is a problem, but this is an unfair and obscene charge. As for the Chmielnicki Massacres, they were committed by Cossacks and Ukrainians for the most part and they were aimed at Polish landlords and other Poles as well as Jews, so it makes no more sense to blame Poland for them than for the Shoah. Avner & Gelfand need to learn a bit more about history before they mouth off about it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Crimea was never part of the Ukraine before the 1950s. It was Russian territory from the time it was conquered by Czarist Russia until it was given to the Ukraine by Khrushchev in the 1950s. So the Jews killed there by the Nazis in 1941 were by definition Russian Jews and not Ukrainian Jews as reported here. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00