This is official and has the Anti-Defamation League’s stamp on it.

[A very big h/t to  LRC for this one.]

In an article titled, “Why is Putin Calling the Ukrainian Government a Bunch of Nazis?” the ADL interviewed David Fishman, professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary, to explain why Ukraine’s neo-Nazis aren’t so bad.

“There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, just as there are in the U.S., and in Russia for that matter. But they are a very marginal group with no political influence and who don’t attack Jews or Jewish institutions in Ukraine,” Fishman said.

It seems some Nazis are better than others.

And wearing the Swastika and carrying SS paraphernalia is apparently fine, so long as you don’t attack Jews or Jewish institutions. And so long as Israeli billionaires are financing your Nazism.

That’s right. Absolutely the only thing wrong with the Nazis, according to the ADL, is that they persecuted Jews and Jewish institutions.

Now, I don’t in any way downplay or minimize that genocide…but the holocaust was not the only crime committed by the Nazis.

Has the ADL forgotten the disabled and elderly people the Nazis killed?

Or the culling of untermenschen such as political dissidents and “inferior” races.

What about Lebensborn, their breeding experiments that turned women into brood-mares and entailed the kidnapping and execution of infants?

What about medical experimentation on people in concentration camps?

Are we supposed to forget the racially-motivated  murder of Roma people and Slavs?

Is there nothing wrong in the supremacist  adoration of the Nordic or Aryan type and the creation of a whole false history and science of racial hierarchy to validate it?

What about the persecution of homosexuals?

What about leading the German people down the path to the destruction of the entire country?

To the death of a generation of young men, the rape of millions of women, the dismantling of the economy, the destruction of  their cultural heritage, the monumental reparations they had to pay, and the shame and humiliation they  bore for generations.

If people are allowed to rehabilitate Nazi symbols as long as they stick to less powerful victims,  would the ADL also argue that Southerners can dress up in hoods and burn crosses, just so long as they only frighten swarthy immigrants without political clout, but not American blacks?