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EMPIRE OF LIES: Some Nazis More Equal Than Others Says ADL

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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?

 

ADL releases global anti-Semitism poll

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Abraham Foxman of the ADL has released his Global 100 poll of world-wide anti-Semitism.

The poll assessed the reaction of people to the following statements. Agreeing with 6 or more of the following makes one an anti-Semite.

ANTI -SEMITIC STEREOTYPES:

1) Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/the countries they live in].
2) Jews have too much power in the business world.
3) Jews have too much power in international
financial markets.
4) Jews
don’t care about what happens to anyone but their own kind.
5) Jews have too much control over global affairs.
6) People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.
7) Jews think they are better than other people.
8) Jews have too much control over the United States government.
9) Jews have too much control over the global media.
10) Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.
11) Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars.

According to the results, 1.09 billion people in the world, about 26%percent of its entire population, harbor anti-Semitic beliefs.

The highest scores were in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which registered 74%.

This was followed by Eastern Europe 34%.

Then comes Western Europe at 24%.

Sub-Saharan Africa is at 23%.

Asia is at 22%.

The Americas are at 19%.

Oceania is at 14%.

The highest non-MENA score was found in Greece – 69%
Iran held the highest MENA score – 56%.

I don’t know what conclusions Mr. Foxman draws from all this, but here are my thoughts:

The areas with the highest levels of anti-Semitism – Greece, MENA, Eastern Europe, are also ones where either the communists or the global financial industry, has had a significant negative impact.

This is not intended as hate speech. I’m just looking for logical causes for the existence of such a wide-spread feeling, since I don’t really believe in a spontaneous eruption of irrational hatred toward one group of people for no other cause but their religion or ethnicity.

To believe in such “motiveless malignance” would require me to ascribe a mysterious and non-human quality to Jewishness, which sounds a lot like real anti-Semitism to me.

Besides, if motiveless malignance is everywhere, why is so little of it in the US?

But so it is. America has less anti-Semitic feeling than anywhere else.

It follows that humanitarian anti-anti-Semitic libertarians should be aiming their sermons about anti-Semitism at some other region of the world than the USA – perhaps at the Ukraine?

But they aren’t, are they?

Instead, it seems that the Humanitarian libertarians are making common cause with the anti-Semites in the Ukraine.

Now why is that, I wonder. Could it be that “anti-anti-Semitism” is not about anti-Semitism at all?

If so, what is it really about?