Admissions against interest about ‘the Holocaust’
Inspector Clouseau of the Yad Vashem Gendarmerie: The Case of the Wily Dictator
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT that the Holocaust Establishment had done its worst to trivialize the shoah, put it in competition with other massacres in the victimization marketplace, and make the world loathe the very word, something comes along to make you sit up and take notice.
Continue reading“Senior editors at … publishing houses still welcome me warmly as a friend, invite me to lunch in expensive New York restaurants and then lament that if they were to sign a contract with me on a new book, there would always be somebody in their publishing house who would object.” Thus the English historian David Irving, famous for his histories of Nazi Germany. He made these remarks last week in the opening statement to the lawsuit that he has brought against Penguin Books and Prof. Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University.
Continue readingKim Murphy’s article “Danger in Denying the Holocaust” could be dismissed as amateurish at best were it not the Jan. 7 Column One story of the Los Angeles Times. Because of where it appeared, some of the issues it raised must be addressed. She doesn’t present the stakes in the Irving vs. Lipstadt libel case and she falls into the traps set by the deniers, hook, line and sinker.
Continue readingChristopher Hope called it “achingly beautiful”; the New York Times said it was written “with a poet’s vision; a child’s state of grace”; Anne Karpf in this paper described it as “one of the great works about the Holocaust”; all were agreed it was a masterpiece. There is just one problem — Binjamin Wilkomirski’s memoir of surviving as a Jewish child alone in the Nazi concentration camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz was a fabrication, invented from beginning to end, one of the great hoaxes in publishing history.
Williams as ‘Jakob the Liar.’
I HAVE A CONFESSION to make. Recently, I experimented with the latest product of a shameful industry. No, not porn. Though the experience did involve pictures — moving pictures.
Continue readingBy making the Nazis’ crimes the benchmark for oppression, he writes, we risk trivializing other atrocities
Continue readingIn the past 14 months, the director of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., was fired when he objected to the museum being used for political purposes.
The editor of an influential magazine on Jewish affairs was called “brainless when it comes to the Holocaust” for criticizing the growing field of Holocaust studies.
Continue readingMILL HILL minister Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet criticised what he called “the Holocaust-obsessed” generation in a Passover sermon, suggesting that money would be better spent on Jewish education.
Continue readingBELGRADE — Aca Singer, who lost 65 members of his family in the Holocaust, says he didn’t survive Auschwitz to die from an American bomb.
Continue readingI agree with D.M. Schonberger (CJN, Dec. 24) that the remarks of Irving Abella were deeply offensive. To refer to the Holocaust as a “metaphor” in education (CJN, Dec. 3), whatever his meaning, is an insult to all of us who lost members of our family.
Continue reading