Category Archives: Holocaust

The ad that launched EATAPETA Day: PETA’s still lying about it

Six years ago, on March 15th, we celebrated our first-ever Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day, in response to the offensive “Holocaust on Your Plate” ad campaign by PETA. If you haven’t heard by now, PETA has started yet … Continue reading

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Kristallnacht

Remember. UPDATE: Interestingly, or perhaps not, this article on Kristallnacht featured on the Guardian’s Comment is Free has exactly zero comments. It’s true. The Brits don’t really give a damn about dead Jews. Only live Palestinians.

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No denying

Ynet and the Jerusalem Post reported on the recently found plans for Auschwitz. Elder of Ziyon emphasizes what it implies about the Germans. These are utterly ordinary architectural drawings, complete with cross-hatchings to symbolize where brickwork would be. People drew … Continue reading

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Plans for Auschwitz discovered; Pat Buchanan in shock

Original plans for the Auschwitz death camps have been discovered in Germany. Original plans for the construction of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, including a gas chamber and crematorium, have been found in a Berlin apartment, a newspaper reported … Continue reading

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Comics stars get serious

Comic giants, Stan Lee, Joe Kubert and Neal Addams have turned their attention to getting a woman’s paintings back from the Auschwitz museum. As all-star comic-book team-ups go, this one beats the first meeting of Superman and Spider-Man. Three of … Continue reading

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Obama and the Holocaust myth

Obama is using the Holocaust to score rhetorical points. Mind you, he’s not the only person ever to have done so, but I’m calling bullshit on this quote: “I am always taken back to sort of the core question of … Continue reading

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Ordinary evil

Rochus Misch is nostalgic about his former boss. Misch recalls: “He had a deep and quiet voice. There was no need to be scared if you made a mistake” His boss particularly enjoyed the parties thrown by his wife and … Continue reading

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Pat Buchanan: Hitler’s Willing Prevaricator

Pat Buchanan is now blaming the Holocaust on Great Britain, indirectly at least. He says that yes, Hitler hated Jews, but no, he wasn’t going to destroy them. Britain made him do it. That Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite is … Continue reading

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LBJ: A righteous Gentile

I didn’t know LBJ rescued Jews from the Holocaust. Unwilling to stand by idly while Nazi henchmen murdered the “People of the Book,” Johnson met with Jewish leaders and said simply, “We [must] do something to get Jews out of … Continue reading

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They hate me! They really hate me!

The Jew-hating bastards on yet another Holocaust denial site (based in the U.K., there’s a surprise) have linked to one of my old teaching posts (and not in a good way). And they don’t like my No Israel-Bashing Zone policy, … Continue reading

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A woman of valour

May her name be remembered. Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who organized the rescue of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis and was later honored by Yad Vashem memorial, has died. Sendler’s daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, told The Associated … Continue reading

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Never Again, defined by the Mossad

Uzi Arad, a former director of intelligence for the Mossad, has an op-ed in Ynet today that states exactly what I’ve been saying for decades: When Jews say “Never again,” we don’t mean that never again will the world commit … Continue reading

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is the day that Jews all over the world remember the victims of the Holocaust. Even as we do this, the Palestinians and their Arab and Muslim allies once again try to expropriate the language and images of the … Continue reading

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Endgame

Remember how smug, insufferable, know-it-all David Ignatius informed us that the NIE showed that our policies towards Iran were all wrong? Here’s how he put it in a Post-Global forum: Sometimes events create space for diplomacy where none existed before. … Continue reading

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German in the Knesset

History is being made in Israel with Angela Merkel’s visit. On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli time, she’ll address the Israeli govenment. She’s already visited Yad Vashem and other sites. A few MK’s are boycotting her speech. However, not everyone at the … Continue reading

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