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Joe Kaufman O Meter #2: “Moved by Kahane”

By on June 24, 2009 in Loon Flashback, Loon-at-large
Joe Kaufman

Joe Kaufman

Kaufman-O-Meter #2:

In a now infamous article titled, A Kahane Legacy Lost Kaufman wrote a eulogy admiring the late Rabbi Meir Kahane and expressing angst and deep sadness at his loss while affirming that the ideology that Meir Kahane developed was correct.

It is an embarrassing article for Kaufman, especially since he attempts to now posit himself as a mainstream American patriot when in fact he has supported radical violent/racist ideologies and participated with banned organizations such as the JDL, founded by Kahane and designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department.

Kaufman wrote in the article that he posted on the now defunct JDL forums in 2001,

I never did get that chance to see him [Kahane], though. He was murdered seventeen days before the event…I recall seeing one of my fellow JSU members crying, after hearing about this. I couldn’t believe that a person that I knew so little about…could elicit such feelings in someone… at least someone that wasn’t related or even a friend of the family! But I soon learned otherwise, as I watched the film that was shown in Kahane’s place. It was a film of a speech that he had given previously, and I cannot describe to you properly just how moving it was!

Who exactly is Kaufman so “moved” by? Well, Meir Kahane was an advocate for the expulsion of all non-Jews from the Biblical Israel which includes the West Bank and Gaza, he was a proponent of a theocratic Jewish Kingdom governed by Torah Law, he founded the terrorist JDL which was banned in the USA and the Kach party which was eventually banned in Israel for being racist and violent. Adherents to the Kahanist ideology have engaged in terrorism against Muslims and Arabs, as was the case with Dr. Baruch Goldstein who massacred over 30 worshipers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Palestine.

So how long will ole’ corky Kaufman put up the facade that he is a die-hard American patriot when it seems he is motivated not by democratic ideals but the spirit of his late mentor Rabbi Meir Kahane?

Also see:

Kaufman-O-Meter #1: “Nuke the Mooslims!”

Who is he?:

Joe Kaufman, has been on the Anti-Muslim scene for quite a while now and is dubbed by the far Right-Wing FrontPageMag as, you guessed it…another one of their ”Investigative Journalists.”  That he has been influenced by Meir Kahane and the Kahanist ideology is well documented, as is his love and angst for Kahane.

In the past he has been accused of contributing to the terrorist organization founded by Kahane known as JDL (Jewish Defense League) while others accuse Kaufman of at the very least holding views that parallel JDL positions.

Kaufman’s unsavory associations and views are quite real and they are only dangerous to America if you’re stupid enough to swallow his conspiracy theories but other than that he is simply a half-baked paranoid conspiracy theorist, some what along the lines of the “9/11 Truthers.”

In every nook and cranny there is a “Mooslim”…hiding and ready to get ya…so beware and be afraid. Be veryyyy afraid goes his story.

In this special LoonWatch series we will detail the exploits and punchlines that Krazy Kaufman throws out there and attempts to pass on as serious journalism, commentary and investigation.

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    • Jekyll

      hmmm

    • The_Punisher

      Why not gives jews their bloody ‘holy land’? there are already about 67 muslim countires, let the jews be already. Its only land, the world would be a better place if Isreal were let be and muslims in turn would prosper because they would be seen in a better light.

    • Kahane was right!

    • Northlander

      This is a wonderful series you’ve started on Kaufman. Kaufman in the grand scheme of things is a nobody and his hypocrisy is borne out by his depraved and subjective comments. I remember reading a back and forth he was having once in the comment section on FrontPageMag in which his associations and comments were being brought to his attention. He was asked by the one he was debating with to repudiate Meir Kahane and his terrorism, he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

Holocaust Museum Shooting Exposes the Absurdity of Islamophobes

By on June 17, 2009 in Feature, Loon-at-large
Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck

Recently, as many who follow the news are aware we were given a glimpse of hatred and racism with the shootings at the Holocaust Museum.  It was a tragic hate incident in which a security guard lost his life reminding us that there is a lot of prejudice out there directed at many different communities. It also revealed the strange and obscurantist pathologies that exist amongst the extreme right-wing and those who attempt to pass themselves off as mainstream media.

So it is not hard to believe that even with this shooting, which was carried out by 89 year old James Von Brunn, a right-wing White Nationalist, there are those who want to blame it on Islam and Muslims! This highlights something well known, though not much talked about, in which loonie Islamophobes and Muslim haters will attempt to tie every event that they can to Muslims regardless how unrelated it may be. Such was the case with  Steven Emerson who claimed that the Oklahoma City Bombings revealed a “Middle Eastern trait,” or Debbie Schlussel claiming that the Virginia Tech Massacre was committed by a Muslim even when it was clear that it was a Korean male with no link to Islam.

These are the times we live in, with heightened suspicion of Muslims translating itself into absurd ideas that Muslims are behind every plot, they are the boogey men in your closet and the monsters underneath your bed.

This time we have Glenn Beck and none other then — you guessed it — Debbie Schlussel outlandishly linking the Holocaust Museum shooting to Islam and Muslims. As Gawker noted,”Beck, with a straight face mind you, looked into the camera and said that America as it stands today is a “boiling pot” fueled by extremists groups like Al Qaeda and 9/11 truthers who are sowing the seeds of extremism and hatred in this country.”

Beck implies somehow in his warped world that America is brimming with extremist (Muslim) terrorists from groups such as Al-Qaeda. To prove his point he shows footage of a man speaking about a crazy plot in Arabic. We aren’t told who the guy is, where he said what he was saying or how that indicates that America stands today at a “boiling pot.” It is a strange point to make especially when the shooter James Von Brunn had nothing to do with Islam or Muslims, in fact it highlights what seems to be Beck’s attempts to cover up for his incendiary rhetoric which really does fuel extremism,

Beck…doesn’t make mention, much less offer an apology for, the lunacy he’s been promoting over the radio and television airwaves over the years, lunacy that directly feeds the derangement of people like James von Brunn, inflammatory rhetoric he’s been spewing about America turning into a totalitarian communist regime under Obama, the New World Order, Mexicans pouring over our borders to take our jobs and rape our children, FEMA concentration camps, ACORN rigging an American Presidential election for Obama, that dark, powerful, unseen forces are controlling the American economy, how liberals might to assassinate him—We could go on and on and on.

Debbie Schlussel

Debbie Schlussel

Debbie Sclussel, described by Gawker as an “Anne Coulter wanna-be” goes further than Glenn Beck stating explicitly that “It is because of Muslims…that neo-Nazis feel comfortable manifesting their views about Jews.” Can it get anymore loony than that? This is coming from a woman who recently joked about the genocide of Palestinians, while writing about clashes between rival Palestinian forces which left six dead Schlussel stated, “As we say in lawyer jokes, that’s a start. Six down, a few million to go.” Does the irony of these peoples statements go right over their heads?

Here is the totality of the absurdity spewed by Schlussel,

It is because of Muslims—who are the biggest contributor to the worldwide rise in anti-Semitism to Holocaust-eve levels—that neo-Nazis feel comfortable—far more comfortable!—manifesting their views about Jews. Until 9/11 and our resulting new tolerance for Islam, the neo-Nazi types were marginalized and howling at the wind. We know who has been targeting Jewish museums and centers affiliated with Jews in recent years. And it hasn’t been, in general, 89-year-old White guys.

Mr. Von Brunn has been on this planet for 89 years, and he didn’t feel comfortable shooting up a Holocaust museum until now—this new era of “tolerance,” in which we must tolerate the most extremist Muslim behaviors and sentiments. It’s, in general, not 89-year-old White guys telling people at churches worldwide and in religious schools that the Jews are the devil incarnate, a filthy tribe, the sons of pigs and monkeys, subhuman, etc.

No, it’s guys with names like Mohammed and Ahmed on our own American streets who make Mr. Von Brunn far more at ease in 2009 than he was even in 1999 to attack places associated with the Jews. They created the comfort zone for James W. Brunn to engage in today’s shooting.

Moreover, not only do White supremacists and neo-Nazis work with Muslims in many, many documented cases and investigations. But they are basically one and the same. The only difference is that one guy is named James and the other guy is named Ahmed. And the former only has a few thousand discredited, marginalized compatriots.

Whereas the latter has over a billion followers and a U.S. President kissing their collective ass.

Not only is she attempting to blame the Holocaust Museum tragedy on Muslims but she attempts to blur the obvious-as-day-and-night difference between Muslims and Nazis by saying, ‘Neo-Nazis/White Supremacists and Muslims are one and the same thing.’ Really Debbie? This fairy-tale from Debbie world would probably not sit well with the many Muslims who have faced violence from White supremacists and Nazis or Black Muslims who are part of Islam or Arab Muslims who are a Semitic people despised by the Nazi Aryan ideology.

In  “Debbie in Wonderland” all rationality goes out the window when you swallow the Islamophobic pill — anything goes. Up is down and down is up, black is white and white is black, and Nazis are Muslims and Muslims are Nazis.

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    • Patrick Tierney

      The nut who shot up the Holocaust Museum has been misinterpreted as a “right wing fanatic”. The majority Conservative thought has always been Pro-Israel,and conversely, the majority Liberal(even, ironically, amongst Jewish-Americans)position has always called for sympathy for the Palestinians!(See: vehement,outspoken anti-semite President Jimmy Carter)

      RE: President Obama’s faith. He’s never been dedicated to any religion (unless Socialism counts-and I believe it is a “religion”). As a new kid in town, Obama joined Reverend Wright’s congregation for street cred in his desire to work his way into the Chicago Machine. Even so, I believe he never attended more that a few services there (have you ever sen photos/videos of him in Wright’s church beside his marriage and his children’s baptisms?). That’s why it was news to him what Wright was preaching on Sunday morning. Observers have said that he hasn’t been seen attending church since he’s been in office except on Christian holy days since he’s been in office. He is on the other hand, very active in his devotion to Socialist Ideology in most all of his political decisions.

    • Barry Lyndon

      Quick question, why aren’t any of the right wingers ranting about how cozy bush was with the saudis? Or bush’ pro-islam comments? Why don’t we hear them claiming that Bush is a muslim? Oh wait that’s right, they’re racist hypocrites, if a white guy’s pals with the saudis that’s okay in their eyes but if a Black man visits them he’s a ‘jihadi muslim’.

    • Adam979

      Obama did not bow to the Saudi king, can you leave your silly thoughts to yourself please.

    • kaka

      elric was agreeing with your point you tard edu ma kate yourself so you wont make a fool of yourself on the interwebz

    • Bonni

      Elric, Americans DO NOT bow to Kings, ANY Kings. It’s the reason we fought the Revolutionary War and have a Constitution, you fool.

    • Elric66

      “Obama was not born Muslim…his father was not a practising Muslim and he was not raised by him…end of.”

      What does it matter if his father was practicing or not or if he was raised by him? And of course there was his deep graceful bow to the Saudi king.

    • Nissa

      Yeah..posting a few sensationalist stories without context of the cultural and historical situations really does a lot for Muslim women. I actually work in the community to help Muslim women, and they would take offense at your avatar…its Orientalist and plays up to stereotypes about Muslim women needing to be ‘unveiled’. It doesn’t insult Muslim men it objectifies Muslim women…. – would you expose Muslim women being oppressed by non-Muslims? No, because it doesn’t fit into your agenda.

      Anyone who thinks Spencer knows anything about Islam is more than a little deluded…and as for telling the world how evil I am….its morons like him that are part of creating a polarised society in which violence is sanctioned as ‘defense’. Clearly I do have a sense of humour, I think you are bloody hilarious, if a little loony.

    • Bonni

      Nissa, I have done more to expose Muslim oppression of women than any so-called feminist could even thing of doing. As far as my avatar goes, it is done as an insult to Muslim men, not women but apparently you have no sense of humor either. Spencer knows more about Islam than you Muslims care to admit and you don’t like it because he tells the world how evil you people really are.

      I hope you had a look at some of the Beheadings on my website. They are among the most popular along with the Muslim men marrying and having sex with little girls stories.

    • Nissa

      Oh dear Bonni- of course we all know he is Muslim…and now we run the free world..pity that hasn’t helped the Palestinians or the Kashmiris or the Rohingya? Also…please don’t throw around words like ‘taqiyya’ when you only have the Robert Spencer definition of it and know nothing about the concept and purpose… Obama was not born Muslim…his father was not a practising Muslim and he was not raised by him…end of. On a different note, your delightful bare naked muslim site has a lot on how Muslims abuse Muslim women and then you little avatar actually sexualises and dehumanises Muslim women- of course as the reproducers of Muslims sympathy for them only extends as far as it suits you, right? I’m sure that is lost on you though…

    • Emanuel is a self-hating Jew whom real Jews know is not really Jewish. But like many liberals, he worships at the altar of liberalism, NOT Judaism. In WWII Germany, he would have been one of the Hitler Jews who shoved fellow Jews into the gas chambers to avoid being gassed themselves.

      And yes, I know that Obama is a Muslim because he was born a Muslim and never was baptized into the Church, which means he is still a Muslim. In Islam, if one apostates oneself, it is punishable by death and we don’t see any Muslims calling for his head. Even his so-called pastor has a degree in Islamic studies.

      But more than what I feel, Muslims know he is still a Muslim and I have much evidence of Muslims saying as much on camera. You should look up the word Taqiyya if you want to know what Obama is.

      Have you noticed that he has not stepped foot in a church since becoming President?

    • Garibaldi

      Bonni, Your comment reflects perfectly how ludicrous Islamophobes and anti-Muslims are. Do you still really believe that Obama is a Muslim? Do you believe Obama hates Jews when Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is Jewish?

    • It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you. Even though the Holocaust Museum shooter wasn’t a Muslim, his actions were encouraged by the Muslim in the White House, a Jew/Israel hater extraordinaire.

    • Courtney

      “Moreover, not only do White supremacists and neo-Nazis work with Muslims in many, many documented cases and investigations. But they are basically one and the same. The only difference is that one guy is named James and the other guy is named Ahmed.”

      Yeah right!!!! Like you see Neo-Nazis sitting down to tea with any Muslim… They are an equal opportunity hater! I really don’t like Glenn Beck.

    • wrister21

      Very good article. It points out the on-going trend for the right wing extremists to take an event and twist it into whatever ends they are promoting – typically hatred towards a specific group whether it be Muslims or liberals. Frankly I’m getting tired of this sort of crap. I just learned of another loon – Pam Geller – who I guess has been around a lot longer than I care to think about. It gets so old but I fear that the ranks of the loons are growing so, hopefully the ranks of the sane are growing too. Such a shame that these people are getting main stream exposure. Thanks Fox. And Priscilla, thanks for something positive. I need it after Schlussel and Beck’s negativity and hatred.

    • Salaam, Thank you for the comment Priscilla and for highlighting the outreach of Muslims working together with the Jewish community. It is a very good lesson on solidarity and community harmony in the face of hatred and violence.

    • tope_gudgeon

      Schlussel is uninformed. If she looked at any newspaper, she would find the assailants history. 1983 – convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board. 1981 – He was arrested outside the room where the board was meeting, carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun. At the time, police said Von Brunn wanted to take the members hostage because of high interest rates and the nation’s economic difficulties.”

      I thought we were blaming everything on the economy these days.

    • remora_inconnu

      I’m so happy to see this article here so quickly. Good choice of quotes.

      Do you think anyone has told her that Muslim does not equal extremist? Seriously, maybe she doesn’t know.

    • Garibaldi

      Thank you for the compliment WDSF. Debbie is a hate-spewing individual. It is sad that she saw the need to use the Holocaust Memorial tragedy to further her hatred of Islam. Has she been on Fox News recently? I wonder what the last time it was she was on. Any knowledge on that?

    • WDSF

      Once again great work!

      It is well-noted that Fox commentator “Debbie” is hate-spewing individual. The tragedy at the Memorial highlights how right-wing supremacists permeate in our society.

Ginny Brown-Waite Defends Anti-Muslim Hate

By on June 8, 2009 in Loon-at-large, Video
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Words of Ginny Brown-Waite Wisdom: “Except for Timothy McVeigh every terrorist has been a Moslem.” Way to go Ginny, you sure paid attention in school.

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    • Cassidy

      “Also, the Italian Mafia is a terrorist organization, they’ve been using terrorist attacks for so many years. Funny thing is, the bosses of Italian Mafia are all fervent-catholics, especially they’re very found of Mary, the mother of Christ. But no one on their right mind would say they are motivated by christianity. Religion is just a mean that some people use for the terrorist attacks.”

      The mafia are a (fading) organized crime organized crime group, not terrorists since terrorism is basically idealogical violence against civilians and the mafia has been motivated by money,

    • AF

      Also, to that list add Aum Shinrikyo, a religious japanese organization responsible for the 1995 terror attack on the Tokyo’s metro, when they killed 12 people and injured hundreds. Also, the Italian Mafia is a terrorist organization, they’ve been using terrorist attacks for so many years. Funny thing is, the bosses of Italian Mafia are all fervent-catholics, especially they’re very found of Mary, the mother of Christ. But no one on their right mind would say they are motivated by christianity. Religion is just a mean that some people use for the terrorist attacks.

    • AF

      Irgun was also a well known jewish terrorist organization.

    • AF

      To that list also add the italian Red Brigades, a comunist terrorist group which has been active for many years. Their latest murder was of an italian politician, a couple of years ago.

    • Francesca Kowalski

      The IRA, ETA, Tamil Tigers, Hindu extremists, Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez aka ‘Carlos the Jackal’, Red Army Fraction, Maoist Guerrillas in Nepal, Shining Path in Peru, GreyWolves of Turkey, Kurdistan Workers Party NONE OF WHICH CITED ISLAM AS THE MOTIVATING IDEOLOGY BEHIND THEIR ACTS OF TERROR !

Debbie Schlussel and the Great Blog Wars

By on June 1, 2009 in Feature, Loon Blogs, Loon-at-large
Debbie Schlussel

Debbie Schlussel

The continuing internet blog wars amongst the anti-Muslims and Islamophobes have been quite funny and interesting for all that they reveal about the agendas driving them.  It was only a matter of time before the fault lines began to appear amongst a group for whom it will be noted (a piece in the future) were really only united by a hate for Islam and Muslims, and in which their real motivations were self-aggrandizement coupled with hatred of the other.

Some bloggers such as Charles Johnson of Little Green Football’s have calmed their rhetoric and focused on other subjects such as science and local politics, while Robert Spencer and his allies have continued their hatred unabated, though stung by the increasing irrelevance of their movement in the Obama age. Who knows how long this will last or the eventual outcome of the Great Blog Soap Opera?

Yet, the fault lines were appearing earlier when in September of 2008 Debbie Schlussel, a well known Islamophobe came out strongly against both Walid Shoebat calling him a “fake terrorist” and Steven Emerson who she described as a “phony.”  All these are welcome contributions to the exposition of the loons and may have softened the image of Schlussel as an Islamophobe in the minds of some if it weren’t for the fact that her motivation in exposing these two wasn’t pure ego.

She was compelled to reluctantly spill the truth about these two for the simple reason that in the case of Shoebat he “cursed her out” and failed to cite the use of Schlussel’s work. So no one should fall under the illusion that her turn of face in exposing these two was motivated by a cathartic realization that they are haters, it was all personal and business — not principles.

In other news the Los Angeles Times has taken Schlussel to task for saying that the recent Ron Howard directed movie Angels and Demons was soft on Muslim Terrorists. Patrick Goldstein aptly describes Schlussel as, “a trigger happy anti-Muslim zealot.”

Just when Ron Howard thought he was in the clear, having avoided being attacks by the Vatican for any anti-Catholic story lines in his upcoming “Angels and Demons,” he now finds himself under fire from the one and only Debbie Schlussel. Revered as a truth-teller in conservative circles, the blogger-critic is actually a trigger-happy anti-Muslim zealot — she went nuclear last year when “Defiance” Ed Zwick director refused to condemn Hamas — who’s now taking aim at “Angels and Demons,” which she (big surprise) thinks is soft on Muslim terrorists.

How did the Howard-directed thriller go from being anti-Catholic to pro-Muslim? According to early press reports, Howard apparently changed the identity of an assassin, who is Muslim in the Dan Brown bestseller, to someone who is now Danish. For the rest of us, this is — how should I put it — not such a big deal. But for Schlussel? She writes:

“Over the years, I’ve written about the many movies in which Hollywood changes the villain or the terrorist in the original script or novel from a Muslim to something else out of politically correct deference to Islam, the religion of whiners (and ultimately, murderers). Now, Hollywood continues in this tradition. … I’m already learning that [‘Angels and Demons’] has been ‘disinfected’ by Islamopanderers (director Ron Howard) not wanting to upset our dear friends in the ‘Religion of Peace,’ who might do something ‘peaceful’ if the movie had stayed true to the book.”

This is just part of a prolonged Schlussel shame campaign, often based on the flimsiest of evidence, to belittle Hollywood for not treating Muslims as wild-eyed villains. In one of her classic posts, she attacked Marvel Comics for giving academic internships to Arab students from the United Arab Emirates, using that as evidence to support her outrageous claim that “Spider-Man and the Hulk are embracing the new Nazis.” She also recently ridiculed the Wall Street Journal for allowing one of its reporters (“with a Muslim-sounding first name”) to write admiringly about a Muslim author doing a DC comic book.

I don’t exactly have a direct line to Ron Howard to talk to him about his casting process. But here’s my suggestion: The next time Howard does a Dan Brown thriller, if there’s a good part for a terrorist, I think he oughta make sure Debbie Schlussel gets first crack at the job.

As Goldstein points out this isn’t the first time that Schlussel has supposedly “uncovered” a so called nefarious Muslim plot against the West — it is a trademark of her paranoid writing. When the Virginia Tech Massacre occurred, the police told the press that the shooter was an “Asian male” Schlussel was quick to tie it to Muslims, saying in a racist screed that “Pakis are considered ‘Asian,’” and that it could be “part of a co-ordinated terrorist plot by Pakistanis.”

Later when it was revealed that the shooter was a student of Korean background and that he authored a play titled Ismail Ax, she continued to attempt to tie the massacre to Muslims, insisting that the Muslim sounding name of Ismail in the play penned by the murderer was enough to conclude that he was a “secret” Muslim and that Islam was to blame.

Needless to say this was rejected by the police as it was obvious that the murderer had no ties to Islam or Muslims. Even more egregious, the ironic fact lost on Schlussel that Muslims died in the massacre.

The case of Debbie Schlussel, a certified trigger happy anti-Muslim highlights the absurdity of the loon blogsphere. All of them have bigger egos than the other and they are willing to throw one another under the bus if it suits them.  It kind of reminds one of the statement “There is no honor amongst thieves” reworked as “There is no honor amongst Islamophobes.”

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    • GuestOfGuests

      “She forgot that the Palestinian people had the same roots and they are the semitics too.”

      I stopped reading here simply because you have no knowledge of antisemitism whatsoever (let it be the term itself or the history of the term, or its meaning).

    • A Logical Response

      2% of Americans are Muslims, so how the hell could Sharia Law get even close to coming to America? Xenophobia at its best.

    • Kirook

      @William

      Evidence please?

    • hack

      Debbie Schlussel’s idiotic screeds get lost in translation. Try reading it in the original German sometime.

    • Marc

      Actually Schlussel is writing a new Europe history. Why is she doing that? She always needs create and “discover” later a new “antisemitic” people, by insulting them first and attacking later. If you try to say NO to what is she doing, actually writing, she treats you as an antisemitic. She forgot that the Palestinian people had the same roots and they are the semitics too.

      About the second WW she should know this:

      “The Polish people were classified by the Nazis according to their racial characteristics. The ones who appeared Aryan were deported to Lodz for further racial examination. Most of the others were sent to the Reich to work in slave labor camps. The rest were sent to Auschwitz to die. Polish Christians and Catholics were actually the first victims of the notorious German death camp. For the first 21 months after it began in 1940, Auschwitz was inhabited almost exclusively by Polish non-Jews. The first ethnic Pole died in June 1940 and the first Jew died in October 1942.

      Three million were Polish Christians and Catholics. It would be very sad to forget even one precious life extinguished so ruthlessly. It would be a tragedy to forget five million.”

      Source: http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/

      “In November 1938, many Jews within Germany decided that it was time to leave. Though many German Jews had emigrated in the preceding years, the Jews who remained had a more difficult time leaving the country because emigration policies had been toughened. By 1939, not only were visas needed to be able to enter another country but money was also needed to leave Germany. Since many countries, especially the United States, had immigration quotas, visas were near impossible to acquire within the short time spans in which they were needed. For many, the visas were acquired after it was too late.”

      Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/stlouis.html

      When they reached Havana on May 30, however, the Cuban government refused to recognize their entrance visas. None of the passengers were allowed to disembark. Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Panama were approached in vain, by various Jewish organizations. Within two days all the countries of Latin America had rejected entreaties to allow these Jews to land, and on June 2 the St. Louis was forced to leave Havana harbour. The last hope was Canada or the United States, and the latter, not bothering to reply to an appeal, sent a gunboat to shadow the ship as it made its way north.

      In Canada, Prime Minister Mackenzie King felt, that this was not a “Canadian problem,” ignoring the pleas of many influential Canadians. Frederick Charles Blair, director of the Immigration Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources said, “No country, could open its doors wide enough to take in the hundreds of thousands Jewish peolpe who want to leave Europe: the line must be drawn somewhere.

      Source: http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/events/holocaust04/st_louis.html

      Talking about visas in this particular period? Those people tried escape a real danger! Did the Jews, from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee help them? There was no dead risk saving the Jews, as in Poland. Can she imagine how those people felt being refused? Does she know how many Poles died, because of hidden Jews? Tried do something? You should read more about Jewish history! She should be ashamed!!!

      Polish citizens have the world’s highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust. As of 2011, there are 6,266[1] Polish men and women recognized as “Righteous” to this day, amounting to over 25 per cent of the total number of 22,765 honorary titles awarded already. It is estimated by one study that hundreds of thousands of Poles concealed and aided hundreds of thousands of their Polish-Jewish neighbors.[4] Many of these initiatives were carried out by individuals, but there also existed organized networks of Polish resistance who was dedicated to aiding Jews—most notably, the Żegota organization. In German-occupied Poland the task of rescuing Jews was especially difficult and dangerous. All household members were punished by death if a Jew was found concealed in their home or on their property. One study estimates of the number of Poles who were killed by the Nazis for aiding Jews, among them 704 posthumously honored with medals, as high as tens of thousands. An other interresting page: http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/index.asp

      Marc

    • Pol

      This women is sick, I have no idea why someone gives her credit for anything she wrote! Any legit paper that publishes her articles or opinions is just as valuable as trash! I have doubt she graduated from high school, because she has no clue regarding history, her latest version is that Poles killed Jews not Germans. I am canceling my subscription to NY Times, Washington Post & Wallstreet, because of that mental fruitcake!

    • Ron Wolf

      In Vietnam there was the expression “Spray and Pray” referring to holding your inadequate M-16 over your shoulders while safe in your foxhole or embankment and letting loose in the general direction of the enemy. All of us have been guilty of this at one time or another “metophorically”, especially in our profligate use of the pronouns “they”,”them”, and “those”, while not identifying the enemy per se. Debbie, however is not paranoid. The fifth colomn is alive and well in this never ending war of propaganda, and the use of political correctness as a handcuff has been used by a certain religion naming Jews as the enemy to be killed since its inception, and has historically expanded the call to convert or die to all infidels from the times of the Crusades to present. I prefer to look at Debbie’s successes that greatly outnumber her blunders. We all know what “they” prefer you to look at. I implore you to finacially support Debbie in the recent frivilous lawsuit launched by CAIR a fifth column home grown supporter of terror disguised in sheeps clothing and unmasked for what it is by Debbie Schlussel, who is finding as I found out how our own legal system can be against us by a clever and implacable foe, all in the name of political correctness.

    • nat

      @ Haec Dies

      Where have Muslims attacked the Constitution, and could you please give examples of the what you mean when you say you’re trying to stop Sharia Law? Look forward to a dialogue with you.

      All the best.

    • Haec Dies

      I dont know how I came upon this site. I have studied Apologetics to Islam. I am also involved in groups trying to stop Sharia Law and also the rise of attacks on our constitution. I am shocked by this site. I am more over shocked that you are all Americans. I really hope you are all studying the idealogy of extreme Islam in America. The Sharia Law that is trying to rear its ugly head here in the states. It is Americans like you that make it hard for us that are truly fighting this. You are only going after the people that are out there and being the strongest voices. I am not in these peoples groups like Pamella Geller or Robert Spencer and I know they have strong personalities but really to go out and call them Islamaphobes is way out of line. You need to stay focused if you are really in the big fight. I have to say really disgusted by this site and I look forward at making your name known among my very large circle because you are more counterproductive than even the Ground Zero Mosque Imam. Friendly fire is the worst ! Shame on you and your cohorts. I only hope you have a change of heart and start lashing out on the real enemy of the free world. I wish you the best.

    • john

      I blame TOM CRUISE for not saving these people by introducing them to SCIENTOLOGY surely these are the type that need it

    • To John Jackson – It’s been a good while since this article was printed and you made your comments; but in case you’re still checking the comments I’d like to respond to what you’ve said.

      I am a Christian – of a unitarian and liberal variety, not fundamentalist or evangelical – and I have come to have a great respect for Islam after doing my own research and reading in the Qur’an. I began looking into Islam after reading an e-mail that attacked Islam and the Qur’an because of the supposed ‘terrorist’ verses in that venerable book. When I started looking up the verses, I found that they are indeed in the Qur’an; but their contextual meaning is quite different from what terrorists and Islamophobes portray. I wrote the following article in my blog, which you might find of interest: http://mystic444.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/does-islam-proclaim-that-all-infidels-should-be-killed/.

      Being of a Christian background, I am very aware that all kinds of ridiculous things can be taught as being ‘Biblical’; and the verses quoted in support of the ridiculous tenets are certainly in the Bible (usually, at any rate). But that doesn’t mean the verses actually teach the ideas they are being quoted to prove. One needs to carefully read the verses in their contexts (both immediate context, and the wider context of the writer’s other writings and the writings of the other Biblical authors) in order to correctly understand what is being taught. One of my ‘pet peeves’ is the ‘Christian’ teaching that Jesus is the ‘One True God’, the ‘second Person in the Trinity’. Many verses are quoted to support this claim, but I am convinced that when these verses are carefully read in their contexts (both immediate and wider) they will always be found to show the writer considered Jesus as distinct from and subservient to God. They certainly believed that God had appointed Jesus to be “Lord” over His creation (sort of ‘commander-in-chief’ – under God – of all the armies of God and all creation), which is more that Muslims are willing to allow as I understand their beliefs. But the Christian writers did not believe Jesus was actually God. I have a number of articles in my blog on that subject also.

      At any rate, just because the verses terrorists use to support their actions are actually in the Qur’an, does not mean that terrorists have correctly understood those verses and are properly using them for support. Mainstream Islam repudiates terrorism, and recognizes that the Qur’an allows self defense, but never aggressive violence (and particularly not killing of innocents). Any ‘infidels’ to be killed are those who have themselves violently attacked Muslims first. Check out my blog article to which I referred, and read those Qur’anic verses in their contexts.

    • Vivek Golikeri

      My real reason for being aghast and unhappy with this woman Schlussel is my bitter memory of what was done to Japanese-Americans during World War Two. The difference between jihadists and Muslims as such is exactly the difference between being German and being Nazi.

      We need to walk a fine here in these dangerous times between legitimate security and shameless bigotry. David Ben-Gurion ( a truly great man ) once said “We shall fight the White Paper as if there no war, and the war as if there were no White Paper.”

      Likewise, we need to oppose bigotry as if there were no jihad, and jihad as if there were no bigotry.

    • DavTo

      Just came across this article. Goldstein says that Schlussel is “revered as a truth-teller in conservative circles.”

      Uh, no, actually, she’s held as a nutjob by most conservatives. She just calls herself a conservative. She’s actually a crazy liar…recently, she said on her site that she’s the subject of a “bogus complaint” by someone else. The Michigan Bar’s inevestigating her as a result. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out. Careful you don’t criticize her too often, though–if you do, you’re obviously an anti-Semite. (She’s kinda like Uncle Leo in that episode of Seinfeld–“He even thinks his rabbi is an anti-Semite!”)

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