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The Other Side of Holocaust Denial Freedom As Hate Crime

by Henry Makow, Ph.D Monday, May. 26, 2003 at 3:51 PM

Although I am the grandson of Holocaust victims, I am embarrassed by some Jewish organizations that want to make the Jewish Holocaust the defining event of World War Two.

Makow - The Other Side of Holocaust Denial
Freedom As Hate Crime
By Henry Makow, Ph.D
5-19-3
 

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Although I am the grandson of Holocaust victims, I am embarrassed by some Jewish organizations that want to make the Jewish Holocaust the defining event of World War Two.
 
This is seen in the boom in Holocaust Studies Programs, Holocaust Museums and Hollywood movies like "The Pianist."
 
Canadian Media mogul Izzy Asper is behind a new $200 million dollar "Holocaust and Human Rights Museum" in Winnipeg. The very title equates Jewish persecution with all "human rights."
 
The Second World War was a human calamity. Over 55 million people died. Why focus on the Jewish experience? This is the cause of anti Semitism in the first place. Jewish power brokers are perpetuating a vicious cycle.
 
I am also troubled by the attempt to classify people like Ernst Zundel as a "hate criminal." Zundel's website claims only one million Jews were murdered, there were no gas chambers, and Hitler didn't intend genocide. Zundel's claims are repugnant, but he has a right to be wrong. Society needs people who dispute the historical record. One may be right. If spreading false information is a crime, shouldn't we also lock up Tom Brokaw?
 
Canada has locked up Ernst Zundel. According to his wife, he is being mistreated in prison. He risks deportation as a "security risk." Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress concedes Zundel doesn't "actually wield the stick" but "provides oxygen" to extremists. That definition would curb everyone's freedom of speech.
 
 
When questioning the truth becomes "hate", we have entered the1984 era of thought crime. Don't kid yourself. This is the slippery slope to tyranny and Jewish organizations are partly to blame. We must stand up in defiance.
 
The charge of hate is used selectively to disarm legitimate opposition. The definition of "hatred" is very selective. For example lesbians spew hatred of men but they are never arrested. Feminists teach impressionable girls that all males are potentially violent sexual predators. That's OK. The Talmud is full of hatred against Christ and Christians, but that doesn't count either. http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/talmud1.htm
 
 
Canadian MP Svend Robinson wants to make "gay bashing" a hate crime. He isn't talking about violence against gays, which is a genuine crime. He would prevent society from defending itself from activists who teach children heterosexuality is not natural but homosexuality is.
 
 
"Hate" is a bogus charge anyway. Many so-called "Anti Semites" have written me and most are not hateful or racist in the least. They are trying to defend their legitimate interests from a real and insidious attack. The arch anti-Semite Henry Ford, author of "The International Jew" (http://www.jrbooksonline.com/Intl_Jew_full_version/ijtoc_.htm) employed thousands of Jews in his factories. He worked closely with a Jew, Mme. Rosika Schwimmer on his Peace Ship Crusade. Ford's Jewish architect Albert Kahn designed hundreds of buildings for him.
 
 
Jewish powerbrokers use anti Semitism to disarm opposition to their political agenda. The promotion of the Jewish Holocaust maintains the Jews' status as the world's premier "victims." This gives them immunity from criticism. It makes people feel more favourable to Jews and more willing to accede to their direction and influence. (The same strategy is used with homosexuals and feminists, the other out-groups used by the elite to subvert society.)
 
 
The Holocaust is also a defining event for Jews. Jewish power brokers use victim status to manipulate Jews and extract donations. Victimhood turns Jews into moral zombies. For most of my life I didn't give two cents for the right of Palestinians to their homes. "We suffered, we deserve a homeland," the logic goes.
 
 
The Holocaust also serves their New World Order agenda. It is a constant reminder of the pitfalls of nationalism or racial consciousness, two things the financial elite is trying to bury, with the exception of Israel.
 
 
"ALSO RAN" HOLOCAUSTS
 
To maintain victim priority, it's necessary for the Jewish establishment to practise "holocaust denial" when it comes to other people.
 
In his book "Crimes and Mercies" (1997) James Bacque describes how he confronted New York Times reporter Drew Middleton with evidence that after the war the US starved to death over one million German POWs. "What Middleton told me basically was that, yes, he had lied in 1945 and no, it did not matter to him or the New York Times if I exposed this." (183)
 
"Middleton's sense of security, his sense of the New York Times' power, took my breath away," Bacque writes. "But worse than that, Middleton did not care about this atrocity... the New York Times witnessed it, then denied that it happened. And has gone on denying it into the 1990's." (184)
 
Bacque estimates that during the Allied Occupation (1946-1950) an additional eight to twelve million Germans were deliberately starved to death. The war did not end in 1945. For five additional years, Germany was subjected "physical and psychic trauma unparalleled in history." (93)
 
Red Army soldiers raped up to two million German women during the last six months of the Second World War, around 100,000 of them in Berlin. They also raped Russian women released from German labour camps. We live in a feminist era. Have you seen any movies about these women?
 
At Potsdam, the Allies ratified the 1939 Soviet-Nazi Pact that gave USSR half of Poland. Poland was compensated with the eastern quarter of Germany, in effect another gift to the Russian empire. This required the expulsion of about 12 million Germans, the largest forced migration in history.
 
Jews were prominent in the Polish Communist regime. In a stunning role reversal, Jewish policemen ordered Germans out of their homes and into cattle cars. In his book, "An Eye for An Eye" Jewish writer John Sack relates that about 1.5 million of these Germans died in the removal. He quotes a German woman from Gleiwitz: "What happened to the Jews was sad. But there was another Holocaust too." (138)
 
According to Sacks, Jewish Communists extracted another cruel revenge. They filled 1250 Nazi concentration and labour camps and brutally tortured and murdered tens of thousands of Germans. (101 ff.)
Have you seen a movie where concentration camp guards and commandants were Jews? Since 1948, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti Defamation League have censored all Hollywood scripts involving Jews. Since these bodies are extensions of Jewish finance, what other topics have they censored? (Gabler, An Empire of the Own: How Jews Invented Hollywood 1988,p.303)
 
In his book, "Victims of Yalta", Nicholai Tolstoy documents "Operation Keelhaul," the Allies' forced repatriation of two million Russians who were German slave labourers, prisoners of wars, or soldiers. These people were sent to the Gulag and liquidated. Where is the museum dedicated to them?
 
The mass media is unusually coy when it comes to reporting Communist atrocities. Nine million people died in the Russian Civil War (1917-1922). The Communists targeted czarists and Christians in particular. Stalin's purges and famines accounted for 20 million more deaths. In China, Mao ZeDong is blamed for a similar number. More recently, let's not forgot Tibet, Cambodia and Rwanda. (See Twentieth Century death tolls at http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm )
 
In "The Holocaust Industry" (2000) Norman Finkelstein describes how Israel helped its ally Turkey deny the massacre of one million Armenians in 1915. "Acting at Israel's behest, the US Holocaust Council practically eliminated mention of the Armenians in the Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Jewish lobbyists in Congress blocked a day of remembrance for the Armenian genocide." (p.69)
 
CONCLUSION
 
Jewish organizations dishonour Holocaust victims by using them for political purposes. It is tasteless to cast Jews as the world's premier victims. Humanity is one family and no genocide is more important than another.
 
To use "hate" to disarm opposition to the Zionist agenda is also repugnant. It leads to tyranny and more anti Semitism.
 
For Ernst Zundel to deny or understate the Jewish Holocaust is grotesque. But it is not a crime. In these questions, only the truth matters. Let the truth speak for itself. Let the truth judge Zundel.
 
Let me close with an anecdote. In 1961 when I was 11, my family was travelling in Germany. We stopped at tavern-restaurant where some workmen were having a loud conversation. They looked at us (a young couple with three children) and said, "We'd better shut up. There may be Jews present."
 
My family felt threatened. We ate and quickly left. But I realise now those workmen might have been afraid of us. Germany had just endured a gruelling occupation.
 
Hate is born out of fear. Let us expose the forces that make us fear each other for no reason.
 
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Henry Makow Ph.D. is the inventor of the board game Scruples and author of "A Long way to go for a Date." His articles on feminism and the new world order are found on his web site www.savethemales.ca He enjoys receiving comments at henry@savethemales.ca
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Makow and Zunel are Nazis

by anti-fascist Monday, May. 26, 2003 at 8:05 PM

Man... I hardly know how to respond to this dribble. Don't be fooled people... do some research.

Henry Makow's defense of Ernst Zundel is based on half truths and outright lies. First off... Makow writes for the lunatic right website http://www.savethemales.ca "Save the Males" is a wing nut rightist website that blames all the world's problems on Feminism. It's a proto-Fascist website, so to start with Makow has NO CREDIBILITY at all.

Makow writes that "I am also troubled by the attempt to classify people like Ernst Zundel as a hate criminal." Excuse me... but Zundel wrote and self published a book titled, "The Hitler we Loved and why." He also published Holocaust denial books by other Fascists, including "The Hoax of the Twentieth Century" by Arthur Butz and "The Six Million Swindle" by Austin App. If swooning over a genocidalist like Hitler and extolling his demented rants does not classify you as a hate criminal... what does?

Makow writes "The promotion of the Jewish Holocaust maintains the Jews' status as the world's premier "victims." This gives them immunity from criticism. It makes people feel more favorable to Jews and more willing to accede to their direction and influence. The same strategy is used with homosexuals and feminists, the other out-groups used by the elite to subvert society."

Yikes! Makow really believes that "homosexuals and feminists" are out to subvert society. A classic Fascist delusion if ever there was one. Must keep the Fags in the closet and the Women in the Kitchen or else Western Civilization is doomed. Top it off with Makow's use of the broad brush when speaking of "the Jews" as if every Jewish person in the world was part of the secret conspiracy to make you "accede to their direction and influence." Man... Makow is one scary person.

Makow continues to spew his venom, with "Jews were prominent in the Polish Communist regime." Fascists have always linked Jews to Communism... that was Hitler's main point! The German Nazis spoke of a direct link between the Communist movement and the Jews, who were out to "destroy Germany." Makow pushes the same stupidly transparent line.

In closing, Makow wrote: "To use "hate" to disarm opposition to the Zionist agenda is also repugnant. It leads to tyranny and more anti Semitism. For Ernst Zundel to deny or understate the Jewish Holocaust is grotesque. But it is not a crime."

Wrong... what Ernst Zundel writes and promotes IS a crime, a great moral crime! He is a Nazi supporter and apologist, nothing more. While he has the right to free speech in Canada, let no one be fooled by his racist and Jew hating bilge. Disseminating Nazi materials was illegal in West Germany... just as it is still illegal in today's unified Germany. I don't see that as a suppression of "free speech"... it's a defense aimed at preventing genocidalist Fascists from ever again committing mass crimes against innocent civilians. Germans know what Fascism is, and they are not about to let a little creep like Zundel help re-ignite it.

Ernst Zundel got in trouble with the Federal authorities of the U.S. and Germany for exporting hundreds of shipments of Nazi books, periodicals, films, audio cassettes and symbols into Germany. Those materials went directly into the hands of Nazi skin heads and other neo-Nazi groups, who were, and are, responsible for violent attacks against Jews, Immigrants, and Leftists. No... there's no defense for Zundel or Makow. They are Fascists, and as such they are the enemies of all who embrace democratic ideals.

I'm opposed to racism and Fascism. I'm for the Palestinian people having a homeland that is truly free and independent. But I'm also against Jew bashing bigots who deny the Holocaust every happened. That Indymedia allows a platform to such people is troubling. The Indymedia message boards should be monitored to exclude Fascists from organizing and recruiting. Free Speech yes... but let the Nazis have their free speech elsewhere, NOT on our Indymedia websites!
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And your Point?

by Diogenes Monday, May. 26, 2003 at 8:32 PM

I do not agree with Zundel's crap. From what I have read of him he does not seem to be someone overflowing with hate, just grotesequely ill informed - even willfully so. Whatever, that is his particular neuroses. Even though I am violently in disagreement with what he says I stand firmly behind his right to write and speak whatever he wants.

As for Henry Makow - he as well has a few things with which I violently disagree. However, I think he does from time to time hit the nail on the head.

In any event I am minded of a famous quote that came out a very hot 19th Century Parliamentary debate when I think of Zundel. (I can never remember the name of the person who spoke it, but the words are timeless and appropriate to a Free Society.):

"I disagree entirely with what you have to say Sir, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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Henry Makow Should Be Shot

by Knight of the Brazen Serpent Saturday, Sep. 04, 2004 at 4:09 AM

Henry Makow is a rapist and a child molester. That is why he should be shot, not because of his rubbish mouth, because he does have the right to say what he wants, but he should expect to recieve a face full of spit for his deplorable neo fascist musings. It is sickening that people buy in to his fascist claptrap. He is a disgrace to Jews everywhere for demoralizing his own dead grandparents who where holocaust victims. Henry Makow enjoys exploiting poor Russian mail order brides and making them his slaves. He defends Hitler in his drivel filled piece "Hitler didn't want wolrd war" He hands down must be one of the most ultraneofascist on the web today. I hope you suffer a slow and violent death Mr. Makow.
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