Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
". . . in opposition to the intervention of B'nai Brith on the grounds of the lack of objectivity, pre-existing malice, the similarity with the complainant, and the association of B'nai Brith with criminal activities."
Also from the Zundelsite Desk:
This was the first time ever that a legitimate speaking engagement was canceled willy-nilly because of Revisionist work on the Internet. Since our work gains visibility through legal challenges, this one will not fall through the cracks.
Some of you have wanted to write letters of protest. The address is: Dr. Lorna Edmunson, President, Trinity College of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401.
In an article that just came in, released by the Hearst News Service (February 14, 1997) and entitled "Controversial writer airs contention that Jews killed thousands of Germans after war," John Sack's lecture was axed by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on short notice.
Sack is the author of the 1993 Basic Books title "An Eye for an Eye" that describes in vivid language how Jews killed thousands of Germans in postwar internment camps in Poland.
Thus having been denied the premises of the US Holocaust Museum fo rhis lecture on that topic, Sack went and paid $301 to the National Press Club for the use of a small meeting room where about 30 reporters listened to his remarks, entitled "Revenge and Redemption."
In this Hearst News Service Article, Sack is quoted as saying:"The Holocaust museum is doing wonderful things, not just about the Jews and what the Germans did to them . . . I hate to think that the one topic that the Holocaust museum is not willing to talk about is genocide when it's committed by Jews."
Good for him! It is one thing for a Revisionist of German extraction to
stand up to the Holocaust Promotion Lobby, but it takes much more guts to
do so as a Jew. That takes integrity we should all honor and acknowledge.
As many of you will remember, this is the Steven Spielberg project for which the US taxpayers have already been fleeced of $1 million, thanks to the US Congress.
Maybe as a preventive measure, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning a public service advertising campaign marking the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in major league baseball. Ads are slated to appear on buses and at commuter railway stations.
This campaign is ". . . designed to raise consciousness about racial and ethnic tolerance."
This from the Center of Intolerance that goes into a spin about the Zundelsite!
Just what is going on is hard to judge from here, but it seems that in a vigorous grass roots movement the little people of French towns are rolling up their sleeves and "capturing" political control in local elections in response to rampant immigration woes. The European powers that be, as judged from the resulting political angst, are said to have never seen anything like it!
Worse yet, Le Pen, the flamboyant National leader, is reported to have said:"Who can say that the National Front is not capable of becoming France's first party? . . . you realise that it's possible." Le Pen said in a radio interview.
He added that the French would come to realise ". . . the shortcomings of those who lead them and. . . the failure to resolve major problems like unemployment, immigration, and taxes."(Reuters, February 9, 1997)
". . . worried that printed material denying the mass killing of the Jews in World War Two could proliferate if its authors knew they would be showered in the publicity of a criminal trial."
"I can understand the hurt and the offence and distress of those people who suffered or whose families suffered at that time (about its denial),'' said he.
On the other hand, Labour leader, Tony Blair, feels there is ". . . a very strong case'' for such a law.
Some of the interesting subjective snippets about objective items land on my desk out of Japan.
Here is one (Spectator, 8 February 1997, p. 55) taken from an article titled "Swiss secrecy" by a Japanese reporter stationed in Gstaad:"Swiss vs. Jews has replaced snow conditions and chalet prices as subjects of conversations in this beautiful Alpine resort. I will not mince my words. Most Swiss to whom I've spoken since my arrival last week are outraged to have been painted as greedy anti-Semites. The educated ones blame both sides. The simple peasants blame the 'Juden'.
Let's face it. Switzerland means banking, and there is no worse crime in banking than failing to protect the assets of depositors. The Jewish camp is accusing the Swiss of just that.
The American Jewish community which is screaming bloody murder seems to be under the impression that American law applies outside the United States.
Not so."
The article is very frank about the political motive for the blasts of "Nazi
Gold shenanigans" shellacking little Switzerland. To quote from this
revealing article:
"Senator Alfonse D'Amato in Noo Yawk had smelled the greatest vote getter of them all - rich bankers stealing the wealth of Holocaust victims - and went after the New York Jewish vote with a vengeance. . . .
The trouble is that D'Amato is as sleazy as they come, a man who would downgrade a brothel with his presence. D'Amato was contacted by Edgar Bronfman of the World Jewish Committee in order to turn up the heat.
Bronfman, too, is no angel. His billions are not exactly clean. His father was a Canadian . . . bootlegger.
Bronfman probably used undiplomatic language. The Swiss circled the wagons."
"I expressly dispute your right to judge me. I am not a citizen of your republic; and what I do in Belgium, a free, sovereign state, is none of your business. I must inform you that the German occupation of Belgium ended over fifty years ago. . .
I protest against the very idea that efforts to establish the truth can be represented as "popular incitement." Even if I'm wrong, I have the right to try to get closer to historical truth. I even have the right to be wrong!"
A sad note on which to end today's ZGram.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"If the tide of history does not turn toward Communist Internationalism, then the Jewish race is doomed."
(George Marlen in "Stalin, Trotzky, or Lenin" 1937, p. 414)