This is a ZGram I held in reserve - and it is a bit dated by now, but it still makes some very good points.
A Canadian friends wanted to know:
"What is happening here? First the Margolis column out of Ontario belittling the Holocaust and criticizing the lack of media coverage of Stalin's crimes - and now this?
"Is this a symptom of Jewish internal conflict over the realization that their Hoax is fast crumbling? Is it damage control?
"Nawwwwww, can't be the latter."
He is referring to a Commentary by Steve Weatherbe, of the British Columbia based Sterling News Services, still playing off the Oliver controversy where the Holocaust Lobby prevented a free-speech seminar from taking place in Oliver because of a controversial internet server, bernard Klatt.
Since this is copyright material, I quote selectively within the bounds of what is called 'fair use':
"So the community of Oliver is the anti-semitic capital of Canada. Or so claims the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in far-off Toronto, which may well be the authority on anti- semitism, but it is no authority on Oliver.
"This charge is because an individual in that town knowingly provides websites for neo-Nazi groups, and because the town itself was willing, until the Wiesenthal Centre intervened, to let a group of similarly minded hold a conference on free speech there.
"The claim about Oliver is so manifestly foolish that one has to ask: 'why make it?'
"And why, furthermore, do the Wiesenthal Centre in Canada and its counterparts in the U.S. continue to make equally foolish claims that anti-semitism is on the rise in these two countries? Where are the broken windows, the synogogue doors smeared with swastikas, the laws and secret practices excluding Jews from public office? Not in Oliver, that's for sure. Not in B.C. anywhere. (...)
"I for one long for a fraction of the coverage accorded the Nazi attempt to exterminate Europe's Jews applied to the massacres perpetrated by various communist regimes.
"When will there be a movie made about the Ukrainian famines in the 1930's which saw between four and ten million Ukrainians starved to death by Josef Stalin? Will anyone suggest a museum be built in Ottawa to honor the tens of millions of Chinese killed by the communist regime there? Why does Nazism still fascinate while communism's far greater acts of inhumanity draw only bored shrugs? (...)
"The reason why we in 'the West' still hold Nazism in such loathsome regard, and can still be provoked by any rumor of a revival, is that the war against Adolph (sic) Hitler's Germany was, for our culture, a defining moment, a vast, unified effort for a clear-cut good against an undeniable evil. Which is why anti-semitism poses so little threat here: it is by definition countercultural and marginal.
"When our news media give Nazi stories such unwarranted credence they are partly exhibiting this general attitude, but also, I suspect, revealing its left-wing bias.
"For the left needs Nazism to justify its own tired tattered existence. Similarly, organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal Centre perpetuate their own existence- and salaries - by regularly invoking the bogeyman of revived Nazism."
(end of op ed piece)
True.
Who would give Sol Littman even a penny if there were no Ernst Zundels to run after, wailing and shrieking about "anti-semitism"?
I remember way back when Ernst once said to me: "I am useful to them. That's why I'm still alive." And yesterday I said to him: "And I can see the day approach where you will be vindicated, even in Canada."
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
Definition of social engineering: "The science of playing one faction against the other and stepping into the middle as mediator."
(Richard G. Swartzbaugh)