* The Jerusalem Post is after David Irving. The paper has threatened legal action over Irving's ". . . unauthorized use of Post articles on his Web site, in violation of copyright laws."
Attorneys for the Post have sternly ordered Irving to "immediately remove all copies of . . . [the Post's] articles and copies of any other material that you copied from our clients' publications from your Internet site."
Irving is to produce a written apology to be "displayed... in a prominent place on his Internet site for a period of not less than 28 days."
Post publisher and CEO Tom Rose, huffing and puffing:
"The world has long known that David Irving is a dangerous antisemite and fraudulent historian. Now it also knows that he is a thief."
Irving's reply?
"I'm helping people read The Jerusalem Post several days after it's no longer on sale... I'm advertising The Jerusalem Post for free."
Rose's response?
"Almost without exception, the Post welcomes any content and distribution partner. Unfortunately for him, David Irving and his ilk are the exception."
* Also from the Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2000, referring to Eizenstat's traipsing all over Europe, particularly to Austria, in order to ". . . accelerate talks on the restitution of Jewish property":
"The traditional argument is that compensation must be hastened because survivors are aging.
"However, there is another compelling argument for expediting the Holocaust talks in Austria and elsewhere in Europe.
"The ultimate deadline for Holocaust compensation comes in six months, when the US holds elections. It is extremely unlikely that the next American administration - whether Republican or Democrat - will be as committed to Holocaust issues, State Department officials say privately."
* Various shades of "Holocaust victims" are at each other's throats over a proposed $5.2 billion German initiative. They demand money for "persons, not projects."
Five Central and Eastern European nations - Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic and Belarus - want the vast majority of funds to go to forced and slave laborers. They say they have received almost nothing from Holocaust reparations since the end of World War II.
Representatives of "other groups" want less to go for forced and slave labor and a larger portion for paying Jewish property claims, unpaid banking claims, the education fund and so on.
* In private correspondence with a young Jewish revisionist, Professor Lawrence Baron of South Dakota State University <lbaron@mail.sdsu.edu> relates that
". . . 45 of 50 of state educational boards require or recommend a Holocaust unit as part of the high school social studies curriculum . . . "
* About 60 students at New Zealand's Waikato University protested the campus's faculty "supporting the doctoral student and alleged neo-Nazi Hans Kupka", whose PhD thesis ". . . will examine the use of German in New Zealand".
Waikato Jewish Association spokeswoman Dr Sarah Shieff announced that students would pursue ". . . internal means of making sure Mr Kupka was not allowed to study at Waikato University."
His sin?
According to an Associated Press report, Dr Shieff said Mr Kupka accepted there was a Holocaust, but believed it was on a much smaller scale than it was.
Shieff's reasoning?
She stated that Mr. Kupka's doctorate would be "unviable" if Jews were excluded from it - and "morally and culturally unsound" if they were included.
Some folks just can't be pleased.
* Austria seems to cave in to Holocaust Enforcer pressure. The government is reported to have agreed on a "broad plan" to compensate victims of Nazi forced labor with one-time payments of up to nearly $7,000", drafters of the plan said today.
The payments are to range between $1,311 and $6,884.
According to an AP report,
". . . those forced to work in Nazi concentration camps, many of them Jews, would be eligible for the highest payment, while others pressed into work on farms would receive the lowest."
A woman who gave birth while doing forced labor would receive $328.
Maria Schaumayer, the Austrian government envoy in charge of setting up the fund, had this to say: "Austrian industry and business is well aware of what is expected of them."
She told reporters that companies were ready to do their part in exchange for "legal peace''.
* Hymie Rubenstein, of the Department of Anthropology at St. Paul's College University of Manitoba, points out in a letter to Toronto's Globe and Mail that
". . . truth is no longer a defence for freedom of speech in Canada if what is uttered is perceived as potentially hurtful by or to certain powerful special-interest groups."
Oy vey! He was speaking out in defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, an outspoken Jewish on-air therapist who has locked horns with the Gay Lobby over sharp comments that homosexuality is a "biological error."
The Zundelsite points out that Canada has to thank Ernst Zundel for flushing out the ". . . truth is no defense" abomination over the still on-going Human Rights Tribunal dispute around the Zundelsite.
Now a Jewess is caught in its snares, even though she may or may not speak the truth. Didn't Mr. Zundel prophesy that precisely this would happen?
* Joseph Sobran, in his May 2 column, has come up with more poignant quotes about so-called "Holocaust denial" in America, in Europe, and in the Arab world.
Writes Sobran:
"Thanks to Jewish pressure, several countries have made denying the Holocaust a crime; no doubt it would be illegal here too if not for the First Amendment. Even the Israeli government pitches in against accused Holocaust deniers in other countries.
"As the Israeli writer Amos Elon has observed, it's extremely odd for a democracy to criminalize an opinion about historical events. You expect it in a Communist country, but not in the free world.
"(T)he state of Israel has made a large investment in the Holocaust, staking its very legitimacy on the Nazi era, which it says shows the necessity of Israel as a refuge from persecution. This implies that if the Holocaust were proved to be a myth, the Jews would have no right to the Holy Land, since most of them no longer believe that God gave the land to Moses and the ancient Hebrews. (...)
"Arabs have the same stake in denying the story that the Israelis have in maintaining it."
And, further down in the column, in response to the on-going controversy about the supposed "pro-Nazi" Vatican's role during World War II:
"Now they tell us! Gee, thanks, Mr. Foxman. Why, when the war was raging, didn't you and your brethren inform those Catholic boys who were being sent to fight Hitler that, as far as you were concerned, their Church was really on Hitler's side?
"Why mislead Christians into believing that Nazism and Christianity were polar opposites? Did you fear that if you told them what you really thought of their religion, they might not see that war as a cause for which Christians should shed their blood?
"Talk about Holocaust revisionism! Imagine the reaction of Christians in 1941 if they had heard Jews blaming Hitler on Christianity. They would probably have said: "All right then. If the Jews want Hitler beaten, let them fight him themselves, and for heaven's sake keep our sons out of it!"
"No wonder so many people are weary of the Holocaust obsession, even to the point of wanting to deny that it happened at all."
* The Leuchter film has played on British television. Viewers are almost universally reported as leaving in a very thoughtful mood - with sympathies for Revisionist Fred Leuchter and anger at his victimization. So far, the Zundelsite has received many positive and only one negative report.
* California's Governor, Gray Davis, bowed deeply to the Holocaust Lobby while designating the first week of every May as "Days of Remembrance."
"It is only by teaching and learning from the Holocaust that we can eliminate the hatred that threatens the values of freedom, equality, and justice that we hold most dear," Davis gushed.
Writes a Zundelsite reader:
"If I did not know better, I would have thought that Gov. Davis was quoting directly from The Protocols. Has anyone ever seen a more politically correct puppet than Governor Davis?"
* Steven Spielberg now plans to produce yet another project about "Anne Frank: The Whole Story". Expect another mini-series!
* And finally, from the "Featherman File in the Jewish publication, Forward, May 17, 2000, we learn something new about the many uses to which the "Holocaust" is put. Hold on to the seat of your pants!
Imagine a "father-and-son team" who travels to Poland, sponsored by an "anti-fur organization that was eager to firm up its honorary Holocaust status."
Bizarre?
You bet it is. It's supposed to be a parody of the "Holocaust remembrance business" - their words, not mine. Written up by Tova Reich for the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly, this literary effort involves - get this! - "the creative use of the mountains of hair in the Auschwitz museum, shorn from the gassed victims . . . to establish the ***relevant ethical connection*** that would ***ennoble the agenda*** of the fur account and give it ***that moral stamp of the Holocaust***."
Emphasis added!
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Thought for the Day:
"There is no reason to believe that a version of history asserted by twenty lawyers is any better than that asserted by one historian, just as, given the choice, I would rather have a tooth filled by one dentist than by twenty lawyers."
(Comment in the germanica-l newsgroup in response to the David Irving verdict)