* Professor Norman Finkelstein's book, "The Holocaust Industry", is now #4 on the German bestseller list and climbing the charts, according to Amazon.com's website. The man keeps zapping his detractors with his sardonic, acid pen.
"But let's rejoice: L'Chaim!" he posted on the internet upon learning of the extraordinary, almost miraculous longevity of Holocaust survivors. "Truly it is comforting to know that, 90 years after the end of World War II and probably long after many subscribers to this website (including yours truly) will be dead, tens of thousands of Holocaust victims will still be alive...."
True to form and in line with the cult status surrounding the Holocaust, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League sniffs that Finkelstein's book, charging as it does that U.S. Jews have used the Holocaust to gain victim status, is "blasphemy."
* Believe it or not, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution unearthed the long-discredited "Jewish Soap" story yet one more time. Titled "Bizarre burial prods Holocaust angst," an article by Jim Galloway describes how about ". . . 35 people, most of them survivors of European concentration camps, gathered around a small hole dug at the base of the local Holocaust memorial. None had any doubt that the soap bars were made from human beings."
Recently a Jewish architect, Ben Hirsch, devoted a chapter to the incident in a memoir published this spring. Hirsch urged scholars to take a closer look at the topic. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - in full retreat and shell-shocked by the fabrications of fraudsters, having endorsed the likes of Wilkimorski - wants nothing to do with the "soap man" and has barred Hirsch from conducting a book-signing on its premises in Washington.
Let no one say Revisionists aren't making inroads!
* Deborah Lipstadt has delivered herself of yet another Holocaust Lulu:
"This one soap story keeps rolling around," she opines sagely. "Soap became sort of a metaphor -- they killed them and made soap out of them -- to show how horrible the Nazis were."
* A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article of September 27, 2000 was sent to me with the words: "Ingrid, This is choice!" The first paragraph will melt on your tongue:
HEADLINE: HOLOCAUST HONESTY MUSEUM'S STANDARDS REFUTE THE REVISIONISTS
The few sick individuals who insist that the Holocaust never happened are refuted daily by the very existence of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which has documented in great detail the reality of the 20th century's most shocking crime. It is the scholarship that confounds the lies."
Whistling in the dark, eh?
* And it gets even better: Remember Geli Strummer?
Last Sunday's Washington Post did an extraordinary expose on consummate Holocaust Liar Geli Strummer, nee Aufrichtig ... meaning "upright", "genuine" or "honest" in German! The Baltimore Jewish Council booted her out from their roster of Holocaust speakers since her lies caught up with her and were exposed in the media - that's after she had lied to and poisoned 200,000 (her count!) unsuspecting school children with her gruesome, hateful and macabre tales!
( One wonders about that number as well. Taking an average of 300 children per school, she claims to have spoken to - what do we get? 666.6666 schools?? )
According to the Washington Post, one of her previously sponsoring members, Art Abramson,
"...feels he had no choice. In a world where Holocaust deniers nip at the heels of history, he says, how could the council knowingly allow one of its speakers to talk of things that never happened? How could it countenance the possibility that other survivors would be doubted because Strummer was?"
This is precisely what makes Dr. Hilberg lament of late that, as far as Holocaust Schlock is concerned, there is no quality control."
* We still see media fall-out from last Sunday's Passau, Germany event where 2,200 members of the German People's Union met to watch the screening of a video depicting the destruction of Dresden during World War II. About 2,600 demonstrators gathered in this southern town, displaying signs reading: "Extreme-rightists Unwanted" etc. Passau officials initially sought to ban the party from showing the video, featuring historian David Irving, who is banned from entering Germany, where denial of the Holocaust is illegal, but two court judgments later, the video was shown after all.
* This one is a shocker: According to an Associated Press release, ". . . some east Germans may quietly celebrate Tuesday's 10th anniversary of reunification for their own private reason: That's when the statute of limitations runs out on most of the crimes committed during 41 years of communist totalitarianism.
"The deadline, extended twice since East and West Germany merged, expires at midnight Monday, this time for good, on all crimes except murder and manslaughter, including the killing of people trying to flee over the Berlin Wall or the rest of the heavily fortified border that cut Germany in two until 1989."
No such statute of limitation applies where "victimized Jews" are concerned and "Nazis" were the alleged perpetrators!
* Belgium has caved in and announced that the government would set up a fund to compensate Belgian Holocaust victims "for assets stolen during World War II". Once all the victims have been compensated, so the story goes, the foundation will be transformed into an organization devoted to the fight against racism.
* Ditto for Italy: The besieged insurance company, Generali, and several Jewish organizations "reached agreement in principle" for Generali to pay
100 million in compensation. The amount is in addition to
12 million already transferred to the Generali fund operating in Israel, from which it is said that ". . . more than
2 million has already been paid out to heirs."
* Mr. Spiegel, head of the Jewish community in Germany, said somewhat cryptically that non-Jews in Germany would determine the degree to which Jews in Germany could feel at home here in the future and whether they could develop a self-image as "German Jews."
The 20 percent of the population that is manifestly anti-Semitic was slowly decreasing, Mr. Spiegel said, but this anti-Semitism was being expressed more openly today.
* As reported last week in the online version of The Times, a Belgrade court has issued arrest warrants for 14 Nato leaders, including President Clinton, Tony Blair, President Chirac and Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, after they were found guilty of war crimes during last year's bombing campaign and sentenced to 20 years.
* Switzerland's finance minister fired an official, Hanspeter Sutter, from his ministry because of anti-Semitic articles he wrote for an Internet site.
Sutter wrote that if Hitler had ". . . killed all the Jews, Switzerland would not have to pay billions to Holocaust survivors."
* France's homegrown "Nazi Hunter", Serge Klarsfeld, was named Officer of the Legion of Honor, the nation's highest award.
''Klarsfeld is a man who is deeply committed to justice, a tireless human rights advocate,'' gushed Chirac, France's leader.
As quoted in Toronto Globe and Mail's September 18, 1989 issue, Klarsfeld condoned the savage, near-fatal beating inflicted on Professor Robert Faurisson while Faurisson was strolling through a city park near his home in Vichy, France.
Said Klarsfeld, this "tireless human rights advocate": "Someone who has provoked the Jewish community for years should expect this sort of thing."
* Canada has honored 55 Holocaust survivors, not one of them being non-Jewish, despite many goyish nominees as well as submissions and pleas to include other nationalities. It was a "Jews Only!" affair.
At the ceremony, Dr. Joel Dimitry, one of the organizers, reminded the audience that Canadian politicians had once voted to restrict Jewish refugees from Europe both during and after the Holocaust.
"There was a time when 'none is too many' was the prevalent mood," he said.
* JORG HAIDER, the Austrian far Right Freedom Party politician, has lost his libel case against a newspaper over his reference to Nazi concentration camps as "punishment centres".
Haider's argument was that the reference was "correct and respectable". He said the expression was commonly used.
Judge Bruno Weis threw out the case, saying: "The term punishment centre comes from a single document from the Third Reich in 1941 in which it referred to mass extermination camps as punishment centres. That is the only place this term has come from. The term is historically incorrect. A leading politician in 1995 . . . should have had a better grasp of historical reality."
Mr Haider's legal team said that he would appeal.
* The Germans are scrubbing down the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin's best-known emblem since before the time of Napoleon.
Restoration experts will use lasers to get rid of black deposits and seal cracks on the 211-year-old sandstone arch, which survived two world wars but has straddled a major traffic axis since the Berlin Wall dividing east and west came down in 1989. Another Revisionist milestone - this time, architectural!
* And, finally, you are due for a laugh, are you not? If you think that this politically correct insanity of ours has hit bottom, there is still more:
A 6-foot "Mr. Potato Head" statue, one of dozens dotting Rhode Island as part of a tourism campaign, will be taken down ". . . because of complaints that the grinning, brown-skinned figure appeared racist."
Affirmative action officer, Onna Moniz-John, said she thought the statue resembled the antique figurines she collects that portray blacks as buffoons, such as Little Black Sambo.
''If you look at this potato head, the only thing missing is a watermelon,'' Moniz-John said.
Kathy Szarko, the artist who designed the ''Tourist Tater,'' said that she meant no offense and that several other spud statues are a similar color.
''He's a potato. That's why he's brown,'' Szarko said.
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