Ha'aretz calls it "Goodwill hunting" - telling its readers of a new initiative that recruits American students "...to learn more about the Middle East." The purpose? To be sent back to American campuses sufficiently brainwashed so they can be "Israel's ambassadors."
In a similar mode, The New York Times reports that 400 students from 155 colleges and universities spent an entire day "...training to defend Israel, arming themselves for the public relations war over the Middle East raging on campuses from Berkeley to Boston." Leaders of Jewish organizations dread the coming of the Fall semester, anticipating a surge of campus protests over Israel's Middle East politics.
Arab-American groups plan a similar campaign this fall, to urge universities to divest themselves of holdings in companies doing business with Israel. The California State University at Berkeley, the campus where historical protest movements are hatched, will be host this fall to a conference where Arab students hope to start the "divestment drive", complete with mock refugee camps like the shantytowns of another era.
In Germany, the March in Memory of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, drew more than 800 participants to Wunsiegel, the town where Germany's Most Feared Martyr is buried - the first time in a decade that a march in Hess's honor has been permitted by the ever more jumpy government.
The participants could go as far as the gate to the cemetery, but were not allowed to enter.
The Holocaustonians have found a new racket - so-called "Nazi violins", supposedly stolen from Jews by Hitler's disciples. These instruments, proclaim the mainstream media, stand to become the next area of inquiry by those seeking reparations from the Holocaust.
The Chicago Tribune is kick-starting this one, claiming that their sleuthing found some hitherto unknown classified documents. Many an old fiddle will turn, as if by magic, into a rare heirloom Stradivarius overnight. Just watch!
Having completed one Holocaust project, Steven Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation is already launching into another. More than 50,000 Holocaust survivors have immortalized themselves on those Holocaust tapes. Naturally, none were asked critical cross-examination type questions. No fact checkers were employed.
"Every survivor had an astonishing eyewitness account to tell so that the horrors of the 20th century might not be repeated in the 21st,'' enthuses Spielberg, hoping, no doubt, that this collection of faces will not fall into the wrong hands - like those of skeptical Revisionists who would flush out hordes of fabricators, fabulators and self-engrandizers.
His new mission, by the way? "Emphasizing worldwide education'' about the Holocaust. "Holocaust Indoctrination 101"?
Hangdog-face Elie Wiesel is going to be the honorary chairman of a pro-solidarity rally planned for New York next month. Bagel King Marvin Lender will have that honor on Sept. 23 at a rally sponsored by North American Jewish groups described as "...from across the religious and political spectrums."
Their very own Rainbow Coalition? Are they afraid too few Jewish people will show up?
While Concordia University in Montreal is making noises about not allowing Arab students to drum up support for the beleaguered Palestinians, the 8th Annual Anti-Racist Action Network Conference will take place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the weekend of October 19-21, 2001.
ARA groups are notorious for their rings in their noses and elsewhere and for their anarchist tactics. During the Zündel Trials in Toronto, they buzzed around B'nai Brith like flies around a stench and carried live rats into the halls of the court house.
Now here is an interesting Jerusalem Post poll, released August 20, 2001. Responding to the question: "...Do you think Israel should offer citizenship to the estimated 4,200 SLA forces that fought with it in Lebanon and are currently in Israel?"
Yes 79 % No 21 %
Total Votes: 9557, certainly a respectable sample.
Is Israel in need of more skilled torturers and assassins?
After some 56 years of helping in the systematic brainwashing of almost three generations of Germans, the current leader of Germany's Jews warned Tuesday that "...neo-Nazi violence (is) now posing possibly a greater threat than at any time in the country's post-war history." Which is totally refuted, incidentally, by police statistics.
"Intervention must be so massive that all citizens in this country really have the feeling the state is doing something," Spiegel counseled, adding: "The situation in the Federal Republic of Germany is perhaps more critical than at any time in its young history." What Spiegel obviously fears is the steady growth of Revisionism and subsequent rejection of Germany's "re-education"-imposed artificial guilt complex.
And then he let loose with a real zinger: Whether or not the Jewish community in Germany really had a future, Spiegel speculated, did not depend on the Jews but rather on non-Jewish Germans. Now is that a brainer, or what?
Spiegel noted that Germany's Jewish population has grown to 90,000 today from 28,000 in 1990. The Germans have an uneasy feeling that there are many, many more Jews than that. Germany's total population, incidentally, is 82 million.
The hapless Germans will start paying compensation to the Russian foundation "Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation" representing Russian citizens who were prisoners in Nazi concentration camps and ghettoes during World War II In all, over 400,000 Russians are slated to receive compensation totaling some DM835 million.
We wait with bated breath for the day when millions of Germans, soldiers and civilians alike, will demand compensation for their slave labor in Siberia for 10-15 years at a stretch.
A small group of people protested outside the editorial offices of the Washington Post on August 22, 2001. The protesters accused the paper of "...having a pro-Israel bias and of running more Op-Ed pieces that were pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian."
Op-eds by Charles Krauthammer et al had called for Israel to virtually vaporize any and every vestige of Palestinian resistance to a decades-old brutal military occupation of Palestinian land, with the clear implication that any 'collateral damage' to civilian life would get a tacit stamp of approval by the Israel Firsters.
You will find this one hard to believe, but scout's honor! A state legislator apologized Wednesday for forwarding to fellow lawmakers an e-mail that said, "Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity.''
Don Davis, a politically incorrect white Republican, said at first blithely that he didn't consider the letter racist. However, shortly thereafter he added: "I humbly want to apologize if the e-mail forwarded from my office on Monday night was offensive or disrespectful to any one in this General Assembly, state or nation."
One wonders who his Monica Lewinsky or Chandra Levi might be.
A thoroughly detested German official, Otto Schily, Interior Minister of the prostrated Vaterland, has announced that he will come to America to teach the Americans a thing or two about Free Speech in cyberspace. He will alert them to a number of websites he has decided are an irritant. He wants America to censor them or shut them down completely.
I quote from an unreferenced source:
"The spectacle of the German Interior Minister lobbying U.S. officials to close Web sites hosted in the U.S. - albeit sites that most people would find disgusting - is likely to catch the attention of American free speech advocates who believe that even hate speech should be protected."
Not even US celebrities, always ready to shine Zionist shoes with their spittle, are showing their faces in Israel these days. Several celebrities were invited to a recent socialite wedding, but only one lone pop singer showed up. During the wedding, guards flanked the nervous celeb and were posted at the entrances to the hotel for good measure.
350 Islamic clerics from 15 countries attended a three-day conference, held to discuss ways of supporting the Palestinian uprising. These Muslim clerics declared that Palestinian suicide bombers are martyrs acting in accordance with Islam's holy teachings.
Romania's Jews are fuming about another anti-semitic book, this time penned by an ultranationalist lawmaker, Vlad Hogea, a member of the Greater Romania Party. This book contains the phrase: ``Whoever fights the Jews, fights the devil.'' Local media chirped in unison that it downplayed the horrors of the Holocaust and implied that Jews had too much power.
Hogea briskly denied being anti-Semitic, but then proved that he knows his country's history. He stated that in Romania ``the tentacles of Jewry'' had spread into political life and opined that ``Romania should be run by Romanians.''
To many people's horror, his book bears the stamp of approval of the Romanian Academy, the country's most prestigious academic and cultural institution.
The talk on the Internet is an Israeli deputy minister's suggestion on national television that Israeli security forces should kill the fathers of suicide bombers.
Gideon Ezra, who gave birth to that typically Zionist idea, followed up by another similar one: He said the remains of suicide bombers should be buried wrapped in animal skins, which, reportedly, would prevent the detonators from going to heaven.
Some people wonder what cabbalistic scribe came up with this idea? And from what century - 200 B.C.?
A near miracle: Israel's army has brought criminal charges against several of its own men. For the first time since the start of an 11-month old intifada in which Israeli soldiers killed babies in their mothers' laps, shot out the eyes of teenagers and killed hundreds of Palestinian protesters, beat civilians in full view of the foreign press, fired on journalists and threatened diplomats, a military court has handed down some indictments.
The four soldiers accused of abusing Palestinian civilians reportedly forced a group of young Arabs to beat each other up for the entertainment of the Israelis - a practice that was widespread during World War II, when Jewish Communist Partisans forced captured German soldiers to torture and mutilate each other, often filming and photographing the brutal scenes before they executed their victims.
Another small step for the Guardian but a giant step for Revisionism was a recent article admitting that Britain and the US bombed small towns in Germany in the final stages of the Second World War simply because they would burn easily and not because they were strategically important.
In March of 1945, when the war was as good as lost, the Royal Air Force dropped more bombs on Germany than in any previous month. More than 30,000 tons fell on towns and cities.
For instance, in just 17 minutes, the Allies dropped nearly 1,000 tons of bombs on Würzburg, a beautiful medieval town in the Southern part of Germany - a small city with no industry. 82 percent of the town was destroyed and almost 5,000 people were killed.
Pforzheim, near Ernst Zündel's home town, was incinerated at the end of February, with nearly 20,000 people being roasted to death in 20 minutes in a vast firestorm. No wonder Germans are allergic to the chronic whining about the Jewish "Holocaust"!
A new Revisionist conference has been announced, this time in Trieste, Italy - right in the heart of Europe. The latest we heard, the dates are 6-7 of October, 2001. A ZGram reader writes:
"Naturally, this will cause a great deal of consternation among those who refuse to allow history to be questioned. Their stern opposition will no doubt generate a great deal of publicity. Webmasters who host sites with Revisionist content will, I dare say, likely see their visitor count soar up through the stratosphere as a result.
Nor should this be a surprising result. Remember that Rabbi Cooper, Rabbi Hier and others of their ilk are *de*facto* publicists for Revisionism.