Join the IHR Protest against the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA

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Strike at the Root, Part 1

Radio/Audio; Posted on: 2005-07-24 11:26:20 [ Printer friendly / 
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Join us as we protest Jewish supremacism on the streets of Los 
Angeles; an interview with Mark Weber (pictured) of the Institute for 
Historical Review.

American Dissident Voices broadcast for the week of July 24 - July 30, 2005
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by Kevin Alfred Strom

TODAY WE have as our guest the historian, writer, speaker, and 
activist extraordinaire Mark Weber, Director of the Institute for 
Historical Review. Welcome to ADV, Mark.

MW: Thank you very much, Kevin. It's a pleasure to be here again.

KAS: There are quite a number of things I'd like to discuss with you, 
Mark -- your recent speech in New York, your recent interviews with 
news services, your upcoming protests against the Jewish supremacists 
at the Simon Wiesenthal Center - (Š)

KAS: Mark, I see from the IHR website that you have some major 
activism planned for next week -- a protest in front of the Simon 
Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. With so many institutions of Jewish 
supremacism in this country and in this world, why are you protesting 
against the Wiesenthal Center in particular?

MW: Well, one obvious reason is that its international headquarters 
is located nearby -- it's in Los Angeles -- but another reason is 
that the Wiesenthal Center is just as culpable and just as dangerous 
as groups like the Anti-Defamation League or AIPAC in promoting 
Jewish Zionist interests against the interests of the United States 
and other countries. The Wiesenthal Center, however, has not been 
targeted until now in the same way as these other groups have because 
its emphasis on the Holocaust gives it a kind of protection or 
shield; the Center is able to claim that "to attack us is to attack 
the memory of the dead." The Wiesenthal Center is nevertheless every 
bit as involved in the larger Jewish Zionist agenda as groups like 
the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and AIPAC, and it's high 
time that it be targeted.

KAS: Can you give us an overview of the Wiesenthal Center? Who's 
behind it? How was it started and what is its agenda?

MW: It was founded back in the 1970s and is headed by Rabbi Marvin 
Hier, who calls himself the dean. He has no real educational or other 
credentials except for this self-given one; he's a rabbi, and nothing 
more. Still, the Wiesenthal Center is immensely influential. It 
claims to have a membership of more than 300,000 and -- according to 
its last filing -- had an annual income of 25 million dollars. One of 
the most outrageous things about this income is that ten million 
dollars a year of it comes from taxpayer funds. Over the years the 
Wiesenthal Center has received at least ten million dollars in 
California taxpayer funding alone in through state grants. Much of 
this taxpayer money is given in return for so-called "tolerance 
courses" that the Center gives to police agencies, which are really 
just an indirect way of pushing the agenda of the Wiesenthal Center 
and other Jewish Zionist organizations.
[ http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/wiesenthal.shtml ]
[ http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=746 ]
[ http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2728 ]

KAS: It sounds like they have some friends in high places.

MW: Well, the Los Angeles Times Magazine had some revealing things to 
say about Hier. It said that "he has accrued unprecedented clout in 
the legislature, on Capitol Hill, in the city's boardrooms, and even 
in Hollywood." Apropos of that, he is the only rabbi to have received 
an Academy Award for a motion picture. This was for a documentary 
that the Wiesenthal Center put out. They've been able to get support 
from the current governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and 
they received the support of former President Ronald Reagan. Former 
U. S. Presidents, along with many governors of various states and 
Senators have lent their names in support of the Wiesenthal Center.

KAS: They pose as a pro-tolerance, humanitarian organization, but 
there's a little bit more to it than that, isn't there, Mark?

MW: There's a lot more to it. The real agenda of the Wiesenthal 
Center is a very narrow Jewish Zionist one and anyone who takes a 
look at its Web site or its magazine can easily see that most of its 
effort is spent in pushing Israeli interests and Jewish interests.

KAS: They support what is called the "Apartheid wall" or the 
"Security Fence" in Israel, do they not?

MW: Right. I'm sure many listeners to this interview are familiar 
with it, but for those who aren't, this is a really grotesque thing. 
This is a huge barrier that's been built on occupied Palestinian land 
that in many places is three times higher than the Berlin Wall was. 
It's been found to be illegal by the International Court of Justice 
and it's been condemned by the United Nations, but the Wiesenthal 
Center has fervently defended it in spite of its illegal and 
grotesque character.

KAS: I understand that there are some Jewish authors and Jewish 
advocacy groups that themselves question the ethics and agenda of the 
Wiesenthal Center. Can you expand on that?

MW: There's a lot of competition for money among these various Jewish 
groups and the Wiesenthal Center's biggest competitor for bucks is 
the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL is unhappy with the clearly 
reckless way that the Wiesenthal Center goes about collecting money. 
A few years ago the League acknowledged in an internal memorandum 
that was made public and reported in the Los Angeles Times that the 
Wiesenthal Center makes inaccurate and exaggerated claims about 
anti-Semitism in order to raise money. An ADL official cited a 
Wiesenthal Center fundraising letter that is, as he put it, "replete 
with factual misstatements and exaggerations about anti-Jewish 
sentiment in the United States and Europe." That's a polite way of 
saying that the Wiesenthal Center wildly exaggerates the so-called 
"danger to Jews." If you read any copy of its glossy, sensationalist 
magazine Response, you'll get the impression that brown-shirted storm 
troopers are about to take over all over the world. There's this 
persistent theme in the Wiesenthal Center periodicals that neo-nazis 
and dangerous people everywhere are just about to push Jews into gas 
ovens. The Center plays on fear.
[ http://www.ihr.org/news/swc.shtml ]

KAS: So, it's even too much for the ADL?

MW: It's even too much for the ADL. In fact, it's so bad, that when 
the Wiesenthal Center at one point put out a report about Switzerland 
during World War II, even Simon Wiesenthal distanced himself from it 
because it was so exaggerated. It claimed that during World War II 
the Swiss had locked up Jews in concentration camps and had 
mistreated them, which was completely untrue. This was part of the 
big shakedown campaign that many listeners might remember to squeeze 
billions of dollars for Israel and for Jewish organizations from the 
Swiss government, Swiss corporations, and Swiss banks.

KAS: Which was successful, I might add.

MW: Which was very successful, but also very grotesque. That 
campaign, in which the World Jewish Congress played the largest role, 
is still not forgotten by a lot of people in Europe, who are very 
resentful about the heavy-handed and grotesque way that Switzerland 
was targeted and blackmailed.

KAS: I understand that the Wiesenthal Center also has its hands in 
the education of ordinary schoolchildren, pushing their view of 
history and their very Jewish-focused agenda on the minds of 
vulnerable young people.

MW: That's right. Every school day busloads of schoolchildren are 
brought to the Wiesenthal Center. One of the reasons that I decided 
to organize this campaign is that I learned of a schoolteacher in San 
Diego who was unhappy that his children, who were attending a private 
Catholic school, were going to be bused to the Wiesenthal Center. He 
didn't know or understand as much as many people do about the 
Center's overall agenda, but he was particularly unhappy that Rabbi 
Hier and the Center have denounced Pius XII, who was Pope during the 
Second World War, and other Catholic and Christian leaders of the 
wartime era.

I've been struck by just how many people, no matter what their 
starting point might be, are offended at the way the Wiesenthal 
Center has handled this issue. Anyway, this man organized a campaign 
at his own school to dissuade parents from going along with the 
Wiesenthal Center visits -- but the Center continues to encourage 
them and is treated almost as a branch of the California government.

KAS: They have a close relationship with Arnold Schwarzenegger, do they not?

MW: Yes. Many people say that Arnold Schwarzenegger paid half a 
million dollars or more to the Wiesenthal Center, which then gave him 
a kind of "clean bill of health" after it was discovered that his 
father had been a member of the National Socialist party during World 
War II. This was sort of a way to "get him off the hook," so that he 
would not be being criticized for his father's past. Several years 
ago the state legislature gave a five million dollar grant to the 
Wiesenthal Center and tried to justify it by saying, "Well, it gets 
all these schoolchildren there." One schoolteacher remarked in 
response that thousands of schoolkids might go to McDonald's every 
day too, but the state doesn't pick up the tab for their lunches.

It's really outrageous that at a time when schoolteachers all over 
the state are asking parents to supply pencils and paper for schools, 
and there's a real shortage in the state budget for educational 
expenses and for highways, that the Wiesenthal Center has been given 
these millions of dollars.

Another example of the Center's power is the boasting of the man 
who's now the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaregosa, about his 
role in getting -- he said -- 18 million dollars for the Wiesenthal 
Center when he was in the state legislature. The Center is so 
powerful and so influential in this state that every politician must 
essentially go and make his peace with it and be given its approval 
in order to have an effective role in California politics.

KAS: If they didn't do that, what would happen?

MW: Well, all sorts of forces would be mobilized against them. What 
happens -- not just in California but in Washington as well -- is 
that AIPAC, the ADL, and the Wiesenthal Center insist that candidates 
declare themselves on the issues that are of great concern to 
American Jews -- and if they don't come up with the answers that 
these organizations want, then Jewish groups will punish them by 
supporting their opponents or, at a very minimum, by making sure that 
money for their campaigns dries up. It's a remarkable fact that, 
according to Jewish analysts of the American political scene, 
something like half of the money that goes to the Democratic Party's 
presidential campaigns comes from Jewish sources, along with about a 
quarter of the money for Republican presidential campaigns.

KAS: That's from two and half percent of the U. S. Population.

MW: That's from two and a half percent of the U. S. population. It 
means that Jews have more political clout and power than any other 
single ethnic or religious group in American life. It effectively 
means that Jews have a tight grip on political life in this country, 
and the Wiesenthal Center plays a very important role in this 
corruption of our political system.

KAS: What is the date of your demonstration, Mark?

MW: It will be on Friday, July 29th, at noon -- and we're going to be 
demonstrating at the offices of the Wiesenthal Center. We're 
encouraging people who would like to participate to contact us 
beforehand; they can contact us through the IHR website at ihr.org or 
by writing to my email address, weber at ihr.org . We're looking forward 
to a good demonstration that will finally focus some attention on the 
Wiesenthal Center's real record -- in a very public way.
[ http://www.ihr.org/news/050629_rally.shtml ]

* * *

Be with us again next week as we continue our discussion with IHR 
director Mark Weber. We'll be talking about even more of the outrages 
against freedom and free speech committed by the Wiesenthal Center -- 
and new efforts around the world to stop the Jewish supremacist 
agenda, its war of aggression in the Middle East, and the war of 
terror that has now come to us as a result.

[END]

For the full interview, go to http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5536
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