Forced into a war with Hitler because of his expansionist actions, this did not mean that the Allied countries broke with that other part of Hitler's programme, the extermination of the Jews. We have just come through several decades in which a man calling himself Yasser Arafat has been “adopted” by several of these countries, while Arafat was a man steeped in anti-Semitism and used the Palestinian Arabs for his own anti-Semitic ends.
On a superficial level Arafat played the victim game with the refugee issue. But that ignored the greater number of Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim lands. No, the issue was not the question of victimhood propaganda at all, but the underlying currents of anti-Semitism in our countries that led them to be responsive to Arafat’s lies.
The Palestinian propaganda on the refugee question met responsive ears in the Islamic world and in the West. Without the underlying anti-Semitism, it would have been just another issue in the world, to be placed alongside the plight of the Jewish refugees. In Baghdad, where there was a large population of Jews, some estimates at least 20 percent of the total, only 53 Jewish people were found at the time of the recent war, and the huge Jewish quarter was no more (according to a Daily Telegraph report). As a young boy growing up in rural Ireland, I was never made aware of this persecution by Saddam and his predecessors, nor was I made aware of the Islamist and Arab ethnic cleansing.
We can argue about the reason for the enduring nature of anti-Semitism. I do believe it is related to the dominant ideological currents inside class-based societies, many of which work their way though in religious (philosophical) forms, not least being the development of Christianity and later Islam. Originating from Jewish thought, both of these set out to negate Judaism. Subsequently, this found its way through power struggles, no better example being the development of dhimmitude in the Muslim power structure. By this explanation, Arafat was lionised because of this reality and not because he had any special endearing characteristics. He was in fact a loud-mouth, and an ignorant one at that, claiming as he did at the time of the Pope’s visit to the Holy Land that Peter was a ‘Palestinian’.
Yet the world again stood by and did nothing as Jews were expelled from the Muslim countries. It was Hitler’s work being carried on by the Muslims. And the West and the Soviets only had eyes for the Palestinians.
Look at our media diet of pro-Arab propaganda on the issue of Palestinians, never explaining that the Arabs attacked Israel in 1948, and thus created the refugee problem. Instead, they sell lies, lies and more lies, that the Israelis drove them out.
Referring again to what was found in Baghdad by a visiting Telegraph journalist after Saddam was toppled: Just over 50 Jewish souls remained in Baghdad, even though only one or two generations earlier, Baghdad’s Jews made up 20 per cent of the total. This, from one very welcome article, but being only one, the piece stands as a contrast to the endless wave of supportive propaganda for the Palestinian refugees.
This is anti-Semitism at work.
We have just witnessed the most amazing campaign in support of Mr Abu Mazen, the “war name” of Mahmoud Abbas. Why was this man not denounced for being an anti-Semitic holocaust denier? Is it suddenly all right to deny the Holocaust and sweep his documented anti-Semitic record under the carpet. The world embraces him, and this world is anti-Semitic. Unless I throw logic out of the window, I can draw no other conclusion.
Young Harry, a member of the royal leech family, was photographed in a Nazi costume, which the next in line, William, helped him choose. But the real issue is deeper than these idiots and their imbecilic carry-on.
The Holocaust is taught inadequately. The reason for this failure is because it is a subject that can only be accessed through passion. You simply cannot get it across without simultaneously dealing with Hamas and the others, because the killing of Jews continues. This deadly continuity is what throws off the potential teachers. Indeed, there is a huge problem with how the history of the holocaust is taught in schools. There is a very specific and a very simple reason for this.
I met quite a few history teachers in the years I was journeying through London schools doing “supply teaching” and most of the history teachers I knew were either hopelessly dry academic types who could not recognise a living human from five feet, or else they were present day enemies of Israel, the state which those same Jews set up as a defence against persecution.
To really access the Holocaust, one would need to answer why Harry, with his great uncle’s experience, and his brother “the next in line”, would have chosen the Nazi outfit. Then one would have to look at the voices coming in from the side, that he was only a ‘boy’ etc, out for a bit of fun. “For goodness sake, have some perspective”, they say. Out of all this hypocrisy, the central experience of the Jewish people is demeaned.
On another level, as the Jihad savages set off suicide attack after suicide attack in Israel (and in Iraq) there is either silence, or coverage in a single short article tucked away somewhere, or a commentary to the effect that it will derail the peace process. One never gets from the media a clear statement saying that it is wrong to murder Jews because they are Jews. The common denominator in all of this – an underlying hatred of Jews, in the West and the East.
Daniel Pipes writes about Mahmoud Abbas, feted by the world’s leaders, thus:
‘He no more accepts what he so charmingly the other day called the “Zionist enemy” any more than Arafat did (or Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad), but he is open to a multiplicity of means to destroy it. As he announced after his electoral victory this week, “the lesser jihad [holy war] is over and the greater jihad is ahead.” The form of jihad must change from violent to non-violent, but the jihad continues.
And count the many ways to undo the Jewish state: nuclear weaponry, invading armies, mega-terrorism, plain old terrorism, Palestinian demographic fertility, the “right of return,” or confusing Israelis to the point that post-Zionist leftists cause the population unilaterally to crumple and accept a dhimmi (subservient) status within “Palestine.” ‘
(Deciphering Mahmoud Abbas, by Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 11, 2005 and also posted on Israpundit.)
Put alongside this schemer the awful anti-Semitism in the West, and throw into the mix little lost boy Sharon whose only remaining aim in life is to curry favour with Bush and Solana, and then we have real problems.
Note: Felix Quigley has taught for 10 years doing supply teaching in London schools. During this time he joined daily the 24 hour Serbian picket of the Ministry of Defence in London against the War on Serbia, and broke decisively with the neo-Left over the issue of anti-Semitism and their hatred for Israel. He sees anti-Semitism as being a continuous thread in human history. He believes that Irish people are essentially a fair people and that they can be won to a support for Israel if the truth of the situation is given to them; in this respect, Ireland is no different frm other countries, such as Spain. But he believes that this work is urgent. He visits his home in Northern Ireland frequently.
WANNSEE LIVES ON, by Felix Quigley
See note at article end.
As I write this piece, I am aware that today, January 20, we are marking the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference of 1942, when the Nazis had a day-long meeting to lay the basis for the gassing of Jews in the Holocaust. But with the defeat of the Nazis and with Hitler’s death, the world did not see the end of anti-Semitism.
The Nazis had been given support by many countries; for example, in England, King Edward was a supporter of Hitler. Edward abdicated because of his relationship with a divorced woman, Mrs Simpson, but of far greater import were his Nazi sympathies. There was indeed widespread support for Hitler’s extermination of the Jews throughout many countries of the world. No effort was made to bomb the railway lines or the crematoria, of which the Allies certainly knew, and which action they could have undertaken, since the Allies at that stage (from 1943 on) controlled the skies. We must not forget that apart and interconnected with the anti-Semitism in the West, there existed the most direct connection between Arab anti-Semitism and Hitler – not just a war alliance but a pact to annihilate the Jews.
Forced into a war with Hitler because of his expansionist actions, this did not mean that the Allied countries broke with that other part of Hitler's programme, the extermination of the Jews. We have just come through several decades in which a man calling himself Yasser Arafat has been “adopted” by several of these countries, while Arafat was a man steeped in anti-Semitism and used the Palestinian Arabs for his own anti-Semitic ends.
On a superficial level Arafat played the victim game with the refugee issue. But that ignored the greater number of Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim lands. No, the issue was not the question of victimhood propaganda at all, but the underlying currents of anti-Semitism in our countries that led them to be responsive to Arafat’s lies.
The Palestinian propaganda on the refugee question met responsive ears in the Islamic world and in the West. Without the underlying anti-Semitism, it would have been just another issue in the world, to be placed alongside the plight of the Jewish refugees. In Baghdad, where there was a large population of Jews, some estimates at least 20 percent of the total, only 53 Jewish people were found at the time of the recent war, and the huge Jewish quarter was no more (according to a Daily Telegraph report). As a young boy growing up in rural Ireland, I was never made aware of this persecution by Saddam and his predecessors, nor was I made aware of the Islamist and Arab ethnic cleansing.
We can argue about the reason for the enduring nature of anti-Semitism. I do believe it is related to the dominant ideological currents inside class-based societies, many of which work their way though in religious (philosophical) forms, not least being the development of Christianity and later Islam. Originating from Jewish thought, both of these set out to negate Judaism. Subsequently, this found its way through power struggles, no better example being the development of dhimmitude in the Muslim power structure. By this explanation, Arafat was lionised because of this reality and not because he had any special endearing characteristics. He was in fact a loud-mouth, and an ignorant one at that, claiming as he did at the time of the Pope’s visit to the Holy Land that Peter was a ‘Palestinian’.
Yet the world again stood by and did nothing as Jews were expelled from the Muslim countries. It was Hitler’s work being carried on by the Muslims. And the West and the Soviets only had eyes for the Palestinians.
Look at our media diet of pro-Arab propaganda on the issue of Palestinians, never explaining that the Arabs attacked Israel in 1948, and thus created the refugee problem. Instead, they sell lies, lies and more lies, that the Israelis drove them out.
Referring again to what was found in Baghdad by a visiting Telegraph journalist after Saddam was toppled: Just over 50 Jewish souls remained in Baghdad, even though only one or two generations earlier, Baghdad’s Jews made up 20 per cent of the total. This, from one very welcome article, but being only one, the piece stands as a contrast to the endless wave of supportive propaganda for the Palestinian refugees.
This is anti-Semitism at work.
We have just witnessed the most amazing campaign in support of Mr Abu Mazen, the “war name” of Mahmoud Abbas. Why was this man not denounced for being an anti-Semitic holocaust denier? Is it suddenly all right to deny the Holocaust and sweep his documented anti-Semitic record under the carpet. The world embraces him, and this world is anti-Semitic. Unless I throw logic out of the window, I can draw no other conclusion.
Young Harry, a member of the royal leech family, was photographed in a Nazi costume, which the next in line, William, helped him choose. But the real issue is deeper than these idiots and their imbecilic carry-on.
The Holocaust is taught inadequately. The reason for this failure is because it is a subject that can only be accessed through passion. You simply cannot get it across without simultaneously dealing with Hamas and the others, because the killing of Jews continues. This deadly continuity is what throws off the potential teachers. Indeed, there is a huge problem with how the history of the holocaust is taught in schools. There is a very specific and a very simple reason for this.
I met quite a few history teachers in the years I was journeying through London schools doing “supply teaching” and most of the history teachers I knew were either hopelessly dry academic types who could not recognise a living human from five feet, or else they were present day enemies of Israel, the state which those same Jews set up as a defence against persecution.
To really access the Holocaust, one would need to answer why Harry, with his great uncle’s experience, and his brother “the next in line”, would have chosen the Nazi outfit. Then one would have to look at the voices coming in from the side, that he was only a ‘boy’ etc, out for a bit of fun. “For goodness sake, have some perspective”, they say. Out of all this hypocrisy, the central experience of the Jewish people is demeaned.
On another level, as the Jihad savages set off suicide attack after suicide attack in Israel (and in Iraq) there is either silence, or coverage in a single short article tucked away somewhere, or a commentary to the effect that it will derail the peace process. One never gets from the media a clear statement saying that it is wrong to murder Jews because they are Jews. The common denominator in all of this – an underlying hatred of Jews, in the West and the East.
Daniel Pipes writes about Mahmoud Abbas, feted by the world’s leaders, thus:
(Deciphering Mahmoud Abbas, by Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 11, 2005 and also posted on Israpundit.)Put alongside this schemer the awful anti-Semitism in the West, and throw into the mix little lost boy Sharon whose only remaining aim in life is to curry favour with Bush and Solana, and then we have real problems.
Note: Felix Quigley has taught for 10 years doing supply teaching in London schools. During this time he joined daily the 24 hour Serbian picket of the Ministry of Defence in London against the War on Serbia, and broke decisively with the neo-Left over the issue of anti-Semitism and their hatred for Israel. He sees anti-Semitism as being a continuous thread in human history. He believes that Irish people are essentially a fair people and that they can be won to a support for Israel if the truth of the situation is given to them; in this respect, Ireland is no different frm other countries, such as Spain. But he believes that this work is urgent. He visits his home in Northern Ireland frequently.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at January 20, 2005 09:32 AM