“It should come as no surprise to those who have followed the views of leading paleoconservative Pat Buchanan over the decades that Buchanan has written a piece comparing Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, facing deportation from the US to Germany, to Alfred Dreyfus and, um, Jesus Christ.”
A must-read by Gene at Harry’s Place, citing the invaluable Adam Holland.
I see very little difference between Pat Buchanan and those on the antisemitic left speaking out for ‘human rights.”
‘Human rights’ has become the excuse for expressing all kinds of anti-Jewish sentiments today.
There is an interesting post on Durban2 at Engage which makes it clear:
“Smantha Lishak on the Durban Review Conference”
http://engageonline.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/smantha-lishak-on-the-durban-review-conference/
in her article she offers this tidbit:
“One week later, having celebrated 61 years of Israel’s independence in Leeds on Yom Ha’atzamut, remembered fallen Israeli soldiers on Israel’s Remembrance Day - Yom Ha’zikaron, and having been asked again, by a student, if I thought the um, the um, ‘Israeli’s’ controlled the global media and were using Gilad Shalit as a means of deflection, I am still ‘getting over’ the conference. I am continually asked “how was it?”, and every time I give a different response. Every time another story. Some beaming with joy, such as the clown who threw a nose at Ahmadinejad in the circus we call the UN, some with sadness, such as Tibet being thrown off the podium due to China’s objections to their speech, some with concern, such as the last NGO I heard speak claim that 9/11 was an unsolved mysery that didn’t happen, and that his organization were starting a lobby to remove the word antisemitism from the Oxford English Dictionary as it is clearly racist, and so many more stories and emotions in between.”
Her comment about an NGO member wanting to “redefine antisemitism” which Buchanan would agree led me to this thought:
When antisemites write dictionaries this will happen: they will also go back to defining “Jew” in medieval terms, and Zionism in terms of the Tsarist secret police who wrote “The Protocols…”
In this Orwellian world racism will be anti-racism, and anti-racist NGO’s will applaud racist antisemites as liberators.