Hugo Chavez’s obedient Hollywood poodle told London’s Sunday Times that “Jewish domination of the media” is to blame for what he says is the excessive focus on Hitler’s Jewish victims, as opposed to Hitler’s Russian ones.
No one who has taken any close interest in the history of the Second World War could be unfamiliar with the extent of Russian suffering and death under German occupation. So ‘more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people’ is a purely apologetic trope, since at that level of human catastrophe the insistence on maintaining a sense of proportion about five to six million Jewish dead is a plain attempt to diminish. And what follows that is then standard anti-Semitism: the Jews control the media and they work hard at it; and this is what accounts for the focus on the Holocaust (rather than any features of the genocide itself).
Since the Sunday Times now lives behind a firewall, here is the full quote, which went unchallenged by journalist Camilla Long.
His next task, the leviathan Secret History of America, tackles received versions of events in the last century, an extension, perhaps, of what he did in 1991’s JFK, when he suggested that the president’s assassination was in fact a high-level conspiracy. The 10-part documentary will address Stalin and Hitler “in context”, he says. “Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support.”
He also seeks to put his atrocities in proportion: “Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30m.”
Why such a focus on the Holocaust then? “The Jewish domination of the media,” he says. “There’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years.”
I will say one thing. Like Hamas, at least Oliver Stone is honest. He talks about Jews, rather than hiding behind words like “pro-Israel” or “Zionist.”
A very good article on Oliver Stone
http://www.hnn.us/articles/129458.html
An avowed radical leftist who constantly praises Hugo Chavez, and people are surprised he’s a rabid anti-Semite….WAKE UP ( especially my holy liberal Jewish Bretheren) WAKE UP
Uriel Levi, If the world would be as simple as that, on one side the left and liberals who are antisemites and on the other side the conservatives and the radical rightists who are all free of antisemitism, your view would be realistic. But is that so?
It is if you do not suffer from selective perception more complicated, there are some on the radical left and on the liberal side, who are free of antisemitism and alas, there are on the conservative and the radical rightist side some who are rabid anti-Semites.
Judging by the reaction in the media concerning Oliver Stone’s statements I would have to say that he has graphically proven his point !
@Tom@ it is only in totalitarian and posttotalitarian societies were people are educated to keep quiet, where antisemites and racists can voice their “opinion” and most people do not react. They are just bystanders.
In civilised societies people and media says to the antisemite or/and racist “shut up”.
He’s a mediocre filmmaker at best. His best (Platoon) is not that great.
Politically, he’s disgusting.
Oliver Stone is a repunant bigot. The ADL are wrong to accept his “apology”. If he didn’t mean it why did he say it??
Of course he is in the company of other “liberal” anti-semites & supporters od Ahmajinidad & that nasty little Latin National socialist Hugo Sanchez
The great Sánchez
http://youtu.be/1em06gIgeeM
an antisemite!!