Just a brief note to point readers to an excellent article about the Red Army Faction by Jeffrey Herf. It makes particular mention of the part played by antisemitism in the group’s activities and ideology and, apart from that, serves as a reminder of what an appalling gang of spoiled, selfish and stupid fanatics it was.
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It’s not surprising - especially when you recall that Canada announced its decision to pull out back in January - but Israel has finally confirmed that it will not participate in the UN’s Durban II anti-racism conference in 2009.
There’s much to recommend in this review by Christopher Hitchens of Globalising Hatred, Denis MacShane’s new book on antisemitism.
It would appear that the antisemitic spirit of the Red Army Fraction (RAF) - aka the Baader Meinhoff Gang - is alive and well on the fringes of the German far left. (Have a look here to remind yourselves of the RAF’s role in the notorious Entebbe hijacking of 1976, a joint production with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin.)
Continue reading ‘Far Left Mob Destroys German Holocaust Exhibit’
David Hirsh has weighed in on the event at London University’s Goldsmiths College which advertised a seamless link between the Warsaw Ghetto and the current situation in Gaza.
A gray-haired, white-skinned, male journalist is savaging the first black President of the United States as an unreconstructed warmonger, under a headline lifted from the title of a Public Enemy track released back in 1988. Yes, it’s John Pilger.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Seventy years after the Nazis unleashed the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany and Austria, the scourge of antisemitism still persists. In 1938 and 1939, the Jews of those countries were forced to leave, but not all of them could find refuge in the democratic countries. And many of those who were successful in entering France, Belgium, Netherlands and other European countries were later caught by the Nazi machine and murdered.
Ed Morgan is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. In this fascinating column, he relates two recent experiences which persuaded him that rational, informed debate is not always the norm in the ivory tower.
Continue reading ‘Ed Morgan: The “One-State” Crowd Up Close’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
According to an article published by Ágnes Lampé in the Budapest weekly “168 óra,” the Hungarian police will not be pursuing the online edition of the “Expressz” newspaper, after it published an advertisement from a company claiming to specialize in “eradicating Jews.”
On her consistently excellent blog, Petra Marquardt-Bigman takes aim at the activists of London University’s Goldsmith’s college who draw a seamless line between the Warsaw Ghetto and what they describe as the Gaza “Ghetto.”
The appointment of Rahm Emanuel as Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff hasn’t taken long to bring the creepy crawlies of racial hatred out from under the nearest rock. An Argentine national newspaper has today headlined a piece about him with the words “The ‘Jewish Rahmbo’ brings more war.”
The various attempts, as the Presidential campaign heated up, to depict Barack Obama as hostile to Israel had minimal impact on American Jews, 78 per cent of whom voted for him. Among young Jewish voters, as this informal AJC poll indicates, the percentage was even higher. Indeed, as we reported yesterday, wariness about an Obama administration is more pointed in the Arab and wider Islamic world. One reason why, today, all eyes are on Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who has been appointed as Obama’s Chief-of-Staff.
If you look here you’ll find an interesting letter in today’s Guardian. It’s from Professor Shindler of the School of Oreiental and African Studies of the University of London and succintly deals with certain aspects of the relationship between some Palestinian nationalists and Nazi Germany.
“The anticipated victory of Obama in US elections signals the end of the Jewish domination - Everything changes in USA and we hope that it will be more democratic and humane”. So said today’s headline of the Greek newspaper Avriani - which, as David T observes, is a mainstream daily. In response, the American Jewish Committee, which sponsors Z Word, issued the following statement:
Continue reading ‘Greek Newspaper: “The End of Jewish Domination”’
In a few days, the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht - the terrible night of 9/10 November 1938, when the Nazis launched a vicious pogrom against the Jews of Germany - will be marked. Sadly, if not surprisingly , it seems that some people are bent on portraying this as principally a Palestinian tragedy, rather than a Jewish one.
