“Strange things happened to me in Germany,” writes Z Word contributor and veteran anti-fascist Karl Pfeifer in Ha’aretz. Strange, yes; also ugly, also unacceptable, also antisemitic and most definitely, as we reported earlier this week, a form of the blood libel. Yet, with the exception of Benny Weinthal in the Jerusalem Post and the German paper Jungle World, the appalling victimization of an 81 year-old Holocaust survivor has gone unnoticed. I would ask Z Word readers to do all they can to raise awareness of this matter, if only because it illustrates where leftist antisemitism - a phenomenon all too often denied - can lead.
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Our regular contributor Karl Pfeifer has been targeted by a particularly insidious form of the blood libel. “To accuse me, to have participated in a ‘massacre’ is part of a projection customary in many German circles. The best-known and by far the most widely held example of projection of guilt is the defamation of Israel as the ‘Nazis of today.’ This is one of the most objectionable forms of antisemitism after Auschwitz,” Karl writes. Read his full account here.
This is a crosspost by Adam Holland.
Disgraced former Congressman Jim Traficant was recently freed from federal prison after serving seven years of hard time for corruption and tax evasion. He surprised many people who haven’t followed his case by claiming in subsequent interviews that he had been framed by the “Israel lobby”.
Continue reading ‘Disgraced Ex-Congressman to Testify for Demjanjuk’
Karl Pfeifer exposed Israeli anti-Zionist Professor Moshe Zuckerman’s claim that “400,000 civilians” had been killed in Gaza - made during in an interview with Deutschlandradio - here. An editor at the radio station now says it was a “bad mistake.”
Continue reading ‘German Radio Denies Gaza “Big Lie” Accusation’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
“There is no call for hating the Israel-hating Israelis,” writes Ari Shavit. “At the end of the day, their position is a pathetic one. Their self-righteousness is not at all righteous, and their moralizing has no morality.”
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
“Greetings from the national resistance, you left-wing police pig. ” These were the words which accompanied a deadly knife attack on Alois Mannichl, the police chief of the German town of Passau, last Saturday night.
Continue reading ‘Passau Stabbing Highlights Neo-Nazi Activism’
Matthias Küntzel, the German scholar who has written some of the most important academic work on Islamist antisemitism, has authored an op-ed which takes the Berlin Center for Research on Anti-Semitism to task for focusing upon “Islamophobia” - a term whose validity he disputes.
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.
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’
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.
As the financial crisis deepens, more examples of antisemitic conspiracy theories to explain it are emerging.
I wrote here about Evelyn Hecht-Galinski going to law to try to prevent Henryk Broder calling her what she quite obviously is, an antisemitic anti-Zionist. Well, now she has had her day in court and it has ruled that she cannot restrain Broder from calling her antisemitic as long as he gives reasons to justify his opinion.
An oft heard complaint from practitioners of the new, cool, environmentally responsible, GMO free antisemitism is that participants in the great Zionist conspiracy use their influence in the media to stifle criticism of Israel. This leads them to make much use of such phrases as “speaking out”, “refusing to be silenced” and suchlike.
Continue reading ‘Stifling Criticism - The Case of Evelyn Hecht-Galinski’
