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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

10/19 Links Pt2: Why I think the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to its end; The UN needs to be reimagined and reformed; Peter Bergson – The Unintended Hero of the Holocaust Era

From Ian: Why I think the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to its end - opinion The New Antisemitism is becoming violent The decline in the favorability of mainstream American views toward Israel has coincided with a rise in antisemitic violence, particularly in large metropolises, promoted by Islamo-Leftist groups. In New York City, more than half of hate crimes...

10/13 Links Pt2: How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust; How Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Berkeley and Wellesley mainstream anti-Semitism; The Wedding Canopy in Abu Dhabi

From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust Yet contrary to the film’s conclusion, the Holocaust tells us little or nothing about what to do about America’s contemporary immigration debates or the current American problem with Jew-hatred. Any attempt to frame the Holocaust as a representative moment in the history of human intolerance is a moral calamity....

A film-maker comments on Ken Burns' Holocaust documentary (Martin Ostrow)

By Martin Ostrow Ken Burns’s advance interviews for his new Holocaust film provided much material for public discussion. Now that PBS has broadcast the six-hour series, how does the film measure up?The answer, unfortunately, is that it’s a disappointment. “The U.S. and the Holocaust” misrepresents some key historical issues and entirely omits crucial information. Ultimately,...

False claims of Nazi spies masquerading as Jews provided excuse to limit Jewish immigration to America during the Holocaust

The Ken Burns documentary that started being broadcast last night, The US and the Holocaust, has prompted me to dig up little known stories about how the US severely limited Jewish immigration.One reason that the US gave for limiting immigration was the fear that some of the immigrants were in fact Nazi spies.The New York Daily News reported on November 26, 1940 - a year before...

09/13 Links Pt2: Anti-Zionists advocate a global apartheid; Ken Burns has a Palestine problem; Rare, stolen 2,000-year-old silver coin returned to Israeli authorities in US

From Ian: Anti-Zionists advocate a global apartheid As I have recently written, the claim that Israel is an apartheid state has, in fact, little to do with the actual charge of apartheid. It is, first, little more than a cheap attempt to demonize the Jewish state. But more ominously, it is also a call for Israel to be dismantled, just as South Africa’s apartheid regime was,...

1938: Columnist is sympathetic towards Jews in Germany - but not THAT sympathetic

Later this month, Ken Burns is releasing a documentary, The US and the Holocaust, on how the United States did not help Jews escape their doom. Here is one example of how some Americans thought on the eve of the Holocaust. William Bruckart was a moderately successful and influential columnist in the 1930s, who published a regular syndicated column called Washington...