Three Obnoxious Boston Area Events

 

Tovah Reich, who is married to Walter Reich a former head of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, satirizes the USHMM and the US Holocaust religion in My Holocaust. She describes the true meaning of the USHMM on pp. 204-4:

Which other ethnic group in America could claim such an affirmation of its tragedy, in the Capitol rotunda no less? Why the Jews? Why not your so-called Native Americans, or your so-called African-Americans? Because unlike those poor suckers, we weren't screwed by America -- at least not yet. The truth is, the holocaust Museum on the mall was a testament to Jewish success and clout in America, a "Jewish power testicle," as Maurice [a character that blends Walter Reich with Eli Wiesel] phrased it in strictest confidence, it made the Nazi hunting office in the Justice Department, which everyone used to think was such a big hoo-bah, look like peanuts in comparison. This was not a talking point to be shared with our enemies, Maurice would have cautioned, but as he expressed it to his Blanche in the privacy of their boudoir, the museum was like a Jewish fist in the world's eye, like, you should pardon me, a proud circumcised Jewish cock erect in the body politic of the country. Every prince and prime minister and president who came to Washington on a state visit was required to pass through the museum, to light a candle in the Hall of Remembrance, place a wreath at the base of the marble altar containing soil samples and God alone knows what else from the concentration camps, and bow his head solemnly, be cleansed and purified as in a a mikvah, a ritual bath, for God's sake.

The following three obnoxious Boston-area events, of which two are explicitly Holocaust-related, show the truth of Tovah's parody of the Holocaust Cult and its temple on Capitol Rotunda.

Here is yet another event in the ongoing effort to enmesh Arabs and Muslims in Holocaust religion.   In Search of an Arab Schindler Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | 07:30 PM to 09:30 PM      Lecture by Robert Satloff, Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, D.C., author the award-winning bestseller, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories of the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. Reception following lecture. Time: 07:30 PM to 09:30 PM Expected Attendance: 100 Location: Clark University, 950 Main Street - Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall, Worcester, MA, 01610-1477, Phone: 508-793-8897, Fax: 508-793-8827, chgs@clarku.edu www.clarku.edu/departments/holocaust Contact: Margaret Hillard, Phone: 508-793-8897 Fax: 508-793-8827 chgs@clarku.edu   Satloff's book has some useful information, but from the bibliography, I can safely say he cannot handle scholarly Arabic.   Chapter 8 was quite offensive and is an attempt to deride and to avoid seriously engaging Arab and Muslim views of the Holocaust and the misuse of the associated mythology. The comments on pp. 166-7  are fairly typical.   From the standpoint of Jewish studies, there is little doubt that Zionism (ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism) is far more heinous than German Nazism. There is no other cold-blooded genocide, whose period of criminality spans three centuries from the planning in the 19th century, through the execution in the 20th century, and to the atrocities that take place now practically every day in front of our eyes.

Covering Israel: An Inside View 7:00 PM Thursday, September 11 Covering Israel:  An Inside View with renowned journalist Linda Gradstein 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM at TBZ Co-sponsored by Temple Beth Zion Adult Learning Committee, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, and Congregation Dorshei Tzedek. On Thursday, September 11, 7:00 - 9:00 PM at Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, Linda Gradstein, renowned journalist who has been covering major stories in Israel for 20 years, most notably for NPR, interviewing hundreds of Israelis, Palestinians, and their political leaders, will speak on "Covering Israel:  An Inside View".  This event will feature Gradstein's unique perspective on the challenges facing Israel today.  Linda Gradstein was the NPR Israel correspondent for 20 years.  Having been the recipient of several awards for her journalism, she was a member of a team of journalists honored with the Overseas Press Club Award for her coverage of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.  In addition, she was a part of a team of reporters who won the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Fluent in both Hebrew and Arabic, Gradstein earned a BS in Foreign Service and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and spent a year as a Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University in 1999. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband and four children ages 13, 11, 7 and 3.   I have never seen much evidence from Gradstein either of objective reporting on issues related to Israel and Palestine or of fluency in Arabic.

The following event at the Boston Public Library is also quite offensive.   The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews with Father Patrick Desbois Thursday, September 25, 2008 | 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM      The US Holocaust Memorial Museum opens the 2008-09 Boston Speaker Series with Father Patrick Desbois. Since 2001, French Catholic priest Father Desbois has led a truly historic undertaking. Using the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's archives to inform his search, he and his team have been crisscrossing the countryside in Ukraine trying to locate every mass grave and killing site of Jews from the time of the Holocaust. So far they have identified 800 of an estimated 2,000 such locations. They are marking the sites, collecting artifacts, and most significantly, recording video testimonies from eyewitnesses, many of whom are now speaking for the first time. These historic testimonies will be preserved as part of the Museum's collections. This program is free and open to the public by RSVPs are requested. Time: 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM Expected Attendance: 300 Location: Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02116, Phone: 202-488-0494, newengland@ushmm.org www.ushmm.org Contact: Dana Sherman, Phone: 202-488-0494 newengland@ushmm.org   This project is an attempt to distort history. I am not trying to justify mass murder, but an honest appraisal of the history indicates that much if not most of the killing of the Jews in the Ukraine was a response (collective revenge) to the Jewish role in targeted assassinations, terrorism, sabotage, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union. This sort of decontextualized presentation tends to distract from ongoing Zionist crime in Stolen and Occupied Palestine.   The USHMM never mentions – as far as I know – that the German SS generally killed Muslims in the Ukraine for racial reasons or deported them to concentration camps. I have read one account of a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz, who stated that he was glad that he was not a Muslim, for Muslims at Auschwitz (usually Polish-Lithuanian or Russian Tatars) were treated so much worse than Jews.   Note that the BPL event is preceded by a USHMM dinner.   US Holocaust Memorial Museum Dinner with Father Patrick Desbois Thursday, September 25, 2008 | 06:00 PM to 07:15 PM      The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is hosting a Dinner with Father Patrick Desbois. Using the Museum's archive to inform his search, Father Desbois, a French Catholic Priest, is leading a historic undertaking to locate every unknown mass grave site at which Jews were killed in Ukraine during the Holocaust. Individual tickets for this event are $250. For more information and sponsorship opportunities please contact the Museum's New England Office at 202-488-0494 or newengland@ushmm.org   Time: 06:00 PM to 07:15 PM Expected Attendance: 200 Location: Fairmont Copley Plaza, 138 Saint James Avenue, Boston, MA, 02116, Phone: 202-488-0494, newengland@ushmm.org www.ushmm.org Contact: Dana Sherman, Phone: 202-488-0494 newengland@ushmm.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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