On Jew-Hatred in Europe

Corriere della Sera ^ | April 17, 2002 | Oriana Fallaci

[TheMole]

This was posted before and appeared in some "warblogs" in a shorter version. The full version IMO is more nuanced and powerful. I "starred out" some vulgarities - otherwise the text is identical to that at the source URL.

[Cicero]

I find it shameful that in part through the fault of the left--or rather, primarily through the fault of the left

This can't be emphasized too much. So many Jews just can't find it in their hearts to repudiate the left, even though today almost all the most dangerous manifestations of antisemitism come from the left. Hitler died more than forty years ago. The KKK have very few supporters. The ADL and the rest should wake up and understand where the real danger lies.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT, thanks for the thread!

[Chuzzlewit]

Heard this on Dennis Prager's show the other day. Very powerful. It's beautiful to see this leftist journalist from Italy get it right... thanks for the post !

[nmh]

What a Catholic "leader" does, doesn't suprise me, however I must point out that Catholicism is not Christian.

Now watch as they attack me for stating that simple, timeless fact. Hatred of non-Catholics is just part of their religion.

[Reactionary]

Wow! How clever you are! You've discovered that old fashioned Jewish conspiracy that controls everything!

What's next? Are you going to tell us about the evil Jewish bankers? The evil Jewish Passover cookies?

[SSN558]

"You've discovered that old fashioned Jewish conspiracy that controls everything!"

You forgot Jewish lawyers. The worst of the worst.

[secretagent]

I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a bishop, one with lodgings in the Vatican no less, a saintly man who was found in Jerusalem with an arsenal of arms and explosives hidden in the secret compartments of his sacred Mercedes, to participate in that procession and plant himself in front of a microphone to thank in the name of God the suicide bombers who massacre the Jews in pizzerias and supermarkets. To call them “martyrs who go to their deaths as to a party.”

I don't know who she refers to here. Never heard of this bishop before.

[Sabramerican]

Tell me James, did you lose your mind being shaken or stirred?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I find it shameful that some of us, including myself, are so slow to wake-up to the Jewish hegemony in the US and the world. I find it shameful that Jewish leftists and neo-cons reign supreme with their Anti-American concepts and policies. I find it shameful that Sharon can bomb the crap out of Palestinians and then get the American media to focus on the few (by comparison) women and children killed by the "homocide-bombers."

Another Jew-baiting anti-capitalist speaks out. The tyrannical socialist and theocratic pigs need a boogyman to point their mobs. For thousands of years Jews made a living as merchants and money lenderers (capitalists) contributing to the rise of needed goods. Their payback is death at the hands of socialists and anti capitalist religions.

When the apathetic mobs rise in protest of these tyrants, I'll be out selling tar and feathers. My tar will be good and hot.

[Enlightiator]

I was with most of this article, until I read this nonsense:

...accuses of extermination a people who were exterminated in the millions by Christians.

This is typical anti-Christian bigotry. The past and present day plight of the Jews is well known and Jews and Israel have no bigger supporters than conservative Christians. For the author to claim "Christians" were the ones who exterminated the Jews in WWII is a lie. Such exagerations to the point of a lie is dishonest, and does nothing to further sympathy for the Jews, it actually elicits the opposite.

The claim that Hitler and his Nazi cronies were "Christians" belies anyone who has bothered to read the life of Christ to see what a real Christian must be. It also in the case of Hitler is false, he was not a bonafide practicing "Christian" when he committed his attrocities. Their WERE Christians who looked the other way, who walked away from Christ, and supported Nazi Germany, both internally and externally. And guess what, as a nation, both Christians and Jews have watched geonicidal massacres in many other countries....and done little to nothing.

And finally, it was the United States of America who fought with our allies to DEFEAT Hitler and Nazi Germany, and release the Jews from the camps. And MOST of these soldiers were - Christians.

[FreedomPoster]

Do they also direct the mind control rays? Are you wearing your tinfoil hat, made of heavy-grade oven wrap?

[FreedomPoster]

This is typical anti-Christian bigotry.

I don't think Oriana Falachi is trying to be anti-Christian just for the sake of it. She's from a heavily Catholic country, and isn't saying "Christian" to mean "Protestant", but rather anyone believing in Christ, any Christian faith. And, while I heartily agree that Hitler and his henchmen weren't in any sense Christian, they came from a Christian country/background/part of the world.

Do not forget this famous quote:

First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller

So I think it is in this sense that Oriana lays some of the blame for the Holocaust on European Christiandom, for not standing up and stopping the monster Hitler and his friends.

[Kermit]

I've been Googling trying to find the Fallaci article mentioned below. I thought this was interesting enough to post.

Nov. 6, 2001 – Isabella writes a letter to the NY Times in defense of Italian writer Oriana Fallaci:

November 6, 2001
In Defense of Fallaci

To the Editor:

In "Provocateur Is Back to 'Spit on' Detractors of U.S." (Rome Journal, Oct. 30), you call Oriana Fallaci a "professional provocateur." Ms. Fallaci is one of the most respected writers in Italy and one who has achieved world fame. Her articles and books have nourished our souls and stimulated our brains, not to mention the examples she has set with her courageous life, which has been an inspiration to women of my generation.

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, my brain froze, incapable of coming to grips with the horrors we had just experienced. Oriana Fallaci's powerful article, printed in Corriere della Sera, shook me up out of my stupor. Her informed, witty, warm, bold, intelligent writings have often had that effect on her readers.

Instead of thanking Ms. Fallaci for defending and praising America, you chose to insult her. As an Italian who has become an American citizen, I felt profoundly embarrassed and ashamed by it.

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI
New York, Nov. 5, 2001

[Torie]

What precisely caused you to come out of the closet so blatently today? Was it the trauma of paying taxes, or what?