Posted on 05/12/2009 5:51:40 AM PDT by SJackson
Yesterday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel, Pope Benedict said victims of the Final Solution "lost their lives, but they will never lose their names." Earlier this year, the Pope told a group of American Jewish leaders that "any denial or minimization any denial or minimization" of the Holocaust "is intolerable and altogether unacceptable."
Patrick Buchanan, a devout Catholic, might want to reacquaint himself with these declarations by the leader of his church, because the MSNBC political commentator and one-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is currently enabling Holocaust deniers.
Buchanan.org, his official Web site, hosts, on a "Buchanan Brigade Forum" for registered members of the site, a long discussion thread in which Holocaust revisionists compare notes with each other and heap venom and vitriol on Jews. It's titled "Discussion about 'The Holocaust' " (with The Holocaust in quotes, of course).
In 2009, when the international community is busy excoriating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for doubting whether 6 million Jews did in fact perish at the hands of the Third Reich, Buchanan's Web site is encouraging this very conversation.
As Deborah Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University, explains, Holocaust denial is a pernicious strain of anti-Semitism.
"According to deniers, Jews use the Holocaust to win the world's sympathy and, in the course of so doing, win reparations from Germany and political support for Israel," she says. "Such a charge, based as it is the imagery of money and political manipulation, harkens back to traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes."
This is a perfect description of the Buchanan Brigades' forum, which is replete with references to the "Holohoax" and "Holocaustianity." Among the gems featured there are the following:
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PB is weird, on average.
Liberal Jewish Buchanan-bashing ping.
A ping to post 1 in the event you don’t want Pat’s forum linked here. It’s Stormfront light, hate the Jews, the Holocaust never happend, but without as much of the white supremecy stuff, and probably wouldn’t be allowed were it not from a prominant political figure.
I’ll get the popcorn.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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LOL -- that's like asking why this website is playing host to Republicans.
Some Jewish kid must have kicked Pat’s ass when he was a kid or stole his girlfriend.
No, it's pretty much straigntforward Holocaust denial and Jewhatred under Pat Buchanan's name. If you agree with it, shame on you.
Oh stop.
Sheesh.
We occasionally get some Stormfront apes posting here. I suppose by the NYP's measure that makes all of us "holocaust deniers," too. Weak, weak, weak.
If the comments won't be removed, the administrators (or Herr Buchanan) should make a blanket statement about the First Amendment and be done with it.
The fact of the matter is, one or the other should be done.
Pat Buchanan has made little attempt to hide his antipathy for Jews. This trait of his has destroyed any vestige of respect I may have once had for the man or his opinions. He ranks right up there with David Irving as a literary anti-Semite.
Alright. So Buchanan has gone over the line once or twice. I’ll admit that freely - and don’t support Pat when he does that.
But let’s be frank.
Liberal Jews are overwhelmingly leftist. They actively support gay marriage, attack the US Constitution via groups such as the ACLU - and were among the most vitriolic in expressing hatred toward Governor Palin.
If you’re trolling for sympathy for liberal Jewish interests - you won’t get any from this poster.
I’m a bit fed up actually.
Pick a lane.
Are those quotes from Pat Buchanan?
Are those quotes from Pat Buchanan? I’ve never heard him say anything like that.
Every forum has their own commenting policy. Many are not moderated at all. I have no idea if Pat’s forum is moderated or not, but even if it is they may not have a zero-tolerance policy like FR does. But in that case it does not follow that Pat Buchanan or his organization personally agrees with the point of view of every poster. It’s an obvious guilt by association ploy. And a very weak and transparent one, at that.
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