Over at ZNet, an Israeli blogger tells us that we should read up on the “Zionist dealings with [Hitler]” from the Institute for Historical Review.
Great that leftists are learning their history from neo-Nazis.
I replied to Shapiro on her blog with the following comment:
Dear Tali,
I am not sure if you know this but your recommended resource is from a prominent white supremacist, whose organization, The Institute for Historical Review, is a holocaust denial group, based in the far-Right scene. This is well documented by the Public Eye in many articles, of which I recommend this one: Encountering Holocaust Denial. (Chip Berlet, another Znet writer, has written a lot about them, and his writings are worth checking out.)
The author of your recommended text, Mark Weber, was formerly with the neo-Nazi organization, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei/Aufbau- und Auslandsorganisation (Redok, 2009), as well as the National Alliance, (Beirich and Potok, 2003) which was at one time the largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S.
The IHR is an attempt to dress up Holocaust denial as critical scholarship. Weber recently concluded that “revisionism” was ineffective, and therefore he is returning to other methods in “fighting against ‘Jewish-Zionist power’,” therefore revealing his historical “research” to be a mere hoax and weapon to legitimize his antisemitic aims.
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From Normblog, August 30, 2007
The claim has been made that Gaza is rather like the Warsaw ghetto. Now this claim is either a legitimate comparison, or it’s a peculiarly unpleasant smear, insinuating that Israel is akin to Nazi Germany. So let’s see if it’s a legitimate comparison. The two main features of the Warsaw ghetto were (1) that it was an unspeakable atrocity, leading to the deaths of nearly half a million Jews and others, and (2) that it was part of a genocidal plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Take the first point, and consider the comparison: on the one hand, the number of Palestinian refugees in the late 1940s was approximately 750,000, but it now stands between 4 and 6 million. It would be quite hard to regard this as even an attempted genocide – few genocides end up with an increase in the victim population of the order of several hundred per cent. By contrast, the size of the Jewish population in the Warsaw ghetto after the three years in which it existed was zero. The current life expectancy of a Palestinian woman is 75 years, according to the UN. What was the life expectancy of a Jewish woman in the Warsaw ghetto? Whatever age she was, she had at the very most three more years to live. Not a striking similarity, then.
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From Three Way Fight…
This July, David Irving, a British neo-fascist and fraudulent historian, goes on the road in the United States, planning to hold approximately one and a half dozen speaking engagements over the course of a month. As militant anti-racists and anti-fascists, we are making a public call for resistance at each stop along the way of this tour.
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From Rose City Antifa and Portland Anti-Racist Action
Recent events have highlighted the fact that anti-Semitic organizers in Portland, Oregon are relying on “Leftist” spaces and groups to tolerate their efforts and ideology.
On Wednesday, June 10, Valdas Anelauskas, a self-described “white separatist” who is involved with Holocaust-denial circles, gave a presentation to a group of sympathizers in Portland, Oregon. The event was sponsored by the Portland 9/11 Truth Alliance, and was initially scheduled to take place at the Laughing Horse Book & Video Collective.
Members of Rose City Antifascists (“Antifa”) -the Portland affiliate of the Anti-Racist Action Network-were among those who contacted Laughing Horse Books about the scheduled event. The Laughing Horse collective canceled the anti-Semitic event within 48 hours of being notified about its true nature. Subsequently the Portland 9/11 Truth Alliance moved Anelauskas’ talk-on the topic of “The Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism”-to a secondary venue, which was also discovered by Antifa and then persuaded to cancel on the day of the event. Unfortunately, Anelauskas’ talk then went ahead at a third venue, a restaurant obviously booked at the last minute.
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Greens Engage:
Anti-capitalist discourse has become personal. Moishe Postone, Professor in the University of Chicago’s History Department, is an intellectual historian who explains this well. …
His presentation at SOAS on June 15th outlined with great clarity the origins of the weaknesses of thought on the radical left which are preventing it from reckoning with antisemitism. He explains difficulties both universalist and particularist ways of looking at the world have had accommodating Jews since the rise of Fascism in the ’30s. This is not an optimistic presentation, but it does set out and clarify our problem: radical anti-capitalist critique has taken up antisemitic ways of thinking.
Mira provides her notes here.
From Engage:
Reflections on the Antinomies of Capitalist Modernity: History, the Holocaust, and the Left
Moishe Postone Professor in the History Department at the University of Chicago
The author of Time, Labour, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory, his research and teaching focus is on critical social theories of capitalist modernity. He is particularly interested in self-reflexive theories of historical context — theories that seek to grasp social, economic, and cultural processes in ways that illuminate the relation of such processes to the theories themselves. His work also focuses on the problematic of modern anti-Semitism and questions of history, memory, and identity in postwar Germany, as well as on the issue of the global transformations of the past three decades and their implications for understanding the historical trajectory of the 20th century.
‘History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism’ by Moishe Postone is available for free download on the Engage website here
This event is co-hosted by the Unit for Global Justice at Goldsmiths and the Centre for Jewish Studies at SOAS
Event to be held at 7.00pm, Monday 15 June 2009,
Room G50,
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
In the documentary film, “Young, Jewish, and Left”, a story from a Jewish anarchist, Jna Shelomith, perfectly illustrates the U.S. anarchist movement´s troubled relationship to the Shoah and to Jewish issues.
So, me and two gentile comrades decided to hit Eastern Europe, post Berlin Wall falling. And we had connections with anarchists and autonomen people across Eastern Europe.
So after doing some really incredible anarchist political work with my friends we went to Birkenau and we also went to Auschwitz and I shut down, completely stopped talking. And we had been traveling for at least 3 or 4 weeks at that point. And the next day, we were on the train and one of my comrades said to me, “if you don´t snap out of it, we´re not going to be able to travel with you anymore.” And there really wasn´t any room for me to have the visceral reaction that I had had from being at the camps.
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October 29th, 2008 | admin
I am too late in publicizing this conference, so I post this for the purpose of providing names of scholars doing work relevant to this website. “Perplexities: The Holocaust and the Political Memory of the Left” was held at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut for Jewish History and Culture at the Universität Leipzig, Germany.
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from the essay:
“There are other dictatorships in the world. But only in Iran are the fantasy-worlds of antisemitism and religious mission linked with technological megalomania and the physics of mass destruction.
“The specific danger presented by the Iranian nuclear option stems from the unique ideological atmosphere surrounding it – a mixture of Holocaust denial and weapons-grade uranium, of death-wish and missile research, of Shiite messianism and plutonium.
“We are dealing here with a phantasmagoric parallel universe in which the reality principle is constantly ignored: a universe from which the laws of reason have been excluded and all mental energy is harnessed for the cause of antisemitism.”
read the essay here
