Zionists defend anti-Semitic journalist because he is a devoted
supporter of Israel

It used to be the case that anti-Semites used to
deny their anti-Semitism by protesting that ‘some
of my best friends are Jews’ .  This attitude was best exemplified by Himmler.  In a speech to leaders of the SS in Posen, Poland in October 1943 he declared:

And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew.’ (some laughter) 

Himmler went on to describe the trials and tribulations of the SS:

‘Of all those who talk like this, not one has watched, not one has stood up to it. Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet – apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness – to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard. This is a glorious page in our history that has never been written and shall never be written.’

This speech was recorded and used in evidence during the Nuremburg Trials.  

Today anti-Semites deny their anti-Semitism by proclaiming their devotion to Israel and Zionism. The Jewish Chronicle’s editor, Stephen Pollard, exemplifies this practice.  

When speaking about Michal Kaminski, a prominent anti-Semitic politician and a leading member of Poland’s far-Right Law and Justice Party, (as well as being Chair of the European Conservative and Reform Group in the European Parliament), Pollard exclaimed that: “Far from being an antisemite, Mr Kaminski is about as pro-Israeli an MEP as exists.”

In other words if you support the Israeli state then you cannot be anti-Semitic.  This does of course have a certain logic to it, at least for Zionists.  If you believe that anti-Semitism equals anti-Zionism, then it follows that supporters of Israel and Zionism cannot be anti-Semites.  It is, as Tony Lerman described, an ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ conclusion.

However it does ignore the fact that most of the far-Right in Europe – from France’s Le Pen to Austria’s Herr Strache – not forgetting our own British National Party and the EDL, manage to combined anti-Semitism and Zionism without any problem at all.  The Trump administration in the person of Steve Bannon of Breitbart also manages to combined  Zionism and anti-Semitism without any problems.

Pollard’s defence of Kaminski was even too much for some Zionists, such as The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland. [Once no self-respecting politician would have gone near people such as Kaminski]. Kaminski denied wearing the Chrobry sword, the symbol of the far-Right anti-Semitic National Radical Camp Falanga.  Kaminski issued a categorical denial: “No, I never wear it. I don’t even know which symbol you are referring to’ before admitting that he had in fact worn it!  The Chrobry sword was banned from being worn in Poland in 1933 because of its association with attacks on Jews.  

Ms Bikont believes Mr Kaminski helped inspire anti-Semitism in Jedwabne

A BBC Newsnight Report Digging up the truth about Michal Kaminiski quotes Maria Mazurczyk, a member in 2001 of the Committee to Defend the Good Name of Jedwabne, saying of Kaminski:

“Kaminski came to the place where an incredible crime was committed and he told not about the women, children, old people who died in this horrible manner, but he told about Jews who collaborated with Soviets and who killed Poles”.

People gathered at Jedwabne memorial in 2001

Kaminski helped form in March 2001 the Committee to Defend the Good Name of Jedwabne. Most people would suggest that a good name was the last thing that Jedwabne possessed. In Jedwabne, a village in Western Poland, on July 10 1941 the inhabitants herded up to 1600 Jews, men, women and children, into a barn which was then set alight.  Not all inhabitants committed this atrocious crime but many did. 

Kaminski, whom Pollard defended as a ‘good friend of the Jews‘ proclaimed in an interview with Martin Bright of the Jewish Chronicle (9.10.09. that ‘“If you are asking the Polish nation to apologise for the crime made in Jedwabne, you would require from the whole Jewish nation to apologise for what some Jewish Communists did in Eastern Poland.”  

Just this one quote alone demonstrates Kaminski’s anti-Semitism.  Over 90% of Polish Jews died in the holocaust.  Thousands were massacred by their Polish neighbours, even after 1945, yet Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle has no problem defending an apologist for these pogromists.

The suggestion that the Jews collaborated with the Soviet troops is one of the standard justifications that Polish anti-Semites make for the pogroms and massacres of Jews.  After the Soviet troops had been driven out of Poland by the Nazis in June 1941, anti-Semites held that the Jews had collaborated with them and that they were responsible for the deportation of Polish non-Jews to Siberia. Kaminski not only led the opposition to the  national apology of Poland’s President Kwasniewski but he also opposed the ceremony of remembrance in Jedwabne on July 10 2001, the 60th anniversary what happened in Jedwabne.
  
Kaminski’s lies about Jewish involvement in deportations were a theme repeated by those who either denied or defended the massacre in Jedwabne (& similar massacres took place in surrounding villages like Radzilow).

But speaking of holocaust deniers, no one comes closer to this than the
former Irish Sunday Times journalist Kevin Myers, who was sacked last weekend. As the Independent  and Jerusalem Post noted
Myers had previously written that “There
was no holocaust (or Holocaust, as my computer software insists) and six
million Jews were not murdered by the Third Reich. These two statements of mine
are irrefutable truths.”

It was therefore no surprise that
in his column
for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, under
the headline: “Sorry ladies, equal pay
has to be earned,” Myers wrote: 

You would think it obvious that
Myers is a died-in-the-wool anti-Semite. 
Surely our good friends the Zios are jumping up and down about this
genuine, bona-fide, 24 carat anti-Semite?

After all, there is no group which is as hot on ‘anti-Semitism’ as UK Media Watch,
a division of the American McCarthyist group CAMERA.  When the Guardian published a letter of mine
earlier this year praising the late Jewish MP Gerald Kaufman, they were
outraged.  Their headline told it
all:  ‘How
the Guardian’s decision to publish extremist Tony Greenstein normalises
antisemitism’.  They wrote that ‘Kaufman’s most
insidious comments about Jews occured during a Commons debate on the war in
Gaza in 2009, a speech alluded to by left-wing extremist Tony Greenstein in a letter published on March 3rd in the Guardian.’ 

Even worse was Kaufman’s statement that the Israeli government
uses non-Jewish guilt over the Holocaust  in order to justify their murder
of Palestinians.  One would have thought
this was a self-evident truth. Israel shamelessly
exploits the Holocaust for political purposes. Indeed if it were not for the Holocaust then Israel would have been
called to task for its racism years ago.

You
would therefore assume that UKM would be down on Kevin Myers and the paper that
printed his anti-Semitic comments like a ton of bricks.  Well I’m afraid you are wrong.  UKMedia Watch tweeted
that it found the Times to be “generally good on issues of antisemitism.’  Naturally because Murdoch’s Times is also virulently
pro-Zionist.

The Zionist leaders of the Irish Jewish
community were even worse.  The Jewish
Chronicle reported
that ‘Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish
Representative Council of Ireland, insisted Mr Myers was not antisemitic, and
had “inadvertently stumbled into an antisemitic trope”.’  Zionists love ‘tropes’ possibly because it rhymes with ‘dopes’ which is as good a description of them as any.

I’m not sure how you ‘stumble‘ into anti-Semitism or any form of racism.  You either are or you are not anti-Semitic.  Perhaps its permanently dark in the South of Ireland, such that columnists are forever stumbling into one error or another.  

Of course there is another
explanation.  Besides being a rank anti-Semite,
Kevin Myers is also a fervent Zionist. 
His belief that Jews are grasping, money grubbing, never knowingly
under-paid sits well with his support for Israel.  According to Cohen though, it is all down to
Myers having ‘ a particular curmudgeonly,
cranky, idiosyncratic style.’

Of course Myers is not the only
non-Jewish Zionist who has stumbled into ‘anti-Semitic tropes’.  There is Arthur J Balfour, a passionate Zionist
who in 1905 introduced, as Prime Minister, the Aliens Act whose aim was to keep
Jews fleeing the Czarist pogroms out of Britain.  In the Introduction to the History of Zionism by Nahum Sokolow, who
later became President of the Zionist Organisation, Balfour made his anti-Semitism clear when speaking about Zionism:

“For as I read its meaning it is, among other
things, a serious endeavour to mitigate the age-long miseries created for
Western civilisation by the presence in its midst of a body which it too long
regarded as alien and even hostile, but which it was equally unable to expel or
to absorb. Surely, for this if for no other reason it should receive our
support.”

Balfour
told Chaim Weizmann that he shared the “anti-Semitic postulates” of Cosima
Wagner, who would become one of the first patrons of Adolf Hitler. Balfour did
not believe that Jews could be assimilated into Gentile British society but he
was happy to send them to Palestine.

Another strong supporter of Zionism,
in whose Cabinet Balfour was Foreign Secretary, was Prime Minister David Lloyd George.  He described
Herbert Samuel, who was Home Secretary and who went on to be the first British High
Commissioner in Palestine as “a greedy,
ambitious and grasping Jew with all the worst characteristics of his race.”

Indeed it is hard to think of a
non-Jewish Zionist who wasn’t an anti-Semite. 
From Edouard Drumont to Eichmann non-Jewish anti-Semites have nearly all
been avid supporters of Zionism.   

It is no surprise that Frank Coughlan, a columnist in
The
Irish Independent should provide the answer to the mystery why UKMediaWatch,  Maurice Cohen of the Irish Jewish Representative Council and assorted Zionists believes that Kevin Myers has been much
misunderstood.  Coughlan, who described
the critics of Myers as ‘the haters’ (
a strange way to describe opponents of a myogynist and anti-Semite) explained thus:

It is ironic, for instance, that
the anti-Semitic paragraphs that have surely finished his career came from the
same pen that has defended Israeli foreign policy more consistently and
eloquently than any other Irish journalist.

In November 2011, he wrote a
waspish piece on the Irish left and its obsessive hatred of the Jewish
homeland, a theme he has returned to again and again. The very same left that
has now turned on him for being anti-Semitic.

‘a year later, a headline had him stating emphatically that the only thing Africa had ever given the world was Aids.’– Frank Myers

After
all, the poor misunderstood little Zionist was racist and abusive to
everyone.  Coughlan writes that:  ‘‘More controversially again, a year
later, a headline had him stating emphatically that the only thing Africa had
ever given the world was Aids.’

In
many ways Myers was an ideal journalist for the Murdoch press.  They will be hard pressed to find a
replacement bigot.