David Frum
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5 series
first heard Dec 2024
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He had been invited to meet with Adolf Hitler in 1936.
He took the meeting and he came back from the meeting praising Hitler's good intentions and recommending that the British government find a way to learn to live in peace with Adolf Hitler, who wanted nothing more than a better deal for Germany and Europe.
So the tradition is Israel is accused of being a Nazi state from the very beginning by someone who is kind of Nazi adjacent.
And this is a pattern that I think many people who are involved in Jewish life have noticed never ceasing to stop.
Because for so many people, what a convenience, what a mercy, what a gift it would be if only we could prove that the Jews were the real Nazis.
What a relief, what a burden discharged.
There's a joke, I'm sure you've heard it, that the Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.
I'm happy to report in the modern state of Germany, which is a state that is in fact where friendship with Israel is a principle of the organization of the state, the Germans have forgiven the Jews for Auschwitz.
But around the rest of the world, lots of people haven't.
Auschwitz is the ultimate
nightmare reflection of modern civilization and specifically of Western civilization and of the Christian culture on which that Western civilization was built.
Auschwitz invites a burden of reflection and of guilt that understandably people chafe at.
And the way to escape that burden of guilt for many people is to transfer it and to say the people who are victims there, they deserved it in some way.
They're the culprits or they deserve it now.
Maybe they didn't deserve it then, but they deserve it now.
And so while Germany has forgiven the Jews for Auschwitz, the rest of the world is angrier than ever at the Jews for Auschwitz, and so wants to make Auschwitz not just a thing the Jews suffered, but a thing the Jews did.
And sad to report, there are Jews, or people of Jewish origin, who play this game by identifying themselves with the Jewish people and the Jewish community only in order to act as fellow accusers of the Jewish community and the Jewish people.
Democratic nominee for Congress, Brad Lander.
who did an event on Yom Kippur where he accused the Jews of the state of Israel of genocide.
A man who's always separated himself from the state of Israel when the state of Israel was in need, but is rushing to identify himself with the state of Israel when he can blame the state of Israel for Nazi-like crimes.
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