Steve, what my UK Trot pal Dave Parks was pointing out wasn't that Palestinians, whether in the diaspora or not, were buying the line* of this Israel Shamir charcter (who I understand from acquaintances who have personal connections with Israeli leftists across the spectrum from Labour to the Communists Party there. The CP'ers hadn't heard of him.), it is that US leftists (like the split from Socialist Action, the Socialist Worker Organization I provided the URL link to their reprinting of the Shamir piece in my fwd.) were reprinting that junk without checking out the bona fides of the author. Not as if this SWO couldn't have done a google! I know they have the time and money since they are banrolled by Rod Holt one of the first employees at Apple. A Trotskyist Millionaire!
We should take our cues from Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish. They aren't the type to utter inflamotory sloganizing like Zionazism. (IndyMedia Center - news ... european, so it's like the Nazis killing the jews all over again. Stop Zionazism! Any critisism of Israeli policy or actions, no matter how gentle or warrented ... http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/ 11693.html )
*Well not entirely...
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/2002/msg01124.html
Re: Palestinian Holocaust Denial
by Michael Pugliese
16 April 2002 19:02 UTC
< < <
Thread Index
> > >
http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/17nordbruch.html The Socio-historical Background of Holocaust Denial in Arab Countries:
Arab reactions to Roger Garaudy's The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/2002/msg01102.html
The Swastika & the Crescent by Martin A. Lee 15 April 2002 http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/2002/msg01103.html
2 sidebars to Nazi/Islamist article 15 April 2002
THE ANTISEMITISM MONITORING FORUM: Anti-Semitism in the Arab ... ... Iraqi regime or act as bystanders when this is done. In this way the ?Zionazism? which controls the US and Britain does not need the approval of the Security ... http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dct http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/updates/i00015.html http://www.freedomsite.org/pipermail/fs_discussion/2001-February/001511.html http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/peace/oct99/msg00003.html Mein Kampf in PA Territory
by Yisrael Medad
02 October 1999 23:56 UTC
For Your Information:
MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 48
October 1, 1999
Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) Website: www.memri.org
[MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be cited with proper attribution.]
Hitler's Mein Kampf in East Jerusalem and PA Territories
An Arabic translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is being distributed by Al-Shurouq, a Ramallah based book distributor, to East Jerusalem and territories controlled by the PA. According to Agence France Presse (Sept. 8), the book, previously banned by Israel, has been allowed by the PA and is 6th on the Palestinian best-seller list. Bisan publishers in Lebanon first published this edition in 1963 and again in 1995. The book costs about $10. The cover, attached file, shows a picture of Hitler, a swastika, and the title in both German and Arabic. The translator, Luis Al-Haj, wrote the following introduction:
"Hitler the soldier left behind not only a legend stained by tragedy itself; the tragedy of a state whose dreams were shattered, a regime whose pillars were torn down, and a political party that was crushed. Hitler was a man of ideology who bequeathed an ideological heritage whose decay is inconceivable. This ideological heritage includes politics, society, science, culture, and war as science and culture."
"The National Socialism that Hitler preached for and whose characteristics were presented in his book My Struggle, and whose principles he explained in his speeches before he took power, as well as during the 13 years he spent at the head of the German nation - this National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its seeds multiplied under each star…"
"…We cannot really understand the efforts of this man without examining the principles enclosed in his book My Struggle that the Nazis turned into the "Gospel of National Socialism."
"This translation of the book My Struggle has never been presented to Arab speakers. It is taken from the original text of the author, Adolf Hitler. The text was untouched by the censor. We made a point to deliver Hitler's opinions and theories on nationalism, regimes, and ethnicity without any changes because they are not yet outmoded and because we, in the Arab world, still proceed haphazardly in all three fields."
The Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-profit organization providing translations of the Arab media and original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background information, are available upon request.
Michael Pugliese