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Journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees a Sense of Deja Vu VOLUME 2 No. 3 MARCH 2002 journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees A sense of deja vu Jt seems only a little while ago that we Pinter-Self trinity demonises America as But the supreme dejd vu is the way in celebrated the onset of a new century (and the global terrorist after the US has which Islam, which has existed for about ''^llennium) and already the sensation of interdicted the terrorist machinations of 1,300 years, replicates thirteenth-century ^^a vu is overwhelming. On recent Gaddafi, Saddam Hussain, Milosevic and Christianity's virulent animosity towards "londays and Tuesdays the deserted bin Laden. Judaism - the progenitor of both faiths. station concourse at Waterloo has evoked The perverted logic summed up in The thirteenth Christian century saw the '^e Winter of Discontent, and the sight of Franz Werfel's title Not the Murderer, but introduction of the yellow badge, the rise yellow-armletted RMT pickets on TV the Victim is Guilty takes one back to 1930s of the ritual murder myth. Crusader stirred memories of Scargill. The other Austria. At the time, Chancellor pogroms in the Rhineland, and the Friday night the BBC Symphony Schuschnigg was corralling Nazi terrorist expulsion firom England. '-'rchestra performed John Adam's The Currently, the Muslim world demonises ^^ath of Klinghoffer. an opera about PLO not only Israel, but Jews as such. The very "•^rrorists' hijack of the cruise liner Achille same Muslim Society of Great Britain '^uro in 1985. This work, in the words of which complains about Islamophobia in ^"e New Statesman, 'refuses to the UK charges the Jewish State, in which ^^humanise the hijackers who present a million Arabs live and hundreds attend "themselves as idealists and not vandals'. university, with genocide. Malaysian In point of fact, Palestinian terrorists Prime Minister Mahathir cites George "^•^e as httle humanity as the Vehme Soros as proof that the Jews manipulate 'nurderers of interwar Germany. Suicide the world's money markets to their benefit "'^nibers who targeted a teenage hop on and to the detriment of developing *^1 Aviv seafront and a batmitzvah party at countries. Hamas, the clergy-led Madera rank no higher on the moral scale Palestinian terror group, has incorporated '^an Rudolf Hoess or Martin Bormann. the tsarist forgery The Protocols of the ^^n Jeanette Winterson, injecting the Elders of Zion into its charter. Charles de Gaulle '^our of sanctity mto BBC's Question One day after the atrocity of 11 ^^e, condemns the US detention of al- suspects at the Wollersdorf detention September the Saudi Ministry of ^aeda fighters at Guantanamo Bay as centre. The kidglove treatment meted out Information dubbed it a Mossad operation ^Venge and counsels mercy and Christian to the detainees gave rise to the spoof and compounded this Goebbels-style "^•"giveness, she has as little purchase on news item 'The Wollersdorf inmates have perversion of the truth by alleging that not .^I'ty as did her confrere Aldous Huxley at last stopped beating up their guards.' a single Jew had been in the twin towers 1937. At that time, Gennany had been At Mazar-i-Sharif Taliban prisoners had, when the hijacked planes struck them. ^•arming for years, and had already after surrendering, gone on to kill some of Saudi Arabia is the guardian of the Muslim °nibed Guernica, yet the eminent their captors, while at Kandahar Hospital a holy places and protector of the purity of "^^^elist called on his 70,000-strong ward was, until very recently, still the faith enforced by a religious police. It ^oience in Trafalgar Square to pledge controlled by wounded, but heavily armed, was also the spiritual and financial source ^mselves never to take up arms. al-Qa'eda fighters. It was to prevent ofthe Islamic fanaticism which took root in , ^ 1967 Charles de Gaulle visited further incidents of this sort that the US Afghanistan in the form of the Taliban. In "^ntreal and urged the Qu6becois to transferred potential mega-murderers to other words, it is to Islam what Rome was ^ak away from Anglophone, US- its facility off Cuba. The widespread to medieval Christendom - seat of the Mu,ence d Canada. It was his way of expressions of concern about their welfare Popes, headquarters of the Inquisition, gett,'n g even with the Anglo-Americans put one in mind of the character in FN initiator of the Crusades. What makes the for ha VIin g put him in their debt by Simpson's absurdist play A Resounding sensation oideja vu absolutely complete is •ibe•ratin: g France from the Nazis in 1944. Tinkle who knits anti-glare goggles for that the Royal House of Saudi is no whit In ^ sunilar marmer, the unholy Pilger- swooping birds of prey less corrupt than the medieval Papacy! AJR JOURNAL MARCH 2002 Leftwing antisemitism - 'Resistance and Rescue' theme for an idea whose time University's Holocaust Memorial Day has come Ronald Channing Richard Grunberger For the second year in succession, the support of the AJR enabled the Centre for Pierre Joseph Proudhon was a German-Jewish Studies at the University of nineteenth-century French socialist Sussex and its director, Professor Edward (with anarchist leanings) best Timms, to promote a specially devised remembered for coining the slogan programme of survivor testimony, lectures 'Property is theft!' In reality, he did not and film with which to mark Holocaust want atl property abolished, drawing Memorial Day. This year's theme was the line at peasants' small holdings 'Resistance and Rescue, then and now'. and artisans' workrooms. The property Students and members of staff participated owners he had in his sights were the from Sussex and the neighbouring campus of the University of Brighton, as well as sbrth- entrepreneurs who set up factories formers and teachers from the city. staffed by ill-paid proletarians. Keynote addresses were delivered by The advent of no-holds-barred Professor Aiasdair Smith, Vice Chancellor of Trude Levi capitalism was an upheaval behind Sussex University, and Sir David Watson, which Proudhon discerned Jews as the Director of Brighton University. Chana Auschwitz-Monowitz, resulted from lu* main driving force and beneficiaries. Moshenska, Director of Educational compassion to an older fellow Jewish (In a similar vein, the Jewish- Programmes at the Centre, introduced the prisoner. descended Karl Marx alleged that eight-hour programme which she had Discussion group topics covered spiritual devised with her colleague John Jacobs. A resistance, photography, anti-racist and Judaism embodied the spirit of particularly warm welcome was extended by Holocaust education, and present-day capitalism.) Another ideologue of that Prof Timms to Mrs Hilde Kochmann, widow resistance and rescue. The Power of persuasion was the Russian anarchist of Max Kochmann, who, in his capacity as Humanity, a new film on the impromptu Mikhail Bakunin, who fought chairman of fundraising for the Centre, did so rescue of 689 mainly Jewish Czech children alongside Richard Wagner in the much to secure its foundation and enhance on Kindertransport, was shown. Nicholas Dresden 'Revolution' of 1849. its reputation. Winton, with limited but dedicated support But just as the Slavophile Bakunin In a session devoted to survivor firom Eleanor Rathbone and others, managed could not long collaborate with the testimony, Trude Levi, one of very few to bring these children to Britain, but the outbreak of war brought the immediate Teutomaniac Wagner, so socialism and Hungarians who survived Auschwitz- Birkenau, gave a graphic description of the cessation of further Kindertransports and antisemitism were incompatible. Over dehumanising brutality and extermination the consequent loss of children's lives. a century ago the leader of German inflicted on her family and the eventual sheer A lunchtime concert was held on the social democracy, August Bebel, luck of her own emancipation when, on a campus of Imperial College, London fof pithily dubbed antisemitism 'the death march, even her exceptional strength students and staff, in association with the socialism of idiots'. to continue living had finally deserted her. AJR, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day fof However, today one is tempted to Freddie Knoller, who quit annexed Austria the second year. The concert was preceded for Belgium and France, was the main rephrase that as 'anti-Zionism is the by a short exposition of the day's significance speaker in the session on political and the role of the AJR by Theo Marx, a antisemitism of media hacks'. On 10 resistance. His own improbable survival, former AJR chairman and an alumnus o' January the New Statesman revealed heaving heavy sacks in a rubber factory at the college. the behind-the-scenes manipulations of wealthy Zionists like the arms trader Mayor of Camden Cllr Roger Robinso" Shlomo Zabludowicz and Lord recites the Kaddish memorial prayC' Weidenfeld - manipulators whom the by the Holocaust Memorial '" journal, truthfully, adjudged rather Camden Town Hall, to the memory "' the victims who include Dutc'' ineffectual. But the weekly - over members of his own family, during which the pro-Zionist Richard the Council ceremony marking Grossman once presided - also Holocaust Memorial Da/' launched the concept of 'Big Jewry, Kindertransport President Berth* thus conjuring up the image of a Leverton delivered a short address o'' the arrival of the Kinder in Britain "" closely knit group of moneybags 1938 and 1939. influencing Western policy in favour of PHOTO: RONALD CHANNING Israel. What, one asks, is talk of 'Big Jewry other than a leftwing rehash of AJR Journal the tsarist-inspired Protocols of the Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief Ronald Channing Executive Editor Howard Spier Editorial and Production AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, London NW3 6At Elders of Zion? Tel; 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 e-mail: [email protected] www.ajr.org.uk AJR JOURNAL MARCH 2002 NEWTONS Leading Hampstead Solicitors 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, London NW3 5NB "C live in an age where anyone wanting her oeuvre.
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