JEW BASHERS



JEW BASHERS
Einstein on this very subject:
"If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew".

The Jews are the only people in the world who have found hostility in every country in which they settled in any numbers. Throughout history people have accused the Jews of the most outrageous, unbelievable things – from causing the plague and other scourges, to present day Holocaust deniers.  In spite of the fact that the Holocaust was the best documented account of genocide in the world ever written.
Deborah Lipstadt a history professor was asked to write a book on Holocaust deniers. She maintains that for deniers to be right all “others” have to be wrong. The “others” are the victims, the survivors; bystanders, such as the  Poles who lived around the death camps and watched, day-after-day, the trains leaving full of their Jewish neighbours - coming back empty. Last, but not least, the perpetrators. The numerous perpetrators of every nationality never denied what they  did - some tried to justify their actions by saying they were ordered, or forced. They never once said that it didn’t happen.
The question remains how do they manage to get people to believe? The deniers can be compared to the Nazis, neo-Nazis and other bigots (without the trappings). If one digs a little way below the surface of their “claims” one finds anti-semitism, racism, prejudice, etc. parading as rational discourse. Discourse consists of facts, opinions and lies. Lies  can be dressed up as opinions, which is how David Irving wrote a book to prove that the Holocaust never took place. He used his opinions  and twisted them to “prove” they were facts.  
Professor Lipstadt followed Irving’s  “facts” back to their sources and found evidence which disproved every single one of them, accusing Irving of being a blatant Holocaust denier. U.K. Penguin books sent her a libel claim brought by Irving. According to U.K. law, the onus of a libel action is on the accused, not on the accuser, so she was forced to go on trial. She was fully vindicated. The judge charged Irving to be a liar, racist, anti-semitic, distorter of the truth. What made it so despicable was that he did it deliberately.
Certain facts and truths are indisputable but in today’s enlightened liberal thought everything is open to debate. Social media, with all its advantages,  allows facts and lies to be part of rational discourse.  Is there no place for objective truth? We live in an age where truth is on the defensive. What can we do?
1.    We cannot be beguiled by rational appearances.
2.    We must understand that truth is not relative.
3.    We must  go on the offensive not the defensive. Outrageous claims made by people, even if they occupy the highest offices, must be questioned and proved.
As professor Lipstadt said: “The job ahead of us is great. We must act now. Later will be too late”.

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