The Liberation of Auschwitz
By Max Musson: This article is perhaps a day late, but it will be some time before talk of the Holocaust subsides in the mainstream press, especially now that we are to have a vast new Holocaust Memorial Centre built with £50 million of taxpayers money in central London, to replace the rather unimpressive one that already exists in Hyde Park. In the various concentration camps liberated by the Allies towards the end of World…
The Cheek of Mrs Lipman!
By Max Musson: This morning the Daily Mail and Guardian websites contain articles in which well known Jewish actress and alleged comedienne, Maureen Lipman is quoted as saying that she is contemplating leaving Britain and going to live in New York or Israel, so concerned is she about the rise in antisemitic ‘attacks’ in Britain. According to the Mail: “Mrs Lipman, 71, said the Jewish community in Britain ‘give, give and give’ and described the…
Encountering Antisemitism
By Max Musson: Since the Charlie Hebdo shootings and the siege of the kosher supermarket in Paris, the authorities on both side of the Channel have gone into overdrive in pandering to Jewish sensibilities, as if the issue of security in the face of Islamic terrorism revolves solely around the security needs of Jews and so much so, that the needs of the rest of us don’t really warrant attention. We have seen the Prime Minister, David…
Charlie Hebdo and Islam, Some Further Considerations
By Max Musson: Despite statements made by establishment politicians and so called ‘moderate’ Muslim leaders in the West, aimed at calming the controversy surrounding Charlie Hebdo and the magazine’s repeated publication of cartoons representing the Prophet Mohammed, tensions surrounding this issue continue to dominate the news, and the reason for this is a fundamental misunderstanding and a large measure of hypocrisy on the part of those who seek to create liberal and largely secular multicultural…
Another Crack in the Ice
By Frederick Dixon: In August I wrote a short piece about the Rotherham child sex grooming scandal, and wondered if at last the left/liberal ice which has kept us in a political and intellectual deep freeze since the sixties was beginning to thaw. As the months go by I become more and more optimistic that the ice age is, at last, drawing to a close; I know that it doesn’t always seem like it when schools can be punished for being too…
Sauce for the Goose, …
By Max Musson: In a move that some observers have likened to the enactment of the so called ‘Nuremberg Laws’ by National Socialist Germany in 1935, the Israeli cabinet have by a 14 to 7 majority, approved a controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The new legislation is designed to reserve “national rights” for Jews only and to deny such rights to minority groups; Arab Muslims and Christians,…
The Banning of Art and the Real Monuments Men
By David Yorkshire: A few months ago, the usual suspects in Hollywood released yet another of their big-budget World War Two films, where we were treated to another instalment in that great mythology, complete with the post-modern pantheon of demons, the Nazis. I finally managed to see the film a few days ago. It is perhaps interesting, as an aside, that Germans never referred to themselves as Nazis and the term was rather an allied…
Saint Hitler
By H. Millard: Why was Hitler a saint? What do you think, man, is that a fair question? Haven’t I just set up the premise and the conclusion that Hitler was a saint? Doesn’t it sound as though I just assume that everyone knows he was a saint? I started this essay with that question because the other day I picked up a book (the title of the book doesn’t matter) and I thought it…
The Oslo Syndrome & White Self-Haters
By H. Millard: The Oslo syndrome is the name used by Jewish writer Kenneth Levin to specifically describe the psychology of Jews who hate Jews, but the concept applies to all groups as it is a basic human psychological phenomenon which is related both to the Stockholm syndrome and the Battered Child syndrome. Essentially, what happens is that when a specific group of people is subjected to constant hatred, demonization and abuse, some in the…
Humpback Whales & White Humans
By H. Millard: This is about White humans. Please bear with me, and I’ll get there pretty quickly. A genetic study of Humpback Whales shows that subtle color differences and skin markings are visible indications that there is not one uniform species of Humpback whales, but that there are at least three subspecies and that they are on different evolutionary trajectories. And, just as a reminder, remember that a subspecies is an organism that has…