It's
Springtime For Jew Haters
This
week Oscar winning conspiracy theorist Oliver
Stone joined Helen Thomas and Mel Gibson in
the swelling ranks of out-of-the-closet
celebrity Jew haters. In an interview with the
Sunday Times, Stone said that Adolf Hitler had
been given a bum rap and that through
"Jewish domination of the media,"
the Jews have inflated the importance of the
Holocaust and wrecked US foreign policy. In
the wake of criticism in Jewish circles, on
Wednesday Stone's publicist issued a
mealy-mouthed clarification. Stone failed to
retract or amend his statement that
"There's a major lobby in the United
States. They are hard workers. They stay on
top of every comment, the most powerful lobby
in Washington. Israel has f---ed up United
States foreign policy for years." He also
did not retract his view that Jews use the
Holocaust to control American foreign policy...
As Stone put it, "The fact that the
Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and
current matter today is, in fact, a great
credit to the very hard work of a broad
coalition of people committed to the
remembrance of this atrocity." (Emphasis
added.) Stone still believes that the rounding
up and exterminating of three-quarters of
Europe's Jews is really not as notable or
morally troubling as high Russian wartime
casualties, but it's not solely Jews'
fault that people don't share Stone's views.
Arguably even more despicable that Stone's
display of Jew hatred was manner in which it
was received. On the one hand, there was the
thunderous silence of the media. And on the
other hand there were the insistent, repeated
attempts to justify his statements.