- BERLIN (IFPN) --- Germany's
Central Council of Jews (ZJD) has demanded "immediate government action"
in response to unsettling findings published in its quarterly social trends
report, 'Virulent Anti-Semitism In Germany Today, Issue 1, 2008'.
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- The report highlights a worrying increase in anti-Semitic
sentiment and, more sensationally, the dissemination of holocaust denial
"by means of telepathy".
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- "It's very frightening and something I cannot ignore
given my horrific ordeal in Auschwitz, which I miraculously survived by
hiding in a chimney until the camp was liberated," says the ZJD's
president, Charlotte Knobloch, who is currently suing Google for editorial
control of YouTube.
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- "Our own success in determining what constitutes
suitable viewing for Internet users in Germany has forced us to imagine
alternative scenarios available to young people who don't trust what the
government or their teachers are telling them."
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- "Never underestimate the power of the Jewish imagination,"
she adds.
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- In Germany, anyone who expresses anti-Semitic sentiments
or who queries the holocaust by pointing to credible pre-war and post-war
Jewish population statistics or anomalies in the historical record faces
prison sentences of up to five years.
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- The law, however, is unclear on the issue of telepathically
communicated anti-Semitism and holocaust denial.
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- EXTREMISTS
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- "We know they're doing it," says Stephan Kramer,
General Secretary of the ZJD. "They are evading punishment by spreading
anti-Semitic propaganda and denying the holocaust without writing a word
or moving their lips."
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- Although Kramer has dispatched an unspecified number
of undercover Hassidic telepaths and kosher 'sensitives' briefed with the
task of intercepting telepathic communications in streets, bars, clubs,
restaurants, cafes, subways, shops, schools, workplaces and other venues
where people may choose to express a personal opinion without being overheard
by informers, he admits that telepathically communicated holocaust denial
is hard to prove.
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- "But only empirically," he explains. "Proof
is an obsession of those unable to conceive of the truth. In the wrong
hands, proof, or a lack of proof, can be misused to establish certain facts
incompatible with the truth. Not all facts are factual. What do you want?
Another holocaust?"
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- The German government, anxious to reassure the Jewish
community, has moved swiftly to calm fears by allocating six million euros
in research grants to the ZJD's hospitality and personal leisure expenses
budget.
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- "We are doing everything we can to eradicate the
scourge of anti- Semitism in Germany and the European Union," a government
spokesman told IFPN. "The government takes very seriously reports
that certain extremist elements in our society are engaged in telepathic
holocaust denial and we are monitoring the situation closely."
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- HUMILIATING
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- But official assurances came too late for Israeli tourists
Shmuel Linsky and his wife, Diane.
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- "Just the other day I saw a very relaxed German
couple with their children spending our reparations money on ice-cream
and hot dogs," says Shmuel scornfully. "They were deliberately
and maliciously acting in a way that suggested they were proud to be German,
without any sense of shame or guilt. I suddenly felt very threatened by
this kind of unspoken anti-Semitism and was overwhelmed by the urge to
radio an Israeli F-16 fighter bomber."
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- Diane Linsky nods her head in pained agreement. They
had decided on an impromptu vacation in Germany after watching Angela Merkel
on television deliver an impassioned speech to Israel's parliament, the
Knesset.
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- "Mrs Merkel said that Germans would do everything
they could to help Israel and protect the Jewish people from anti-Semitism,"
she says, her voice cracking. "But when we got here we found we had
to pay for our own hotel accommodation and none of the restaurants will
let us eat for free, even though we're Jews and have a long and unique
history of suffering."
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- Shmuel, too, is overcome by emotion, hardly able to speak.
"It's been humiliating. Even the waiters expect a tip, reminding me
of my horrific ordeal in Auschwitz, which I miraculously survived by hiding
in a chimney until the camp was liberated," the 36-year-old Mr Linsky
adds bitterly.
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- The Linskys say they had been made to feel "persecuted"
and intend to file a claim for compensation. "In fact, we sued before
we came out here," says Diane. "Our lawyer in Tel Aviv was offering
special terms and a 30 percent discount."
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- PARANOID
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- Critics however have blasted the report as "hysterical",
"irresponsible" and "paranoid".
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- "Given the long history of hereditary mental illness
among people of Jewish descent, I would be inclined to treat reports of
telepathically communicated anti-Semitism and holocaust denial with extreme
caution," one of them, a leading professor of evolutionary psychiatry,
told IFPN anonymously.
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- "The Jews have a propensity for telling tall stories
and a tendency to exaggerate things they hear, or think they hear. Before
taking this much further, the German government would be well-advised to
read the wealth of medical literature made available over the past 200
years by Jewish physicians themselves, much of which focuses on the very
high percentage of dangerous psychotic illnesses and psychopathological
disorders found among Ashkenazi Jews. A good starting point would be the
Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 27, No. 4, published in 2007."
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- "Even their top religious people admit they're nuts.
Rabbis Eric Weiss and Nathaniel Ezray have said that 'mental illness is
a Jewish issue' and point to the findings of geneticists at John Hopkins
University who have identified lamentably high incidences of schizophrenia
and bipolar disorder among Ashkenazi Jews. Many suffer from an autosomal
recessive trait that goes back thousands of years and which manifests as
congenital lying, delusional behaviour and paranoia."
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- "Unfortunately, instead of being treated in high-security
psychiatric hospitals, many of these mentally ill, psychopathic Jews seem
to thrive in positions of leadership, spanning the worlds of international
finance, the media, academia, law and politics, not only in Europe and
Israel, of course, but also in North America and elsewhere."
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- "We need to ask ourselves why they've been expelled
from 109 locations around the world since the middle of the third century,
and why we're allowing them to repeat the cycle over and over again, harming
not only themselves but everyone else."
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- "I know it's not a very politically correct thing
to articulate," the professor concludes, "but when it comes to
Jews and some of the ludicrous things they say, I'm afraid we're dealing
with some very sick puppies."
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- Charlotte Knobloch strongly disagrees. Jews have never
harmed anyone, she says.
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- "The fact that the Jewish people have been expelled
from 109 locations around the world doesn't mean there's anything wrong
with the Jewish people or that they are in any way disruptive or insane,"
she insists. "On the contrary, all of those countries, for no real
identifiable reason, experienced periods of anti-Semitic mass insanity,
which spontaneously disappeared the moment we were gone."
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- SURVIVORS
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- Meanwhile, as news breaks that at least a hundred stone-throwing
Palestinian children have been either killed or maimed by vigilant Israeli
F-16 fighter pilots, the Linskys arrive back in Tel Aviv to an emotional
family reception.
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- Shmuel's great uncle, Rabbi Dov Bronstein, hugs his relative
and can hardly contain his tears: "Even though I was born and raised
in New Jersey and never set foot in Europe, I will never forget my horrific
ordeal in Auschwitz, which I miraculously survived by hiding in a chimney
until the camp was liberated."
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- "It's so good to be home," says a visibly relieved
Diane Linsky. "We flew Lufthansa and we just knew the German pilots
and air hostesses were telepathically denying the holocaust and sharing
anti-Semitic thoughts with some of the European passengers and they were
saying, like, you know, 'Let's dump those lying Jews out over the Mediterranean'."
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- The German government has promised to investigate the
allegations.
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- Michael James, an Englishman, is a former freelance journalist
resident in Germany since 1992 with additional long-haul stays in East
Africa, Poland and Switzerland.
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- References
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- Jewish Groups Seek To Purge YouTube Of 'Anti-Semitic'
videos
- http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966682.html
- http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,542842,00.html
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- Disability Studies Quarterly: Mental Hygiene and Disability
in the Zionist Project
- http://www.dsq-sds-archives.org/_articles_html/2007/fall/ dsq_v27_04_2007_fall_st_01_sufian.htm#endnote11
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- Mental Illness Is A Jewish Issue -- by Rabbis Eric Weiss
and Nathaniel Ezray
- http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/
19117/edition_id/386/format/html/displaystory.html
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- Jewish Expulsions Since 250AD
- hhttp://www.biblebelievers.org.au/expelled.htm
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