Brother Nathanael - Murder Of A Holocaust Survivor
Aired: 2018-12-13
Duration: 04:20


=== Jews Murdered in Paris Again (04:12) ===

[00:00:01]  Jews are being murdered in Paris again.
[00:00:04]  That's a recent New York Times headline in its widely read op-ed section.
[00:00:10]  Yet, in spite of the article's title, no other recent killings of Jews in Paris are cited that would indicate an epidemic of anti-Semitic killings.
[00:00:21]  Toss out the inflated Holocaust rant, then the crime downsizes to an ordinary robbery-murder by a pair of thugs.
[00:00:31]  The victim, a woman, wasn't killed because she was a Jew, but because she was known as a neighbor by one of the killers and thought to have money.
[00:00:41]  Also, contrary to the headline, the victim was not, strictly speaking, a Holocaust survivor.
[00:00:48]  She was never in one of the work camps.
[00:00:51]  But instead, the designation applies to her husband, a survivor of Auschwitz.
[00:00:57]  That's a new kind of selective service that expands the ever-snowbowing survivors list because, quite frankly, they're losing survivors.
[00:01:07]  But the Shoah business must go on.
[00:01:11]  Then, casting the robbery-turned-homicide as motivated by the same hatred that drove Hitler, one is hard-pressed to find a Hitler-on-demand angle.
[00:01:22]  For as it surfaced later, one of the slayers told the other, she's a Jew, she must have money.
[00:01:29]  Thus, all of the known circumstances point to a crime of opportunity and not an anti-Jewish hate crime.
[00:01:39]  Adding insult to injury to our rational faculties, it's Bibsey's turn to cry.
[00:01:45]  Prime Minister Netanyahu, thank you for sitting down with us.
[00:01:48]  Anti-Semitism in Europe is nothing new, but the results of our survey are still quite striking.
[00:01:52]  More than a quarter of Europeans believe that Jews have too much influence in politics and finance.
[00:01:57]  20% believe that anti-Semitism is a response to the everyday actions of Jews.
[00:02:02]  You travel to Europe often, you meet the leaders there.
[00:02:04]  Are you surprised? Well, let's distinguish between two things.
[00:02:07]  First, the sources of anti-Semitism.
[00:02:09]  There's old anti-Semitism in Europe that came from the extreme right, and that's still around.
[00:02:13]  But there's also new anti-Semitism that comes from the extreme left.
[00:02:17]  Bibsy serves up a combo platter.
[00:02:19]  And lo and behold, mortal enemies, opposite fringes on the right and left, agree on one thing, hatred of Jews.
[00:02:29]  Bravo, Bibsy!
[00:02:31]  Only you could have pulled that one off.
[00:02:34]  It's easy to sit here and make statements and say never again every Holocaust Memorial Day, but that's not going to end this.
[00:02:39]  Do you see the concrete actions that need to happen here on the part of European countries?
[00:02:42]  The real issue is can we tolerate the idea that people say that Israel doesn't have a right to exist, which I think is the ultimate anti-Semitic statement, you know?
[00:02:54]  The majority of the Jewish people are very soon going to be living in Israel.
[00:02:59]  There are over six million Jews now living in Israel.
[00:03:01]  So the new anti-Semite say this, well, we're not against Jews, we're just against the state of Israel.
[00:03:10]  That's like, I would say, well, I'm not against French people, I just don't think there should be France.
[00:03:14]  Wrong number.
[00:03:16]  Very few say they're against Israel because it's made up of Jews, as Bibsey equates with saying you're against France because it's made up of Frenchmen.
[00:03:26]  It's a false equivalency.
[00:03:28]  The consensual critique of Israel is instead condemning its conduct toward Palestinians.
[00:03:35]  Namely, stealing their homes, shooting peaceful protesters, murdering civilians under military occupation, and lobbing phosphorus bombs on Gazan neighborhoods.
[00:03:48]  Where's the hate?
[00:03:50]  In gay Paris or in cheerless Palestine?
[00:03:55]  Yet the murder of a Holocaust survivor was worked up into a shrill, and Treblinka New York Times op-ed aimed at all those anti-Semites on the right, the left, the center, I mean everywhere, ready to bounce at a moment's notice.

=== Holocaust Fatigue Rising (00:05) ===

[00:04:15]  It seems, pardon my French, that Holocaust fatigue is on the upswing.