I went to http://www.wiesenthal.com/ and put “Communism” in the search box and found 30 results. I then put in “Nazi” and got 1479 results.
Only two of the results for “communism” contained the word in the headline. Those press releases blasted attempts to equate Nazism and Communism because it should be obvious to all right thinking people that the Nazis were infinitely worse, even though the Communists murdered far more people.
In other words, the Simon Wiesenthal Center cares little about the murder of tens of millions of people for Communism. Why? Because Jews played a significant role in many of these genocides and that is inconvenient to the Narrative about Jewish victimhood.
I wouldn’t care that the Simon Wiesenthal Center was the high IQ Jewish equivalent of the ethnic activism of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton if the SWC would only admit who they are and drop their pose of caring about universal morality.
In 1969, Jewish sociologist Nathan Glazer published an essay “The New Left and the Jews” in the Jewish Journal of Sociology (11:120-132), estimating that about one million American Jews were socialists or members of the Community Party of the USA prior to 1950.
Jerusalem, July 16, 2009
Wiesenthal Center Blasts Baltic Campaign to Equate Communism and Nazism; Calls for International Effort to Thwart Initiatives That Distort Holocaust History
The Simon Wiesenthal Center today blasted the current campaign conducted by the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to grant Communist crimes equal recognition to the crimes of the Holocaust . In an op-ed article featured in the Israeli English-language daily Jerusalem Post, the Center’s Israel director Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff severely criticized the recently-intensified campaign by the Baltic republics and other post-Communist governments to mark August 23 as a joint remembrance day for the victims of Nazism and Communism, and to establish an “Institute of European Memory and Conscience” as a museum, research and educational center on totalitarian crimes in order to “reunite [European] history [and] recognize communism and Nazism as a common legacy.”
According to Zuroff:
“While one can sympathize with the legitimate desire of the victims of Communism for recognition, there is nothing innocent about this declaration which clearly seeks to undermine the current status of the Holocaust as a unique historical tragedy and relativize it to divert attention from the extensive collaboration of Balts with the Nazis and the abysmal failure of all their governments since independence to adequately deal with these issues.
“It is clear that the time has come to start paying attention to this insidious campaign being conducted primarily by Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to alleviate their guilt for Holocaust crimes and displace the Shoa from its unique status. If not, we are likely to soon find ourselves facing the cancellation of the numerous important achievements of the past decade in Holocaust commemoration and education and forced to fight an uphill battle against a new and distorted World War II historical narrative.”
July 28, 2009
WIESENTHAL CENTER HARSHLY CRITICIZES ESTONIAN EFFORTS TO EQUATE COMMUNISM AND NAZISM AND GLORIFY ESTONIAN SS LEGION AT LAUNCH IN TALLINN OF RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE EDITION OF BOOK ON ANTI-SEMITISM IN HONOR OF SIMON WIESENTHAL
Tallinn-The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a harsh criticism of recent Estonian efforts to equate Communism and Nazism and to glorify the fighters of the Estonian SS Legion which fought alongside the Nazis, at a launch here late yesterday of a new Russian language edition of Anti-Semitism, an anthology of articles published in honor of the late Smon Wiesenthal by the Russian Holocaust Center and edited by Ilya Altman, Shimon Samuels and Mark Weitzman. In a speech by Israel director Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, he noted that the prevalent tendency in Estonia to glorify those who bore arms in Waffen-SS units and to consider them as fighters for Estonian independence rather that Nazi collaborators was a distortion of World War II history. Zuroff also pointed to the recent gathering of SS veterans held this past Sunday in Estonia and which was attended by SS veterans from other Europan countries in which such events are illegal, as another example of a failure by the Estonian authorities to accurately identify the criminals and villains of World War II.
According to Zuroff:
“The consistent failure of the Estonian authorities to prosecute any local Nazi war criminals, in blatant contradiction to their enormous efforts to bring Communist criminals to justice, and the continuing glorification of Estonian SS veterans, combined with the recent campaign to equate Communism and Nazism make Estonia a leader in Holocaust distortion. As a member of both the European Union and NATO, it is incumbent upon Estonia to reassess its current policies in this regard and to restore historical accuracy to the presentation of the events of World War II. Only by facing its bloody Holocaust past will Estonia ever be able to truly overcome its record of collaboration with the Nazis and the active participation of numerous Estonians in the crimes of the Shoa both in Estonia and outside its borders.”
