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suffered a loss of face? Do any of them find that their later work is rejected

because of their earlier loss of credibility? The answer to all these

questions - in all probability - is No!

In American and Canadian society, there is one category of behavior that is

uniquely protected from the repercussions of falsehood - and that is the

category of Jews recounting stories of the Jewish Holocaust. Charges of

falsehood may indeed be levelled, but these are not picked up by the media, and

so make no impact. We have already examined many such cases on the Ukrainian

Archive - the cases of Morley Safer, Neal Sher, Elie Wiesel, and Simon

Wiesenthal standing out - egregious, bald-faced liars all of them, but never

called to task for their lies, honored and even revered despite their lies.

Psychiatric diagnosis of the film's critics. Co-producer of the film, Nina

Rosenblum, accuses critics of the film of being "Holocaust revisionists" and

"racists." But why stop there - why not follow up the two left jabs with the

right-hand haymaker, "anti-Semites"? The answer perhaps is that it may appear

more credible to smear all critics of the film with the same brush, and the

accusation of anti-Semitism does not stick to those critics who happen to be

Jewish. The deployment of terms suggestive of psychological disorder, such as

"revisionist," "racist," or "anti-Semite" exemplifies the stock Jewish ploy of

attempting to silence opposition by dispensing psychiatric diagnoses.

Creating collaborators in disinformation. Jews who lie not only discredit Jews

generally, but also discredit any whom they lure into sharing their lies.

Thus, had the 761st Tank Battalion been seduced into accepting whatever

momentary glory attaches to wrongly claiming to have liberated Buchenwald, then

the 761st would have ultimately suffered a loss of credibility. The 761st does

have genuine achievements, and foresaw only discredit in fabricating any. In

the words of Philip Latimer, president of the 761st veterans' organization,

"The unit has a lot to be proud of ... and I don't want to see it blamed for

this documentary. I don't want the unit to be hurt."

Attempts have been made to seduce Ukrainians, and others, into a similar

complicity in Jewish disinformation, and in the case of Ukrainians, these

attempts have been largely successful. The Ukrainians' reward has been to

receive a Righteous Gentile Award for their efforts in saving Jews during the

Second World War. In accepting such an award, however, such Ukrainians

implicitly acquiesce and lend support to a Jewish history of the war, which is

crammed with disinformation, much of it harmful to Ukrainian interests. Among

the items of disinformation in this false history is that Ukrainians were eager

collaborators of the Nazis (when in reality Ukrainians overwhelmingly served as

opponents), that Ukrainian efforts to save Jews were rare (when in reality

large numbers of Ukrainians took grave risks and even gave their lives to save

Jews), that any anti-Jewish feeling on the part of Ukrainians that did exist

was gratuitous and pathological (when in reality it was founded on a memory of

the recent Jewish domination of the destruction of Ukraine under Communism).

Thus, any Ukrainians who were offered a Righteous Gentile Award should have

declined it for the same reason that the 761st declined to be honored in the

Liberators. Any Ukrainians who have accepted such an award should renounce it.

Ukrainians should consider withdrawing their support from the Public Broadcasting

Service (PBS). The PBS is portrayed by Goldberg as supportive of the

Liberators even after the film had been discredited. Ukrainians may recall,

furthermore, that the PBS broadcast a severely flawed anti-Demjanjuk

documentary despite prior notice on the part of Ukrainian representatives

specifying the nature of these flaws. Observations such as these invite the

conclusion that the PBS acts in sympathy with Jewish disinformation, and in

opposition to Ukrainian interests. For this reason, Ukrainians should consider

withdrawing their support from the PBS.

Ukrainians should consider cancelling their subscriptions to TIME magazine. The

Apollo Theater showing of the Liberators was sponsored by "Time Warner and a

host of rich and influential New Yorkers." Readers of the Ukrainian Archive

will be reminded that TIME magazine was responsible for the calumniation of

Ukraine in the Wallowing Photograph incident. From these two indications, we

may wonder whether Time Warner, and TIME magazine, are not sympathetic toward

Holocaust disinformation and hostile toward Ukrainian interests. After having

been a more than three-decades-long reader of TIME, I recently cancelled my

subscription.

Proven fraud does little to lessen propaganda value. As the Liberators film has

been discredited, it appears to stand little chance of being accepted as

history. However, this does not make the film a failure. The film continues

to be valuable as a tool for shaping public opinion, particularly for molding

the minds of the young. At the time of the writing of the Goldberg article

above, the film was about to be distributed to "all New York City junior and

senior high schools." We may expect, then, that hundreds of thousands of

impressionable students will view the Liberators and will believe it, and that

the refutations of Jeffrey Goldberg, and the soldiers of the 761st Tank

Battalion, and others will reach the ears of only a few. The film may never

succeed as history, but it has a good chance of succeeding as popular history,

and it is popular history that influences elections and that directs the

allocation of government resources.

Choosing between useful lies and harmful truths. One of the weapons within the

armamentarium of the totalitarian controller of information - that a useful lie

is better than a harmful truth - is explicitly wielded by at least one

supporter of the Liberators film:

She [Peggy Tishman] claims that the accuracy of

the film is not the issue. What is important is the

way it can bring Jews and blacks into "dialogue."

There are a lot of truths that are very necessary,"

she says. "This [that the 761st did not liberate

Buchenwald or Dachau] is not a truth that's

necessary."

However, wielding the weapon of the useful lie will succeed only in a context

in which the flow of contrary information can be choked off. In a society that

permits the free flow of information, there is no useful lie, because all lies

stand in danger of being exposed and thus discrediting the liar and his cause.

Thus, we may expect that an ancillary goal of the distributors of

disinformation will be to strangle the free flow of information - and more

specifically, we might expect that those backing efforts such as the Liberators

film will simultaneously back efforts to suppress web sites such as the

Ukrainian Archive. In a totalitarian society, the Liberators film constitutes

a useful day's work for the manipulators of mass opinion; in a free society,

the Liberators film constitutes a self-defeating miscalculation.

Furthermore, such an open avowal of the utility of lying as Peggy Tishman's

above brings to mind the question raised during the discussion of journalistic

fraud Stephen Glass of whether there may exist subcultures which by means of

their tolerance of, or support for, lying produce a disproportionate number of

great liars.

Consorting with Hasidim. In Goldberg's Liberators story above, Hasidic rabbi

Leib Glanz embraces Rev. Jesse Jackson on the stage of the Apollo Theater.

However, "the next night Rabbi Glanz was nearly chased out of synagogue by

angry Hasidim for the transgression of consorting with Mr. Jackson." This

brief description is puzzling, and from it alone we would be unable to arrive

at any strong conclusion, were it not for our having read some of the

characteristics of Hasidism in the writings of Israel Shahak.

With Shahak's description in mind, we are tempted to interpret Rabbi Glanz

being nearly chased out of synagogue by angry Hasidim as a further

demonstration that Hasidic Jews generally are hostile to the idea of any

rapprochement with any non-Jews. That is, Israel Shahak depicts Hasidic Jews

as constituting a debasement of Jewish mysticism, of being superstitious,

fanatical, mysogynistic, given to overindulgence in alcohol, and most

importantly, of being committed to the hatred of all non-Jews. I do not

venture such a description on my own initiative, as I have no personal

knowledge of Hasidism - but I do pass the description along as the opinion of a

reputable authority, Israel Shahak.

The incident of Rabbi Glanz being almost chased out of synagogue can only

remind us of the possibility that it may be one of Ukraine's many misfortunes

that the branch of Judaism which appears to have taken deepest root in Ukraine

is Hasidism. We see this in Hasidic Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich's prominence, as

witnessed in his frequent appearance on the pages of the Ukrainian Weekly, and

we see it as well in the central role he played - in undermining Ukraine, as it

happens - during the 23 October 1994 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of

Freedom.

The second-greatest calamity. And so, the second-greatest calamity to befall

the Jewish people during this century - which, after the Holocaust itself, is

Jewish misrepresentation of the Holocaust - deepens and broadens as a result of

the Liberators film. Another blow is struck at Jewish credibility. Another

burden is placed on the backs of Jews - the burden of being remembered for

their leading role during the 20th century as stranglers of information,

manipulators of truth, disseminators of disinformation, and corruptors of

history. The consequence of numbers of Jews lying about the history of their

people must be that whenever any Jew discourses upon history, he may expect to

be greeted with heightened skepticism - such is the penalty that all Jews must

pay for the sin of harboring fabulists in their midst.

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Mark Steyn National Post 15-May-2000 CBS fabricates news

"But yet again those old Soviet hardliners can only marvel:

They spent decades smashing presses and jamming

transmitters in an effort to shut down the flow of information.

Americans achieved that happy state just by leaving it to ABC,

CBS and NBC." - Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn in the National Post (Toronto) of 15-May-2000 takes the position that

Donna Dees-Thomases Million Mom March had its projected attendance downgraded to

100,000, though how many actually showed up is the object of varied speculation;

and more importantly that contrary to the attempt to portray Donna Dees-Thomases

as a suburban mother who had never organized anything larger than a car pool

before, she was in reality a CBS employee. In comparison to the massive

distortions of Morley Safer's Ugly Face of Freedom of 23-Oct-1994, the Million Mom

March media stunt seems like a peccadillo, but does contribute to the view of the

mass media as ready to deceive and manipulate, with the CBS perhaps playing a

leading role.

Two excerpts from the longer article:

But, speaking of Casts of Idiots, what about CBS? By now, you may

be curious about that "part-time job," as NBC coyly referred to

it. A couple of waitressing shifts? A little secretarial work

for the school district? No, Donna is a part-time publicist for

David Letterman's Late Show. Before that, she was a full-time

publicist for CBS news anchor Dan Rather. CBS This Morning was

one of the first news shows to report the Million Mom March

movement last September, when Hattie Kauffman interviewed Donna.

"What," asked Hattie, "turns a mild-mannered suburban mom into an

anti-gun activist?"

The correct answer is: "A leave of absence from my employer, CBS,

which, by remarkable coincidence, is also your employer, Hattie."

But that's not what Donna said. Only in the last week has CBS

News begun disclosing that she's one of theirs.

Mark Steyn, Made to Measure for the Media, National Post,

15-May-2000, p. A14.

Heigh-ho. The non-March is over now, and the non-Millions are

relaunching themselves today as a political lobby group. Good

luck to them. But yet again those old Soviet hardliners can only

marvel: They spent decades smashing presses and jamming

transmitters in an effort to shut down the flow of information.

Americans achieved that happy state just by leaving it to ABC, CBS

and NBC.

Mark Steyn, Made to Measure for the Media, National Post,

15-May-2000, p. A14.

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Hilberg Letter 1 15Sep97 Invitation to deny Lviv pogrom

September 15, 1997

Raul Hilberg

Department of History

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

USA 05401-3596

Dear Professor Hilberg:

On October 23, 1994, Morley Safer together with Simon Wiesenthal in the 60 Minutes

story The Ugly Face of Freedom drew attention to an event which I will refer to as the

"Lviv pogrom":

SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the Germans

arrived, Ukrainian police went on a 3-day killing spree.

WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6 thousand

Jews was killed.

...

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia,

the police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.

For the moment, let us overlook that the interviewer - Morley Safer is not

citing the evidence of his own professional witness - Simon Wiesenthal - but is instead

offering an unattributed lower estimate within a smaller time interval. And let us

overlook as well that in another place, Simon Wiesenthal places what seems to be this