JewishReviewOfBooks:

In the 1970s, Wiesenthal began to refer to “eleven million victims” of the Holocaust, six million Jews and five million non-Jews, but the latter number had no basis in historical reality. (…)

When Israeli historians Yehuda Bauer and Yisrael Gutman challenged Wiesenthal on this point, he admitted that he had invented the figure of eleven million victims in order to stimulate interest in the Holocaust among non-Jews. He chose five million because it was almost, but not quite, as large as six million. (…) In recent months, Wiesenthal’s concoction has been further improved upon by a group of rabbis and imams who visited Auschwitz under the aegis of the US State Department. The statement they issued after their visit referred to the “twelve million victims, six million Jews and six million non-Jews.” Now we have parity.

One wonders what’s next. (…)

Any falsification with respect to the Holocaust, whatever its purpose may be, gives comfort and solace, not to speak of ammunition, to Holocaust deniers. It enables them to turn the tables and to claim that the “defenders of the Holohoax” are the ones guilty of fabricating history.

The 10 Most Worthless College Degrees:

#9 – Philosophy

This isn’t ancient Greece…

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Jesus Christ.

Paul Mirengoff of Power Line blog no longer is of Power Line blog.

Mirengoff is an attorney at Akin Gump, a big law firm with a large presence in Washington, D.C., where Mirengoff works as a partner in the employment law group. (…)

It all resulted from this blog post Mirengoff made after the Tucson shooting memorial service, in which the service was opened with a prayer, of sorts, from an American Indian tribal leader:

“As for the ‘ugly,’ I’m afraid I must cite the opening ‘prayer’ by Native American Carlos Gonzales,” Mirengoff wrote. It “apparently was some sort of Yaqui Indian tribal thing, with lots of references to ‘the creator’ but no mention of God. Several of the victims were, as I understand it, quite religious in that quaint Christian kind of way (none, to my knowledge, was a Yaqui). They (and their families) likely would have appreciated a prayer more closely aligned with their religious beliefs.” (…)

…one of Mirengoff’s law partners, James Meggesto, who issued a sanctimonious statement saying he was “shocked, appalled and embarrassed” by Mirengoff’s “insensitive” “web posting” (emphasis mine):

“As an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation; as an attorney who has dedicated his life and law practice to the representation of Indian tribes, tribal organizations and tribal interests; and as a partner in the American Indian law and policy practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, I was shocked, appalled and embarrassed by a recent Web posting by another Akin Gump partner, Paul Mirengoff, who posted on his personal blog an insensitive and wholly inappropriate criticism of the use of a Yaqui prayer as the invocation to the recent memorial service held in Tucson, Arizona…”
 

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I remind him that The Avengers isn’t “realistic” either, but he doesn’t care.

(This video is about a minute too long, but I laughed out loud eventually)…

Lars Hedegaard this morning, via email:

“I was acquitted. A major victor for free speech. More later.”

UPDATE in idiocy:

This is good news, and the Tundra Tabloids is happy that he was acquitted by the court, but the problem is that he was acquitted solely because he didn’t expect the interview to be made public. More than likely if he had known that the unedited taped interview was going to be disseminated to the public at large, he would still be facing a sentence of some sort. These hate speech laws need to be attacked from every which direction.

Oh.

‘I heard responsible socialists saying the same thing as the National Front. It was really shocking.’

He faces two years in jail…

You have to remember that nine out of ten journalists in the country come out of the same school, have the same ideology. Journalists in my county are also very well paid – probably better paid than for example the university professors. It’s a very lucrative job,” he says. “Being a journalist in this country is not really a profession – it is more a political persuasion and an ideology. We have very few journalists and very few mainstream media who would really take on the fight for free speech.”

“For 30 to 40 years we have been told by our leaders and practically all politicians and political parties that unlimited immigration is really a good thing for the country, that it is a good thing for Denmark to have for example a sizeable minority of Muslims in the country,” he says. “But most of these Muslim immigrants have refused to integrate into our society and become part of us.”

“We have constantly been told that this is an enrichment of the country. [They think] problems do not really exist. Problems only exist to the extent that people say there is a problem. So in other words, they want to silence critics because they think – or claim at least – that if they could shut up people like me, the problems would go away,” he says.

“were from gay-rights supporters, not gay-bashers.”

Gays and fascism? Dat’s cwazy tawk!!

(Jeepers: PopMatters turned into The Pink Swastika so gradually, I barely noticed.)

(Something of a theme lately, no?)

As I keep saying…

On January 24, 2011, the Freedom Party of Ontario (FPO) issued a media release which included video ads announcing their latest election plank to “permanently eliminate race-based public schools and change the law so that no school board will have the authority to open one ever again”. The video ads that accompanied this announcement were also posted on FPO’s Youtube Channel. (…)

Within hours of the radio show which provided Paul McKeever with the opportunity to explain their policy plank, FPO received notification from Youtube that the ads had been removed due to a copyright claim by CTV Globemedia Inc.

When one considers the number of videos on Youtube that include footage from various news reports many of which contain “CTV” in the title of the videos (the FPO ads did not), a good portion of them used by political parties for partisan purposes, it does seem odd that these particular videos would be singled out for special scrutiny.

I support copyright and property rights, but is that the real reason these videos were pulled?

I also don’t care if Toronto blacks want a blacks-only school, as long as they pay for it themselves.

Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in-ers could not be reached for comment.

Rush Limbaugh had fun with this story last week. (FREE audio.)

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