Liberals Find a Jew Hater They Feel Safe Criticizing
Holocaust denial that liberals care about:
Disturbing new details about Mel Gibson's past are emerging in the wake of his recent anti-Semitic tirade. The beleaguered star attended an event a few years back run by an Australian group notorious for denying the Holocaust, according to a June 2004 article in On Target, the newsletter of the Australian League of Rights - which claims to promote "loyalty to the Christian concept of God" but which has long held anti-Semitic views. Its national director, Don Autherlonie, didn't deny Gibson's attendance when contacted last week.
Holocaust denial that liberals defend as free speech:
On June 21, 2006, Lebanon's New TV aired an interview with U.S. author Norman Finkelstein, who wrote the book The Holocaust Industry. In the introduction to the interview, the New TV narrator asserted, "Never has there been an issue subject to as many contradictions, lies, and exaggerations regarding the number of victims as the issue of the Jewish Holocaust."
The other way we could have written this post is: "why is Hollywood so pissed off about the totally meaningless actor who denied the Holocaust but so totally ready to blame Bush when the former Pakistan Intelligence Chief quotes said actor?
Obviously, Mel Gibson is a shmuck of an anti-Semite. But in a world where what he says about Jews is actually believed by billions of people - some of whom have access to nukes... well, we're more concerned about the people who ignore those billions of anti-Semites than the one guy in Hollywood who they agree with. We'll be precise: we think the liberal outrage being directed at Mel Gibson is a pathetic way of deflecting attention from the fact that many liberals won't call out genuinely dangerous anti-Semites. These are people who are literally - in every sense of the word - more concerned about what Mel Gibson says than what Hezbollah TV says.
Disturbing new details about Mel Gibson's past are emerging in the wake of his recent anti-Semitic tirade. The beleaguered star attended an event a few years back run by an Australian group notorious for denying the Holocaust, according to a June 2004 article in On Target, the newsletter of the Australian League of Rights - which claims to promote "loyalty to the Christian concept of God" but which has long held anti-Semitic views. Its national director, Don Autherlonie, didn't deny Gibson's attendance when contacted last week.
Holocaust denial that liberals defend as free speech:
On June 21, 2006, Lebanon's New TV aired an interview with U.S. author Norman Finkelstein, who wrote the book The Holocaust Industry. In the introduction to the interview, the New TV narrator asserted, "Never has there been an issue subject to as many contradictions, lies, and exaggerations regarding the number of victims as the issue of the Jewish Holocaust."
The other way we could have written this post is: "why is Hollywood so pissed off about the totally meaningless actor who denied the Holocaust but so totally ready to blame Bush when the former Pakistan Intelligence Chief quotes said actor?
Obviously, Mel Gibson is a shmuck of an anti-Semite. But in a world where what he says about Jews is actually believed by billions of people - some of whom have access to nukes... well, we're more concerned about the people who ignore those billions of anti-Semites than the one guy in Hollywood who they agree with. We'll be precise: we think the liberal outrage being directed at Mel Gibson is a pathetic way of deflecting attention from the fact that many liberals won't call out genuinely dangerous anti-Semites. These are people who are literally - in every sense of the word - more concerned about what Mel Gibson says than what Hezbollah TV says.
