The campaign to keep Britain in the European Union is unravelling by the day. The prospect of an easy win for the ‘Remain’ camp is vanishing, as a succession of banana skins and a brutal civil war in the Conservative party wipes out a poll lead that seemed unassailable just a few weeks ago. None […]
It is impossible to exaggerate the complacency and irresponsibility of the ruling class in Europe today. European leaders are not stupid, nor are they unaware. Consider the following speech from October of last year by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker: I do not often cry, but when I look evening after evening at this long […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 “I took a bit of revenge on the Germans…I also did some things with the German children.” Jurek Kestenberg, 1946. “Aba Kovner, the leader of the Jewish partisan group that formed in Vilnius in early 1942, dedicated himself to mounting a major revenge operation. With other members […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 “It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness […]
Part 1 Part 2 Ernst vom Rath (right) and his Jewish assassin Herschel Grynszpan “On the explicit order of the very highest authority setting fire to Jewish shops or similar actions may not occur under any circumstances.” Rudolf Hess, November, 1938. The Complexities of Judenpolitik, 1933–1939, Continued. Until 1935 the security police (SD) “had only […]
“Germans were not being asked to hate Jews; they were being asked to love other Germans. … It would be a mistake to equate Nazi values with hate.” David Cesarani Part 1. The Complexities of Judenpolitik, 1933–1939 Although David Cesarani’s book is divided into eight chapters, it is best reviewed by dividing it in two […]
“There is a yawning gulf between popular understanding of this history and current scholarship on the subject. … This divergence has become acute since the 1990s.” Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews, 1933–49 David Cesarani London: Macmillan A Portrait of the Author In October 2015 Jewish historiography lost one of its more enigmatic practitioners […]
If you pour dirty water into clean water, what happens? It’s remarkable: by a process too subtle for knuckle-dragging racists to understand, the dirty water becomes clean. In fact, the more dirty water you pour, the better the process works. Hence the slogan recently adopted by Greenpeace for the sparkling waters of the Lake District: […]
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