Schönenwerd, Switzerland – Swiss Green Party MP Jonas Fricker said during a debate over animal protections in the National Council legislative body on Thursday that Jews deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp had a better chance of surviving than pigs sent to industrial livestock farming.
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Fricker’s alleged belittling of the Holocaust triggered outrage in Switzerland, causing him to resign on Saturday.
He said on Thursday that “the people who were deported there [Nazi extermination camps] had a chance to survive. The pigs go to a certain death.”
“You know the photographs, the documentary films from Europe that show the unspeakable industry livestock farming – they are transported to a certain death,” Fricker continued, adding that the last time he recalled seeing a documentary about the transport of pigs, photographs of the mass deportation from Schindler’s List came to mind.
The Swiss National Council debate covered the Fair-Food-Initiative and the standards in the industrial farming sector. The Swiss media was blanketed with coverage of Fricker’s comparison between pigs and Jews during the Holocaust.
According to the Swiss website 20 Minuten, the Swiss People’s Party politician Roland Rino Buchel said he was “shocked” that a speaker would contend it is worse for animals today than the people back then in Auschwitz.
In response to the outrage Fricker said he “would to apologize in all forms for my inappropriate comparison.”
The news outlet also reported that Jonathan Kreutner, secretary-general of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, said “such a comparison is, of course, unsupported. Fricker sees that and immediately apologized to us and [apologized] in parliament,” he said.
Fricker, 40, has been a member of parliament since 2015.
In yiddish we have a saying—-vos is ofen tzing is ofen ling— WHATS ON THE TONGUE IS ON THE LUNG.or, what you say is what you’re thinking.
This is the essence of Switzerland comparing animals for slaughter to happy children who were gassed. In 1944 the Swiss red cross delivered food packages to Buchenwald. The SS was willing to accept under condition that Jews will not get any package. I wAS in block 66 and political prisoners gave away some of their packages and 1 package for 4 children was delivered. Swiss banks have millions of dollars from Nazi robbery including gold bars from the gold teeth taken from living and dead Jews in concentration camps including Auschwitz extracted from those gassed. Switzerland should considered uncivilized.
Liberals are the biggest anti Semite that’s why they hate Trump who is a ohev yisroel.
Typical Swiss scumbag who sent back Jews to their deaths how about he invite all pigs for asylum in anti Semitic Switzerland
There are some comparisons that are just off-limits. I’m sorry, you don’t get to compare abortion statistics with deaths during the Holocaust. You also don’t get to compare animal cruelty statistics with the brutalities of the Holocaust. Should the Holocaust be untouchable? No. Should it be thrown around to make comparisons that potentially devalue the experiences of victims and survivors? Heck no.
Wheres CANCER AND ALS UPON MUSLIMS??? So these are our friends?!!! Just no cursing. Thats all. Were in galus and need to pray to be safe.
This man should spend a few months in a working Aushwitz! A sheine anti semit!!
It was one of “our own” (Isaac Bashevis Singer) who wrote:
“What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world – about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”
How appropriate. He “resigned” on Yom Kippur.