New York – NJDC to MSNBC: Remove Buchanan Over Hitler Defense Article

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    Pat Buchanan  at Western Michigan University after being drenched in salad dressing. File Photo April  2005New York – David A. Harris, President of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), released the following statement:

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    NJDC condemns MSNBC conservative commentator and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan’s recent column, “Did Hitler Want War,” in defense of Adolf Hilter’s actions in World War II. It is particularly disturbing that MSNBC is promoting this column on MSNBC.com.

    Editors note: the column has since been removed from MSNBC site, however it still appears in many other news sites.

    Buchanan has a long history of insensitivity when it comes to issues surrounding the Holocaust, and he has taken the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II as an opportunity to voice these opinions once again.

    This sort of historical revisionism is deplorable. Buchanan’s latest column should be removed immediately from MSNBC.com, and no worthy news organization should employ a commentator who engages in such vile fiction. The Constitution protects Buchanan’s right to say whatever he wants, but it does not require MSNBC or any other network to provide a prominent platform for such drivel.


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    Chezkel
    Chezkel
    14 years ago

    Buchanan is a good man with good ideas, many of which of in conformance with Jewish values. He has been libeled by the anti-semites ironically, as being anti-Jewish when it is the furthest from the truth.

    joel
    joel
    14 years ago

    Interesting, Mike Savage has banned Buchanan from his radio show last year after he said on msnbc that the Arabs in Gaza live in concentration camps, and that was after years of having him on his radio show and promoting his books!

    anonymous
    anonymous
    14 years ago

    In the past Buchanan has associated with antisemitic and pro-Arab groups. He is clearly against section 8 , VIC and food stamps and I wonder how all these yungeleit would manage. He is for withdrawal to the 1967 and dividing Yerushalayim. Those who believe in a free society where Jews can live freely cannot support Buchanan .All you have to go on the internet and log on to this rantings

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    anyone see the cloumn today by Aaron Keyak about the buchannan article?

    formally
    formally
    14 years ago

    Last year Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for 850,000 Jews to be killed by diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at Treblinka. When George Will challenged him about it last week on TV (it is, alas, all too possible), he ducked. Buchanan’s long battle with Nazi-hunters is shy of loony but still conspicuous. In 1983 he criticized the U.S. government for expressing regret over its postwar protection of Klaus Barbie. In 1985, he advocated restoring the citizenship of Arthur Rudolph, an ex-Nazi rocket scientist accused of employing slave labor at a V-2 plant. In 1987, he lobbied to stop deportation of Karl Linnas, accused of atrocities in Estonia. He could well be right that John Demjanjuk was wrongly accused of being Treblinka’s “Ivan the Terrible.” (Newly released Soviet documents suggest he may have been merely a camp guard.) But this respect for civil liberties is suspiciously selective. An ACLU man, he ain’t. Buchanan is a hardliner on all accused criminals-except Nazis.

    tzaddik
    tzaddik
    14 years ago

    To be fair to Buchanan, It’s not just jews he has a bias against. I saw him on with Rachel Maddow, and he was arguing against Sotomayor for the supreme court. She asked him, do you think it is a coincidence that there have been no hispanics on the supreme court ? after all they make up 10 percent of the population. He said something to the effect that none of them happen to be qualified. None of the Hispanics, None of the Blacks, None of the Jews. In his mind, it happens to be that white protestants built this country. White protestants own this land. White protestants should rule this country. Germans are white protestants. Therefore they can’t be all that bad. I do agree with some of the things he says about WW2. Hitler may not have wanted war at the beginning. He was scared of it. He may have not wanted war with England. He respected them. I think Buchanan sees the world in some strange way from hitlers vantage point. The whites should rule; manifest destiny.

    dov
    dov
    14 years ago

    this guy is such an incredible idiot. i just read his “Did Hitler (yemoch shemo) Want War?” article. that was probably the biggest crock pot of hooey i have ever read. his only evidence was lack of evidence and ignoring the thousands upon thousand of speeches and hundreds upon hundreds of speeches and writings that blatantly said that he wanted to; conquer the world, kill the jews, roma, blacks, gays, and anyone else who wasn’t blonde with blue eyes. this guy is a terrible anti-semite (not to mention a shande to the republicans)

    JOE THE PROFESSOR
    JOE THE PROFESSOR
    14 years ago

    Buchanan claims that if Poland had only ceded Gdansk (Danzig) to Germany the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened. The silver lining in this moronic statement is that he has stopped (for the moment) denying the Holocaust.

    Had his Isolationism prevailed in the 40’s neither I nor any of the previous writers would be alive today.

    matzahlocal101
    matzahlocal101
    14 years ago

    Hitler’s massive military build up (in violation of world war I treaties) began shortly after he came to power in 1934 and was part of his five year plan to go war.

    By the way, Gdansk is halfway through Poland, the argument that had only Poland given up half their country to Germany after Germany took Austria and half of Czechoslovakia for “lebensraum” there would be no war, is specious at best. For more details on the chronology of Hitler’s y”sh military build up, see Lucy Davidowicz’s “The war against the Jews”

    anonymous
    anonymous
    14 years ago

    The first time I can say that mildly an “uninformed” statement by one has triggered some very interesting responses especially about Gdansk, etc. and well informed statement. Yes Buchanan would alter the political picture for Jew quite drastically. Maybe “Cheskel” never heeard these songs which I heard in Vienna “Heute gehoert uns Deutschland und morgen die ganze Welt” Today we rule Germany and tomorrow the entire world. There is another song “wenn Judenblut vom Messer spritzt” When Jewish blood spurts from the dagger”{it did}. Maybe Cheskel should read the Stuermer or go to the Holocaust museum and look at my video I made for the shoah foundation. Cheskel could pack up his belonging and so could others including Satmar if Buchanan would make an entry on Pennsylvania Avenue

    Shimon
    Shimon
    14 years ago

    It’s interesting to see that the NJDC erupts into hysterics over this, but makes constant excuses for Obama’s anti-Israel rantings. Of course they are right about Buchanan, but they are curiously silent about Rev Wright, Samantha Power, and all the other soneh yisroel.