Tagged with "Jews"

The French paradox and the Jews

The French paradox: Although 76,000 Jews were deported from France, how was it that 75 percent of Jews in France managed to survive death in the Nazi era while only 20 percent in the Netherlands, and 55 percent in Belgium were able to do so?
by Michael Curtis - 15 April 2015
J Street's one way traffic

J Street, recently rejected by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish organizations, arrogantly claims to be a heroic group daring to criticise Israel when others fear to. But it merely echoes mainstream media and organizations that are constant critics of Israel
by Michael Curtis - 20 May 2014
French trains, deportation of Jews, and wrong tracks

As one French historian has said, Vichy is a past that doesn’t pass. The tens of thousands of Jews who were deported on trains might have expected more decent recognition. An extraordinary saga and a journey of shame
by Michael Curtis - 8 April 2014
For the love of France, in all its true glory

Jean Jaurès and Charles Péguy were totally different human beings who knew each other for a time but who are significant figures in the pantheon of French personalities for their moral authority and courage in defying military officials and the mood of public opinion by asserting the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Stunning. Just read
by Michael Curtis - 8 March 2014
Yes Mr. Erekat, Jesus was a Jew

The chief Palestinian negotiator is a deluded fantasist who, with a straight face, argues that the Palestinians pre-date the Jews. In reality, his own family probably came from Saudi Arabia in the 20th century!
by Michael Curtis - 19 February 2014
Pakistani Islamists shooting polio vaccine medics as CIA and Jewish stooges

Plainly news that you have read many times in mainsream media... OK, back to reality. Pakistani kids dying of Polio as vaccinators get shot as CIA and Jewish stooges
by MidEast watcher - 10 February 2014
Norwegian Islamist soccer referee convicted of anti-Semitic hate speech

Islamist soccer referee in Norway convicted of hate speech for threatening to shoot Jews for complaining about anti-Semitism and for a "friendly warning" to a journalist writing about Islamism
by the commentator - 7 February 2014
Jews on the Left take the dumb side

In a piece on the Left which is sure to stir the pot, Steve Apfel wonders aloud on how and why some Jewish Leftists adopt a position on Israel that, for all the world, could be seen as quintessentially dumb!
by Steve Apfel - 5 February 2014
Iranian supreme leader's Holocaust denial not a mistranslation

Iran's smiling, moderate, foreign minister, who just charmed the world at Davos, exposed as a liar about the lies of his Holocaust denying supreme leader. Would you trust these people?
by the commentator - 26 January 2014
Palestinian Authority says Arafat killed by Jews, just as Prophet Mohammad was

The recent suggestion that Yasser Arafat died from poisoning is tied by "moderate" Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs to allegedly similar Jewish foul play in the death of the Prophet Mohammad
by the commentator - 12 November 2013
Plight of Europe’s Jews revealed in new survey

Without a sea change on the part of European political and intellectual elites, it appears as if Europe is about to become a dark continent of anti-Jewish persecution once again
by Tom Wilson - 9 November 2013
The Vatican, Nazis, Popes and Jews

Strong differences are particularly focused on the events of October 16, 1943 when the Nazis rounded up and imprisoned more than 1,000 Jews at a site close to the Vatican: most of the Jews rounded up during the incident were killed at Auschwitz
by Michael Curtis - 30 October 2013
It's not BBC bias against Israel; it's hate

If a 9 year old Palestinian girl had been shot by Israel, and the government had gloried in it, this would be headline news, worldwide. The BBC is shameless in its bigotry
by the commentator - 7 October 2013
Islamic Tolerance: Myth and Reality

In a new "soft totalitarianism" in the West where truth is no longer a defence, this piece from Prof. Curtis will offend shallow, politically correct prejudice. Good!
by Michael Curtis - 5 October 2013
Iran and the lessons of Chamberlain's appeasement

The appeasement policies of the 1930s were wildly popular at the time and for much the same reasons as appeasment of Syria and Iran are popular today. But the outcome was disaster
by Michael Curtis - 2 October 2013