03-05-2016, 04:05 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Joseph, you are aware that THE PAINTED BIRD was originally presented as autobiographical, and only later admitted to be fiction (or a hoax according to Norman Finkelstein)? A depressingly common phenomenon in Holocaust literature for some reason.
By some accounts, C.D. Jackson was one of the first to arrive at Buchenwald with an Army Psychological Ops unit to film a presentation of human skin lampshades and other dubious artifacts that most Holocaust scholars don't accept as real anymore. The Holocaust, like everything else, has been exploited for propaganda and political purposes.
Finkelstein is worth reading because he's a jew whose parents were victims of the holocaust who takes exception to bs being gotten away with over the holocaust because he resents the sanctity of the holocaust being taken advantage of. I read 'The Holocaust Industry' that was about Swiss banks being blackmailed by Holocaust reparations blackmailers in cooperation with the Clinton administration. It turns out the Swiss were not really guilty of the charges of screwing holocaust victims out of their bank accounts in cooperation with the Nazis but were forced to pay massive reparations at the threat of economic sanctions by the US. It turns out the Swiss actually did honor their holocaust victim accounts and were falsely accused. Finkelstein showed the holocaust organizations that screwed the Swiss didn't give the money to indigent holocaust survivors, they kept it for themselves thus "The Holocaust Industry". This was a predatory lobby taking advantage of the holocaust and seeking to force sanctions from anyone who could be associated with it guilty or not. The US being a credit-taking accomplice with the muscle to force this blackmailing.
Even though this is true you can point it out and it has no effect. And you'll be punished for it. Finkelstein discussed several books that turned out to be frauds that were sanctimoniously praised by the lobby.
I also read Finkelstein's 'Beyond Chutzpah' that showed Alan Dershowitz is another favored writer who openly lied, defrauded source references, and wrote an entirely biased and inaccurate account of Israel and its existence in his book 'The Case For Israel'. Finkelstein showed that the US media lauds these pro-Israel books without any critical vetting and that most of what Dershowitz wrote in the book was false or misleadingly skewed. Books like The Case For Israel are of course lauded and praised by the usual pro-Israel public no matter what their content.
They say Israel is the "Middle East's only democracy". When Finkelstein visited Israel he was promptly jailed at the airport. He was then deported.