Editor
Globe & Mail
Toronto
May 11, 1996
Dear Sir:
Perhaps not by coincidence, whenever Israel goes on a killing spree in
the Middle East, there is an outbreak of evocative "Holocaust"
stories in the North American media. Almost invariably, the stories portray
Jews as blameless victims murdered in the name of mindless prejudice, whereas
their enemies, especially the dispossessed Palestinians and others suffering
under Israel rule or bombardment, are portrayed as malevolent, irrational
ingrates and terrorists.
A typical timely resurrection of the Holocaust appeared in the Globe &
Mail May 8 where you claim that the Germans "slaughtered. . . millions
of Jews" (normally you state that Six Million had perished, a figure
said by its proponents to be the "most documented statistic in history").
There is indeed evidence that large numbers of Jews were rounded up and
held in concentration camps where some were murdered by fellow inmates,
but there is no evidence of Jews having been put to death in "gas
chambers", as claimed by propagandists. On the contrary, the credible
evidence points to relatively benevolent treatment of Jewish detainees,
certainly compared with that meted out by our Glorious Russian Ally to
her targeted minorities. Many Jews may have died towards the end of World
War II of disease and malnutrition, but if so, their fate is attributable
to the Allied bombing of transport facilities, not to German brutality.
That the vast majority of Jews survived the camps is clear from both simple
observation and authoritative population statistics, including those of
official Jewish origin. Details appear in the book "The Dissolution
of Eastern European Jewry" by Walter N. Sanning, published in 1983
(ISBN 0- 939484-06-4).
Conscientious historians, including some Jews, are now agonizing over the
realization that the "gassing of six million Jews" could not
have taken place, that the Holocaust legend is a gigantic, self-serving
hoax and that it could never survive scientific analysis. For this reason,
elaborate measures are needed to protect it: open discussion must be stifled,
strict censorship imposed and "Holocaust Denial" made a criminal
offense.
Unfortunately, the unceasing, mind-numbing propagation of this ersatz Jewish
calamity obscures the genuine holocausts taking place today, most deplorable
of which is the genocide by sanctions of young children in Iraq. These
tiny victims are accorded scant sympathy by the pro-Zionist Canadian media
and even less by the hypocritical politicians responsible.
Ian Macdonald