I scan the online newspapers on a regular basis, with several Google keywords helping me find the material that I write about here. I have read many small and little-known newspapers, from college papers to small-town papers to various newsletters. Much of the time, I find an astonishing amount of Jew-hatred in the smaller papers, which seem more willing to publish columns and letters by anti-Semites than are the larger media outlets. I’m not saying the small-town papers are anti-Semitic. Just some of their letter writers.
But every once in a while, I find a gem like this.
Iran opened its conference yesterday to discuss whether Nazis really used gas chambers to kill Jews; its scholars have now determined, after much objective research and study, that the Holocaust was actually “a spicy variety of cheese spread.â€
I suppose this event is no laughing matter. But isn’t it like holding a conference to debate whether the sky is blue or the Earth is round? I understand that ignorant bigots have the right to freely express their views, but is reality a suitable topic for debate in the 21st century?
In Tehran, 67 foreign “researchers†from 30 countries are attending a two-day conference intended to examine whether the Holocaust took place. It was organized by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has famously described the Holocaust as a “myth†and whose diabolical grin gives me the creeps every time I see him on television.
And that’s just the lead. Read it all. It is a pleasure to read an excellent and well-reasoned op-ed. Worcester should be proud of Dianne Williamson. I know I am.
The implications of this denial is enormous, Meryl.
What other mass genocides have they denied also? The only ones that come to mind are the ones that have had Western people witness them. Like the Greek and Armenian Geoncide in the 1920’ss.
Maybe there is a reason why the vast majority of people in the middle east Muslim and not christian or Buddhist or… Jewish.
If you take a look at imao.us, you’re going to thank me for not asking to post that here… ;)
Yep, Laurence, there is a distinct possibility that you are right. But I shouldn’t speak for Meryl, else I get put in the corner instead of you.
…and that knock at your door? Maybe you should ask what his name is – and if it is Muhammed or Mohammad or any other variation as such, I would suggest that you don’t open then door…
Now could someone tell me how Worcester is pronounced in the US?
I know that you usually massacre Worcestershire sauce by saying Wor-Cester-Shire instead of just “Woster” (the Shire is silent).
So is it Wor-Cester or Woster?
And it is a great article.
Brian
Wooster. With a short oo, not a long one. As in “woof.”
Why not pronounce it wor-cester-shire, though? What’s the point of spelling it that way if you’re going to ignore entire syllables?
I think syllables are dropped so that we British can easily spot foreigners who don’t know such things :-)
As an Australian once asked me, “Can you tell me the way to Lougaa-Barougaa?”
There’s a line in one of Wodehouse’s books where Bertie Wooster explains his last name is pronounced as in “Worcestershire.”
There was another character whose last name, Mapledurham, was pronounced “Mum.” I don’t know if Wodehouse made that one up or not.
And then there was Lord Blicester.
Regarding Worcester, MA, when I lived back there I noted the locals pronounced it “Wuhstuh.”