When Victims Rule (pdf)

THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE (PT. 2)
activist Zionist, a “pop” historian, and the author of a number of extremely
Judeo-centric volumes of history who is so enthralled with her people that, in
one of her books, she calls them “the quintessential people of history, the Jews
originated the idea of the God of history.” [DAWIDOWICZ, p. 125]
The Polish Catholic provincial superior of the Carmelite order of nuns at
Auschwitz joined the media fray to remark that “the entire Polish society is
opposed to moving the nuns out of Auschwitz and does not accept that others
govern our country.” [NEWSWEEK, SEP 11, 1989, p. 35] “Why do the Jews
want special treatment in Auschwitz for only themselves?” asked sister Teresa
Magiera to a Polish-American newspaper, “... Do they consider themselves the
Chosen People?” [DERSHOWITZ, p. 153]
A few days later, as the controversy continued to heat up with Jewish feelings
of “repugnance” to the Polish Catholic leader, Cardinal Glemp added this:
“This is offensive. Suppose someone came to your home and ordered
you to move a wardrobe. You would be justified in answering, ‘Stupid,
that’s not your property.’ There are some Jewish circles who let themselves
get carried away by their nerves.” [4-3-89, A1]
Cardinal Glemp’s defiance to Jewish pressures only aggravated international
Jewish determination to oust the handful of nuns off a spot of Polish
national soil all the more. On September 5 the Times reported that “in a meeting
with the Cardinal, Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois, cautioned that
the dispute could jar Polish-American relations and slow financial aid efforts.”
[NYT] How a U. S. Senator could state that a Jewish parochial concern could
harm “Polish-American” relations and “financial aid to Poland” is the height of
arrogance worth a volume of exploration itself, addressing traditionally “anti-
Semitic” notions of Jewish parochial influence and economic power in the
American politic. Suffice it to say here that Simon was in fact profoundly
beholding to the Jewish community; they had put him in office. Simon secured
his senate seat when Illinois senator Charles Piercy became “the best known victim”
of Jewish political lobbying. “Defeating Percy for reelection [in 1984],”
notes J. J. Goldberg, “became virtually a national crusade among pro-Israel
activists.” [GOLDBERG, p. 270] (Likewise, later President Bill Clinton, in
appeasement to all the Jewish economic support in his campaign [see later
chapter] and Jewish interest in Poland, provocatively appointed a Jew, Michael
Neczewski, in 1992 as the Ambassador to Poland).
As for Cardinal Glemp, he was internationally branded as the intolerant
voice of Polish anti-Semitism. “Cardinal Glemp,” declared Konstanty Gebert,
“at the height of the Auschwitz controversy was met with approval by what
seemed to be the majority of the nation. Clearly anti-Semitism of the traditional
variety is alive and well in Poland.” [GEBERT, p. 28] Meanwhile, in Israel,
apparently related to the Carmelite convent controversy, vandals damaged the
remains of a 13th century Carmelite monastery. [RITTNER, p. 75]
On the same day that the Senator warned the Polish Cardinal about the
holding of U.S. funds to help rebuild Poland, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, in the Bronx, the man who led the Jewish take-
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