Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYte’[ 285 ] Finkelstein turned the heat on even more: ‘If there really stillare Jewish Nazi victims in need, then it is because the Jewish ClaimsConference has embezzled the German payments which had beenmeant for these people. Money given to the JCC is like flushing itdown the toilet… The JCC and the Jewish World Congress misusethe good will of the Germans by extorting money and filling theirown coffers. With their mean and unscrupulous extortion tactics,these Jewish organizations have become the most important promotersof anti-Semitism.’” (pp. 102f.)“The Berlin branch of the Jewish Internet information service‘haGalilonLine’ posted on 9 February 2001: ‘[…] Finkelstein spokeof a ‘shabby extortion’ by the Jewish World Congress and the JewishClaims Conference during the negotiations about restitutions forNS forced laborers.’” (p. 103)“On 13 February 2001, a program of Radio Österreich 1 [Autria]reported about Finkelstein’s appearance in Vienna: ‘[…]Finkelstein recently repeated the main thesis of his book: The onlyculprit for the spreading of the bog of corruption is a gang of Holocausthucksters who have ‘hijacked’ the Holocaust for their politicaland financial purposes… Finkelstein was hard on Jewish organizations.He accused them of ‘fraud’ with the numbers of Holocaustsurvivors in order to obtain a maximum in compensation payments.In connection with Edgar Bronfman, the president of the JewishWorld Congress, he spoke about extortion. Bronfman has acted likethe Mafia, he said.’” (pp. 103f.)“In Great Britain it was the historian Professor William Rubinsteinwho considered as ‘extremely important’ Finkelstein’s ‘courageousattacks on financial extortions by groups like the JewishWorld Congress,’ and he expressed his hope ‘that it will have an effect.’For him as a Jew who has lost relatives in the Holocaust it is‘frankly revolting’ how the Holocaust is used ‘to extort money,’ Rubinsteincontinued (quoted from: [German magazine] ‘stern’, No.6/2001).” (p. 105)“In France Dr. Rony Brauman was the most prominent Jew sidingwith Finkelstein. […] Already before that Brauman had vehe-285 “List of Misuse,” reference to the novel and movie Schindler’s List.228