Letter from USA     Sacramento Clarifications   1. Fredrick Töben to Walter Mueller 2. Patriot Letter 3. Pat Buchanan on The Passion of the Christ 4.  Barry Chamish comments on the failed conference   1. Fredrick Töben to Walter Mueller Walter FOR THE RECORD - only 4 speakers from Adelaide Institute? Please correct the details of Adelaide Institute sponsoring speakers: 1. Dinner speaker - USA - the attendees would have enjoyed this erudite computer programmer offering his detailed expose - and his book - of the 9:11 issue and related matters - from a US perspective. He would have been the most dynamic and synthetic-analytic thinker at the conference. 2. Germar Rudolf - USA 3. Stephen Goodson - RSA 4. Dr Claus Nordbruch - RSA 5. Peter Wakefield Sault - UK 6. Dr Gerhoch Reisegger - Austria 7. Lady Michele Renouf - UK 8. Barry Chamish -Israel 9. Dr Fredrick Toben - Australia 10. Ed Steele - self-funding. 11. I will be negotiating a price for our webmaster, Marc Lemire, who has been doing the work out of his own pocket. And so we shall be reimbursing him for having developed the Conference website. 12. Individual authors sent books at considerable expense to the venue organiser, Walter Mueller. Also, the above speakers incurred considerable expense in preparing themselves for the conference. There was also Mark Farrell who went to great expense in sending our contingency material to you - and made DVDs for the conference. It is not as simple as you state the matter when you involve so many people. That is the possible hurt for many individuals who are still idealistic and give of their time willingly - for the cause. Remember Israel Shamir, that professional speaker, whose fee we could never have met. All such claims will be met by Adelaide Institute. 13. You can thus work out what expense we were prepared to meet and are still prepared to meet as the individual claims on us come in. So, please, my dear Walter, correct your statement that insinuates Adelaide Institute did not spend any money - and then only on four speakers. Regards Fredrick Toben - currently Conception, Chile 2. Patriot Letter Mensaje citado por Walter Mueller <thetruthisback@yahoo.com>: Dear Fellow Patriot! Let me first destroy some of the nasty rumors that the white supremacists have circulated. Keep in mind that most of them have not made a reservation and wouldn't have come in the first place. Only because they "hijacked" the leftovers of the original conference are they trying to badmouth the well-organized and probably most-attended original conference. Rumor # 1) Mueller cancelled and pocketed the money: Nothing could be further from the truth, because there was nothing to pocket. In fact, I am out a lot of money from my personal finances. We had 3 financial contributors. One was Harvey Taylor through the IHR ($5,000). The IHR itself had never given any money. The second one, contributing writer to Community News, Richard Warren, paid for the ticket of Horst Mahler, and veteran Revisionist Hans Schmidt donated $500. That was all the money we've ever received. We did not receive a dime from Dr. Toben. He was only sponsoring four of the speakers, because many of the original ones he proposed dropped out. The Turnverein, with insurance and security swallow the $5,000. The $500 donation from Hans Schmidt (very much appreciated) was a drop on a hot stone. We had to reply on ticket sales in order to finance the entire venue. Ticket sales were slow over the six months, so I advanced some of the money, hoping we would could reimburse ourselves with a few money-making venues at the conference. Beer, wine, dessert buffet, and t-shirt sales. Let me remind you that the ticket price was only $35.00. By the time the Turnverein cancelled we had more than 200 pounds of pork, 50 pounds of beef, 400 bratwurst, 40 pounds of red cabbage, 40 pounds of sauerkraut, 1,200 beers, 1,000 soft drinks, 200 bottles of orange juice, 120 bottles of wine, and 24 bottles of German wine, 200 pounds of potatoes, 100 pounds of flour, 30 pounds of carrots, 30 pounds celery, bread ingredients to make 1,200 rolls, butter, jam, 500 croissants, 24 dozen eggs, and other small ingredients for approx $500. Consider that the price of pork was just below $2.00 per pound, and that was a deal. Now to the non-food items. We bought more than 2,000 napkins, knives, forks, spoons, which Harvey Taylor's wife and her friends rolled to be ready for the conference. Salt and peppershakers, sugar, cream, coffee. The Ernst Zundel Resource Guide cost us almost $5.00 a piece to produce, and we produced 350 of them. We also took care of all table signs for book tables and framed all the picture donations for the raffle. Administrative costs for preparing and sending the reservation packages were around $3.00 a piece. Gas, telephone and odds and ends added up to another big chunk. By the time we got the cancellation (3 days before the conference), I was out a couple of thousand dollars. For those who still don't understand, actually PAID reservations were just over 200. We had 16 speakers that were free, and I personally sent out 50 tickets for special guests and volunteers. We have sent back as of today, 76 checks that came in after the event was cancelled. If you read the Patriot Letters correctly, you knew the last two weeks we took telephone reservations, and held tickets at the door and told people just to send the money or pay at the door. Now what did we recover: The Turnverein sent back around $3,600. The Insurance premium was lost, so was the security money. The $3,600 and some cents were pro-rated and check will go out in the mail to everyone who has not e-mail and donated the money. The grocery stores refused to take back any meat, any alcohol, produce and some because of a sale, the sodas. Yesterday and today the European American Culture Council had a give-away of groceries to needy European American families. I was not about to let the food go to waste to proof to anyone that it was actually in the house. We are also stuck with the t-shirts, which I forgot to mention. Furthermore, we have hundreds of Resource Guides in our house. We are set with wine for the rest of the next two years, sodas as well, and the beer, which was quite pricey. To the contrary to what you have heard, we had a back-up location and I am still waiting for the deposit that I took out of my savings. Of course, in all the blame game, people don't like to mention that the official letter of cancellation didn't arrive at our house until Tuesday of this week. We cancelled the backup location only five days prior to the event. Yes, I admit that this is where I made the mistake. I was overly confidant and so involved fighting the attacks from within, that I didn't see this coming. I also need to stress that this was not just my decision. Harvey Taylor agreed to cancel and so did Mark Weber. Only to turn around and kidnap it for themselves. For anyone who would like to have details of the financial dealings, contact Hans. Anyone in the Sacramento area who would like to pick-up some beer or sodas, please contact me. Also the wine. Paul Fromm picked up all the raffle items for Ernst Zundel, and hopefully they will raffle them off at the "new conference." ******************************************************* The 2004 International Revisionist Conference, even though cancelled, has now become the talk of high-society in the Capitol City. Prominent gossip columnist R.E. Graswich was tipped off about the Governor's friendly letter, whishing the conference well, and the retracting it. Read for yourself: [START] R.E. Graswich: To see the big picture, governor's staff needs to read the fine print By R.E. Graswich Thanks but no thanks: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accidentally wandered into the thicket of Holocaust denial this week. Now he's scrambling to escape. The governor's situation began innocently enough. He was invited by something called the European American Culture Council to attend a two-day conference this week in Sacramento, before it was canceled amid controversy. The invitation included references to the group's agenda - insisting the Holocaust never happened. The governor's staff said no thanks, but sent Arnold's best wishes for a "successful conference." The letter immediately appeared on revisionist Web sites as an endorsement by the governor. "We receive 10,000 requests for the governor, and that was the standard response," said Rob Stutzman, the governor's spokesman. "The name of the group sounded innocuous. It wasn't until later that the true nature of this group was brought to our attention." Another letter was quickly written by the governor's staff, insisting Schwarzenegger would never endorse such nonsense. "The governor's views on this are well-known," Stutzman said. The governor's staff now knows to read the fine print before sending best wishes. ... [END] It continued with the Sacramento Bee's Ombudsman, explaining why the Bee would not print my rebuttal to Dorothy Korber's article earlier this week: [START] Your letter to the Sacramento Bee was forwarded to my office by John Hughes, the letters editor, as directed by the editorial page editor, David Holwerk, who has declined to publish your letter. He asked that I address the issues you raise. I see no evidence that Dorothy Korber was remiss in her reporting of this article. Her responsibility is to present both sides of the story. She accurately reported your claim that the Turnverein was lying, and she accurately reported that Turnverein refutes that. She also accurately reported that there has been contact between Turnverein and Jewish leaders, and that, in fact, Turnverein reached out to those leaders to apologize for initially agreeing to host your conference. If you've taken that as evidence of pressure from the JDL or any other organization, you're incorrect. In addition, Ms. Korber accurately reported your contention that the purpose of your conference had been made clear to Turnverein. She need not reproduce the evidence in the newspaper -- all she needed to do was see that you had evidence of that. It isn't her job to advance your cause or try your case in the newspaper. That's for a lawyer to handle, should you choose to retain one. I also believe Ms. Korber was not in error when she described your conference as "a gathering of "holocaust deniers, Hitler apologists, and neo-Nazis." You describe yourself as a Holocaust denier, so there's no problem there. Given that several white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites are promoting your conference and encouraging attendance, I suspect that there will be more than just a few revisionist "historians" there. Tony Marcano Ombudsman The Sacramento Bee [END] I responded: [START] Mr. Marcano, I have received many letters from newspapers, either from editors or the ombudsmen. Yours is by far the most ridiculous and morally bankrupt one. The job of the Bee used to be to tell the news, truthful and accurate. If in the process you indirectly show support for someone whose opinions you disagree with, that is just too bad. It was the Bee's job to point out that the Sacramento Turnverein was lying when they claimed that we had misrepresented them. Of course, that would have shed a different light on the matter, and the Bee didn't want the readers to question the motives. I am always so amazed when the press portrays us like criminals, when the First Amendment of the US Constitution protects us. The questioning of a specific event of history is not in any way as immoral as the Sacramento Bee's cover of it. As for neo-Nazis, that term doesn't exist. It was an invention of the press to demonize us and allow lame excuses like yours for not printing the news. Walter F. Mueller "The truth is back in business" [END] >From a publicity point of view, there is no revisionist conference ever that received as much. RELIEF: We had a great time last night at my house with dinner guests Lady Michele Renouf, Paul Fromm, Diane King and the Schmidts. We enjoyed a bratwurst plate with sauerkraut, Hungarian Goulash with Spaetzle and for dessert Strudel with ice cream. You probably will disagree with what I tell you now, and I, myself, questioned it after I came home. As we brought out guests back to the motel, James Beardsley was waiting and inviting our guests to his hotel room at the Marriott. As soon as I heard his name, I lost my temper, almost dragged him out of the car and told him to not ever call me any names. James Beardsley is the one who has "secret" conversations with Dr. Toben on how Mark Weber can't handle the situation, but when he talks to Weber, badmouthes Toben. In his anger over the cancelled conference he called me a "flaming queer." I am pretty sure he has changed his mind! Today, I spent in the San Francisco Bay area, distributing Community News, and relief finally set in that it was all over. Interestingly, not over the cancellation of the conference, but that I was finally free to be myself again, and could speak my mind. I didn't have to worry about Harvey's diplomacy rule or someone that I might be upsetting if I don't agree with him/her. Never mind that due to Harvey's "diplomacy" we lost 64 guests. Elena Haskins and him wanted to get rid of Alex Linder in the last week before the conference. Of course, Linder is not stupid, and once he realized he was taken off even the website, he contacted me - but you know the rest of the story. As I promised, you will hear about the tremendous attacks we had to deal with right from the start. Until the cancellation by the Turnverein, we had not received any attacks from the Jews. Even though Mark Weber and Harvey Taylor kept warning us to expect the worst. Sure, the worst came, but from the white nationalist movement, Ingrid Rimland, and Willis Carto. Of course, you can say "but the Jews shut you down", yes, that's true, but our own people tried to assassinate our character, distracting us from the real enemy. Looking at it from a little distance today, I have to say that these people are worse then the Jews. If you consider that most of these attackers hadn't even made a reservation and, in fact, were actively boycotting the conference, it makes it much worse. I think I have a responsibility to tell you who they are. The National Alliance and Bill White are on the top of the scum. Chris Connor from the National Alliance forget Patriot Letters, news reports and did one thing they are really good at - posted my brothers and my face on bodies who were engaged in anal intercourse. Another forged Patriot Letter declared that the 2004 International Revisionist Conference will be my wedding reception. But the height of stupidity was that there were actual people who inquired about it. And they call themselves revisionists. I told you the story about Rimland yesterday, so I can easily skip her. They all will get the scumbag award of the year. Bill White from Overthrow.com calls me the "patsy-pastry-boy" - "fudge packer" - "butt sucker", etc. Next time you listen to Kevin Strom, remember that. The Birdman is right up there with them. He is just as bad when it comes to vulgarities and pornography on line. Journalistic integrity is zero. Who ever would forward a lie that we were giving a "gay wedding reception" at the conference? Not anyone who is ethically or morally equipped. Veteran revisionist Russ Granata was one of the first to ask the question, whether or not he had to deal with a "homosexual revisionist personality" at the conference. And these are the people who are questioning the holocaust. Something so insane, and they believe it. No wonder that the Jews can't be stopped. No wonder that their power is growing more and more each day. They don't even have to work anymore. Whenever we claim we are not neo-Nazis, they show the public websites like overthrow.com, VNN, Stormfront, Aryan Nation, the Birdman,and many others. Let's be honest. I even get sick of the hatred and bigotry that is on these websites, even against our own people. The National Alliance, the Stormfront, and VNN can't get enough of questioning each other's sexual preferences. They must be seriously insecure about theirs. Proof is the above letter from the Ombudsman. Read his last sentence again, and you know why. These organizations are crude and project the fear that the Jews need to influence the mainstream. I have lived all my life with blacks, Mexicans and other ethnic groups. And I hardly ever see them use the personal filth that these white nationalist are using. Stormfront is nothing but a bunch of brain damaged people who can't manage even a flea circus. Aryan Nation is a group of fanatics, who wants to kill everyone that doesn't have blue eyes. But the worst, they use the honorable era of the Third Reich to project their violent nature. The National Alliance has learned a lot in the last few years and tries to give the impression that they are not violent anymore. It's all a cover. Their members are still around the country, burning crosses, engage in racial slurs and putting down anyone that doesn't look like them. But here is the sad thing. Some of the revisionist "use 'em and lose 'em", one day they praise them, and the other day they distance themselves. No character and no morals. In the process of organizing this conference, our biggest battle was these organizations. Every time I had an interview, the first question was "Why are there links to the white supremacist websites?" And it gets quite embarrassing when your usual excuses don't work anymore (because they advertise the event) and the reporter brings up one of the websites with the worst racial slurs and degradation of people of color. Please do not understand me wrong. I am a separatist, and I do not want to be part of these communities. However, the facts are on our side, and there is no need to become belligerent, violent, and vulgar. Respect is the key word. And again I find myself with those who imply that that was what Hitler wanted. It's one of the biggest myths, and, of course, it plays right into the Jewish defense. What these despicable people imply is that Adolf Hitler was about to kill anyone that wasn't an Aryan. Nothing could be further from the truth. As he was born in Austria, he knew very well that several states, like Tyrol, Steiermark, Kaernten and Wien had a big influence of Serbien, Czech and Hungarian culture. If I ever have to do this again (and I will), I want no part of the white nationalist movement. Unless they are changing their tactics, they are like a cement block on our feet, and if we don't get rid of it, we will drown with them. Ask yourself the question: Why not strive to become powerful, like the NAACP, the Jewish Congress, by advocating as an ethnic group. The times for a white America are long over. Anyone who feels different is a fool. The constant hatred by the white nationalist movement is just as bad as that from the Jews. The difference, the Jews have the power to use it against us. The historical holocaust revisionists need to finally get together and distance themselves from the white nationalist movement. If we don't, there will never be any credibility. Sure, they probably call us anyway Nazis, but once we are removed from the vile and vulgar environment of the white nationalists, the enemy can't produce the proof. As long as veteran revisionists take up arms for people like Linder, Kevin Strom, Jamie Kelso, Bill White and the Birdman, under the guise of freedom of speech, we are doomed. We have even revisionists who let this people write an introduction in their books. Slogans like this, which you'll find at the Birdman's website: "Fucking is a family value," don't complain if the media treats us like scumbags. Mat Ferrell from Zoomtown keeps producing the daily endeavors of the Matt Hale trial. Everything with the white nationalists is a conspiracy. Matt Hale is a religious fanatic and a criminal. When you go on his website, you will see what I mean. Take the Ernst Zundel case and before I'll get to it, let me declare again my utter support for Ernst Zundel. On one hand, the reason Ernst Zundel is still in jail, because they say that he is a security threat due to his involvement with the white supremacist community. So, we put on the largest conference ever, dedicated to Ernst Zundel, do an Ernst Zundel raffle, sell Ernst Zundel books for his legal defence fund, and his wife distances herself from it, because of personal reasons between her and the sponsor. This conference was to be a meeting of the minds from around the world. Then the conference gets cancelled, Mark Weber picks up the pieces, and turns it over to the white supremacists community, and Ingrid Rimland becomes one of the speakers (via telefone) and endorses this conference. Like Hans says: "The inmates are running the asylum." But almost at the end, let me point out to you that there are upstanding, forthright and decent revisionists amongst us. And those are the ones you should send your money to. Robert Faurisson in France, Hans Schmidt, Germar Rudolf, Udo Walendy, Juergen Graf, for that matter, all of the European Revisionists. >From here on we will - and when I say we, I mean myself and the European American Culture Council - distance ourselves from the white nationalist movement. If they print or post anything of ours, including Community News, they do so without our permission. Whatever they produce, it is a forgery. Whatever they say, it is a lie. And whatever they do is not in the interest of European American people. More than anyone else, the white nationalist movement has added to the demonizing of the German people and German culture. Their vile and vulgar descriptions of ethnic groups in the name of Adolf Hitler had the utmost negative impact on our fight against the Jewish power. Holocaust revisionism is to bring history in accord with the facts, to restore the honor of the German people and fight the incredible power of the Jews today. ******************************************************* Another reader who appreciates that we did not give our mailing list to a third party: [START] By the way, I wish to add my name to those thanking you for refusing to hand over the registration lists. It was the right thing to do. Anon SVP. [END] Here is finally a letter that I demanded from one of the financial contributors and main decision maker, Harvey Taylor: [START] It is time to clear the air regarding the 2004 International Revisionist Conference and the cancellation of same. First, there was no conspiracy, no plan to defraud anyone. Mueller will refund as much of the ticket price as recovered funds permit. No one wanted to make any money off the conference. How could they with a ticket price of $35 for two days of meals alone? Mueller and his brother will still be in the hole financially. The whole idea was to create a good event protected by the Israeli oddball Barry Chamish. Germar Rudolf was scheduled to speak just after Chamish for a reason. Chuck Carlson would have presented the case for something approaching justice in Palestine. The leadership of the Turnverein reacted to a story in the Sacramento Bee like frightened sheep. They did not contact either Mueller or me before canceling via a press release. We are now considering all options and consulting an attorney. Critics of the planned Turnverein Conference have no idea as to the amount of work entailed in planning and preparing for the such an event. Certainly we made mistakes but there was no attempt to deceive anyone. I concurred in the decision to cancel. We wanted to avoid having people travel to Sacramento for nothing. The fallout from all the effort has resulted in accusations and recriminations on all sides. In any case, the goal now should be to capitalize on the "failure" of the first conference and to concentrate on depriving the Zionists of their super swindle. The failures of the last few days are not the fault of either Walter Mueller or his brother. Keep in mind that everyone associated with revisionism is subjected to considerable stress. All communication should keep that in mind. Harvey Taylor {END]       3. Pat Buchanan on The Passion of the Christ A Fredrick Toben pre-read comment on Patrick Buchanan's Passion:   The following item from Patrick Buchanan offers a comprehensive compilation of Jewish hatred in written form  - so-called hate-speech - that offends against all moral conventions befitting civilized discourse. And they are getting away with it! Why? The following Jewish hate-speech thus negates any right they may now have had to charge any non-Jew with perpetrating a hate-crime, i.e. unless these individual authors are all charged with committing a hate-crime. If they are not charged with committing a hate-crime, then we are also free to discuss the nonsense surrounding those stupid allegations made against Germans that they committed the ´Holocaust´ on the Jews during World War Two. And, note well, Horst Mahler should  forthwith be free to pursue his endeavours of re-activating the defunct German Reich. This means that the Berlin public prosecutors should immediately withdraw the case against Horst Mahler that is currently being heard before Judge Faust. Ernst Zündel's release should be immediate because nowhere in his extensive literary output over a four decades-long period of public advocacy has he ever used such foul language against the Jews, or against anyone. The moral compass that Ernst Zundel is will highlight the immorality, nay abject amoral legal system/individuals who have brought him into prison. I need not even mention the Austrians and their treatment of Wolfgang Frohlich whose only crime has been to resist having to believe in the rottenness and immoral abyss that the ´Holocaust´ rubbish has become. If, in the light of what Buchanan has put together below, all this ´Holocaust´ nonsense continues to plague the world, then the consequences will be for individual Revisionists, as predicted by Robert Faurisson, more hardship, but a bright future for Revisionism. The feverish minds that have commented on Mel Gibson´s film reveal their moral and intellectual bankruptcy that can only abuse, abuse, abuse. But Revisionists have suffered such abuse for decades, then when they defend themselves, they are taken to court and found guilty. The legal situation is clear because guilt is a pre-condition of the situation. What gets resolved in court is whether mercy ought to be extended to a Revisionist, and then only if the Revisionist recants and a swift death  is granted. If a Revisionist does not recant, then it is slow torture and death, of course figuratively speaking! There is hope, there is light at the end of the dark tunnel that the ´Holocaust´ sickness has become, but Revisionists need to prime their moral and intellectual integrity and courage in order to cut through this sickness that blinds so many individuals. Copyright © 2004 The American Conservative The Passion and Its Enemies http://www.amconmag.com/2004_04_26/feature.html The campaign against the movie bespeaks deeper animus. By Patrick J. Buchanan At the Latin Mass at old St. Mary's, the church was packed and the line outside the confessional was unusually long. "The Passion," I thought to myself. And so it was. "Worshipers Take 'Passion' Back to Church," was the headline in that Sunday's Washington Times. The sub-head ran: "Mel Gibson's film is inspiring parishioners to join congregations, go 'back to the faith.'" Thirty million Americans have seen "The Passion of the Christ." According to Gallup, two-thirds of the nation intends to see the film in a theater or on DVD. By Good Friday, the crowds should be enormous. For this movie is a religious experience, a masterpiece, a work of art of immense power. The images of Christ and his Mother are burned forever into the imaginations of those who see it. "It is as it was," said the Holy Father in Rome. Though it is a Catholic film that faithfully replicates the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, the Stations of the Cross, the Seven Last Words, with allusions to the Eucharist and the war between Satan and the Mother of God, as Tom Piatak writes in Chronicles, evangelical Christians are as moved as traditional Catholics. It is an ecumenical moment. For once, Christians have come together, not to denounce some blasphemous filth funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, but in celebration and praise of an inspired work of art. And despite the dire warnings of the Anti-Defamation League, not one synagogue has been torched, nor one American Jew assaulted. Yet still the attacks come. Not since D.W. Griffith portrayed the Klan as heroic defenders of white womanhood in "The Birth of a Nation" has a movie been so reviled.   "[A] wasted exercise in sadomasochism," writes Al Neuharth. "A repulsive masochistic fantasy, a sacred snuff film" that uses "classically anti-Semitic images," rants Leon Wieseltier in the New Republic. "A sickening death trip," says David Denby in the New Yorker. "It is sick," writes James Carroll in the Boston Globe, "a blood libel against the Jewish people," echoes Robert Scheer of the Los Angeles Times, "Jew-baiting," says William Safire in the New York Times, "fascistic," agrees Richard Cohen in the Washington Post. Daniel Goldhagen, author of A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, calls "The Passion" "a sadomasochistic, orgiastic display that demonizes Jews as it degrades those who revel in viewing the horror." Gibson, Goldhagen writes, "restores a blood-drenched Christian culture of death." And here is the New York Times' Frank Rich, ten days after the Ash Wednesday opening: With its laborious buildup to its orgasmic spurtings of blood and other bodily fluids, Mr. Gibson's film is constructed like nothing so much as a porn movie, replete with slo-mo climaxes and pounding music for the money shots. Of all the 'Passion' critics, no one has nailed its artistic vision more precisely than Christopher Hitchens, who ... called it a homoerotic 'exercise in lurid masochism' for those who 'like seeing handsome young men stripped and flayed alive over a long period of time.' That "The Passion of the Christ" is loved by Christians and loathed by such as these is a measure of the breadth of our religious divide. But why all this venom against a movie these writers knew by then that millions of Christians had taken to their hearts? To vent, to insult, to provoke? Having failed to have the film censored, banned, or boycotted, some are now crossing a forbidden frontier to commit hate crimes against Christianity. They have begun to attack the Gospels as responsible for the Holocaust. In a Washington Post column titled "Gibson's Blood Libel," Charles Krauthammer links the crucifixion story to "a history of centuries of relentless, and at times savage, persecution of Jews in Christian lands." For 2000 years, he says, the Catholic Church taught that "the Jews were Christ killers." Only at Vatican II did Rome take responsibility for the "baleful history" that came out of the "central story" of the Gospels. The blood libel that this story [of the crucifixion] affixed upon the Jewish people had led to countless Christian massacres of Jews and prepared Europe for the ultimate massacre-6 million Jews systematically murdered in six years-in the heart, alas, of a Christian continent. It is no accident Vatican II occurred just two decades after the Holocaust, indeed in its shadow. But Krauthammer stands truth on its head. Not until the ideas of Rousseau, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud had poisoned the soul of Europe and Christianity had lost the continent did Hitler and Stalin come to power to work their evil will upon Christians and Jews. Hitler learned his hatreds in Viennese gutters, not Catholic schools. Speaking of blood libels, has there been one greater than Krauthammer's accusation that the Gospel of Jesus Christ paved the way to Auschwitz? Krauthammer echoes Richard Cohen who says the movie is "anti-Semitic ... in the way portions of the New Testament are-an assignment of blame that culminated in the Holocaust." Both columns are of a piece with the slanders of Pius XII. Credited by one Jewish historian with saving 800,000 Jews, praised by the Rabbi of Rome, publicly mourned on his death by Golda Meir, Pius XII, too, has fallen victim to the blood libel that he was "Hitler's Pope." Krauthammer and Cohen have picked up the new line advanced by Eli Wiesel, that Nazis and Christians in the Holocaust were one and the same. All the Jews were victims, and all the killers were Christians. They didn't become killers in a vacuum. They emerged from a certain civilization, teaching, and tradition of hate. They're an example of what happens to people who learn to hate, and that's a Christian problem. Krauthammer repeatedly invokes Nazi analogies. Mel Gibson's defense of his film about Christ reminds him of Leni Riefenstal's defense of her films about Hitler. He calls Gibson's interpretation of the Gospels "spectacularly vicious." Why "vicious"? Because Gibson places the High Priest Caiaphas at the scourging, and this cannot be found in the Gospels. But this is to cavil on the ninth part of a hair. According to Mark 15:31-32, "the chief priests" were mocking Christ at the foot of the cross, even as he was dying: In like manner also the chief priests mocking, said with the scribes one to another: He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let Christ the King of Israel come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe. Does Krauthammer contend that Caiaphas was not central to the plot to have Christ killed? If so, his argument is not with Mel but with Matthew 26:2-3: Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas: And they consulted together, that by subtlety they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death. Something not clear here, Charles? And if Caiaphas conspired to kill Jesus, is it artistic injustice to have him observe the scourging he had brought about? What motive did the religious establishment have? Consider these lines from Matthew 23, spoken by Christ right in the face of the Pharisees who had repeatedly sought to entrap him: Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment ... Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel .... Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness .... So you outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity .... Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees ... you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. You serpents, you generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? This probably did not go down all that well at the Temple. And Jesus acted upon his words (Matthew 21:12-13): And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the chairs of them that sold doves. And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves. The Scribes, Pharisees, and chief priest had every reason to hate Jesus and want him dead. Is this so difficult to understand? And did not the mob assembled by the high priests seek the death of Christ? Here is Matthew 27:22-25: Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ? They all said: Let him be crucified. The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; taking water washed his hands before the people saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; look you to it. And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children. Krauthammer is also upset with the appearances of Satan in the film. "Satan appears four times. Twice, this sinister, hooded, androgynous embodiment of evil is found ... where? Moving among the crowd of Jews." But Satan first appears besides Jesus as he undergoes the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, alone. When Satan appears in the crowd, it is to observe Christ suffering, his scourging at the pillar by Romans, or to stare across at his Mother as she watches her Son carrying the cross up Calvary. If Satan is in a crowd, it has to be a Jewish crowd. Jerusalem was a Jewish city. The only Romans are Pilate and his soldiers. As for the repellent term "Christ killers," Krauthammer mouths myths he must have heard down at shul. As a cradle Catholic, I never heard this term until a Jewish friend told me this was what we Catholics were taught in our schools. But this crude blasphemous phrase is not one devout nuns of the 1940s or 1950s or Catholics of the Holy Name Society would ever use. It is a term ascribed to us by those who never knew us. Krauthammer refers to the "baleful history" of the Crucifixion story. What did the Crucifixion give mankind? Salvation, the opening of the gates of heaven, Western civilization, the greatest art, architecture, music, painting, sculpture, cathedrals and churches in history, the idea that all men are children of God and that each has an innate worth and dignity, which puts limits on the power of any state-and an end to slavery. No Cross, no Christianity. No Christianity, no West. No West, no freedom, no human rights, no America. Where does Krauthammer think our civilization and culture came from? In her column "Hating the Jews," Mona Charen accuses Gibson of seeding "his film with images of Jewish guilt and perfidy." But how can one tell the story of how Christ was betrayed by Judas for 30 pieces of silver, how the scribes and Pharisees and high priest plotted against Him, how the crowd cried "Give us Barabas," and "Let Him be crucified!", how Pilate cravenly capitulated-without having a touch of "guilt and perfidy"? What is the attachment of columnists in 2004 to a high priest of the first century A.D.? Why the Caiaphas Defense Fund? Is it not possible to accept that after Jesus berated the scribes and Pharisees in front of the people they might want to kill him? Is it not possible that the high priest would plot the death of so charismatic and threatening a figure? What these writers are saying is that it is fine to say Pilate ordered the crucifixion, and the Romans did it, but anti-Semitic to say Caiaphas was the prime mover in the Passover plot. Yet, for Caiaphas to be innocent, the Gospels must be myths or lies. My film is anti-Semitic only if the Gospels are anti-Semitic, says Gibson. Exactly the point, says Stanley Kauffmann of the New Republic: "'The Passion' is anti-Semitic, because the Gospels themselves are anti-Semitic-in the sense of fixing Jewish responsibility for the Crucifixion." Abe Foxman agrees: "the Gospels, if taken literally, can be very damaging." But what if the Gospels "taken literally" are true? To Boston University's Paula Fredriksen, an apostate Catholic and convert to Judaism, "anti-Semitism has been integral to Christianity." In the Toronto Globe & Mail, Donald Akinson writes, "To film a literal version of the Gospel of John is like filming a faithful version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." With folks who believe this, dialogue seems pointless. For they are saying that Christianity is anti-Semitic at its root and either we rewrite the Gospels to eradicate any "perfidy" by the Jewish authorities who delivered Christ to Pilate, or we are colluding in anti-Semitism and responsible for its consequences. If being faithful to the Christian imperative to tell the Gospel truth about the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ is, to non-Christians and post-Christians, to spread anti-Semitism, our conflict is irreconcilable. Yet a point bears repeating. Though Jewish leaders did conspire to put Jesus to death, this does not mean, has never meant, that all Jews were or are culpable in his death, or even that the Jewish establishment knew Christ was the Son of God. Common sense suggests they did not believe it-as does Christ himself from the Cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And while many whose hatred for "The Passion" knows no bounds are Jewish, other Jewish writers-Michael Medved, Don Feder, Matt Drudge, Paul Gottfried-have urged their co-religionists and ethnic kinsmen to control the hysteria. Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition accuses Foxman and the ADL of "driving a wedge between American Jews and Christians." But Rabbi Lapin seems a voice crying in the wilderness. For Ms. Charen puts "The Passion" in the context of the following events: an assault on a Kiev synagogue by thugs yelling "Kill the Kikes," the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Greece, the French Ambassador in London blurting out at a dinner party that Israel is a "shitty little country." But is it really fair to include Gibson's film in this litany? Is it wise to keep up this vendetta against a movie that Christians have embraced, when millions of these Christians give uncritical loyalty to Israel? Safire rails that "The Passion" is the "bloodiest, most brutal example of sustained sadism ever presented on the screen ... reveling in savagery to provoke outrage and cast blame ..." The villains at whom the audience's outrage is directed are the actors' playing bloodthirsty rabbis and their rabid Jewish followers. This is the essence of the medieval 'passion play' preserved in pre-Hitler Germany at Oberammergau, a source of the hatred of all Jews as 'Christ killers.' But this is nonsense. The only people who come away from this film in "outrage" are those who went into it in outrage. Even Foxman, who slipped into a preview, acknowledges as much: As the lights came up, the silence was etched with stifled sobs and tears. The 3,000 Christian pastors, leaders, students and others who attended the preview of the film's graphic portrayal of the events leading up to the Crucifixion were visibly moved by the images that brought them closer than they may have ever been to bearing witness to the Passion of Jesus. Does this sound like the "kind of sentiment we would expect from Christians ready to act on their latent anti-Semitism?" asks Dr. William Donohue of the Catholic League. That brings us to the heart of the matter. Though we all see the same movie, we hear and see different messages. Where they see Caiaphas, perfidy, and anti-Semitism, we see Christ, his suffering, and what salvation cost. As Bruce Anderson writes in the Spectator, Christians do not focus on the characters that so captivate Safire, Charen, and Krauthammer. [T]he horror does not come from the artist's imagination. It comes from the self-sacrifice of the son of God who, after preaching to and living among the poor and the outcast, endured a felon's humiliating death. Mocked for His pretensions to kingship, He revealed the nature of His Kingdom by embracing His Cross. For centuries, Christians have read the Gospel story of the passion and death of Christ in Holy Week. Yet, never has there been a pogrom in America. America is not the Russia of Alexander III. But if these writers truly believe millions of Christians have sat through two hours of endless "Jew-baiting" and failed to recognize it, what does that tell us about what they think of our intelligence, our sensitivity, our decency? Safire twice refers to Oberammergau and calls it a Jew-baiting passion play "preserved in pre-Hitler Germany, a source of the hatred of all Jews as 'Christ killers.'" The famous Oberammergau passion play dates back to 1633 and the Thirty Years War when villagers in this tiny Alpine town were spared from the Black Plague and vowed to give thanks to their God by producing a play on his passion and death, once every ten years. It is a six-hour thing of beauty known to Catholics worldwide, few of whom have ever seen it. Were that play a cause of the Holocaust, why was there no Holocaust in the centuries when Catholic kings ruled the Holy Roman Empire? Why did it happen only after the Hitler came to power and Europe was convulsed in the worst war in its history, 300 years after the play was first performed? Blaming a six-hour play, put on once every ten years, by 2,000 amateur actors, in a tiny town of 5,000 buried in the Tyrolean Alps, for Hitler's pogrom against the Jews is so preposterous it calls up the old adage: "Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals." To Safire, Catholicism leads straight to the Holocaust. The line from Matthew, "Let his blood be upon us and our children," he writes, has led to "millenniums of persecution, scapegoating and ultimately mass murder that flowed partly from its malign repetition." This was "finally addressed by the Catholic Church after the defeat of Nazism." In 1965's historic Second Vatican Council during the papacy of Pope Paul VI, the church decided that while some Jewish leaders and their followers had pressed for the death of Jesus, "still, what happened in his passion cannot be charged against all Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor the Jews of today." That was a sea change in the doctrinal interpretation of the Gospels, and the beginning of major interfaith progress This statement is historically and patently false. Nostra Aetate, the Vatican II document to which Safire refers, is not any "sea change in the doctrinal interpretation of the Gospels." It is a reaffirmation of traditional Catholic teaching for the benefit of Jewish groups that requested it. Christianity and the Church have always taught it was our sins that put Christ on the Cross. As Legionary Father Thomas Williams, dean of the school of theology at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome, a consultant to Gibson's film, tells the National Catholic Register: [T]he fathers of the Second Vatican Council didn't see themselves as reversing any prior teachings on this question [of Jewish responsibility for Christ's death]. The council categorically reaffirmed perennial Catholic teaching that all of humanity's sins, and the sins of Christians in particular, are responsible for Christ's death, as stated, inter alia, in the catechism of the Council of Trent. Gibson drives the point home with brutal force as he plays the Roman soldier who hammers the first nail into the palm of Christ. His message is reaffirmed in the penultimate scene described in America by Lloyd Baugh, S.J., In a physically static but morally dynamic representation of the Pieta, Mary stares not at the dead Jesus but directly into the camera, and therefore directly at the viewer .... This shot, lasting a long 20 seconds, invites the viewers to enter the narrative and assume their responsibility, as sinners, for the death of this Jesus, who the film repeatedly makes clear has died for our sins. Gibson here is saying, more strongly than any other director has done, that it is not the Jewish people who killed Jesus; every one of us sinful human beings is responsible for his death. This is why, at film's end, men and women sit in stunned silence or sob. Gibson has charged us with moral complicity in the suffering and death of the Son of God we have just witnessed in all its horror. That is why we are moved. But for Mona Charen, it is all just another attempt to blame the Jews: "There is a seemingly unquenchable thirst to vilify Jews, to deny them their humanity, to strip them of their history and to transform them-in propaganda-into oppressors rather than oppressed." Give it a rest, Mona. This is a film in which every heroic figure is a Jew: Jesus, his Mother, Mary Magdalene, the Apostles Peter and John, St. Veronica who wipes his face on the road to Calvary, Simon of Cyrene who, though first bitter at being conscripted to carry Christ's cross, is soon trying to lift the burden from his shoulders. Jewish members of the councils are heard at the court proceedings crying out against a "travesty ... a beastly travesty." At the crucifixion, a member of the Jewish council, most likely Joseph of Arimathea, is seen helping take Christ down from the cross. Along the road to Calvary, the women of Jerusalem weep openly. The entire film underscores the words of Christ (John 4:22) to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, "Salvation is from the Jews." If there is any "unquenchable thirst to vilify," it would appear to be on the part of those who cannot stop vilifying Mel Gibson. What has this man done but defend himself and his film against the most savage charges ever leveled at a work of art? As for Ms. Charen's suggestion that Jews are "oppressed," one must ask: When have Jews ever been oppressed in this country? In World War II, millions perished at the hands of the Nazis. A horrific and historic atrocity about which we are regularly reminded. But in that 20th century tens of millions of Christians-Armenians, Mexicans, Spaniards, Russians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Poles, Chinese, Hungarians, Cubans, Vietnamese, Sudanese, Timorese-were martyred for their faith by Communists, Nazis, and Islamic fanatics. No nation, no race, no people have cornered the market on suffering. Nor on oppression. As there were renegade Catholics in Hitler's Reich, so there were atheistic Jewish Bolsheviks like Lazar Kaganovich, Stalin's man in the Ukraine, who were as guilty of genocide as Heinrich Himmler. Author Gertrude Himmelfarb asks how Christians would react if "a Hollywood so notoriously populated by Jews" made a film about how Jews were falsely accused and put to death during the Spanish Inquisition. But the event in 1481 Ms. Himmelfarb brings up is not remotely comparable to the Crucifixion that is the central event in 2000 years of Christendom. As for her admonition that we stop coarsening the culture by going "over the edge" with films rooted in violence and sadism, is Ms. Himmelfarb asking for a moratorium on movies about the Holocaust? Frank Rich, who has reviled Gibson and his film since he first heard of it, now frets for his safety: "'The Passion' has made me feel less secure as a Jew in America than ever before." Well, Frank, if you were not insulting millions of Christians by telling them a beloved film about their Savior is a homoerotic "jamboree of bloody beefcake" and calling the Pope "a shill," you might not be at risk of having your lights punched out. A decade ago, Irving Kristol warned his kinsmen and co-religionists not to antagonize a huge friendly Christian majority by using the courts to de-Christianize the country. Jews who wish to maintain their separate and unique religious and ethnic character ought not be in the vanguard of those seeking to prevent Christians from maintaining the Christian character of their country, said Kristol. He added pungently: One can easily understand the attractiveness of this vision to Jews. What is less easy to understand is the chutzpah of American Jews in publicly embracing this dual vision. Such arrogance is, I would suggest, a particularly Jewish form of political stupidity. Kristol subtly titled his piece, "On the Political Stupidity of the Jews." Yet still the questions arise. Why do a handful of writers continue to rage that the film is a moral atrocity, a horror, the product of a deranged or anti-Semitic mind? Why do they hate "The Passion of the Christ" so? The answer I believe may be found in words this writer spoke at the Republican convention, 12 years ago: "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself." Those who hate "The Passion" are, almost all, on the other side in that war. They hate the movie and the messenger, and, as they admit, the "central story" of the Gospels, the Crucifixion of Christ. Why? Because if "The Passion" is true to the Gospels and the Gospels are themselves true, then there is a painful truth to be faced. It is found in John 1:11, inside "The Last Gospel" of the Tridentine mass Mel Gibson attends. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." Admittedly, that is a hard message to hear. Safire quotes Christ (Matthew 10:34) as saying: "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." But Christ is using a metaphor here, the meaning of which follows: For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. Again and again, Christ refers to this coming divide between those who will follow him and those who will reject him. "He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather with me scatters" (Luke 11:23). The venom spewed at "The Passion of the Christ," only testifies to the truth of the Savior's warning, "As the world has hated me, so also it will hate you." Braveheart has led and won a great victory in the crusade that is the culture war that will determine the fate of the civilization that came out of what happened on Calvary and on that first Easter morning. April 26, 2004 issue Copyright © 2004 The American Conservative Robert Weinert 1301 Penrod Ct. Lansing, Michigan 48911 517-393-3333 If you do not wish to receive my emails anymore simply send me an email saying UNSUBSCRIBE and you will be immediately removed from my email list.   4.  Barry Chamish comments on the failed conference   http://www.barrychamish.com                               DENIERS CONFERENCE SHUT DOWN                                           by Barry Chamish      I was supposed to be flying in two days to the Sacramento Holocaust Deniers Conference. I was going to deny the deniers and maybe do my little part in stanching the phenomenon. But the conference was shut down.      Before I left, I had planned to write an article with several main points.      The first concerned the Sabbatean agenda of Leo Strauss and the University Of Chicago cabal drawing blood throughout the Middle East. I learned an astounding fact: The American quisling in Iraq, Chalabi, is a 1979 graduate of the Strauss program at the U of Chicago.       The second was a recounting of a long talk I had with an Emmy-winning Toronto documentary director, David Stein. He had made a documentary about Mordechai Vanunu and told me that not a few of his sources were convinced that Vanunu was deliberately used by the Shabak, then Mossad to spread the word about Israel's nuclear capabilities to the world. He was a kind of Yigal Amir dupe who was manipulated every step of the way for grander political concerns.       Third was a suspicion related to me that the assassinations of the Hamas leaders were a dramatic display to Israelis that even with a pullout from Gaza, our security wouldn't be harmed.       The last item takes us back to the strange turnaround in the Knesset in 1993, which led to the razor-thin support for the Oslo "peace" process. Two members of the right wing Tsomet Party, Alex Goldfarb and Gonen Segev bolted their party for Rabin's coalition. Thus, Oslo passed 61-59. There was much speculation about the bribes/blackmail used to arrange the betrayals. To this day Israelis wrongly think Goldfarb was bought off merely with a Volvo. As for Gonen, the issue remained murky. I traced some of the payoffs. He was made Energy Minister and as soon as he retired, one Shaul Eisenberg appointed him head of a shady energy company with Jordanian partners. He was also a notorious adulterer, which may have been used against him. However I thought the bribe beat the blackmail, since his wife divorced him not six months after he joined the government. But maybe his hedonism was the key afterall.         On April 21, Segev was arrested at Ben Gurion airport, attempting to smuggle 15,000 Ecstasy pills into the country. Yes, the man who made Oslo possible is now a major drugs smuggler. From this incident, I outlined the sudden appearance of Ecstasy in Israel right after the "peace" process began. There was no coincidence in timing. Israeli youth were deliberately swamped with Ecstasy to prevent them becoming aware enough to protest the destruction of their country. Ecstasy made them too happy to be mad at their leaders.           But this article will not be written because the Deniers have been denied. Two days before the conference was rescinded, three Jewish Defense League members wrote me. One asked if he could join me to hear my speech. Naturally, I invited him as my guest. Two were angrier, even after I sent them a draft of my speech proving I was not appearing to sell out our people. Here is a sample passage: I have a suggestion. Challenge these bastards to open the doors of the Turn Verein Hall to those protesters outside. If they can convince just one Jew that the Holocaust was a lie, then we will go home and never bother them again. If they cannot prove to us that the Holocaust is a Jewish lie, then they must publicly admit that their efforts are just a smokescreen for their hatred of the Jewish people. - Shelley Rubin Administrative Director Jewish Defense League       I was in the process of doing just that, having the JDLers and the Deniers meet head to head but the JDL pitched in to end the conference. Rubin was not exactly humble in the post-cancellation letter to conference organizer Walter Mueller: Dear Walter, I cannot describe the joy that I felt in my heart when I read today's press release from the Sacramento Turn Verein advising that they had canceled your meeting. Just to let you know, we had been diligently working behind the scenes to facilitate just such an event. Today has been a very good day for the Jewish Community of Sacramento who will not be forced to live with your insults during Yom Ha Shoah, and for the Jewish Defense League who can add another battle star to our banner. Once again, good has triumphed over evil.         Now I have a ticket to Sacramento that will cost me to change, as well as the financial loss of my biggest venue. But the biggest loss of all was the off chance that I could contribute to the diminishing of anti-semitism. It was a tricky act but it was worth trying.          To get an idea of my strategy, please read the following interview conducted by Myles Kantor, which he planned to publish in FrontPageMagazine just before the conference. Barry Chamish is an Israeli author whose books include Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin? and Save Israel. He has written for publications including The Jerusalem Post, National Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. His website is www.BarryChamish.com. You have accepted an invitation to speak at what you have called a Holocaust "deniers convention" on April 24-25 in Sacramento, sponsored by the Australia-based Adelaide Institute--"a notorious organization of Holocaust deniers," in your words. Being a Jew, why were you invited, and why did you accept the invitation? I am a Jew and an Israeli and I will be addressing this convention, though I personally despise all that it stands for. A brief explanation is called for. I may not be a household name in America, but I am in Israel. I wrote a book called Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?, which proved that Rabin was murdered in a coup from within his own political circle. The book topped the Israeli bestseller lists, has been translated into 6 languages and has deeply affected how Israelis regard the assassination. The last Voice Of Israel survey found that 28% of Israelis believe Rabin was murdered in a conspiracy and 20% think it's possible. The numbers among the religious and conservatives are now overwhelming. In the past year, polls by Arutz Sheva and Makor Rishon showed those who believe there was a conspiracy were 79% and 73% respectively. Needless to say, the mainstream media has not exactly rushed to my bandwagon, but I boast a great deal of support for my work in alternative media worldwide. The Adelaide Institute, which is sponsoring the conference, has been on my update list for years, obviously to support their own interests. For the past three years I have been researching the Holocaust from a unique perspective which totally undermines the beliefs of the deniers, yet the Adelaide Institute has consistently published my work on their web site. The institute's head, Frederick Toben, considers my findings challenging and three months ago invited me to speak at Sacramento. I turned him down twice but responded when he insisted that dialogue was the only way to come to truth. If I was persuasive, I could change the thinking of many in the audience. I bought the line and asked my newsletter list, which reaches thousands of people, to decide for me. About a hundred people sent in their opinions, and 88% recommended that I speak at the conference. What is your response to the objection that appearing on the same stage with Holocaust deniers legitimizes them? I will never legitimize denial of the deaths. My research, though, exonerates Germany somewhat by revealing that forces in America, including Jews, funded Hitler and prevented the rescue of Europe's Jews. I blame Chaim Weizmann and his American crony Stephen Wise for the murders by proxy as much as the SS. Sadly, I am not the first to see the collaboration between the Jewish Agency and the Nazis. Writers like Ben Hecht [Perfidy] and Edwin Black [The Transfer Agreement] found the proofs before me. This may appease the deniers who seem to be looking for any way to get Germany off the hook. They are still on the hook with me but have company. I am going to avenge the loss of practically all my family who stayed in Europe too long. What's your take on the claim that the agreement saved approximately 60,000 Jews, promoted Israeli strength, and was therefore justified? Black, for instance, claims the agreement "contributed immeasurably to a strengthened Jewish community in Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel" and that "the Zionists could not have foreseen the death trains, gas chambers, and crematoria But they did understand that the end was now at hand for Jews in Europe. Nazism was unstoppable. The emphasis now became saving Jewish lives and establishing a Jewish State." (http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Black.html) I wouldn't trade 60,000 for 6 million. Why was it 60,000 or 6 million? Defenders of the Transfer Agreement would of course claim that those were 60,000 Jews saved from the 6 million. Give them back and save the 5,999,940 others. In 1933 the [Vladimir] Jabotinsky faction decried the Transfer Agreement and was thrown out of the World Zionist Organization headed by Chaim Weizmann. They took great care never to bring up their alliance with the Nazis. They goofed by trying a journalist named Malchiel Greenwald for slandering a WZO big shot, Rudolph Kastner, who saved 3500 Hungarian Jews and condemned the rest to death. The trial was a huge leak, especially as Ben Hecht covered it resulting in his classic work, Perfidy. Naturally, the government ordered Kastner hushed permanently. Because Kastner was working hand in hand with Eichmann and Himmler, this was about the only time the public got glimpses of the truth. That trial is also purged from the history books. At the conference you'll likely encounter the usual claims of Holocaust deniers, such as: a) The Nazis killed far less than 6 million Jews, b) There was no central plan by Hitler to destroy European Jewry, c) Gas chambers weren't used to murder Jews. How do you plan to handle this? I am going to use the disappearance of my own family as proof of the numbers. I conducted extensive research and discovered that every member of the Chamish family trapped in Europe was murdered. I'm not going to do the Elie Weisel thing, nor argue with historical fact. They won't listen to that or care. I'll try to appeal on a human level.          Well, that is one lecture I won't be giving in Sacramento. Nor will I be trying to sell the great Jewish works on the Holocaust such as Hecht's Perfidy, David Morrison's, Heroes and Anti-Heroes - the American Jewish Establishment And The Holocaust; and Louis Rapoport's, Shake Heaven And Earth. All these books prove there was a Holocaust alright, and the Jewish Establishment made sure it succeeded.           There is one other book on the subject, perhaps the best of all and it is about to be republished. I speak of M.J. Nurenberger's barely known book, The Scared And The Doomed. His daughter Atara Beck is organizing one of my Toronto speeches.            Originally, I had planned to give my lecture, Shabtai Tzvi, Labour Zionism And The Holocaust, to an audience organized by Sumari Seminars on May 5. Their people are far more, shall we say, conspiratorial, and would flow with my research more easily. For Atara's far more conventional crowd, I had planned to give my lecture Save Israel - The Dirty Secrets Of Oslo. It's still disturbing but an easier sell.              After Sacramento was cancelled I consulted with the Toronto journalist Marshall Shapiro, who, bless him, flew to Israel to enjoy my son's bar mitzvah. (It was a wonderful celebration). He told me, "Give your Holocaust lecture to Toronto's Jews. Atara knows the truth, she'll support you. It's time we Jews had an honest discussion of the Holocaust."               I contacted Atara and she wrote back saying she was going to try and move the venue from the bookstore she manages to the larger Toronto Zionist Center. The message may yet be heard.               The organizers of the Sacramento conference, Frederick Toben and Walter Mueller were honest to me. They invited me because they believe in dialog. They invited a proud Jew and Israeli to address their people knowing I would be giving a message of opposition.                And that makes them better than the people who shut them down.                I had been in contact with several of the speakers and participants, including a professor conducting a dialog with a counterpart at the Hebrew University Of Jerusalem. All were respectful of me and assured me I would be debated with dignity.                 I was under the illusion that Free Speech was a natural gift of a true democracy. Just a few days before, I had this illusion shattered when my friend Nelson Thall from Toronto was arrested for the crime of running his cloakanddagger website. I was supposed to be interviewed on his radio show while I was in Toronto, but that was shut down as well.                  However, that's Canada. America has a First Amendment which protects free expression, no? It sure doesn't apply to anyone questioning the Holocaust. Why shouldn't a gathering of delusionists be legal? None of the participants were violent criminals. Would they have been banned if they had gathered to revise the Turkish slaughter of Armenians, or Hutus of Tutsis?                   Now here's how censorship works: You hire one Abe Foxman of the ADL to make a ruckus about a film and turn it into the biggest box office smash of all time. If Foxman wasn't on the Gibson payroll, then he missed his natural calling. People know if a work is banned, then it must be threatening to the powers that be.                    And I should know. When Labor MK and Peres protege Ophir Pines stood on the podium of the Knesset and ordered my book, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, banned from sale in the nation's bookstores, he offered me a bestseller on a platter. He did more to convince Israelis of the Rabin murder conspiracy than all the newspaper ads my publisher paid for combined.                     I am well aware that the Sacramento conference would have been a magnet for Jew haters. But not only. There were people who could have been moved to revise their conclusions. They are now lost for good. And worse, much worse, by banning the event, who knows how many people will decide that there must be something enormous about the Holocaust being covered up?                       Like The Passion, this censorship will ultimately backfire on the Jews. end PLEASE come to my remaining lectures and publicize them. It'll help me recover from the setback if you make a little effort. In Berkeley I will be doing my Who Murdered Rabin lecture, as well as juicy facts from Save Israel! APRIL 26 - BERKELEY - UC Berkeley campus. Room 2060, Valley Life Sciences Building, Monday, April 26th, 7:30-9:30pm. 510 526 7106 ext 12. e-mail: jesse@livingtreecommunity.com Reno is Rabin. APRIL 28 - RENO - Temple Emmanuel April 28, evening. please contact: Ignatzschnauzer@aol.com pattylee3@juno.com Denver is Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism and The Holocaust Temple address: 1031 Manzanita Lane Reno, NV 89509 tel. (775) 825-5600 fax (775) 825-5661 e-mail countryrebbe@yahoo.com MAY 1 - DENVER - Saturday - May 1st at 10:30am Beth Messiah 8333 Acoma Way North Denver, Colorado (one block west of I-25 on 84th Ave and one block south in the El Bethel Community Center) Contact Don Wiedeman or Beth Messiah at 1-800-205-6245 or Don@AmericaNewsNet.Com MAY 5 and 6 - TORONTO - Organizer can be reached at (416)256-2858, ext. 22. The address is Israel's, 870 Eglinton West, on May 6 at 8 p.m. Atara   familybeck@idirect.com And May 5, lecture. Contact: sumari@trigger.net celebrate@orbonline.net I had originally planned to give my Save Israel lecture on May 6 and Shabtai Tzvi on May 5. I don't know if Atara has succeeded in getting the bigger venue yet for a Shabtai Tzvi talk. What the heck, come on both nights. And anyone in Florida, I'm available for a lecture to your people. MAY 9 -17 I will be speaking once in Miami. Contact Peter at: mlinefilms@yahoo.com Of interest. I copied my English language video Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin to sell at my lecture venues. It's 2 1/2 hours long and really impressive. I now have NTSC copies if anyone would like to order before I travel. When I get back, I'll be putting together a new book. In the meantime, as usual, you can order my English books, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, Israel Betrayed, The Last Days Of Israel and Save Israel! by writing me at chamish@netvision.net.il