By William Arenstein, , Ramat Gan, Israel
I was dismally shocked and horrified to see JTNews run an Op-Ed by Edwin Black a few weeks back that used the title “Holocaust Industry,” (“Confronting the Holocaust “˜industry,'” Oct. 2) the phrase invented by the country’s worst Jewish anti-Semite, Norman Finkelstein, to justify the claim by neo-Nazis that Israel uses the Holocaust to justify its “crimes.”
Was the JTNews trying to grant credibility to Finkelstein, himself generally seen as a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier? And then soon following that, JTNews saw fit to run a column by Seattle’s leading apologist for Finkelstein, the anti-Semitic Jewish blogger and pro-terror, Israel-hating smear master Richard Silverstein. Silverstein has yet to hear of an Islamic terrorist he does not wish to cheer on as a “moderate,” nor an Israeli he does not think needs to be bombed in order to promote peace.
He favors Israel’s annihilation as part of the so-called “one state solution,” in which Israel is replaced by a Muslim Arab state with a Jewish minority.