Holocaust Indoctrination Via Israel Lobby Smith

Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, by Grant F. Smith. 2016

Outstanding, Well-Supported Research on the Reason Behind the Preeminence of the Holocaust

On the back cover, author Grant F. Smith recounts the depth of his research. It also included some lawsuits to pry-loose the unwelcome information. This book centers on American Jews and the induced U. S. government support for the State of Israel. In my review, however, instead of repeating other reviewers, I focus on the induced pre-eminence of the Holocaust in the USA. It extends much beyond just the maintenance of popular support for Israel.

HOLOCAUST/ISRAEL AS A SUBSTITUTE RELIGION FOR JEWS

Total U. S. foreign aid to Israel—not counting covert aid—is now at a quarter trillion dollars total. (p. 4). U. S. disclosed annual aid to Israel rose exponentially in the early 1970s, and, adjusted for inflation, has since amounted to 3-5 billion dollars annually. (p. 4).

Tens of specific American Jewish organizations, that have been promoting the State of Israel, have been identified and tabulated by the author. See his Figure 4 (p. 20).

Author Smith echoes many earlier scholars as he writes, “[Jewish] Federations in the period 1967-1990, bursting with pride over Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War victories, began promoting Holocaust awareness as the second pillar (alongside Israel) of communal identity.” (p. 105). Clearly, those who say that American Jews “have nothing to do with” Israeli Jews and their crimes against the Palestinians, are being quite disingenuous.

JEWS DO NOT CONTROL THE PRESS: JEWS HAVE CONSIDERABLE INFLUENCE OVER THE PRESS

By way of contextualization, Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp, around 1985, was misquoted [deliberately?] as repeating the old anti-Semitic trope about Jews controlling the press. This same innuendo was resurrected at the time of Glemp’s death in 2013. What Cardinal Jozef Glemp had ACTUALLY said was quite different: Jews have, in his words, sympathetic access to the media, and they have been using this sympathetic access in order to advance their interests at the expense of Poland.

Interestingly, author Grant F. Smith, though focusing on Israel, assesses Jewish media influence in a manner very similar to that of the late Cardinal Jozef Glemp. He comments, “Many JCRC [Jewish Community Research Council] leaders automatically view all critical news coverage of Israel as ‘distorted’ and work hard to suppress criticism and insert pro-Israel spin. Because they are vigilant and local, JCRC op-eds calling for support of Israel are commonplace while their constant pressure likely increases the perceived ‘cost’ for any news outlet considering publishing serious journalism concerning Israel.” (pp. 104-105).

HOLOCAUST SUPREMACY EXTENDS TO THE VERY WORD HOLOCAUST ITSELF (A PROPRIETARY, PRIVELEGED TERM)

George Orwell’s iconic 1984 taught us that the control of the language is the key to the control of what people think. That is why there was Newspeak. Now we have Holocaustspeak, which includes the mystification and monopolization of the very term Holocaust, along with the implicit marginalization of all the other genocides, which of course never get such a privilege.

Along this line, Grant F. Smith writes, “JCRCs [Jewish Community Relations Councils] promote public funding for Holocaust and Jewish studies centers at state universities. They work jointly with the ADL [Anti-Defamation League] to protect the word Holocaust as exclusively referencing events surrounding WWII and not allowing the Holocaust to be used in analogies.” (p.104).

[No wonder that some Poles have facetiously referred to the WWII genocide of 3-4 million ethnic Poles, at the hands of the Nazi Germans, as the Polonocaust.]

THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OTHER GENOCIDES

Smith comments, “Holocaust memorialization and awareness programs in this period [1980s-1990s] became a major means for IAOs [Israel Advocacy Organizations] to combat growing public discomfort and more informed questions about Israel’s policies and actions.” (p. 20; See also p. 196, on Jews using the memory of the Holocaust as a tool for reclaiming moral high ground in the face of adverse information about the Palestinians).

With especial reference to Native Americans and African-Americans, Smith sagely cuts to the quick, as he remarks, “The prevalence of Holocaust memorial resources in the United States as a politically useful venture is made suspiciously prominent in the absence of memorials and mass media about more closely related and relevant events that occurred in the Americas…No similar effort to memorialize or educate about these tragedies have anywhere near the funding trajectory of Holocaust memorialization.” (p. 197).

Much, much more can be said about the magnitude of the Holocaust supremacy and how it permeates American society. See the first-posted comment under this review.

HOLOCAUST INDOCTRINATION IN AMERICA’S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Author Grant F. Smith leaves nothing to the imagination as he writes, “By 2015, six states (California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey and New York) mandated that the Holocaust be taught in the educational curriculum. Eleven states (Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia) recommend teaching the Holocaust in their educational curricula. Every year, millions of dollars in federal and state appropriations are sought to fund the expansion of Holocaust curriculum in American schools.” (p. 199).

Needless to say, no other genocide gets anywhere near this kind of exposure to young, impressionable minds.

HOLOCAUST SUPREMACISM IN ITS MOST OVERT FORM. WHY VICTIMHOOD COMPETITION (VICTIM OLYMPICS)

The perceptiveness of author Grant F. Smith culminates in his following statements, “Because there are so many tragedies in competition for ‘most brutal of all’ status, the Holocaust is also framed and defended by IAOs and memorialization advocates as ‘unparalleled’ and therefore ‘unique’ and ‘beyond comprehension.’” (p. 197).