Peloni: It is an important reflection about a person’s character as to the ideologies to which they subscribe and the tokens which they collect over the years. While I recall not long ago the sweeping condemnation of Sen. Webb having revealed his owning a Confederate flag in his personal dwelling, it seems that the same Democratic party which found Webb’s appreciation of the Rebel flag too radical deems a similar veneration being paid to the very Nazi units which perpetrated the Holocaust by Platner is completely acceptable. Of course, I have never been to Maine, but I find it difficult to believe that anyone outside of the neo Nazi fringe, which of course includes their Jihadi emulators which Platner also espouses, would find it possible to support someone bearing a Totenkopf tattoo. Certainly, Schumer finds this acceptable, but as Trump has explained, Schumer has sold his court Jew status to the Pals to such a degree that he deserves the moniker that Trump developed for him, Schumer the Palestinian. People bearing a moral chord, or any sense of right and wrong should be capable of finding sharp distaste in what Platner finds admirable in the celebration of Nazi symbols and modern savages…or has America changed so much as to mistake evil for good, and good for evil? I don’t believe that this is possibly true, but again, I have never been to Maine, so we will see.
by Rafael Medoff
Just days after embracing a candidate who has a Nazi symbol painted on his chest, Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) condemned the painting of Nazi symbols on several synagogues and Jewish homes in Queens, NY.
Anybody notice the contradiction?
Graham Platner, the presumptive nominee for a US Senate seat from Maine, has the Nazis’ “Totenkopf” (death’s head) symbol tattooed on his chest. Platner’s “defense” is that he was 23 years old at the time he chose that tattoo.
But when he was 30 years old, Platner wrote “I dig it” and “well executed” alongside a Hamas video of its terrorists murdering five Israelis. Platner added, though, that he would have preferred if the terrorists had shot one of their victims, instead of beating him to death.
While decorating himself with the symbol of a genocidal regime and praising genocidal terrorists, Platner has the audacity to accuse Israel of committing genocide. He is demanding that the US stop providing Israel with the weapons it needs to defend itself against the mass-murderers and gang-rapists of Hamas.
Incidentally, Platner has not yet commented on the discovery, in Hamas hideouts in Gaza, of Arabic-language copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, with handwritten notations in the margins.
For some reason, neither Platner’s Nazi tattoo nor his affection for Nazi-style Hamas terrorism stopped Senator Schumer from calling Platner on April 30 to congratulate him on his successful campaign for the Senate nomination. Schumer pledged to work for Platner’s victory in November.
Four days later, somebody else who likes Nazi symbols decided to paint them on a number of synagogues and Jewish homes in Queens, New York.
“There is absolutely no place in our city for this type of vile antisemitism, or hate of any kind,” Senator Schumer declared in response. “I am proud to stand with the congregants of the vandalized synagogues…”
And yet Schumer also says he is proud to stand with a candidate who not only painted a vile Nazi symbol on his own body, but who embraces antisemitic terrorists who have engaged in the mass murder of Jews. Remarkable!
Dr. Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of more than 20 books about Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust. Follow him on Facebook to read his daily commentaries on the news.
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