By Peloni
From now on comments on every post must relate to the content of the post.
Comments that don’t relate to the post must go here.
Any person who contravenes this demand will be put on moderation. Also their offending comment will be trashed.
The reason for this demand is so that people who want to read comments which pertain to the post, don’t have to wade through the chatter.
Everyone will be happier.
@Edgar I’m not getting the connection but Hogan’s Heros was based on a true story.
https://www.ifcj.org/news/stand-for-israel-blog/the-count-of-auschwitz
I read the book and saw the movie based on it mentioned in the above article. Both end before he is sent to Auschwitz from which he enabled the escape of 400 Jews and sent reports to the British. He carried out these espionage and sabotage activities in every prisoner of war camp in which the Germans imprisoned him right under their noses and from which he repeatedly escaped. That’s why it’s all so light-hearted. Hogan’s Heros is really close to the movie, including some of the characters like the buffoonish Sergeant Schulz. Both movie and book have the same title, “The Password Is Courage.” The movie came out in 1963 and Hogan’s Heros ran from 1965-1971 and then in daily re-runs throughout the ’70s. I watched it when I was growing up. The producers of the 1950’s movie, “Stalag 17” sued the producers of Hogan’s Heros for plagiarism and lost. It was clearly based on “The Password is Courage” (1963). Not an American film, as the article states. It was a British film starring Dirk Bogarde. Amazon has the book in print or as ebook and Amazon Prime Video has the movie for rent or purchase as instant streaming. Both book and movie are inexpensive. I first read about him being honored in a Times of Israel article some years ago.
What bothers me about Kingsley Wilson is that she may be the face of the whole generation of young people, and neither the Pentagon nor the White House show any reaction to her ongoing antisemitic blurbs, and we know that silence is consent.
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/03/pentagon-deputy-press-secretary-kingsley-wilson-is-a-prolific-purveyor-of-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-online/
@Sebastien Zorn
Worth reading ’til the end – some of that stuff even the Germans didn’t do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank
Turns out there were a few more Jews killed by a mob (see the references under the article).
SEB-
I vaguely recall some years ago something like this reading about a TV award.. Thought it was a spoof; something like Hogan’s Heroes. .
“…Kingsley Wilson, who was appointed in January as deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, sparked controversy last year after tweeting a neo-Nazi talking point regarding Leo Frank, the Jewish lynching victim…
‘…Wilson, 26, is a well-connected political brat. Her father, Steve Cortes, a right-wing commentator, is a longtime advisor to Donald Trump, spearheading the move to bring Latinos into the Republican party. Wilson worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign and led digital media and communications for the pro-Trump thinktank, Center for Renewing America, the brainchild of Russell Vought, who participated in creating the blueprint for Trump’s second term, Project 2025…
‘…Wilson has tweeted the phrase “Ausländer Raus” at least four times, including the slogan “Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus.” This phrase, which translates to “Germany for Germans, foreigners out,” is widely recognized as a slogan with Nazi roots in Germany.”
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/antisemitism-news/pentagon-spokeswoman-repeated-nazi-version-of-leo-franks-lynching/2025/03/06/
SEB-
I recall the name but the rest of it slipped by.
I know Edward G Robinson came from Yiddish Theatre, and as I was growing up; they were still talking about Jacob Adler who died before In was born.
Moishe Oisher was another I recall. I was proud of Yiddish Theatre..
Sorry.
@Edgar I spoke of the murder of the giant of Yiddish theater Solomon Mikhoels and the rest of the Jewish anti-Fascist Committee some time ago and more than once.
https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-844804?dicbo=v2-O6vcSh0
@peloni
You are welcome.
I am always glad to share the info if it looks interesting.
@Reader
I had assumed you were unaware that we posted it. Also I appreciate the efforts of you and others in sharing relevant and useful articles and videos. So, thank you.
@peloni
Thanks but I had no idea that it was on Israpundit (I rarely go to its home page), I just found it a couple of hours ago on Francisco Gil-White’s website and posted it.
@Reader
We posted that debate last week at the following link if you care to make a comment:
https://www.israpundit.org/francisco-gil-white-and-edwin-black-discuss-trump-and-rising-antisemitism/
https://franciscogilwhite.substack.com/p/trump-and-rising-antisemitism
@Sebastien Zorn – I hope this comment will not disappear “randomly”
In the Russian Empire your religion (not the one of your parents) was stated in your passport, not your ethnicity, passports had no photos, and you certainly didn’t have to carry your passport with you at all times.
It was a very complicated system the purpose of which was to know who lives where and to make sure that they live where they were allowed or supposed to.
In the $U, after 1932 they started including ethnicity in passports and you didn’t have to carry your passport with you at all times.
The ethnicity of parents was stated in the $U only on birth certificates.
The last lynching in the US occurred in 1956, and discrimination in higher education against Jews persisted into the early 1970s.
A comparison of German and American antisemitism in the late 19th century:
https://mws.hypotheses.org/37236
And why don’t you mention how the US made sure in the Evian conference (July of 1938) that no country (including the US) would accept the European Jewish refugees and what has been going on for years on American college campuses?
If the targets of the abuse were Muslims, the Justice Department would have come down on the perps like a ton of bricks years ago, including on their perfectly legal student organizations – they would be sued out of existence.
I could also mention the warmth and respect given to Germany in the US, and even to Hitler who made Germany great again in the 1930s.
Use of a good word…is neither here or there. There’s many reasons for my concentration on 1017 to 1923. One big one is Jews were heavily involved, deaths of Jews very great, up to 300,000 and as such the forerunner to the Holocaust. Then the Checa I answer you the Bolsheviks faced existential terror and they had to meet terror with terror. I can raise the shooting of Lenin but I am tired now talking with you. They won. Trotsky wiped out the Pogromists.
Now Quigley is plagiarizing my language. I called him an obfuscator first. He probably had to look it up. 😀
Reader your following comment is like a signpost of truth in such bewildering obfuscation by Mr Zorn
“Reader
March 5, 2025 at 6:12 am
@Sebastien Zorn
Felix is Trotsky’s fan, but Stalin hated Trotsky and ordered his assassination, and Trotsky despised Stalin and fought against his policies, so your bringing Stalin into the argument seems kind of out of place. “
His name is Hashem? 😀
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/hezbollah/israel-air-force-eliminates-hezbollah-naval-commander/2025/03/04/
fquigley That and two cents will get you a cup of coffee. So they weren’t racial antisemites,but the system they set up persecuted Jews for not letting themselves be “transformed” and later reverted to the same old thing, you lying Commie obfuscator. As in the Russian empire, if your parents were Jewish, it was printed in you passport, which you always had to carry. I matters not at all, that everybody had to have their “nationality” printed in your passport. The idea that your nationality is your citizenship is an American idea that spread around the civilized world. God Bless America.
Trotsky and Lenin were anti-Zionist, Israpundit is Zionist, enough with the Commie attempts at cooptation. Everybody else here is also set in our ways.
Sebastien Zorn
My comment was dealing exclusively with the attitude of Trotsky and Lenin to the great issue for Jews, in fact the greatest issue, which was the Pogroms of 1919 to 1921
Why do you always, but always, distort what I wrote
“The presence of Jews among Communist cadre was used as a pretext for slaughtering my people then and during the Shoah. And the Cheka committed violence against traditional, Zionist, Bundist and other Jews it considered class enemies, as individuals, and collectively. Jewish Communists weren’t liquidated by the Soviet repressive apparatus until later under Stalin who ruled for most of the history you venerate And not just starting in the late ’40s. . See:
“Stalin Against the Jews” by Arkady Vaksberg.
“The first full-scale account of Joseph Stalin’s personal vendetta against Soviet Jews. Drawing on newly opened archives and on his own experiences in the USSR.”
End extensive quote by Zorn
He lied about my previous comment here
@Edgar And long before that I wrote at length about the murder of Solomon Mikhoels, the star of Yiddish theater, the and the murder of th Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.and the Yiddish poets and writers like Itzik Pfeffer, as well as Jewish Communists. The Doctots plot and the murder of Mikhoels were about the same time. They put so many Jewish doctors in prison, they had to release Stalin’s doctor from prison to treat him when he collapsed, that’s how many Jews were doctors. The Jews brought Russia out of the middle ages, and Lenin once quipped that any committe without any Jews wasn’t worth a damn. Everybody bites the hand that feeds them.
@Reader And I didn’t even get into the draconic period of War Communism, he presided over, with the militarization of labor and confiscation of grain, while Communist leaders were partying with caviar in the Kremlin, except for Lenin. Don’t know about Trotsky. And his ruthless crushing of the Libertarian Socialist Republic of the Ukraine, ledby Nestor Makhno, who also suppressed antisemitism.
@Reader The Russia Felix has been defending after the early ’20s was all Stalin. And his Soviet successors continued Stalin’s antisemitic legacy.
@Sebastien Zorn
Felix is Trotsky’s fan, but Stalin hated Trotsky and ordered his assassination, and Trotsky despised Stalin and fought against his policies, so your bringing Stalin into the argument seems kind of out of place.
@Edgar Remember, “never trust anybody over 30” in the ’60s? I didn’t come up with this joke, actually. Last time I heard it, in the ’80s or ’90s, it was never trust anybody under 30. I just updated it assuming you and everybody here would get the reference. Was I wrong? 😀 Now, which post have I supposedly plagiarized, now?
SEB-
Are you commenting on my remark or telling me that I can trust you??
I trust you anyway, as you know, even though you are plagiarizing my earlier post……… Bud Nat mid mine vife nor mein moneee……
@Reader
I rescued your comment to Sebastien
@Edgar
😀
SEB-
The murder of the Jewish doctors is a poignant reminder of this obscenity, which I commented on to Felix the other day in almost the same words, except that I didn’t say “my people”.
READER-
Possibly, or maybe they have not yet reached the age where what’s going on around them in the international field has penetrated their enjoying more mundane activities. They Will….in time, I’m sure.
This is the most nonsensical statement of all time. Shame on the US State Dept:
Trump slapped 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and 20% on China.
China responded with 20% tariff.
Canada responded with 25% tariffs on the US.
I’d like to mention that Canadian English is the best.
Mexico will respond with countermeasures on Sunday.
@peloni
[Response recovered] Thank you, I appreciate it.
@Reader
Your response to Sebastien has been recovered.
@Edgar G.
I do, too.
But there might be another reason for their absence – the younger people who have to be at work during the day and are still raising families are simply too distracted by their daily life to even think about posting on a site like Israpundit.
READER-
I believe ,TED much older and one of Israel’s major thinkers.-
I think that unfortunately most of our more prominent posters are in their 60s-70s at least. Jews nowadays don’t seem to get sense until that age .
Anyway i feel we have NO young members.. I wish we had, bringing
different aspects tp our postscand leanings.
@Sebastien Zorn
The presence of Jews in just about any group was used as a pretext for the same purpose.
The W. Civ. certainly got back at the Jews in WW2
@felix
The presence of Jews among Communist cadre was used as a pretext for slaughtering my people then and during the Shoah. And the Cheka committed violence against traditional, Zionist, Bundist and other Jews it considered class enemies, as individuals, and collectively. Jewish Communists weren’t liquidated by the Soviet repressive apparatus until later under Stalin who ruled for most of the history you venerate And not just starting in the late ’40s. . See:
“Stalin Against the Jews” by Arkady Vaksberg.
“The first full-scale account of Joseph Stalin’s personal vendetta against Soviet Jews. Drawing on newly opened archives and on his own experiences in the USSR.”
Amazon
I was surprised at how Sebastien Zorn attacked Trotsky by calling him “a murdering bastard” and also very opposed
Now I have learnt he got this idea from the formation of the Cheka in December 1917. This was like a secret service. Every state has them.
I think they had to have it. Inside a few months the Social Revolutionaries turned to assassination of Lenin.
It was Lenin who set up the Cheka. His edict but Trotsky especially would be in support
Trotsky was building the Red Army as part of repulsing imperialist armies.
Many Jews took part in the struggles and also many joined Trotsky especially in Ukraine. Trotsky emerged as the greatest historical fighter against Antisemitism.
I have distinguished myself by emphasising exactly the importance to understanding the role of Trotsky in opposition to the huge loss of Jewish life in the 1918 to 1921 pogroms of Jews in Ukraine and the old Pale areas
Why is he being attacked and why am I for putting forward the truth?
Those truths are written forever.
Who the hell does Ukraine think they are?
JPOST
@Edgar G.
No idea. Well, I am sure he is not a youngster, either, probably at least in his 70s.
REASER_
OK Good reason. .Maybe I am??? What about Ted??
@Reader
So what? And rights of any kind should be mutual and transactional or they don’t exist.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/terrorism-news/ny-state-bill-protest-with-terror-groups-flag-go-to-jail-for-4-years/2025/03/03/
I voted for Lasher in the last Dem primary. His opponent was pro-BDS.
@Edgar G.
I don’t think that but I get this impression that you are, probably, the oldest one here because of the way you describe your life.
@Sebastien Zorn
I am not calling anyone senile but the fact is that old(er) people are stuck in their ways.
Do you realize what you are saying?
It looks like you are using the excuse of the rules against ad hominem attacks to “join the fray” and keep attacking someone.
It is the editors’ job to deal with these issues, and, yes, it would help for the comments not to be overly emotional.
If you (or someone else) are full of frustration, you can pound your pillow, who knows, it might help.
Sure, and that’s why certain normally acceptable terminology is taboo and makes comments disappear, and there are comments which only the commenter can see, etc.
aREADER-
I think Felix is between 65-70 no more, although I could br wrong…as you could be also.
Why do you think I’m Methuselah’s older brother????
@Reader Are you saying he is senile? Hardly/ There is a type of Trot that specializes in this. This is why they got kicked out of every coalition back in the day. Age is is not a valid defence, in any case. I’m a little sick of the incapacity defence being overused, in general. to evade personal responsibility. Gloves off. If you don’t like seeing him mocked, criticized censored, you can ignore it. Or join the fray, as you like. But, Israpundit had a rule, one of the few, about Ad hominem attacks, and I’d really like tge editor(s) to enforce it by removing such comments. Israpundit is one of the very few sites that does not over-moderate and remove posts. Let’s not abuse it.
Or to quote Marx, in one of the introductions to Volume 1 of “Capital, speaking of adversaries whining about his characteristicslly withering criticism, and at times, mockery e.g., his parody of the title of Proudhon’s “Philosophy of Poverty,” “The Poverty of Philosophy” 😀
“As the saying goes, If you can’t take the heat, stay out of
the kitchen.”
At least Marx was witty.
And for a Bolshevik, even a pretend one, to complain about censorship and harshness to the vulnerable, is frankly risible.
@Sebastien Zorn
About Felix:
1) I am sure that he is way older than anyone here except, possibly, for Edgar, and he has very strong convictions about certain things;
2) He’s been here from the beginning, again, longer than most of us.
The conclusion – just ignore his writings if you don’t like them, you are not required to read every comment on this site.
@Sebastien Zorn
I was asking her to answer Yes or No to my question on whether she saw that comment of mine from March 2, 8:44am and I gave a quote from it so she could tell which comment I was asking about.
I asked her that because she seemed to completely ignore it.
I was asking you whether the March 2, 8:44am was the one that was missing.
Now that I am looking at it again, I think the way I worded my question to each of you was confusing.