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@Sebastien Zorn
https://www.wzo.org.il/en/
Seems to be the right website.
Peloni and others who have denied global warming is happening to earth. Can you explain why glaciers in every part of earth are rapidly melting?
HUARAZ, Peru – In the high Andes of northern Peru, the morning sun rises over glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca mountains that loom above the city of Huaraz, an awe-inspiring sight tainted by fears of a growing threat of meltwater floods.
The glaciers are at the center of a landmark global case that will test the legal culpability of corporations over their greenhouse gas emissions and the role these play in climate change that is leading to more extreme weather around the world.
Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Huaraz farmer and mountain guide, is suing German energy firm RWE, demanding that it help pay for defenses and flood mitigation for the city, tied to the company’s share of global manmade greenhouse gas emissions that he alleges have led to faster-melting glaciers.
Reuters
I have trouble copy paste but there are many press reports on google
Is anybody else having trouble registering to vote in the WZO elections? The registration page just refreshes to a blank page over and over and never goes anywhere and when I email help, it comes back as undeliverable. Is there really still a WZO? Is this just a phishing scam?
Reader
Very good original post well backed by original history research
Only Trotskyism can meet challenge
Close door on Ritter et Al such as Sachs and fake Trotskyism also
BECAUSE
Defend against Antisemitism in Israel
Is same as
Defend against Russia hatred in Europe
Only new political awakening youth can make such a massive turn
The philosophers have only interpreted the world
The task is to remake it
@fquigley
Well, it’s suddenly coming out that many Trump’s appointees are openly antisemitic.
But, of course, he had absolutely nothing to do with it – it is some kind of a Deep State which is doing it (sarcasm).
@peloni
Historically Ukraine has shown that it is unable to govern itself independently.
The only time when it actually became a country and had a reasonably functioning government and major industrial and agricultural significance was when it was a republic in the $U which added some lands to it and actually ran a program of “ukrainization” in the beginning.
Ukraine has 2 halves – Eastern and Western.
These are almost like 2 different countries.
The Western part has been taken over at different times and places by Poland, Austria-Hungary, Romania, the $U, etc., it is very rural, the Ukrainian population speaks different Ukrainian dialects, has a specific culture, and tends to be nationalistic but historically it contained many different ethnic populations (there are still rural areas there where people speak only Hungarian, for example) speaking their own languages, having their own cultures and media, such as Poles, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Romanians, Jews, etc.
It is important to mention that there are really no such creatures as ethnic Ukrainians, ethnic Russians, or ethnic Belorussians – the differences are basically linguistic (almost dialectal) and cultural, and some German dialects differ from each other probably more than Russian differs from Ukrainian.
The Western part has been used for centuries as a battering ram against Russia, it acquired a lot of Polish influence, and in Poland hatred of Russia is akin to psychosis.
The recent problem started not because Ukraine was taken over by Monists but because it was taken over by the Western Ukraine which imposed its most radical and rural worldview on the whole country with the help of the West, even then, there is a group there (Ruthenians) who actually welcomed the Russians when they started the SMO.
What I suggested as solutions has happened more than once, and it may (I hope it will) happen again because otherwise Ukraine will simply perish and Russia will be in great danger to which it will respond violently.
The so-called Monists can hold any power they want but there are still plenty of people in Ukraine who remember the better times and are sick and tired of the war and of losing their sons, brothers, and fathers in the meat grinder, and of their country being destroyed for idiotic reasons.
In addition, those countries that have accepted the Ukrainian refugees are getting really tired of them and want them out, so it is possible that the refugees might want and need to come back to Ukraine, and they left it in the first place because they hated the regime there and the war, so they will be happy to see that regime collapse and peace reign again.
In addition, if Russia takes over, the radicals will be kicked out of power very soon and very thoroughly.
Russia doesn’t really want to take over Ukraine but it may be left with no choice but this one.
Peloni
You present the situation in Ukraine as if we were rabbit caught in the headlights. But that is not the case in Russia, and everywhere outside of Ukraine, apart from Ukraine where an opposition will have to be in secret. But finding ways to communicate to the outside. I have ideas as to what you can and must do as editor of Israpundit which involve much more rigor in communication so that questions are never left hanging in the air.
Latest is this
“Russia rejects a temporary ceasefire
Russian Presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov said the 30-day truce would provide “a temporary respite” for the Ukrainian army.”
So Putin answer so END OF.
That leaves us with Reader comment
” think the only way to stop this war is either for Russia to take over the whole of Ukraine ASAP”…
Support for the Neonazis in Ukraine and support for the Antisemitism in Palestinism is verysubstantial.
The purveyors of fake information have been very active
We have to answer the lies and somehow find the way…which may not be our present way
@fquigley
Trump is not going to join Russia against Ukraine. It is a fantasy to expect that this is in any way imminent, likely or even possible. In fact, Ukraine is a bad actor in many ways, but Trump will leave the fate of that nation, or what remains of it, to be decided by what remains of the Ukrainian population following the negotiations with Russia.
Despite this fact, Russia has been given an important opportunity to try to influence a change in leadership of Ukraine, but to remove the Monists from controlling Ukraine would require the power in that country be ripped from the Nationalists and Nazis who hold it, and this is not going to be easily accomplished, and it is less likely today than it was prior to Feb ’22 when Russia invaded, and it was less likely in Feb ’22 than it was in Feb & May of 2014, when Crimea & the Dombas held their respective referendums. There are today, just not enough pluralists left In Ukraine to command a majority in that nation in light of the millions of what were pluralist Ukrainians who either fled Ukraine or became Russian citizens following Russia providing them citizenship in 2014, 2019 & 2022.
In fact, totalitarianism is not something which is easily defeated at the polls, so long as the totalitarians control the voting mechanisms. Perhaps Trump and Putin will come to some form of arrangement to provide fair elections in Ukraine, but the reality is that Poroshenko and Zel were both peace candidates who were manipulated towards war by what was a far less dense Monist public than what likely exists today in Ukraine.
Instead, denazification in Ukraine will likely require either a revolution, which should be understood to be a an internal process, or by conquest from abroad, with the latter being an unachievable goal, at present in any event. Indeed, while foreign conquest of Ukraine is not a possibility, domestic revolution might be possible in the wake of the Ukrainian defeat, but again, the Monists will still hold, not only a majority in that nation, but also what remains of Ukraine’s power and wealth, as well. With the US involvement in the mineral deal, it may lead to the US taking a greater interest in dealing with the internal power structure which exists in Ukraine, but I do not foresee that as being likely. Just my own thoughts of course.
@Reader
Russia can not take over the whole of Ukraine. Doing so would lead to an insurgency which would milk Russia dry and would be funded by the West. As to the notion that Ukraine would voluntarily submit to Russia, I would argue that it is a fantastical idea. Whereas the war was the work product of the US manipulation and weaponization against Ukraine, the consequence is that the monists control Ukraine, and as Zel demonstrated in his attempt to blow up Trump’s ceasefire attempts, they will never submit to Russia, which only involved a cessation of the war.
Reader
It’s all coming out in the wash now as regards trump to whom Netanyahu has invested so much of the Jews capital.
I reference your comment above referring to Trump and Hamas
So far Peloni is not reacting
And also to the failure of trump to clearly defend Russia against historical Neonazis enemies of Russia and Jews.
Which Peloni ignores and more than ignored has invented really offensive names with which to attack Russia and Putin
This is the Editor or at least one of them
”
In fact, Trump has the ability to manipulate both Ukraine and Russia, but it would be better for everyone if he didn’t need to do this. Ukraine has come to feel the effect of Trump applying pressure to them even on the short term. Hopefully Russia will not be so squirrely or Putin so foolish as to believe that Trump can not apply a similar but different form of pressure on Russia. If Putin does force Trump to up the ante, so to speak, it may come with similarly irreversible consequences as Ukraine has come to regret experiencing as Zel chose to play the obstructor to his nation’s regret.” ”
To which many Jews on israpundit have taken vows of silence
That is apart from the fact that there is a history of people on israpundit openly and brazenly attacking Russia, which Russia is the party in war with Neonazis
The same Nazis who have murdered millions of Jews.
Hamas welcomes Trump’s statement on Gaza residents
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem welcomes Trump’s statement that no one will be expelled from the Gaza Strip: Force Israel to implement all the terms of the ceasefire.
Elad Benari Mar 13, 2025, 2:15 AM (GMT+2)
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/405288
I think the only way to stop this war is either for Russia to take over the whole of Ukraine ASAP
OR
for Ukraine to smarten up and do another Pereyaslav Rada ASAP
OTHERWISE:
1) Ukraine will become a Gaza equivalent with the only difference that the world cares (or pretends to care) about Gazans but no one cares about Ukrainians aside from their relatives in Russia or in Europe;
2) Russia will be under constant bombardment and military provocations;
3) the whole thing may degenerate into a nuclear war.
I think that countries whose territories are close to each other should have a good relationship with their close neighbors first amd foremost.
After all, the US has its Monroe Doctrine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
Why can’t Russia have something similar?
Russia must call American bluff
Trump is a total nasty fiend because he seems ambivalent between Russia fighting against Neonazis and the Neonazis post 2014 coup in Maidan. As the horrific tack of these creeps well shows
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/russia-demands-details-from-before-commits-to-ukraine-ceasefire
“I disagree. The row between Trump and Zel may have set expectations low, but Trump has always maintained the reality that he is looking out for America First, and this hasn’t changed.
In fact, Trump has the ability to manipulate both Ukraine and Russia, but it would be better for everyone if he didn’t need to do this. Ukraine has come to feel the effect of Trump applying pressure to them even on the short term. Hopefully Russia will not be so squirrely or Putin so foolish as to believe that Trump can not apply a similar but different form of pressure on Russia. If Putin does force Trump to up the ante, so to speak, it may come with similarly irreversible consequences as Ukraine has come to regret experiencing as Zel chose to play the obstructor to his nation’s regret.”
You are drawing a moral, political and every other kind of equivalence between destructive Neonazis and freedom liberation fighters against Neonazis
If you cannot draw that distinction then israpundit will never grow into anything. Youth…forget it!
If Frump can bully the Russians it is over.
As I said there’s absolutely blackmail here.
Russia must reject reject reject every part of this. Their claim Russia abducted children leaves me breathless.
Your degeneration disgusts me. It IS disgusting.
@fquigley
I disagree. The row between Trump and Zel may have set expectations low, but Trump has always maintained the reality that he is looking out for America First, and this hasn’t changed.
In fact, Trump has the ability to manipulate both Ukraine and Russia, but it would be better for everyone if he didn’t need to do this. Ukraine has come to feel the effect of Trump applying pressure to them even on the short term. Hopefully Russia will not be so squirrely or Putin so foolish as to believe that Trump can not apply a similar but different form of pressure on Russia. If Putin does force Trump to up the ante, so to speak, it may come with similarly irreversible consequences as Ukraine has come to regret experiencing as Zel chose to play the obstructor to his nation’s regret.
Trump speaking about Israel:
The future of the very existence of Russia as a homeland state against Neonazis now rests on Russia exposing the lethal trap set by Trump and Rubio in the month Ceasefire deal with Zelensky.
(The row with Zelensky in the White House looks to have been a cruel trick on Putin)
On the agenda is to refuse to enter this trap and instead place the denazification of Ukraine as the top of the agenda.
Ironically Israel faces the same type of denazification except that it applies to many Jews as well as the Arab Nazis
And this Nazism by this stage goes remarkably more widespread in the world in the shortest time you could ever in your worst nightmare have imagined.
“Schumer is a Palestinian”
Trump never misses an opportunity to make a point. Nicely done.
The WZO election registration process is seriously messed up. Was unable to register because of one technical snafu after another and they never got back to me, like demanding a pin when it had never asked me for or provided one. That was just the most recent. A lot of Jews are not going to be able to vote.
“Over the years, successive city Comptrollers Bill Thompson, John Liu and Scott Stringer have reinvested in State of Israel bonds when bonds matured.
The New York State pension system, run by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, also has $363.9 million invested in the Jewish State.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/09/us-news/nyc-comptroller-brad-lander-accused-of-divesting-pension-funds-from-israel/
All Dems. This is why Jewish voters in NY need to be able to vote in the Dem primary. That’s where the fight is. The general election is another matter, not that there are any city offices held by Republicans, or state, for that matter, that I know of, aside from legislators.
Heck! I am right again!
Protests in Romania:
https://www.rt.com/news/613952-protests-romania-georgescu-banned/
@Reader
Yes, I was aware of the toxic aspect of Georgescu’s platform. Europe has become a detestable swamp of corruption and villainy, intolerant of the tolerant and tolerant only of the intolerant. I have been looking forward to the splintering of the EU for some time. Perhaps we are not far from it now.
@peloni
I had a hypothesis as to why Georgescu was banned from elections and why the EU is silent about it, and it was confirmed:
However, Romanians are not known for being pushovers, so if they really like him a lot, the government may expect a good size demonstration or even a riot.
@peloni
Thanks, and thanks for the reminder.
The US should sanction Europe til it becomes democratic again. Europe talks about the tyranny of Putin, even as they condone and sponsor this:
@PeterSweden7
@fquigley
Is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1are1w-o4k
https://www.rt.com/russia/613919-kursk-multiple-villages-liberated/
I wouldn’t worry about Trump’s reaction, I think he freaked out because things weren’t going the way he expected but it won’t lead to anything really bad.
He has backtracked already:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/trump-ukraine-war-putin-00217246
I think that unless Ukrainians come to their senses and do another Pereyaslav Rada (like in the 17th century), this conflict will never end – the Europeans are rearming like crazy pretending to be threatened by Russia and pretending to help Ukraine fight for its independence from Russia, the US is destroying Ukraine to have it submit to its will and is trying to stop Russia from winning the SMO at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pereiaslav_Agreement
ONLY if Russia goes for the fantasy of the US as its ally AND if Ukraine goes on with its anti-Russian stupidity, THEN we might be in real danger of a nuclear war, after the final attack by the “free world” on “Eurasia”.
You know, if you look back in history, there was not even one generation which lived in peace.
The West seems incapable of peaceful coexistence, they just need to sack, murder, take over others’ lands, etc. – I think they got this mindset from the Ancient Rome with its “just wars”.
The proof I am right:
https://www.israpundit.org/there-will-never-be-peace-in-ukraine/
@Reader
I approved your post at March 9, 2025 at 7:52 pm, but we have a limit of 4 links per post. Just fyi
It happened about Wednesday. Trump reacted to very big attack on Ukraine including Odessa. Trump was being nice to Vlad but he seemed, I surmised, lost his nerve and made horrible threats against Putin.
The cauldron means being surrounded and this may happen in Kurst, and this has been the main platform of Zelensky…oh look world we are the equal to Russia in every way so your money quick
But if the cauldron happens this is a big step to ending Zelensky
This is why the Neonazis have become desperate for peace and ceasefire
For Russia the very opposite as you intimate.
Trump is emotive. For five hours he became anti Putin.
The Trump Cabinet should remove sanctions from RT so all peoples should learn the truths of reality.
@fquigley
About Sebabstien Zorn’s delirious guesses of what we think, i.e.:
Here is my take on Trump’s sudden love of Russia and Putin and his total disdain for Ukraine and Zelensky – It is a huge CON meant to:
1) deceive Russia into thinking that the dawn of the new age of peace and coexistence has arrived, that the US has finally saw the reality of the multi polar world and has become a true ally;
2) sign a few agreements with Russia about disarmament, economic cooperation, etc., etc. – every one of these agreements will be unilaterally broken by the US when it suits the US;
3) sign the agreements to take over as much of Ukraine and its resources as possible;
4) get Ukraine and Russia to sign a peace treaty which will stop the Russian SMO and prevent it from achieving the SMO’s aims;
5) at the same time – have the EU arm itself to the teeth because of the “Russian threat to Ukraine and Europe” (probably with the US selling arms to the EU);
6) have the EU place tens of thousands of soldiers/peacekeepers in Ukraine as a bulwark against “the Russian threat to Ukraine and Europe” which is even better than Ukraine joining NATO;
7) once the arming of the proxies is complete after several years, attack the “colossus on clay feet” with the European proxies in order to finally take over Eurasia and, therefore, the world.
Well, someone who betrayed once, will betray a thousand times.
@fquigley
What did he do?
Could you post a link or give details?
Sebastien Zorn
It centres on this
The Russians and their aims for the Invasion were wise and correct
They understood that they faced Nazism again
Nazism had to be defeated militarily
There had to be a denazification because even more after the coup in 2014 Nazism was thoroughly interwoven with all branches of the Ukrainian state machine
We know where the various forces are on this. There is raised also the spectre of world nuclear war
Who would gamble with such a happening.
How to characterise someone who would?
But a resolution depends on those aims being carried out
At the very least Trump is like John F Kennedy concerned about the danger in the situation of nuclear war breaking out. But will he follow with correct action?
@fquigley “But this time we Trotskyists…
Why? You know another one?
Sebastien Zorn
The Aesop Fable as retold by Leon Trotsky has stuck in my mind and will forever. It is the universal truth. In our class/national governed society leadership matters.
The Holocaust of the Jews did not have to have happened.
Hitler and his sick cronies could have been put out of business in 1932. All that was required was Trotskyist leadership.
So it mattered
(Nothing doing,” replied the bulls firm in their principles, to the counselor)
You Sebastien Zorn is those bulls “firm in your principles”
But this time we Trotskyists must teach the youth so that such historical mistakes are not carried out.
It seems Felix and Reader don’t like Russia now if it will make peace with the U.S. If Russia makes peace with the U.S., it was always bad. And now, all of a sudden, now that Trump and Zelensky don’t get along, Zelensky is the good guy.
The bottom line for the left outside of Israel is hatred of the U.S. and support for anybody who opposes it. (In Israel it’s hatred of Netanyahu and anybody who is religious or challenges the fantasy of the TSS.) That’s what makes Felix and Reader’s support for Israel such an anomaly. Oh, well, no point in looking a gift horse in the mouth.
@Sebastien
Thanks, they’re back.
@Peloni Comment disappeared twice in a row
@fquigley Apples and oranges. Your the one always defending the SU during the war. And Germany in 1932? What on earth does that have to do with Mikhoels? During WWII, Stalin’s government was the only game in town in Russia. And, even before, under Mikhoels’ direction, the Moscow State Theater managed to insert subtle criticisms of the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Jewish_Theatre
SEB-
What a subtle hand ……..!!!!
Why Zorn gets it wrong
TROTSKY PROVIDED THE ONLY WAY
Trotsky was for standing in a UNITED FRONT against Fascism but inside of that united front to put forward your own political program as an independent (Trotskyist) entity. That implied full freedom of discussion inside the United Front. The opposite would be of course the the Popular Front.
The evidence suggests that the leader of the Yiddish Theatre Mikhoels belonged to the latter Popular Front political position
AN AESOP FABLE
From What Next? Vital Question for the German Proletariat, 1932
* * *
A cattle dealer once drove some bulls to the slaughterhouse. And the butcher came nigh with his sharp knife.
“Let us close ranks and jack up this executioner on our horns,” suggested one of the bulls.
“If you please, in what way is the butcher any worse than the dealer who drove us hither with his cudgel?” replied the bulls, who had received their political education in Manuilsky’s institute. [The Comintern.]
“But we shall be able to attend to the dealer as well afterwards!”
“Nothing doing,” replied the bulls firm in their principles, to the counselor. “You are trying, from the left, to shield our enemies – you are a social-butcher yourself.”
And they refused to close ranks. ”
End of Trotsky quote
When Trotsky wrote the above in 1932 the precise position of the opposition to Hitler was
TWO very large political parties were opposing the Nazis
In that precise context it WAS essential that the Nazis were blocked from taking state power in their hands. But what exactly happened?
Those two parties DID THEY UNITE TO BLOCK HITLER?
1. THE Stalinists…no they did not unite because they saw their rivals as SOCIAL FASCISTS
2. The Social Democrats… no they were complacent and could not unite
The result
HITLER TOOK STATE POWER WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED
Very serious addendum to all this directed to the Trotsky Hater Mr Sebastien Zorn
ONLY THE TROTSKYIST POLITICAL PROGRAM COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE HOLOCAUST
Zorn should study this history carefully and stop telling his historical lies slandering Leon Trotsky!
Sebastien Zorn writes
““Mikhoels played what role during the Moscow Trials?”
Huh? None that I know of. Why? ”
The operative word by Zorn HUH!
Follower by WHY?
Extreme sensitivity
Definitely suggests more to this than the uneducated would ever imagine.
And you don’t have to be a part of “my people” to explore it
@fquoglet
– Moscow State Theater/Wikipedial
@fquigley
Huh? None that I know of. Why?
Reader
It seems as if my last comments were anticipating something because about five hours ago maybe a little more Trump has done a 180 degree turn which could mean world nuclear war. Trump had a chance to take destiny in his grip along with Putin and Russia but he is going to end up now in nuclear war. Not he…the world.
Reader
So trump promotes an Antisemite
And Trump boasted about the first arming of Neonazis against Russia emphasis on JAVELINS
And they then are reported by politico as meeting other Neonazis like Poroshenko
And quiet on these declaration of nuclear war by french macron
And he meets Hamas
On all these things what does Israel say?
The key lies in Ukraine. Inside of Ukrainian Neonazis
Sebastien Zorn
Mikhoels played what role during the Moscow Trials?
The Wikipedia article you quoted leaves out vital information
“The shows will take place June 26 at the Jerusalem Theater, June 28 at the Smolarz Auditorium in Tel Aviv and the next night at Beit Hahayal in Tel Aviv.
He’s not dead… yet.
Renowned British comic legend and actor John Cleese of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame will be arriving in Israel in June for three performances labeled ‘An Evening with John Cleese.’. ”
Sebastien Zorn is besotted with this type of comedy expressed by Cleese
It reduced the Nazis to being a joke
That was doing a service to Fascism
Now at 85 Cleese on twitter is leading slander of Russia and President Putin
Sebastien Zorn
‘Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. However, as Joseph Stalin pursued an increasingly anti-Jewish line after the War, Mikhoels’s position as a leader of the Jewish community led to increasing persecution from the Soviet state. He was assassinated in Minsk in 1948 by order of Stalin.[1][2] ”
That fits with the present anti Russia politics
SEB-
You have a persistent habit of filling space by telling me what I know as well as you-at least. I wouldn’t have mentioned Robinson if I didn’t know all about him. The Jewish Chronicle had a life story about him before you were born. When I don’t know, I’ll ask.
If I don’t know and don’t ask, I’ll remain happily ignorant.
One thing I must seriously say. Your family history is Remarkably Interesting-to say the least. I’ll have even more respect for you than ever.
As for “Hogans Heroes” I called it a spoof, and that’s just what it was. If it was based on a true story, I’d bet money on it that it certainly was VERY loosely adapted, with many invented events.
You say, it was based on a biography., O.K. then I’m pretty sure the book was not all it purported to be.
BUT, a very good show, I enjoyed it always.
Just my “Candig Apinium” as Thackeray’s snobbish footman says, but strongly felt.
@Edgar Robinson began in Yiddish theater in New York, transitioned to Broadway in 1915 and then to movies.
@Edgar Edward G. Robinson was the stage name of Emanuel Goldenberg. He was born in Rumania to a Yiddish speaking Jewish family and emigrated to the U.S. when he was 10. He was one of my father (who thought he was from a Hungarian Jewish family, which for all I know, he was since much of Rumania was part of Hungary at one time)’s favorite actors.
Actually, when he was born in 1893, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many people similarly think Theodor (Tivadar) Herzel, who was Hungarian Jewish but moved to Vienna as an adult was born into an Austrian Jewish family. The Jewish families that had been in Hungary a long time had German last names. My father legally changed his last name from a German name to his mother’s Hungarian maiden name – which an ancestor who had fled to Hungary in the mid-nineteenth century from Russia because Hungary was less officially antisemitic at that time had changed from a slavic one – before he escaped Hungary and came to the U.S. in 1946.
He also was a prominent anti-Nazi activist and one of the stars of “They Shall Never Die” (1943) a Madison Square Garden musical extravaganza written by Ben Hecht which was broadcast to the nation over the radio in addition to going on tour to protest the Holocaust in progress and demand that something be done. One of my favorite films, made after the war, is “The Stranger” in which he plays a Nazi Hunting detective after a major war criminal who has escaped and is blending into U.S. elite society played by Orson Welles. The speech at the end in which he denounces him and shouts that it’s the end of the road for him is so moving, filled as it is with his sincerity. It has only one line mentioning Jews but that’s a lot for 1946. It’s where he’s about to give up on his suspect and suddenly he wakes up in the middle of the night realizing that only a Nazi would say, as Welles’ character had at the dinner party the night before, that Marx wasn’t a German; He was a Jew.