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By Kriesgberichter
BERLIN — Some 5,000 members of neo-Nazi and skinhead groups marched in the eastern German city of Dresden on Saturday, countered by a human chain of 10,000 demonstrators who opposed them.
For more than a decade, right-wing groups have used the anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945 to advance their agenda.
The bombing, which took place for three days from Feb. 13, 1945, created a firestorm that left the city in ruins.
The National Democratic Party, skinheads and other right-wing groups have used the bombing of the Saxon city to present Germany as a victim in World War II.
The NDP successfully retained its presence in the Saxon state assembly after it won more than 5 percent of the vote in state elections last August.
While such groups have claimed that hundreds of thousands died in the 1945 firebombing, a group of historians commissioned by the city two years ago estimated the true number of deaths at about 25,000.
The counterdemonstration, across the Elbe River, was organized by the city government, according to a statement on the city’s Web site.
“When we take each other by the hands now, we put a strong protective chain around our city,” Mayor Helma Orosz said in the statement. “We confront old and new Nazis, who try to misuse our day of mourning.”
There were some minor skirmishes, with a car flipped over and some barricades set ablaze but quickly extinguished.
By Kriesgberichter
WARSAW — When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before he covered his shaved head with a skullcap, traded his fascist ideology for the Torah and renounced violence and hatred in favor of God.
Pawel in the Warsaw synagogue. A former truck driver and neo-Nazi skinhead, Pawel, 33, has since become an Orthodox Jew, covering his shaved head with a yarmulke and shedding his fascist ideology for the Torah.
“I still struggle every day to discard my past ideas,” said Pawel, a 33-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew and former truck driver, noting with little irony that he had to stop hating Jews in order to become one. “When I look at an old picture of myself as a skinhead, I feel ashamed. Every day I try and do teshuvah,” he said, using the Hebrew word for repentance. “Every minute of every day. There is a lot to make up for.”
Pawel, who also uses his Hebrew name Pinchas, asked that his last name not be used for fear that his old neo-Nazi friends could harm him or his family.
Twenty years after the fall of Communism, Pawel is perhaps the most unlikely example of the Jewish revival under way in Poland, of a moment in which Jewish leaders here say the country is finally showing solid signs of shedding the rabid anti-Semitism of the past.
Before 1939, Poland was home to more than three million Jews, more than 90 percent of whom were killed by the Nazis. Most who survived emigrated. Of the fewer than 50,000 who remained in Poland, many abandoned or hid their Judaism during decades of Communist oppression in which political pogroms against Jews persisted.
Today, though, Michael Schudrich, the chief rabbi of Poland, said he considered Poland the most pro-Israel country in the European Union. He said the attitude of Pope John Paul II, a Pole, who called Jews “our elder brothers,” had finally entered the public consciousness.
Ten years after the revelation that 1,600 Jews of the town of Jedwabne were burned alive by their Polish neighbors in July 1941, he said the national myth that all Poles were victims of World War II had finally been shattered.
“Before 1989 there was a feeling that it was not safe to say, ‘I am a Jew,’ ” Rabbi Schudrich said. “But two decades later, there is a growing feeling that Jews are a missing limb in Poland. The level of anti-Semitism remains unacceptable, but the image of the murderous Pole seared in the consciousness of many Jews after the war doesn’t correspond to the Poland of 2010.”
The small Jewish revival has been under way for several years around eastern Europe. Hundreds of Poles, a majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades in the aftermath of World War II.
In the past five years, Warsaw’s Jewish community had grown to 600 families from 250. The cafes and bars of the old Jewish quarter in Krakow brim with young Jewish converts listening to Israeli hip hop music.
Michal Pirog, a popular Polish dancer and television star, who recently proclaimed his Jewish roots on national television, said the revelation had won him more fans than enemies. “Poland is changing,” he said. “I am Jewish and I feel good,” he said.
Pawel’s metamorphosis from baptized Catholic skinhead to Jew began in a bleak neighborhood of concrete tower blocks in Warsaw in the 1980s, where Pawel said he and his friends reacted to the gnawing uniformity of socialism by embracing anti-Semitism. They shaved their heads, carried knives and greeted one another with the raised right arm gesture of the Nazi salute.
“Oy vey, I hate to admit it, but we would beat up local Jewish and Arab kids and homeless people,” Pawel said on a recent day from the Nozyk Synagogue here. “We sang about stupid stuff like Satan and killing people. We believed that Poland should only be for Poles.”
One day, he recalled, he and his friends skipped school and took a train to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp, near Krakow. “We made jokes that we wished the exhibition had been bigger and that the Nazis had killed even more Jews,” he said.
Even as Pawel embraced the life of a neo-Nazi, he said that he had pangs that his identity was built on a lie. His churchgoing father seemed overly fond of quoting the Old Testament. His grandfather hinted about past family secrets.
“One time when I told my grandfather that Jews were bad, he exploded and screamed at me, ‘If I ever hear you say such a thing again under my roof, you will never come back!’ ”
Pawel joined the army and married a fellow skinhead at age 18. But his sense of self changed irrevocably at the age of 22, when his wife, Paulina, suspecting that she had Jewish roots, went to a genealogical institute and discovered Pawel’s maternal grandparents on a register of Warsaw Jews, along with her own grandparents.
When Pawel confronted his parents, he said, they broke down and told him the truth: his maternal grandmother was Jewish and had survived the war by being hidden in a monastery by a group of nuns. His paternal grandfather, also a Jew, had seven brother and sisters, most of whom had perished in the Holocaust.
“I went to my parents and said, ‘What the hell’? Imagine, I was a neo-Nazi and heard this news? I couldn’t look in the mirror for weeks,” he said. “My parents were the typical offspring of Jewish survivors of the war, who decided to conceal their Jewish identity to try and protect their family.”
Shaken by his own discovery, Pawel said he spent weeks of cloistered and tortured reflection but was finally overcome by a strong desire to become Jewish, even Orthodox. He acknowledged that he was drawn to extremes. He said his transformation was arduous, akin to being reborn. He even forced himself to reread “Mein Kampf” but could not get to the end because he felt physically repulsed.
“When I asked a rabbi, ‘Why do I feel this way?’ he replied, ‘The sleeping souls of your ancestors are calling out to you.’ ”
At age 24, he was circumcised. Two years later, he decided to become an ultra-Orthodox Jew. He and his wife are raising their two children in a Jewish home.
Pawel noted that he was still singled out by the same anti-Semites who once counted him among their ranks. “When younger people see me on the street with my top hat and side curls they sometimes laugh at me,” he said. “But it is the old ladies who are the meanest. Sometimes, they use the language I used when I was a skinhead and say, ‘Get out and go back to your country’ or ‘Jew go home!’ ”
And now he is studying to become a shochet, a person charged with killing animals according to Jewish dietary laws. “I am good with knives,” he explained.
By Kriesgberichter
Obama’s Jobs Bill May Cost $100 Billion
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Legislation aimed at making it easier for companies to hire more workers is likely to cost about $100 billion, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
The measure should include a tax credit for small businesses to offset payroll taxes, as President Barack Obama proposed in a Jan. 29 speech, Gibbs said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program yesterday. The administration would also like to add infrastructure spending, Gibbs said.
“We’re not creating the jobs that we would like,” Gibbs said. “I think some additional recovery and stimulus spending is important in order to create an environment where small businesses and large alike can hire more workers.”
The president also wants to use $30 billion repaid by banks under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to enable community banks to make loans to small businesses, Gibbs said. U.S. gross domestic product grew 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the fastest pace in six years, the Commerce Department said Jan. 29.
Obama would help businesses gain the confidence they need to start hiring again by shelving health-care reform and assuring business owners that taxes won’t increase, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“If you’re in business now and you’re trying to figure out what the future is, you’re looking at health care taxes, you’re looking at capital gains taxes going up, dividend taxes going up,” McConnell said. “Is that a great environment in which to expand employment? I think the answer is no.”
Obama’s call to freeze discretionary spending in the federal budget over three years, not including defense or national security, is “an important step” toward bridging the disconnect between Washington’s actions and budget decisions made by local governments and families, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Cutting spending is even more important,” said Granholm, a Democrat. “Triage everything to provide the basics to people so you’re protecting them. But all this other stuff, forget it. Put money where you have to. Cut everything else.”
Obama’s spending freeze would be more effective if it began right away and not in 2011, Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“What matters in Congress is the first year’s spending levels,” Ryan said. “Get your handle on the deficit and debt and lower tax rates for employers, for workers, that’s the best way to grow the economy.”
By Kriesgberichter
Nazi group tackles Colorado highway trash
Monday, January 25, 2010; 11:22 AM
BRIGHTON, Colo. — A white supremacist group in Colorado will be heading out on the roads near Denver to pickup litter.
The chapter of the National Socialist Movement is participating in a state Adopt-A-Highway program. The group calls itself America’s Nazi Party and it will be responsible for picking up trash along a 1-mile stretch of highway in a suburb north of Denver. A sign is already up in the area with the group’s name on it.
A spokesman for the group, Neal Land, says the group is “doing good things.”
State highway officials say they allowed the highway adoption because their lawyers said they could be in violation of the group’s free speech if they issued a denial.
By Kriesgberichter
Ukraine to honor Nazi sympathizers
President awards medals to leaders of Ukrainian nationalist group, who helped Nazis murder Jews
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced this week that he had approved medals of commendation for members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), despite their cooperation with the Nazi regime during World War II.
Yushchenko had been under pressure by the group to recognize its veterans as “fighters for the independence of the Ukraine”.
The president announced the move at a memorial for members of a Ukrainian organization that fought against the Bolshevik army in 1918.
“I have signed an order to honor all those who participated in the battle for the Ukraine’s independence in the 20th century,” he said.
Among the men to receive the medal will be Stepan Bandera, who led the younger and more radical members of the OUN. Bandera, who is no longer among the living, helped the Nazis to kill Jews hiding in Galicia, then a district of Poland.
In October 2009 Yushchenko honored the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Roman Shukhevych, who also participated in the slaying of Jews during the war. The president said his government would soon award the leaders of the various groups official status.
Yushchenko’s controversial decisions have engendered rage among the Ukrainian public, as well as that of the international community, and the Wiesenthal Institute has been one of his major critics.
The institute has defined the decision as “tragic”, especially as it was made just a few days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By Kriesgberichter
Skinhead admits Obama death plot
(UKPA) – Jan 14, 2010
An American skinhead has admitted plotting to kill then-Senator Barack Obama and dozens of other black people in 2008.
Paul Schlesselman, 19, of Arkansas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, one count of threatening to kill and harm a presidential candidate and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
He faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in April.
A co-defendant, Daniel Cowart, 21, of Tennessee, remains in custody.
Authorities described the two as white supremacist skinheads who hatched a plot for a cross-country robbery and killing spree that was to culminate with an attack on Mr Obama, who was then a candidate for president. They were arrested in October 2008 and have been held without bond since.
“Despite great civil rights progress, hate-fuelled violence remains all too common in our country, as illustrated by this unthinkable conspiracy,” said Thomas E Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.
Authorities said that although the two had enough guns to create carnage, they never got close to carrying out their plans. When arrested, Cowart and Schlesselman were staying with Cowart’s grandparents in rural northwest Tennessee.
Much of the evidence against the two was seized by sheriff’s deputies from the grandparents’ home. Items seized from the home included a sawed-off shotgun, a high-powered rifle, a handgun and several swords and knives.
Federal investigators said the two gave statements about their plans, which included shooting at Mr Obama from a speeding car while wearing white tuxedoes and top hats. Prosecutors said investigators were looking for Schlesselman and Cowart on a tip from an informant when the two drove up to the home of Cowart’s grandfather in a car emblazoned with a large swastika on the hood and the slogan Honk if you love Hitler on the back.
Authorities said Cowart and Schlesselman met over the internet where they shared common white supremacist views.
By Kriesgberichter
Detention officer fired for KKK membership
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An Alachua County Sheriff’s Office corrections officer who admitted to being an active member of the Ku Klux Klan has been fired.
According to an administrative investigation report, Detention Officer Wayne Kerschner told authorities that he blogged regularly on a KKK Web site, attended a rally in Tennessee and was an officer of the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He said his wife was also a dues-paying member.
Kerschner reportedly told investigators that the KKK was a faith-based group and said he believed in the organization’s ideology.
The report states that Kerschner didn’t want his role in the group to negatively affect the sheriff’s office, saying that he thought he was a “pretty dang fair officer.”
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Jewish-American charged with killing Palestinians
JERUSALEM — A Jewish-American extremist has been charged with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others with explosive devices and poison.
According to an indictment filed in Jerusalem district court on Thursday, Jack Teitel set out to avenge the deaths of Israelis killed in Palestinian terror attacks.
Teitel is a 37-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish West Bank settler originally from Florida.
Israeli newspaper Web sites quoted him as telling the court that “it was a pleasure and an honor to serve my God.”
He was arrested five weeks ago.
The indictment says his rampage began in 1997. He was also accused of anti-gay violence and incitement as well as bombings against a peace activist and messianic Jews who believe in Jesus.
By Kriesgberichter
MacFarlane’s Not-So-Funny Jew Joke
The animated sitcom “Family Guy” isn’t exactly high art. The Sunday night, 30-minute program, which airs on the Fox television network, is filled with off-color jokes. Nonetheless, many fans were disappointed when the show’s creator, Seth MacFarlane, took things to a new extreme November 8 during a variety special titled “‘Family Guy’ Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show.”
In the special, part of a Fox night of programming celebrating MacFarlane with multiple “Family Guy” episodes, the screenwriter’s Jewish co-star, Alex Borstein, (who, like MacFarlane, voices a character on the animated series), protests his singing “Edelweiss” from “The Sound of Music,” a tribute to Austria. MacFarlane tells Borstein that the television show is not the place to bring out her “Hebrew baggage.” Still arguing, Borstein reveals that her mother and grandmother “barely escaped” the Nazis. In response, MacFarlane implies that if World War II were never to have occurred, Borstein would have more competition in Hollywood from Jewish female comedians. “Right now, it’s just you and Sarah Silverman,” he says. Defeated, Borstein joins MacFarlane in song.
The variety show included a bit that mocks Jewish actress Marlee Matlin, who is deaf. When asked if she found the show’s controversial jokes offensive, Matlin told EW.com: “Offensive. No. Sick, very. But that’s Seth and Alex. Humor comes in all forms and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh.”
Questions regarding MacFarlane’s humor about Jews have long circulated. In 2000, he penned a “Family Guy” episode titled “Once Upon a Weinstein.” The show’s Catholic protagonist, Peter, happens upon a Jewish man, and the encounter leads him to conclude that converting his dim-witted son, Chris, to Judaism will increase the boy’s intelligence. Father and son race off to Las Vegas for an instant bar mitzvah, prevented only by the family matriarch, Lois. Due to its controversial content, the episode did not air for several years.
In October, the Forward reported that Fox took flack for airing an episode titled “Family Goy,” in which Lois discovers her mother is Jewish. The episode was laden with stereotypes.
