Accusation of anti-Semitism as strongest killing weapon

Two articles from the US magazine COUNTERPUNCH highlight a very serious problem which presently darken the politics of the Western states, notable in the US and Great Britain. It is worth to read them carefully and to activate ones own cognitive faculties!

Defining Anti-Semitism, Threatening Free Speech

by Sheldon Richman, 
Counterpunch, August 27, 2018

Corbyn is Being Destroyed, Like Blowing Up a Bridge to Stop an Advancing Army

by Jonathan Cook
Counterpunch, August 28, 2018
 

Confessions of a Jewish Dissident

Confessions of a Jewish Dissident

I.F. Stone

March 9, 1978 Issue 

—Washington
Abstractly speaking, I should be quite a popular person in the American-Jewish community. I am a dissident. I am also, at a time when the search is on for moderate voices on the Palestine question, a moderate. And I proved my devotion to displaced persons in and out of the Middle East years ago. I have a medal to prove it, from the Haganah—the illegal Jewish army that fought what Prime Minister Begin calls the Jewish war of liberation and established the state of Israel in 1948.
Read on here! 

A short story, 40 years of age. What are 40 years? 30 years earlier the Jewish state of ISRAEL was installed on stolen and conquered land. Nakba. 


Since 70 years we hear and see the very same! Some new figures change while the old ones are engraved in the hearts and brains. Israel has become a matter of unconditional and definitive belief. As the Hitler-Germans with their Führer, the great Hitler, today one has to stand with Israel, strong and absolute, without any (!) question . There is a duty to obey. This law is to be obeyed not only by the former enemies, the Germans, but generally. And it is! Israel, right or wrong, Israel, the eternal Holy Land, the old and new Jeruaselm.

The Crime and the Silence

 Recommended reading / Buchempfehlung:

The Crime and the Silence
Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Anna Bikont; Translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

British edition published by William Heinemann, London 2015 (the second cover on the right)

Das Buch liegt in unserer Bibliothek auf! / This book is available in our library!

Reviews:

When Neighbors Killed Neighbors
By Konstanty Gebert, moment, Sept-Oct. 2015

‘The Crime and the Silence,’ by Anna Bikont
By LOUIS BEGLEYNOV, The New York Times, Sunday Book Review,.Nov. 4, 2015

Even Worse Than We Thought
Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2015
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne. by Anna Bikont, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 544 pp., $30.00

Polish author reopens minefield of who killed Jedwabne’s Jews
By JP O'Malley, TheTimes of Israel, Oct. 15, 2015

A Polish apologetic propaganda site, "The Doomed Soldiers. Polish Underground Soldiers 1944-1963 - The Untold Story" denounces the books of Anna Bikont as well as of Jan T. Gross in a review by by Jan Peczkis.


Two videos from Youtube:

Anna Bikont, "The Crime and the Silence" 
Reading and Talk at the Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C

Anna Bikont The Crime and the Silence 10 16 2015

Concerning Polish anti-Semitism and Jedwabne

Recommended reading:

Julian Barnes in his excellent review:

Even Worse Than We Thought

The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles

The New York Review of Books, issue 2015/18 (free access!)