They're crawling, squirming and oozing out of every crack, it seems. Now this.
Never again? The pit in my stomach is telling me that's the joke.
Do us all a favor, Tad, and crawl back under your rock.
The Holocaust only gets media coverage because of affluent Jews' financial backing, military might and lobbying fronts, presenting a skewed version of events to the world, a high-ranking Polish bishop told a Catholic news portal on Monday.While enormously offensive, I'm sorry to say this isn't all that shocking. It's getting to be more a question of "when" than "if" the next Holocaust denying bishop will pop up (and, yes, this is still by far the exception, not the rule). This claim, however, did rock me back.
Tadeusz Pieronek, a Polish bishop and professor and a friend of the last pope, John Paul II, claimed that "the Holocaust as such is a Jewish invention" promoted in the press by Jews to gain support for Israel.
"The anti-Semitic history of Poland is an invention," he said. "A joke ... offensive to our people."Funny, no one's laughing. And that would be one of the most extensively and exhaustively documented and debated "inventions" in human history. More complicated than is commonly acknowledged? Yes. But an "invention?" Hardly. Good to know it's still alive and kicking, though, and that, increasingly, people no longer seem afraid or ashamed to own it.
Never again? The pit in my stomach is telling me that's the joke.
Do us all a favor, Tad, and crawl back under your rock.
