There was an American named Mildred Gillars who broadcast Nazi propaganda, and was sentenced to 10 to 30 years imprisonment for treason, after WWII. She was known during the war as "Axis Sally (referring to the Axis powers of Germany, Japan and Italy)." I mention this because today we have many such Americans, who we might label "Jihad Janes" such as Calla Walsh and Susan Abalhawa. I see very little difference between them and Gillars, other than the modern day traitors strutting around the world, cloaked from treason charges by "free speech."
Now imagine the response to Goebbels: the Russian Child. Face smashed in by a Nazi Jackboot. All in the Historical Record. Along with twenty seven million other Russian Souls. Murdered for Lebensraum in The East for The Ethnic German. In Mein Kampf in Hitler’s very own words. Then the face of a Starving Jewish Child. Along with the other million children the Nazis killed. Murdered by an SS Doctor. Possibly a Pervert. Again all in the Historical Record held at IWM in London. The piles of Human hair, the shoes and the Zyklon B Gas Canisters, and the children photographed in the Concentration camps. Again and again, repeated endlessly. And all TRUE. This will now be our response on social media for the Fifty MILLION White people Hitler and the Nazis murdered. Remembering on Tik Tok too, the Fifteen Million Chinese Souls murdered by Fascism in The East in World War II as well. All true.
Once again, beautifully written. An excellent analogy of unbelievable evil human manipulation. The convenient processed snack vs a home cooked, fresh and healthy diet most don’t take the time for true nourishment is exactly what we are seeing in the 21st century. When will folks smarten up, or has dumbing down education systems using cliff notes and summaries and calculators/computers for convenience taken the place of reading novels, using slide rules and log tables also contributed?
No matter the culture or historical period, Jews become the burnt offspring in the sin expiating process… reenacted through different expressions. Sadly, it has become a caricature meant to mock a particularly strange people conspicuous in their unwillingness to disappear. Chag sameach.
Thank you Professor Paul Finlayson for identifying and clarifying the vicious process of using modern social media technologies, based on Nazi propaganda strategies, to propagate hatred and blood libels towards a historical minority.
If institutions like Al Jazeera, Hamas et al and Muslim MSM stations were the source of using these disgraceful methods to vilify and demonize the Jewish people, we can acknowledge their motives, but looking at reality, this strategy is propagated by Western MSM, Western politicians, Western professors, the UN, NGOs, down to universities and K12 schools.
Identifying the problem is clear to the Jewish people for 3 millennia. The questions are: How do we deal with this global malaise, this hatred virus? Do we stoop to the same ugly level of propagating lies and fake, unverified photos and headlines or do we just raise our hands and give up this illogical war of words?
It seems that telling the truth just doesn't work on common sense.
There was an American named Mildred Gillars who broadcast Nazi propaganda, and was sentenced to 10 to 30 years imprisonment for treason, after WWII. She was known during the war as "Axis Sally (referring to the Axis powers of Germany, Japan and Italy)." I mention this because today we have many such Americans, who we might label "Jihad Janes" such as Calla Walsh and Susan Abalhawa. I see very little difference between them and Gillars, other than the modern day traitors strutting around the world, cloaked from treason charges by "free speech."
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Brilliant comparison. Indeed, Goebbels eyes would have been alight with fire if he could have had access to an iPhone.
Now imagine the response to Goebbels: the Russian Child. Face smashed in by a Nazi Jackboot. All in the Historical Record. Along with twenty seven million other Russian Souls. Murdered for Lebensraum in The East for The Ethnic German. In Mein Kampf in Hitler’s very own words. Then the face of a Starving Jewish Child. Along with the other million children the Nazis killed. Murdered by an SS Doctor. Possibly a Pervert. Again all in the Historical Record held at IWM in London. The piles of Human hair, the shoes and the Zyklon B Gas Canisters, and the children photographed in the Concentration camps. Again and again, repeated endlessly. And all TRUE. This will now be our response on social media for the Fifty MILLION White people Hitler and the Nazis murdered. Remembering on Tik Tok too, the Fifteen Million Chinese Souls murdered by Fascism in The East in World War II as well. All true.
Once again, beautifully written. An excellent analogy of unbelievable evil human manipulation. The convenient processed snack vs a home cooked, fresh and healthy diet most don’t take the time for true nourishment is exactly what we are seeing in the 21st century. When will folks smarten up, or has dumbing down education systems using cliff notes and summaries and calculators/computers for convenience taken the place of reading novels, using slide rules and log tables also contributed?
No matter the culture or historical period, Jews become the burnt offspring in the sin expiating process… reenacted through different expressions. Sadly, it has become a caricature meant to mock a particularly strange people conspicuous in their unwillingness to disappear. Chag sameach.
Thank you Professor Paul Finlayson for identifying and clarifying the vicious process of using modern social media technologies, based on Nazi propaganda strategies, to propagate hatred and blood libels towards a historical minority.
If institutions like Al Jazeera, Hamas et al and Muslim MSM stations were the source of using these disgraceful methods to vilify and demonize the Jewish people, we can acknowledge their motives, but looking at reality, this strategy is propagated by Western MSM, Western politicians, Western professors, the UN, NGOs, down to universities and K12 schools.
Identifying the problem is clear to the Jewish people for 3 millennia. The questions are: How do we deal with this global malaise, this hatred virus? Do we stoop to the same ugly level of propagating lies and fake, unverified photos and headlines or do we just raise our hands and give up this illogical war of words?
It seems that telling the truth just doesn't work on common sense.