Robert Lappin Foundation — “Keep our children Jewish and thus reverse the trend of assimilation and intermarriage.” Imagine the media condemnation if the mission statement read “Keep our children White and thus reverse the trend of assimilation and intermarriage.” The same media that promotes Jewish pride and survival and supports the mass killing of Palestinians maintain that David Duke is evil simply because he wants to preserve White heritage and rights.
The Madoff Victims: Schadenfreude, Not Anti-Semitism
by Daniel McGowan
Introductory Commentary by David Duke — The following article appeared in Dissident Voice, and like many of the articles we share with you on Davidduke.com, it comes from a “liberal” perspective yet has something of value for both liberals and conservatives, right and left. McGowan effectively exposes the incredible media and political establishment double standards in regard to all things Jewish and all things Israel. Extremist Jews can imprison over 3 million people in Gaza and the West Bank, deprive a million people in Gaza of food, medicine, even medical supplies and cause the sickness, suffering and death of thousands over the last three years; on this Hanukkah bomb and slaughter hundreds of civilians, men, women and children, wound, cripple, or maim another 1000 in massive bombings of apartment buildings where children sleep and play, and all that President Bush, incoming President Obama and the controlled Media can do is to give full support for Israel rather than condemn this massacre of innocent people.
I watched CNN on December 29 spend ten minutes on the 1,400 Palestinian victims of Israeli firebombs and then 30 minutes on one Jewish victim of a rocket complete with tearful interviews with family, friends, and the “psycho-horror” of the terrible Palestinian Hamas. In another section in his essay McGowan points out that one of Madoff’s “victims” was The Lappin Foundation, an organization dedicated to “keeping our children Jewish, thus reversing the trend of intermarriage and assimilation.” He compares the media’s approval of the Lappin Foundation to the visceral hatred that would greet a David Duke Charitable Foundation using the same wording, but using “White” instead of “Jewish.” Good point. But, the problem really is not that Jews want to preserve their heritage, for all healthy people want to preserve themselves, their characteristics their unique heritage and identity. Why does the same political and media establishment that lauds Jews for this trait makes any White person wanting to preserve his people to be the epitome of evil? The problem is how Jews go about their goals, such as the 1400 victims of Jewish terror in Gaza right now.
The problem with Jewish extremist efforts to preserve themselves is not that they desire to preserve their heritage, but that their method of “preservation” of their own is to destroy every other people’s preservation, whether it be the Palestinians, or for that matter the European peoples. We here at DavidDuke.com are not in any way trying to destroy the heritage of others, in fact we openly upport the national, ethnic, religious movements of all people who want to preserve themselves and hope that all people doing so will respect the similar aspirations of other peoples. The fact that The Lappin Foundation and Israel itself can get away with their racism and support of the mass murder, torture and theft of Israel can be praised in the same ,media that so characterizes my efforts as “evil,” should open the eyes of any truly thinking and fair minded person. More people are waking to the fact that those who control the media and politics are truly the evil ones. I have not dropped any Napalm on school kids nor even applauded such or excused such. There is not a drop of blood on my hands, but the hands of Jewish controlled political and media establishment are stained crimson. It is time we call them to account. I hope this article by Daniel McGowan is one more ray of light to those still lost in the intellectual darkness imposed of the controlled mass media.
As the news of Bernard Madoff’s colossal fraud focused on America’s most “important” Jewish tycoons and moguls, it was only a matter of hours before the story was spun around their victimhood with the usual cudgels of “anti-Semitism” and the Holocaust. In Israel, columnist Bradley Burston spun the story best by declaring, “The anti-Semite’s new Santa is Bernard Madoff. … The Aryan Nation at its most delusional couldn’t have come up with anything to rival this.”
As the list of Madoff’s “victims” grows, their common characteristic is not philanthropy, but rather political Zionism. Virtually all have worked to build a Jewish state with little regard, and often downright hatred, for the non-Jewish population living there.
The money from this type of mogul or “ganzer macher” has been used to dehumanize and depopulate non-Jews in Palestine for over 120 years. But in spite of creating a strong Israeli economy based on guns, diamonds, and security services and in spite of walling Arabs in Bantustans in the West Bank and in the KZ lager known as Gaza, they have failed. Non-Jews outnumber Jews within the borders controlled by Israel, which makes a mockery out of calling it a Jewish state.
Schadenfreude is defined to be largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is recognized as well deserved. Political Zionism deserves scorn and derision; it is racist and antithetical to what Americans profess to hold self-evident: that all men and women are created equal and that we should share equal rights of citizenship. When rich Zionists lose a piece of their portfolios, especially to the guile of one of their own, it is a delight.
The press was first to report Madoff’s pilfering of the Robert Lappin “Charitable” Foundation, an organization whose “mission is helping to keep our children Jewish, thus reversing the trend of assimilation and intermarriage.” If the reader has trouble seeing the blatant racism here, substitute “White” for “Jewish” and imagine it was the stated goal of the David Duke Charitable Foundation.
While Mr. Burston found Madoff’s bilking of “fellow Jews, even Holocaust survivors” particularly outrageous, there are those who find divine justice in seeing one fraud defraud another. Elie Wiesel and his Foundation for Humanity would certainly qualify. Here is a man who has made millions peddling his narrative on the deaths of Jews in World War II; his novel, Night, is mandatory reading for most high school students; questioning it in any way invites charges of “anti-Semitism” and “Holocaust Denial.” He has been feted by Presidents and holds dozens of honorary degrees. If there were a CEO of the Holocaust Industry (a term coined by Norman Finkelstein), surely it would be The Great Weasel.
Wiesel’s Foundation claims to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through programs to promote acceptance, understanding, and equality. Yet he remains persistently indifferent to over 60 years of suffering of the Palestinian people and treats them with silence or as the “untermenschen” his people once were under the Nazis. Wiesel boasts of having worked for the terrorists of the Jewish Irgun, not as a fighter but as a journalist, and he steadfastly refuses to apologize for the massacre by his employer at Deir Yassin. As a devout Zionist there is no way he can endorse one state in Israel/Palestine with equal rights of citizenship for all.
Other victims of Madoff’s deception, like the Shapiro Family Foundation and the Chais Family Foundation, are undoubtedly genuinely philanthropic and well-meaning. But insofar as their gifts support Jews-only education, medicine, and social programs in Israel, they deserve the derision that would be accorded to Aryan philanthropists or others who support a racist state, one whose very laws favor one chosen group over all the rest.
Madoff’s clients were not just generous Jews; they were Jews who directly or indirectly support the racism inherent in political Zionism. They support the assimilation of Ethiopian Jews (a noble enterprise), but reject the assimilation of Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians caged in West Bank and Gaza. They support “birthright” trips for young American Jews in hopes they will settle in Israel, but not the “Birthright Unplugged” educational trips of Hannah Mermelstein or the work of Jeff Halper’s Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions.
Madoff’s wealthy victims build ever more Holocaust memorials with the message “Never Forget” but ignore the current siege and starvation of Gaza to which they contribute financially and by their silence. Like The Great Weasel, they simply dismiss the analogy as “unworthy.” Where is the Spielberg movie of the Gaza ghetto that isolates three times as many people as the Warsaw Ghetto and in worse conditions? Where is the support for Righteous Jews like former Princeton University law professor Richard Falk, who calls what Israel is doing to the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza “a crime against humanity?” Falk has condemned the collective punishment of the Palestinians in Gaza as “a flagrant and massive violation of international humanitarian law as laid down in Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
Cast in terms of their impact on the struggle for Palestinian human rights, it is difficult not to plead guilty to schadenfreude caused by the greed of Bernard Madoff. In fact, my only regret is that Edgar Bronfman and Alan Dershowitz were not among his preferred clients.
