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...This is not how the survivors want the Holocaust to be remembered," says Roman Kent, chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. "The image and memory of those killed have been put in the background, and all I hear about now is the glitter of gold." Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, voices a similar concern: "Survivors who have claims deserve to bring them forward, but it's at a heavy price. The next generation will believe it's all about money...
...Abraham Foxman, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, who regards this Pope's outreach to the Jews as unprecedented and courageous, nonetheless says there are those who see Stein's canonization as part of a "strategy," that "if you show that everyone was a victim, then the church has no responsibility [and] no guilt in the Holocaust." Such conspiracy buffs might want to toss in the Stepinac beatification, Pius' prospects, parts of We Remember and the erection of crosses outside Auschwitz by right-wing Polish Catholics...
...unfortunate that an educated man, trained in legal thought, equates criticism with anti-Semitism. Does attorny Foxman believe that his accusations of racism and anti-Semitism, hurled like characterassassin bombs, will help promote tolerance, understanding and harmony between races and religions? It is perplexing that Foxman, a great rhetoritician, uses the tactics he decries...
...criticism of Israel and the 40 years of anti-Defamation League spying on Americans I was designated Italian and anti-Semitic. After 10 years, I am still vilified as a bigoted Italian, though neither of my parents came form that country. It shows the extent of deceptions employed by Foxman and his though police. For a lengthy description of these and other tactics to discredit critics, see Prof. Noam Chomsky's Fateful triangle. Roy Bercaw Cambridge...
Unfortunately, we can also see the reflection in today's post-Holocaust society. In his speech on April 6, National Anti Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman cited growing Anti-Semitism in this country and abroad. Particularly disturbing was a 1991 poll that found 31 percent of Americans thought American Jews "too powerful, too successful or too influential...