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...organization has also faced a great deal of opposition. Hiller recalled one New Profile meeting that was met by protestors who shouted that Israel needed a standing army to prevent another Holocaust...
...According to the unreflective PETA-bashing that appears in the media, just about anything that PETA does is “over the top,” and it’s apparently so obviously absurd to compare the plight of animals with the experiences of women, Holocaust victims and slaves that it isn’t worth offering a single argument against such comparisons...
Schindler's List did more than earn Spielberg some long-overdue respect as a serious filmmaker. It spurred him to create the Shoah Visual History Foundation, through which survivors of the Nazi Holocaust bear witness to the ordeals they suffered, the families they lost, the ideals they held high. He continues that good effort in this DVD's extras, particularly a 77-min. documentary, Michael Mayhew's Voices from the List, which assembles recollections of the Schindlerjuden and others who outlived the Nazi madness...
...past few years, PETA has repeatedly used shock tactics in an attempt to further its cause, summed up by PETA President Ingrid Newkirk as “total animal liberation.” Last year, its activists began a campaign entitled “Holocaust On Your Plate,” likening the slaughter of stockyard animals to the genocide undertaken by Nazi Germany. On the PETA-controlled website dedicated to that campaign, www.masskilling.com, images from concentration camps are juxtaposed with images from the stockyards...
...PETA to America’s political arena has been stunningly harmful to those who truly advocate animal rights causes. PETA’s traveling exhibits only alienate the vast majority of people who find nothing, and certainly not the butcher of animals, comparable to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Nor is PETA interested in convincing ranchers—who were collectively compared to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer by the organization’s leadership—to adopt more humane methods of slaughtering animals. They seem more concerned about launching shock campaigns to convince (vainly) Americans to go vegan...