MARGOLIS ‘NEO-NAZI’?

Posted by Guest Blogger on Friday, 12 June 2009 00:42.

Eric Margolis of Canada is one of the most experienced of journalists, with a rare insight into geo-politics. He is an opponent of US global adventurism, and writes for many reputable Canadian newspapers. He has been a lecturer in military history and is widely travelled, a real veteran in international journalism.

Margolis is not afraid to air controversial opinions, albeit ones backed up by deep insights, first-hand experiences, and perspectives of history normally lacking in journalism. On his blogsite Margolis tackled the question of World War II after the comments of Pres. Obama in France marking the Normandy invasion. Writing in a column for 8 June, Margolis states in part:

“METZ, FRANCE June 08, 2009

“President Barack Obama’s visit to Normandy to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day makes us think about the entire course of World War II, and the lingering propaganda or myths that still becloud it …

“World War II was not a good and evil struggle between `western democracies’ and `totalitarian powers,’ as we are still wrongly taught.

“It was a world conflict over land and resources pitting the British Empire which controlled 25% of the entire globe, the French Empire, Dutch Empire, and Belgian Empire, and, later, the US imperium (Philippines, Pacific possessions, Cuba, Central America), against the Italian and Japanese empires. The Soviet Union was an empire unto itself …”

When I wrote a few years back “An Open Letter to the War Generation” in response to an unsolicited letter that was sent to me, I expressed a largely cynical view of WWII, its origins, purposes and outcomes. Similar opinions have been expressed in addition to Margolis, by Pat Buchanan, and even by the pre-eminent WWII historian Prof. A J P Taylor in his “Origins of the Second World War”.

My “Open Letter” which was aimed at trying to get a veteran to THINK about how they’d been betrayed (in keeping with the opinions I used to hear from NZ vets who were the mainstay of the New Zealand Right when I was a lad first getting interested in politics) was taken up by Australian Dr Toben, an alleged ‘holocaust denier’, and placed at one time of his website for the Adelaide Institute. With much ado, several oddities from the Left, who have the ear of journalists in trying to carve a cheap and easy career for themselves as ‘anti-Nazi crusaders’, have paraded this article – which they never attempt to critique historically – as proof that I am a neo-Nazi etc. In particular Mat Henderson from Australia, whose favourite sport he states is ‘body surfing into fat kids and making them cry’, who has a phobia about ‘fat chicks’ (sic) and who had a really sicko fantasy about Alexander Downer that I’ll not describe here, has referred to this “Open Letter” as proof of my ‘neo-Nazism’. Another oddity, self-described ‘stupid drunk’ Trotskyite Dr Scott Hamilton of Auckland, who has graduated from smearing and threatening fellow communists with trying to establish a name for himself as an ‘expert’ on the pervasive neo-Nazi threat in NZ (like fellow sociologist Dr Paul Spoonley a few decades previously) has stated on such a basis that I work “closely with Toben” (sic); reminiscent of the semiliterate nonsense about me on Wikipedia, which among other things states that I am “a [sic’] associate of the Adelaide Institute.”

Are the likes of Mat Henderson, and Dr Scott Hamilton,– his having a doctorate perhaps again attesting to the poor standards of tertiary education? – now going to rant that Eric Margolis, whom I understand is of Jewish descent, is a ‘neo-Nazi’, a ‘holocaust denier’ etc.? Well, on second thoughts, yes… they probably would… but at least I’d be in good company.

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Posted by Tanstaafl on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:25 | #

A neo-nazi is anyone any jew doesn’t like.

Posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:48 | #

A neo-nazi is anyone any jew doesn’t like.

Ain’t that the truth. Margolis is a real Schutzstaffel Offizier as well. And you’d think the 4th Reich was right around the corner with Nazi’s under the bed. Why the recent shooting at the Hebrew Guilt Factory (otherwise known as the Holocaust Museum) is proof! Obviously, more mass immigration of 3rd worlders, especially muslims, is needed. More Jewish delusion… I’m telling you these people are nuts.

Posted by Desmond Jones on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:06 | #

Dr. Bolton,

Re: Margolis

It’s called the Jewish exemption.

This was a perfect scientific experiment. You see, I had republished, word for word, the very same “hate speech” that Rev. Stephen Boissoin had published six years ago in Alberta. Rev. Boissoin was found by both the Alberta HRC and the CHRC to be guilty of hate speech.

So I controlled all the variables but one.

I published the exact same words Rev. Boissoin used.

I published the words in the exact same jurisdiction that Rev. Boissoin did—in Alberta.

I published them in contravention of the exact same laws that Rev. Boissoin did—the Stalinist human rights acts.

And a complaint was brought against me, just as it was against Rev. Boissoin.

Only one thing was different. Rev. Boissoin is Christian. I’m Jewish.

Posted by QUESTION on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:42 | #

Isn’t “Margolis” a Jewish surname? Is it possible that this guy is an ethnic Jew, either fully or partially?

Posted by HR on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:24 | #

Nah…here’s a real Nazi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5qFavzYK2w

Posted by Friedrich Braun on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:13 | #

Historian blames Poland for WWII
Russia’s role recast in research paper

By Mike Eckel, Associated Press | June 5, 2009

MOSCOW - As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia’s 20th-century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published yesterday on the Defense Ministry’s website blamed Poland for starting World War II.

The unorthodox reading of history appears to be the latest effort by Russian historians to defend the Soviet Union and its leaders, especially their role in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War. Poland condemned the research paper.

Russia has rejected claims that a Stalin-era famine in Ukraine amounted to genocide, and Russia’s Supreme Court recently turned down an appeal to reopen an investigation into the massacre by Soviet secret police of Polish military officers and intellectuals in Russia’s Katyn forest during World War II.

The generally accepted view is that Poland was a victim rather than the aggressor in the conflict, and that Adolf Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland marked the start of the war.

Many Western historians believe Hitler was encouraged to invade by the treaty of nonaggression signed by Moscow and Berlin, called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which secretly divided eastern and western Europe into spheres of influence.

Hitler’s pact with the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was signed on Aug. 24, 1939. Germany invaded Poland Sept. 1.

Blaming Poland would deny Russia played a role in starting the war by sealing the secret accord.

The research paper posted on Russia’s Defense Ministry website is not an official government statement. But the author is listed as Colonel Sergei Kovalyov, director of the scientific-research department of military history, part of the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense.

Ministry spokesman Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky told the Interfax news agency that analytical articles posted on the ministry’s website do not necessarily reflect the ministry’s official position.

The paper, titled “Fictions and Falsifications in Evaluating the USSR’s Role On the Eve of World War II,” recounts how in the run-up to Germany’s invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler demanded that Poland turn over control of the city of Danzig as well as a land corridor between Germany and the territory now known as Kaliningrad.

“Everyone who has studied the history of World War II without bias knows that the war began because of Poland’s refusal to satisfy Germany’s claims,” he writes.

Kovalyov called the demands “quite reasonable.”

He observed: “The overwhelming majority of residents of Danzig, cut off from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, were Germans who sincerely wished for reunification with their historical homeland.”

Kovalyov, who works in St. Petersburg, could not be immediately located for comment.

Arseny Roginsky, a historian with the rights group Memorial, said Kovalyov was entitled to his opinion “and he shouldn’t be thrown in prison for that.”

“But if this indeed reflects the position of the government - in as much that it appeared on the Web site of the Ministry of Defense - then this is indeed dangerous and shameful,” he said.

Poland contacted the Russian ambassador in Warsaw for an explanation.

“This sort of exotic interpretation of historical facts appears in various marginal Russian language periodicals from time to time,” Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski said. “For obvious reasons we don’t react. This time, however, we asked the Russian ambassador in Warsaw for an explanation.”

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:48 | #

Interesting that Kovalyov is a Jewish name.