Jonathan Cook – jonathancook.net Aug 25, 2024
Tony Greenstein offers an excoriating account of how Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland distorted the historical record in his biography of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to escape Auschwitz.
One might wonder why Vrba’s incredible story has been buried for decades, given how keen Hollywood is to make Holocaust movies.
Greenstein explains. Vrba’s efforts in early 1944 to warn other Jews of their coming fate in the Nazi death camps were betrayed by European leaders of the Zionist movement, who silenced him.
That movement was prepared to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Jews in return for the Nazis escorting the Zionist elite out of danger in Europe to Palestine. There the Zionist movement was already well-advanced in its preparations to expel the native Palestinians and build a self-declared Jewish state on the ruins of their homeland.
The Zionists’ attitude reflected that of the movement’s founding father, Theodor Herzl: “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”
Vrba was hugely critical of the Zionist movement for collaborating with the Nazis, and had no love for the Jewish state it spawned.
In 1961, the Daily Herald published an extract from Vrba’s memoir, cited by Greenstein, in which he wrote:
“I am a Jew. In spite of that, indeed because of that, I accuse certain Jewish leaders of one of the most ghastly deeds of the war. This small group of quislings knew what was happening to their brethren in Hitler’s gas chambers and bought their own lives with the price of silence … I was able to give Hungarian Zionist leaders three weeks’ notice that [Adolf] Eichmann [key architect of the Holocaust] planned to send a million of their Jews to his gas chambers … [Rezso] Kasztner [leader of Hungary’s Zionist movement] went to Eichmann and told him, ‘I know of your plans; spare some Jews of my choice and I shall keep quiet.’”
Kasztner’s betrayal of those Jews, dooming them to the Nazi gas chambers, was later justified by Israel’s attorney general, Haim Cohen, in the following terms:
“He was entitled to make a deal with the Nazis for the saving of a few hundred and entitled not to warn the millions… That was his duty … It has always been our Zionist tradition to select the few out of many in arranging the immigration to Palestine… Are we to be called traitors?”
It is on that basis that Israel’s Holocaust museum Yad Vashem has effectively excised Vrba’s astonishing story from its halls, and why Israeli schoolchildren learn nothing of Vrba. It’s also presumably why Hollywood has never picked up the most Hollywood story to come out of the Holocaust.
The anti-Zionist Vrba’s story exposes the ideological foundations of Israel to be fully in sympathy with ugly European ethic nationalisms that culminated in Nazism. His story explains how Israel was always capable of, and is now committing, a genocide in Gaza.
When ideology becomes more important than human life, people – even those you see as your own – become expendable. They come to be treated as a pawns in a savage game of power politics. David Ben Gurion, Israel’s founding father, gave voice to precisely this sentiment in December 1938, as Nazi pogroms against Jews in Germany raged:
“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”
Freedland’s task in his book The Escape Artist was to appropriate Vrba’s story, strip out its anti-Zionist message, and incorporate it into the now-dominant Zionist narrative carefully crafted after the Second World War.
That is why the biography has received awards and endless gushing praise from the usual suspects. Vrba’s life story is doubtless now ready for a Hollywood makeover – one that, should it happen, will greatly enrich Freedland.
Thanks to his efforts, the threat posed by the true story of Vrba has been neutralised. That accords with the wider fate of anti-Zionist Jews – their existence is either ignored or sanitised to accord with a self-serving Zionist interpretation of history.
That process continues to this day:
The many anti-Zionist Jews who supported Jeremy Corbyn were either ignored or driven out of the Labour party because they undermined the bogus antisemitism narrative Freedland and many others promoted to get rid of a leader who genuinely supported the Palestinian people’s right to statehood.
And the many anti-Zionist Jews who attend the marches to protest the genocide in Gaza have been disappeared because they give the lie to the establishment media’s efforts to paint those marches as antisemitic.
Note that Israeli leaders like prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have made close alliances, just as Herzl recommended, with openly antisemitic states like Viktor Orban’s Hungary. They have continued in the tradition begun by Kasztner, who saved himself and his Zionist friends by sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
Note too that for decades Israeli governments have been moving relentlessly rightwards, to the point now that senior government ministers like Bezalel Smotrich openly declare themselves to be “Jewish fascists”.
Nonetheless, their Zionist ideology is little different from their supposedly “moderate” predecessors. The chief difference is that they are unapologetic in their Jewish supremacism and loud-mouthed in their contempt for Palestinian life. Zionism is simply coming out of a closet it was partially forced into by the rhetorical need to claim a moral basis for its actions and by concerns about placating western publics.
It is not the self-declared fascist Smotrich committing a genocide in Gaza. It is Israel’s establishment generals and its citizen army.
Greenstein recently published an important book, Zionism During the Holocaust, that deals extensively with the collusion of those who helped to found Israel with the Nazis. I recommend everyone seek it out.
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Jonathan Freedland is a demented imbecile..unsurprisingly… he should be sedated and trussed in up in a rubber room.. (next door to Nick Cohen)..
somehow he’s all over the so called Brit-ish maggot media..and guess what…he’s always whinging about jewes and jewish issues, generally to the detriment of the white working class..
Point in case… regarding the recent ‘objection’ to imported racial aliens stabbing little white girls…
“Displaying a staggering degree of ethnic solipsism, Jewish Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland, who once wrote a novel fantasising about the assassination of a Trump-like President, bleated hysterically that the riots were a re-run of anti-Jewish riots in 1144 following the murder of William of Norwich and demanded that Elon Musk be arrested and brought to trial by English authorities.
Freedland worries that Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X has brought about a resurgence in the Right, fretting that “posts including “the word ‘Jew’ had increased fivefold since before the ownership transfer.” God forbid anyone should mention the Jews. Freedland’s solution is that “schools should be teaching information hygiene,” a descriptor equally banal and terrifying since the subtext is clearly a form of brainwashing.
Freedland wants “online safety legislation with teeth … if that means toughening up laws so new they are yet to be fully implemented, so be it.” Jews, as always, remain at the forefront of censorship, and even the massive over-reach currently seen under Britain’s speech laws are clearly not enough to satisfy Jewish insecurity and paranoia.”
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2024/08/29/lessons-from-the-english-riots/
Rudolf Vrba was interned at Birkenau. He admitted he had never seen anyone gassed, never seen a gas chamber and that his book was ‘an artistic picture, not a document for a court’ (Toronto Star1985) as Irving reported. He is in the Yad Vashem database! (of Holo–victims) I wrote, “Rudolf Vrba is the author of the preposterous ‘I Cannot Forgive’ and his real name (Walter Rosenberg) is in the database (in my Breaking the Spell The holocaust Myth and Reality.)
lost me at “gas chambers”.
I saw Vrba in a mainstream documentary where he just did sone commonplace Holohoaxing, and I never knew he had the anti-Nazi/anti-Zionist stance: we can grudgingly welcome this, but it has little awareness about it. Lower down the food-chain, Commies do not like Zionism
Rudolf Vrba was a self aggrandizing liar. His accounts are far from truthful.
https://codoh.com/library/document/rudolf-vrba-exposes-himself-as-a-liar/
Good grief…. not AGAIN!
Is it just me… or is anyone else “zuffer’rink” from “Auschwitz” FATIGUE??? 🙄
there is so much wrong with this
Moshe solomons was asked on radio why lord Victor Rothschild the architect
of w w 2
why he did not rescue 6 milion jews from the gas chambers
he thought for a moment then said
” because it never happened ”
a recent FOI request revealed that just before and early in the war 4 and a half milion jews left the UK and europe for the USA, these figures had never been revealed before, and were said to have gone into gas chambers and their bodies burnt
this idea that Lord Rothschild did not know 6 milion jews were rounded up and put into camps nand he never knew is bullshit
his very famous comment
” there will be no room in the new land for the shnorrors” ( poor jews ) tells it all
remember jews declared war on germany in 1933
shame we cant round them all up again and put them in work camps
Pehaps a more appropiate name would be OUCH!!’witz?
40 beheaded babies, mass rapes, 1200 dead innocent victims, all this death and destruction committed by that proscribed terrorist organization known as Hamas. This fake account repeated by every Western politician and shameless media talking head. Unforgivable lies, which made it possible for Israel to commit a genocidal holocaust against the Palestinian people.
All a big lie, except for the lie which is pushed as truth to justify the biggest crime of mass murder and destruction against the Palestinian people since what we are told happened to Jews in WWII. This holocaust narrative they defend as being true.
But we know this is bollox.
HoloYawn…if only..
There were no ‘gas chambers’ or ‘holocaust’. More lies that the Nazis were pro-Zionist. This has been refuted before via the Nazi governments alliance with al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who resided in Berlin. It was the UK & Allies who setup Israel for the Jews–the Nazis plan was for their Arab allies to inhabit & manage Palestine after the war. True, they transported some Jews to British Palestine, but that was simply to remove Jews from Germany to create a Jew free Germany–if the British government is dumb/insane enough to take them, let them have them. Figure it out, if you can.
I dont believe Vrba that he was inside Auschwitz KZ + escaping .
NOBODY COULD ESCAPE ! maybe he was from a transport
escaping + spying from outside the camps . every civilian nearby
got immediately attention from SS + informers or he was lucky
to got a SSuniform + behaved like that .
In Auschwitz Birkenau there were 4 gaschambers + crematories .
the SS exploded when they left 1945 . the 4 ditches can be still
seen on googl map . surely they were mostly used to gaskill the
fleckfiever infected + other by sickness dead corpses . so the amount
could be about a million . the nazis never had the possibility + not
the intention to use masses of coal to burn 6 million . where they
needed every ton of coal mainly for coalliquification to change to oil.
german patent of millions the yanks now have their hands on like
nitrogen from air patent to produce explosives + fertilizer today
other nations pay license to the yanks .
@CHESTERTON
and the jews sertainly do well to be uncertain + paranoid
since they know all their crimes against the goyim + we
will never forget as every young palestinian will not
forget what zionists have done to them .
It is true National Socialist Germany wanted the Jews out of Germany, who can blame them. Exceptions would have been the 150,000 half and quarter Jews who fought for Germany in WW2. Nick Kollerstrom is quite correct, Vrba was outed as a liar in the Toronto trials of Ernst Zundel in the 1980’s. Jonathan Cook must know the six million gassing story is a hoax.
“The only bad thing about the Holocaust, is that it didn’t happen.” –Nico X
The straw that broke (or should have broken) the back of the holo-bolloxing camel was the interrogation by Ernst Zundel’s defence lawyer of Raul Hilberg (the revered ‘holocaust historian’) at the Canadian trial that condemned Zundel to five years of prison in solitary confinement. This valiant defence lawyer insisted that Hilberg answer his question: ‘What forensic evidence is there of deaths by asphyxiation by gas in German concentration camps?’
Very reluctantly, Hilberg eventually answered: ‘Unfortunately, there is none.’
The presiding judge was astonished. But that did not prevent his giving Zundel a harsh prison sentence for ‘holocaust denial’.
As we have seen again and again, hoax though ‘the holocaust’ be, you cannot say so, not even in Britain, where there is no explicit ‘holocaust denial’ law. The charming, brilliant singer Alison Chabloz knows something about this.
This creep Freedman, the revolting, shameless, lying lowlife, is reviving the holohoax in the hope of exciting sympathy for the relentless mass-murder that Israel is doing in Gaza.
Thank goodness for the Truthseeker! It is really comforting that there are no holocaust-liars here.
at Nnrnberg
the patsies were hanged after having had their testicles smashed by repeated blows from brass knuckled fists,
in order to make and sign statements admitting their guilt
whilst the likes of Werner Von Braun and his crew were whisked away to a life of ease and luxury in the USA,
via “operation paperclip”
this after trying to mass murder Londoners with his rockets
no hanging for him
instead he became the head of the cartoon and helium business that became nasa
the genuine “rocket man” front man they needed
he got to play with his toys and fronted the scam with a constant stream of rockets that arced away through the sky’s of Florida to plop down handily in the Bermuda triangle,
and there remain lost forever…..
a cosmic soap opera that costs the American tax payers billions and billions and billions of dollars for cartoons and photoshopped pictures
currently there is a “space” drama afoot
2 astronots lost in spaceeeee!!
including the silly indian woman that can be found in a jewtube vid pointing at 2 or 3 foot of lacquer stiffened hair standing straight up like a board from her head,
proving “weightlessness”
and now they are trapped!! possibly for years!! spinning around at one hundred and seventy five thousand miles an hour in their potential shared tomb!
and all so matter of fact, and casually reported in the media
no claustrophobic horror possibly entombed for years
fake fake fake
check out the hair vid and you will understand why
I cant be arsed to post it
do your own research
Might I add that an easy ploy it is indeed,
to ridicule something that you dont want people to investigate thats not in the CIA arsenal of fuckeries!?? turn people in any direction desired
invent the ‘tard
I am surprised that I feel I have to point out such a thing,
and especially on a site titled “the truth seeker”
unlike some prolific content providers on here,
I’m always open to being challenged and ready to stand corrected if proven wrong
I claim that the oceans of the plane et
all have perfectly provably flat surfaces…
you disagree?
prove me wrong.
teejay
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Belsen was a gas,live in texas,was a blast.Belsen Was a Gas / Einmal war Belsen Vortrefflich
Sex Pistols.
@teejay.Standing upright on a flat plane makes sense,as our mass finds stability.your mass can not stand upright on any incline without losing balance.if earth is a globe would we not have a different center of ‘gravity’?would our skeleton not have a curvature corresponding to that of globe earth? would we not be walking bent over backwards to find our balance?
Our rest mode, sleeping or lying,is also carried out in a straight and horizontal manner.
Non plus ultra.Literally, “nothing further beyond”, nōn (“not”) + plūs (“more”) + ultrā (“beyond”). An ancient post-classical Mediterranean aphorism, fabulously alleged to have been inscribed somewhere upon the Pillars of Hercules as a warning to ships to sail no further. Adopted during the Renaissance as a metaphor for the stifling influence of ancient philosophy on the progress of thought. Compare Gādēs.
excellent points as always teejay👍🏻
btw just ignore psycho nurse ratched
😉
Vrba promotes a Holoman argument
(also, get some feckin vowels in your name- you backward cunt!)
Good Lord! Di jews ever do anything but LIE? There were NO gas chambers, and the story was con-cocked about 20 years after, many variations of LIES by lying schlomo’s
who made a lot of money with LIES!
Telling them still AGAIN, for more shekels, sorry lying weaselrat creatures!
The people who killed jesus
are now jesus deniers
Since the fall of communism so much info has come out about
these so called ” death camps”£
most folk know now they were not for gassing jews
The UK lost its only chance to be rid of the rothschild octopuss
that takes 5000 pounds per second from our economy in interest money alone
what fools we were
the war was really about Hitler taking the german economy away from the jewbankers
and giving it to the people
Thankyou Nik Kollerstrom for what you have done for us
Mention Gas Chambers and I stop reading.
Thank you Peter!
Fur Q nursey…..
Tee Jay–immensely crap points, as always; parroting all Flat Earthers, who bring shame on humans. Thanks, America, for yet another heap of mental excrement
TeeJay…..with a name like this he must be a fuckwìt and it turns out he is!!.
Rudolf Vrba was a lying sack of shit, of course, and deserved to have his tongue ripped out and stuffed up his ass. Professional scumbag and propagandist Jonathan Freedland deserves a vigorous beating with tire irons and claw hammers, get violently sodomized by Dindu and the Migrant Mob, horse-hipped raw, rolled in salt and pig shit, then nailed to a rail and floated down the Thames.
The HollowCo$t: repeat a big lie often enough and it becomes the truth…to the morons anyway.
frank on September 2, 2024 at 4:23 am
‘Thankyou Nik Kollerstrom for what you have done for us.’
Hear! Hear!
@lewis jones.are you the globe earth policeman? Are you the heliocentrist vigilante?always on patrol ,on the lookout for critical thinkers.so you can post an ad hominem comment without any substance,loaded with shit,on matters that are far beyond your understanding.why can’t you let other people’s ideas be?you are a fake christian, and dumb too,since you do not know the original,pre roman biblical view regarding heliocentrism.you don’t know what the bible teaches about planet earth .you are a good example of goyim.you should be ashamed of yourself for backstabbing truth-seekers,that dare go where you will never venture,outside the box.that box is your cross folded up.
Some other examples of fake christianity.denying the existence of giants,nephilim,while it is mentioned multiple times in yoor book.the bible tells of a flat earth,enclosed by a dome.sun and moon are not planets ,but lights .it is in the bible,go read it,skip the jew passages and you will see the light.
surely the onus is on the likes of you lewis to stump up evidence of what you say?a soupcon a sliver something anything you clowns always here sniping never any proof posted not a scintilla and why?
because all you have is what you have been told and nasa
well mate you deserve nasa and the fakir that posted a laughable pathetic crap they “produce” as “evidence”
we are surrounded by oceans! show us the curve! there
isnt one in a bath the suez canal bonneville salt flats the surface of a full pisspot etc
these in comparison to tonnes and tonnes ot water supposedly clinging to a giant spinning ball
and IM the looney??
ok
roger that….I will give up banging on the day when one of you clowns actually shows me some concrete evidence of what you mumble about every now and again nonsense re the subject
you obviously missed the bit where I typed
the ocean surfaces are all provably perfectly flat
PROVE ME WRONG
or cease carping…
When I was young I thought that the reason for no discussion of the holohoax was because it was deemed to awful to horriffic inhuman to mention
Along with everyone else I used thei self cencoring app they implanted in us via their control of education the media etc
Now we have “truthers” that wont go near a subject because its “too ridiculous”
A handy cop out
and makes easy work for the REAL trolls
Seek and you shall find!
Jesus Christ
Is Lord.
“Liar”–why are you called that?
Tee Jay–Jesus is sad that you are a dick