Atzmon’s protocols

As Oliver Kamm recently reminded us, Atzmon wrote the following on his website in 2005:

American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the elder of Zion’ [sic] are an authentic document or rather a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do try to control the world, by proxy. […]

Now, compare that sentiment to the following, quoted by Aaronovitch in Voodoo Histories:

The Frankfurter Zeitung is forever moaning to the people that [the Protocols] are supposed to be a forgery; which is the surest proof that they are genuine. What many Jews do perhaps unconsciously is here consciously exposed. But that is not what matters… What matters is that they uncover, with really horrifying reliability, the nature and activity of the Jewish people, and expose them in their inner logic and their final aims. But reality provides the best commentary. […]

This passage is from Mein Kampf, by one Adolf Hitler.

Let’s be clear on this. In stating that the Protocols‘ inauthenticity does not matter, that Jewish behavior tells all, Atzmon is cribbing arguments from Adolf Hitler.

Kamm goes on to cite a more recent piece by Atzmon, in which he writes:

It took me years to grasp that my great-grandmother wasn’t made into a ‘soap’ or a ‘lampshade’*. She probably perished out of exhaustion, typhus or maybe even by mass shooting. […] The fate of my great-grandmother was not any different from hundreds of thousands of German civilians who died in an orchestrated indiscriminate bombing, because they were Germans. Similarly, people in Hiroshima died just because they were Japanese. 1 million Vietnamese died just because they were Vietnamese and 1.3 million Iraqis died because they were Iraqis. In short the tragic circumstances of my great grandmother wasn’t that special after all.

Apart from the pseudo-leftist flourishes, this also happens to be Mel Gibson’s view of the Holocaust. Here is what Gibson, or “sugar tits,” said to Peggy Noonan in 2004:

Yes, of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century 20 million people died in the Soviet Union.

In other words, “wasn’t that special after all.” The subtext is clear, and Atzmon could have uttered it. But given that Atzmon is on record parroting the views of Hitler himself, his brand of Holocaust minimization is especially ghoulish.

I’ll go out on a limb and say that no leftist of any stripe would want to be caught dead praising Hitler. Or Mel Gibson for that matter. But Atzmon? That’s different.