Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden [in October 2024] tipped the commentariat over the edge. In his report for MSNBC, Jonathan Capehart described the event as “particularly chilling, because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally”. He neglects to mention… Read More On the Misuse of the Term ‘Fascist’
Reviewed by SH If you save one life, it is as if you’ve saved the whole world”—Jewish saying. Rabbi David G Dalin, in his 2005 book, The Myth of Hitler’s Pope, has marshaled an extensive documentation which shows to us today what the first post-war generation of Jews who actually lived through that terrible period already… Read More A Rabbi Exposes the Animus Behind the Slandering of Pius XII
Daffodils for Gravestones by John Waters This 2008 documentary, Where Was Your Family During the Famine?, in which I feature as one of three subjects of the titular question, has mysteriously entered the public domain on the last couple of weeks. It is, for me, an odd and affecting timing, since — in the timbre of radically… Read More Ireland’s John Waters. Locating Family During the Irish Famine
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