Pat Buchanin racism

Several months ago all major newspapers and television network
news programs in the U.S. carried the report of an incident which occurred
at a political rally where Buchanan was the principal speaker. The
newsgroup, soc.culture.jewish provided the following synopsis by Judy
Balint:

Subject: Buchanan aides beat up Jewish protestors
Date: 20 Mar 1995 13:06:34 -0500
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March 20, 1995

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JEWISH ANTI-BUCHANAN PROTESTORS BEATEN AND KICKED AT CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF
RALLY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Three members of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha demonstrating
against Pat Buchanan's anti-Semitism and bigotry were beaten, kicked and
thrown down stairs by Buchanan security guards and campaign workers in
Manchester NH this morning.

The three, rabbinical student David Kalb, and college students Moshe Maoz
and Ronn Torossian were part of a CJC-Amcha group who jumped on the stage
as Buchanan was announcing his intention to run for President on the
Republican ticket in 1996. Carrying signs saying, "Pat = Duke Without the
Sheets" and "Buchanan is a racist" the three were shoved, pushed to the
ground and beaten while Buchanan looked on.

Even after it was established that the CJC-Amcha activists were unarmed,
Buchanan guards pushed and dragged the students down three flights of
stairs and outside to the parking lot of the building where they continued
to beat, punch and kick the three until Manchester police officers
intervened and threatened to arrest Buchanan's campaign director.

Kalb, Torrosian and Maoz sustained bruises, scratches, a black eye and
ripped clothing in the attack.

The group is pressing assault charges against the Buchanan campaign at the
Manchester police department. "We hope that the rest of the campaign will
not be conducted in this manner," said Judy Balint, national director of
the New York-based Jewish activist group. "There must be a place for
peaceful protest against anti-Semitism and bigotry without the fear of
being beaten by paid goons," she asserted. "It was clear our protestors
were unarmed and had no intention of causing Buchanan any physical
harm--the treatment they received was completely unwarranted."

"Today's protest was to expose Buchanan's record of continued support for
accused Nazi war criminals including Klaus Barbie; Buchanan's "doubts
about whether Jews were gassed at Treblinka," his lauding of Hitler,
calling him "an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the
Great War" and "a leader steeped in the history of Europe." Buchanan
referred to Capitol Hill as "Israel's occupied territory," and has called
the American pro-Israel lobby, Israel's "amen corner in the US."
Buchanan's comments raise the specter of a Jewish conspiracy and his other
deplorable comments include a statement made in 1992 that "only Israel and
American Jews wanted war in the Persian Gulf" and suggested that the Jews
would send non-Jews to fight the war," noted Ronn Torossian and David
Kalb.

"Our position is that even if you agree with every one of Buchanan's
programs, if he is an anti-Semite and a defender of Nazis that would make
it immoral for any decent American to vote for him," said National
president of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha, Rabbi Avi Weiss.

CJC-AMCHA activists followed Buchanan on the campaign trail in 1992 and
were verbally and physically assaulted in New Hampshire, Georgia, Rhode
Island and Massachussetts by Buchanan supporters. In Marietta, Georgia in
answer to Rabbi Weiss' accusation that he is a racist, Buchanan said,
"This is a rally for Americans, by American's in the good 'ole USA." The
following day the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish
Committee declared the statement a clear indication of Buchanan's
anti-Semitism.

"As Pat Buchanan campaigns for the Republican nomination, we will campaign
against his bigotry and anti-Semitism everywhere he goes," the CJC-Amcha
group declared.

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On Saturday, February 24, 1996, Professor Stephen Feinberg (University
of Minnesota) posted the following piece to the Holocaust Discussion
Group:

To: Multiple recipients of list HOLOCAUS
Subject: Pat Buchanan, the Jews & the Holocaust

From: Stephen Feinstein


PATRICK BUCHANAN: IN HIS OWN WORDS

* Buchanan told Elie Wiesel that President Reagan must not surrender to
"Jewish pressure" against visiting Bitburg, a German cemetery where SS men
were buried. In a White House meeting with Jewish leaders, Buchanan
reminded them that they were "Americans first," as fellow staffer Ed
Rollins later recounted to Reagan biographer Lou Cannon. Buchanan
repreatedly scrawled the phrase "Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" on
his notepad during the meeting.

* In 1990 William Buckley, Buchanan's former mentor, wrote a 20,000 word
essay on Buchanan that concluded: "I find it impossible to defend Pat
Buchanan against the charge" of anti-Semitism.

* Buchanan has called Hitler a "man of great courage" and extraordinary
gifts."

* On ABC Nightline, March 11, 1992, Buchanan told anchorman, Chris
Wallace: "I'm one of the few people in this city, Chris, who's had the guts
to stand up to the agenda of the special interests, whether it's the civil
rights lobbyist or the AIPAC lobby or the gay rights lobby, and say that
their agenda is not in the interest of a good society and not in the
interest of my country."

* In a March 13, 1991 syndicated column Buchanan called Israel "a
strategic albatross draped around the neck of the United States."

* In an interview in Present Tense magazine, Buchanan stated that "if my
friends in the Jewish community feel Pat Buchanan, a traditionalist
Catholic, owes some kind of apology for the record of the Holy Father
during World War II, they can wait, because it's not going to be
forthcoming."

* In the Chicago Sun Times of March 1989, Buchanan criticized the West
for ostracizing Kurt Waldheim. Buchanan rationalized,"like others in
Hitler's army, Lt. Waldheim looked the other way." (Previously, as
Secretary General of the United Nations, Waldheim had been an object of
Buchanan's scorn).

* On The McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990:
"There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the
Middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United
States."

* In Newsweek, December 23, 1991, Jonathan Alter writes that in 1983
Buchanan criticized the US government for expressing regret over its
postwar protection of Klaus Barbie.

* In 1985 Buchanan advocated restoring citizenship of Arthur Rudolph, an
ex-Nazi rocket scientist

* In 1987 Buchanan lobbied to stop deportation of Karl Linnas, accused of
Nazi atrocities in Estonia.

* In a March 17, 1990 column, Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for
850,000 Jews to be killed by diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at
Treblinka. "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill
anybody." According to Jacob Weisberg in his article "The Heresies of Pat
Buchanan," October 22, 1990, The New Republic, "Buchanan stands by his
bizarre claim about the diesel engines but refuses to discuss it on the
record. Suffice it to say that he embraces a bolder debunking claim than
he is yet willing to endorse in print...Where did he get the anecdote
("proving" his assertion about the diesel)? 'Somebody sent it to me.'
"Buchanan's source was almost certainly the July 1988 issue of a Newsletter
of the German American Information and Education Association--a known
Holocaust denial group which quotes extensively from a story of
schoolchildren who emerged unharmed after being exposed to diesel fumes
while trapped in a train tunnel.

* On March 2, 1992, at a campaign rally in Marietta, Georgia, where Rabbi
Avi Weiss called out, "Your anti-Semitism makes America last," Buchanan
shot back, "This rally is of Americans, for Americans and for the good 'ole
USA, my friends."

* In the New York Post, March 17, 1990,Buchanan referred to a"so called
Holocaust survivors syndrome" which he described as involving"group
fantasies of martyrdom and heroics."

*Buchanan was a featured columnist for The Spotlight, a patently
anti-Semitic and anti-Black publication that championed David Duke.

* Former Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes writes of Buchanan in his
memoirs, 'Speaking Out,' "..he (Buchanan) was so blindly reactionary."

* Buchanan repeatedly referred to Capitol Hill as "Israeli occupied
territory." (McLaughlin Report, June 1990)

* On February 4, 1987 in The Washington Post, Buchanan wrote: "Dr. Martin
Luther King is one of the most divisive men in contemporary history..." In
an earlier article in the Globe-Democrat, Buchanan wrote that King was
"sometimes demagogic and irresponsible in his public statements."

* In a January 16, 1986 column, Buchanan wrote:" But apartheid is not
the worst situation facing Africans today. Not remotely. If it were, they
wouldn't be pouring into South Africa from such "liberated" zones as
Mozambique."

* In 1990, before the Gulf War, Buchanan wrote that if the US went to
war, "the fighting would be done by kids with names like McAllister,
Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown." The National Review (December 30, 1991)
commented that "There is no way to read that sentence without concluding
that Pat Buchanan was suggesting that American Jews manage to avoid
personal military exposure even while advancing military policies they
(uniquely?) engender."