It is rapidly becoming clear that one of the most serious assaults on memory these days comes not from Holocaust deniers and the likes of David Irving and Norman Finkelstein — obvious crackpots to whom the very quest for Holocaust reparations is part of a Zionist plot — but from literary and legal ambulance chasers.

The Wall Street Journal, New York, April 11, 2001, Editorial Page

Commentary

The New Holocaust Profiteers

By Gabriel Schoenfeld,
senior editor of Commentary.

[There was posted here an article by Schoenfeld on the latest case, filed in a federal district court in Washington last month, demanding that the U.S. government pay $40 billion in damages for failing to bomb the rail lines leading to the Auschwitz death camp. Scheonfeld also commnted sarcastically on the recent and revealing abortive attempt to extort huge sums from IBM and the boost to the campaign to tar IBM when the Anti-Defamation League issued its own statement announcing “shocking documentation” that IBM “was instrumental in facilitating the implementation of Hitler’s extermination of European Jewry.” The article also inclued the gratuitous and defamatory slur on prof Finkelstein and David Irving cited at the top oft his page. The article can be accessed at this link: The Wall Street Journal].

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