ADL Insults Millions of Christian Victims of Communist Genocide

In an interview with Peggy Noonan for Reader's Digest, Mel Gibson was put on the spot regarding revisionist historical views held by his father:

January 30, 2004 -- 'YOU'RE GOING to have to go on record. The Holocaust happened, right?" Peggy Noonan asks of Mel Gibson in the Reader's Digest for March.

Gibson: "I have friends and parents of friends who have numbers on their arms. The guy who taught me Spanish was a Holocaust survivor. He worked in a concentration camp in France. 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."

Mr. Gibson was correct to put the Jewish holocaust in its proper perspective: as but one example of man's inhumanity towards man from a tragic century of death.

Curiously, this well-balanced response has attracted the ire of Jewish leaders-

Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center responded:

"We are not engaging in competitive martyrdom, but in historical truth. To describe Jewish suffering during the Holocaust as `some of them were Jews in concentration camps' is an afterthought that feeds right into the hands of Holocaust deniers and revisionists."

Abe Foxman of the ADL attacked as well:

"At the very least it was ignorant, at the very most its insensitive. And you know what? He doesn't get that either. He doesn't begin to understand the difference between dying in a famine and people being cremated solely for what they are."

Foxman's comments have drawn me out and it is time that some more cards be layed on the table in regards to the historical record.

Jews want a monopoly on being victims; if any other suffering group of people, whether they be Christian Russians, sub-Saharan Africans, or Armenians, claims to have suffered an equivalent injustice, they are quick to defend the "unparalleled evil" of the Jewish holocaust.

I happen to believe that one human life is one human life.  I can think of several examples that far exceed the Jewish holocaust in depravity:

• The Red Chinese murdered over 50 million to secure their hold on the government against nationalist forces.

• The Soviet Union systemically murdered over 20 million people, including millions of Ukrainian Christians who were deliberately starved to death.

• In America alone, over 30 million unborn children have been murdered at the hands of abortionists.

This Jewish claim of unique suffering is ridiculous, and yet another example of the "victim mentality" complex that seems to afflict them as a people.  

Let us consider Foxman's statement that "dying in a famine" is different than "being cremated for who they are."

In a November 16, 2003 article for the Toronto Sun, Eric Margolis detailed the "forgotten" Holocaust of 1932-3 that killed over seven million Ukrainians:

Stalin declared war on his own people in 1932, sending Commissars V. Molotov and Lazar Kaganovitch and NKVD secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda to crush the resistance of Ukrainian farmers to forced collectivization.

Ukraine was sealed off. All food supplies and livestock were confiscated. NKVD death squads executed "anti-party elements." Furious that insufficient Ukrainians were being shot, Kaganovitch - virtually the Soviet Union's Adolf Eichmann - set a quota of 10,000 executions a week. Eighty percent of Ukrainian intellectuals were shot.

During the bitter winter of 1932-33, 25,000 Ukrainians per day were being shot or died of starvation and cold.

Abe Foxman claims that the millions of Christians who were deliberately starved by Stalin's government merely "died in a famine."  This is like saying that Jews who were shot in the Jewish holocaust were "died due to inhaled poison."  

Foxman has insulted the survivors of the Ukrainian Holocaust and has insulted Christians everywhere by claiming a Jewish monopoly as victims of the evils of atheistic regimes.

However, there may be a darker reason for Foxman's comment.  The article goes on to mention that, "Kaganovitch, Yagoda and some other senior Communist party and NKVD officials were Jewish..."  Foxman could be signaling a most hateful insult, that Gentile suffering is of no consequence compared to that of Jews, dismissing the deaths of Ukrainians as if they were a herd of cattle.

When I think of all of the innocent blood that has been spilled in the name of equality and atheism in this century, I cannot help but rise up in anger at Foxman's insensitivity to the sufferings of Christians.

Dare I notice that this is the same group of people that killed Christ and persecuted early Christians?

Dare I notice that this group of people was primarily responsible for the wholesale slaughter of millions of Ukrainians?

Dare I notice that the preferred response of this group is not respectful dialogue, but lies, propaganda, and character assassination?

Dare I notice that this group continues to seek to shut off the kingdom of God by attempting to censor this movie?

All Christians must at some point conclude that the assumption of mutual and reciprocal goodwill with the leadership of the Jewish community is flawed.  

As Christ warned, they hate us because they hated Him.

May God be with Mel Gibson during this trying time and may God guide the hearts of Christians to stand up to these endless insults to their faith and religion.

This website is not associated with nor endorsed by Mel Gibson or Icon Productions, but rather represents the opinion of thoughtful Christians who are concerned about the unfair attacks against Mr. Gibson's wonderful work of art.