Monday, January 27, 2025
Report on Beth Israel vigil 01-25-25
Losing our most beloved vigiler
Sad to report that our dear friend and early-on vigiler Elaine Rumman passed away on December 11. She was one of those people who, upon meeting her, you couldn’t help but love. There are just a handful of people in this writer’s life that I could say: If you didn’t like Elaine, there’s something wrong with you. She saw that good in everybody, and unfortunately, imho, prevented her from identifying her oppressors. We miss you, Elaine.
Photo taken Oct. 4, 2024, Perrysburg, Ohio
City Council Learns about the Holocaust … or do they?
Ann Arbor City Councilmen turn their backs … again, but we address them because we believe it is in the City’s interest that our students are being taught truthful history lessons. And also, because the Liberation of Palestine is dependent on exposing the mendacity of the Holocaust narrative.
On November 18, we discussed an article by Walt King, which agreed with our conclusion that challenging the Holocaust narrative is essential in liberating Palestine (video here, ffwd to 19:23 and text below signature)
On January 6, 2025, we introduce Council to the “Father of Revisionism”, the French high school teacher turned WWII activist, Paul Rassinier (video here ffwd to 16:09 and text below signature)
And on January 21, responding to comments by Councilwoman Jen Eyer at the Jan 6 meeting, we talk about how so-called “anti-Semitism” was manufactured out of thin air in 1913 at the trial of rapist/murderer Leo Frank in Atlanta (video here ffwd to 44:52 and text below signature)
Synagogue protests continue in Evanston, Illinois
Vigiler Clif continues his “one-man show” to Free Palestine at the Beth Emet synagogue near the campus of Northwestern University, which has banned him from protesting on campus. Where are the JVP activists from Chicago? Clif used to be a regular attendee at their events at Water Tower Place. He has created a blog from which readers here may view his progress:
Scorecard
Date/For-Against
7-Dec 10-5
14-Dec 15-5
21-Dec 12-6
28-Dec 17-3
4-Jan 13-2
11-Jan 20-9
18-Jan 9-11 (loss!)
25-Jan 10-8
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Jews Out of Palestine – the Peaceful Solution
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November 18, 2024 [367 words]
Topic: Holocaust Education in Ann Arbor Public Schools
Good evening,
I’d like to thank the few of you who have commented on previous discussions and have engaged with me in short email exchanges. In the past, some of you have turned your backs towards me as I speak, and I ask you to think of any other topic that would cause you to do so. I have witnessed speakers from this platform yell and scream at you. Call you names, single you out, accuse you of all sorts of things; yet you don’t turn your backs on them
What is so odious about this topic that causes you to do so?
Although I’m clearly in the minority with those critical of standard narrative World War II history, I’m not alone. Though not part of mainstream media, there are quite a few journalists, podcasters, bloggers and authors who are advancing revisionist positions.
Walt King is one such writer. His recent article is Auschwitz: Six Facts, and Seven Questions, written about a month ago. It’s somewhat of a technical article, written from his chemistry background and highlights the infeasibility of using unheated Zyklon-B to kill humans en masse
in Poland, where the average temperature is far below the gas’s boiling point.
But for me, what his article does is explain the *reason* to challenge the Holocaust Narrative. Not because he’s a vicious person, not because he’s a quote, anti-Semite, not because he wants anybody to die. But because … well, let me quote him:
Concluding thought, then. I think it is important to realize that Israel, with its long history of appalling conduct, now clearly having emerged as the world’s most abominable, barbaric, terrorist nation, feels wholly unconstrained by any humanitarian norms because of its supposed history of persecution; and that exposing the centerpiece of that history as a demonstrable fraud is an important step in an overdue act of reining it in and bringing its war criminals to justice.
I’ve asked Council before: what other ethnic, or religious, group could get away with the genocide taking place in Gaza on our watch, other than the Jewish people. Personally, I conclude none; you may have other opinions. Certainly, I would respect them; one gains respect only by giving respect.
Thank you
January 6, 2025 [364 words]
Topic: Holocaust Education in Ann Arbor Public Schools
Good evening,
Our high school students learn about Holocaust historians like Raul Hilberg and Deborah Lipstadt. We hope that they learn about Holocaust revisionists as well.
They need to know a French high school history teacher named Paul Rassinier, commonly referred to as the Father of Holocaust Revisionism. He was the first writer to question the initial atrocity reports coming from inmates who were interned in the same concentration camps as he was.
A former communist and lifelong pacifist, Rassinier resisted the National Socialists after they occupied parts of France. In particular, he began to provide false documentation to Jews who wanted to travel to Switzerland to avoid the anti-Jewish measures initiated by the occupiers. As a result of his activism, he was arrested and deported to the Buchenwald Camp until liberation in April 1945.
The contrast between what he himself had experienced in Buchenwald, and what other former inmates published about this camp, made him a critic of their literature. The stories he heard did not comport with what he witnessed in the camps. As an example, he claimed that camp prisoners, who collaborated with the SS, were responsible for many of the atrocities committed there.
He dismissed reports of homicidal gas chambers in Buchenwald and said so in his book “The Lies of Ulysses”. It is now admitted by all mainstream Holocaust historians that there were no such chambers at that camp.
One of the former inmates at Buchenwald was a man named Eugen Kogon, whose book – The Theory and Practice of Hell – was critiqued by Rassinier. Paul documented Kogon’s distortions, exaggerations and lies, and for that, Kogon sued Rassinier in a Munich court … and lost. The Court wrote: “Pure science does not inquire as to whether the result makes this person or that person uncomfortable.”
Paul Rassinier was not the typical quote “Holocaust Denier”. He was not a fascist; in fact, he fought against the National Socialists. He suffered horrific conditions as a slave laborer in the Buchenwald and Dora camps and barely survived. After the war, he received the highest decoration that the French government bestowed for service in the wartime resistance movement.
Our students need to know about Paul Rassinier … Thank you
January 21, 2025 [339 words]
Topic: A-1 Remarks on Council Minutes from Jan 6 Meeting
Good evening,
On January 6, a councilmember read a defaming piece about me written by the Anti-Defamation League. Wikipedia says the ADL is a … Jewish organization ... founded to combat anti-Semitism, which is a false term, because European Jews are not Semites
How the ADL originated is an interesting and instructive story and shares commonality with the Holocaust. The ADL was created in 1913 because wealthy New York and Chicago Jews saw an opportunity to manufacture what they call anti-Semitism out of thin air.
A Jewish factory manager named Leo Frank was lynched by a white mob in 1915, and the ADL was created based on that fact. But what did Frank do to deserve such a fate? Well, two years prior, he brutally raped and murdered a 13-year-old white girl named Mary Phagan and tried to blame his heinous crime on a black man, the janitor at Frank's factory, Jim Conley.
Conley was the perfect patsy in this case: he had only a first-grade education and a long history of public drunkenness and petty crime. Yet the racist South in those years believed the word of a black man over that of a wealthy Jewish businessman. How could that be?
The answer is supplied by authors at the Nation of Islam, who wrote "The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man"
Was Frank lynched because he was a Jew? The book easily disproves that claim, noting that five members of the Grand Jury who investigated the case were Jews, and that these Jews never recanted nor regretted their decision. Anti-Jewish sentiment was virtually non-existent in Atlanta at that time.
Frank was found guilty and the verdict stood, despite expert defense lawyers, copious sums spent and numerous appeals. When word got out that Georgia governor John Slaton was going to pardon him, outraged citizens who fondly remembered Little Mary Phagan, kidnapped Frank from his prison cell and hanged him, carrying out the court order with vigilantism.
The ADL and the Holocaust: two cash industries riddled with falsehoods Thank you
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Tuesday, December 03, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 11-30-24
The Only Game in Town? Really!??
Witness for Peace has long claimed to be the only synagogue protest on the planet. “Not So Fast!” says the quiet Vigiler C from the Chicago (Illinois) burbs. Like other activists interested in convincing their City Councils to pass a cease-fire resolution, he attended meetings in Evanston in hopes that they, too, would join other Councils in passing such resolutions.
But he was dismayed by the response of speakers identifying as members of Temple Beth Emet, aka “the Free [speech] Synagogue”, who unified in opposition to a cease-fire. His first step in response was to write a letter to the Evanston Round Table, which to his surprise, they published. Read it here.
His second response was to take to the streets:
He asks, pertinently: “Are all lives equally valuable or are some superior to others? Israel is a state devoted to some being superior and entitled to kill the natives who resist. “
Vigiler C participated in our Ann Arbor Vigils many years ago, so it was a natural step for C to also address Beth Emet. He wrote a letter to its Rabbi to join him in his protest, understanding that Rabbi London supports justice. From the synagogue’s website: “Social justice activism is integral to Rabbi London’s work, and she has received widespread recognition for her leadership on issues ranging from Jewish-Muslim and Black-Jewish relations to peace and justice in Israel/Palestine. “
Andrea London, Rabbi, Temple Beth Emet
We’ve reprinted his invitation to her below signature, and hope she joins him soon. We wish Vigiler C success on his new adventure.
Scorecard
Date/For-Against
16-Nov 29-15
23-Nov 36-16
30-Nov 4-4
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Jews Out of Palestine
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Rabbi London,
I wish you and your congregation a happy Thanksgiving.
As I have stood on the corner by the Beth Emet sign, I have thought of how there is no reason that you and your congregation could not come out and stand with me. My two signs are in no way offensive, saying that Palestinian lives matter and that Zionism is not Judaism. Your prominent Black Lives Matter banner expresses the same thing. The Palestinian flag I have stands for a people being exterminated just as the Star of David stood for the Jews who perished in the holocaust.
Cornel West has said that one has a choice. One can believe that all human lives are equally valuable or one can refuse to believe that. Thus, one can be moral or not. There is no in between, no elevation of one group or another. The great majority of Israelis don’t believe all lives are equally valuable, evidence of it daily in the articles published in Ha’aretz.
Judaism and Christianity, as you know, profess loving one another and, as you also know, both have had adherents who have not followed that. Christianity has a long and terrible history of such and Judaism shows it with Zionism.
You and your congregation are testimony that the US is the promised land for Jews as it is for all of us who are not Jews but share in liberty and justice for all. The same is shown by the Arab population of Michigan, the many Jews in Congress and the sole Palestinian there, Rashida Tlaib.
As I stand on the corner I am rewarded every day I am there with heartfelt appreciation shown by thank you being said from open windows and even people parking their cars and coming up to thank me in person. That is very gratifying, to think that I am doing something to represent, as so few are allowed to
do here in the US where campus protests have been shut down, a people being slaughtered with no end in sight, suffering from might making right since 1948.
As I observe the attractive outside of Beth Emet, I cannot believe the congregation would stand with ethnic supremacy and the horror it has demonstrated for so many decades to those whose crime has been living on their native land of Palestine. Ethnic cleansing was wrong when the US did it to the
Indians, wrong when the Nazis did it to the Jews and wrong when the Israelis/US are doing it to the Palestinians. There is no free pass o any group for atrocity.
If anyone would like to come out and join me as Americans who believe in liberty and justice for all as I do, I would welcome them and that includes you. Warm clothing is advised!
Sincerely,
C
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 11-09-24
15th Annual Bill Henry International Eat-a-Cheeseburger Day: A Success
Here’s the group celebrating the Jewish holiday commonly referred to as The Day of Atonement, but as the Holocaust in Gaza continues, it’s hard to believe any atonement was taking place at Beth Israel Congregation on Oct. 12. For an explanation of this annual meal, please visit https://zionistsout.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-15th-annual-bill-henry.html
How to Single-handedly end an “ant-war” protest?
Just show up with a sign containing the word “Jew”. Witness for Peace is a member group of the larger Ann Arbor Coalition Against War. Every Friday in downtown Ann Arbor they hold anti-war protests at the Federal Building, and last Friday their new 12-foot banner was unfurled. When we show up with a sign reading “No More Wars for Jewish Interests”, we are told the protest isn’t religious. When we agree, we are asked to leave and are told our message is incorrect. Trying to explain that we all are anti-war gets us nowhere, and when it becomes evident that we’re not going away, the group’s banner is folded up and all but two members leave the site. Click here for the 7-minute video of this non-event.
Is Our Conclusion Correct?
As our Scorecard indicates, supporters outnumber those passersby who disagree with our messages. And our messages have been more focused on calling out Jews (not Zionists) for the Jewish state’s behavior towards Palestinians. Our latest five signs are:
Jews out of PalestineJews Bomb SchoolsJews Bomb Innocent CiviliansNo Jewish StateNo more wars for Jewish interests
We conclude that in spite of our signs becoming more “anti-Semitic” (as presumably viewed by Debbie Lipstadt) and our approval rating is about the same, that the passing public is seeing legitimacy in our holding Jews accountable for their participation in the Jewish state’s ongoing Holocaust against Palestine.
What do you conclude?
New Billboard near Ann Arbor
Maybe the people of JewBelong agree with us in concluding that Average Joe is becoming more comfortable with legitimate criticism of Jews. Maybe they fear their dual loyalty is in danger of exposure. In any case, their nervousness seems palpable in their new sign, just 10 miles down the road.
Scorecard
Date/For-Against
12-Oct 30-15
19-Oct 23-11
26-Oct 18-17
2-Nov 19-8
9-Nov 19-8
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Jews Out of Palestine
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Monday, October 07, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 10-05-24
15th Annual Bill Henry International Eat-a-Cheeseburger Day Looms
This Saturday, October 12, after our weekly protest at the source of Jewish Power (i.e. Beth Israel Congregation) has taken place, we will celebrate the day by consuming a cheeseburger or some other type of non-kosher food. Click here for the full explanation of the history of this event.
Why Won’t the World Stop Israel?
A: Because the World feels more sympathy towards Jews than it does Palestinians
Q: Why does the World feel this sympathy?
A: It’s the Holocaust, Stupid!
Good news: Academic Research Media Review Education Group (ARMREG)has just released its Holocaust Encyclopedia; uncensored and unconstrained. We just received our hardcopy color 2nd edition, and plan to use it and recommend to all Ann Arbor High Schools whose education on this topic has been mandated by the Michigan Legislature. Order yours here.
When Will Quakers Finally Take Sides?
A Quaker minister stops by and asks questions about our Vigil. She seems dissatisfied with our answer that the source of the racism that drives Israel is born and nurtured in the synagogues. She claims some Jews are protesting but has no answer to our question of “Where are they?”
After our brief conversation she enters Beth Israel to “worship” (or was it “warship”?) with the Jews. Watch video here
New Vigil Signs
Vigiler G returns from retirement to hold her new sign: Israel is Guilty of Genocide, and joins the trio of Palestinian activists on August 31, when this writer was out of town. . .
And we suggest the final solution for the Palestinian Holocaust (debuted September 28):
Omerta
Friendly relations with the armed guard at Beth Israel were terminated last week by (presumably) the synagogue’s Board of Directors, when Charles (not his real name) was ordered “no comment” in his relations with this writer. A sad note, because both he and I were, and are, committed to the physical safety of congregants, vigilers and passersby.
Scorecard
Date/For-Against
31-Aug 18-22
7-Sep 25-13
14-Sep 18-7
21-Sep 16-8
28-Sep 23-16
5-Oct 18-8
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
The price for Liberty is Eternal VIGIL-ance
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Sunday, October 06, 2024
The 15th Annual Bill Henry International Eat-a-Cheeseburger Day
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| Bill Henry, Z"L, circa 1940 |
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Saturday, August 24, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 08-24-24
Video history of recent vigils
This man’s family was “impacted” during WWII (June 22 vigil, time 0:42):
A kind-looking, but potty-mouthed lady (July 6 vigil, time 0:20):
Jewish woman upset by conversation, turns to thievery (July 27 vigil, time 2:42):
Photographer doesn’t seem interested in a discussion (July 27 vigil, time 1:54):
Woman steals our “Lets Go Brandon” sign, gets apprehended (August 3 vigil, time 0:54):
Another silent photographer (what’s with these guys?), (August 3 vigil, time: 1:58):
Supremacist young Jew (August 17 vigil, time: 30:05):
This video exposes the supremacist mindset, in our opinion. Nothing we say, no fact presented, changes this fellow’s world. To him, Jews are intelligent and eternal victims. Lots of swallowed kool-aid here
Holocaust Education at Ann Arbor City Council meeting
Referencing Nick Kollerstrom’s Breaking the Spell; The Holocaust: Myth and Reality, we describe for Council the technical differences between the existing fumigation chambers and the alleged homicidal gas chambers. Click here to view. Please advance to 13:12 for our presentation, and to 26:00 for Councilmember Lisa Disch’s response. See text of presentation after signature
Councilmembers Do Respond
We wrote in our last report that we didn’t think Councilmember Erica Briggs would respond to our email reaching out to her. Technically, we were wrong, but her response was not substantive.
That’s our opinion. We have included the email exchanges below with her, and also Councilmember Disch, so that our readers can reach their own conclusions. See these emails also after signature:
Scorecard
Date/For-Against
22-Jun 21-9
29-Jun 19-6
6-Jul 18-12
13-Jul 16-8
20-Jul 21-12
27-Jul 17-8
3-Aug 16-6
10-Aug 26-9
17-Aug 17-7
24-Aug 29-13
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Liberate Palestine. End Israel!
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Ann Arbor City Council – Public Commentary
August 19, 2024 [380 words]
Topic: Holocaust Education in Ann Arbor Public Schools
Good evening,
I’d like to continue our discussion on the differences between fumigation gas chambers and the alleged mass homicidal gas chambers our students are being forced to learn about
My source again is Nicholas Kollerstrom’s Breaking the Spell; The Holocaust: Myth and Reality and I offer to purchase a copy of this book to each City Councilman here, although I won’t purchase it through Amazon, as it’s been figuratively burned
Council’s reactions to my talks are not unique. A friend claimed she stood in a homicidal gas chamber and when I informed her she stood in a post-war reconstruction of a gas chamber, she said: “This conversation is over”. They say you can’t argue someone out of a position they didn’t argue themselves into, and this is a prime example of that phenomenon
The company that built the fumigation gas chambers was called Degesch, and they were very proud of their product because it efficiently saved lives, as was its purpose
The chambers featured a remotely controlled can opener that opened the cans of Zyklon-B, so that the operator wouldn’t have to wear a gas mask. The gas pellets were then dumped down a short chute into a waiting basket. Then the heaters were turned on, because hydrogen cyanide pellets are inert below its boiling point, which is about 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Then the fans came on to evenly distribute the gas so that it would reach the lice hiding in the clothing and bedding, which were hung in the room.
After one to two hours the lethal gas was force-vented up a pipe and into the atmosphere. Then the chamber was ventilated with fresh air for 15 minutes after which it was safe to open. The clothing and bedding were hung outdoors to aerate, then returned to the camp inmates, bug free.
The rooms of the alleged homicidal gas chambers have no such devices present: no induction chutes, no heaters, fans nor exhaust piping. Casual observation supports revisionist claims that rooms offered to the public in Germany and Poland are not and could not be the homicidal gas chambers they claim to be. My hope is that our students are being presented with facts like the ones I bring to Council tonight, so that they can draw their own conclusions.
Thank you
Remarks made by Councilmember Briggs:
I would just like to acknowledge how ghastly the last public comments were from the last speaker. And it was disturbing to listen to. So I hope we don't hear a repeat of that.
Dear Erica,
I don't doubt that you felt my comments were ghastly and disturbing on Tuesday
I was speaking on a matter of municipal interest: possible misinformation being supplied to our high school students on state-mandated Holocaust education
Since I spoke only on a short review of Nick Kollerstrom's book that countered the standard narrative of the Holocaust, I wonder why my comments provoked such reactions from yourself
Could you please take a minute to explain? Why do you find my comments so disturbing?
If you'd prefer an in-person discussion, please just let me know where and when
Thank you,
Henry Herskovitz
Ward 5 Constituent
Briggs, Erica
Sun, Jun 23, 6:00 PM (18 hours ago)
to me, alan, John
I don't want to revisit your comments, so I can't directly quote what you said.
You consistently come to City Council to provide anti-Semitic public comment and engage in Holocaust denialism. This is not a matter of municipal interest, even if I subscribed to your beliefs, the City has no control over AAPS. So I can only assume you like the platform of elevating your hate speech and enjoy prompting a reaction.
Last week, your public comment focused on denying the horrors of what happened in the Nazi-run gas chambers. That is unconscionable.
Dear Erica,
Thank you for responding to my email. The fact that you replied indicates some respect, a commodity in short supply these days. I've always been a fan of the motto: "To get respect one has to give respect". So thank you.
I hope you've differentiated my addresses to Council with those of others, who verbally castigate and abuse Council members. I've addressed Council over 100 times, and have never employed such disrespectful tactics. If you find that statement to be in error, I stand ready to apologize.
I believe it would be of Public Interest from Council's point of view if the Ann Arbor Public Schools were to teach our children that the earth is flat, or the two World Wars never happened. Council would definitely speak up (my opinion)
Every day I marvel when I watch the sun's trajectory overhead from East to West, and think of those brave souls Copernicus and Galileao who "denied" that the sun revolved around the earth and postulated the opposite. Today we know what we didn't "know" then
You are correct that I utilize Public Commentary as a platform to deliver what I feel is important information. I'm grateful that our City supports our First Amendment right to "... petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Finally, I'd like to mention that I love my sister and cousin, their children and grandchildren, who are Jewish. I also love many friends, like Alan Haber, who identify as Jews.
Again, thank you for your decency. I'd be happy to respond to your continuing thoughts on this matter
Best wishes
Henry Herskovitz
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Email Exchange with Councilmember Lisa Disch:
Dear Councilmember Disch,
I would first like to thank you for actually listening to my Public Commentary address on Monday, August 19. I've transcribed your words (below signature) and with your permission, would like to ask you to identify any unfactual information I was trying to convey to Council
I take the opportunity to address Council seriously and if the information I bring is not correct, I'd like to be corrected and offer appropriate apologies. So, please tell me what exactly I said that was historically incorrect. I stand ready to be corrected
Secondly, you offered that my comments are not doing any good for anyone, and I respectfully disagree. It is of utmost municipal interest if we are teaching our children false information under our (Michigan) state-mandated teaching of the Holocaust. If they are to learn, they need to be provided with the most accurate information. I hope on that point we can both agree
Best wishes,
Henry Herskovitz
Ann Arbor
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"Thank you, Mayor. I would like to - first of all - express my displeasure at having been treated to a detailed description full of some unfactual information but also full of really - you know - nauseating details when you imagine what was really happening in those chambers. And I really wish that that public commenting would stop. It's not doing any good for anyone."
Mr. Herskovitz,
I will do you the courtesy of not turning my back to you when you speak.
I do not have time to satisfy your request for a "pro and con" dialogue on this topic.
Lisa
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Friday, June 21, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 06-15-24
Special Guest Visits our Vigil
Ms. Diane King, of Hoaxbusters fame traveled from Texas to join Witness for Peace on June 1. Ms. King, along with her husband Jim Rizzoli hold their weekly Hoaxbusters show on SpeakFreeRadio every Saturday evening at 8pm. They often feature reports on our weekly vigils
A Less Welcome Visitor from the Black Gangster Disciples
On May 18, a black man walked among us and took pictures of our signs (perfectly legal). I asked if he had any questions and he replied he was gathering information for “the boss”. See the video of our interaction with him and determine for yourself whether this was a threatening encounter
An Angry motorist stops his car
Furious at the sign that reads “Israel attacked America 6/8/1967” this man flips off a WfP participant on June 8, then gets out of his car, ready for fisticuffs (?). See this video and make your own determination
Zyklon-B at Ann Arbor City Council meeting
Not the pellet form of the fumigant Zyklon-B, just the verbal kind. As Mayor Christopher Taylor reminds his audience, Public Commentary Reserve Time is for the public to address Council on “matters of municipal interest”. And we feel that the state of Michigan’s mandate that our high school students learn about the “Holocaust” is being used to mis-inform, rather than inform our students about this historical event. Click here to view the address from Council side of the camera (please fast forward to 23:13) and here to view it from our side, and observe paid civil servants either turn their backs or leave the room
Upsetting our own Councilman
Councilman Erica Briggs (Ward 5) is supposed to represent this writer. After hearing our presentation (text following signature), she commented:
I would just like to acknowledge how ghastly the last public comments were from the last speaker. And it was disturbing to listen to. So I hope we don't hear a repeat of that.
We have reached out to Councilman Briggs to acknowledge her feelings (which of course are hers alone) but ask WHY she feels the way she does. We do not anticipate a response, but one never knows …
Scorecard
Date/For-Against
27-Apr 22-8
4-May 37-8
11-May 20-10
18-May 27-7
25-May 31-7
1-Jun 15-9
8-Jun 20-10
15-Jun 16-7
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Liberate Palestine. End Israel!
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June 17, 2024 [350 words]
Topic: Holocaust Education in Ann Arbor Public Schools
Good evening,
From the text supplied to Ann Arbor’s High School students, we read: “Jews who were selected for death were told to undress for a shower and then led into a chamber with fake showerheads. After the doors were closed cyanide gas poured from the showerheads”
The teacher may suggest that the student check out the trademark name for hydrogen cyanide – then Zyklon B - and the student might turn to Wikipedia for information. He will read: “The product is notorious for its use by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to murder approximately 1.1 million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps.”
The British author and former professor at University College, London - Nicholas Kollerstrom - disagrees. In this book, Breaking the Spell, he clearly admits the presence of gas chambers in these camps, but also clearly differentiates between the real fumigation gas chambers and the claimed homicidal gas chambers.
Typhus was the real killer of Jews, and the National Socialists were determined to minimize this disease, which is carried by lice. Zyklon B was the fumigant used in this process of disinfecting clothing and bedding for inmates in the camps.
To distinguish between the real and claimed gas chambers, Kollerstrom quotes from studies done Engineer Fred Leuchter, followed by Chemist Germar Rudolf, and finally by the Polish government themselves. These studies examined the blue staining in the walls of the fumigation gas chambers and compared them with the walls of the alleged homicidal gas chambers
The results in all three cases were clear: the blue staining left by applications of Zyklon B was clearly notable in the fumigation chambers; in fact, the staining even penetrated through the walls, but was evident in only trace amounts in the alleged homicidal gas chambers.
Kollerstrom additionally provides graphs which show inmate deaths *decreased* with increased shipments of Zyklon B to the camps, not increased as the Holocaust narrative would have us believe.
If Holocaust education is to mean anything, it is to separate truth from fiction. It is hoped our students get the opportunity to question both sides
Thank you,
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 04-20-24
Speaking at the Institute for Historical Review
Two members of Witness for Peace traveled to San Diego last month and addressed an audience of about thirty people at the monthly meeting of the Institute for Historical review (ihr.org). One of those in attendance provided two additional venues whose participants welcomed our point of view and in fact, expanded upon it. It was nice to know there are pockets of interested, intelligent and vocal people out there, and that WfP is not the only group addressing Jewish Power, the Holocaust, and other forbidden topics. See our presentation here.
Dumped by YouTube
Two days after our presentation at the IHR gathering I was informed that my YouTube channel was removed for violating unspecified “community standards”. We now move our videos to other platforms, which may be better suited to withstand Jewish pressure.
Holocaust Education in the Ann Arbor Public Schools
We again addressed Ann Arbor City Council April 15 on the discrepancies between what is being taught to Ann Arbor high-schoolers and what the revised history of World War II teaches us. See text of presentation after signature, and click here to view the presentation (advance to 58:35). Again, please note the “peace activists” who flee Council chambers, and the number of Councilmen who either leave the room or turn their backs during the talk.
Has Tucker Carlson crossed the line?
We have often thought of Tucker Carlson as “close, but no cigar”. For instance, were extremely disappointed when he interviewed and agreed with then presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who advocated assassinating the top 100 Hamas leaders and putting their “heads on stakes” at Gaza’s southern border.
But Tucker appears to have raised his credibility since interviewing Dr. Munther Isaac on April 9th and allowing the Pastor to freely speak the “J” word. Dr Isaac clearly implicated Jewish groups in his discussion with Tucker:
Now, the biggest problem Christians are facing is in East Jerusalem, where they are constantly targeted by radical groups, radical Jewish groups. Let’s be clear. Sometimes some churches, they tried, there was an attempt to burn them. Often times. And this is you can look at it on social media, all over the place. Palestine, Christian clergy being spit at by, these groups. They write very offensive slogans on the walls. Strong incitement against Christians, especially in the old City, all of Jerusalem.
Spitting on Christians and bombing of churches appears to have gotten Tucker’s ire up, as it has ours. Hopefully, he will continue to expose the anti-Christian nature of Judaism and the worldwide Jewish community.
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Date/For-Against
16-Mar 26-7
23-Mar 20-7
30-Mar 25-5
6-Apr 29-7
13-Apr 28-9
20-Apr 25-13
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
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April 15, 2024 [354 words]
Topic: Holocaust Education in Ann Arbor Public Schools
Good evening,
In fifth grade we were taught that there were five basic questions newspaper articles had to answer: Who what where why and when. “Why” is often omitted in historical events, and the Holocaust as presented to Ann Arbor students, either omits or distorts this basic question.
From the text supplied by the Ann Arbor Board of Education, we read: “The Nazis claimed that all non-Aryan peoples, especially Jewish people, were inferior.” This is a dishonest claim.
In his book Unfinished Victory, British author Sir Arthur Bryans writes that “although Jews represented less than 1% of the German population, they controlled 57% of the metal trade, 22% of grain and 39%of textile trade. More than 50% of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce was Jewish, as were an amazing 1,200 of the 1,474 members of the German stock exchange… During the Weimar Republic, the average income of Jews was three times that of non-Jews.”
These facts, and many more, fly directly into the face of the charge that Jews were somehow inferior. They clearly weren’t, but it fits into the false narrative that National Socialists targeted Jews because of who they were, rather than what they did. We see that today in Gaza: Hamas is similarly blamed for targeting Jews – AS JEWS – rather than resisting the 75-year genocide of Palestine by the Jewish state.
So what’s the real answer to “Why Jewish people were targeted by National Socialists”?
Peter Winter supplies us with clues in his book The Six Million; Fact or Fiction? He states that Jews in Weimar Germany were associated with extreme capitalist exploitation. Benton Bradberry enlightens us further in his book The Myth of German Villainy. In it he explains how Jews were the architects of the Versailles Treaty which brought financial ruin to post war Germany, and reminded readers that it was Jewish Zionists who brought the US into the Great War, and sealed Germany’s fate.
It makes more sense to understand these reasons explaining German fear and distrust of the Jews living within its borders, than it does to merely claim that Jews were hated simply because of who they were.
Thank you,
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 03-09-24
Jews as Controlled Opposition
Foul-mouthed Hater of Free Speech
Another Day at the Office
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27-Jan 35-5
3-Feb 24-8
10-Feb 23-3
17-Feb 31-2
24-Feb 27-9
2-Mar 21-6
9-Mar 27-6
Witness for Peace
Victory to Hamas!
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February 20, 2024 [359 words]
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Monday, January 22, 2024
Report on Beth Israel vigil 01-20-24
We Pitch a Shutout!
January 13 loomed as a cold and extremely windy day. Fearful that our signs, which we attach to chairs, might be blown into the street and cause traffic dangers, we offered only the signs we could carry, and held a new flag presented to us by a passing Palestinian man. The result was a smashing 21-0 score (see Scoreboard, below), but reflected the omission of what we feel drives Israeli terror – Jewish Power, Jewish identity politics, and Jewish supremacist ideology. When our signs of “Jewish Power corrupts” or “Jews Bomb Hospitals” are displayed, our message is more clearly honed, but approval suffers. And we accept that.
Begging for Crumbs
On Thursday, January 11, the Ann Arbor City Council passed a “cease-fire” resolution. That’s the good news. The reality is that the resolution had to be word-smithed to a point where it became meaningless, but even that didn’t prevent some local Jews speaking in opposition. Speaker after speaker lined up (there were 90!) to prattle on about Israeli crimes, without a whit of blame placed on the Ann Abor Jewish community for its support of those crimes. Even the Arab voice, like leadoff speaker Omar Abdala, was obedient to the Power. He said:
We are a coalition that stands against anti-Semitism. Our members have said that protests at synagogues are wrong, full stop. When a known holocaust denier spoke last meeting we refused to listen to him and walked out. Do not conflate our calls for a cease fire with anti-Semitism. That is wrong; it is beneath you and it is racist. This is a simple resolution that takes no sides...
A resolution that “takes no sides” needs a response, and we provided that response (text follows signature). It’s instructive to view (a) the City Council members turning their backs to us and (b) the so-called “Palestinian activists” fleeing the room as we rose to speak. Please click here and adjust timeline to 04:15:43 to observe
We had an opportunity to speak to a Lebanese student after the meeting and asked her why she left as I spoke, and she explained that her Jewish co-workers were upset with our weekly vigils and she wanted to show solidarity with them. See how Jewish Power works? This young woman knew that if she questioned forbidden topics – like why are Jews leading local Palestinian activists? - she would be ostracized and couldn’t tolerate that outcome. So 10,000 Palestinian children and infants get bombed to smithereens, but she maintains friendships.
Another Day at the Office
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Date/For-Against
30-Dec 17-3
6-Jan 14-3
13-Jan 21-0
20-Jan 18-7
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Victory to Hamas!
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January 11, 2024 [262 words]
Topic: Agenda Item CD-1, Resolution Denouncing Rising Hate and Discrimination in Ann Arbor and Calling for a Lasting Bilateral Ceasefire in Gaza and Israel
Good evening,
The Jewish state has been committing genocide against the Palestinian people for over 75 years. Now, in The Hague, these crimes are being identified and exposed by South Africa.
Much will be made of a “proportional response”: Are the Jews of Israel responding proportionally to the Al-Aqsa Storm of October 7?
So, it’s reasonable to ask if this Resolution is proportional to the atrocities committed by the Jewish state since that date
Reading from the Resolution: “The Ann Arbor City Council calls for an immediate lasting bilateral ceasefire”
Bilateral: meaning both sides stop using their weapons against the other
Does this resolution demand Palestinians stop using their Merkava battle tanks? Their Apache Helicopters? Their F-35 fighter jets? Should they be required to stop dropping 2,000 pound bombs?
Of course not. It’s not the Palestinians that have these Weapons of Mass Destruction
It’s only Israel. And the Jewish state is using them mercilessly, driven by a religious ideology that tolerates no sympathy for the defenseless Palestinians
Calling for a bilateral cease fire with this imbalance in strength is not a proportional response to genocide
Calling out the perpetrators is
Taking sides is what’s required of Council, even if it means standing up to the Chosen, be they friend or family. A milquetoast request for a cease fire is totally inadequate and not only ignores the enormous disparity in weaponry, but fails to address even the minimum of human rights violations being committed by the Jewish state
Personally, I don’t believe your vote, whether yea or nay, will count for much. I cannot imagine a more meaningless document.
Thank you,
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Report on Beth Israel vigil 12-23-23
Hostility increases but our support remains constant
(see “Scorecard”)
Retired Ann Arbor Doctor Dave Chernin has taken to counter-protesting our weekly vigils, and exposes his Jewish supremacism by the threatening words and gestures he uses. On December 9, three men emerged from the synagogue to harass us. After a few minutes of heated exchange, Dave – the one holding the flag and now bolstered by these racists – joins in and threatens us. One of the three has been identified as Richard Cascarelli, a Partner Associate at Tim Singer South Florida - Coldwell Banker in Fort Lauderdale. Watch the six-minute video here.
The defeated Jewish attorney Marc Susselman lowers himself by bringing a couple thugs from West Bloomfield, Michigan, to taunt us throughout our entire vigil on November 18. We submitted the video to the Ann Arbor Police Department for their opinion as to whether a threat was made. Please make up your own mind as you view this video here.
On December 23, a potty-mouthed woman approaches us and threatens to take one of our signs which she found upsetting (Gas Chambers? Really?!!). When we inform her that we will call the cops and put her on film stealing our property, she experiences a change of mind. And goes curiously silent when her world-view gets challenged. Watch this video here.
Challenging Ann Arbor City Council
On December 18, we asked Council members to imagine the world reaction to any other ethnic group – other than the Jews – who could get away with a 75-year-old ethnic cleansing operation. At this particular meeting almost all the 58 speakers asked Council to pass a resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza. Fast forward to 4:10 to watch our presentation from this video, and view text of the presentation following signature.
Beware the Controlled Opposition
Many Jews spoke at this Council meeting, some declaring themselves “a proud Jew”, some identified as members of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Regular readers of these reports know that we recognize the efforts of JVP as those of a controlled opposition. The racism that motivates the Jewish state is born and nurtured in the Jewish community. For activist Jews to be effective in liberating Palestine, they need to confront the racism that exists in their own, home communities.
But they never do. Instead, they wear keffiyehs, control Palestinian activists (think: Rashida Tlaib) and assuage their own guilt by palling around with the oppressed. Please read “The Role of Jews in the Palestine Solidarity Movement” for expanding this argument.
Not only do these closet Zionists (we define “Zionist” as anyone who does NOT call for an end to the Israeli state) control the opposition, but watch here as they flee before we rise and challenge their Jewish supremacism.
Which member of JVP is willing to carry our sign? After 100 Jewish Israeli doctors signed a document that supported the IDF strategy of bombing hospitals [link 6], we couldn’t resist:
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Date/For-Against
18-Nov 9-6
25-Nov 36-8
2-Dec 30-8
9-Dec 29-6
16-Dec 22-9
23-Dec 15-6
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Victory to the Palestinian Resistance!
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December 18, 2023 [271 words]
Topic: Holocaust Education in AAPS
Good evening,
20 years ago my friend Paul Eisen made the following observation. It’s as true today as it was then:
The crime against the Palestinian people is being committed by a Jewish state with Jewish soldiers using weapons displaying Jewish religious symbols, and with the full support and complicity of the overwhelming mass of organized Jews worldwide. But to name Jews as responsible for this crime seems impossible to do.
Israel itself claims, in its 2018 Nation-State Law:
The LAND OF ISRAEL is the historical homeland of the JEWISH people, in which the STATE OF ISRAEL was established.
The racism in this statement is made clear by the changing a few words:
AMERICA is the historical homeland of the WHITE people, in which the UNITED STATES was established.
Who here would be happy with that definition of OUR country? I wouldn’t
Imagine any other ethnic group committing this ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people
Imagine if American Blacks, unhappy with Jim Crow in 1948, decided to ethnically cleanse Palestine to create a Black nation
The world wouldn’t tolerate it for a minute
The world does tolerate this ongoing genocide because it’s being committed by Jews
And the world – believing the Holocaust Narrative as presented by Hollywood – turns its eyes away from the Palestinian victims in their struggle for liberation, because their perpetrators are Jews. And Jews are the ultimate victims.
But are they? Holocaust revisionists believe a full vetting of the events of World War Two will strip Jews of this ultimate victim status. The truth must be known, because Palestinians today are paying the penalty for the world’s ignorance.
Thank you
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Friday, November 17, 2023
Report on Beth Israel vigil 11-11-23
Has the Mighty Wurlitzer dropped a note?
Witness for Peace recognizes the slave revolt that occurred in Gaza on Oct. 7. Nat Turner’s violent resistance to US slavery in 1831 parallels Hamas’ resistance we witnessed last month. Turner’s revolt crystalized the horrors of slavery, as Hamas’ resistance has focused the world’s attention to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Truth is, however, we were uncertain how the passing traffic would view our ongoing protests at Beth Israel on October 14. Would the Mighty Wurlitzer (aka Jewish domination of our media) turn our almost-always positive favorability against us? Could the screaming pundits on Fox News sway the public to continue its pro-Israel bias, and vote us down? Perhaps even decisively down?
But check out our Scorecard (below): our tiny survey didn’t reflect this overwhelming support for Jewish supremacy in Palestine (state of Israel). In fact, we haven’t experienced any such effect; the signs of support have consistently been greater than those of disagreement. What can we conclude? The Mighty Wurlitzer has always been able to deliver the standard narrative – to support the Jewish state no matter its behavior – but perhaps we’re witnessing the dawn of a true Intifada with the American people. Just maybe they’re getting tired of being on the wrong side of history. Time will tell . . .
Twenty Year Breakfast Celebration
Yes, we’ve been at this “great day to protest”* activity for twenty full years now, and Dan McGowan, former Executive Director of Deir Yassin Remembered, bought breakfast for the whole group (14 in attendance) after our November 11 vigil. Vigiler Y brought her two children, Vigilers M and D showed up, as did a new face who, hopefully, will become a regular. Thanks, Dan!
What Happened at the Wannsee Conference?
Michigan students are mandated to receive Holocaust education. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website is used often to provide information to our students. From the USHMM the student “learns” that, at this conference in 1942, National Socialists planned the physical extermination of Europe’s Jews. But is this correct?
We attempted to answer that question at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting on November 13; our address is found below signature, as well as the anticipated knee-jerk reaction from a few councilmen. Readers are invited to view this presentation here (advance to 49:50) and to witness council responses immediately following.
*-- Credit to former vigiler P
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Date/For-Against
14-Oct 17-13
21-Oct 22-11
28-Oct 20-13
4-Nov 21-10
11-Nov 39-5
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
Victory to the Palestinian Resistance!
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November 6, 2023 (348 words)
Good evening,
The Ann Arbor Public Schools curriculum on the Holocaust often refers our students to information provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. This source provides a section on what is known as the Wannsee Conference, where our students learn about The Final Solution. The student is told “The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews.”, but with no corroborating evidence; it’s merely supposition on the part of the Museum, and has been challenged by revisionist historians.
One such historian is Francis Dupont, who has authored this booklet: Tall Tales from the German Woods; The Myth of the Wannsee Conference. In it, we have the complete photostatic transcripts of the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. Yes, they are in German and yes, the translation of these minutes might not be correct, but if any German language expert would like to take a look at these minutes, they are readily available. According to Dupont, the minutes actually exist under glass at the Wannsee Villa Museum, but “very few take the time to read them.”
He writes: “Nowhere in the Wannsee Meeting or its minutes is the murder of Jews discussed; only their emigration and [forced] evacuation . . . to the eastern territories opened up after the German invasion of the Soviet Union”
He continues: “Instead of plotting the mass murder of all Jews, the Wannsee conference minutes actually talk about keeping large numbers of Jews in Germany.”
Perhaps we think this Francis Dupont is merely an anti-Semitic Holocaust Denier and will say anything. So we turn to Yehuda Bauer, whom Wikipedia describes as a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust.
Here’s what Professor Bauer said, quoted by The Canadian Jewish News, Jan. 30, 1992: “The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.”
There are many other sources that our students could access that would allow them to comply with their mandated education on the Holocaust. Responsible leaders should encourage this access.
Thank you
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Report on Beth Israel vigil 10-07-23
Pussycats
Advance a few decades, and our reputation continues. On July 21, according to the August edition of the Washtenaw Jewish News (p. 4), a man called the suicide hotline and claimed he was holding a hostage in the men’s room at Beth Israel Congregation during evening services. The Ann Arbor police “fill[ed] the BIC parking lot with cruisers and police vans”, and sent out a SWAT truck. Beth Dwoskin, author of the article, fingered WfP as a likely suspect, writing: “For almost 20 years, a hate group has been standing outside of Beth Israel every single Shabbat. The first impulse is to attribute any threat to them.”
This first impulse was most certainly conveyed to the police, but did any member of WfP receive a call from the AAPD? Were our lawyers contacted? Did police show up at anyone’s home? No, No, and No. The most scrutinized peace group in Ann Arbor was not even considered to have perpetrated such a hoax.
Advance also to this past Saturday, when a black woman feigned interest in our activity, only as a ruse to steal one of our signs. When we had explained to this lady that the entire Beth Israel Congregation supports the state of Israel and only racists do that, she indignantly replies “You’re going to tell a black woman about racism?” She then proceeds to dismantle our sign and when we remove it from her, the crocodile tears start. She calls the police, who dutifully come out and spend about 15 minutes with her. The cops didn't even bother to approach us "two white men" with her complaint that she felt "unsafe". They recognized her false accusations, and left the scene. Good policing, in our humble opinion. Video here.
Like Elvis, Jewish Power is everywhere
New Sign
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19-Aug 25-11
26-Aug 14-7
2-Sep 28-17
9-Sep 28-19
16-Sep 15-9
23-Sep 18-2
30-Sep 9-7
7-Oct 5-7
Henry Herskovitz
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