Assad is winning applause from other Holocaust deniers:
"Syria’s Assad claims Holocaust was a lie fabricated to justify creation of Israel"
I agree with Assad.#TheHolocaustNarrativehttps://t.co/A4tRO1LqxW— E. Michael Jones (@EMichaelJones1) December 20, 2023
On the accuracy of the “six million” figure, see here for references to several scholars who have made as precise a count as possible.
In the aftermath of Oct. 7, we have seen an ugly recrudescence of ancient anti-Jewish charges and claims. I’ll be tackling these in my next book project, which is tentatively entitled Antisemitism Unveiled: The Truth Behind Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theories.
“Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad: There Is No Evidence Six Million Jews Were Killed In The Holocaust; U.S. Financially Helped The Rise Of Nazism Between The Two World Wars,” MEMRI, December 18, 2023:
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said that the Jews “who came to Palestine,” are pagan converts from Khazars, and not the People of Israel, in a December 18, 2023 speech posted on Syrian Arab news Agency on YouTube. He said that there is no evidence that six million Jews died in the Holocaust and that the Nazis did not employ a special method of torture or killing for the Jews, who were killed just like other victims of World War II. Al-Assad continued to say that the Holocaust was “politicized” and used as a false pretext to transfer the Jews from Europe to Palestine. He also claimed that America was the one who supported the rise of the Nazi in Germany between the world wars.
President Bashar Al-Assad: “Most of us do not know that the rise of Nazism between the two world wars happened with American support. The question on everybody’s mind is: “How is it that despite the German collapse and European constraints, Nazism was allowed to rise and build an army?” It was done with American support, money, loans, and investments.
“There is no evidence that six million Jews were killed [in the Holocaust]. Perhaps there were holocausts, nobody denies this.
“True, there were concentration camps, but what shows you that this is a politicized issue, and is not a humanitarian issue, and is not real, how come we talk about these six millions, and not the 26 million Soviets who were killed in that war? Are those six millions more precious? The same acts were everywhere. There was no method of torture or killing specific to the Jews. The Nazis used the same method everywhere. However, this issue was politicized, in order to falsify the truth, and later to prepare for the transfer of the Jews from Europe to other areas, or [rather] to Palestine. The Jews who came to Palestine are Khazar Jews, from east of the Caspian Sea. They were pagans who converted to Judaism in the eighth century. They emigrated to Europe, and from there, came to this region. They have nothing to do whatever with the [ancient] people of Israel.”
Kuffar says
Like Eisenhauer said, document this so some SOB in the future can’t say, this didn’t happen.
SO HERE WE ARE.
Keys says
+1
“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
The documentation, including film of the Nazis requiring Jews to wear yellow stars, kristallnacht, the Final Solution meetings, the camps, the tatooed and numbered arms, the reduced population of European Jews, etc., is all a gigantic, elaborate fabrication! /sarc
Transmaster says
This is the very first thought I had. I shows just how prescience Eisenhower was.
bill says
Unfortunately for Assad and those who share his insane ideas, the Nazis were great recorder keepers, They documented everything, the train movements, the numbers of bodies burned, the numbers kept in the camps were all obsessively written down. They were very proud of their efficiency. The Holocaust is the most documented and researched event in modern history.
gravenimage says
Spot on exchange.
Ray Jarman says
Assad must be auditioning for a stint at Harvard or one of the other low grade Ivy League schools. If Hillery Clinton can obtain a position at Harvard, surely Assad would fit right in. They are both liars and anti-Semites who should be shunned by every decent institution and person but unfortunately, they will be held in high esteem.
somehistory says
The dishonest person only accepts as true what he wishes to be true.
This has been proven, but mozlums deny it.
And then they praise hitler for murdering the Jews, and speak glowingly of finishing what he started.
some Americans did help hitler’s war.
But even if what he said about the U.S. had every measure of Truth, that changes nothing as far as the slaughter of the Jews, and others who were murdered because hitler hated them; as his close buddies, the mozlums then and now, hate the same groups of people.
What does he hope to gain by making the false claims again; denying reality?
bagsgroove says
There was no holocaust and jews were not victims of special nazi genocide. I just heard the great philosopher Assad pontificate about European history. But I also know that muslims are professional victims and are incapable of even knowing what truth is in anything. They always lie about their lives and their miseries and end up boring us non muslims with their complaining.
Tony Rice says
I think we all know a Jewish family who had relatives murdered by the Germans before and during WW!!. All Assad had done is confirm HIS evilness
somehistory says
I became acquainted with a woman from Germany who was a guard at one of the camps. She confirmed to me and others what had happened.
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
Well, I also knew Jewish families in Poland and they said that the local Jewish community was very aware of the activities of the Germans AND as soon as they saw the Poles mobilize to fight the oncoming Germans, they grabbed their things, put the women and children on the trains headed to Russia, made a last second ”PAY BACK” to the Polish people whom they viewed as pogram players, then raced to catch up with the trains…. So it’s doubtful that much of the Jews in Poland were still around to be holocausted by the time the Germans were in control…
Hence the idea that the 6million is even remotely trustworthy is not grantable…
According to those families, they spent a lot of their stay in Russia, riding the trains to Siberia and back as opportunities materialized, til the war was over… Then they went back to Poland and took the first opportunity to ship out to Israel… TTYL
Chuck says
Antisemitic lie
Kepha says
And they could do this while Stalin was taking the east of Poland and borders were sealed?
BTW, the slight majority of Israeli Jews are either Mizrahi or Sefardi, not Ashkenazim.
Guest says
Many Polish people have a warped sense of the Holocaust since they are unwilling to admit their complicity in the murder of the Polish Jews. In Poland, murder of Jews had not ended with the surrender of Germany, as the returning Jews were often murdered, like during the 1946 pogrom in Kielce, or when they had tried to regain possession of their homes.
My father’s entire family, his parents, grandparents, married sister and her children, married brother and his family, cousins, uncles, aunts, were all wiped out and he was a sole survivor. On my mother’s side, one brother survived and yes, they had survived in the Soviet Union. Few Jews had survived in Poland. While there were righteous Poles, there were too many who would betray or kill themselves for a pair of candle sticks or the house.
In 1939, 3.5 million Jews had lived in Poland. Today, there are very few Jews living in Poland, yet strong antisemitism remains. Of cause, not everyone in Poland is antisemitic, but you have been talking and getting your information from antisemitic sources.
Tom C. says
You are a Jew hating Hamas supporter. My only beef with Holocaust death counts are the 5 million killed other than Jews that are not usually mentioned.
somehistory says
Yes, there were millions of non-Jews murdered… Christian, Gypsies and others whom hitler hated and wanted to eliminate.
gravenimage says
What absolute tripe from MJ Raichyk. He wrote:
Well, I also knew Jewish families in Poland and they said that the local Jewish community was very aware of the activities of the Germans AND as soon as they saw the Poles mobilize to fight the oncoming Germans, they grabbed their things, put the women and children on the trains headed to Russia, made a last second ”PAY BACK” to the Polish people whom they viewed as pogram players, then raced to catch up with the trains…. So it’s doubtful that much of the Jews in Poland were still around to be holocausted by the time the Germans were in control…
Hence the idea that the 6million is even remotely trustworthy is not grantable…
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What rot. Firstly, the Holocaust hadn’t begun in earnest when Germany invaded Poland, so MJ Raichyk here is saying that Jews in Poland were not just well informed, but were actually psychic.
Then, the idea that all Polish Jews could escape to Russia, even if they had the inclination and means to do so, is bizarre. By the 1930s Russia was generally paranoid about any Westerners entering the country unless they were known to be dedicated to communism, and even then they were met with a great deal of suspicion, and many Westeners who did go to Russia were eventually imprisoned or killed. There was no free travel between Poland and Russia in 1939. Cerrainly, Russia–antisemitic itself–was not generally accepting Jewish refugees.
There were over 3.3 million Jews in Poland.
Then, the implication that Jews–what?–murdered Poles on their way out of the country is utterly false. Citations, please.
Then, would MJ Raichyk have us believe that the Lodz, Warsaw and Krakow ghettos never existed–and their bloody liquidations never happened? Were Auschwitz, Sobibor, and the other camps also figments of our imagination?
The fact is that only about 100,000 Polish Jews were able to escape to Russia. Only about 350,000 Polish Jews survived the Holocaust.
This also pretends that all of the Jewish victms of the Holocaust were Polish–this is not true. Almost half of the victims were Polish Jews–but there were also victims from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Hungary.
More:
According to those families, they spent a lot of their stay in Russia, riding the trains to Siberia and back as opportunities materialized, til the war was over… Then they went back to Poland and took the first opportunity to ship out to Israel… TTYL
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More crap. For one thing, there was no freedom of movement in the Soviet Union, and free enterprise was banned–so the idea that Polish Jews spent WWII traveling around exploiting Russians is completely false.
Then, there was no freedom to leave the Soviet Union, either–so many Jews, including native Russian Jews, had a hard time leaving to emigrate to Israel. There were still Jews struggling to leave 40 years later, in the 1980s.
So why this lot of vicious tosh from MJ Raichyk? Well, he already has a very ugly posting history here–including implying that Jews ran the transatlantic slave trade, claims that 9/11 was not an act of Jihad terror and that flying planes loaded with jet fuel are incapable of damaging buildings, claims that Iran doesn’t teach Islam and the hatred of Jews, and then claims that Israelis could easily prevent all Jihad terror by giving terrorists large doses of vitamin C for schizophrenia, pretending that Jihad is all mental illness, and not something taught in Islam (never mind that vitamin C doesn’t cure insanity).
So why is MJ Raichyk posting here? He certainly is *not* an Anti-Jihadist.
somehistory says
Trolling, trolling, trolling for g. soros money.
bagsgroove says
I do believe Assad, like all other holocaust deniers thinks that only 5million 999 thousand 99 jews were killed and that is ok !
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Ah, the Khazar claim again! Incidentally, if the Khazar claim were true, why wouldn’t Turkey, which now promotes pan-Turkic pride, not take the side of Israel? For instance, President Putin loves Israel b’cos outside the former Soviet Union, that’s the country w/ the largest number of Russian speakers. Similarly, Turkey too would have rejoiced if a majority of Israelis were indeed Khazars
Well, Assad is never getting back the Golan Heights, and he’s wasting his time if he thinks that sunni thugs, whom he defeated in the civil war thanks more to Russia than to Iran or Hizbullah, would be more accepting of him or his fellow Alawites
Mike says
Roughly half of all Israeli Jews are Mizrahi Jews of Middle Eastern or North African origin (after Israeli was re-established, over 800,000 Jews in Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Syria etc. were kicked out of their own countries, and lost their homes and property in collective punishment).
It’s true that you can find many Israeli Jews who are mostly or entirely of European origin. For example, as Robert Spencer has noted in his book “The Palestinian Delusion,” one can easily find names such as Berlin, Warsaw or Toledano in an Israeli phone book.
However, in a Palestinian phone book, you can easily find names such as Al-Misri (Egyptian), Al-Maghrebi (Morocco, Algeria, or Tunisia), Al-Chalabi (Syria), etc. Yassar Arafat himself was Egyptian, and was born in Cairo.
tim gallagher says
What an extraordinary load of bullshit from Assad. Of course, he knows that his fellow Muslims will lap this garbage up. Muslims completely lack morality and spend all their time lying and believing lies, so Assad’s Muslim version of history, a completely imaginary and invented version, will go down well with Muslims everywhere because they all share an insane level of hatred for Jews, and for all non-Muslims as well, but especially for Jews, straight out of the Koran. I don’t think that Muhammad actually existed, but was made up by a bunch of evil scum later on, so allah didn’t speak to Muhammad, who didn’t exist, so Muslims do love to believe in a fantasy land view of life full of lies. Huge numbers of Muslims will be only too happy to believe Assad’s bullshit. All of islam is built on lies from their version of what god is, allah, to their invented prophet and everything from then on. The truth and islam are complete strangers to one another. I guess Assad is being a typical Muslim.
owensgate says
…and 75 years from now, “Leaders and Historians” will be able to say, “There was no U.S. Civil war in 1861, and 620,000 soldiers didn’t die.” That’s what happens when you tear down statues, memorials, and re-write history, then teach the “re-write” to a couple of generations. Change History FIRST, then you can change the future.
Transmaster says
I remember, just before I used my steel toe boots on him, this wahoo was trying to tell me that the 6 million dead Jews was from a epidemic. He was a total “A” hole so I decided to find out how far up that “A” hole my size 12 Redwings could make it. Far enough it worked out.
Israel is not innocent of denial. Because for the years they were sucking up to Turkey they denied the Armenian Genocide. When Erdogan can into power that relationship died and as poke in the eye israel then acknowledged the genocide.
tgusa says
Hey Bashar, lets play are you smarter than a white man.
From the web; “While Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower had studied his World War II enemy, he was unprepared for the Nazi brutality he witnessed at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945. Bodies were piled like wood and living skeletons struggled to survive. Even as the Allied Forces continued their fight, Eisenhower foresaw a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. He invited the media to document the scene. He compelled Germans living in the surrounding towns and any soldier not fighting at the front to witness the atrocities for themselves.”
I guess Assad doesn’t realize that the only winning move in that game is not to play.
Ade Fegan says
The figure does seen unfeasibly high, given how much fuel it takes to cremate one body
tgusa says
They didn’t cremate all their victims because of how much fuel it takes to cremate one body.
somehistory says
Many were gassed or starved to death and buried in mass graves.
Some of the victims had to work on sewage….large pits of it, and if they fell in, they were not helped out.
tgusa says
And just stacked up in piles in an out of the way corner of the camp. One could say they were in over their head with all the dead.
somehistory says
That is true, I have seen old b’w photos of skeletons, with a layer of skin. piled high; eyes open and looking as if staring at the blue skies above.
tgusa says
“In a Fit of Rage, Soldiers Gun Down Nazi Prisoners. When the American soldiers of the 45th “Thunderbird” Division stumbled upon the death train, it was like lighting a fuse that couldn’t be snuffed out. The men of the 45th had been in combat for 500 days and thought they had witnessed every grisly atrocity that war could throw at them. But then there was this train filled with innocent bodies, their eyes and mouths open as if crying out for mercy. Many of the American soldiers broke down in sobs. Others seethed with red-hot rage.”
Everyone has their limit.
https://www.history.com/news/dachau-concentration-camp-liberation
tgusa says
US soldiers also gunned down the caged guard dogs but dont tell leftist peta as they would be outraged, outraged.
gravenimage says
tgusa, American soldiers did not just randomly hate dogs–instead, they thought that dogs trained to attack and kill humans could never be safe around people, and could not be kept as pets.
tgusa says
Yes gravenimage, that was my unwritten point. American soldiers, mostly dog lovers I would surmise, without hesitation, gunned them down.
gravenimage says
Agreed, tgusa.
somehistory says
‘The ghouls of hamas filmed what many of them did to the people in Israel only a couple of months ago. They posted the videos to the internet and bragged about what they had done.
But before the *ink* could dry, they and their supporters were denying that any of it had been done. They have claimed since that the Israeli government did those things to the Jews who were murdered, raped and taken hostage.
At the same time, they threaten that the remaining hostages will not keep living if Israel doesn’t fall in line, cease the campaign and free more terrorists.
Some assad down the road will surely deny that more than a thousand innocents were raped, mutilated, burned alive, shot and stabbed on Oct. 7.
mozlums brag about what evils they do, but then deny they have done what they bragged they had done. Liars, all of them.
tgusa says
“They posted the videos to the internet and bragged about what they had done.”
And still we have westerners crying out for a humanitarian cease fire. The only humanitarian act that I can think of is the eradication of all of them. In a world gone wild with inhumanity that would be a true humanitarian act. But of course, in our modern world, that would be out of the ordinary.
tgusa says
If I were one of the hostages I would be praying they dropped a bomb on my position. I would take my chances with a bomb rather than remain a captive and having to suffer all the horror that goes with that.
somehistory says
Me too, knowing my God could save me from the bomb blast if He chose to and knowing I had a future with Him either way.
Kepha says
It’s like the brave jihadi Osama Bin Laden, on hearing of the fall of the Twin Towers and attack on the Pentagon, boasting that “only Muslims could be so brave!” and, when the daisy cutters started falling around hie hideout, he cries, “the JOOOOOOOOOZ dunnit!” Those people are beneath contempt.
somehistory says
Exactly. And so far, as for us to be without an expression that fits their ghoulish lies.
gravenimage says
+1
bagsgroove says
I do believe Assad, like all other holocaust deniers thinks that only 5million 999 thousand 99 jews were killed and that is ok !
Noah Andeark says
Is he planning on running against Jojo Cabbage Brain Biden in 2024? He sounds like a Democrat.
bill says
Rather paradoxically most Muslims think of Hitler as their hero for trying to murder all the Jews of Europe and hope to surpass his achievement, while others at the same time claim it never happened.
gravenimage says
So true, Bill.
Peter35 says
Frankly, I would have expected better from Assad.
Disappointing.
gravenimage says
Why would you have expected anything better?
somehistory says
Perhaps because he allowed Christians to freely worship in syria.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, it is true that Assad has been less savage towards Christians than have most Muslim leaders–largely because as minority Alawites, the Assads have allied with other Shia and other religious minorities.
But the Assad family has been vicious towards Jews. Bashir Assad’s father instigated the Yom Kippur war against Israel. The current Assad is also heavily allied with Iran, which wants to see Israel destroyed.
somehistory says
g,
I am aware of that. I was just giving a possible answer as to why some might have “expected better” from him.
The guy is a horror.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The father was someone who had dreams of a resurrected Umayyad empire, & considered Lebanon, Israel and Jordan all as a legitimate part of Syria. That’s why he occupied Lebanon, got one of their presidents assassinated and was a major regional power as long as he lived
The son was someone who was a London ophthalmologist who was trust into that job when daddy died. He spent his first few years trying to shore up support for the regime, softening the iron grip of the Baath regime over the populace. But in 2011, when the attempt to overthrow him and convert Syria into a caliphate started, he responded w/ full force, w/ the support of Russia, Iran and Hizbullah and ultimately crushed his sunni opposition. For the sunnis, Syria is probably a lost cause
I think he knows that he can’t start a war w/ Israel, but for the sake of his Hizbullah supporters, he does have to show some jihadist bona-fides, & hence his inane statement about the holocaust
bill says
A president who oversaw the killing of at least half a million of his own people, including the use of chemical weapons, not to mention the destrucation of his country just to stay in power?
gravenimage says
Assad: ‘No evidence’ six million Jews were killed in Holocaust, this is lie developed to justify creation of Israel
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Note how often this is said by Muslim thugs who want to finish the job Hitler started?
tgusa says
Lets cut to the completely ignored point regarding WWII the Nazis and their allies.
WWII worldwide Casualties
Battle Deaths 15,000,000
Battle Wounded 25,000,000
Civilian Deaths 45,000,000
Add in the six million Jews killed, the five million not Jews killed in the European camps and all of those figures are probably low ball numbers.
So what in the hell is wrong with these muslims always pining for the good old days of WWII?
gravenimage says
Pious Muslims generally *hate* Infidels, but many make an exception for Hitler–largely because of his savage genocide of the Jews. Mein Kampf is a bestseller in the Muslim world, and shops and restaurants are named for Hitler.
tgusa says
If you factor in everything, starvation, exhaustion, disease, accidents, and much more, WWII probably claimed the lives of over 100,000,000 people world wide.
tgusa says
We shouldn’t be surprised about any of this. On many occasions islamic scholars (and some not so scholarly muslims) have told us they are a death cult. So of course they love 100 million deaths. Why wouldn’t they?