I guess this means that your comment had nothing to do with what I wrote in
the first place. If you want to engage me with what I've written, then feel
free to start again.

I am familiar with what you have written. I read the lbo-talk archives.

I bring up his work because it seems inappropriate for somebody like
yourself who knows nothing about Ward Churchill except what you read in the
Colorado report to write numerous posts blasting him.

Ward Churchill's reputation rests on works like "A Little Matter of
Genocide", a work that I have read carefully. It is scrupulously researched
and annotated. I find it noteworthy that the investigating panel did not
mention it once. It is a disgrace that someone who has produced such a
*major* work might lose his job.

Here is a little flavor of what you can find in that book, from znet.
Apologies in advance for Michael Albert's slipshod scanning:

The Western democracies have been harshly-and properly-criticized for their
failure to intervene more forcefully to prevent the genocide of the Jews,
even to the extent of allowing greater non Jewish refugees to find
sanctuary within their borders. The fact is, however, that nothing at all
was done to save the Gypsies from their identical fate, and in this
connection international Jewish organizations have no better record than do
the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Canada. To the
contrary, it was arguably the Jewish organizations themselves which served
as the vanguard in obscuring what was happening to the Gypsies even as it
happened, a posture they've never abandoned. As researcher Ian Hancock
describes the results: "It is an eerie and disheartening feeling to pick
[reference books like Encyclopedia of the Third Reich] and find the
attempted genocide of one's people written completely out of the historical
record. Perhaps worse, in the English-language translation of at least one
book, that by Lujan Dobroszycki of The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, the
entire reference to the liquidation of the gypsy camp there (entry number
22 for April 29 and 20, 1942, in the original work) has been deleted
deliberately. I have been told, but have not yet verified, that
translations of other works on the Holocaust have also had entries on the
Roma and Sinti removed. Furthermore, I do not want to read references to
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the national press and learn
only that it is a monument to "the plight of European Jews," as the New
York Times-- told its readers on December 23, 1993. I want to be able to
watch epics such as Schindler's List and learn that Gypsies were a central
part of the Holocaust, too; or other films, such as Escape from Sobib6r, a
Polish camp where, according to Kommandant Franz Stangl in his memoirs,
thousands of Roma and Sinti were murdered, and not hear the word "Gypsy"
except once, and then only as the name of somebody's dog.

Or, to take an even more poignant another example: National Public Radio
(NPR) in Washington, DC, covered extensively the fiftieth anniversary of
Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 26, 199t, but Gypsies were never once
mentioned', despite being well represented at the commemoration. In its
closing report on NPR's "Weekend Edition" on January 28; Michael Goldfarb
described how "candles were-placed along the tracks that delivered Jews and
Poles to their death." But it was little wonder the Gypsies were-n't
mentioned; they were not allowed to participate in the candle ceremony. An
article -on the Auschwitz commemoration that appeared not the C.S. press)
included a group of Roma staring mournfully reading 'Colci-shouldered:
"Gypsies, whose ancestors were to watch the ceremony from outside the
compound." In a speech said that the Jewish people "were singled out for
destruction during the Holocaust."

The attitudes underlying such gestures are manifested, not merely in Jewish
exclusivism's sustained and concerted effort to expunge the Parrajmo from
history, but, more concretely, through its ongoing silence concerning the
present resurgence of nazi-like antigypsyism in Europe. In 1992, the
government of the newly-unified German Republic negotiated a deal in which
it paid more than a hundred million deutschmarks to Romania-notoriously
hostile to Gypsies--in exchange for that cashpoor country's acceptance of
the bulk of Germany's Sinti/Roma population (a smaller side deal is being
arranged with Poland to receive the rest). Summary deportations began
during the fall of 1993, with more than 20,000 people expelled to date, for
no other reason than that they are Gypsies. Their reception upon arrival? A
December 1993 news story sums it up very well.

An orgy of mob lynching and house-bun-dng with police collaboration has
turned into something more sinister for- Roma's hated Gypsies: the
beginnings of a nationwide campaign. of terror launch led by groups
modeling themselves on the Ku Klux Klan... "We are many, and very
determined. We'll skin-the Gypsies soon. We will take their eyeballs out,
smash their teeth, and cut off their noses. The first will be hanged."

The German government had every reason to know this would be the case well
before it began deportations. The depth and virulence of Romania's
antigypsy sentiment was hardly an historical mystery. Moreover, a leader of
the Romanian fascist movement, directly descended from the Arrow Cross
formations which avidly embraced nazi racial policies during World War II,
had openly announced what would happen nearly six months earlier: "Our war
against the Gypsies will start in the fall. Until them, preparations will
be made to obtain arms; first we are going to acquire chemical sprays. We
will not spare minors either."

No accurate count of how many Gypsies have been killed, tortured, maimed or
otherwise physically abused in Romania is presently available (unconfirmed
reports run into the hundreds). What is known is that there has been a
veritable news blackout m the topic, and that reaction from those elements
of the Jewish establishment which profess to serve as the "world's
conscience" on such matters has been tepid at best. No serious protest
arose from that quarter, not even when Romani leaders, hoping to avoid what
they knew was in store, took a large delegation of their people during the
spring of 1993 to seek sanctuary in the Neuenganune concentration camp
where their fathers and mothers were murdered a generation earlier.
Certainly, no Jewish human rights activists came forth to stand with them
as an act of solidarity.

As usual, it was Yehuda Bauer who produced what was perhaps the best
articulation of exclusivist sentiment on the matter. As early as 1990, he
was publicly complaining that such desperate attempts by Gypsies to end the
condition of invisibility he himself had been so instrumental in imposing
upon them was coming into "competition" with the kind of undeviating focus
on "radical anti-Semitism" he'd spent his life trying to engender. No
better illustration of what the distinguished Princeton historian of the
Holocaust Amo J. Mayer has described as the "exaggerated self-centeredness"
of Jewish exclusivism and its "egregious forgetting of the larger whole and
all of the other victims" can be imagined.

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