L'affaire Williamson · The Catholic Church and Holocaust Denial

Within minutes of the leaking on the internet of the announcement that the Catholic Church was going to lift the excommunications of four Society of St. Pius X bishops, reports that one, Bishop Richard Williamson, was a “Holocaust denier” began circulating on the web as well. These reports relied on an interview of the bishop conducted months before in Germany but scheduled to be broadcast the following day on Swedish TV.

Despite Vatican efforts, news reports kept confusing the Church’s focus on the sin of schism with the media world’s focus on the unforgivable secular sins, i.e., “Holocaust denial” and anti-Semitism. Why?

Holocaust denial is another word for Jewish control of discourse, in particular historical discourse about World War II. A historian who publishes something a powerful Jew, which is to say a Jew with powerful backers, dislikes, will be punished. If he lives by writing books, as David Irving did, the Deborah Lipstadt brigade will get him blacklisted in the publishing industry. If he is a professor, the big Jews will try to get him fired, as Deborah Lipstadt did in the case of Professor David O’Connell.

Typical is the case of Norman Finkelstein, who was fired from his job at DePaul University in Chicago. Finkelstein wrote a devastating critique of Alan Dershowitz’s book The Case for Israel so Dershowitz set out to destroy Finkelstein’s career. The fact that Finkelstein was a Jew didn’t matter. The big Jews, in this case Dershowitz, decide who is to live and who is to die in academe and publishing.

In L'affaire Williamson: The Catholic Church and Holocaust Denial, E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, describes and defies the artificial rules that control discourse, exposing fissions within society and the Church.