Henry Ford’s The International Jew and the books of avowed antisemite Masami Uno.
Simon Wiesenthal Center Calls on World Leaders to Convene Emergency UN Security Council Meeting on Iran
Simon Wiesenthal Center Calls on World Leaders to Convene Emergency UN Security Council Meeting on Iran
| WIESENTHAL CENTER WORRIED NEW BOOK COULD SIGNAL THE RETURN OF ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY THEMES IN THE JAPANESEMAINSTREAM The Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed concern that a new wave of conspiratorial antisemitic works could be on the wayafter learning of the release of Niiche wa miniute ita Yudaya-Kiristuokyo “Sekai Shihai” no karakuri (Nietzsche Understood! Judeo-Christian Scheme for ‘Ruling the World'), byBenjamin Fulford, a former bureau chief for Forbes magazine, and Japanese writer Osamu Tekina. The book refers to the writings of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to assert aconspiracy by Americans, Israelis, Jews and Christians to control the world saying, “Bush, who massacred 650,000 Iraqis, also collaborates with Israeli extremists to exterminate everyPalestinian to control the Middle East,” “The U.S. Army is in fact the Israeli Army…,” and “The Jewish Mafia exploited the taboo of anti-Semitism to control the mass media.” Thebook’s publisher, Tokuma Shoten, pledged in 1995 to stop the publication of such antisemitic works as “Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there was a tsunami of widely popular conspiracy books in Japan, including thoseblaming Jews for Japan’s economic problems and which culminated in the publication of an article in the popular magazine Marco Polo that denied that anyone was ever gassed at theAuschwitz death camp,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center. “The publication of this new book comes at a time of increased antisemitic violence and hate crimes,” continued Cooper.“We want to make sure this book does not lead to a new a new wave of anti-Jewish sentiment in Japanese publications,” he added. “The Wiesenthal Center is therefore calling upon Tokuma Shoten to live up to its pledge and stop marketing such patentlyfalse and hateful material,” Cooper said. “In addition, we urge the president of Asahi Shimbun, Kotaro Akyama, to investigate why his paper would carry an advertisement for such anoutrageous book.” The protest comes just days after a major Korean publisher promised the Wiesenthal Center that it would take steps tocorrect antisemitic caricatures in its popular Monnara Iunnara series. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe. For more information, please contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036. |