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| 2007-01-26 |
| Former Thank God for that. President I'm still ashamed of that. Jimmy Carter once complained there were "too many Jews" on the government's Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman, the council's former executive director, told WND in an exclusive interview. Freedman, who served on the council during Carter's term as president, also revealed a noted Holocaust scholar who was a Presbyterian Christian was rejected from the council's board by Carter's office because the scholar's name "sounded too Jewish." Freedman, now a professor of law at Hofstra University, was picked by the council's chairman, author Elie Weisel, to serve as executive director in 1980. The council, created by the Carter White House, went on to establish the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Freedman says he was tasked with creating a board for the council and with making recommendations to the White House on how best to memorialize the Holocaust. He told WND he sent a memo to Carter's office containing recommendations for council board members. He said his memo was returned with a note on the upper right hand corner that stated, "Too many Jews." The note, Freedman said, was written in Carter's handwriting and was initialed by Carter. Freedman said at the time the board he constructed was about 80-perent Jewish, including many Holocaust survivors. He said at the behest of the White House he composed another board consisting of more non-Jews. But he said he was "stunned" when Carter's office objected to a non-Jew whose name sounded Jewish. Freedman said he could not provide the historians name to WND because he did not have the man's permission. "I got a phone call from our liaison at the White House saying this particular historian whose name sounded Jewish would not do. The liaison said he would not even take the time to present Carter with the possibility of including the historian on the board because he knew Carter would think the name sounded too Jewish. I explained the historian is Presbyterian, but the liaison said it wouldn't matter to Carter." Freedman said he was "outraged by this absurdity." "If I was memorializing Martin Luther King, I would expect a significant number of board members to be African American. If I was memorializing Native American figures I'd expect a lot of Native Americans to be on the board. I do not for a moment consider it inappropriate to build a Holocaust council with a significant majority of the board being Jewish," Freedman stated. Freedman describes himself as "self-proclaimed liberal." He said he decided to speak out after the release of Carter's latest book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," which some have accused of being biased against Israel. This would not be the first time Carter's messages on right hand corners of letters generated a Holocaust-related scandal. Last week, in an interview with the Tovia Singer Show on Israel National Radio, a former U.S. Justice Department official said he received a letter advocating "special consideration" for a confessed Nazi SS officer accused of murdering Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Neal Sher, who served in the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigation, said that in 1987 he received a note from Carter petitioning for re-entry into the U.S. for Martin Bartesch, who had been deported by Sher's office to Austria after it was established he served as an SS officer. Sher said his office had "extraordinary evidence" Bartesch shot Jews. Bartesch originally immigrated to the U.S. and lived in Chicago. He later admitted to Sher's office and the court he had voluntarily joined the SS as a teenager and served in its Death's Head Division at the Mauthausen concentration camp where many thousands of prisoners were gassed, shot, starved and worked to death. Bartesch also confessed to having concealed his SS service at concentration camp from U.S. immigration officials. Sher said the Justice Department obtained a journal kept by the SS and captured by the U.S. Armed Forces listing Bartesch as having shot to death Max Oschorn, a French Jewish prisoner. Bartesch's daughters, who still lived in the U.S., attempted in 1987 to appeal to politicians to allow the former Nazi officer to enter the country. They wrote a note in which they claimed it was "un-American" to persecute a man for crimes committed when he was only 17 and 18 years old. Sher said he was shocked when he received the daughter's letter replete with a handwritten note from Carter on the upper right corner stating the former president wanted "special consideration" for the Bartesch family for humanitarian reasons. The note, containing Carter's signature, was obtained this week by the NY Sun. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #20 I'm thinking he'll buy the farm but it'll be the result of issues related to "bad health". They'll find him with a bunch empty Quarter Pounder with Cheese containers littered about, and clutching a half eaten one. |
| Posted by: Chuck Darwin 2007-01-26 18:31 |
| #19 Chuck...I've been thinkin' the same thing the past year. It would solve many issues... and provide the sympathy vote to put her over the top. Bill hasn't looked the picture of health of late... I"m thinking he'll buy the farm but it'll be the result of issues related to "bad health" |
| Posted by: RexMundi 2007-01-26 18:13 |
| #18 he thinks his beliefs are absolutely normal, centrist and morally correct. Anyone got a photo of Catauh and Byrd side by side? If not I'ma go look tomorrow. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-26 18:04 |
| #17 Too many former Presidents flapping their gums, is what I say. Only two are really doing any talking. I expect Jimmuh to go Tango-Uniform fairly soon, that or be placed in seclusion by his family. Now Bill, I had a though the other evening just as I was dozing off. It would not surprise me in the least if Bill had a "Vince Foster™" encounter before the actual election in 2008, after he had helped the Hildabeast get the nomination. It's crazy, I know, but still it would not surprise me. They could claim he was despondent at being the First Dude, so he shot himself in the back of the head...twice. |
| Posted by: Chuck Darwin 2007-01-26 15:10 |
| #16 Muslims paid for Carter's cowardly soul. Muslims own Jimmy Carter. And they have the receipts to prove it. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2007-01-26 14:29 |
| #15 "He said he decided to speak out after the release of Carter's latest book..." Where's the sour grapes graphic when you need it? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-01-26 13:54 |
| #14 TW: I agree -- I think he's sincere. And that's the scariest part -- he thinks his beliefs are absolutely normal, centrist and morally correct. Working from that set of assumptions, he probably sees antagonistic positions as being agenda-driven (jooooos), whereas he doesn't believe his position is agenda-driven at all. He believes it to be "Truth." |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2007-01-26 13:33 |
| #13 I think Jimmy Carter would like a Final solution to teh "to many Jews" problem. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-01-26 13:30 |
| #12 No their won't Sea. The liberal press and the democrats will protect him. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-01-26 13:22 |
| #11 I know, BA, but these are *very* serious allegations. The people making the allegations had best be able to back them up or there will be hell to pay. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-01-26 11:24 |
| #10 It's clearly not senility, 3dc, since he's been acting quietly on his bigotry since he was elected to office. It's just that in order to bring the world round to his way of thinking he's got to shout it to the rooftops. I'm sure he's honestly confused by the brouhaha, since nobody's openly protested his attitude or actions before. I f we could read his thoughts I'm sure they would run along the lines of, "I'm couldn't possibly be antisemitic since I was the one who established the Holocaust Museum that they so badly wanted; I can't be anti-Israel, since I was the one who made them make peace... which those Jews are screwing up by not doing as I tell them to! I'm not a hypocrite or a liar because I'm a good Christian -- I taught Sunday School and everything! Why do those Jews and their friends keep picking on me?" |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-26 11:18 |
| #9 I don't know Sea...I somewhat agree with you, but based upon prior experiences with Jimmuh, I'm betting it's real. Kind of like "circumstantial evidence," methinks. |
| Posted by: BA 2007-01-26 11:11 |
| #8 Senile Dementia is so sad. Even more so when it affects an ex-president. Isn't it time for his family to put in a "home" that can properly sedate him? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-01-26 11:08 |
| #7 To be fair, this story is not sourced very well. I would really like to see the actual note and have the "prominent Holocaust scholar who is actually Presbyterian but has a Jewish-sounding name" be identified. I'm fairly sure Professor Freedman is a 'reliable source' but this allegation is very serious and he ought to back them up with some verifiable facts. If it cannot be proven, the moonbats will have a field day, and rightfully so. I still stand by my statement that former Presidents should keep their yaps shut. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-01-26 10:41 |
| #6 Former Thank God for that. President I'm still ashamed of that. Jimmy Carter As A lifelong Southerner I feel the need to Apologise, Most of us realize racial hatred is stupid somewhere around the junior-high years. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-01-26 10:22 |
| #5 In related news: President Carter should be tried for crimes against humanity. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-26 10:21 |
| #4 Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system from Wikipedia: The death toll remains unknown, although most sources place it between 122,766 and 320,000 for the entire complex. The camps formed one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany, and were the last ones to be occupied by the Western Allies or the Soviet Union. The two main camps, Mauthausen and Gusen I, were also the only two camps in the whole of Europe to be labelled as "Grade III" camps, which meant that they were intended to be the toughest camps for the "Incorrigible Political Enemies of the Reich".[1] Unlike many other concentration camps, intended for all categories of prisoners, Mauthausen was mostly used for extermination through labour of the intelligentsia, who were educated people and members of the higher social classes in countries subjugated by Germany during World War II.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-26 10:20 |
| #3 Too many former Presidents flapping their gums, is what I say. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-01-26 10:15 |
| #2 "If I was memorializing Martin Luther King, I would expect a significant number of board members to be African American. If I was memorializing Native American figures I'd expect a lot of Native Americans to be on the board" I'm sure Carter would actually agree with this statement. A large number of African and Native Americans isn't disturbing to him. A lot of Jews, apparently, is. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2007-01-26 09:33 |
| #1 "I'm not anti-semitic. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-26 08:20 |