Antony Blinken is a Holocaust Liar

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In May of 2023, the Biden Administration released the first U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, a document which President Biden claimed “represents the most ambitious and comprehensive U.S. government-led effort to fight antisemitism in American history.”[i]

The historical significance of this document diminished considerably in light of the legal disclaimer which preceded its content. According to that disclaimer:

The U.S National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism does not supersede, modify, or direct an interpretation of any existing federal, state, or local statute, regulation, or policy. It does not constitute binding guidance for the public, states, localities, or Federal agencies and therefore does not require compliance with the principles described herein. The strategy does not purport to alter or preempt existing statutes, regulations, policies, or the requirements of the Federal, state, or local agencies that enforce them. The strategy shall therefore be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. Nothing in this strategy shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect or influence the authority of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the performance of their responsibilities with regard to the direction, conduct, control, planning, investigation, organization, equipment training, exercises, or other activities concerning counterterrorism, intelligence, and law enforcement activities. Such activities are outside the scope of the strategy. This strategy should also therefore not be construed to discuss or comment on any ongoing federal litigation or investigation.[ii]

The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism attempts to cover up the fact that it has no legal standing by directing our attention to its breathtaking scope in seeking to control every aspect of American life, including the Department of Agriculture (USDA), which “will provide educational opportunities for law enforcement agents of the U.S. Forest Service to learn how to identify and counter antisemitic, Islamophobic, and related forms of discrimination.”

Who knew that Smokey the Bear was an anti-Semite?

The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism demands that “American sports teams” will now have to “collaborate with nonprofit organizations and one another to create and share best practices for educating fans about Judaism, Jewish heritage, culture, and identity, and the Holocaust, and empowering them to combat antisemitism and all forms of hate.” If the people behind the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism get their way “American leagues” will be forced to commemorate “Holocaust Remembrance Day, similar to how sports leagues observe Memorial Day and 9/11, and to recognize Jewish American History month.”

Antony Blinken

In June 2023, as part of the publicity campaign surrounding the release of the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, Antony Blinken appeared in a video produced by the World Jewish Congress in which he claimed that his stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was sent to Auschwitz as a 12-year old when the Nazis invaded Bialystock, Poland. Samuel Pisar was born in 1929 to Helena and David Pisar, a well-to-do Jewish family which had made its fortune from founding the first taxi company in the area. After being arrested, Pisar spent four years in Nazi concentration camps. Pisar claims that he was sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz twice and that he managed to evade being killed the second time by picking up a brush and pail and pretending he’d been sent to clean the floors. Pisar’s account of his escape from the gas chamber fails to explain how he could mop a floor covered with dead Jews. “Slowly, I creep forward on the floor. The people whose legs I touch are too benumbed to notice. Reaching the pail, I wet the brush in the water and begin scrubbing the floor. . . . Slowly, I inch my way toward the exit. Now, one of the guards who had brought us in catches sight of me through the open door and looks indifferently the other way, supposing I am carrying out orders. . . . Carrying the pail, with the brush and rag inside, I walk slowly to the door, then out into the open. I expect to be stopped — a cry, an order, a blow on the head. Nothing. With slow, measured steps I walk toward the other barracks and lose myself in the anonymity of the camp.”[iii]

Pisar, who, according to Blinken’s account, was the only member of his family to survive, seems to have led a charmed life. Not only did he purportedly survive the Zyklon B gas which killed all of the other Jews in the same room he was cleaning, Pisar also escaped from a death march at the end of the war, after he and some of his friends “made a break for it,” hiding out in the forest for days. According to Blinken’s account:

one day from their hideout, they heard a deep rumbling sound and saw something that they dreamed of seeing but never imagined that they would see, a tank. But instead of having the iron cross on it, it had the white five-pointed star. As he got to the tank, the hatch opened up and a large African American GI looked down at him. And he looked up at the GI and got down on his knees and said the only three words in English that he knew that his mother had taught him before they were separated “God Bless America.” The American GI reached down and pulled him up into the tank, into freedom, into America.[iv]

It’s a moving story. Unfortunately, it never happened. It never could have happened because the 761st, the black tank battalion, was over 100 miles (174 kilometers, to be precise) away from Dachau when it was liberated by the Allies on April 29. When Pisar was hiding in the woods near Penzing, the 761st was in Coburg, which is 328 kilometers away, even farther away from Dachau. This makes Blinken and his late stepfather Samuel Pisar Holocaust liars.

You can go to jail in 16 countries in Europe if you deny the Holocaust, but no one ever goes to jail for lying about the Holocaust. That means that you can go to jail for denying a lie. Is saying that Samuel Pisar was never near the 761st Tank Battalion Holocaust denial?

Deborah Lipstadt

If Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration official who is the main author of the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, gets her way American citizens will go to jail for Holocaust denial, which in this instance means denying things that never happened. Deborah Lipstadt was a fervent promoter of Binyamin Wilkomirski’s Holocaust memoir Fragments. If Lipstadt has her way, you would have gone to jail for denying that Wilkomirski was sent to a concentration camp as a Jewish child from Latvia.

That means that 60 Minutes reporter Ed Bradley was involved in Holocaust denial because he exposed the fact that “Wilkomirski” was really a Swiss citizen by the name of Bruno Doessekker.[v] Doessekker was not a Jew, and he had never been near a concentration camp. He made up Fragments out of whole cloth, but Lipstadt loved his book. If she has her way the entire crew of 60 Minutes would have gone to prison for exposing his hoax.

“Binyamin Wilkomirski” a.k.a. Bruno Doessekker is a Holocaust liar. Because she promoted his book, Deborah Lipstadt is a Holocaust liar after the fact. She is an accessory to what should be a crime, because Holocaust denial can land you in prison.

It’s time to bring some clarity to the situation by making Holocaust lying a felony in the 18 countries which now have Holocaust denial laws on their books. Laws against Holocaust lying need to be enacted in the United States as well to prevent innocent people from the prosecutions which will be inevitable once Holocaust denial becomes a criminal offense in the United States.

Antony Blinken is a Holocaust liar. As things stand now, anyone can make up a story about the Holocaust. As things stand now, anyone who contests that story, no matter how absurd, can be prosecuted for Holocaust denial in Europe, Canada, and Israel. If Deborah Lipstadt gets her way, that will soon be the case in the United States. If Holocaust denial is a crime, then Holocaust lying must be a crime as well, because if it is not, innocent people will go to jail for denying something that never happened.

The story of Pisar’s liberation has taken on a life of its own. In 2018, Blinken’s half-sister Leah Pisar wrote an op-ed for The Hill, in which she claimed that the man who pulled Pisar into his tank was Sgt. Bill Ellington, who served in the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-Negro unit which fought its way across Europe as part of Patton’s Third Army. Ellington had been dead for over 30 years when Leah Pisar made that announcement. The claim that he rescued Pisar came from Ellington’s sister Valerie Crowley, who made the announcement long after he had died and could corroborate what she said. Crowley, according to an article which appeared in the Jewish Telegraph Agency, “saw Pisar and heard the rescue story during a television interview in 1983, recognized the story as that told to her by her brother prior to his death, and set about looking for Pisar. Through subsequent contact with the Wiesenthal Center, Crowley ultimately was able to contact Pisar.”[vi] The CNN story promoted Blinken’s “remarkable story of Samuel Pisar and his Black saviors,”[vii] but it did not go into the chronology of the 761st’s deployment in Europe, which refuted Pisar’s claim. 

We know the route which the 761st followed at the end of World War II when Pisar was presumably on his death march because Kareem Abdul Jabbar described it in detail in his book Brothers in Arms. The 761st entered Germany somewhere north of Sarreguemines and south of Saarbrucken on December 14, 1944,[viii] where they were poised “to smash through the Siegfried line and push northeast to the Rhein river as the first step in occupying the Mainz-Frankfort-Darmstadt corridor.”[ix] Before they could put Patton’s plan into effect, the 761st was ordered to head in the opposite direction to relieve General McAuliffe’s army at Bastogne, where American forces had been encircled during the Battle of the Bulge.

After participating in the liberation of Bastogne, the 761st headed north to the town of Jabeek, Holland.[x] After a series of battles near Monchengladbach, the 761st crossed the Rhein on March 30, 1945 and reached Lagenselbold, outside of Frankfurt on April 1 as part of Patton’s plan to “to push as far east as possible across Germany toward Austria and Czechoslovakia”[xi] in his race to Berlin.

A typical action occurred on March 20, when tanks of A Company worked with infantry to clear out the heavily defended town of Niederschlettenbach, which is 347 kilometers from Dachau. The 761st tank battalion crossed the Rhein near Karlsruhe at the end of March, but then they headed north and “participated in the vast encirclement of German forces in the Ruhr pocket,” leaving them 643 kilometers from Dachau with less than a month to go before Dachau’s liberation. We know they were in Coburg after that and that by May 4, 1945 they were in Gunskirchen, Austria. This means they were nowhere near the woods surrounding Dachau when Pisar was allegedly hiding there.

After three days of intense fighting near Frankfurt, the 761st received orders to head east toward Fulda, which lay more than half way across Germany. Convinced that “the swiftest advance would bring the swiftest end to the war,”[xii] Patton was determined to reach Berlin before the Soviets. Berlin fell to the Soviet Army on April 30.

Fearing a rupture of the American alliance with the Soviet Union, Eisenhower countermanded Patton’s eastward advance and ordered him to turn south “to take out the rumored National Redoubt,”[xiii] a secret cache of weapons the Nazis were planning to use as part of a last-ditch counter-offensive, sending the 761st toward Regensburg, which finally surrendered to the Americans on April 26, 1945.[xiv]

Regensburg is 70 miles northeast of Dachau, which was liberated three days later on April 29. At that moment, the 761st was heading east. On May 4, the 761st crossed the Inn River and entered Austria.[xv] The 761st did liberate a concentration camp, but the camp was located in Gunskirchen in Austria, which is even farther from Dachau than Regensburg.

After the 761st liberated the Gunskirchen concentration camp, which, according to Jabbar, “was a work camp which “housed 15,000 inmates, mostly Hungarian Jews,” the 761st was ordered to engage German troops in a fire fight near Wels, where they captured a civilian air strip and took 300 German soldiers prisoner in addition to the thousand they had captured in Lambach the day before.[xvi] On May 5, the 761st headed toward Steyr, in north central Austria after receiving orders to advance to the Enns River, where they were to link up with the Soviet Army, which was advancing from the east.[xvii] The rendezvous with the Russians ended the mission of the 761st in World War II.

Blinken got the idea that his stepfather had been rescued by Negroes from Pisar’s memoir Of Blood and Hope, where he wrote:

Yes, I see it again: a huge tank with a strange white star lumbering across a clearing, a scared kid jumping out of his hiding place, running through machine-gun fire toward the cannon pointed at his chest; yelling at the top of his wasted lungs the few words of English his mother had taught him: “God Bless America”; and a tall, black, helmeted savior pulling him down the hatch to safety and to freedom. Yes, I want to shout it out, in a forest near Dachau, after Auschwitz, after Maidanek, after hell, the-American army liberated me.[xviii]

The 761st was never near “a forest near Dachau.” Perhaps this explains why Blinken’s story about his stepfather’s rescue would change over time. Speaking to CNN, Blinken claimed that Pisar as a teenager “escaped from a ‘death march’ . . . where German troops retreating from advancing Allied forces, made starving inmates, mainly Jews, walk miles from Poland to camps in Austria and other places inside Germany. Those who could not keep up were shot by SS guards. Those who did not die on the journey generally were killed when they reached their new camps.”[xix] In the same CNN article, Blinken claims that Pisar was “hiding out in the Bavarian woods” after the death march began in Poland, which means that he walked roughly 1,000 kilometers. It is over 900 kilometers (or 600 miles) from Auschwitz to Dachau. Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945. Dachau was liberated on April 29, 1945. According to the CNN account: 

After hiding out in the Bavarian woods, Pisar heard the rumbling of a tank. When he peeked out to see who it was, he was shocked and elated. “Instead of an Iron Cross, he saw a five-pointed White Star,” Blinken said. “He ran to the tank. The hatch opened. An African American GI looked down at him. He got down on his knees and said the only three words he knew in English that his mother had taught him: ‘God Bless America.’”[xx]

The Ha’aretz article on Pisar’s wartime escape from the Nazis claims that he was “imprisoned in Majdanek, Auschwitz and Dachau,” but that “at the end of the war, he managed to escape during one of the death marches,” without specifying where the death march took place.[xxi] Pisar claimed that he was imprisoned in both Auschwitz and Dachau, but he never tells us how he got from one camp to the other. If the death march began in Auschwitz and ended in Dachau, Pisar travelled roughly 1,000 kilometers on foot at a time when Germany’s rail lines had been all but destroyed along with its food and water supplies. The Holocaust encyclopedia gives more realistic numbers in its assessment of the death march out of Auschwitz:

In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to march either northwest for 55 kilometers (approximately 30 miles) to Gliwice (Gleiwitz), joined by prisoners from subcamps in East Upper Silesia, such as Bismarckhuette, Althammer, and Hindenburg, or due west for 63 kilometers (approximately 35 miles) to Wodzislaw (Loslau) in the western part of Upper Silesia, joined by inmates from the subcamps to the south of Auschwitz, such as Jawischowitz, Tschechowitz, and Golleschau. SS guards shot anyone who fell behind or could not continue. Prisoners also suffered from the cold weather, starvation, and exposure on these marches. At least 3,000 prisoners died on route to Gliwice alone; possibly as many as 15,000 prisoners died during the evacuation marches from Auschwitz and the subcamps.[xxii]…

 

 

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(Endnotes)

[i]   The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, May 2023, Online PDF, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf
[ii]   The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, May 2023, Online PDF, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf
[iii]   Samuel Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979), p. 73. 
[iv]   U.S. Department of State, “How my stepfather escaped the Nazis / Secretary Blinken reflects on Yom HaShoah, YouTube, April 17, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LqgDkMeQE
[v]   “Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragments:_Memories_of_a_Wartime_Childhood
[vi]   “Holocaust Survivor and Sister of Man Who Saved Him Meet for First Time,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Aug. 20, 1984, https://www.jta.org/archive/holocaust-survivor-and-sister-of-man-who-saved-him-meet-for-first-time
[vii]   “Holocaust Survivor and Sister of Man Who Saved Him Meet for First Time,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Aug. 20, 1984, https://www.jta.org/archive/holocaust-survivor-and-sister-of-man-who-saved-him-meet-for-first-time
[viii]   Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Brothers in Arms: the Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes (Crown, 2004) Kindle Edition, p. 193. 
[ix]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms,  pp. 194-6.
[x]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 248.
[xi]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 270. 
[xii]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms,  p. 277.
[xiii]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 283. 
[xiv]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 286. 
[xv]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 287. 
[xvi]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, pp. 289-91.
[xvii]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 292. 
[xviii]   Samuel Pisar, Of Blood and Hope (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979), p. 15.
[xix]   Steven A. Holmes, “The Black Battalion that Rescued Tony Blinken’s Stepfather,” CNN, Nov. 30, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/opinions/blinken-stepfather-761st-black-soldiers-holmes/index.html
[xx]   Holmes, “The Black Battalion that Rescued Tony Blinken’s Stepfather,” CNN, Nov. 30, 2020.
[xxi]   Haggai Hitron, “Wrestling with God,” Haaretz.com, Internet Archive WayBackMachine, Captured Feb. 2, 2010 – April 3, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20100202225139/http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/1089496.html
[xxii]   “Death March from Auschwitz,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, Jan. 17, 1945, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/death-march-from-auschwitz
[xxiii]   “Samuel Pisar,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pisar
[xxiv]   “Mein Überleben sollte kein Zufall sein,” Leonberger Kreiszeitung, March 17, 2014, https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.leonberg-mein-ueberleben-sollte-kein-zufall-sein.d23c4a4c-98c1-4b8e-9695-bd8019884683.html
[xxv]   “Mein Überleben sollte kein Zufall sein,” Leonberger Kreiszeitung, March 17, 2014, https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.leonberg-mein-ueberleben-sollte-kein-zufall-sein.d23c4a4c-98c1-4b8e-9695-bd8019884683.html  Frühjahr 1945: Als der Tunnel in Leonberg endgültig geschlossen wird, müssen die Häftlinge zu Fuß nach Bayern. Viele überlebten die Strapazen nicht, wurden erschlagen, erschossen oder brachen einfach tot am Straßenrand zusammen. Auf dem letzten Teilstück des Weges gelingt es Pisar zusammen mit zwei Freunden, sich von der Häftlingsgruppe abzusetzen. Die drei Freunde riskieren die Flucht mit zwölf weiteren Häftlingen während eines nächtlichen Luftangriffes. Neun wurden von der SS direkt wieder gefunden und erschossen. Pisar und seine beiden Freunde überleben. Am nächsten Tag verstecken sie sich in einer Scheune und blieben dort, bis sie von amerikanischen Truppen gerettet wurden. My translation.
[xxvi]   “Mein Überleben sollte kein Zufall sein,” Leonberger Kreiszeitung, March 17, 2014, https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.leonberg-mein-ueberleben-sollte-kein-zufall-sein.d23c4a4c-98c1-4b8e-9695-bd8019884683.html
[xxvii]   “Holocaust Survivor and Sister of Man Who Saved Him Meet for First Time,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Aug. 20, 1984,  https://www.jta.org/archive/holocaust-survivor-and-sister-of-man-who-saved-him-meet-for-first-time
[xxviii]   “Crown Heights riot,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Heights_riot
[xxix]   John Carmody, “WWII Documentary on Black GIs Pulled,” The Washington Post, Feb. 13, 1993, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/02/13/wwii-documentary-on-black-gis-pulled/1a736c6b-9a27-4472-8acd-b475849b680a/
[xxx]   Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Anthony Walton, Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes, pp. 12-4.
[xxxi]   Joe Wilson, Jr., The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II: The U.S. Army’s First All African American Tank Unit, Military Review, Army University Press, June 17, 2022, https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/MR-Book-Reviews/June-2022/Book-Review-003/
[xxxii]   784th Tank Battalion (United States), Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/784th_Tank_Battalion_(United_States)
[xxxiii]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 54. 
[xxxiv]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 104.
[xxxv]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 164. 
[xxxvi]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 160.
[xxxvii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 82.
[xxxviii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 91.
[xxxix]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 93.
[xl]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 93.
[xli]   Jabbar, Brothers in Arms, p. 316. 
[xlii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 16.
[xliii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 17.
[xliv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 79.
[xlv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 247.
[xlvi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 247.
[xlvii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 248.
[xlviii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 57.
[xlix]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 22.
[l]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 72.
[li]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 71.
[lii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 66.
[liii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 59.
[liv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 43.
[lv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 79.
[lvi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 76.
[lvii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 17.
[lviii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 70.
[lix]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 220.
[lx]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 150.
[lxi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 108.
[lxii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 99.
[lxiii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 99.
[lxiv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 99.
[lxv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 99.
[lxvi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 101.
[lxvii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 100.
[lxviii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 101.
[lxix]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 103.
[lxx]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 104.
[lxxi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 103.
[lxxii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 104.
[lxxiii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 104.
[lxxiv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 104.
[lxxv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 106.
[lxxvi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 107.
[lxxvii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 113.
[lxxviii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 114.
[lxxix]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 133.
[lxxx]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 33.
[lxxxi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 149.
[lxxxii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 174.
[lxxxiii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 192.
[lxxxiv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 198.
[lxxxv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 197.
[lxxxvi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 198.
[lxxxvii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 198.
[lxxxviii]   Michael Tracey @mtracey, Tweet, “Yiddish and the Ukrainian-Jewish roots of the new U.S. Secretary of State, Feb. 21, 2023, https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1628152666189602817
[lxxxix]   Morgan Ome, “Blinken: I Understand Why Zelensky Is Demanding That the U.S. ‘Do Even More and Do It Even Faster,’” The Atlantic, Feb. 24, 2023, Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg and Secretary of State Antony Blinken  Conversation, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/antony-blinken-ukraine-jeffrey-goldberg-zelensky/673188/
[xc]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 199.
[xci]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 260.
[xcii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 261.
[xciii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 261.
[xciv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 265.
[xcv]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 265.
[xcvi]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 268.
[xcvii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 273.
[xcviii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 274.
[xcix]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 277.
[c]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 277.
[ci]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 279.
[cii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 202.
[ciii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 207.
[civ]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 202.
[cv]   The claim comes from Heinrich Graetz, the father of Jewish historiography, as I pointed out in The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, pp. 428-53.
[cvi]   “Babi Yar,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
[cvii]   “Babi Yar,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
[cviii]   Pisar, Of Blood and Hope, p. 230
[cix]   U.S. Department of State, “How my stepfather escaped the Nazis / Secretary Blinken reflects on Yom HaShoah, YouTube, April 17, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LqgDkMeQE
[cx]   CampaignLifeTV, “US ex-abortionist faces Canada’s father of abortion in 1983 live TV showdown,” YouTube, Jan. 21, 2022, https://youtu.be/tmkJBDarI10?t=1813  at 30:15
[cxi]   Ben Shapiro, “LOL: Canadian Politician Says ‘Honk Honk’ Means ‘Heil Hitler,’” YouTube, Feb. 23, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNFVxUa3o7A  This is also available on Bitchute: The Honkering, Honk_Honky, “OY VEY || YA’ARA SAKS OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT SAYS HONK HONK = ‘HEIL HITLER,’” BitChute, Feb. 21, 2022, https://www.bitchute.com/video/twAHbA3HWuqG/
[cxii]   The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, May 2023, Online PDF, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf
[cxiii]   Page 3.