The Auschwitz Museum has come out swinging against comments made by former top Trump adviser Michael Flynn, in which he placed blame on Jews for their own deportations during the Holocaust. Flynn, a Christian nationalist, made the remarks during a recent speech, sparking outrage and condemnation.
Flynn’s speech included statements suggesting that mothers were complicit in the deportation of their children to Auschwitz and insinuated that Jews could have resisted or refused their deportations. His assertions were met with widespread criticism for their insensitivity and historical inaccuracy.
In response to Flynn’s remarks, a clip of his speech was shared on Twitter and quickly garnered over 8 million views.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial issued a statement on Twitter, countering Flynn’s claims. The statement read, in part, “The assertion that Jews could have easily resisted during deportations to extermination simply due to their numerical strength compared to the guards oversimplifies the dire circumstances they faced.”
Flynn’s history of making controversial comments, including Holocaust denial and antisemitism, has further fueled the backlash against him. In 2016, during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Flynn suggested that Jews were blaming Russia for the leak of Democratic National Committee emails in order to conceal their own involvement. He later apologized for the tweet.
Flynn’s history of contentious remarks continued as he questioned the actions of Jews during the Holocaust. In a speech given in October 2021 at a New Hampshire event, he invoked the Holocaust while discussing a U.S. Senate race. Comparing the choices faced by Jews during the Holocaust to the current political landscape, he drew criticism for the insensitive comparison.
In December 2016, four Jewish groups joined 53 organizations in urging former President Donald Trump to withdraw Flynn’s nomination as national security adviser due to his remarks.
Trump ignored them.
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Why does the video have zero to do with the comments purported to have been made in the article?
Please post the relevant video, so we can see the evidence hereβ¦.
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Whaaat??? A frum news site being slightly critical of the Gadol Hador, Donald Trump?!
Didn’t you know that that’s kefirah? Where’s your Emunah in Trump?
A disgrace!!!
AND WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT???
Thank you for updating the video. This video looks very strange. Any. Chance you scan post with a few more minutes of context? Itβs hard to tell what his point isβ¦.
I want to see the context.
Was he trying to say that the state of affairs is crazy because people just listen to officials without thinking (like in the famous pain button science experiments)? Because that isnβt anti-Semiticβ¦.
It was his point that in general our bubbes and zeydas went like sheep to the slaughter? Because that would be historically inaccurate and he will burn in hell for that zilzul- but how can u say its antisemitic if that literally is the opinion of millions of anti-frum Zionists?
So I want more context here, but either way itβs hard to say how this would be antisemitic but letβs see the context to decide
Isn’t that fantastic! And trump said he would appoint him if he wins the election. But some foolish Jews will cheer him and Flynn on.
These are the “geniuses” and “patriots” Trump is promising to appoint to top positions if he is re-elected. Flynn (Secretary of Defense or head of CIA), Rudy Giuliani or Richard Clark (Attorney General), Mike Lindell (Sect. of Commerce), etc. etc. The crazier they are and the more they adulate and fawn over him, the more Trump and the MAGAs are attracted to them.
That video does not show him saying anything about the Holocaust
what about kvud hatora rachmistrivka rabbi laveiya?????
So basically he said exactly what all of the Zionists said for decades following the war?
Writing this knowing the great risk in doing so: We who are old enough to remember, know well, that many survivors voiced very similar sentiments. I am not judging, and indeed was brought up being taught by Rebbeim that there were Gedolim who “paskened” this was like Purim where a great teshuvah was called for. and not like Chanukah where milchamah was called for. Nonetheless, where there were “uprisings” the sentiment – and perhaps the psak – was different. So I am not, indeed cannot, judge. I am only saying that many of our own have said the same thing.
“What about kvud hatora rachmistrivka rabbi laveiya”
Dovy2023: The Rebbe, Z’L had NOTHING to do with Michael Flynn nor is Flynn giving a hesped at his Laveiya so not sure what you are talking about
As justanotherguy1432 correctly pointed out that many prominent zionist said the same thing, that jews went like sheep to the slaughter without significant resistances.
If they could go home they would of and also to hide in the forest but they had no protection and could have gotten killed the same could happen now if we had no police protection to go live in the forest the only thing to do is go with the rest they was getting handed to the police as criminals but he is right that did not know what was happening in Poland and many bad people was in the ghetto and it really doesn’t make sense how millions could not save themselves but once asked a person why they didn’t bring any food with them like a bottle of orange juice and he said things like they want allowed to take anything with them only the tefilin but if Jewish people would help each other and felt the pain that happened they would not get on the train if there wasn’t children
This isn’t Flynn’s only anti Semitic remarks. And it’s still fine that trump had dinner with rabid anti semites? And he said he didn’t know who David Duke was. Please, enough is enough.
I don’t understand what’s wrong with his statement.
He asked that there were thousands more Jews than guards, so what were the rules of the guards?
I barely understood what he said (I guess we have to hear the continuation) – let alone hear anything antisemitic.
Why is there no article on YWN for the levata if the Rachmatrivka Rebbe??
Moderators Note: It was published minutes after his Petira and remained the top story for 24 hours.
Are we talking about any a person FIRE after 20 days on the job Why srent you yelling about all the racists and Jew haters in Bidenβs administration
Sorry no story here
The Jews went like sheep to the altar, not sheep to slaughter. How can a defenceless 80- year old grandmother attic a powerful self-assured 20-year-old sadistic beast with a machine gun? How can a father of 10, trying to eep them all alive after losing his wife start picking fights with the evil guard who can gun down another loved one? Go to hell, Flynn. Burn where it’s hot. Maybe then you’ll get to experience some of what these suffering Jews went through.