As if he was speaking on cue, retired Polish Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust, using it to “advance propaganda agendas”. The cleric’s remarks appeared on a Roman Catholic website.
He stated the Jewish capitalization of the Holocaust is “not permissible” and “While it is undeniable that most of those who died in the concentration camps were Jews, there were also gypsies, Poles, Italians and Catholics on the list.”
He did not stop there, but continued accusing the Jews of using the Holocaust to “obtain advantages that are often unjustified”, and “the Holocaust as such is a Jewish invention”. “The Shoah is used as a propaganda weapon and to obtain advantages that are often unjustified,” he charged.
As the Vatican defends Pope Benedict XVI’s decision regarding the beatification of anti-Semite Pius X, insisting he did act to help the Jews but it was unknown, Pieronek, the former spokesman of Poland’s Bishops Conference made his anti-Semitic position crystal clear, a position that many believe echoes the actions of the Church during WWII.
The retired Polish cleric also addressed current political realities, calling Israel’s security partition barrier, which was constructed to halt suicide bombers, “a colossal injustice against the Palestinians”. He is calling for a day to honor the Palestinians, timing his statements two days before the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, obviously seeking to draw a comparison to the suffering of the PA residents due to Israeli policy.
After news of his remarks hit the press, the bishop released a statement that his comments appearing on the Italian Roman Catholic website were taken out of context.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The only possible reason that HaSh-m would allow this piece of ordure to still draw breathe has to be that He has not yet finished installing the heating system for his accommodations in gehenom!
#1 sheer idiocy “WHO?” has not yet finished
there is no such concept as time when speaking about ” AinOhdMilvado “
1 and 2, you twiddle away nonsensically. L’maisa, I hope responsible senior parties admonish Pieronek firmly and publicly.
Why doesn’t Poland welcome the Arab squatters of Israel.
NOTE that he didn’t deny the millions of Jews were murdered, nor that Jews were the primary target of the Nazis. His argument is that this wasn’t anything unusual or special. Arguably he is correct in that Europeans routinely go around engaging in mass murder, and this was just their normal behavior; what makes the “holocaust” different than previous acts of genocide is that the victims survive in sufficient numbers to make it an issue (well, it serves them right for trying to wipe out someone who is so stubborn as not to disappear entirely).
I think his zaida beat up my zaida in his ghetto during WWII.
Let’s the church make him a saint immediately.
Saints are only made after their death like their gd
akuperma, you are a disgusting piece of garbage for posting such a piece of history recidivism.
Mr. YWEditor, please, please block his posts. It smacks of anti-semitism!
To Flatbush Bubby in commebnt #8 I think you are wrong about akuperma.
I think he is not saying anything antisemitic.
Just the opposite: It seems to me, he is saying that the Arabs who are stealing Jewish land and “squatting” on the land they stole from the Jews, where they have no business being, are exactly the types, this antisemitic Bishop, would most likely be good friends with.
He is saying that in his (disgusting antisemitic) opinion, that the Jews have no special claim for being singled out.
As if the nazis wanted to exterminate all Poles like they wanted to do to the Jews.
But he of course is lying through his teeth.
The nazis put Poles in there to make more room for Germans but there was no systematic plan to find all Poles everywhere and wipe out their very existence.
And even the Gypsies who the Nazis did intend to wipe out would not necessarily have been chased all over the world and theuy certainly did not have their ancestors (geneaology) looked up, to make sure all traces of gypsie ancestry had been “eradicated”.
Only Jews were singled out for total extinction from the entire world (which the nazis were so sure they would conquer and rule over as the “Thousand Year Reich”).
Further this lying nazilib Bishop, is implying that the Jews are happy that the holocaust happened just like one might be happy to have made a busines deal which will now make them very rich.
There are no words to describe how sick, this guy is.
#2 – duhhhhh… no kidding?
did you ever hear of a “figure of speech”?