Comments on: On Giving Money to Anti-Semities http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/ It's Latin for "Let there be light" Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:20:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jason Perlow http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/comment-page-1/#comment-648 Jason Perlow Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:32:44 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/#comment-648 Certainly, I'm not going to pay money to see a Mel Gibson movie ever again. Perhaps, I'll watch Apocalypto if it ever endus up on cable. Still, there are a number companies I'll never give my money to because of their history of antisemitism or because of their direct involvement with the Holocaust. I don't understand, for example, why any Jews buy Porsche, Volkswagens and Audis -- Ferdinand Porsche (the designer of the Volkswagen) was the designer of the mobile gas chamber used in the Holocaust and when he ran the Volkswagen factory during the 1940's, many Jews were used as forced labor. http://www.holocaust-history.org/questions/porsche.shtml This is something that is very well documented and not a lot of Jews know about. Henry Ford was a major league anti-semite as well. I own a Mercedes, but its 15 years old, and also I respect the Daimler-Chrysler company for providing war reparations to Israel in the form of reduced price automobiles -- that's why almost all the taxis in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are Mercedes. If the Volkswagen/Audi/Porsche group had any pride they would do the exact same thing. Certainly, I’m not going to pay money to see a Mel Gibson movie ever again. Perhaps, I’ll watch Apocalypto if it ever endus up on cable.

Still, there are a number companies I’ll never give my money to because of their history of antisemitism or because of their direct involvement with the Holocaust. I don’t understand, for example, why any Jews buy Porsche, Volkswagens and Audis — Ferdinand Porsche (the designer of the Volkswagen) was the designer of the mobile gas chamber used in the Holocaust and when he ran the Volkswagen factory during the 1940’s, many Jews were used as forced labor.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/questions/porsche.shtml

This is something that is very well documented and not a lot of Jews know about. Henry Ford was a major league anti-semite as well.

I own a Mercedes, but its 15 years old, and also I respect the Daimler-Chrysler company for providing war reparations to Israel in the form of reduced price automobiles — that’s why almost all the taxis in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are Mercedes. If the Volkswagen/Audi/Porsche group had any pride they would do the exact same thing.

]]> By: Art http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Art Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:35:18 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/#comment-647 This act of Mel Gibson is a bad one. But we don't have to forget that first of all he is a normal man and after that a great artist. So I think we can excuse him. This act of Mel Gibson is a bad one. But we don’t have to forget that first of all he is a normal man and after that a great artist. So I think we can excuse him.

]]> By: S L http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/comment-page-1/#comment-646 S L Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:52:18 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/#comment-646 Maybe someday someone can explain to me what we Jews have done to the world to be so universally hated. It would be nice to be able to give my kid an answer when he looks me in the eyes and asks "daddy, why do they hate us?" Something better than "I don't know, son, I don't know. They just do." Maybe someday someone can explain to me what we Jews have done to the world to be so universally hated. It would be nice to be able to give my kid an answer when he looks me in the eyes and asks “daddy, why do they hate us?” Something better than “I don’t know, son, I don’t know. They just do.”

]]> By: Sour Duck http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/comment-page-1/#comment-645 Sour Duck Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:13:41 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2006/07/31/on-giving-money-to-anti-semities/#comment-645 It is definitely an excuse to blame it on the alcohol. As you say, alcohol doesn't make you do out of character things, it just relaxes your usual reticence. (Favorite Mel Gibson movie: The Year of Living Dangerously.) It is definitely an excuse to blame it on the alcohol. As you say, alcohol doesn’t make you do out of character things, it just relaxes your usual reticence.

(Favorite Mel Gibson movie: The Year of Living Dangerously.)

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