Rabbi claims Holocaust dead ‘deserved it’

Sunday Times ^ | 12/17/06 | Maurice Chittenden

[TFFKAMM]

A BRITISH rabbi who angered fellow Jews by speaking at a “Holocaust denial” conference in Iran now says millions did die in gas chambers but may have deserved it.

Ahron Cohen, an Orthodox Jew from Greater Manchester and a leading member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement, sparked new controversy on his return from Tehran by suggesting that God would have saved the victims of the Nazis if they had deserved to live.

Cohen, whose house in Salford was pelted with 1,000 eggs last year because of his extremist views, told The Sunday Times: “There is no question that there was a Holocaust and gas chambers. There are too many eyewitnesses.

“However, our approach is that when one suffers, the one who perpetrates the suffering is obviously guilty but he will never succeed if the victim did not deserve it in one way or another.

“We have to look within to improve and try to better ourselves and remove those characteristics or actions that may have been the cause of the success of the Holocaust.”

Cohen’s trip to Tehran — along with four American rabbis from the same sect — was paid for by the Iranian foreign ministry, which organised the conference entitled The Holocaust: A Global Vision. They were warmly greeted by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, and had two meetings with him.

Cohen ended his speech to the conference with a prayer “that the underlying cause of strife and bloodshed in the Middle East, namely the state known as Israel, be totally and peacefully dissolved”.

The rabbi claimed “learned gentlemen from both sides of the fence” were at the latest conference. They included David Duke, former “imperial wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan.

Cohen said on his return: “President Ahmadinejad is not a man of war. He is a man of peace. I have received criticism for meeting him and attending the conference, but Jewish people are adopting an attitude of criticism from an emotional point of view, not a logical or sensible one.

“We know there was a Holocaust. We lived through it. I had relatives who died in it . . . But in no way must the Holocaust be used to further the aims of the Zionist concept.”

Rabbi Yehuda Brodie, registrar of the Jewish Ecclesiastical Court for Greater Manchester, said: “Rabbi Cohen has for a long time been ostracised by the vast majority of Jews for associating with and thus giving support and legitimacy to the enemies of Israel and the Jewish nation.

“He represents an insignificant minority. His involvement is a stab in the heart of the Jewish community and of all decent law-abiding people.”

[goldstategop]

Jews "deserved" to be tortured, shot and gassed. I guess Jews in Israel also deserve to die. For this extremist NK, any Jew that doesn't measure up to their perfectionistic standards also deserves to die. No wonder his group consorts with anti-semites around the world. Jews have asked to be to be annihilated.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[A. Pole]

So, Rabbi, you deserved it when your house got egged?

He would probably say yes.

[montag813]

Ahron Cohen

should be killed by a British Jew tonight

[Dov in Houston]

Ahron Cohen as far as I am concerned is not a Rabbi nor a Jew. He is a friend of my enemy therefor he is also my enemy.

Besides if anyone wants to snap a pic of me kissing my foxy girlfriend I shall pose and volunteer yet anyone who kisses allahdinnerjacket has more problems than religion can resolve

[goldstategop]

The Naturei Karta would have admired Hitler just as they admired Arafat and they admire Ahmedinejad. There's the old saying men are judged by the company they keep. They do not strike me as people who have the welfare of the Jewish people at heart.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[A. Pole]

Here is the site of Neturei Karta

[Centurion2000]

God would have saved the victims of the Nazis if they had deserved to live.

So the 100 million killed by communism and fascism last century deserved to die as well?

Idiocy cloaked as religious thought.

[RetiredArmy]

I wonder how this bastard would have felt if his ass had been in one of the showers?

[King Moonracer]

Whoring for money knows no bounds. I wonder if this rapid rabbi sat with David Dukes?....probably couldn't separate the 2 with a crowbar.

[US admirer]

more ultra-orthodox Jewish lunacy

[DuncanWaring]

Not much different from what Ward Churchill said.

[Bonaparte]

"However, our approach is that when one suffers, the one who perpetrates the suffering is obviously guilty but he will never succeed if the victim did not deserve it in one way or another."

Tell that to the murdered prophets of the Old Testament and to Jesus Christ, Mr. Rabbi.

[packrat35]

Jewish version of the Westboro clan?

[mamelukesabre]

haha good one.

Was that meant as a joke? It was wasn't it?

[Wilhelm Tell]

There's the old saying men are judged by the company they keep.

That is so true. Anyone who admires Ahmedinejad and hangs around with people like David Duke is evil too.

[packrat35]

Uggg, now I need a shower. Vile people.

[Alouette]

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[EEDUDE]

Oh Yeah.

I'm sure that those 10 year old girls, whose biggest sin up to that time was playing Hop-Scotch, deserved to be gassed and incinerated.

That is one sick, sick, MF.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a bumper crop of them sprouting up recently.

[dennisw]

Please notice that the Iranian foreign ministry paid for these rat bastard's trips to Iran

[Space Wrangler]

So....the rabbi is saying that hundreds of thousands of children deserved to die? What could these children possibly have done to deserve such damnation? Being their parents offspring? This is such a large leap in logic, that by the rabbis' estimation that millions of victims of genocide (not just the WWII holacaust), or outright murder at the hands of another is always deserved. I am thankful that the dark souls of this world so easily identify themselves.