January 6, 2006

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January 6, 2006

Host: Daryl Bradford Smith

Guest: Ted Pike

Here are today's lies, misstatements, disinformation, and stupidity:

(1) Daryl Bradford Smith claims that Rabbi Lapin at Toward Tradition agrees with him about “criminal Zionism.” This press release [1] would seem to indicate otherwise.

(2) Daryl Bradford Smith talks about “straw men,” but he gets the idea wrong. Mixing bad information with presumably good information is not a straw man. The straw man fallacy is attacking a position that your opponent does not actually have. What Smith is talking about is basically a disinfo strategy rather than a logical fallacy.

(3) Daryl Bradford Smith and Ted Pike discuss The Benjamin Freedman Speech without consideration for the actual facts (see the link). Ted Pike seems as ignorance as Daryl Bradford Smith about the actual realities concerning WWI history and the history of Palestine between 1916 and 1948.

(4) Ted Pike says the Russian Revolution in 1905 was led almost entirely by Jews. There is no empirical evidence to prove this point, and Pike is simply parroting Tsar Nicholas II’s own propaganda, which led to pogroms across Russia after the revolution was suppressed.

(5) There is a fundamental disagreement in events as recounted by Freedman via Pike and Daryl Bradford Smith and the actual facts of what happened during WWI in 1917. Whereas Freedman claims that it was the Jews who brought down Germany after being promised Palestine, Germany actually gained substantial territory in the fall of 1917 because he managed to bring down the Provisional Government following the March Revolution in Russia by sending Lenin to St. Petersburg. Lenin led the Bolshevik coup that, in turn, led to the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, in which Germany got Poland and the Baltic states, as well as Ukraine. Daryl Bradford Smith repeatedly claims that “the Jews” brought down tsarist Russia, but in fact it was the Kaiser that was ultimately responsible. The only response that a person like Smith can come up with in response to this historical fact is that “Zionists work both sides of a war.” But neither the Kaiser nor Lenin had sympathy for Zionism.

When Ted Pike addresses this point, he blames Jewish bankers in Germany for sending Lenin into Russia. But they couldn’t have done it without the Kaiser’s approval. And he mentions that Jacob Schiff funded the revolutionaries, and this is true, but Schiff withdrew his support after the November Bolshevik coup, as he did not agree with communism.

(6) Ted Pike massive overestimates the Jewish boycott’s effect on Germany. The fact is that Germany was in full economic recovery by 1937 (see Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich).

(7) Ted Pike calls Menachem Begin, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and Yitzhak Shamir “Polish communist leaders.” First of all, Jabotinsky was Russian. Second and more importantly, not a single one of these men was a communist; they were, in fact, extremely right wing and Shamir actually tried to form an alliance with the Axis during WWII. See Lenni Brenner’s Zionism in the Age of Dictators.

(8) Ted Pike tries to link the ADL to the Jewish Mafia, and particularly Meyer Lansky. Pike probably believes this because Mira Lansky Boland, the granddaughter of Meyer Lansky, worked for the ADL in the 1980s.