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http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/10/11/a1.pacifica.1011.p1.php?section=cityregion
Pacifica lectures decried as anti-Semitic
By Jeff Wright
The Register-Guard
Published: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Concerned community members have formed the Anti-Hate Task Force to protest a series of public talks at the University of Oregon that they say are anti-Semitic.
The talks are sponsored by the Pacifica Forum, a local discussion group founded by Orval Etter, a longtime Eugene pacifist, university professor and music patron.
At the forum's most recent public event on Friday, Valdas Anelauskas gave a 75-minute lecture on "Zionism and Russia" in which he asserted that Jews were largely responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Anelauskas dedicated his lecture to Germar Rudolf, a Holocaust denier imprisoned in Germany.
In a recent e-mail, Anelauskas, a native of Lithuania, describes himself as "a nationalist and white separatist and racialist."
Critics contend that Anelauskas' series of lectures, and other Pacifica Forum topics, are bitterly anti-Semitic and steeped in historical falsehoods. Some question whether the UO should continue to provide space to the forum, while others argue for counter-programming.
"This has been going on for years, and we think it's time it be exposed," said Craig Weinerman, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Lane County and a task force member. "The community needs to know that this is going on and be educated about what this really is, which is anti-Semitism, pure and simple."
Organizers, however, say they are guilty only of giving a forum to "politically incorrect" views by daring to question Israel's public policies, especially as they pertain to Palestine, and by offering unpopular assessments of Jews' role in world history.
They also note that critics have been invited to share their perspectives at future forum gatherings - an offer that has yet to be accepted. Some critics are urging that national experts on hate speech be invited to speak locally, in a separate venue, as a counter to the Pacifica Forum events.
The Anti-Hate Task Force is an offshoot of the social justice group Community Alliance of Lane County. Task force members include local clergy and representatives from the UO and the city's Human Rights Commission.
The Pacifica Forum's stated purpose is to "provide information and points of view regarding war and peace, militarism and pacifism, violence and nonviolence." Etter, 91, said he started the forum in 1994, modeling it after a supper club by the same name in the San Francisco Bay Area that presented programs on peace and its absence.
A lifelong pacifist, Etter worked for 11 years for Fellowship of Reconciliation, a national interfaith peace group, and later taught a course on violence and nonviolence at the UO. He served for years as staff attorney to the UO's Bureau of Municipal Research, and was chief draftsman for Eugene's 1976 city charter.
He is also an avid music lover and cellist who founded the Emerald Chamber Orchestra and Eugene Symphony Orchestra, and emceed local concerts.
Etter said he organized the forum after he "became convinced that Israel was a very tyrannical state." He said he recalls reading a pamphlet that asserted that "what Israel is doing to Palestine is a holocaust."
"That's inflammatory, but recent events have convinced me more than ever that that's valid," he said.
Pacifica Forum topics this year have included a lecture by Etter on British historian David Irving, a Holocaust denier who in February was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in Austria for his views. Critics say they attended another forum that featured a videotape on William Luther Pierce, founder of the National Alliance white separatist group.
Less controversial forums this year have included an "Update on Palestine" by a Christian Peacemaker Teams volunteer, and lectures and videos with such titles as "Israeli-American Militarism," "Kosher Apartheid" and "Washington, D.C.: Israeli-Occupied Territory."
Anelauskas said he attended his first forum earlier this year after learning about the presentation on Irving. He said he was soon asked to give a talk of his own on Russia and Zionism, a project that's grown to seven lectures with several more planned. In a recent e-mail, he praised the Pacifica Forum as "an island of free speech surrounded by all this madness of liberalism."
Anelauskas, 46, identifies himself as a journalist, author and independent researcher. He said his father spent 10 years in Soviet prison camps, where he was interrogated, tortured and sentenced by four officials who all "happened to be Jewish."
Anelauskas defends his self-declared label as a white separatist and racialist. "I believe people have to live among their own kind," he said. "I feel no supremacy - I just want to be separate and live in my own environment."
He also said he disputes the historical consensus that approximately 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust of World War II. "My personal view is that definitely quite a few Jewish people were killed during the war," he said. "But just as many other people - the Russians, the Lithuanians - were also killed."
In his talk on Friday, attended by about 20 people, Anelauskas cited sources that focused on Jewish participation in the Bolshevik Revolution. He called the revolution's leaders "the greatest killing machine in history" and said their history is not widely reported in the United States today because of Jews in academia and the media.
(Jews were a small minority of the Russian population at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, which included some Jews in upper-echelon positions; thousands of Jews were killed in the pogroms of the late 1800s and early 1900s leading up to the revolution.)
At one point, Anelauskas asked how many in attendance had read "The Gulag Archipelago," Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic work on Soviet prison camps, compared with how many had read "The Diary of Anne Frank." More indicated having read the latter. "It's what is promoted and what is hushed up," he said of the disparity.
During a question-and-answer period, Aviva Sainz called Anelauskas' lecture "anti-Jewish garbage in a tradition that has lasted for centuries." His talk, she told him, "is in the tradition of Hitler's `Mein Kampf.' "
"There's a lot of truth in `Mein Kampf,' " Anelauskas responded.
Afterward, Etter said he was "unable to say" if Anelauskas' lecture could be characterized as anti-Semitic. But he said Anelauskas' viewpoint deserves a platform and that he will be invited to continue the series.
UO officials are aware of the Pacifica Forum and have no plans to take any action, said spokesman Phil Weiler. The university makes classroom space available to campus groups and professors, including retired faculty, free of charge, he said, and does not inquire about meeting content.
"One of the roles of a public university is to provide a venue for the hearing of ideas," Weiler said.
Jann Carson, associate director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, said those who object to the Pacifica Forum talks are wise to consider alternative programming.
advertisement "The right of free speech means speakers get to speak despicable ideas," she said. "From a civil liberties perspective, we really believe that the cure for bad speech is more speech. If you really believe that a group is wrong - factually, intellectually, morally, ethically - then point that out."
Several past forum sponsors - the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Wesley Foundation and the UO Survival Center - severed their relationships with the forum in 2004 and 2005 over concern about anti-Jewish program content. Critics say the programs in question included two that blamed Jews for Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom against Jews in Germany.
Michael Williams, an Anti-Hate Task Force member who has monitored the forum for several years, accuses the group of bait-and-switch. He said attendance dwindled after the previous controversy, then rebounded when the forum began offering less objectionable programs. The return to anti-Jewish themes commenced early this year, he said.
Williams said the lecture series should not go unchallenged because "it attracts like-minded people and gives them permission to say these things. The community really can't afford to allow these kinds of ideas to be given respectability."
Nadia Telsey, another task force member, said she attended Friday's lecture and found it "quite chilling." She said history has shown that anti-Semitism is cyclical, and can erupt quickly if early indicators are not challenged.
Be prepared.
Posted : 11/10/2006 7:21 pm
we are all so saturated with jews and anti's stepping in to silence this and that that i'm sick of hearing it: i know it goes on, and every time i hear this shit my nausea increases, my resolve stiffens, and my determination to see WAR DECLARED ON THE GOD DAMNED KIKES increases!
it's like some disease in the body that i want to be rid of, some THING that nauseates me to the point that i'll try ANY MEDICINE to be rid of it! maybe the kike just wants to cause people like me to turn the resolve inward and ANNIHILATE MYSELF. NO! i won't do that! you can't defeat me, you kikes, no matter how nauseated i get!
Posted : 11/10/2006 7:40 pm
This is an absolute no-brainer. Belongs in the unmitigated good news drawer, efforts should be made for cooperation. I know, I know, they are `intellectuals`, hell, everyone has to grow up sometime - even if it takes them 91 years...
If nothing else, they can be useful reloading...
From the corruption of women, proceeds the confusion of races - from the confusion of races, the loss of memory - from the loss of memory, all understanding - and from this - all evil.
Posted : 12/10/2006 12:21 am
Anelauskas, 46, identifies himself as a journalist, author and independent researcher. He said his father spent 10 years in Soviet prison camps, where he was interrogated, tortured and sentenced by four officials who all "happened to be Jewish."
On the first page of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelego are 6 photos, they are photos NKVD agents: all are JEWS!
A White World (Pierce's Vision for our Race):
Posted : 12/10/2006 6:24 am
Here Slezkine provides statistics on Jewish overrepresentation in these organizations, especially in supervisory roles, and quotes historian Leonard Shapiro’s comment that “anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with and possibly shot by a Jewish investigator.”
During the 1930s, Slezkine reports, the secret police, now known as the NKVD, “was one of the most Jewish of all Soviet institutions”, with 42 of the 111 top officials being Jewish. At this time 12 of the 20 NKVD directorates were headed by ethnic Jews, including those in charge of State Security, Police, Labor Camps, and Resettlement (deportation).
The Gulag was headed by ethnic Jews from its beginning in 1930 until the end of 1938, a period that encompasses the worst excesses of the Great Terror.
“Stalin’s Willing Executioners”?
By Kevin MacDonald
http://www.vdare.com/misc/051105_macdonald_stalin.htm
A White World (Pierce's Vision for our Race):
Posted : 12/10/2006 6:33 am
During the 1930s, Slezkine reports, the secret police, now known as the NKVD, “was one of the most Jewish of all Soviet institutions”, with 42 of the 111 top officials being Jewish. At this time 12 of the 20 NKVD directorates were headed by ethnic Jews, including those in charge of State Security, Police, Labor Camps, and Resettlement (deportation).
How many were crypto-jews or married to a jew ? I bet that deeper investigation would yield higher number of the kosher klan .
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[color="Red"]"sneaky 'GD' Jews are all alike." ......Marge Schott
" I'd rather have a trained monkey working for me than a nigger,"
Posted : 12/10/2006 9:00 pm
The complete texts of these lectures by Mr. Anelauskas can be found at members.efn.org/~valdas/pacifica.html He is the author of a book entitled "Discovering America As It Is". Some more of his writings can be read here: www.geocities.com/capitolhill/senate/1120/ Also be sure to visit vaidilute.com and members.efn.org/~valdas/poezija.html I have met Mr. Anelauskas and I think he is a nice fellow.
Posted : 13/10/2006 12:06 am
The complete texts of these lectures by Mr. Anelauskas can be found at members.efn.org/~valdas/pacifica.html He is the author of a book entitled "Discovering America As It Is". Some more of his writings can be read here: www.geocities.com/capitolhill/senate/1120/ Also be sure to visit vaidilute.com and
members.efn.org/~valdas/poezija.html I have met Mr. Anelauskas and I think he is a nice fellow.
Those are great links, thank you.
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Posted : 13/10/2006 12:35 am
I can second that, GREAT links!
Check out that little chick: http://vaidilute.com/
PERFECT excample and validation of the high input child rearing strategy of European traditions - not to mention home-schooling.
IMO, checking out her site is a MUST for all parents of young children frequenting these boards...I AM IMPRESSED!!!
From the corruption of women, proceeds the confusion of races - from the confusion of races, the loss of memory - from the loss of memory, all understanding - and from this - all evil.
Posted : 13/10/2006 5:15 pm
Task force denounces lecture as hate speech
By: Tess McBride | Part time News Reporter
Issue date: 11/21/06 Section: News
McKenzie 125 was far from packed Friday night, as Valdas Anelauskas delivered the eighth installment of his highly controversial lecture series titled "Zionism and Russia," which has been openly condemned as anti-Semitic and hateful.
"Jews never apologize for anything. They are professional victims," Anelauskas said as the lecture began for the Pacifica Forum, an organization that provides different points of view regarding war and peace from a historical perspective, according to the organization.
A self-proclaimed white separatist and nationalist, Anelauskas lived and breathed the harsh oppression of Lithuania while the country was under the control of the former Soviet Union. Anelauskas said that oppression serves as his motivation to exercise his free speech rights today, even when they infringe on the "taboos" society has against questioning the Holocaust and Jews, he said.
The Eugene Anti-Hate Task Force, a grassroots organization of 28 people, said Anelauskas' lecture series has concerned them and the community.
"This is how things started in Nazi Germany in the '20s and '30s," said Craig Weinerman, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council and task force member. "Anti-Semitic thought provides fuel for other hate groups."
Orval Etter, founder of the Pacifica Forum, said the purpose of the group is to endorse free speech that some people don't agree with.
"He's expressed some views some people in the forum have regarded as somewhat racist," Etter said of Anelauskas' lectures. "It's been generating a full round of heat recently."
In fall 2003 the Eugene Fellowship of Reconciliation dropped their sponsorship of the Pacifica Forum after "some members became aware that a number of people were deeply offended by certain Pacifica Forum presentations," especially anti-Semitic content, task force member Michael Williams said.
While the Pacifica Forum has invited Holocaust deniers in the past, none has spoken as many times as Anelauskas, according to the task force.
"I didn't deny the Holocaust existed; it's a historical fact," Anelauskas said. "But for some reason, if you speak of the Holocaust, you get in big trouble."
Anelauskas said he disagrees with details of the Holocaust, which he believes should be openly discussed, such as the number of deaths, the "horrible atrocities" of soap made from human fat and lampshades from skin and "those gas chambers."
"There were many things added after the war," he said, explaining how sections of Anne Frank's diary were written with a pen that wasn't invented until after the war, and how he believes her father might have added to the journals for profit.
While these accusations are rightfully protected under the Constitution, Anti-Hate Task Force members believe the lectures' anti-Semitic and racist indictments should be exposed and rejected.
"Hate speech just means what the Jews hate to hear," Anelauskas said. "As far as I know, the Jews dictate what you can say, what you can't say."
Anelauskas said moral and ethical boundaries on speech shouldn't exist because they are impossible to define according to different people's beliefs.
"The real issue is 'what kind of speech we should encourage?'" Williams said, who has been attending the Pacifica Forum's lectures on behalf of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Anti-Hate Task Force, for three and a half years. "I think we should discourage it."
Anelauskas said that this country and community is prided in its diversity and multiculturalism, and he doesn't understand why people can't have tolerance for his opinions.
"I can say some stupid things, but should you put me to jail? In free society there should be no taboos," Anelauskas said. "I respect very much free speech for my opponents," and for himself.
Task force members say they don't want to censor Anelauskas, but monitor him to prevent the incitement of violence and the possible formation of neo-Nazi organizations in the community.
Williams said he would feel more comfortable if the lecture had a disclaimer so students don't think the lectures are sanctioned by the University or mistake their content for "real history," which he believes they are not.
"It doesn't take long for (anti-Semitism) to go raging through a community," said task force member Irwin Noparstak, who believes the Pacifica Forum is grooming Anelauskas to take over when Etter dies. "It can happen here. It can lead to violence."
Anelauskas said he is only practicing his freedom of speech rights, which were nonexistent in Lithuania while it was under control of the Soviet Union. His father spent almost 10 years in prison camps, and his friend was arrested for owning a copy of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four," in the year 1984, Anelauskas said.
Anelauskas said he was followed 24 hours a day by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, who waited on his doorstep for him to leave his home, where they would continue to follow him.
"Anti-Hate Force in Eugene is nobody," Anelauskas said with a laugh, comparing the Anti-Hate Task Force with the KGB. "I'm not afraid, but I hate to see people in free country act like KGB."
After being "kicked-out" of Lithuania, Anelauskas moved to New York City, where his expectations were of freedom and the rights he was never granted.
"I didn't need big American dream, I needed American freedom," he said, though he was disappointed by the reality of America. "If you disagree with something, you are enemy of the people."
Task members said they agree that Anelauskas has a right to free speech, but plan to continue to monitor the lectures, though "there is only so much you can stomach," Weinerman said.
Posted : 21/11/2006 11:49 am
University Of Oregon Caught Up In Nazi Turmoil
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Posted : 27/11/2006 6:29 am