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The French Catholic priest who developed an international reputation for his pioneering research into the Nazi “Holocaust by bullets” in Ukraine has spoken out forcefully against the antisemitic attitudes coloring criticism of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
“I always say: if there were no Jews in Israel, few people would look out for the Palestinians,” Father Patrick Desbois told the French language service of Israeli broadcaster i24 on Tuesday.
Desbois has dedicated his life to researching the Holocaust, fighting antisemitism, and furthering relations between Catholics and Jews. In 2004 he helped found Yahad-In Unum, a project whose mission is to investigate the mass executions of Jews and Roma in Ukraine and Belarus between 1941 and 1944. In the process, Desbois and his team located the graves of more than 1 million Jews throughout Eastern Europe and interviewed scores of witnesses.
Desbois was particularly irked by repeated claims on social media over the Christmas holiday that Jesus himself would be persecuted by Israel were he still alive.
“If he had lived in 1942, Jesus would have been deported to Auschwitz, and if he had been born today, he would be the target of missiles or be a hostage in Gaza,” Desbois remarked, referring to the seizure of more than 200 people during the Oct. 7 pogrom carried out by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel.
Desbois insisted that the motive behind such messages was political, not religious.
“What we see in Bethlehem today, this need to affirm that Jesus was not Jewish, is political,” he argued. “Hamas has always officially supported Christians, but not in Gaza.”
He added that the “Islamists are always with us, except when we are at home; at home, we try to survive.”
Desbois also voiced concern about the alleged participation of Hamas terrorists in the oppression of Iraq’s Yazidi minority in 2014 at the hands of ISIS.
“I do not forget, either, and we never talk about it, that the Palestinians in Gaza, who were not locked in cages as we believe, were circulating a lot, and a number participated in the genocide of the Yazidi minority in Iraq in 2014 alongside the jihadists,” said Desbois, whose efforts have encompassed advocacy on their behalf. “Others also participated in the Yazidi slave trade.”
In an extensive interview with The Algemeiner in 2018, Desbois articulated his view that the fundamental goal of antisemitism has not changed since the Nazi era.
“The Nazis wanted to eliminate every last Jew, even the babies and the old people,” he said. Now, he continued, “they say to the Jews, ‘get out of France,’ ‘get out of Germany,’ ‘get out of Britain,’ ‘get out of Palestine.’ And at the end, who will stay?”
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How do you feel about lord of the flies’s stance on human nature?
I read this a looooooong time ago, so give me a hot second to dust off those memories.
I think that my interest in the Holocaust makes me sort of cynical. If you want a real answer, I believe that there is the overwhelming majority of people will go along with violence, oppression, and murder if they have something to gain. We are that over and over again in the mass shootings in the Holocaust (if you want to read more on that and have a little bit of your soul to lose, check out Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois).
Now the Lord of the Flies is primarily a thought experiment, and not based on any real events, so the exact scenarios and moral decisions in the book need to be taken with a grain of salt. It's not something that I find very applicable to real events.
Sorry if this was a little bit dark.
-Reid
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Austin, Blinken expected to make Easter visit
Austin, Blinken expected to make Easter visit
A French priest is investigating alleged, “horrific” Russian war crimes in the southern Ukraine city of Mariupol and warns that result could show worse brutality than what was discovered in the town of Bucha.
“Every Ukrainian is now a witness to the horrific crimes of the Russian Federation,” Father Patrick Desbois says on the website of his organization, Yahad-In Unum. “If you have witnessed…
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Brainwashed by a cult: French priest offers therapy to ‘reclaim’ Yazidi captives
Brainwashed by a cult: French priest offers therapy to ‘reclaim’ Yazidi captives
French priest Patrick Desbois (C) visits a refugee camp in Dahuk, Iraq in an undated photo.
:: It was a lucky haircut that opened the doors of Iraq to Father Patrick Desbois.
In 2015, the French priest was trying to find a way to get into Iraq and help the Yazidi people fleeing Islamic State militants, after watching their suffering on TV for months.
One winter’s day, as he was in Brussels for a…
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11 - describe your ideal day
honestly, all i really want to do is lay in the grass with my dog and listen to music, that’s all it takes to make me happy.
14 - are you a musician?
nope! but i did play bass for a few years in high school!
15 - five most influential books over your lifetime
pride and prejudice by jane austen
1984 by george orwell
the holocaust by bullets by father patrick desbois
sweet bitter by stephanie danler
just kids by patti smith
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An Evening With Father Desbois 11/5/18
An Evening With Father Desbois 11/5/18
An Evening With Father Desbois
Monday, 11/05/2018 – 07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
University of Miami Hillel Braman Miller Center
1100 Stanford Drive,
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
Eventbrite
Cost: Community tickets are $20 and $38 (with book). Students are free.
Father Patrick Desbois is a noted Holocaust and genocide researcher whose groundbreaking work exposed systematic Nazi killings in Eastern European…
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In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois
How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out―In Broad Daylight
Based on a decade of work by Father Patrick Desbois and his team at Yahad–In Unum that has culminated to date in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites, many of them unmarked.
One key finding: Genocide does not happen without the neighbors. The…
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Father Patrick Desbois tells how ISIS fighters in Northern Iraq are still operating, using Nazi genocide tactics to murder Yazidis, a religious minority.
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“Today, it is still said in the former Soviet territories that the killings were done in secret,” wrote Father Patrick Desbois in his new book, “In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets.”
Published in January, “In Broad Daylight” is the follow-up to Desbois’s 2008 book, “The Holocaust by Bullets,” based on the Roman Catholic priest’s investigations into the Einsatzgruppen massacres in Ukraine. For his new book, Desbois drew from research in seven countries where the Einsatzgruppen operated, with an emphasis on the non-German men and women who helped facilitate the shootings.
Earlier this year, the author helped conduct a seminar for tour guides at the former death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, where the Nazis murdered one million Jews in gas chambers. During the week-long training in January, 130 guides learned about the “Holocaust by bullets” killings that — in a matter of months — “evolved” into the construction of six purpose-built death camps.
Although Desbois has identified hundreds of Holocaust mass shooting sites in Poland, the bulk of his work has been east of that country. Since 2004, his research team has interviewed nearly 4,000 eye-witnesses to Einsatzgruppen killings, including elderly men and women who admit to having collaborated with the Nazis.
“Memory survived among these people,” Desbois has said of witnesses to the genocide, including those who were very young at the time.
“In little Soviet villages, the children didn’t watch the genocide of the Jews on television. They went to the neighboring fields in order to see for themselves,” wrote Desbois, adding that boys were sometimes assigned the role of bringing bullets to the killers during mass shootings.
“The capacity to see the mass murder of others without taking any responsibility predates mass media,” wrote the celebrated priest.
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Top Three Ships: In no particular order, the Rocinante, USS Enterprise, Galactica. did I deliberately misunderstand this? maybe
Last Movie Watched: Little Women, and I loved every second of it
Book I am Reading: In Broad Daylight by Father Patrick Desbois
Food I am Craving: dumplings
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'ISIS Is Not Dead' Says Priest Who Documented Ongoing Genocide Against Yazidis
‘ISIS Is Not Dead’ Says Priest Who Documented Ongoing Genocide Against Yazidis
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For more than a decade, a French Catholic priest has investigated the murder of some two million Jews in mass shootings during World War II.
Father Patrick Desbois has devoted his life to researching the Holocaust, fighting anti-Semitism, and furthering relations between Catholics and Jews.
In recent years, Desbois turned his attention to Iraq’s Yazidis, a religious minority that has…
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Father Patrick Desbois tells how ISIS fighters in Northern Iraq are still operating, using Nazi genocide tactics to murder Yazidis, a religious minority.
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'ISIS is Not Dead' Says Priest Who's Documented Ongoing Mass Genocide Against Yazidis
Father Patrick Desbois tells how ISIS fighters in Northern Iraq are still operating, using Nazi genocide tactics to murder Yazidis, a religious minority.
from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2NFLfzQ
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NPR News: Meet The French Priest Documenting Crimes Committed By ISIS Against Yazidis
NPR News: Meet The French Priest Documenting Crimes Committed By ISIS Against Yazidis
Meet The French Priest Documenting Crimes Committed By ISIS Against Yazidis
Father Patrick Desbois has spent a decade uncovering the forgotten, mass graves of the 2 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Now he’s using his same techniques to document crimes committed by ISIS against the Yazidis.
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