{"id":1198924,"date":"2022-01-08T04:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198924"},"modified":"2022-01-08T04:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:04:58","slug":"exclusive-zoa-slams-historian-douglas-brinkley-for-likening-1-6-to-holocaust-deranged-partisan-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-zoa-slams-historian-douglas-brinkley-for-likening-1-6-to-holocaust-deranged-partisan-lunacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: ZOA Slams Historian Douglas Brinkley for Likening 1\/6 to Holocaust \u2014 \u2018Deranged Partisan Lunacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-zoa-slams-historian-douglas-brinkley-for-likening-1-6-to-holocaust-deranged-partisan-lunacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/dec-9-2021-ny-Douglas-Brinkley-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>After presidential historian Douglas Brinkley compared documentation of last year\u2019s Capitol protests to footage of the Nazi Holocaust, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein expressed outrage over the historian\u2019s \u201cbreathtaking insensitivity,\u201d while demanding a \u201cprofuse apology\u201d on his part for having \u201cminimize[d] and diminish[ed] the monstrous Holocaust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to Rice University professor and liberal CNN historian Douglas Brinkley\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BCluNq7L8k4&amp;ab_channel=MSNBC\"><span>likening<\/span><\/a><span> aspects of the January 6 riot to the Nazi Holocaust on Thursday, the nation\u2019s oldest pro-Israel organization released an exclusive statement to <\/span><i><span>Breitbart News<\/span><\/i><span> that called out the \u201cderanged partisan lunacy\u201d of any comparison of the two events.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cEspecially as a child of Holocaust survivors, I abhor the deranged partisan lunacy and breathtaking insensitivity for careless historian Douglas Brinkley to in any way resurrect<\/span><b>, <\/b><span>minimize and diminish<\/span> <span>the monstrous Holocaust by comparing any aspect of it to an out of control protest where the protestors had no weapons and killed no one while six million Jews were massacred,\u201d Klein stated, adding that Brinkley\u2019s remarks may be considered \u201chate speech.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He then demanded an apology and requested others join in the demand for one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI, from my home, and my murdered aunts, uncles and grandparents from their graves, demand a profuse apology,\u201d he said, \u201cand I urge all Holocaust scholars, Jewish leaders, and rabbis to join this demand of a heartfelt apology from careless negligent historian Brinkley,\u201d he concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>During an MSNBC appearance marking the first anniversary of the Capitol riot on Thursday, Brinkley referenced the Holocaust \u2014 the state-sponsored, organized persecution, torture and murder of six million Jews by Hitler\u2019s Nazi regime, its allies and collaborators \u2014 by noting that \u201cfilm footage\u201d serves as proof of both events.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have film footage of what happened on January 6, we have proof,\u201d he told MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin. \u201c[Former President] Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, made sure all the Holocaust camps were filmed \u2014 so we\u2019ve got the film footage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSNBC<\/a>, far-left &#8220;historian&#8221; Douglas Brinkley compares January 6th to the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, and 9\/11 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yeBv8q7bln\">pic.twitter.com\/yeBv8q7bln<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Drennen (@kjdrennen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kjdrennen\/status\/1479135404884385794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Claiming America is now \u201ccombatting conspiracy theorists, deniers, and some Trumpeteers,\u201d he urged for the day to receive a befitting \u201chonor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy worry is what do we call this?\u201d he asked. \u201cAnd [how do we] make sure we honor this day, this dark-stained day, every year?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cSo, we\u2019ve got to keep saying \u2018January 6,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He then directly compared the riot to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 as well as the deadly September 11 terror attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI think it is like December 7 Pearl Harbor, it is like the 9\/11 tragedy,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blaming former President Donald Trump for all that \u201cwent wrong that day,\u201d he suggested the event be remembered as the \u201cTrump Insurrection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe also need to not be afraid to call it the \u2018Trump Insurrection\u2019 of January 6 because in the end, all roads to what went wrong that day lead to Donald Trump\u2019s ill behavior, [the] anti-democratic stance he took \u2014 the big lie \u2014 after the presidential election tallies came in and Joe Biden had won by millions of votes,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Brinkley\u2019s remarks, and similar comparisons by those on the left, sparked a wave of backlash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his opening commentary on Thursday\u2019s<em> Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/em>, Carlson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/tucker-carlson-why-still-talking-about-january-6\"><span>blasted<\/span><\/a><span> Brinkley for \u201ctrivializing genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Joy Reid network found a guy called Doug Brinkley \u2014 he\u2019s one of those television historians who\u2019s never actually written significant history of anything \u2014 to just come right out and compare January 6th to Auschwitz,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cwe await the ADL\u2019s [The Anti-Defamation League] furious statement condemning Doug Brinkley for trivializing genocide, which he just did.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCan we not invoke Holocaust comparisons at every turn, it\u2019s getting absolutely ridiculous,\u201d wrote StopAntisemitism.org.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can we not invoke Holocaust comparisons at every turn, it\u2019s getting absolutely ridiculous.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JBOdixWMgZ\">pic.twitter.com\/JBOdixWMgZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StopAntisemites\/status\/1479176080972029960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cMisusing of the tragedy of Jewish people who between 1933-45 suffered, were humiliated, tortured &amp; murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany defiles the memory of all victims and is sadly a painful expression of gross disrespect and a symptom of moral decay,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuschwitzMuseum\/status\/1479199007960444931\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCan\u2019t believe this has to be said, but it\u2019s also insulting to compare J6 to the Holocaust,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1479141397089472515?s=20\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s (R) press secretary Christina Pushaw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[S]hame on you @ProfDBrinkley for mocking victims of the holocaust by comparing January 6th to the holocaust,\u201d wrote the Reagan Battalion. \u201cAnd shame on MSNBC for allowing it to stand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;ve stated multiple times that January 6 was a shameful day and should be remembered as such.<\/p>\n<p>Also, shame on you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfDBrinkley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ProfDBrinkley<\/a> for mocking victims of the holocaust by comparing January 6th to the holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>And shame on MSNBC for allowing it to stand.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YOhwNPgcCM\">pic.twitter.com\/YOhwNPgcCM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReaganBattalion\/status\/1479173477013807108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cA reminder that the Democrat position is that the minor scuffle of last 1\/6 is the same as the holocaust,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtSchlichter\/status\/1479170464173887488?s=20\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> trial lawyer and columnist Kurt Schlichter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen people distort historical facts, they murder truth, reason, and common sense,\u201d wrote professor and author Gad Saad. \u201cComparing January 6 to the Holocaust, the US civil war, 9\/11, or Pearl Harbor is an attack on human dignity. It soils the human spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When people distort historical facts, they murder truth, reason, and common sense. Comparing January 6 to the Holocaust, the US civil war, 9\/11, or Pearl Harbor is an attack on human dignity. It soils the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gad Saad (@GadSaad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GadSaad\/status\/1479270657095614465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Brinkley\u2019s comments come as Vice President Kamala Harris <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/06\/kamala-harris-january-6-9-11-pearl-harbor\/\"><span>kicked off<\/span><\/a><span> the Biden administration\u2019s remarks on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot by comparing it to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCertain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDates that occupy not only a place in our calendars, but a place in our collective memory,\u201d she added. \u201cDecember 7th, 1941; September 11th, 2001; and January 6th, 2021.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More than 2,400 Americans died in the Pearl Harbor attack and nearly 3,000 Americans died in the 9\/11 terror attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The remarks also come as President Biden\u2019s controversial nominee to serve as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Deborah E. Lipstadt is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/.premium-u-s-jewish-groups-ask-was-it-a-mistake-to-elevate-antisemitism-envoy-post-1.10519868\"><span>awaiting<\/span><\/a><span> confirmation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a <\/span><i><span>Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span> editorial, Lipstadt \u2014 a professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/25\/washington-post-denying-election-results-is-like-denying-holocaust\/\"><span>argued<\/span><\/a><span> for the radical comparison of challenging 2020 election results with denying that a Nazi Holocaust, the \u201cbest-documented genocide in the world,\u201d ever occurred.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein.<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After presidential historian Douglas Brinkley compared documentation of last year\u2019s Capitol protests to footage of the Nazi Holocaust, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein expressed outrage over the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}