Anti-Hate Task Force Remembers Dresden 1945 by Jay Knott (02/16/10) ⇌ (War crimes)
Anti-fascists are not merely opposed to fascism, they believe that the crimes carried out by fascist regimes are worse than those of others.
The Facebook group set up by the Anti-Hate Task Force at the University of Oregon against Pacifica Forum: has a link to a Youtube video. It shows anarchists attacking 'neo-Nazis' who are commemorating the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden. This bombing raid was a gratuitous massacre of German civilians by the Royal Air Force in 1945. Guilty Germans attack their right-wing opponents as if commemorating the atrocity is worse than the bombing itself.
One of the Facebook anti-fascists comments
"The Dresden firestorm will always stand out as one of the horrors of war, and it should stand as a warning against calls to hatred and division, not as a spur to them."
If you say the Holocaust was 'one of the horrors of war', you will be called a Holocaust denier. Really. It happened recently on Indymedia - see
http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/08/12/trial-by-indymedia/
But, for anti-fascists, the murder of Germans is just 'one of the horrors of war', and nothing to do with the ideology which incited and justified it. As a result, the lesson drawn by these protestors is not against 'hatred and division'. It is a form of racial discrimination, in which some lives are less valuable than others. Logically enough, all the hatred and division in the fight for academic freedom at the University of Oregon have come from them.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=287466056216
This Facebook site whitewashes the Jewish racist organization Chabad:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=287466056216&topic=13699
See Palestine Think Tank for a deconstruction of Chabad:
Here is a decent article about the recent events in Dresden:
http://open.salon.com/blog/lost_in_berlin/2010/02/14/dresden_says_nein_to_neo-nazis
Germany is a weird place. The first picture shows Nazis protesting against capitalism.
The second shows left wing activists celebrating the bombing of their own great-grandparents.