French President Goes Into Shoah Business
by Jeff Davis
As the old saying goes, “There’s no business like Shoah business,” and France’s part Jewish President Nicolas Sarkozy has jumped into it with both feet. He has proposed one of the more bizarre “Holocaust Remembrance Curricula” in any European school system, where Holocaust propaganda is already mandatory.
Reuters reports that Sarkozy is “facing a tide of criticism over his call for schoolchildren to ‘adopt’ Jewish child victims of the Holocaust…In a speech praising faith that also drew fire from secularists, Sarkozy told France’s Jewish community on Wednesday that every 10-year-old schoolchild should be ‘entrusted with the memory of a French child victim of the Holocaust’.”
Basically, every fifth grader in France will be issued a kind of imaginary playmate, some allegedly dead Jewish brat from 65 years ago who may or may not have ever existed, but of course the children won’t know that. He or she will then have to interact with this ‘ghost playmate’ in various ways in school, doing little dramas and skits and having imaginary dialogues and so on. Presumably they’ll take their new invisible friend to bed with them at night along with their stuffed animals. I have to admit, even for a Jew, this is pretty darned creepy. (more…)