I'm not a fan:
Charges of antisemitism and Holocaust denial
Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for 850,000 Jews to be killed by diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at Treblinka in a column for
The New York Post in 1990.[SUP]
[19][/SUP] Buchanan once argued Treblinka "was not a death camp but a transit camp used as a 'pass-through point' for prisoners". In fact, some 900,000 Jews had died at
Treblinka.[SUP]
[20][/SUP] When
George Will challenged him about it on TV, Buchanan did not reply. In 1991
William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote a 40,000-word
National Review article discussing anti-Semitism among conservative commentators focused largely on Buchanan; the article and many responses to it were collected in the book
In Search of Anti-Semitism (1992). He concluded: "I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism."[SUP]
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The
Anti-Defamation League has called Buchanan an "unrepentant bigot" who "repeatedly demonizes Jews and minorities and openly affiliates with white supremacists."[SUP]
[23][/SUP] "There's no doubt," said
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
Charles Krauthammer, "he makes subliminal appeals to prejudice."[SUP]
[24][/SUP] Buchanan denies that he is
antisemitic, and a number of his journalistic colleagues, including
Murray Rothbard,[SUP]
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Justin Raimondo,[SUP]
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Jack Germond,
Al Hunt and
Mark Shields, have defended him against the charge.[SUP]
[29][/SUP] As a member of the Reagan White House, he is accused of having suppressed the Reagan Justice Department's investigation into Nazi scientists brought to America by the
OSS's
Operation Paperclip.[SUP]
[30][/SUP] In the context of the
Gulf War, on September 15, 1990, Buchanan appeared on
The McLaughlin Group and said that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East – the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States." He also said: "The Israelis want this war desperately because they want the United States to destroy the Iraqi war machine. They want us to finish them off. They don't care about our relations with the Arab world."[SUP]
[31][/SUP] Furthermore, on
The McLaughlin Group Buchanan has also made such comments as “‘Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory’ and ‘If you want to know ethnicity and power in the United States Senate, 13 members of the Senate are Jewish folks who are from 2 percent of the population. That is where real power is at…’”[SUP]
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