Real History and Jewish sensitivities The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) breitbart.com N.J. Eatery Writes ‘Jew Couple’ on Check ALLENHURST, N.J.– The bill was a shocker, and not because of the amount. After eating at a Jersey shore restaurant, Elliott Stein and his girlfriend were handed a bill that said “Jew Couple” near the bottom, as a table identifier used by the waitstaff.
The slur [ sic ] also turned up on Stein’s credit card statement weeks later. David Irving comments: I am mildly baffled by this news item. It reminds me as an historian of the early days of the Nazi “struggle for power” when the Jews and Nazis tormented eachother through the law courts (and it is still not entirely clear who won).
In one landmark case, the Berlin police chief Bernhard Weiss (“Isidore” to Dr Joseph Goebbels and his friends) sued Goebbels for calling him a Jew; the judge pointed out that (a) the Herr Polizeipräsident was in fact a Jew, and (b) the word Jew is not a slur. Mr Elliott Stein should remember that.
The worthy police chief, whose daughter now lives in London (and refused some years ago to provide me with a less unflattering photo of her father than the one often used in the Nazi press), then sued Goebbels for publishing in Der Angriff a cartoon showing him as a Donkey skating on ice. The Court determined that the cartoon donkey clearly portrayed Dr Weiss.
Goebbels’s newspaper headlined the finding the next day: J UDGE SAYS ISIDORE LOOKS LIKE A DONKEY , and it was hard to fault the logic in that. In 1933 Weiss fled to London, where a sterner sense of humour prevailed. WHICH BRINGS us