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German neo-Nazis: We're pro-Israel, condemn anti-Semitism
By Ofer Aderet, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Nazis, Zionism, Germany 

Nazis against anti-Semitism? As bizarre as that sounds, a group of Germans which calls itself "National Socialists For Israel" launched its Web site in support of Israel.

"Stop the hatred of the Jewish people," the Web site reads. "The Jews are a healthy, strong nation."

The organization - whose members have yet to reveal themselves to the public - claims that Israel's right to exist is anchored in the principles of social Darwinism, the same principles which the Nazis adopted prior to the Second World War.
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"Israel earned the right to live among the nations [after emerging] from unending wars," the group writes on the site. "Israel also has a right to exist. This nation also has culture... The nation of Israel is appreciated... It is our duty, as neo-Nazis, to defend this supreme success. Not just for the German people and the European cultural sphere, but also, especially, for Israel."

As such, "Nazis for Israel" also leveled criticism at their colleagues in the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD), calling them "politicos, cowards, and reactionaries."

"Show us proof of a Jewish plot to dominate the world," they wrote in a rare manifesto which was posted on their Web site.

These unusual statements on the internet compliment the group's other public campaigns, including the dissemination of bumper stickers. One of the stickers features a picture of Reinhard Heydrich, the senior Nazi official who chaired the Wansee Conference where the Final Solution was hatched. Underneath the photo reads: "As a Nazi, I'm a Zionist."

Another sticker shows a photo of Israel Defense Forces soldiers during the Second Lebanon War under the heading: "2,000 years of struggling to survive - respect to those worthy of it."

In terms of the group's attitude towards the Holocaust, the organization says: "We must view what is referred to as 'the Holocaust' within the context of acts of self-defense undertaken by nations under threat." It added, however, "that there is no justification for it." Instead, the Nazis ought to have supported the Zionist cause, the group states.

The group claims it held its first meeting of activists in Berlin last month. It said the meeting touched on issues ranging from "solidarity with Israel, anti-Semitism, capitalism, and Islam."

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      1.   Really Haaretz, 21:49  |  Woody A. 04/06/08
      2.   Like Le Pen, BNP, Italian Fascists.. they all love Israel 22:09  |  Chanalau, Tova 04/06/08
      3.   new supporters 22:23  |  Alex 04/06/08
      4.   This is not surprising at all...... 22:29  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/06/08
      5.   I do not think Israel should be happy with friends like this 22:31  |  Mark B. 04/06/08
      6.   THIS IS TOOOOO FUNNY! 22:33  |  NYC JEW 04/06/08
      7.   Why Don`t Germans... 22:35  |  Yosemite 04/06/08
      8.   German Neo Nazis...Stop your Anti Jewish Activities.... 22:37  |  Ali 04/06/08
      9.   Israel gets support from the "right-wing" fringe...... 22:37  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/06/08
      10.   As clever as their predecessors 22:44  |  Peter 04/06/08
      11.   Neo-Nazis 22:56  |  usher buchwalter 04/06/08
      12.   I THINK EUROPE IS WAKING UP TO ISLAM! 22:59  |  miras 04/06/08
      13.   We don`t need Nazis as friends 22:59  |  Gee 04/06/08
      14.   They Can`t Save The Swastika 23:03  |  Yosemite 04/06/08
      15.   Message #2 of Tova 23:12  |  Observation 04/06/08
      16.   #7, Dino 23:20  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/06/08
      17.   Israelis support 23:25  |  david 04/06/08
      18.   Disinformation 23:36  |  Amos 04/06/08
      19.   Swiss...everyone who supports Israel 23:41  |  Lynn 04/06/08
      20.   Waking up to reality 00:02  |  Realist 05/06/08
      21.   Bound to Happen 00:25  |  Slibovitz 05/06/08
      22.   happy Jew 00:25  |  erich 05/06/08
      23.   # 8 Cipora, I`m afraid you are confounding..... 00:29  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      24.   Sounds like Zionist PSYOPS 00:34  |  Horst Wessel 05/06/08
      25.   # 17 Lynn 00:46  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      26.   Chanalau; Le Pen is against Israel he was with Saddam 00:49  |  Arthur 05/06/08
      27.   Old Stones (from Dostoevsky) 01:05  |  Chengiz Haim Khan 05/06/08
      28.   The Website`s a Fake 01:06  |  Elk 05/06/08
      29.   Number 20 01:20  |  usher buchwalter 05/06/08
      30.   Nazis unanimously support the "Palestinian" cause 01:43  |  Dan 05/06/08
      31.   Is it Purim or April 1st ? 01:51  |  Motic 05/06/08
      32.   The plot thickens 01:53  |  Sherlock Holmes 05/06/08
      33.   This Sounds Like a Mel Brooks bit 02:06  |  d 05/06/08
      34.   Swiss Dino #4 02:42  |  Philippe 05/06/08
      35.   German Neo-Nazi obviously see a lot in Israel that they admire. 02:53  |  Maureen Ann 05/06/08
      36.   Also not surprised... 03:13  |  Victor 05/06/08
      37.   #18 Amos, #30 Dan 03:53  |  BG 05/06/08
      38.   usher buchwalter, Amos, Yosemite 04:25  |  Georg 05/06/08
      39.   Stop the speculations, check their website 04:30  |  Georg 05/06/08
      40.   They`ll get beaten up by the real Nazis 07:07  |  Conroy 05/06/08
      41.   CHANALAU" whole country of immigrants` No Jews born there 07:41  |  PETER SM 05/06/08
      42.   WESSEL. Israel haters benefit from this 07:45  |  PETER SM 05/06/08
      43.   When Jihad hits home Nazis become Zionists or IT IS ISLAM STUPID! 08:09  |  Genuine Tosefta 05/06/08
      44.   all i gotta say is: keep and open mind AND an open eye! 08:28  |  eric 05/06/08
      45.   #23, Dino 08:31  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 05/06/08
      46.   About time... 09:12  |  Colin Wright 05/06/08
      47.   re #13 `We don`t need Nazis as friends.` 09:18  |  Colin Wright 05/06/08
      48.   Anti-Islamists seek any port in a storm 10:06  |  x-ray 05/06/08
      49.   #2 Tova 10:09  |  K 05/06/08
      50.   to Swiss Dino 10:11  |  Harry 05/06/08
      51.   Colin Wright 10:36  |  Angel 05/06/08
      52.   #44, eric, there was nothing positive about Nazism 11:04  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 05/06/08
      53.   Lavon Affair 11:13  |  mike honcho 05/06/08
      54.   Neo nazis/ anti semitsm 11:15  |  Ronald 05/06/08
      55.   # 34 Philippe, for once you do have (half of a) point here..... 11:58  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      56.   Identitaires 11:58  |  LevZahav 05/06/08
      57.   # 45 Cipora Julianna Kohn 12:01  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      58.   48 X-ray 12:08  |  OTTO 05/06/08
      59.   # 50 Harry 12:10  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      60.   TO DIno From switzerland 12:10  |  LevZahav 05/06/08
      61.   Birds of the same feather flock together as they say 12:31  |  Johan Odin 05/06/08
      62.   First Obama, now Nazis. The left flocks to Israel`s side 12:49  |  Denise Thompson 05/06/08
      63.   And the wolves will lie with the Lambs.... 12:52  |  Choni Davidowitz 05/06/08
      64.   # 60 LevZahav 12:53  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      65.   STATEMENT OF THE YEAR: NEO-NAZI LOVE JEWS 12:59  |  indrajaya 05/06/08
      66.   ISLAMIC JIHAD FOR JEWS 13:02  |  LOUIS 05/06/08
      67.   What it is 13:05  |  Fritz 05/06/08
      68.   yewhat? 13:15  |  Tim 05/06/08
      69.   Why we support Israel - 1 13:19  |  Hermann 05/06/08
      70.   Anti-Judaism is re-emerging as ... 13:20  |  Edith 05/06/08
      71.   Why we support Israel - 2 13:20  |  Hermann 05/06/08
      72.   Why we support Israel - 3 13:21  |  Hermann 05/06/08
      73.   Why we support Israel - 4 13:23  |  Hermann 05/06/08
      74.   #35 Maureen part 1 13:30  |  Rab Burns 05/06/08
      75.   Yosemite #7 13:41  |  christoph 05/06/08
      76.   # 59 Swiss (Dino) & BBC NEWS 13:54  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 05/06/08
      77.   Jew should reject ANY Neo Nazis 13:54  |  Ronnie Wolman 05/06/08
      78.   Jew should reject ANY Neo Nazis 13:54  |  Ronnie Wolman 05/06/08
      79.   Nazis workers right # dino 13:54  |  Yuval 05/06/08
      80.   To LevZahav 14:01  |  Yuval 05/06/08
      81.   TO SWISS DINO 14:03  |  answer #2 05/06/08
      82.   No such thing.... 14:04  |  Ofer Maimon 05/06/08
      83.   Some crazy people say that Israel has no friends in this world... 14:04  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      84.   # 62 Denise Thompson 14:07  |  Hermann 05/06/08
      85.   Dino stop telling porkies 14:25  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 05/06/08
      86.   68 Tim 14:27  |  OTTO 05/06/08
      87.   a little piece of history for mister herman 14:35  |  LevZahav 05/06/08
      88.   Well, Swiss, aren`t you a friend of Israel? This at least has 14:40  |  Uri 05/06/08
      89.   ANSWER TO HERMAN 14:52  |  LevZahav 05/06/08
      90.   a defeated ideology trying to re-invent itself 15:00  |  shlomo 05/06/08
      91.   Who need enemies? 15:15  |  Manolo peaceful man 05/06/08
      92.   LevZahav #87 15:34  |  christoph 05/06/08
      93.   Is Brunner gone away? 15:39  |  Manolo peaceful man 05/06/08
      94.   #41: On J-M Le Pen`s admiration for Israel (from Haaretz) 15:48  |  Chanalau, Tova 05/06/08
      95.   the same mistake forever 15:50  |  Manolo peaceful man 05/06/08
      96.   #49: BNP`s admiration for Israel - 2 BNP quotes 15:55  |  Chanalau, Tova 05/06/08
      97.   A hoax 15:57  |  Fritz T. 05/06/08
      98.   bosniacs and serbs are not `arabs` 15:58  |  Manolo nazi expert 05/06/08
      99.   DINO: Nazis were NATIONAL socialists not right-wingers 15:58  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/06/08
      100.   No such website 16:01  |  the Shaigetz 05/06/08
      101.   #83 DINO: can´t you see that this is mockery? 16:03  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/06/08
      102.   Nazis Against Antisemitism??!! 16:09  |  Boaz:Shalom 05/06/08
      103.   Back to the original plan 16:17  |  Tosefta 05/06/08
      104.   Sweden neo-nazi have strong Jew group 16:19  |  klein 05/06/08
      105.   MAUREEN Maybe they just do not like Global Jihad or"Islam can 16:46  |  PETER SM 05/06/08
      106.   SWISS What traitors!! No gratitude to Hitler`s bankers 16:50  |  PETER SM 05/06/08
      107.   # 83 Swiss (Dino) 17:00  |  Hermann 05/06/08
      108.   #62 Denise Thompson is stuck.... 17:11  |  John Syracuse 05/06/08
      109.   WRIGHT NEVER mind you people still have Duke,The Nation Of Islam 17:12  |  PETER SM 05/06/08
      110.   Hermann the Neo-Nazi 17:12  |  Gee 05/06/08
      111.   ANSWER TO HERMAN #2 17:40  |  LevZahav 05/06/08
      112.   CHANALAU Where does Barnes say "LOVE"? SUPPORT against Hesballa 17:42  |  PETER SM 05/06/08
      113.   Neo-Nazis: We`re pro-Israel 17:43  |  Mandy 05/06/08
      114.   There`s everything in this world. Why single out these nutcases? 17:45  |  Fortuna Benmayor 05/06/08
      115.   Chrisotph #91 18:02  |  LevZahav 05/06/08
      116.   #62 Denise Thompson gets stuck.... 18:03  |  John Syracuse 05/06/08
      117.   THE LEFT WILL SOON BE PRO ISRAEL 18:03  |  JOJO 05/06/08
      118.   Swiss (Dino) and all who use this as anti Israel PR 18:04  |  David Israel 05/06/08
      119.   Why not? 18:19  |  Paul Raygun 05/06/08
      120.   Understandable 18:27  |  Janice 05/06/08
      121.   Herman thanks but no thanks 18:35  |  David Israel 05/06/08
      122.   #65 Indrajaya 18:37  |  Edith 05/06/08
      123.   People, you are too serious - it is just a prank, 18:52  |  17 05/06/08
      124.   # 79 Yuval 18:59  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      125.   swiss Dino (55) 19:02  |  Philippe 05/06/08
      126.   Many pro-Israel talkbackers do think Arabs are untermenschen 19:06  |  Michael 05/06/08
      127.   # 81 My Swiss compatriot without name ("sans-papier" ??:) 19:07  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      128.   fools: it`s a prank! 19:13  |  stopzionismnow 05/06/08
      129.   #62 Denise Thompson gets stuck.... 19:21  |  John Syracuse 05/06/08
      130.   # 98 Alicia Yasmeen 19:23  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/06/08
      131.   # 89 LevZahav 19:34  |  Hermann 05/06/08
      132.   Herman thanks but no thanks - 2nd try 19:36  |  David Israel 05/06/08
      133.   Swiss (Dino) and all who use this as anti Israel PR 19:37  |  David Israel 05/06/08
      134.   Georg From Berlin - 2nd try 19:39  |  David Israel 05/06/08
      135.   Michael UK 19:54  |  x-ray 05/06/08
      136.   Michael UK 19:54  |  x-ray 05/06/08
      137.   Makes perfect sense to me. Zionists and anti-Semites... 20:18  |  peacelover 05/06/08
      138.   fools: it`s a Muslim prank! 20:27  |  StopIslamoNazismNow 05/06/08
      139.   miras - Yes, and nationalism leads to war 20:40  |  MAN 05/06/08
      140.   Just like the good, old days 20:44  |  Gray 05/06/08
      141.   Why they feel a kinship 20:57  |  DAvid 05/06/08
      142.   Israel is the best example of Racial Nationalism 21:28  |  Howard 05/06/08
      143.   What about Eichmann? 22:04  |  Salviati 05/06/08
      144.   #113 John Syracuse: a very interesting through-cut 22:09  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/06/08
      145.   Georg From Berlin - 3rd try 22:14  |  David Israel 05/06/08
      146.   Herman thanks but no thanks - 3rd try 22:15  |  David Israel 05/06/08
      147.   Chanalau Tova 23:03  |  Brauner 05/06/08
      148.   At last we can see the truth nature of Zionnism 00:37  |  Serenity 06/06/08
      149.   If I had to guess 00:41  |  Realist 06/06/08
      150.   No Michael, thats a mis-read 00:48  |  Realist 06/06/08
      151.   #95 Tova 00:50  |  K 06/06/08
      152.   Good cop, bad cop routine between Herr Hermann & Herr Dino 01:00  |  common sense 06/06/08
      153.   for Hermann 01:01  |  Chengiz Haim Khan 06/06/08
      154.   #70-3, Speech of Her Hermann and silence of Jonathan S 01:19  |  zmogus 06/06/08
      155.   for DAvid and for Michael from Uk 01:34  |  Chengiz Haim Khan 06/06/08
      156.   support them , take them 01:36  |  FalluJah 06/06/08
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      158.   WRIGHT With Duke,Farrakhan & the Nation of Islam on your side 01:49  |  PETER SM 06/06/08
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      160.   CHANALAU.How does dislike for Hesballa or street riots = "LOVE" 02:17  |  PETER SM 06/06/08
      161.   Haaretz 02:49  |  Yosemite 06/06/08
      162.   Indrajaya You`re Running Out Of Friends 03:24  |  Yosemite 06/06/08
      163.   and you shall be known by your friends 03:24  |  American in NY 06/06/08
      164.   With friends like these ... 03:41  |  Theo Miller 06/06/08
      165.   What`s next, David Duke wearing a yulmekeh? 04:17  |  Conroy 06/06/08
      166.   Swiss (Dino) and all who use this as anti Israel PR 04:53  |  David Israel 06/06/08
      167.   Herman thanks but no thanks - 4rth try 04:54  |  David Israel 06/06/08
      168.   Georg From Berlin - 4th try 04:55  |  David Israel 06/06/08
      169.   Just like the good old days 05:06  |  Gray 06/06/08
      170.   David Israel and "... anti Israel P.R." 06:02  |  Gray 06/06/08
      171.   A hoax, but who is behind 16:22  |  Axel 06/06/08
      172.   # 133 David Israel, our chief "distorter" here.... 19:47  |  Swiss (Dino) 06/06/08
      173.   Dear Haaretz, where are all my responses from yesterday...????? 22:19  |  Swiss (Dino) 06/06/08
      174.   Many Nazis were allegedly Zionists before the plan became........ 23:01  |  Anthony Fallon 06/06/08
      175.   German neo-Nazis: We`re pro-Israel, condemn anti-Semitism 23:37  |  John 06/06/08
      176.   "Why Don`t Germans... (Yosemite no. 7) 23:44  |  John 06/06/08
      177.   Number 29 00:02  |  John 07/06/08
      178.   Gray 05:37  |  David Israel 07/06/08
      179.   Swiss (Dino) But you accuse Israel 05:43  |  David Israel 07/06/08
      180.   # 52 no cipora, you`re wrong (2nd try) 09:44  |  eric 07/06/08
      181.   # 179 David, you are missing the point here..... 11:19  |  Swiss (Dino) 07/06/08
      182.   Swiss (dino) You are using the opportunity 17:16  |  David Isarel 07/06/08
      183.   # 182 David Israel 17:54  |  Swiss (Dino) 07/06/08
      184.   Swiss (Dino) #183 21:04  |  David Israel 07/06/08
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      186.   Monty Python? 02:27  |  Motic 08/06/08
      187.   Tony Greenstein 07:11  |  David Isarel 08/06/08
      188.   Nazis try to deceive Jews again 09:30  |  PK 08/06/08
      189.   don`t worry about the false friends 14:59  |  Max 09/06/08
      190.   #53 Neonazies are forgeign intellegence??? 15:22  |  max 09/06/08
      191.   Its a plot by pro arabists 16:42  |  nicole 09/06/08
      192.   I am a german nationalist 17:16  |  Helmuth 09/06/08
      193.   2 Things! 18:09  |  GHook93 09/06/08
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