Hamodia Publishes Op-Ed Comparing Democratic Mayoral Candidate Bill de Blasio To Nazi Supporters During The Holocaust

“Imagine if an unrepentant Nazi Party sympathizer would be running for mayor of New York. A product of the ideology that destroyed 25 million people within reach of City Hall would be unthinkable.…Yet Bill de Blasio, a Marxist who has never repudiated those beliefs, will very likely be this city’s next mayor."

Bill de Blasio

Yeshiva World reports that the Brooklyn hasidic daily newspaper Hamodia – owned by a family of slumlords – published an op-ed yesterday morning written by Chabad hasid Dovid Margolin. Margolin flagrantly violates  Godwin’s Law by attacking Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio’s support for the Sandinistas, who ruled Nicaragua, in the late 80′s.

Margolin reportedly compares de Blasio’s support for the Sandinistas to supporting Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany during the Holocaust:

“New revelations about de Blasio’s political past should prompt more New Yorkers to scrutinize his record before going to the polls this November. A communist revolution had taken place in the heart of the Americas, and Bill de Blasio was there to help. Yet even today Bill de Blasio describes his experience with the Sandinistas as nothing short of inspiring.

“Imagine if an unrepentant Nazi Party sympathizer would be running for mayor of New York. A product of the ideology that destroyed 25 million people within reach of City Hall would be unthinkable. [Margolin describes de Blasio’s ties with the Sandinistas.] Yet Bill de Blasio, a Marxist who has never repudiated those beliefs, will very likely be this city’s next mayor.

“So the question to ask yourself as you enter the ballot box this November is this: Is Bill de Blasio the type of man who has the judgment and character necessary to be the mayor of New York? Does a city full of refugees of communism from all over the world really need a mayor who not only sympathized with but actively promoted the totalitarian regimes under which they suffered? The answer is obviously no.”

The Sandinistas were awful people, but so was the dictatorship they overthrew, and Margolin mangles the history to make his point.

Here's how the JTA in 2004 described the Sandinistas and their bad relationship with Nicaragua's tiny Jewish community:

…The Sandinista era took more than the community's synagogue; it also stole the community's identity. Since most of the community was linked, either politically or through business ties, to the Somoza dictatorship that ran the country like a family farm for some 50 years, Jews were among the first targets of property confiscation under the Sandinistas.

That practice sent many Nicaraguan Jews into exile. Most went to Miami, though some wound up in Honduras and Costa Rica. Only when the Sandinistas were ousted in 1990 elections did Nicaraguan Jews began to return, but the community's Torah remains in Costa Rica.

Israel had supported and armed the Somoza dictatorship until its final days, so one of the Sandinistas' first diplomatic moves was to sever ties with Israel and recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Today, Managua still hosts Libyan and Palestinian embassies, though Israel and Nicaragua have resumed diplomatic relations.

Former Interior Minister Tomas Borge, the lone surviving founder of the Sandinistas and still one of the opposition party's most influential leaders, keeps a snapshot on his office wall of himself with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.

But he says the Sandinistas now "recognize the State of Israel's right to exist," even if they "deplore" its policies toward the Palestinians.

During his tenure, Borge's ministry issued Nicaraguan passports to an unknown number of PLO members.…

Israel saw the Sandinistas as allies of Cuba, and it saw Cuba as its enemy because Cuba was an ally of many of Israel's worst enemies and a supporter of terrorism.

But the Sandinistas had leading members who were descended from Jewish families (although no longer halakhicly Jewish) and the Somoza regime was truly awful yet Jews were closely linked to it.

So for all these reasons, Margolin's comparison doesn't make sense.

Margolin frequently writes features and op-eds for Hamodia, and writes features for Chabad.org.

Comments

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[Jeff]

They only pay attention to science, history, world events, etc. when they think they can use them to their advantage.

It brings to mind the Rebbe's use of relativity theory to "prove" it made as much sense to say the Sun revolves around the Earth as it did to say the Earth revolved around the sun.

[yehudis]

Hamodia is the "official" school newspaper for the East Ramapo Central School District. That was one of the first decisions that was made that showed what direction the District was headed. I am a taxpayer in the District and never heard of that newspaper until it became the "official" newspaper of the district. If the District wants to get bids on transportation, computers, etc it is published in Hamodia.
I would imagine all of the other districts in the County use the Journal News but not East Ramapo. The District should have to use a paper that is accessible to all the students and all the taxpayers in the District.

[Yochanan Lavie]

I am no fan of Marxism, but the Sandanistas were better than the brutal Samosa. And after a long slog with Bloomie, anyone other than Mini-Me (Lhota) would be a breath of fresh air.

[Steve]

What garbage candidates compared to Bloomberg. What a letdown for the great city of New York. These are the "best" that we can come up with?

[Holyshwitter]

Jew were involved in every catastrophic event to ever hit them
1. Their slavery in Egypt where they very often were beaten by other jews
2.. Destruction of their holy temple where a jew was very muched involved in having it destroyed
3. Communism
4. The nazi party was full of jews
5. The Obama administration
Just about every catastrophy that has befallen the jews... their own people were involved.
SO YOUR ARGUMENT SUCKS....to disqualify Margolins words based on the fact that Jews were heavily involved in the Sandanistas is extremely flawed.... Napolean had jews both for him and against him

[Shmarya Rosenberg]

Consider having yourself evaluated by a mental health professional.