Hundreds of rabbis are taking News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch to task in an open letter to be published today in the Wall Street Journal and the Forward, demanding that he sanction Glenn Beck for his repeated perversion of the memory of the Holocaust. The letter is signed by rabbis from across the United States including prominent Orthodox rabbis, and accuses Beck of diminishing the memory and meaning of the Holocaust.
From Jewish Funds For Justice via Media Matters for America:
NEW YORK - Hundreds of rabbis are taking News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch to task in an open letter to be published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal and the Forward, demanding that he sanction Fox News Host Glenn Beck for his repeated perversion of the memory of the Holocaust. The letter also demands an apology from Fox News Chief Roger Ailes for his characterization of Jewish critics as nothing more than "left-wing rabbis."
The letter signed by rabbis from across the United States -- including the heads of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements as well as prominent Orthodox rabbis - accuses Mr. Beck and Mr. Ailes of diminishing the memory and meaning of the Holocaust.
The letter states, "In the charged political climate in the current civic debate, much is tolerated, and much is ignored or dismissed. But you diminish the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to discredit any individual or organization you disagree with. That is what Fox News has done in recent weeks, and it is not only 'left-wing rabbis' who think so."
Mr. Beck's three-day series defaming Holocaust survivor George Soros sparked the letter from rabbis. At that time, Mr. Beck claimed Mr. Soros survived the Holocaust as 14-year-old boy by collaborating with the Nazis to send other Jews to the death camps.