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With a population of 64 million, there are less than 1,000 Jews living in Thailand—formerly Siam, as in The King and I, 1956—a predominantly Buddhist country.
And yet Jew-hatred is alive and well.
Which just goes to show that the absence of Jews does not preclude Jew-hatred. Just look at the Arab Muslim world, Judenrein by force, where Jew-hatred is mother’s milk.
Instead of teaching the Catechism, Sacred Heart children learn the Seig Heil.
My friend, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, guides our attention to a disgraceful parade by the exclusive Sacred Heart Preparatory School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The parade was led by students who gave the Seig Heil salute and carried Nazi flags. Gun-toting adults proudly accompanied their children. The march started on the school grounds and continued into the streets of the adjoining neighborhood.
Sacred Heart's version of Mommy & Me. Sweet.
Nothing like a cute Thai Hitler look-a-like.
Rabbi Cooper—we have been close friends since we were children in Brooklyn—analyzes the explosion of Jew-hatred across the globe:
The ushering in of a Jewish New Year naturally is a time of personal and communal reflection, and this year there is much to take stock: The Palestinian demands for a state, a threatening nuclear Iran looming large on the horizon, a Turkish President gone wild with premeditated verbal abuse of the Jewish State and threats of ever-morphing anti-Semitism, from Hungarian Jobbik thugs to legal attempts to stop circumcision and the ritual slaughter of kosher meat in Scandinavia and the United States.
But what to do about a strange phenomena that simply won’t go away: The veneration of Hitler and Nazism in societies virtually devoid of Jews.
In India, Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is a runaway bestseller, with a publisher targeting graduate business students that there’s much to learn about organizing from the muses of this powerful leader. There’s been the trendy Hitler Crossing cafe in Mumbai, sports bars in South Korea, Hitler look-alike dolls are on sale in 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan, where a few years ago a Seiko Epson software program for calendars posted California beach babes alongside Hitler Seig-ing adoring masses.
I am not an expert, but I have traveled to Thailand & have several Thai acquaintances and I suspect I can add some context on why teenage Thai school girls might dress up and parade as Nazis. The manga and anima comic/cartoon genre in Japan is very popular and exported not only to the West but also across Asia. Several of the Japanese anime shows and manga books series portray Nazi characters as protagonists. While a biographic manga about Hitler and a manga version of Mein Kampf have been published, most of the Nazi themed anime and manga have stories only loosely related to the reality of WWII history, for example (from wikipdia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urda_(anime) ): “Urda: The Third Reich (ウルダ, Uruda?) is an original net animation written and directed by Romanov Higa. The story takes place circa 1943, during World War II. Facing a losing war, the Nazi Party discovers a marooned spaceship capable of time travel, thus enabling them to alter the outcome of their fate. Enter Erna Kurtz, a newly hired spy who stumbles upon the Nazis’ plot. With the help of her fearless friend Janet, Erna must face her past in order to secure her future.”
Among teenage female fans of anime and manga, a sub-hobby of “costume play” commonly called “cosplay” is very popular and entails dressing up in the fashions of your favorite anime or manga and those of lead characters in particular. I suspect that this group at Sacred Heart is participating in this sort of Nazi themed anime/manga cosplay. The anime/manga stories generally emphasize ‘romantic plots’ and sexual themes rather than facts about history. Indeed, for a time the top male oriented manga was about Japanese executives dominated by an American woman who was a world famous golfer by day and dominatrix by night. Japan can be very very strange and they work hard exporting that strangeness to the rest of Asia, and the US for that matter. While there have been “documentary” manga, most are very skewed from reality.
My experience with my Thai acquaintances is that they are very weak on European and American history and even tend to gloss over the Pacific Theater aspects of WWII. Viet Nam and anti-communism, the horrors of Laos and Cambodia make some impression on Thais under 40, but things like the Holocaust and World War 2 in general are very alien to them. Sadly anime videos and manga books may well be the only source of info on WWII and the Holocaust for students at the school. Added to this, in my impression at least, is that casual Buddhists in Thailand, believing in reincarnation, are largely unmoved even when exposed to the Holocaust or other such horrors, taking the view that no matter how horriffic the deaths of such events, since everyone involved is going to be reincarnated no particular outrage is necessary. I considered visiting the memorials to the Japanese mistreatment of Allied prisonersof war in Thai and Burmese located Japanese prison camps involved in the real railroad and bridges depicted in th Bridge on the River Kwai but was unable to go, but talking about the place with a Thai friend, she felt no outrage or even sentiment about the many Thais conscripted and killed by the Japanese in the same endeavor. The girls depicted in the photos you have may or may not know about the facts of WWII of the Holocaust, but that is no excuse — just imagine an American donning the costume of the colonial French in the 19th century who tried to annex Thailand, Thai outrage would appear magically. One way or another these photos and the anime videos and manga books that probably inspire them are a sign of a pervasive and unthinking anti-semitism in Asia.
But then Thailand in particular and Asia in general is much less PC than most of my American acquaintances think. One of my Thai acquaintances made a casual statement about “whites being pretty,” when I asked about what she meant by whites, since she clearly from the context was not talking about a European or American, she explained as if to a small child that Chinese and Americans and Europeans are white and thus the most pretty and most successful, Koreans, Japanese, Thais, and Indians are brown and while not as pretty or successful as whites are less arrogant and more humble and harder working, and “of course” Africans and other blacks are the ugliest and laziest. An interesting foreign perspective on the color alignment of races/ethnicities. So much for Third Worlders being more sensitve than Americans!
This story about the manga printing of Mein Kampf will show the extent of the problem in Japan: http://observers.france24.com/content/20090911-japan-new-hit-mein-kampf-manga-style-hitler-nazi
Now imagine someone in Thailand with even less knowledge about the facts taking an interest in this, or the anime wikipedia entry linked above, simply because it is popular in Japan, the implications are disturbing.
I have been to Chiang Mai but I have no knowledge of this school, it does seem likely it is, as another comment on your blog said, a school for well off children. Foreign manga and anime are most common among the middle or upper classes in Thailand from what I saw.
Well, I hope that illuminates some of the sources for this seemingly bizarre occurance in Thailand, though it does nothing to lessen the danger such incidents indicate.
I wondered who designed the Nazi uniforms, and apparently it was Goring. They were an excellent expression of the ideals of Nazism.
I found this on Wiki:
As Himmler put it, “I know there are many people who fall ill when they see this black uniform; we understand that and don’t expect that we will be loved by many people.”
Many of the uniforms were produced by Hugo Boss and some were produced under forced labor conditionsand in concentration camps, especially later in the war.
That’s almost bizarre. Heck, no “almost” about it.
I this whole “school movement” is propelled by anti Antisemitism (and I have no reason to believe otherwise) don’t these nimrods realize how the Nazis would have regarded them?
Robert – just went back to Hearst Castle last weekend. Have an interesting tie in with Citizen Kane, a drunken Herman Mankiewicz showing up for dinner and being escorted off the estate under the orders of Hearst.
My heart breaks to see this. As a Catholic myself, I cannot imagine such a thing happening from a “normal” Catholic perspective. I wonder if this so-called school is filled with liberals.
Seraphic Secret has numerous Catholic friends and readers. We recognize that this is not normative—at least as far as American Catholics are concerned. Unfortunately, the malignancy of Jew hatred is a global movement, fired by ancient prejudices and the unrelenting propaganda directed at Israel.
There was, apparently, an apology from Sacred Heart – it’s in an AFP story along the chain of links you provided. Which is nice, I suppose, but you have to wonder if there were any clergy on staff who might have gotten a hint of this and protested before it turned into such a horrible spectacle. Though if there’s one thing I’ve learned as a Catholic it’s that you can’t trust the bureaucracy to do the right thing.
I’ve heard that the Holocaust is taught little, if at all, in Asia, and that WW2 history is both sketchy and taught (not surprisingly) from an Asian perspective. I recently saw a story about how Nazi regalia weddings are suddenly popular in China among the new middle classes there as well – you wonder where this sort of madness will lead. A lot is being lost in translation, apparently, but as we know the insidious nature of anti-Semitism is such that it makes its way into the most unexpected situations, and is often held most deeply by people who’ve never known Jews personally. One is tempted to dismiss this sort of thing with a bitter laugh, but experience has taught us that this would be less than prudent.
In the Talmud; Tractate Rosh Hashanah, it states: “On Rosh Hashanah, all of the world’s inhabitants pass in judgment before Hashem, like sheep passing single file in review before the shepherd. As the verse states (Psalm 33:15): ‘He fashions their hearts together and discerns all of their deeds.’”
The Rabbis discuss the significance of Rosh Hashanah.
One of the Sages tells us that G-d Judges us every day and every day we are called on to Repent – what is the uniqueness of Rosh Hashanah?
Another of the Sages tells us G-d Judges us every single moment and that we are called on to remember G-d at every moment – what is the uniqueness of Rosh Hashanah?
It is explained that Rosh Hashanah is when the Angels of the Nations of the World come before the Throne of G-d and demand that G-d destroy or assimilate the Jewish People for their sins.
Rosh Hashanah is the time when the Jewish People must make G-d their Advocate through Repentance; Prayer; and Righteousness, lest they be destroyed.
How does this relate to today’s Jew hatred? As Above; so Below.
What happens on Earth is a reflection of what is happening in the Heavenly World.
This last month was the month of Elul when Jews try and spend their time wisely, before Rosh Hashanah, in Repentance; Prayer; and Righteousness in order to defend themselves from the Accusations of the Nations…
This last month was the time when Turkey repudiated its friendship with Israel; when Egypt attacked Israel; when Iran continued to threaten Israel; and when the Arabs addressed the Worldly Court to demand that Israel be destroyed.
And, (as mind boggling as the notion is to me) apparently, even Thai Nazis have an Accusing Angel Above.
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
And, may we all be inscribed in the Book of Life; speedily, for a Good Year and Peace.
As I wrote in a comment above, this Jew-hatred arises from ancient hatreds and is fed to a white heat by the endless venom directed at israel, the Jewish State.
People complain about the education system in the U.S. but at least they do better than this school. Do they teach history there or is it just a dumping ground for actors that got cut from the cast of Springtime For Hitler? Has anyone explained to those wearing swastikas that Germany LOST WWII?
The swastika originated in ancient India so maybe that accounts for its popularity in S Asia. Maybe the fact that WWII was more a battle against Japan and not Germany along with the paucity of Jews makes it more respectable there.
Maybe 19 Jews should hijack 4 passenger jets and fly them into some office buildings. Or hijack a cruise ship and push a passenger overboard. Or break into an Arab dorm room at the Olympics and kill some coaches and athletes. That seems to be a formula for winning hearts and minds at the UN and on college campuses.
If Asians were just prancing around with the Swatztika one could, maybe , make the argument that it’s an ancient Buddhist symbol and they don’t know any better. But Sacred Heart is the Dalton of Thailand. The parents are prosperous and well educated. In addition, Hitler is not an ancient Buddhist symbol nor do Buddhists have a tradition of packing guns.
It just goes to show that quite often the best educated are just stupid and ignorant.
I am not an expert, but I have traveled to Thailand & have several Thai acquaintances and I suspect I can add some context on why teenage Thai school girls might dress up and parade as Nazis. The manga and anima comic/cartoon genre in Japan is very popular and exported not only to the West but also across Asia. Several of the Japanese anime shows and manga books series portray Nazi characters as protagonists. While a biographic manga about Hitler and a manga version of Mein Kampf have been published, most of the Nazi themed anime and manga have stories only loosely related to the reality of WWII history, for example (from wikipdia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urda_(anime) ):
“Urda: The Third Reich (ウルダ, Uruda?) is an original net animation written and directed by Romanov Higa. The story takes place circa 1943, during World War II.
Facing a losing war, the Nazi Party discovers a marooned spaceship capable of time travel, thus enabling them to alter the outcome of their fate. Enter Erna Kurtz, a newly hired spy who stumbles upon the Nazis’ plot. With the help of her fearless friend Janet, Erna must face her past in order to secure her future.”
Among teenage female fans of anime and manga, a sub-hobby of “costume play” commonly called “cosplay” is very popular and entails dressing up in the fashions of your favorite anime or manga and those of lead characters in particular. I suspect that this group at Sacred Heart is participating in this sort of Nazi themed anime/manga cosplay. The anime/manga stories generally emphasize ‘romantic plots’ and sexual themes rather than facts about history. Indeed, for a time the top male oriented manga was about Japanese executives dominated by an American woman who was a world famous golfer by day and dominatrix by night. Japan can be very very strange and they work hard exporting that strangeness to the rest of Asia, and the US for that matter. While there have been “documentary” manga, most are very skewed from reality.
My experience with my Thai acquaintances is that they are very weak on European and American history and even tend to gloss over the Pacific Theater aspects of WWII. Viet Nam and anti-communism, the horrors of Laos and Cambodia make some impression on Thais under 40, but things like the Holocaust and World War 2 in general are very alien to them. Sadly anime videos and manga books may well be the only source of info on WWII and the Holocaust for students at the school. Added to this, in my impression at least, is that casual Buddhists in Thailand, believing in reincarnation, are largely unmoved even when exposed to the Holocaust or other such horrors, taking the view that no matter how horriffic the deaths of such events, since everyone involved is going to be reincarnated no particular outrage is necessary. I considered visiting the memorials to the Japanese mistreatment of Allied prisonersof war in Thai and Burmese located Japanese prison camps involved in the real railroad and bridges depicted in th Bridge on the River Kwai but was unable to go, but talking about the place with a Thai friend, she felt no outrage or even sentiment about the many Thais conscripted and killed by the Japanese in the same endeavor. The girls depicted in the photos you have may or may not know about the facts of WWII of the Holocaust, but that is no excuse — just imagine an American donning the costume of the colonial French in the 19th century who tried to annex Thailand, Thai outrage would appear magically. One way or another these photos and the anime videos and manga books that probably inspire them are a sign of a pervasive and unthinking anti-semitism in Asia.
But then Thailand in particular and Asia in general is much less PC than most of my American acquaintances think. One of my Thai acquaintances made a casual statement about “whites being pretty,” when I asked about what she meant by whites, since she clearly from the context was not talking about a European or American, she explained as if to a small child that Chinese and Americans and Europeans are white and thus the most pretty and most successful, Koreans, Japanese, Thais, and Indians are brown and while not as pretty or successful as whites are less arrogant and more humble and harder working, and “of course” Africans and other blacks are the ugliest and laziest. An interesting foreign perspective on the color alignment of races/ethnicities. So much for Third Worlders being more sensitve than Americans!
This story about the manga printing of Mein Kampf will show the extent of the problem in Japan:
http://observers.france24.com/content/20090911-japan-new-hit-mein-kampf-manga-style-hitler-nazi
Now imagine someone in Thailand with even less knowledge about the facts taking an interest in this, or the anime wikipedia entry linked above, simply because it is popular in Japan, the implications are disturbing.
I have been to Chiang Mai but I have no knowledge of this school, it does seem likely it is, as another comment on your blog said, a school for well off children. Foreign manga and anime are most common among the middle or upper classes in Thailand from what I saw.
Well, I hope that illuminates some of the sources for this seemingly bizarre occurance in Thailand, though it does nothing to lessen the danger such incidents indicate.
Modenstein:
You sent this comment to me as a private e-mail. I was so impressed that I urged you to post this as a comment.
Thanks so much. This is most enlightening.
Do stay in touch.
I wondered who designed the Nazi uniforms, and apparently it was Goring. They were an excellent expression of the ideals of Nazism.
I found this on Wiki:
As Himmler put it, “I know there are many people who fall ill when they see this black uniform; we understand that and don’t expect that we will be loved by many people.”
Many of the uniforms were produced by Hugo Boss and some were produced under forced labor conditionsand in concentration camps, especially later in the war.
Barzilai:
I never buy Hugo Boss clothing.
That’s almost bizarre. Heck, no “almost” about it.
I this whole “school movement” is propelled by anti Antisemitism (and I have no reason to believe otherwise) don’t these nimrods realize how the Nazis would have regarded them?
Robert – just went back to Hearst Castle last weekend. Have an interesting tie in with Citizen Kane, a drunken Herman Mankiewicz showing up for dinner and being escorted off the estate under the orders of Hearst.
Bill:
I’ve heard that Mankiewicz story before. Sounds about right.
My heart breaks to see this. As a Catholic myself, I cannot imagine such a thing happening from a “normal” Catholic perspective. I wonder if this so-called school is filled with liberals.
BMaher:
Seraphic Secret has numerous Catholic friends and readers. We recognize that this is not normative—at least as far as American Catholics are concerned. Unfortunately, the malignancy of Jew hatred is a global movement, fired by ancient prejudices and the unrelenting propaganda directed at Israel.
We hope to hear a Mea Culpa from Sacred Heart.
There was, apparently, an apology from Sacred Heart – it’s in an AFP story along the chain of links you provided. Which is nice, I suppose, but you have to wonder if there were any clergy on staff who might have gotten a hint of this and protested before it turned into such a horrible spectacle. Though if there’s one thing I’ve learned as a Catholic it’s that you can’t trust the bureaucracy to do the right thing.
I’ve heard that the Holocaust is taught little, if at all, in Asia, and that WW2 history is both sketchy and taught (not surprisingly) from an Asian perspective. I recently saw a story about how Nazi regalia weddings are suddenly popular in China among the new middle classes there as well – you wonder where this sort of madness will lead. A lot is being lost in translation, apparently, but as we know the insidious nature of anti-Semitism is such that it makes its way into the most unexpected situations, and is often held most deeply by people who’ve never known Jews personally. One is tempted to dismiss this sort of thing with a bitter laugh, but experience has taught us that this would be less than prudent.
Rick:
I’m glad there was an apology.
And we must never ever dismiss this stuff as harmless. Jew-hatred is designed and functions as a preparatory stage for genocide.
In the Talmud; Tractate Rosh Hashanah, it states: “On Rosh Hashanah, all of the world’s inhabitants pass in judgment before Hashem, like sheep passing single file in review before the shepherd. As the verse states (Psalm 33:15): ‘He fashions their hearts together and discerns all of their deeds.’”
The Rabbis discuss the significance of Rosh Hashanah.
One of the Sages tells us that G-d Judges us every day and every day we are called on to Repent – what is the uniqueness of Rosh Hashanah?
Another of the Sages tells us G-d Judges us every single moment and that we are called on to remember G-d at every moment – what is the uniqueness of Rosh Hashanah?
It is explained that Rosh Hashanah is when the Angels of the Nations of the World come before the Throne of G-d and demand that G-d destroy or assimilate the Jewish People for their sins.
Rosh Hashanah is the time when the Jewish People must make G-d their Advocate through Repentance; Prayer; and Righteousness, lest they be destroyed.
How does this relate to today’s Jew hatred? As Above; so Below.
What happens on Earth is a reflection of what is happening in the Heavenly World.
This last month was the month of Elul when Jews try and spend their time wisely, before Rosh Hashanah, in Repentance; Prayer; and Righteousness in order to defend themselves from the Accusations of the Nations…
This last month was the time when Turkey repudiated its friendship with Israel; when Egypt attacked Israel; when Iran continued to threaten Israel; and when the Arabs addressed the Worldly Court to demand that Israel be destroyed.
And, (as mind boggling as the notion is to me) apparently, even Thai Nazis have an Accusing Angel Above.
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
And, may we all be inscribed in the Book of Life; speedily, for a Good Year and Peace.
http://youtu.be/RLaYO_UsZh4
Moishe:
It is quite true that Rosh Hashanah a Jewish holiday that effects all mankind for it is at this time of year that HaShem judges all humanity.
It’s completely weird. Where does this come from?
Kishke:
As I wrote in a comment above, this Jew-hatred arises from ancient hatreds and is fed to a white heat by the endless venom directed at israel, the Jewish State.
People complain about the education system in the U.S. but at least they do better than this school. Do they teach history there or is it just a dumping ground for actors that got cut from the cast of Springtime For Hitler? Has anyone explained to those wearing swastikas that Germany LOST WWII?
The swastika originated in ancient India so maybe that accounts for its popularity in S Asia. Maybe the fact that WWII was more a battle against Japan and not Germany along with the paucity of Jews makes it more respectable there.
Maybe 19 Jews should hijack 4 passenger jets and fly them into some office buildings. Or hijack a cruise ship and push a passenger overboard. Or break into an Arab dorm room at the Olympics and kill some coaches and athletes. That seems to be a formula for winning hearts and minds at the UN and on college campuses.
Johnny:
If Asians were just prancing around with the Swatztika one could, maybe , make the argument that it’s an ancient Buddhist symbol and they don’t know any better. But Sacred Heart is the Dalton of Thailand. The parents are prosperous and well educated. In addition, Hitler is not an ancient Buddhist symbol nor do Buddhists have a tradition of packing guns.
It just goes to show that quite often the best educated are just stupid and ignorant.