Yet another blow to the rapidly sinking credibility of this hate-and-smear organization. But the problem really isn’t the SPLC; the problem is the legitimacy that the establishment media and many people who ought to know better grant to the SPLC. If that were taken away, it wouldn’t matter who the SPLC put on its hit lists. But the establishment media, being yet another far-Left propaganda enterprise, is not going to repudiate the SPLC anytime soon.
“SPLC Ignores Muslim Anti-Semitism, Warns About Danger to Muslims From Holocaust Denial,” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, July 22, 2018:
On Saturday, the left-wing smear organization the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for suggesting that some forms of Holocaust denial could be acceptable on Facebook. Tragically, the left-wing group did not mention a key source of Holocaust denial: anti-Israel sentiment, and anti-Semitism among Muslims. Instead, the SPLC expressed fear that Holocaust denial might hurt American Muslims.
While Nazis were the first to start crafting lies rejecting the reality of the Holocaust, Holocaust denial is most mainstream among Muslims in the Middle East. A 2014 survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that 63 percent of people in the Middle East and North Africa said the Holocaust was “a myth or an exaggeration. A full 65 percent said “Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars.” A whopping 74 percent of those in the Middle East and North Africa harbored anti-Semitic views.
When asked directly about the Holocaust, 61 percent of Muslims under age 65 said it was a myth or an exaggeration, while Christians were consistently the least likely to deny the Holocaust (followed by Buddhists and non-religious people). Hindus also proved surprisingly likely to deny the Holocaust.
After preliminary notes about Nazis founding the practice — pushing “the deeply offensive lie that the Holocaust was a fraud concocted by Jews” — the SPLC noted that it monitors 10 active Holocaust denial groups in the U.S., four of which have a minor presence on Facebook. To its credit, the SPLC does have two pro-Palestinian groups on that list: two chapters of Der Yassin Remembered.
At the same time, after a brief mention of “the resurgence in antisemitism online,” the SPLC went on to lament the plight of American Muslims — some of whom are spreading Holocaust denial in an effort to slander the State of Israel.
“Zuckerberg’s refusal to address propaganda as hateful and obvious as Holocaust denial also bodes poorly for other vulnerable communities, such as American Muslims, a community regularly demonized by rhetoric espoused by even the president,” the SPLC warned. “As it stands, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant propagandists easily clear the low hurdles set up by platforms like Facebook.”
While the SPLC article only mentioned Jews once — in explaining the denial as “the deeply offensive lie that the Holocaust was a fraud concocted by Jews” — and anti-Semitism once, it referenced Muslims twice, and pivoted to discuss Muslims in the context of Holocaust denial, without once mentioning the mainstreaming of Holocaust denial among anti-Israel Muslims….