Jews Against Buchanan

Fact Sheet

When asked earlier this year if he believed Christianity was superior to other faiths, Buchanan replied, "I believe Jesus Christ is the son of God and is actually God and that that is the path to salvation, so quite obviously I believe it's superior to Buddhism and Taoism and other faiths, yes."

In a memo obtained from the Nixon archives, Buchanan called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "one of the most divisive men in contemporary history."

Buchanan supports a five-year moratorium on legal immigration, yet he argues vehemently against the deportation of Auschwitz guard John Demjanjuk, who came to America illegally.

It has been revealed by ABC News that one Pat Buchanan's top campaign aides has been a speaker at white supremacist and private militia gatherings. Larry Pratt, one of the Buchanan campaign's co-chairmen, had spoken "at meetings organized by white supremacists and militia groups, among them the Aryan Nation."

Elie Wiesel was told by Buchanan that President Reagan must not surrender to "Jewish pressure" against visiting Bitburg, a German cemetery where Nazi elite are buried. In a White House meeting with Jewish leaders, Buchanan reminded them that they were "Americans first," as fellow staffer Ed Rollins later recounted to Reagan biographer Lou Cannon. Buchanan repreatedly scrawled the phrase "succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" on his notepad during the meeting.

In 1990 William Buckley, Buchanan's former mentor, wrote a 20,000-word essay on Buchanan that concluded: "I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge" of anti-Semitism.

Buchanan has called Hitler a "man of great courage" who was possessed with "extraordinary gifts."

On March 11, 1992, Buchanan told ABC's Nightline anchorman, Chris Wallace: "I'm one of the few people in this city, Chris, who's had the guts to stand up to the agenda of the special interests, whether it's the civil rights lobbyist or the AIPAC lobby or the gay rights lobby, and say that their agenda is not in the interest of a good society and not in the interest of my country."

In his syndicated column of March 13, 1991, Buchanan called Israel "a strategic albatross draped around the neck of the United States."

In an interview in Present Tense magazine, Buchanan stated that "if my friends in the Jewish community feel Pat Buchanan, a traditionalist Catholic, owes some kind of apology for the record of the Holy Father during World War II, they can wait, because it's not going to be forthcoming."

In the Chicago Sun Times of March 1989, Buchanan criticized the West for ostracizing Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. Buchanan rationalized,"like others in Hitler's army, Lt. Waldheim looked the other way." (But when Waldheim served as Secretary General of the United Nations, Waldheim had been an object of Buchanan's scorn).

On The McLaughlin Report of August 26, 1990, Buchanan said: "There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States."

It was reported by Jonathan Alter in Newsweek [December 23, 1991] Buchanan criticized the U.S. government for expressing regret over its post-war protection of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.

In 1985, Buchanan advocated restoring citizenship of ex-Nazi rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph.

In 1987 Buchanan lobbied to stop the deportation of Estonian Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas.

In a March 17, 1990, syndicated column, Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for 850,000 Jews to be killed by diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at Treblinka. "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody," he wrote. According to Jacob Weisberg in his article "The Heresies of Pat Buchanan" [The New Republic, October 22, 1990], "Buchanan stands by his bizarre claim about the diesel engines but refuses to discuss it on the record. Suffice it to say that he embraces a bolder debunking claim than he is yet willing to endorse in print... Where did he get the anecdote ('proving' his assertion about the diesel)? 'Somebody sent it to me.' " Buchanan's source was almost certainly the July 1988 newsletter of the German American Information and Education Association -- a known Holocaust denial group which quotes extensively from a story of schoolchildren who emerged unharmed after being exposed to diesel fumes while trapped in a train tunnel.

On March 2, 1992, at a campaign rally in Marietta, Georgia, when a Jewish protester called out, "Your anti-Semitism makes America last," Buchanan shot back, "This rally is of Americans, for Americans and for the good ol' USA, my friends."

Buchanan refers to a "so-called Holocaust survivors syndrome" which he describes as involving "group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics" [New York Post, March 17, 1990].

Buchanan repeatedly refers to Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occupied territory" [McLaughlin Report, June 1990].

In 1990, before the Gulf War, Buchanan wrote that if the U.S. went to war, "the fighting would be done by kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown." The National Review [December 30, 1991] commented : "There is no way to read that sentence without concluding that Pat Buchanan was suggesting that American Jews manage to avoid personal military exposure even while advancing military policies they (uniquely?) engender."

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