During the hearing, Self defended his comments by claiming his words were taken out of context.

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Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) sparked outrage this week during a congressional hearing Tuesday when he quoted Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

“A direct quote from Joseph Goebbels: ‘It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion,’ and I think that may be what we’re discussing here,” said Self during Tuesday’s House Foreign Relations subcommittee meeting.

The GOP-led hearing was intended to investigate an alleged “censorship industrial complex” established by the Biden administration to suppress conservative viewpoints on social media platforms.

Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX) immediately condemned Self’s reference to the Nazi propagandist.

“When you’re quoting Joseph Goebbels about the role of state in the public debate, we have a big problem,” Johnson said in disbelief.

“I mean, that’s as alarming as hell to me, when that becomes the gold standard of Hitler, and all that was going on in Russia, I mean, in German atrocities during World War II, when that becomes the quote of this hearing.”

Johnson later took to social media to slam the 72-year-old congressman again by writing, “Joseph Goebbels was a literal Nazi and one of Hitler’s closest allies. To my Republican colleagues, it is probably best not to quote him during a congressional hearing.”

During the hearing, Self defended his comments by claiming his words were taken out of context.

“I was referring to the philosophy of Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board,” he said.

“Probably best not to throw stones when your party supported funneling millions of dollars through Biden’s State Dept. to shape public opinion.”

DOGE leader Elon Musk, who himself has come under controversy for Nazi references, later called Jankowicz and her colleague “evil people.”

According to the Huffington Post, this isn’t the first time Self has turned to Goebbels for rhetorical ammunition.

While running for reelection as Collin County Judge in 2010, he quoted, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

At the time, Self claimed he was only using the quote to show that his opponent “was using the method.”

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A New York State lawmaker is joined by other politicians and activists in calling for BDS-promoter Roger Water’s upcoming concert to be canceled, citing a new law prohibiting boycotts against Israel.

Lawmaker Howard J. Kopel of Nassau County in New York State is leading a campaign against an upcoming concert by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) promoter Roger Waters, citing a new law prohibiting companies from doing business with the county if they support boycotts against Israel.

Waters, a world-famous musician and former Pink Floyd guitarist, is scheduled to perform at the Nassau Coliseum Sept. 15 and 16, just ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

According to Kopel, allowing Waters to perform at a county-run facility “offends the sense of decency held by our residents,” Nassau County’s Newsday reported.

Nassau County Attorney Carnell Foskey is threatening to take “appropriate legal action” if Nassau Events Center, the operator of the renovated Nassau Coliseum, where Rogers, former Pink Floyd guitarist, is scheduled to perform, according to Newsday.

“By enabling Mr. Waters to perform, NEC has given Mr. Waters a forum or platform to express his BDS ideology,” Foskey wrote in a letter Tuesday to NEC, Newsday said.

The Anti-Defamation League has labeled Waters an anti-Semite.

Hosting Waters is ‘Outrageous’

Councilman Bruce Blakeman wrote on Facebook, “The behaviors exhibited by Roger Waters are completely inappropriate and to have the Nassau Coliseum host him is inappropriate, but during Rosh Hashanah, it’s outrageous!

Anthony J. Santino, Supervisor of Hempstead Town in Nassau County, also commented on the social media platform, saying, “Most of us may enjoy Pink Floyd’s music, but the anti-Semitic vitriol and hate from frontman Roger Waters is reviling.

“Kudos to Legislator Howard J. Kopel & Councilman Bruce Blakeman for standing up to have him boycotted from the arena. Both Councilman Anthony D’Esposito and I also wrote individual letters to Nassau County, NY asking to cancel Roger Waters’ planned concert at NYCB Live/Nassau Coliseum due to his steeped anti-Semitic beliefs, history and practices.

“And for him to be scheduled to appear at the start of the Rosh Hashanah holiday is beyond the pale,” Santino concluded.

Waters Compares Israel to Nazi Germany

Interviewed by BDS movement leader Omar Barghouti, Saturday night in a Facebook video chat, Waters compared Israel’s government and policies to Nazi Germany, saying it has one of the most cruel regimes in the world.

“I’m not sure there are any much harsher regimes around the world, actually, if you look at it,” he claimed, before contradicting himself by saying he was “particularly concerned” about Syria, where more than 400,000 civilians have been killed during the ongoing civil war. However, Waters did not elaborate as to whether the Syrian regime is a worse human rights violator than the Jewish state.

According to the Pink Floyd musician, dialogue with Israeli artists would be meaningless.

“I think that artists who say that they can somehow improve the situation by going and playing in Israel and having conversations with Israeli artists” are wrong, Rogers stated.

Asked about South Africans who reject his comparison of Israel to the former apartheid state, he replied that his critics are “entirely ignorant” and subjected to Nazi-style propaganda.

“It’s hard not to go back to [Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph] Goebbels,” he declared.

“If I didn’t play in the US it would have absolutely no effect on American foreign policy,” he said, explaining why he wasn’t encouraging a similar boycott of other countries and governments with whose policies he disagrees, such as the US and the Trump Administration.

“Boycott is a very specific strategy and tactic that you can use as a tool of protest in very certain specific situations… it’s a realistic tactic to affect the government and the people of Israel,” he stressed.

He Can Dish It Out, But He Can’t Take It

It appears Waters can dish it out be he can’t take it. Despite his vehement calls to boycott Israel, in a Facebook Live chat Saturday with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, he insisted on his right to perform in Nassau, saying an artist’s rights should not be attacked over his stand on an issue, JTA reported.

The Nassau program isn’t the first stumbling block encountered by Waters. Last week, a dozen teens from a Miami Beach Parks summer program backed out of a performance with the famous musician just hours before it was scheduled to begin.

“Miami Beach is a culturally diverse community and does not tolerate any form of hate,” Miami Beach spokeswoman Melissa Berthier told the Miami Herald.

In an online ad on the Herald website, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation stated, “Mr. Waters, your vile messages of anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and hatred are not welcome in this community.

By: Daniel Krygier, World Israel News

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One of the last surviving people with access to the Nazi leadership’s inner circle has died with no regrets. 

Brunhilde Pomsel, a former secretary for Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, died at her Munich home on Friday. She was 106.

Pomsel lived most of her life in relative obscurity until a German newspaper published an interview with her in 2011, prompting a flurry of interest in one of the last surviving people who had access to the Nazi leadership’s inner circle.

Her death was confirmed Sunday to The Associated Press by Christian Kroenes, a director and producer of the film, A German Life. In that documentary, Pomsel talks about her three years working for the man responsible for spreading Adolf Hitler’s lethal ideology in newspapers and across the airwaves.

She describes Goebbels as a vain man whose hate-filled public speeches were difficult to reconcile with what she said was his considerable charm when not in the spotlight.

Kroenes said Pomsel had been lucid when he last spoke to her on her birthday, January 11.

“What she recounted in the film is a warning to the current and future generations,” he said.

In the film, however, Pomsel claimed she did not know about the systematic murder of the Jews perpetrated by the government, saying she was merely a secretary. She said she did not feel guilty about the Holocaust.

BBC reported that Pomsel had a Jewish friend, Eva Lowenthal, who disappeared in November 1943. Pomsel discovered 60 years later that Lowenthal had died in Auschwitz.

By: AP and World Israel News Staff

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