I agree with the Jewish Defense League (JDL) that Will Smith’s comments were insulting to Holocaust survivors and Jews in general and for the following reasons, he should be made an example of. 

By claiming that Hitler was a “good person”, Smith advances an agenda of ‘moral equivalency’ that will ultimately end in the abandonment and destruction of the State of Israel.  In the aftermath of World War II it would have been unthinkable to call Hitler anything but “pure evil” (if one ventured to speak his name at all).  In earlier generations it would have been politically incorrect to deny the existence of Hitler’s genocide.  Today, liberals regularly label President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and anyone else they hate, “Hitler” and good liberals don’t even raise an eyebrow.

Similarly, after Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, it would have been unthinkable to call Israel’s Arab neighbors anything but ‘aggressors’.  In earlier generations it would have been politically incorrect to deny that Israel was founded as a Jewish State.  Today, Hamas and Hezbollah homicide bombers are said to have the same moral authority as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Holocaust Denier-and Chief in Iran again threatens destruction of Jews and Israel.

Does Will Smith really think that when Hitler advocated and approved children being murdered in front of their mothers, wives being raped in front of their husbands and using humans for medical experimentation, he was just trying to do something good for Das Fatherland?  Does Smith think that if we had just tried to understand Hitler and talk with him, we could’ve “reprogrammed” him to be a better person?  Had Will Smith been alive during World War II, chances are that he would have been tortured, mutilated and incinerated, along with six million Jews and two million other ‘mongrel’ races, by Adolph the Good. 

Had Smith, who is neither Jewish nor German but is Black, used Mugabbee, Edi Amin Dada or Michael Vick as his example, at least he’d be talking about someone he has some possible connection to and understanding of.  The fact that Smith felt free to use Hitler as an example of his “there’s good in everybody” drivel, illustrates just how little today’s liberals care about offending Jewish sensitivities. 

Barak Obama’s expressed willingness to talk, to the Hitler of our day - Iran’s Ahmadinejad, is but another extension of the moral equivalency found in Smith’s remarks.  Smith has publicly endorsed Barak Obama and ultimately, (G-d forbid) President Obama will appease Islamic Extremists by abandoning America’s historical alliance and support for Israel.  After all, we can achieve all the energy-independence we want, but as long as we’ve got Israel’s back, Ahmadinejad, Assad and Osama will keep coming after us.  The Left’s over-riding effort ‘to just (all) get along’ will lead Smith and his candidate, Obama to throw Israel overboard.

The JDL, whose motto is “Never Again”, wants arrest and reverse the subtle Anti-Semitism Will Smith has now advanced and by calling on (his) candidate, to repudiate such a statement, they hope to force Obama to stop blurring the line between good and evil and between our allies and our enemies.