Where There's A Lot Of Smoke, There's Usually A Little Bit Of Fire

From Little Green Footballs:


A cellphone video caught members of the Belgian neo-fascist parties Vlaams Belang and National Front—Luc Van Keerbergen and Michel Delacroix—in the act of singing a racist song in French, mocking the Holocaust.

Delacroix and Van Keerbergen have now been evicted from their parties, because they let a little too much slip out in public.





Translation of the song:

My little Jewish girl is in Dachau.
She is in unslaked lime.
She has left her ghetto, to be burnt alive.

That's not very funny. If they are trying to be funny, they aren't succeeding. If this is some kind of hip, ironic humor, based upon the, supposedly, groundless assumption that Vlaams Belang is steeped in racism, then still, I would have to say, it isn't funny.

My guess is these two guys think it's funny, because they think we attach too much signifigance to the Holocaust. In other words, my suspicion is these two men don't care much for Jews.

But, I guess maybe this is just a tiny minority of extremists.

From Yiddish News:

Brussels, Belgium - The leader of Belgium's far-right National Front party, Michel Delacroix, resigned today a few hours after he was shown on television singing a song making light of the Holocaust.

"Mr Delacroix, perfectly aware of what his actions would mean for him, has decided to resign from his post as president of the National Front," the party said in a statement, underlining that his act was "inadmissible."

In a video on public television's midday news, Delacroix was seen singing a song to the tune of "l'eau vive" by Jewish singer Guy Beart, but with the lyrics changed to tell the story of a Jewish woman sent to the gas chamber in Dachau.

He was sitting on a sunny terrace with a few friends as he sang.

The broadcast brought a swift reaction from the main Belgian organisation policing the fight against discrimination, which accused him of "Holocaust denial" and "inciting racial hatred."

Contacted, Delacroix said: "I can't remember having sung it, even if I have known the words for years."

The blind senator also raised some questions about whether the tape was authentic, although he thought it was probably filmed in Spain eight years ago.

"I can immediately see the bad taste in it, but even if there is something real in it, (the performance) was in no way public," he said.

Delacroix also raised the possibility that it was made public as an act of revenge, saying that he thought the tape might have been in a file for his divorce which he said "finished badly for my ex-wife a few months ago".

He suggested that a former member of the National Front who was recently ejected from the party might have been involved as well.

It also seems that a Vlaams Belang politician was arrested last week for organizing Nazi concerts.....
Organizers neo-Nazi concerts arrested

The federal police today arrested three suspects in connection with an investigation into the organization of a series of neo-Nazi concerts. It reports the federal prosecutor's office. There are suspects arrested in Antwerp, Bocholt and Gullegem, who also each time a search took place. There were computers and documents seized.

Vlaams Belang says if the rumors are true they'll throw him out....
"Vlaams Belang does not tolerate neo-Nazis"

If it is true that one of those arrested in the investigation into the organization of concerts by neo-Nazi Blood and Honor a few years ago was a candidate in a local election list of Vlaams Belang, then that person immediately put out the party. Dat meldt partijvoorzitter Bruno Valkeniers. Reports that party chairman Bruno falconers.