Yes, the Descendants of Murdered Polish Jews Should Be Compensated

Last Saturday, American Thinker published an article by a pseudonymous author called Mike Konrad that asked why Jews should seek to reclaim property lost during World War II in Poland.   Mr. Konrad's piece never answers that question.  Instead, Konrad spends his time setting up and demolishing a straw man – to wit, non-Jewish Poles suffered under the Nazis, too, more so than most other occupied nations, and actively collaborated less.  From this Konrad then draws the conclusion that it was okay for non-Jewish Poles to expropriate the property of their much more comprehensibly murdered countrymen and that it is unwise for Jews to think otherwise. Konrad's argument includes a litany of German misdeeds against non-Jewish Poles, a lame excuse for one obvious case of direct Polish violence against Jews (Kielce), omission of others for which there is no credible excuse (Jedwabne), and the use of a moral equivalency comparing the expropriation of Jewish...(Read Full Article)