This is an article about "Joseph Kennedy and the Jews" by the prolific writer Edward Renehan Jr., and I think it is terribly unfair.
It's true that Joseph Kennedy tried to stem the tide of war in 1938/39, but I don't believe for a second it was because of anti-Semitism. Think about the implications of it, that anyone who wasn't foaming at the mouth for war with Germany must be an anti-Semite. And do you know what else is implied? It's implied that if we had to do it all over again, that we would choose war again. Do you have any idea how horrific World War 2 was? Do you understand how monstrous and savage and murderous it was? And I am not just talking about what the Nazis did. I am also talking about the Allies, the carpet bombing and fire bombing of cities, of residential areas in Germany, the bombing of homes, apartments, schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes. I'm talking about Dresden and Hamburg. I'm talking about what the savage Soviets did, raping German females "from 8 to 80." That was their slogan, and they were our allies. Roosevelt provided them with food, fibers, guns, ammunition, tanks, and even planes. And this was after they viciously attacked Poland and Finland. So, both Hitler and Stalin invade Poland; but Hitler gets war and Stalin gets help.
But, notice that Renehan took a dig at Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. too for having praised Hitler before the war. And the statement he attributes to JPK Jr., well, it's anti-Semitic. I won't deny it. But, JPK Jr. did go on to join the war effort by becoming a fighter pilot. I wonder what missions he flew. I wonder if he too bombed civilians like the British. The U.S. Army Air Force did join the British in their terror bombings of German cities. They joined them at Dresden, sending in low-flying Mustang planes with machine-gunners to strafe down survivors when they emerged from their air-raid shelters, that is, the ones who weren't vaporized.
So, I don't know who JPK Jr.'s targets were during his bombing runs, but I hope they were military targets and not civilian.
But, my point is that this is 2020, and if resentment against Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Jr., is still raging today, imagine how strong it was back then, the enemies they must have made. And you should add JFK too because he too traveled across Germany in the 1930s as a correspondent for Colliers magazine, and wrote glowing reports about Hitler, the German people, and what he saw there, and I presume he didn't see any atrocities.
And you know what happened to JFK. And you also know that the Kennedy family's alleged anti-Semitism surfaced again in the 1970s when that Louis Witt came forward claiming to be Umbrella Man.
And all this just reinforces my belief that Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was murdered. That remote-controlled plane he was on, designed to be like an unmanned Kamikazi, did not blow up by accident.
Please know that I abhor racism and bigotry. I have known many Jewish people in my life. They have been good to me; kind, considerate, thoughtful, generous. I think what Hitler did, building a culture around hating and persecuting Jews, was terrible. But, World War 2 was the very worst thing that ever happened. I do not believe that it had to happen. I do not believe it should have happened. I believe it happened because certain people wanted it, and Hitler wasn't one of them. He did not want war with the West. And I don't believe the results of World War 2 are anything that anyone should feel good about. The war was a cataclysm of unsurpassed cruelty, horror, and death. STOP CELEBRATING IT! It was not the good war.
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