V. Shooting at Random, Left and Right, in the Hope that Something Will be Hit

Finished perhaps with all the ammunition that he had in store for the Solly Ganor case, Mr. Tilove uses this occasion to take a shot or two at our two other critical studies --that of Eric Saul and of the late Bingham IV.

 With respect to Mr. Saul, he is being introduced by Mr. Tilove with these words as being "an established Holocaust curator and researcher." Surely, Mr. Tilove must be aware that there are out there, for instance, many "established" medical doctors accused and convicted of malpractice. So the so-called "established" of something is quite meaningless within the present context of Mr. Saul. To portray Mr. Saul as a "researcher" is equally meaningless as Mr. Saul holds no Ph.D. from any accredited school nor is he part of the academia or a research institute anywhere. This, respectfully, is hardly the mark of a researcher and "a good and careful reporter" perhaps would have noticed this.

 With respect to the late Bingham IV, Mr. Tilove wrote:

"For Brattman, the consuming controversy of recent years was an effort to honor the late American diplomat Hiram Bingham IV for his role in helping Jews escape Vichy France. Brattman considers Bingham unworthy, and launched a campaign to deny him a U.S. postage stamp and recognition at Yad Vashem, the official Holocaust memorial in Israel."

We have not a clue of "the consuming controversy of recent years" with respect to Bingham IV that Mr. Tilove was referring to, as we posted our study on Bingham IV some three years ago and that was all. Yad Vashem concurred with our study and rejected last year Eric Saul's petition to award Bingham IV with the Righteous title. The U. S. Postal Service, on the other hand, awarded Bingham IV, in May of this year, with a commemorative stamp as a "distinguished diplomat" which he clearly was as noted in our study on him where we have stated (at the end of our Bingham IV study),

"that the late Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV was a good man during evil times and may his goodness be an inspiration and an example for others to follow in trying times."

What the late Bingham IV clearly was not --as supported by the Yad Vashem findings-- was that he was not a rescuer of Jews nor a Holocaust hero. Eric Saul's claims to the contrary failed at the scrutiny of Yad Vashem as the real researchers from there concurred with our viewpoint and not his.

Are we done with this response to Tilove's nonsensical article? Almost. One more click...

 
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