AGAINST ZIONISM

HIROSHIMA, Japan / March 17, 2007 – On a school morning like any other, Toshiro Watanabe waited patiently for parents to drop off his students at Osaka Chugakkou (Junior High). Today they would go on a field trip to the Imperial Hotel in Hiroshima, scene of the atomic bomb blast during World War II. 

The school principal waived goodbye to the class as their train pulled out of Osaka and sped toward its historic destination. Sunlight danced on fluffy clouds above. Fields glowed electric green. In the distance was Mount Fujiyama, the last of the winter’s snow still on its face.

When the train reached the city of Hiroshima, Mr. Watanabe and his students got down and took a bus to the Imperial Hotel. Birds sang in cherry trees. Cranes flew overhead. 

No one anticipated the horror that would come next.

When the students reached the Imperial Hotel, Mr. Watanabe explained several facts about World War II. Then he walked his class past a display of photos that showed victims of the atomic bomb, explaining the horror of war. One of the students began to cry, so Mr. Watanabe decided to take the children back outside.

“It happened when they were exiting the hotel’s museum,” said Lieutenant Satoshi Nikaido of the Hiroshima Police Department. “We’re not sure who it was, but one of the students said the bombing of Hiroshima was like the holocaust in Europe.”

An attendant at the Imperial Hotel museum recalls seeing Mr. Watanabe go white. “I walked toward him, asking what was wrong,” the attendant said. “He was holding a dagger in the air. I have no idea where he got the dagger, but I remember him looking back at me. He said the Jews would never forgive him or his class. Then he plunged the anger into his stomach and committed seppuku.”

Police are not clear about what happened next. According to their official report, when they arrived at the hotel, they found Mr. Watanabe’s students writhing on the ground, all of them having also committed seppuku.

Several of the children were still alive, and Lt. Nikaido went to assist one of them. “He grabbed the pistol out of my holster, and put it to his head,” Lt. Nikaido reported. “Then he pulled the trigger.”

In Los Angeles, California, Eli Goldschitz of the Simon Wiesenthal Center heard about the incident, and immediately called a press conference.

“The fact that the teacher and his class killed themselves does not atone in any way for the seriousness of their crimes,” Goldschitz told the Los Angeles Times. “The holocaust is a patented event, protected in most countries by copyright laws. For someone to think that any other mass death in history has moral equivalency with the holocaust is inconceivable, not to mention a direct assault on intellectual property rights. This situation recalls the Lothar affair in Germany.”

Goldschitz was referring to Gunther Lothar of Frankfurt, who witnessed the hunting of tens of thousands of seals in northern Greenland last year. During the hunt, Mr. Lother was overheard remarking to a friend that the mass slaughter reminded him of a “holocaust.” When he returned to Germany, he was sentenced to five years by a Mannheim court.

Back in Hiroshima, twenty-five of Mr. Watanabe’s students died from their self-inflicted wounds.

“We would have liked to get those terrorists into court,” Goldschitz said, “but we’ll settle for the vengeance that God will mete out to them.”

The Wiesenthal Center has filed a class action against the schoolchildren’s families, seeking 1.167 billion Japanese Yen (10 million USD) in damages for the racist remark. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe personally called the Wiesenthal Center to apologize to Mr. Goldschitz, and then committed hara-kiri himself.

“That was an anti-Semitic act as well,” Mr. Goldschitz said. “He knew we would  verbally disembowel him in court, so he took the coward’s way out.  Oppenheimer should have nuked several more cities in Japan while he had the chance.”