Tempe, Arizona – Steve Anderson, the antisemitic pastor of the Faithful Word
Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, denies the Holocaust in a video he posted
to YouTube last week, claiming that the millions of Jews who were gassed and
burned in ovens simply died of hunger and disease due to forced labor
and war.
In
addition to arguing that it would be impossible for the Nazis to have cremated
a million Jews at Auschwitz, Anderson claims that the slave laborers there
got compensated for their work and could buy items at a commissary. He further
asserts that Jews were able to play on a soccer team and act in musicals and
plays at Auschwitz.
Anderson
also promotes other antisemitic claims. He asserts that Hitler and Zionists
had the same goal of getting Jews to leave Germany and then accuses the Zionists
of working with the Nazis so that Jews would go to Palestine. He alleges that
the Jews lied about the Holocaust so that the state of Israel could be created
and asserts that Jews stole the land from Arabs and then put them in “a giant
concentration camp known as Gaza.”
This video is also a promotion piece for
Anderson’s antisemitic film “Marching to Zion.” The film, released in March 2015,
refers to Judaism as the “synagogue of Satan” and claims that Jews are followers
of the Antichrist. He also asserts that Jews who deny that Jesus is the Messiah
would lie about the Holocaust. He argues, “Why would it surprise you that the
people who deny the Christ, who deny that Jesus is the messiah, would lie to
you about something else?”
Anderson
warns that the “real Holocaust” for the Jews will occur if they don’t accept
Jesus as the Messiah. He says, “The real burnt offering is going to be when
all of these Jews that don’t believe in Jesus Christ go to hell for eternity.
That’s the oven that they ought to be worried about.”
At the end of the video, Anderson recommends
that his viewers read a Holocaust denial book written by Victor Thorn, a
writer for American Free Press, an antisemitic conspiracy-oriented newspaper.
With this Holocaust denial video, Anderson demonstrates that he is increasingly
embracing antisemitic ideologies.
