Gerard Menuhin (born 1948 in Scotland) is aHolocaust denier and activist, associated with theneo-Nazi movement in Germany. He is ofJewish descent.[1][2]
His bookTell the Truth and Shame the Devil, published in 2015, argues thatthe Holocaust is "the biggest lie in history",[3] that Jews are an "alien, demonic force which seeks to dominate the world", that "Jews are flooding Europe with non-white races", to create a "society of racial mongrels, under the rule of a 'new Jewish nobility'", and plan to "create a one-world government".[4] Menuhin argues that "the world owesAdolf Hitler an apology".[5]
He is the son of the violinistYehudi Menuhin and dancerDiana Gould, and brother of pianistJeremy Menuhin. He is the grandson ofanti-Zionist author and campaignerMoshe Menuhin, who was from a distinguished, religiousLithuanian Jewish family.[6] He is descended from the lineage of RabbiShneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder ofChabadHassidism, as well as RabbiLevi Yitzchok of Berditchev.[7]
Born in July[8][9] 1948[10] in Scotland,[8][9] he is the son of violinistYehudi Menuhin, who was Jewish, andDiana Gould, an English ballerina.[11] He attendedEton College, completing his studies atStanford University in California. The brother of the pianistJeremy Menuhin,[12] Gerard did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father or brother and decided to enter into acting. In London'sMermaid Theatre, he landed a role in theErich Kästner-pieceEmil and the Detectives.[13]
In December 1970, when Menuhin was 22, he and his father temporarily lost their American citizenship after they were granted Swiss citizenship, as American law at the time did not permitdual citizenship.[14]
In 1985, he published his first book, a novel,Elmer, which was panned by Ian Murray of the Glasgow Herald.[15]
Menuhin was, until November 2005, the CEO of the German chapter of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation (YMF). He was representative of the Menuhin family on the Board of theMenuhin Festival Gstaad inGstaad, Switzerland. In June 2007, he took up the post as president of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation inGrenchen, Switzerland.[16] Since 2009, there is no indication to be found of Menuhin's continuing administrative position with the Menuhin Festival Gstaad.[17]
He has previously worked for Menuhin IP Management GmbH (Menuhin IP Management Ltd liab Co) (Menuhin IP Management Sàrl) inSchöfflisdorf[17] which owns the official Yehudi Menuhin website.[18] The content of the website, however, is controlled by two of Yehudi Menuhin's other children, Jeremy Menuhin and Zamira Menuhin Benthall, as directors of SYM Music Company Limited.
A supporter ofAdolf Hitler, Menuhin writes about Jews: "It remains for Jews only to imitate or destroy what they can never have or become, and to undermine thehomogeneous social fabric via their political stooges, bycivil-war-induced migrations and so-called anti-discriminatory legislation, including attacks on such core values as thetraditional family, through contrived 'gender neutral' and radicalfeministideologies and 'movements.'"[19]
He considers himselfanti-Zionist. Until 2005, his political views had barely registered with the outside world, even though he has a regular column in the Munich-based ultra-German nationalistNational Zeitung. Because of Gerard Menuhin'sextremist ornationalistic utterances, he was relieved of his post as chairman on 12 November 2005 by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Germany. The LondonTimes Berlin correspondentRoger Boyes reported a few days later, that Menuhin had "outed himself as a clear sympathiser with theneo-Nazi cause in two interviews he gave. InDeutsche Stimme," the newspaper of the far-rightNational Democratic Party of Germany (NDP), "he used classical anti-Semitic language while still staying within the boundaries of German law".[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
"Apart from a few curious comments about America, we weren't really aware of his politics", Winfried Kneip, YMF's chief executive, said.[28] Alarmed by press reports, from theSpiegel website among others, the Foundation took notice, that Gerard Menuhin had given interviews to theNational Zeitung, writing a column named "Menuhin and how he sees the world", and also in the newspaper of the far-right NDP'sDeutsche Stimme (German Voice).[21][29]
In November 2014, Israeli media referred to Menuhin as an example of a "Jewishanti-Semite" and "anti-Israel extremist". An article inThe Jerusalem Post asserted that he "authored columns in theNational-Zeitung, a paper infamous for itsneo-Nazi andright-wingextremist ideas. He has also provided a fiercely anti-Israel interview with the pro-Iranian regime extremist German-language website, Muslim-Markt."[30][31]
Gerard Menuhin's bookTell the Truth and Shame the Devil was published in 2015. According to Menuhin, theHolocaust is "the biggest lie in history" and "Germany has no blame for the Second World War".[3]
Menuhin married Eva Struyvenberg in New York in March 1983, the daughter of Albert Struyvenberg from Seattle.[32][33] In 1990, he and Eva had one child together, Maxwell Duncan Menuhin, but later divorced.[33]
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