Editing Pat Buchanan (section)

====Nazi war criminals====
Around 1982,<ref name="WaPo19900920">{{cite news|last=Kurtz|first=Howard|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/09/20/pat-buchanan-the-jewish-question/bfc8e956-316d-4abb-b33b-97aace0b80d0/|title=Pat Buchanan The Jewish Question|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 20, 1990|access-date=June 17, 2020}}</ref> Buchanan began to defend Cleveland auto-worker [[John Demjanjuk]] against the charge that Demjanjuk was a Nazi war criminal nicknamed "[[Ivan the Terrible (Treblinka guard)|Ivan the Terrible]]" responsible for the mass murder of Jews at [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]]. In 1986, while he was a senior figure in the Reagan administration, he was highly critical of the charges brought by the [[Office of Special Investigations (United States Department of Justice)|Office of Special Investigations]] (OSI), the Nazi war crimes unit of the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]]. He claimed Demjanjuk was the victim of mistaken identity and possibly the victim of a deliberate [[Frameup|frame-up]] by the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Ryan|first=Allan A. Jr|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1986/10/26/pat-buchanan-is-wrong/aba0474e-6e01-4c48-b3ac-b7e99ab78adb/|title=Pat Buchanan Is Wrong|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=October 26, 1986|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref>

The following year<!-- 1987 -->, while still a member of the administration, he made unofficial attempts to stop the deportation of suspected [[Nazi war crimes|Nazi war criminals]] from the [[Eastern Bloc]], including Estonian [[Karl Linnas]] as well as Demjanjuk.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shenon|first=Philip|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/19/us/washington-talk-the-buchanan-aggravation.html|title=The Buchanan Aggravation|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 19, 1987|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> [[Menachem Z. Rosensaft]], in a ''[[New York Times]]'' [[op-ed]], described Buchanan's "oft-expressed sympathy for a host of Nazi criminals" like Linnas as being "a constitutionally protected perversion."<ref>{{cite news|last=Rosensaft|first=Menachem Z.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/31/opinion/deport-karl-linnas-to-the-soviet-union.html|title=Deport Karl Linnas To the Soviet Union|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 31, 1987|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> Buchanan referred to such cases as being pursued by "revenge-obsessed [[Nazi hunter]]s" in 1987.<ref>{{cite news|last=Buchanan|first=Patrick J.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/07/opinion/l-dr-hammer-s-role-in-ivan-the-terrible-trial-get-it-out-in-the-open-248387.html|title=Dr. Hammer's Role in 'Ivan the Terrible' Trial; Get It Out in the Open
|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 7, 1987|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> As a member of the Reagan White House, he was accused of having suppressed the Reagan Justice Department's investigation into Nazi scientists brought to America by the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]]'s [[Operation Paperclip]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/operation-paperclip_n_6123746.html|format=news report/book review|title=Nazis Helped Get Us To The Moon. The Reagan White House Helped Keep Them In The U.S.|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=November 8, 2014}}</ref>

In 1990, Allan Ryan Jr., a former head of the OSI said Buchanan's accusation of [[KGB]] involvement in the Demjanjuk case was "an absolutely cockamamie theory." Ryan accused Buchanan of being "the spokesman for Nazi war criminals in America." [[Neal Sher]], OSI head in 1990 said Buchanan had never contacted them, even when he was a government official. "He essentially took what was fed him by our opponents, sometimes Holocaust-deniers, and just regurgitated it," Sher told ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref name="WaPo19900920" /> In 1993, however, the [[Supreme Court of Israel]] overturned Demjanjuk's war crimes conviction and sentence of [[death by hanging]] as a [[miscarriage of justice]] based on [[mistaken identity]]. Demjanjuk then returned to the United States to fight the revocation of his American citizenship.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hedges |first=Chris |date=12 August 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/12/world/israel-recommends-that-demjanjuk-be-released.html?scp=3&sq=Demjanjuk%20&st=cse |title=Israel recommends that Demjanjuk be released |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> 

Following an elderly Demjanjuk's re-arrest and extradition to the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] in 2009,<ref>{{cite news|last=Mustich|first=Emma|url=https://www.salon.com/2011/05/12/demjanjuk/|title=After decades, Demjanjuk found guilty in Germany|work=Salon|date=May 12, 2011|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> Menachem Z. Rosensaft in ''[[The Times of Israel]]'' and [[Jeffrey Goldberg]] in ''[[The Atlantic]]'', objected to an outraged Buchanan again accusing the case of being a frame-up and comparing Demjanjuk to [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] and calling him an "American [[Alfred Dreyfus|Dreyfuss]].{{sic}}" This was alleged by Goldberg as an example of the libel that the [[Jewish deicide|Jews as a whole]] killed Christ.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rosensaft|first=Menachem Z.|url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/the-sins-of-pat-buchanan/|title=The Sins Of Pat Buchanan|work=[[Times of Israel]]|date=February 21, 2012|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Goldberg|first=Jeffrey|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/04/pat-buchanan-is-slipping-poor-thing/16803/|title=Pat Buchanan is Slipping, Poor Thing|work=[[The Atlantic]]|date=April 29, 2009|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> Describing Buchanan's comparison as "strikingly offensive" and an attempt to "revive the charge of [[blood libel]]" against Jews, [[Peter Wehner]] wrote in ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'' magazine: "Rarely do you find such an obscene mix of blasphemy and bigotry, and all in less than 900 words."<ref>{{cite news|last=Wehner|first=Peter|url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/peter-wehner/pat-buchanans-latest-anti-semitic-outburst/|title=Pat Buchanan's Latest anti-Semitic Outburst|work=[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]|date=April 30, 2009|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> Demjanjuk was later convicted of being an [[Accessory (legal term)|accessory to the murder]] of 28,000 Jewish prisoners at the [[Sobibor extermination camp]]. Demjanjuk died in 2012, while the verdict had been overturned and was pending appeal.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mustich|first=Emma|url=https://www.salon.com/2011/05/12/demjanjuk/|title=After decades, Demjanjuk found guilty in Germany|work=Salon|date=May 12, 2011|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref>