The New York Daily News reports:
Ex-KISS drummer Peter Criss is shouting it out loud: He’s doesn’t hate Jews.
Two days before the band is set to be inducted in the Hall of Fame, the 68-year-old musician vehemently denied allegations made in Paul Stanley’s tell-all memoir that he and original guitarist Ace Frehley were vocal anti-Semites.
Criss told TMZ that he supports all religions and that his favorite aunt was Jewish.
That’s a far cry from the portrait painted by Stanley — who like fellow founder Gene Simmons is Jewish — in his new book, Face the Music: A Life Exposed.
The feud is the latest blemish behind the face-painted facade of the band to be made public.
Relations are so strained between Stanley and Simmons and their former bandmates that the original lineup refuses to perform together at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for Thursday’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert.
Read more at the New York Daily News.
source: nydailynews.com
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Wonder if gene and paul are actually practicing Jews that go to temple on saturday etc?
Not! They’ve said so many times.
Gene has said he is Agnostic.
This isn’t entirely relevant, as Judaism is also bloodline (The DNA is identifiable as Semitic). Non-practicing Semitics were killed en masse during the Holocaust. Non-practicing Semitics are discriminated against even today on a daily basis. It almost always boils down the stereotypes surrounding Jews and rarely, if ever, does it come down to their religious practice.
Fair enough. And im sorry {off-topic} but after hearing the latest Ace interview… Sober or not. He sounds drunk. Also mad annoying. I can kind of get why Gene and Paul don’t wanna mess with this dude anymore. And im a Ace fan… But he’s a fucking clown. Always laughing at his own jokes that don’t even make sense. Way tooooo many drugs. He is mad burnt out, and not in a cool way. Sorry. But this guy has to be annoying to hang with.
Funny, but I have an uncle that didn’t drink or do drugs in his youth, he’s in his sixties now.
Guess what, he’s forgot alot of stuff from the past & he laughs at his own jokes as well.
It’s amazing to me that the reality of GETTING OLD is somehow avoided by some. LMAO
Many people of ALL ages are annoying to say the least.
Gene may have all his memory, but more than 15 minutes of listening to him talk about himself and how great he is would be just as annoying as hanging with Ace as you say.
To each their own.
And you think Gene or Paul would be cool to hang With?
Some of Ace and Peter’s best friends….don’t hate Jews. So there.
I’ve see plenty of pictures of Ace wearing Nazi uniforms, that lends a bit of credibility to Ace being anti semitic. And I would imagine that Paul knows a hell of a lot more about what was happening in his band than any of us do.
Did anyone expect Ace & Peter to go: “yep. We hate Jews!”
John,
Personally, I don’t have a pony in this race, as I have admitted many times that I am not really a KISS fan. However, as a woman, I could never be engaged to someone who knowingly hated my race or creed. So, unless Ace’s fiancee is self hating, I cannot imagine that she, as a Jew, would tie herself to someone who is an anti-Semite.
If Ace was pictured wearing a Nazi costume, I have no defense for that and I find it to be in very poor taste. However, I did see the pictures of Paul dressed that way, and in one of the photos, he had his arm extended in a Nazi salute. This is not only makes him a major hypocrite, but as a Jew, I find his actions to be even more egregious.
Let’s face it, when it comes to this particular controversy, with the exception of Gene, they all have dirty hands.
Dana from EddieTrunk.com 🙂
Well, we dont really know what context that photo was taken in. Was it because Paul wanted to placate Peter by “joining in” with the joke, so he wouldn’t quit the band as he had threatened to do so many times in the past? Was he just being a naive, stupid young kid? No one knows for sure. I do know that people really don’t understand the horror of the holocaust until they are mature enough to do so. For me, it was well into my 30s after visiting the Holocaust Museum.
Truth,
Any of the aforementioned reasons that you stated could very well apply since no one else was present, but the actual individuals involved.
However, I will say that no amount of peer pressure, partying, etc. could ever make me dress up like that or in black face with shackles while someone else dressed as a white slave owner dragged me behind them. There are just some things, even for those that aren’t completely schooled on a subject, that one shouldn’t do. One can cry naiveté all they want, but it doesn’t wash because the majority of people know, even on a rudimentary level, about the holocaust, slavery, etc. Also, I can not imagine that Paul, of all people, as a Jew, didn’t know what he was doing was in poor taste, jest or not.
As I said before, when it comes to this situation, with the exception of Gene, they are all culpable. Unfortunately, under those circumstances Paul cannot afford to be pointing fingers and accuse others of wrongdoing, when he isn’t innocent himself.
Dana 🙂
Hmm…funny John because Paul CONVIENTLY (well documented) seems to forget when he was wearing Nazi clothing….hmmmmm. Of course picture lie in Paul’s case …..eh? Nuff said. Paul Stanley has enough bullshit to supply a horse farm. He is extremely inconsistent with his issues with Ace & Peter, so bad that he tends to forget that even Gene seemed to be pissed by his Nazi interests…..oh but really, that isn’t the REAL ISSUE…..right Paul??? Lmao
Yes, right, because ONE PICTURE is so equal to 40 years of behavior. NOT. There’s one picture of me in college throwing up drunk. Am I an alcoholic? There’s a picture of my friend, and another friend is leaning over kissing his cheek as s joke. Are they now gay?
Yeah, Paul’s gone off the deep end with his attacks, but the one thing he’s not is “inconsistent”. It’s not the first time that ANY of these allegations (including the ones about Gene) have come up, and for me, where there’s smoke there’s fire.
Uhhh…sorry bubs but yes….Paul is very inconsistent & we aren’t talking about YOU….Well documented ie:Bill Aucoin Creem Interview 1993 that Paul &. Ace would literally dress each other on tours in Nazi uniforms and salute the Nazi sign…1pic?? Try many bubs. And you couldn’t have said it any better, “where’s there smoke there’s fire” B I N G O. And now I’m done with you, meathead!!
Allways loved their stuff but all apear egotisticle assholes!!!
Paul is a paranoid nut, proof is his year In therapy.
All I know is that if someone slanders my name by calling me a racist or a bigot and has no tangible proof, then I go to court with a slander charge and sue and sue big. In today’s world, there is no bigger cross to bear than to have been tagged with the word “racist” around your neck. Paul has reached new lows and the robots are there to eat it up.
‘My favourite Aunt was Jewish’. Only from Peter Criss could a character defence so strong be made. Hilarious.
I have a black friend!
Exactly…LOL.
And yet…. neither of them did. So by your logic, it would seem that perhaps maybe Paul isn’t as far from the truth as the “robots” (which is better used to refer to the poeple that knee-jerk believe everything Ace and Peter say and take any opportunity to bash Paul and Gene) are making it sound?
It is very telling that Ace or Peter do not plan on suing Paul.