Never Again Means Never Again for Everyone - Holocaust Memorial Day Meeting

Western Governments and the Holocaust Memorial Organisations Commemorate the Holocaust In Order To Justify Israel’s Holocaust Against the Palestinians

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Israel's 'Friendship' Song of Annihilation Sung by Children

The further away from the Holocaust we get, the more the Western governments, in particular Britain, the United States and Germany want to remember it.  But it is a very selective memory.

Death by Hunger WAS a Nazi Speciality - the Zionists have learnt their lessons of the Holocaust well

During the Cold War and McCarthy era mention of the Holocaust would mark you down as a communist sympathiser. In Israel it was no different. In a 220-page Israeli history textbook published in 1948, just one page was devoted to the Holocaust compared to 10 pages on the Napoleonic wars. In 1960, after an official Holocaust Remembrance Day was already established, more than a quarter of the educational institutions still ignored the event.

Fact check on the Genocidal Friendship Song Which Talks of Annihilation of the Palestinians of Gaza

It was only after the 1961 Eichmann trial, that Israel began to construct a holocaust narrative that portrayed Israel as the victim. Prior to that Israel saw itself as the heroic start-up nation unlike the ‘accursed Galut’ (diaspora Jews). The ‘new Jews’ were not like the sheep who had gone willingly to the slaughter in Europe.

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In the West and via institutions like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum we are fed a particular version of the holocaust. In particular what they don’t want to remember is how the United States and Britain did everything in their power not to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. What they also don’t want to remember is that the Zionist organisations, including the Board of Deputies, set their face against any rescue schemes for Jewish refugees that did not include Palestine.

Anti-Semitism was endemic in the war-time British Government and Civil Service. At the Foreign Office Sir Alex Cadogan was of the opinion in January 1940 that ‘Jew control of our propaganda would be [a] major disaster.’

Even the Nazis didn't destroy all traces of civilisation in the countries they attacked

In October 1942 Labour Home Secretary Herbert Morrison received a delegation of public figures asking him for visas for 2,000 Jewish children and the elderly in Vichy France. Morrison refused. Morrison set his face against the admission of all but a handful of Jewish refugees. Apparently anti-Semitism ‘was just under the pavement.’ A month later the Nazis overran Vichy France and these Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Morrison was said to doubt that the Germans were aiming at the extermination of the Jews. [Lesley Urbach, The Failure to Amend Britain's Immigration Policy, pp. 52-3].

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Anthony Eden - British Foreign Secretary later Prime Minister

On December 17 1942 the Allies declared, that Hitler was embarked on the extermination of European Jewry. On 8 January 1943, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden rejected the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Temple, to provide guarantees to neutral countries regarding the admission of refugees. Temple also asked that children in particular be admitted to Britain [Sompolinsky, The British Government and the Holocaust, pp. 88-9]. Despite there being more visas for children available than children Eden resolutely opposed the request.

Even the Nazis didn't destroy every hospital they encountered

Eden also opposed issuing a warning by the three Allied leaders to the Nazis in early 1944 regarding the extermination of the Jews. Eden’s pretext was that such a declaration would be to the Jews’ disadvantage, prompting a furious response from John Pehle of America’s War Refugee Board that this suggested that the Allies had no objection to the Final Solution. Eden relented though he succeeded in watering the declaration down, excluding Germany’s Jews as they were Germany’s internal affair.

Neither Biden nor Starmer condemned scenes like this of the humiliation and later torture of civilian populations en masse

Eden told the War Cabinet’s Refugee Committee that the real reason for his opposition was that there ‘is likely to be redoubled pressure upon us for measures of rescue.’ [Sompolinsky p.129]

One FO official was of the opinion that ‘a disproportionate amount of the time of the office is being wasted in dealing with these wailing Jews.’ [Sompolinsky, p.209] When 200 Jews, including 70 children, drowned as the Salvador sank in the Sea of Marmara on 12 December 1940, TM Snow, Head of the FO refugee section commented that

 ‘There could have been no more opportune disaster from the point of view of stopping this traffic.’ [Bernard Wasserstein, Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. p. 69]

Eden was concerned that if Britain offered to take in Jewish refugees then: ‘Hitler might well take us up on any such offer.’ [Wasserstein, p.168] The Cabinet Committee on Jewish Refugees, which included Clement Attlee, sent a memorandum to the US State Department on 20 January 1943 warning that:

there is a possibility that the Germans or their satellites may change over from the policy of extermination to one of extrusion, and aim as they did before the war at embarrassing other countries by flooding them with alien immigrants..

A letter sent by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to US Ambassador Winant in London, explained how, in respect of a proposal to send funds to Geneva that:

The Foreign Office are concerned with the difficulties of disposing of any considerable numbers of Jews should they be rescued from enemy-occupied territory...’.[Arthur Morse, While Six Million Died, p. 85.]

Fortunately for the Committee Hitler never wavered in his determination to achieve a Final Solution. The British Establishment now conveniently forgets what its record during the Holocaust was like.  Much like the Zionists. They all shed tears today about the Holocaust but their counterparts 80+ years were resolutely opposed to the admission of Jewish refugees.  But today they remember the holocaust as a justification for the Israeli state, which was created in the image of Nazi Germany.

As Meier Sompolinsky, a Zionist, admitted in his book The British Government and the Holocaust – The Failure of Anglo-Jewish leadership,

Zionist policy of that period was to use the spectre of Jewish annihilation in Europe as pressure to open the gates of Palestine... The Zionist emphasis was certainly not favourable to the refugee cause.

In fact the Zionists deliberately undermined and blocked any attempt to rescue Jews that didn’t involve Palestine. Why? Because their priority was building their ‘Jewish’ State not saving Jews.

Where the Evian Conference was held

Boaz Evron, a former Israeli journalist, in his book Jewish State or Israeli Nation tells us of what happened when President Roosevelt called the Evian Conference in July 1938, with delegates from 32 states, in order to decide how to solve the Jewish refugee question.

The Jewish Agency were extremely fearful of what might happen if a refuge were found for Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that didn’t involve Palestine. According to their anti-Semitic logic, if a refuge could be found in other countries what was the need for a Jewish state?  They preferred Jews to die at the hands of the Nazis than live in another country.

This policy did not change when the Holocaust began in earnest. It remained the same throughout the war. Evron quotes from the minutes of the Jewish Agency Executive of June 26, 1938 where it was decided to ‘belittle the Conference as far as possible and to cause it to decide nothing’. [Boas Evron, Jewish State or Israeli Nation, p. 260/1].

In a letter to the American Zionist leader Stephen Wise of 13 June 1938, which was written at the behest of Chaim Weizmann, the President of the World Zionist Organisation and Israel’s first President, George Landauer, Director of the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews, spoke of his concerns.

Even if the conference does not propose immediately after its opening other countries but Eretz Israel as venues for Jewish emigration, it will certainly arouse a public response that could put the importance of Eretz Israel in the shade... We are particularly worried that it would move Jewish organizations to collect large sums of money for aid to Jewish refugees, and these collections could interfere with our collection efforts.

Ben-Gurion at a meeting of the JAE of 26 June 1938 was unremittingly hostile:

‘No rationalizations can turn the conference from a harmful to a useful one. What can and should be done is to limit the damage as far as possible.'

At the same meeting another Executive member, Menachem Ussishkin said that:

He hoped to hear in Evian that Eretz Israel remains the main venue for Jewish emigration. All other emigration countries do not interest him… The greatest danger is that attempts will be made to find other territories for Jewish emigration.  [my emphasis]

Selig Brodetsky

Slovakia was the first country to deport its Jews to Auschwitz. It was a puppet Nazi state ruled by a Catholic priest, Father Tiso of the fascist clerical Slovak Peoples Party and its militia, the Hlinka Guard. When information was received about the impending mass deportations of Slovakian Jews the Federation of Czechoslovakian Jews organised a protest demonstration. The rally was held in early June 1942 and invitations were sent to Selig Brodetsky, President of the Board of Deputies and its Secretary, Abraham Brotman. Both declined to attend. They were asked to send a declaration but sufficed with a letter to the Chief Rabbi.

As Somplinsky observed (p.69) even Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary and the Catholic Primate Cardinal Hinsley had sent statements to be read in public. All the President of the BOD would do was send an indirect letter. Somplinsky wrote that

‘it may be assumed that the heads of the BD believed that the pain should be concealed and that such issues should not be brought to the attention of the public.’

The Board of Deputies didn’t believe in holding a demonstration against the deportation of Jews from Slovakia.  In fact its first demonstration against ‘anti-Semitism’ was against Jeremy Corbyn in March 2018. Clearly Hitler was a benign figure compared to Corbyn.

In December 1939 the Zionist had captured the Board of Deputies after nearly 30 years of trying. Brodetsky, a Leeds University professor was its first Zionist President. For the Zionists it was the Jewish State uber alles.

The Children of the Kindertransport

Many people will know that after the Nazi pogrom of Kristallnacht, the British Government offered 10,000 places for unaccompanied German Jewish children in Britain, the Kindertransport. The Zionists were outraged. Those children should go to Palestine or nowhere.

Weizmann demanded that the children be brought to Palestine. If the Zionists had captured the Board of Deputies earlier then the children of the Kindertransport might have become one more grisly statistic. Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary, recalled:

I remember at the time that Weizmann’s attitude shocked me.  He insisted on the children going to Palestine. As far as he was concerned it was Palestine or nowhere.

When MacDonald refused to guarantee that the children would go on to Palestine Weizmann told him that: ‘We shall fight you - and when I say fight I mean fight.’ The Zionist leadership’s greatest fear was that the future and destiny of Palestine and the plight of European Jewry would be considered as two separate problems. As a result, efforts would be made to solve the problem of European Jewry without using Palestine as a refuge.

At a meeting of Vaad Leumi, the Zionist assembly in Palestine  on 2 December 1938, Ben-Gurion was afraid that ‘ideological and territorialist plans would be formulated both among the Jews and among the Gentiles’.

In a speech to Mapai’s [Israeli Labor Party] Central Committee on 9 December  1938 he explained why:

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.

The Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto

So when Zionists talk about the Holocaust today we can treat what they say with a hefty pinch of salt. It was the Zionist movement that provided most of the Judenrat collaborators and Jewish police in Europe and in Palestine they acted to undermine the Jewish Boycott of Nazi Germany. That is why, when Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Palestine it is more important than ever that we commemorate the Nazi holocaust and see how its memory has been inverted and distorted to justify the Zionist holocaust in Gaza.

The Zionists commemorate the Nazi holocaust only in order that they can use it to legitimise their ongoing holocaust and genocide. It is no surprise that the German State backs Israel to the hilt with weaponry. As I wrote in my recent Al Jazeera article Why is Germany supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza? there hasn’t barely been a single genocide or holocaust that the German state hasn’t smiled upon.

On Monday 27 January, Holocaust Memorial Day, we will be holding a meeting with a difference. We take on board the words of Yehuda Elkana, a child survivor of Auschwitz,

a profound existential “Angst” fed by a particular interpretation of the lessons of the holocaust … that we are the eternal victim. In this ancient belief… I see the tragic and paradoxical victory of Hitler. Two nations, metaphorically speaking, emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz: a minority who assert, “this must never happen again,” and a frightened and haunted majority who assert, “this must never happen to us again.” The Need to Forget

Elkana went on to say that ‘The very existence of democracy is endangered when the memory of the dead participates actively in the democratic process.’ And that is what has happened.  The dead Jews of Poland, who when they were alive voted overwhelmingly against the Zionists, have been conscripted into Netanyahu’s genocidal army.

Zionism has consciously used the memory of the 6 million dead Jews not to fight racism and fascism but to justify it.  Instead of Auschwitz being a warning about the dangers of where racism leads, Gaza is permitted because of Auschwitz.

What the Holocaust does do is provide the Israeli state with a powerful rationale for its victimhood complex even as it perpetrates a genocide. All settler states have a victim complex and believe that it is the settlers who are hard done by. Israel is no different in this respect but the Holocaust provides a unique moral justification and of course the West is happy to support this.

Tony Greenstein