The Refusal of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to Include the Gaza Genocide in their Festivities Demonstrates that our Rulers Have Learnt Nothing from Auschwitz
The Holocaust memorial
day meeting that the Socialist Labour Network,
Jewish Network for Palestine
and Scottish Palestine
Solidarity Campaign held on 27 January 2025 was the best attended and
the most successful we have ever had in the three years we have been holding
these.
693 people registered for the meeting and over 60%
of them attended. Normally attendance is little over 50% of those registered.
The largest number of people watching at any time was 388 but the maximum
number of people who did watch was 428. Many
people contacted us to say that they couldn’t attend but that they wanted to
see a recording. So here it is!
Attended 424 61.2%
Didn’t
Attend 269 38.8%
Registered Cancelled Unique
Viewers Max Concurrent Views
693 4 428 388
We are told by the BBC and our rulers that we must learn the lessons of the Holocaust. Below is a picture of the Official Hypocrites including Chief Rabbi Mirvis, a rabid settler trained racist and an enthusiastic supporter of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
King Charles said that
The Holocaust must never be allowed to become a
simple fact of history...the lessons of the Holocaust are relevant today.’ however
this pompous fool refrained from telling us what these lessons
were. Perhaps because that might
expose the hypocrisy at the centre of
the official festivities.
Britain’s
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust excluded
the Gaza Genocide from all mention of the Holocaust. In its FAQs it asked ‘Should I acknowledge the conflict in the Middle
East in my HMD activity? And if so, how?’ Its answer was simple: ‘We
do not recommend it.’ Thus is demonstrated the moral bankruptcy of the official
celebrations, because that is really what they are – a celebration of
imperialism.
The
advice of the HMD is no surprise when people like the President of the Genocide
supporting Board of Deputies, Phil Rosenberg, sits
on the HMD board. The Jewish
Chronicle
and the right-wing press got all worked up by the Islamic Human Rights
Commission call to boycott
their celebrations.
Chikli, Israel's Diaspora Minister and Thug decided not to risk arrest by travelling abroad
The Israeli government minister Amichai Chikli openly threatened me. This is a blatant act of terrorism and incitement. I will be filing a lawsuit against him.
— Dyab Abou Jahjah (@Aboujahjah) January 6, 2025
What a hallucinating sense of impunity. pic.twitter.com/zd1TwKoHHm
The
Telegraph had one of its normal moral fits at the suggestion that the HMD might
include all genocides in HMD, including the Palestinian holocaust. It quoted the Zionist
propagandist and CEO of the Holocaust Educational
Trust, the morally bankrupt Karen Pollock, as saying that:
Just days before we mark Holocaust Memorial Day... we are appalled to
see that the Islamic Human Rights Commission continue this tasteless campaign
to undermine such a significant day.
Their cynical attempt to denigrate the memory of the Holocaust by
drawing false parallels between the Holocaust – a unique and unprecedented
episode in history – and unrelated current events, will not succeed.
Hind when she graduated from senior kindergarten - cruelly butchered by Israel
Quite
how the memory of those who died in the holocaust is ‘denigrated’ by comparing
their deaths to those in Gaza is difficult to comprehend. Is the death of a Jewish
child in Auschwitz any different from that of Hind Rajab, who
was murdered because an Israeli tank fired a shell at her and the two paramedics
who came to rescue her?
Ukrainian Police Auxiliaries
The
disgusting racist, Karen Pollok, called the Gaza genocide an ‘unrelated current event.’ If anyone is defiling and denigrating the memory of the largely anti-Zionist
Jews who died in the holocaust it is Pollok. But then she is CEO of a Zionist holocaust
industry organisation whose sole purpose is to harness the holocaust to the Israeli
state’s apartheid existence.
The Genocide of Palestinians is different according to Pollok and whatever
we do we mustn’t compare. Zionists hate comparisons because they know that the
actions of Israel can only be defended by pretending that Israel is unique,
being a ‘Jewish’ state that doesn’t have to operate according to the norms of
civilised society. Once you compare Israel’s behaviour to others then you
cannot help but notice that Israel is a rogue state, barbaric and racist in its
determination to effect ethnic cleansing and not at all bothered by the numbers
it kills.
So what are the lessons that Pollok, Rosenberg, Mirvis et al intend us
to learn? That Israel, Hitler’s posthumous
victory, must be given more bombs and bullets in order that it can perpetrate
more genocides and finish the job. This is Zionist morality.
Israel
has killed
up to 300,000 Palestinian men, women and children, the International Court of
Justice has said
that a genocide is plausibly taking
place yet the imperialist narrative demands that Israel’s genocide be treated
as ‘self defence’.
Our
war criminal ruling class, not least the German State, uses the holocaust to reinforce
their genocidal narrative by claiming that Israel is the inheritor of the
memory of the Jews who died. These are the lessons they draw from the holocaust.
‘Although Israel claims to represent the memory of
the Jews who died in the holocaust the reality is that Israel has inherited the
memory and stepped into the shoes of those who killed them.’
It
is a great pity that the IHRC fell into the trap that was laid for them.
Instead of simply boycotting HMD they should have actively promoted our own
meeting and thus shown that they had something to say about the holocaust.
This
webinar refused to be part of the official festivities because that is what
they really were. They were not a commemoration. Representatives from Israel and
all the imperialist states – the United States, Britain and Germany – who are
supplying Israel with the means to annihilate the Palestinian people were
present.
Yet
strangely enough the very state which bore the brunt of the Nazi war machine
and which liberated Auschwitz, Russia, was not present. Instead Volodymyr Zelensky,
leader of the Ukrainian police state, which celebrates a national holiday each
year on the birthday of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera was
invited. Bandera was the leader of the Organisation
of Ukrainian Nationalists
(OUN-B) whose members, in their role as the Ukrainian Auxiliary
Police, participated in the massacre of 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar, Kyiv on
September 29-30 1941.
Baby Yar Memorial
Babi
Yar was the largest Nazi massacre of Jews up to that date and one of the
largest of the war. Bandera’s Ukrainian Insurgent
Army was heavily involved in massacres of Jews, Poles and Roma.
Speakers at the webinar were Stephen Kapos, a Jewish child survivor who was hidden in Budapest during the Hungarian Holocaust; Suzanne Weiss, a Jewish child survivor who was hidden in Auvergne in France by the Communist resistance; Ghada Karmi, a child survivor of the Nakba in Palestine when Zionist militias ethnically cleansed the native Palestinians to create their Jewish state, Rania Khalek, a Lebanese journalist who directs Breakthrough News; Ronny Kasrils, the Jewish former commander of Umkonte we Sizwe, the ANC's military wing and former MP in Nelson Mandela's first government and Tony Greenstein, the first Jewish member of the Labour Party to be expelled under Corbyn and author of 'Zionism During the Holocaust'. Tariq Ali, who was due to speak, was unfortunately ill and couldn't make it.
The
Zionists and their imperialist backers use the Nazi holocaust of the Jews as a
justification for Israel’s holocaust in Gaza.
We draw the opposite conclusion which is why we held this webinar. The
official state ceremonies draw no anti-racist or anti-fascist conclusions.
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