The Holocaust in Gaza Must Result in Israel’s DeNazification
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On Holocaust Memorial Day [HMD], we will be holding
the fourth anti-Zionist memorial meeting commemorating the victims of the Nazi holocaust. The
victims include, not just Jews but Roma and Sinti, the Disabled, Gays, Russian
prisoners-of-war as well as millions of civilians – in particular Russians and
Poles.
The official HMD
organisation only recognises Jews as victims of the Holocaust. All other
categories are relegated to the status of victims of Nazi persecution.
Under the heading genocide
today the HMD site mentions a number of genocides such as when UN
human rights investigators accused ISIS of committing genocide against the Yazidis.
It cites
how years
of persecution and cultural repression of Uyghur Muslims
in China ‘all bear the hallmarks of
genocide’.
The HMD
also cites
how, in Myanmar,
In January
2020 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered
Myanmar to take steps to prevent genocide, in a landmark case filed by The
Gambia.
There is only one genocide that the HMD does not
recognise. This despite the fact that the ICJ, in its order of 26 January 2026, in
the case brought by South Africa found
that Israel was plausibly committing genocide in Gaza.
The UN Independent International Commission of
Inquiry went even further. It found, in a report of September 2025 that Israel was
committing genocide against the Palestinians.
So although the HMD is happy to quote the ICJ in
respect of the Rohinga and UN Human Rights investigators in the case of the
Yazidis, it refuses to acknowledge that both the ICJ and the UN have recognised that
Israel is committing genocide.
Palestinian victims of genocide are excluded from
the HMD commemorations because the purpose of these events is not to combat
racism and imperialism but to reinforce Israel’s claim to inherit the memory of
the Jewish victims of the holocaust.
The HMD events do not commemorate any genocide that
preceded the Nazi genocide. The slave trade, the Herero-Nama and Armenian genocides, which were the precursor of the Nazi holocaust, go unmentioned.
The hypocrisy of the HMD Trust is no surprise. HMD was
set up by Tony Blair, who together with George Bush, was responsible for
murdering one million Iraqis in an illegal war.
The Holocaust has become integral to the imperialist narrative
and a weapon used to support the Israeli state in its ethnic cleansing and
genocide of the Palestinians. The reason for this is that Israel is the
projection of western power in the oil rich Middle East. According to Alexander
Haig, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State
Israel constitutes the largest US aircraft carrier
that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one US soldier, and is located
in a most critical region for US national security.
An accounting by the western imperialist states of
their record during the Nazi holocaust is also conspicuous by its absence.
Nowhere is any mention made of the United States and UK refusal to admit to their territories all but a handful of Jewish refugees.
Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, was
concerned that if Britain offered to take in Jewish refugees then: ‘Hitler might well take us up on any such
offer.’ [Bernard Wasserstein, Britain and the Jews of Europe, p.
168].
The Cabinet Committee on Jewish Refugees sent a memo
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.
Fortunately for the Committee Hitler never wavered
in his commitment to extermination. The obsession with refugees led to the gas
chambers yesterday and today the bottom of the English Channel.
A letter sent by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to
US Ambassador Winant in London, explained how:
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., Winant to State Department 15.4.43].
The Silence of the Zionist Holocaust Memorial
Organisations
Karen Pollock of Britain’s
Holocaust
Education Trust is typical of the Zionist holocaust industry in her condemnation
of the ‘shameful’
comparisons between the Gaza holocaust and the Nazi genocide. To Pollock
drawing universal lessons from the holocaust was something to be avoided.
This set the tone for all the other Zionist run
holocaust memorial organisations. Despite telling us that we have to learn the
lessons of the holocaust, the only lesson they draw is in teaching that
we must defend the Israeli state no matter how many Palestinians they
slaughter.
Every single international human rights organisation has concluded that what has happened in Gaza
is a genocide – from Amnesty
International, Human
Rights Watch, Btselem
and the UN
to the Lemkin Genocide Institute in its coruscating statement condemning
the
the persistent efforts by several high-profile
German civil society organizations to deny the ongoing genocide in Gaza and to
disseminate disinformation and denialist narratives among German political
decision-makers.
It
was Raphael
Lemkin, a Polish Jewish Lawyer, who first coined the word ‘Genocide’ and
was largely responsible for the adoption internationally of the Genocide
Convention.
When the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum [LAHM] posted a message on Instagram which featured a drawing of a
hexagon formed by six linked arms — with the words ‘Never Again’ Can’t Only
Mean Never Again For Jews.’ there was a furious backlash from Zionists. The
message was interpreted as referring to Gaza. One commentator wrote that
This post is beyond disgraceful. Whoever created, approved, and
posted this should be ashamed of themselves. Our ancestors are rolling in their
graves.
Two days later, the
museum deleted the post and published an apology. The museum issued a new
statement:
We recently
posted an item on social media that was part of a pre-planned campaign intended
to promote inclusivity and community that was easily open to misinterpretation
by some to be a political statement reflecting the ongoing situation in the
Middle East. That was not our intent.
The LAHM promised to ‘do better’ next time. ‘Never Again’ in
the eyes of Zionists excludes the Palestinian victims of Western imperialism. Never Again only applies to Jews.
Every single holocaust museum and institution has refused
to recognise, still less condemn, Israel’s genocide or compare what Israel was
doing to the Jewish holocaust.
Yad
Vashem and the Silence of the Holocaust Historians
The
genocide in Gaza posed a difficulty for Yad Vashem, [YV] Israel’s holocaust museum.
Established in 1953 YV’s purpose was to formulate a hegemonic
narrative of the Holocaust that would accord with
the Zionist paradigm.
How could
YV condemn the very state that founded it for perpetrating a genocide?
According to YV the holocaust occurred, not because of German imperialism and fascism
but because of their eternal hatred of Jews.
Central to this was the
foundational myth of Israel as a refuge from
anti-Semitism, according to which, if Israel had been in existence, then there
would have been no holocaust.
What the
Zionist narrative didn’t say was that if the Zionist movement had not existed,
more Jews would have survived and possibly the Hitler regime itself would have collapsed or been overthrown.
Rather
than seeing the Nazi holocaust as the product of German imperialism and fascism,
YV posited a mono-causal explanation – anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism explained
everything: fascism, anti-communism, eugenics, racial hygiene, lebensraum and anti-modernism.
For Zionism
anti-Semitism was caused by the Jews:
Where it [anti-Semitism] does not exist, it is
carried by Jews in the course of their migrations. We naturally move to those
places where we are not persecuted, and there our presence produces
persecution. [Herzl,
The Jewish State, pp. 14-15].
YV was never an anti-racist or anti-fascist institution. It was
a Zionist organisation. YV has rebuffed many invitations in the past to widen
its remit and condemn particularly flagrant examples of Israeli and Zionist
racism. It was established next to the site of Deir Yassin, the most famous
massacre of the Nakba, yet it doesn’t even acknowledge this fact.
Zionist
holocaust history fights against universalising the lessons of the holocaust. The
Nazi holocaust is unique and Jews are its sole victims. There is only one lesson
of the holocaust that Zionism and YV permit and that is the creation and
existence of Israel as a Jewish state. If the Holocaust is unique then no lessons can be drawn.
The fact that
the Yishuv, Palestine’s Jewish community, was unable to accept more than a
fraction of the Jews in danger during the 1930s was conveniently forgotten.
In his address to the
20th Zionist Congress in August 1937, Chaim Weizmann recalled being
asked whether Palestine could accommodate Europe's Jews. He told the
delegates that
The
old ones will pass, they will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust,
economic and moral dust, in a cruel world... Two millions, and perhaps less
(will survive) ... We have to accept it.
Zionism was
an obstacle to the rescue of Jews. The Zionist movement repeatedly complained
that a focus on saving Jewish refugees from the Nazis was a distraction from
the main task, which for them was building a Jewish state.
In
January 1933 David Ben-Gurion warned that:
‘Zionism…
is not primarily engaged in saving individuals’ and that if there was ‘a
conflict of interest between saving individual Jews and the good of the Zionist
enterprise, we shall say the enterprise comes first.’ [Biography,
The Burning Ground, p.855]
YV had no
intention of changing when Israel was becoming openly genocidal. When 50
holocaust researchers asked
YV to condemn the genocidal statements made by
Israeli politicians, military and other public figures, including Israeli
government ministers and Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, its Chairman, Dani
Dayan refused.
Dayan asserted that the
Israeli army was not conducting a genocide but was acting ‘within the
constraints Hamas imposes on us to comply with the proper moral
standards and the laws of war.’ One can only assume that the complete destruction of Gaza’s
civilian and health infrastructure, to say nothing of the extermination of
thousands of Palestinians, are what passes for high moral standards at YV.
Dayan
told those who suggested that YV say something about the holocaust in Gaza
that:
the outrageous statements you cited do not express the moral
position of the very large majority of the Israeli public or the IDF and its
commanders.
Yet all
the evidence was that the statements cited were very much the position of the
IDF and Israeli Jews. The IDF was putting those statements into practice in
Gaza whilst he was speaking. YV refused to acknowledge the clear evidence that the
extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza was supported by a majority of
Israeli Jews.
A March 2025 poll by Penn State University
found that 47% of Jewish Israelis
agreed with the idea that the Israeli army, when conquering a city, should kill
all of its inhabitants, referencing the biblical conquest of Jericho. The
poll found that 65% of Israeli Jews
believe a modern-day version of Amalek exists and that 93% believe the biblical commandment to “blot out the memory of
Amalek” is still relevant. In other words over 60% of Israeli Jews supported
exterminating the Palestinians of Gaza.
Another
poll from Israeli research group, the aChord Center, found
that 76% of Jewish Israelis either
fully or partially agreed with the suggestion that none of Gaza's remaining
pre-war population were innocent.
The IDF
that Dayan praised so highly was the same IDF which set up torture camps for
Palestinians, raped to death doctors and which used
Palestinian children as target practice.
A poll
from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University in June 2025 showed that contrary to Dayan, 64%
of Israelis agreed that there are ‘no innocents in Gaza.’ When Israeli Arabs,
92% of whom opposed the statement, are removed then it meant that three out of every
four Israeli Jews supported
genocide.
Dayan was
Secretary-General of the fascist anti-Arab Tehiya party and a candidate
on its list to the Knesset in the Israeli elections in 1988 and 1992.
Dayan was
also Chairman of the Executive of the Yesha Council, a federation
of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In 2015
Brazil rejected him as Israel’s Ambassador because of his fascist credentials. It
is a fitting commentary on Zionism’s memorialisation of the Nazi holocaust that
the Chairman of its holocaust remembrance authority is a fascist.
Where YV
led, the world’s holocaust organisations followed. Not one holocaust
organisation has condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Not one has declared that
the lesson of the Nazi holocaust ‘Never
Again’ applied to all people, Jewish and non-Jewish, Palestinians included.
That is why, for the fourth year running, we are holding
an anti-Zionist commemoration of the Nazi holocaust. Our aim is to challenge
the pro-imperialist events as hypocritical virtue signalling. Amongst our
speakers will be two Jewish survivors of the holocaust, Stephen Kapos and
Suzanne Weiss
Tony Greenstein
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