Building the Resistance to the IHRA Webinar

The IHRA says that comparing Zionism and Israeli to the Nazi State is anti-Semitic yet today it is the Zionists who compare themselves to the Nazis

Speakers from top left to right - Tony Greenstein, Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead, 

Prof. David Johnson, Lubna Speitan, Prof. Ilan Pappe, Prof. Kristina Hultgren, 

Resisting the IHRA 9 May 2025 JNP Webinar

When I published my book Zionism During the Holocaust in October 2022 little could I know that a year later Israel would embark on a live-streamed genocide with Biden, Starmer and Schultz funding and arming Israel in order to complete the extermination of the Palestinians of Gaza.

It is remarkable that all those organisations that make up the Holocaust Industry not only kept silent but they even called those who did  compare it with the Nazi holocaust ‘anti-Semitic’.

Karen Pollock believes comparisons between the Genocide of Palestinians and the Holocaust 'distorts' the memory of the Nazis' victims - far better to use that memory to justify the burning alive of children with their mothers

Prime amongst them was the empty headed trollope from the misnamed Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, who whined that ‘modern-day protests on a range of issues, including Gaza, are “trivialising” the Holocaust.’

If there is one thing Zionists hate above all it is comparing the Jewish holocaust to any other genocide or holocaust. To do so is to ‘trivialise’ the murder of 6 million Jews. What happened under the Nazis is unique, a one-off event attributed to the demonic nature of the Nazis. Nothing like it has ever happened before or since.

The Jewish holocaust is beyond history and indeed beyond any explanation. It is inexplicable, demonic, to be attributed to the ‘eliminationist’ mentality of the Germans (Daniel Goldhagen).

Zionism rejects such concepts as fascism, eugenics and selective breeding, racial imperialism or German settler colonialism. As Sybil Milton, the Chief Historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum observed:

the validity of the eugenic interpretation does not fit into the arguments of those historians positing anti-Semitism as a central motivation in Nazi policy. The preoccupation with antisemitism as a causative factor has thus limited our ability to see the connections between Nazi ideology, German social policy, and Genocide.

Milton observed that:

The emphasis on antisemitism and the exclusivity of the Jewish fate has, for obvious political reasons, also been the official Israeli interpretation

To Yehuda Bauer, the principal Zionist holocaust historian

The Nazis were ‘a political elite that had come to power with pseudo-messianic concepts of saving humanity from the Jews.

If the Nazis project was messianic, it was quasi-religious, beyond all explanation. To Bauer what determined Nazi policy towards the Roma was their asocial conduct, irrespective of race. Milton’s response was withering:

Defining an entire ethnic group as anti-social and criminal is a classic example of racism. I do not know why Mr. Bauer does not understand this.

Far from trivialising the Holocaust as Pollock believes, comparing it to other genocides such as Gaza helps us understand why it happened. When Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant calls the Palestinians human animals we can but recall the use by Himmler of the same phrase when describing Slavs and non-Aryans to senior SS officers on October 4 1936 in Posnan, Poland. 

What is trivialising the holocaust, indeed mocking the holocaust is when Israelis call for the obliteration and destruction of Gaza and its people. How can we not recall the Nazi destruction of first the Warsaw Ghetto and then Warsaw itself.

By comparing the holocaust in Gaza to the Nazi holocaust we put the murdered Jews of the holocaust back into history rather than exceptionalising them as a freak of history. We take them out of the role that Zionism has created for them of being the reason for the annihilation of others. It is accepting that the 6 million Jews who died were killed for a reason and that they didn't bring it on themselves by refusing to be colonists in Palestine as the Zionist ideologues assert. 

Israeli Producer Demands Gaza Suffers 'HOLOCAUST' - Including Gas Chambers

The IHRA’s 10^th illustration of ‘anti-Semitism’ states that ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.’ Yet today it is Israelis themselves who draw this comparison.

Elad Barashi is an Israeli media professional affiliated with Channel 14, a far-right television network widely seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s favored platform for interviews and messaging. Barashi serves as a researcher and producer on shows such as “Story Night”… https://t.co/dqrUpSZDqT

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) May 3, 2025

It has recently come to peoples’ attention that Elad Barashi, a Producer with Israel’s far-right Channel 14, has openly called for a holocaust, including gas chambers, in Gaza.

Men, women, and children—by any means necessary, we must simply carry out a Shoah [Holocaust] against them—yes, read that again—H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! In my view—gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel methods of death for these Nazis.

One wonders whether Karen Pollock considers that Barashi is trivialising the Holocaust or enhancing it?

Dani Dayan - the Fascist Chair of Yad Vashem - Israel's Holocaust Propaganda Museum

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Propaganda Museum refused to condemn the Genocide and even justified it. Its new Director, Dani Dayan, used to the Secretary General of the Teyiha Fascist Party.

Barashi is not a freak or an exception. Strangely enough his remarks haven’t been quoted by one single western newspaper. However if a Hamas spokesman had made such a comment it would be made the headlines. In 2023 we had sweet Israeli school children calling for the ‘annihilation’ of the people of Gaza. It was titled the Friendship Song.

Watch: Israeli children sing, "We will annihiliate everyone" in Gaza https://t.co/kDEdkDwtsOpic.twitter.com/QgVMeL1xIm

— Electronic Intifada (@intifada) November 21, 2023

Amichai Eliyahu and the need to starve the Palestinians 

We have had senior politicians like Nissim Vaturi, Bezalel Smotrich and Amichai Eliyahu calling for the murder of every adult in Gaza, for the destruction of Gaza and the starving of Gaza. These are Nazi like statements from Judeo-Nazis yet the IHRA says that to call them what they are is anti-Semitic.

Death by Hunger was the Nazi policy for Russia and the Jewish ghettos yet the Zionists call such a comparison 'anti-Semitic'. It is as if anti-Semitism has become a statement of truth.  But in reality the Zionists and the anti-Semites were always hand in glove.

The webinar consisted of a series of talks around the IHRA, which has been used to silence debate on the genocidal nature of the Israeli state. It has been adopted by the right and the far-right as part of the weaponisation of anti-Semitism. Our task is to call to account the cowards in universities who are complicit in its adoption, in particular the Vice-Chancellors who gave way to the toilet salesman who was promoted to Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson. It was Williamson with his threat to university funding, much like Trump which led to the abject surrender and sacrificing of free speech by most universities.

In my own contribution I picked up on Ilan Pappe's reference to Chomsky's belief in the responsibility of intellectuals. I observed that a perhaps more pertinent reference would be that of George Orwell who wrote in his essay on The Freedom  of the Press that in this country 'intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face.’

We see that in the universities of North America where Columbia has become a transmission belt for the Trump Administration with barely a protest from its academic staff. I noted that the Christian-Jewish academic Victor Klemperer, (he converted to Protestantism in 1912 but in Germany being Jewish was a racial not religious question as it is in Israel). He was sacked from teaching in Nazi Germany in 1935 and he noted in his diaries that the only person to say goodbye to him was the cleaner.  His academic colleagues stayed away.

But at least German academics had good reason to fear reprisals from the Nazi state. What is the excuse for the cowardice of British academics who have said virtually nothing about the IHRA or the silence of their union the UCU?

Tony Greenstein

Little Miss Hitler Told Me That I’m Not Jewish! - The Last Person to Decide Who Was and was Not Jewish was Hitler

Jews 4 Genocide and their anti-Semitic Christian Zionist Friends Hold Counter-Protest to Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Anti-Genocide Protest 

Update

The Unpleasant little fascist here apparently has a name - Victoria Bhogal

It may appear that I'm shouting at Ms Hitler, however she was addressing me with a megaphone over which I had to shout over!!

Little Miss Hitler - She has the Power to Decide Who is a Jew [you can watch it on Sussex Fiends of Israel Facebook page]

Last Saturday Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a large protest at Brighton’s Clocktower against the Genocide in Gaza and sure enough about a dozen members of Jews4Genocide and assorted Christian Fascists held a counter-protest.

For some reason my presence seemed to unsettle them. Perhaps its because they expect all Jews to be racist supporters of genocide. One of the Zionists, affectionately known as the poisonous dwarf who is a regular attendee seemed particularly enraged by my presence. So much so that she took to shouting through a loud hailer that I wasn’t Jewish having already informed people that my father was a rabbi! Intelligence isn't their strongest card.

It’s an interesting argument that Miss Hitler makes. I’m not sure who gave her the power to decide who is and is not Jewish. Originally it was god who made these decisions. But then again most of the Zionists think they are god anyway. 

The last person who thought he had that power to decide who was  Jewish or not was Hitler. He used it to make 340 first degree Mischlinge (mixed race Jews with 2 Jewish grandparents) into Aryans. In fact the Nazis were very good at deciding who was and was not Jewish. In Israel too the question that has dogged them for 77 years has been 'who is a Jew'. So I guess it all made sense.

However Miss Hitler does have god on her side, or at least the political establishment, who insist that the only Jews that who count are racist, genocidal Zionists who support apartheid. Anti-Zionist Jews and Jews with a conscience are invisible because we don’t serve their narrative. We aren't a useful alibi for imperialism and its atrocities. So in that sense yes we are not ‘real Jews’.  Because today to be fully Jewish you have to be a racist.

Although Miss Hitler and her band from Jews4Genocide were adamant that there was no genocide in Gaza the main component of the Zionist counter-picket was a bunch of Christian Zionists or rather Christian fascists. Christian Zionists want nothing more than a genocide, the bigger the better.

Because in their Millenarian and eschatological fantasies until all the Jews are killed in the battles of Armageddon there won't be any second coming of Christ and they won't rapture to heaven. So its all a bit of a theological confusion when they deny there's a genocide when the Bible (at least the bits they read) tell them that they need a genocide, the bigger the better.

Jews4Genocide and their Christian Fascist Friends

One of them Daniel took offence at my suggestion that if he’d been around 90 years ago then he and his friends would, like the German Christians, have been ardent Nazis. Because when the Nazis took power there also formed a German Reich Church which barred what were called Christian Jews from their churches (these were Jews who had converted to Christianity but who, in the eyes of the Nazis, were still Jewish racially.

Israel's murder of Red Crescent and Civilian Staff - Its Lies Exposed (Once again)

There were no more ardent Nazis than German Protestants who even denied Jesus' Jewish origins. Apparently he was an Aryan!

I also pointed out to Daniel that the countries that were most enthusiastic about the Holocaust were the Christian nationalist countries of Slovakia, Croatia and Romania. Slovakia was the first to deport its Jews having asked the Nazis to take them off their hands. It was headed by a Catholic priest, Father Tiso.

a lone fascist scumbag gets lost

Croatia was the only Nazi occupied country to have its own extermination camp, Jasenovac, largely run by Catholic priests. Its main victims were Serbs and Muslims as well as Jews and Gypsies.

Romania killed half of its 600,000 Jews. It was so enthusiastic that the Nazi Governor of  Poland, Hans Frank, remarked that whereas the Nazis practiced surgery they practised butchery. Again it was a Christian nationalist state and the most ardent butchers were the Iron Guard or Legion of the Archangel St. Michael.

As Israel slaughters its way through Gaza, killing an estimated 200,000 our ‘Christians’ insist there is no genocide. The latest Israeli atrocity was the massacre of 15 Red Cross workers.  As is normally the case Israel lied, lied and lied again. They said that the ambulances had approached ‘suspiciously’ however footage on the mobile phone of a murdered worker showed that the ambulances had their headlights on. The workers together with the ambulances were buried hurriedly in a shallow grave. Israel is not even a good liar but for that matter neither is Starmer, which is why he likes them so much.

BBC Headline Improved

In this instance Israel was caught out lying and because even for the West the murder of Red Cross workers is a red line, there has been justifiable outrage.  But this atrocity is just one of thousands. Every hospital has been attacked, bombed and in most cases destroyed. The lie is that they were Hamas bases but a moment’s though shows that that must be a lie. The command and control centres are in the tunnels underground not in hospitals.

The fact that there isn’t one photograph of a Hamas combatant firing out of a hospital shows the lie to be just that. But if your intention is to completely destroy Palestinian society as the precursor to ethnic cleansing and Zionist settlement then the attack on hospitals, universities and all aspects of Palestinian society makes sense.

The reality is that Israel barred the media because it wanted to get away with atrocity after atrocity without being called to account. In that it has been helped by Starmer, Scholtz and Presidents Biden and Trump. There is no war crime and no atrocity that Israel has not committed and which our war criminal political class, aided by the BBC and mass media, has not been prepared to turn a blind eye to.

The biggest lie is that it is a war against Hamas as if that justifies bombing schools and hospitals, mosques and churches. Hamas are called terrorists but the real terrorists are Israel itself and those who arm it in the West. Hamas by comparisons are angels.

But Jews4Genocide, Miss Hitler and Brighton’s assorted ‘Christian’ Fascists see the shedding of Palestinian blood as something to be supported in their absurd denial that there is a genocide. Just as centuries ago millions of American natives were slaughtered by Christian soldiers.

But they are not alone. Starmer, who previously  argued at the International Court of Justice that Srebenica where 8,000 died was a genocide still continues to deny that Gaza is a genocide. And where are all the Holocaust memorialisation organisations like the misnamed Holocaust Education Trust?  They talk about learning the lessons of the Holocaust but what they really mean is giving uncritical support to the Genocidal Apartheid of Israel.

Just as these ‘Christians’ support the holocaust in Gaza so their co religionists 80+ years ago supported and indeed participated in the Nazi holocaust.

Tony Greenstein

Listen to the recording of Holocaust Memorial Day Webinar 2025

 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

Holocaust Memorial Day Webinar 2025

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.
What a hallucinating sense of impunity. pic.twitter.com/zd1TwKoHHm

— Dyab Abou Jahjah (@Aboujahjah) January 6, 2025

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.