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When I brought out Zionism During the Holocaust in 2022, the central theme of which was Zionist collaboration with the Nazis, many people, even some Palestine supporters, thought I was going too far in my comparisons of the Zionist movement with the Nazis.

In 2019 when I declared that Israel was Hitler’s Bastard Offspring, the Jewish Chronicle reported it as ‘Infamous anti-Israel activist Tony Greenstein called Jewish state 'Hitler's bastard offspring'. Owen Jones responded to the arguments about Zionist collaboration by saying ‘No, Jews did not collaborate in their own genocide’ which is of course true. But the Zionists certainly collaborated and worse.

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At that time Jones equated Zionists and Jews as one and the same.  I hope that today, after having opposed Israel’s genocide and being called an anti-Semite himself, Jones has had second thoughts.

Katie Halper interviews John Mearsheimer About His Statement  That Israel is Behaving Like the Nazis

Today comparisons between Israel, Zionism and the Nazis are commonplace. When John Mearsheimer, the Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, was interviewed by Katie Halper, he confessed that

the more time goes by... the Israelis look like the Nazis, their rhetoric, their behaviour is truly appalling. The Jewish State is behaving like the Nazis did.

Everything I’ve been saying for years has suddenly become commonplace, respectable even. How has this come about? Why is it that I saw in Israel an incipient Nazism that people have only just started to recognise with the Genocide in Gaza?

My awakening was my realisation that the Zionist narrative which placed them at the centre of resistance to the Nazis was one long lie. Whereas most Jews were horrified at the rise of the Nazis and immediately launched a Boycott of Nazi Germany, the Zionists were gleeful. Their movement could only profit at the expense of the Jews.

That was why the Zionists were so vehemently opposed to the Boycott. As the German Zionist Federation wrote in a letter to Hitler, on 21 June 1933, ‘Boycott propaganda… is in essence unZionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle but to convince and to build’.  This letter can be found in Lucy Dawidowicz’s Holocaust Reader.

No-one forced the Zionists to write this obsequious letter. It was purely voluntary, an attempt to get themselves in the good books of the Nazis. The Zionist leadership saw the rise to power of the Nazis as a ‘golden opportunity’ that must not be wasted.

Noah Lucas, a critical Zionist and a lecturer at Sheffield University wrote in Modern History of Israel that:

 ‘As the European holocaust erupted, Ben-Gurion saw it as a decisive opportunity for Zionism... Ben-Gurion above all others sensed the tremendous possibilities inherent in the dynamic of the chaos and carnage in Europe…. In conditions of peace,… Zionism could not move the masses of world Jewry. The forces unleashed by Hitler in all their horror must be harnessed to the advantage of Zionism. ... By the end of 1942… the struggle for a Jewish state became the primary concern of the movement.’ 

In October 1942, at the height of the Holocaust, Ben-Gurion surveyed the prospects for Zionism remarking to the Zionist Executive that:

Disaster is strength if channelled to a productive course. The whole trick of Zionism is that it knows how to channel our disaster, not into despondency or degradation, as is the case in the Diaspora, but into a source of creativity and exploitation.

Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership prioritised building a ‘Jewish’ state over rescuing Jews. They went so far as to sabotage rescue attempts that didn’t involve Palestine as a destination. If the Zionists could do this to Jews it doesn’t take much imagination to understand what they are capable of with respect to the Palestinians.

Little Nazi Becky Explaining the Need to Destroy Palestinian Children

And what is worse is that the Nazi holocaust has become the justification for Gaza’s holocaust. The Palestinians of Gaza are described by Israelis as Nazis as justification for the genocide they are perpetrating. A moment’s reflection would show how absurd this is.

It was the Nazis not their victims who had heavy weapons, aircraft and bombs. It was the Nazi military and the SS formations that carried out the most brutal of atrocities not civilians. Yet Palestinian civilians are routinely called ‘Nazis’ as a justification for their murder and obliteration. Zionism depoliticises Nazism and reduces it simply to is anti-Semitic components. Fascism is left absent.

In 1948 Ben-Gurion and his compatriots coldly planned the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in order that they could create a Jewish state. Even in the 55% of the portion of Palestine the UN had allotted to the Zionists there was a rough parity of Jews and Arabs. For a Jewish state to remain ethnically Jewish it was essential to expel the Palestinians. Ethnic cleansing and massacres were their only choice.

Zionism has always been something of a Nazi reprise. Did not Hitler start off with ethnic cleansing? Contrary to the Zionist belief that Nazism was solely about murdering Jews, it was dedicated to the racial resettlement of the whole of Europe and the colonisation of the East with German settlers. Just like the Nazis, the Zionists talk of  ‘lebensraum’ or living space.

For 19 years Israel was able to sell itself as a western social democratic state in the Middle East. It could do this because it had reduced the Arabs in Israel to less than 20% of the population. But with the 6 Days War in 1967 and the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank the demons were released. Labour Zionism had been wedded, no less than the Revisionists, to the idea of a Greater Israel.

It was Israeli Labor politicians who promoted the first settlers in the West Bank. Yigal Allon, the leader of the Palmach shock troops, Yisrael Galili and Yitzhak Tabenkin, all from the left of the Zionist movement helped found the Greater Israel movement.

It was but a matter of time before the settlers gained a critical mass in the West Bank. Zionism is a form of political messianism which seeks the End Days every bit as much as the Christian Evangelicals. To the messianic right in Israel’s government, the Ben Gvirs and Smotrichs, the days of redemption and the return of the Messiah are at hand.

All that is needed is the building of the Third Temple and the resumption of animal sacrifices to complete the task. Of course that means the demolition of Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. That will also come to pass unless Zionism is stopped in its tracks.

Up till 1967 Israel was able to hide its apartheid nature behind a facade of granting its Palestinian citizens a vote knowing full well that in an ethnocracy they would be permanently excluded from power. Today they can’t hide it nor do they want to.

In 2015 Isaac Herzog, the then leader of the Israeli Labor Party and now President, told a gathering at Herzliya that

In about a decade, the Arabs between the Jordan and the Mediterranean will be a majority and the Jews a minority. The Jewish national home will become the Palestinian national home. We will be again, for the first time since 1948, a Jewish minority in an Arab state. I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want to keep a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. I don’t want 61 Palestinian MKs in Israel’s Knesset. I don’t want a Palestinian prime minister in Israel. I don’t want them to change my flag and my national anthem. I don’t want them to change the name of my country to Isra-stine. (my emphasis)

And there you have it. When it comes to racism, the Labour Zionism of Herzog is no different from that of Netanyahu. Perhaps it’s just that Netanyahu is more honest when he says that ‘Israel is a state of its Jewish citizens not a state of all its citizens.’

Ethnic cleansing is as integral to Zionism as water is to life. You cannot have one without the other. When ethnic cleansing is no longer feasible then Zionism, like Hitler, turns to genocide. Genocidal views of the Palestinians are shared by the majority of Israeli Jews.

The question is why the Israeli state has become the Nazi state of the 21^st century. The answer is simple. Israel was founded on the same principles that the Nazis espoused.

Zionism sought to establish a racially based Jewish state. The definition of ‘Jew’ that Israel uses in the Law of Return is almost identical to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws. The Nuremberg Laws banned Jews and non-Jews from marrying and having sexual relations. In Israel too it is impossible for Jews and non-Jews to marry.

New Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely supports Lehava, an anti-miscegenation organisation whose head is being tried for terrorism & anti-Arab incitement.

Their website says they aim to "save Jewish girls" relationships with "Arabs, non-Jews, & foreign workers"

#TzipiTalk pic.twitter.com/nzMWMuvNgV

— Palestine Solidarity Campaign (@PSCupdates) June 15, 2020

Although Israel doesn’t outlaw sexual relations between Jews and Arabs, Jews who have a relationship with an Arab are ostracised. The present Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotoveli, was particularly concerned to combat intermarriage or miscegenation. It is called ‘national treason’. When a Jewish woman and an Arab man had a wedding there were demonstrations outside the reception. 

It should have been obvious that in a Jewish state, anyone who isn’t Jewish was going to be seen as an outsider. Israeli Palestinians are not even second class citizens. According to opinion polls the majority of Israelis, including most members of the present government, would like to expel them.

Israel likes to portray itself as the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ but following the Jewish Nation State Law of 2018 Israel is officially a state of its Jewish not all its citizens.

The most enthusiastic participants in the Nazi holocaust were the Christian ethno-nationalist states of Eastern Europe, like Romania, Slovakia and Croatia. Why expect Israel to be any different?

Given the right set of circumstances any group of people can become extreme racists and genocidaires. Why should Jewish people be any different?  Racism isn’t something that is biologically inherited.

Ethno-religious states are a relic of feudalism which is why Zionism hated Jewish Emancipation. Zionism was a Jewish Supremacist settler colonial movement. It used to be able to pass itself off as having a left-wing and a right-wing but during the genocide we have not had a peep out of the ‘left’ Zionists in the Jewish Labour Movement.

The goal of Netanyahu and the Israeli government, aided by Trump, is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. However whether they are able to get away with it remains to be seen. Hitler also began with wanting to expel the Jews and ended up exterminating them. 

The IDF is deliberately killing as many Palestinians as possible. Which is why Bobby Vylan was absolutely right to say ‘Death to the IDF’.  Those who object would have objected to ‘Death to the SS’.

Zionism was in essence a Jewish Racial Preservation Project that sought the equivalent of the thousand years Reich. It was prepared to sacrifice millions of Jews during WW2 in order to ensure the permanent life of the Jewish people-race. Ben-Gurion explained his thinking in January 1933 when he 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. [Shabtai Teveth, The Burning Ground 1886-1948), p. 855]

Chaim Weizmann, the President of the Zionist Organisation and the first President of the Israeli state was explicit in his speech to the 20^th World Zionist Congress (1937) in Zurich 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 She’erith Hapletah- ‘only a remnant shall survive.’ We have to accept it.

In the Autumn 1937 issue of New Judea Weizmann elaborated:

We want only the best of Jewish youth to come to us. We want only the educated to enter Palestine for the purpose of increasing its culture. The other Jews will have to stay where they are and face whatever fate awaits them.  These millions of Jews are dust on the wheels of history and they may have to be blown away. We don’t want them pouring into Palestine.

When Roosevelt called the Evian Conference in July 1938 to try and find a solution to the Jewish refugee problem the Zionists were worried, lest the conference might succeed!

Ben-Gurion at a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on 26 June 1938 was unremittingly hostile to Evian:

‘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 Menachem Ussishkin, a member of the Zionist Executive  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.

If Zionism was prepared to sacrifice Jews to the Nazis to achieve its aims then it isn’t likely to have much difficult in killing Palestinians.

Last week it seemed as if the world woke up to Israel’s lies and realised that what we have been saying for nearly two years was true. Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza and that includes starving the population, including children.

People are beginning to realise just what monsters Zionism has produced. The Heidi Bachrams and Victoria Bhogals of this world, with their self-serving lies and Netanyahu with his description of the SS, sorry IDF, as ‘the most moral army in the world’ are now seen for what they are – supporters of the new Auschwitz that is Gaza today.

There are even Israelis who talk of introducing gas chambers to complete the job. This is where Zionism has ended up.

Noone cut a more absurd figure than that prime piece of gammon, David Mencer, with his absurd statement that it was Hamas that was starving the people of Gaza and that the IDF was doing its best to act as wet nurse to Gaza’s babies.

When the Daily Express of all papers leads on successive days with pictures of the emaciated bodies of Palestinian babies even the most stupid Zionist knows or should know that the game is up.

Alistair Campbell admits that its genocide in Gaza & says false accusations of antisemitism are preventing debate!

Even people like Piers Morgan and Alistair Campbell now accept that Israel is carrying out a genocide and are beginning to understand that they have been on the wrong side of history.

No one should doubt that it is a holocaust in Gaza. When the dust settles on the rubble, it is likely that the number of deaths will be in the hundreds of thousands.

The only people who are unmoved are Starmer and Trump.  Trump is still blaming Hamas for what is happening in Gaza but the United States too is losing. The leader of the ‘free world’ is actively complicit in a Nazi-style genocide and yet Trump and Starmer, to say nothing of the Germans, are still supplying Israel with weapons.

Israeli leaders have been open about their intentions. It is the intention to wipe out and destroy a people that made this a genocide.

Israel Deliberately Burns the Food That It Prevented From Being Distributed

It is not as if the genocide deniers weren’t warned. On 9^th October Defence Minister Yoav Gallant spelled out exactly what Israel’s strategy was going to be when, in an an echo of Himmler’s description of the untermenschen he declared:

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed, ... We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly

Gallant was not alone. Netanyahu compared the Palestinians to Amalek, who God commanded the Israelites to wipe out – to the very last child and suckling infant. President Isaac Herzog stated that there were no innocents in Gaza and Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, of the Bnei Moshe yeshiva openly advocated  the murder of Palestinian children because they are the future generation of Palestinian fighters.

Today's terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,... It's not only the 14 or 16-year-old boy, the 20 or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There's really no difference

Mali and Israel’s other Nazi Rabbis have long been making the same argument that Himmler made about  Jewish children. At Posnan on October 6, 1943 Himmler told the SS Generals:

For I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men—in other words, killing them or having them killed—and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren.

Bob Geldof Asks How Israel Can Betray Its History by Starving Children - But This is Its History

When Bob Geldof was quizzed by Trevor Philips on Sky about the claims of Netanyahu that there was no famine he simply responded ‘he’s a liar’. One suspects that the BBC, which would have both sided the Nazi holocaust, would have edited it out.

The tide has turned, at least for now, as Israel’s Nazi leaders realise that their lies are no longer believed. Perhaps the final straw was setting up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, run by mercenaries, who killed those seeking food along with the IDF.  The GHF is a death trap run by a Christian Evangelist, the Rev. Johnnie Moore.

Over one thousand Palestinians were murdered in their attempt to stave off starvation yet still the Zionists and Mencer blamed Hamas which was doing its best to protect the food from the criminal gangs Israel had armed, as Netanyahu has admitted.

Although food has begun to enter Gaza Israel has not let up on its bombardment of civilians. Compared to the IDF, Hamas are the equivalent of Sunday school teachers. They have sought, against the odds, to protect the people of Gaza from the Nazi wolves that have descended upon the Gaza Strip. Their proscription is an outrage.

It is no wonder that Starmer’s Labour has plumbed new depths of unpopularity. It has nothing to say, still less do because it is tied at the hip to Trump’s lawless regime in the US. Starmer’s promise to recognise a Palestinian state by September is an empty gesture. There is no Palestinian state so how can one recognise one? It is symbolic at best. If he were serious he would stop the supply of arms.

However even the more intelligent sections of the British ruling class realise that whereas Blair was, at least until the Iraq war, a sophisticated advocate of their interests, Starmer and his clique of self-serving careerists are both inarticulate and corrupt. Starmer managed to secure the most freebies despite being a millionaire.

Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action is also beginning to haunt her.  If she had heeded the advice of Home Office officials she would have ignored the pressure of the Israeli government and the Zionist lobby. Yvette Cooper is a stupid woman, a rich, white ‘feminist’ who hypocritically identifies with the Suffragettes, who not only damaged property but also had a bombing campaign. They were called criminals and terrorists in their time.

Such is the groundswell of opposition to the ban that the heavy handed tactics of the Metropolitan Police and the Liverpool Police, far from frightening people off are causing them to defy this law in ever greater numbers.  It will be interesting to see whether Judge Chamberlain has a sensitive antennae or whether he will do what judges often do which is to rail at anything approaching subversion.

Either way August 9^th on which date Defend Our Juries have called for 500 people to hold signs supporting Palestine Action is likely to be oversubscribed. Police this week in Totnes, Devon and Edinburgh decided not to arrest the ‘terrorists’ including George Monbiot.

When a law lacks public support and is seen to attack the most basic of all liberties, the right to protest, people have no option to break the law. The law has become an instrument of coercion and oppression and it is an illegitimate law as Martin Luther King called it.  Or in the words of Dame Heather Hallett it is an oppressive law.

Israel may think it has won a military victory but the reality today is that it has drained away its support. It has shown that it is a failed, genocidal state which no more deserves to exist than the Nazi state or the Apartheid South African state.

Perhaps the final straw is the plan of the Israeli state and its Defence Minister, to establish what even Ehud Olmert, a former Prime Minister has described as a concentration camp.

The holocaust in Gaza has exposed like nothing before it the moral vacuum and sheer hollowness of the Holocaust industry. All its clichés about learning from the holocaust are seen to be nothing but empty words aimed at legitimising Zionism and its bastard child.

The former Chair of Yad Vashem, Avner Shalev, denied that Israel was perpetrating a genocide in Gaza. The present Chair of Yad Vashem, the former fascist and member of the anti-Arab Tehiya party, Dani Dayan, doubled down on this claiming that such a comparison ‘desecrates the memory of the victims.’

What desecrates the memory of Jewish holocaust victims is shooting children in the head and starving them to death, creating torture camps and razing Gaza to the ground in the same way as the Nazis raised the Warsaw Ghetto to the ground. What really defiles the memory of the holocaust victims is when one in two Jewish Israelis, indeed more than that, support the extermination of all Palestinians.

However Yad Vashem was not founded to draw universal lessons from the Nazi holocaust. Its purpose was to use the holocaust in order to justify the establishment of a racist Jewish state. It would appear that its attempts to defend the indefensible are coming apart at the seams. Those who deny the genocide in Gaza are no better than those who deny the Nazi holocaust.

Zionism, like Nazism and Apartheid belongs in the dustbin of history.  It is based on the subjugation of the other and it is to be hoped that Jews outside Israel will shake off the lobby and its rabbinical clique and join the human race again.

Tony Greenstein

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wrote Asking Me to Help Them 'Preserve the Truth of the Holocaust'.

I Responded by Asking Them Why They Wanted to Commemorate the Holocaust and what ‘Truth’ was it That They Wanted to Preserve? 

I didn’t know that I was on Yad Vashem’s mailing list of donors. Clearly I now walk in exalted company! Perhaps that’s because Yad Vashem now has a copy of my book, given to them in memory of Yehuda Schwarzbaum (1930-2011) and his relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust.

Yad Vashem

Clearly Zohar Neumann, who sent me the begging letter, hadn’t read my book because if he had he would have come across more criticism of Yad Vashem than I expect he is used to.  Founded in 1953 as an Israeli State propaganda institution, Yad Vashem is the main institution charged with developing a Zionist holocaust narrative, distorting holocaust history and creating what is called ‘holocaust awareness’ or consciousness.

Despite its commitment to learning the lessons of the holocaust, Yad Vashem does not include Israel’s numerous racist laws against its own Arab citizens in that lesson. Nor does it consider the vicious anti-Arab discrimination in Israel, the pogroms against Arabs and calls to expel refugees as forming any part of those lessons. The ‘lessons of the Holocaust’ are Zionist not anti-racist ones.

Lenni Brenner - the author of Zionism in the Age of the Dictators and 51 Documents on Zionist-Nazi Collaboration

In Yad Vashem’s sanitised world we learn nothing about Zionist collaboration with the Nazis. Nor do we learn about how the Zionist leaders made every effort to sabotage rescue schemes where the destination was not Palestine. Or how the Zionists undermined the Jewish Boycott of Nazi German and instead did their best to ensure that the Nazi regime was not destabilised.

In his book Zionism and anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, Francis Nicosia, Professor of Holocaust Studies at Vermont University and himself a Zionist states that:

the police authorities were entirely satisfied by 1938 that Zionism had become the dominant political force among those Jews who remained in Germany (p.123)

Yad Vashem doesn’t ask why no Zionist Congress before 1939 condemned the Nazi attacks on Jews or why the Nazi state viewed the Zionists in Germany as the good, ‘racial’ Jews and why the Zionist Federation of Germany consciously used their favoured status to try and displace the existing non-Zionist leadership.

Still less do we find out why the heads of the Jewish Desks in the Gestapo  were allowed to attend their conferences and use the German Jewish delegation as their proxies?

Eichmann attended the 1937 Zionist Congress  in Zurich and his predecessor, Baron von Mildenstein attended the 1935 Congress in Lucerne. Nor do they ask why Eichmann visited the Zionists in Palestine alongside Haganah and Gestapo double-agent Feivel Polkes before the British expelled them.

What we do know is that there is no more ardent supporters of the traditional Jewish leadership in the ghettos, the Judenrate, than Yad Vashem, even though they were despised by the very Resistance that they purport to support.

Yad Vashem is involved in constructing an utterly false version of Zionism’s role in the holocaust. It doesn’t mention the letter that the Zionist Federation of Germany wrote to Hitler on June 21, (which is published in Lucy Dawidowicz’s Holocaust Reader). The letter spoke about how

On the foundation of the new state, which has established the principle of race... fruitful activity for the Fatherland is possible’

In Yad Vashem’s version of history Zionists aren’t collaborators but resistance fighters. The fact that two out of every three members of the Judenrate (Jewish Councils) which rounded up Jews for the death camps were Zionists passes them by. Yad Vashem has a very important role.  Rewriting the history of the holocaust in order that the Israeli state can justify its apartheid and  genocidal policies. 

It is no small task and I know that readers of my blog will be sensitive as to how enormous this undertaking is. Because of Yad Vashem's determination to ensure that Holocaust history fits their preconceived ideological framing, Yad Vashem has had to reject a number of books that they might have published which any holocaust institute worthy of the name would have grasped with 2 hands.

The first such was Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews. First published in 1961 and updated since it remains the most comprehensive history of the holocaust. Even Yad Vashem's academic advisor, Professor Yehuda Bauer was forced to admit it is 'unsurpassed'. It is not for nothing that Yad Vashem is incapable of producing a general and comprehensive history of the Holocaust.

Hilberg, who became the Professor of Holocaust History at Vermont University, saw the Judenrate as an instrument of the Nazis who were essential to the implementation of the Final Solution. Yad Vashem didn't appreciate such an analysis since two-thirds of the Judenrate were Zionists!  

Polish fascist Michal Kaminski who justified the murder of Polish Jews in Jedwabne visits Yad Vashem

Likewise Yad Vashem didn't appreciate Hilberg's dismissal of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust as minor as Zionist history consciously magnifies it and on occasion invents it in order to provide itself with a retrospective justification and back story.

When it came to the escape of Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler from Auschwitz in April 1944 Yad Vashem decided that the best thing to do was to ignore them. Not only were they not Zionists but they came into conflict with Zionist collaborator, Rudolf Kasztner who, in the words of Israeli Judge  Benjamin Halevi in 1955, 'sold his soul to Satan' when he agreed a deal with Eichmann for a train out of Hungary for 1684 of the Zionist/Jewish elite in return for silence about where the deportation trains were heading.

Kasztner, who was the plaintiff in a libel trial in Israel in 1954 when accused of collaboration, rapidly turned into the de-facto defendant. When Israel's second government led by Moshe Sharrett decided to appeal the verdict of the first trial, that Kasztner was a collaborator, it promptly fell. Kasztner has nonetheless been rehabilitated by Yad Vashem. 

No matter that Kasztner’s deal with Eichmann led to the truth of Auschwitz being kept from Hungary’s 700,000 Jews resulting in nearly 2/3 of them being deported to their deaths. This is a minor matter.  What is important is that his deal with Eichmann saved 1600 Zionist and Jewish leaders. The fact that he went to Nuremberg after the war to provide testimony for major Nazi war criminals is erased from history.

Suffice to say YV wouldn't publish Vrba's memoirs 'I cannot forgive'. In fact they were determined to erase Vrba and Wetzler's very names from Yad Vashem. It is with difficulty that one could find any mention of them until, the late 1990's when Ruth Linn, Professor of Education at Haifa University, began a campaign in their favour. At one point Yehuda Bauer called Linn an 'anti-Zionist'.  There is no worse insult in the Zionist dictionary than that!!

Suffice to say Yad Vashem weren't interested in the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt by its last Commander, Marek Edelman. Edelman's misfortune was being a member of the anti-Zionist Bund and a supporter of the Palestinian resistance.

In the words of Daniel Blatman, an Israeli holocaust scholar, Yad Vashem is a 'diplomatic laundromat for every fascist and anti-Semite who darkens its doors.' And there have been a lot of them – Trump,  Brazil’s Bolsonaro, the Philipenes Duterte and assorted neo-Nazis from Germany and Austria.

In 1976 South Africa’s Prime Minister, John Vorster, who had been interned during the war because he was a member of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Broederbond and Ossewa Brandwag, visited Israel as a guest of the Israeli Labor Party government. Naturally he was taken on a tour of Yad Vashem. 

Israel Shahak, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen  wrote

Of the Yad Vashem… theatre, I do not wish to speak, at all. It, and its vile exploiting, such as honouring South Africa collaborators with the Nazis, are truly beneath contempt. 

Zohar Neumann of YV wrote to me just before Xmas begging for money in order that they could counter those who deny that the Holocaust occurred. Of course there are a few political flat earthers but they are nothing as compared with Zionist genocidaires.

Zohar told me that ‘the urgency to act has never been greater’. I agree but it’s not the few people who deny what happened between 1939 and 1945 who are the problem but those who deny that there is a holocaust happening barely 20 miles away from where Yad Vashem is based, which itself is built on stolen Palestinian land in Jerusalem.

The problem is, as I explained to Zohar, Yad Vashem is on the side of today’s holocaust deniers – the Keir Starmers and Joe Bidens of this world who not only deny that there is a holocaust happening but actively support it by sending the Israeli state more weapons to kill more Palestinians.

When 50 holocaust researchers asked Yad Vashem to condemn the genocidal statements made by Israeli politicians, military and other public figures, including Israeli government ministers, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli President Herzog, its Chair Dani Dayan refused.

Instead 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.’

Dayan himself illustrates everything I have described above. He was   Secretary-General of the fascist anti-Arab Tehiya party, and a candidate to the Knesset on its list in the Israeli legislative elections in 1988 and 1992. 

Dayan was also on the Executive of the settler Yesha Council, which is a kind of government for West Bank settlers. Unsurprisingly in 2015 Brazil rejected him as Israel’s nomination as its Ambassador because of his fascist credentials. Clearly Dani Dayan is an excellent choice to run Yad Vashem!

One can only assume that support for the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals, universities and extermination of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are what passes for high moral standards at Yad Vashem.

Dayan told those who suggested that Yad Vashem 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.

This is the same Israeli army which is busy torturing to death prisoners, raping to death doctors and running over hundreds of Palestinians with tanks. Clearly what Yad Vashem considers a ‘moral position’ is not one shared by most civilised people.

Ironically Dayan is teaching us a lesson, which is how senior Nazis were also able to justify to themselves and live with the holocaust. 

I therefore wrote a letter in response to Zohar which is below the one from Zohar. Despite not contributing a penny farthing to the appeal, Zohar wrote me a gushing thank you letter!!  Clearly these PR merchants don’t care about anything except the bottom line! 

Hitler lover Bolsonaro at Yad Vashem

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 at 14:03, Zohar Neumann <zohar.neumann@yadvashem.org.il> wrote: 

Dear tony, 

Thanks to compassionate supporters like you, we’ve already reached 25% of our goal! Every donation helps us commemorate, educate, and preserve the truth of the Holocaust.

But we can’t stop here. Every day, falsehoods about the Holocaust—claims that “death camps” were merely “work camps” or that far fewer lives were lost—continue to spread. Imagine the heartbreak of survivors who see their stories obliterated by denial and distortion. History is being rewritten, and the urgency to act has never been greater.

With your support, we can reach more people, counter misinformation, and ensure the light of truth shines even brighter. Every click strengthens the fight against those who twist history for their own ends.

Thank you for standing with us and ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust remain a beacon of truth for generations to come. Together, let’s keep the momentum going! 

Thank you,

Zohar Neumann
Director, Partnerships and Global Campaign Desk, Yad Vashem #TruthShinesBright  

Re: We’re Making Progress Together

15:05 23 Dec. 24 

 

Zohar, 

Thank you for your email asking me to make a financial contribution towards your appeal. 

There is a genocide, or a holocaust if you prefer, taking place in Gaza even as I write. The similarities with the Nazi holocaust of Jews, Roma and the Disabled is all too obvious. There is an exterminationist mentality in Israel today. 

'Finish them off' is Israel's most popular car bumper sticker.  'Two nice Jewish boys' Israel's oldest and most popular podcast broadcast a program saying how hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein would press a button and wipe out the Palestinians without a second's thought. In defending their stance, they claimed that their views reflect mainstream Israeli sentiment. 

These nice Jewish boys would also erase the whole population of the West Bank too. 

Yoav Gallant when opening Israel's war on the civilians of Gaza called the Palestinians 'human animals' the very same term that Heinrich Himmler used to SS Generals on 4 October 1943 at Posen when justifying the extermination of the Jews. 

Israeli government ministers, e.g. Netanyahu's comparison of the Palestinians with Amalek, have used genocidal language about the Palestinians. In this case a call to treat the Palestinians as the ancient Hebrew tribes supposedly treated the tribe of Amalek, when they wiped out every man, woman & child. 

Influential Israelis have even justified the wiping out of Palestinian children using the same arguments as Himmler on 6 October 1943, also at Posen (Posnan). E.g. Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, of the Kiryat Moshe Yeshivah, who said on 7 March 2024 that: 

"Today's terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists," he said, adding that when someone comes to kill you, you should be quick to kill them. "It's not only the 14- or 16-year-old boy, the 20- or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There's really no difference,"  

Compare this with Himmler's remarks 

‘I did not assume to have the right to exterminate the men… and have the avengers personified in the children to become adults for our children and grandchildren.’ 

Perhaps you can spot a difference between the two? Naturally the Israeli Police recommended that no charges be brought against Mali but if he had been an Israeli Palestinian they would have been arrested, beaten up and charged months ago. 

You say in your begging letter that you want to:

commemorate, educate, and preserve the truth of the Holocaust (thus)...  ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust remain a beacon of truth for generations to come  

Perhaps Yad Vashem or you can tell me what these lessons of the Holocaust are?  Are they universal or do they only apply to Jews? Is opposition to genocide and the extermination of whole peoples a principle or does it only relate to Jews?  What are you preserving the truth and commemorating the Holocaust for? Is it only to preserve Jewish racial supremacy? 

Surely one of the lessons of the Holocaust is that all peoples, be they German, Jewish or Arab can, if the circumstances are right, become genocidaires. There is nothing special about which ethnicity/religion one belongs to.  Racism is not something that we inherit biologically. It is a product of the societies we live in and Israel is, as many of us have argued, an apartheid, Jewish Supremacist State in exactly the same way that Nazi Germany or South Africa was. 

The reality is that Yad Vashem, throughout its 71 years existence, has set its face against drawing any universal lessons from the Holocaust.  You have remembered the Holocaust in order that others can repeat it, as is now happening with Israel. You were even established next to the village of Deir Yassin which Zionist militias wiped out yet you fired a guide, Itamar Shapira, for pointing out this fact to visitors. 

The fact that an exterminationist and racist mentality pervades in Israel is proof in itself that you have failed.  You commemorate the holocaust, not in order to warn against the dangers of racism but in order to justify them. 

Not once have you condemned or protested against Israel's many anti-Arab laws. Nor have you protested against the genocide in Gaza that has led to a quarter of a million Palestinians at least being killed. Genocide is only wrong when Jews are the victims. This is the Zionist mentality that you propagate. 

You remind me of when Ha'aretz journalist Nir Gontarz rang Yad Vashem and asked them to publicly condemn Netanyahu’s attempt to deport 60,000 African refugees from Israel because they were threatening its racial identity. The 'crime' of these refugees was being neither White nor Jewish. Gontarz described what happened next: 

One after the other of the senior staff there, including Mr. Avner Shalev [the director], slammed the phone down on me when I asked to speak to them... I asked them this morning to remove from their database the details I gave them in the past about my family. (Ha'aretz 24.1.18)

Yad Vashem serves no useful purpose. As Professor Yehuda Elkana, himself an Auschwitz survivor, wrote in March 1988 in Ha'aretz, it is better to forget the Holocaust than allow its memory to be used to justify further racism and genocide.

You will not be surprised to learn that I will not be contributing a penny farthing to your appeal. Whatever spare money I have is going to relief in Gaza. 

Yours sincerely, 

Tony Greenstein

I was even more surprised to receive an email on New Year’s day from Zohar thanking me for the donation I didn’t make! I give up!

Dear tony,

We did it—because of you! 

Thanks to your incredible generosity, Yad Vashem reached an astounding $180,000 in our end of year campaign, and we are equipped better than ever to preserve the truth and honor the memory of the Holocaust. 

Your support enables us to:

• Safeguard Holocaust history by preserving irreplaceable testimonies, artifacts, and documents for future generations.
• Combat the rise of Holocaust distortion by providing accessible, fact-based resources that make the truth undeniable.
• Empower educators and students worldwide, ensuring the Holocaust’s lessons are passed down and understood across borders.
• Honor the memory of the six million victims, the survivors, and the courageous Righteous Among the Nations who stood up against evil.

This victory is as much yours as it is ours. Together, we’re keeping the light of truth burning bright. We are deeply grateful for your commitment to Yad Vashem’s mission. 

From all of us at Yad Vashem, thank you for standing with us. We look forward to the important work we will continue to do together in the coming year! 

Thank you!

Zohar Neumann
Director, Partnerships and Global Campaign Desk, Yad Vashem
#truthshinesbright