Weaponizing the Holocaust against Palestinians
JVL Introduction
We do not believe the Holocaust should be weaponised by anyone for ulterior ends which detract from the outrage and stain on western civilisation which it represents.
But as an event within history, we obviously need to try nonetheless to understand it, to locate it, to evaluate its effects and outcomes at every level.
Which is why the outrage about Orla Guerin’s passing reference to the Palestinians in relation to it is so bizarre and over the top.
This is the context in which Israeli writer Jonathan Ofir “take a sobering historical look at how Zionist leaders and various influential Israelis have made comparisons of Jewish acts against Palestinians to Nazi acts, and how they also weaponized the Holocaust against Palestinians.”
That, he says, is the real story.
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Tue 28 Jan 2020. Read the original here.
Weaponizing the Holocaust against Palestinians
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There is a massive contradictory irony in a situation where the lunatic fringe activity of holocaust denial is treated as an imminent threat, whilst the everyday activity of Nakba denial is virtually official policy.
Hear, hear. There is not enough countering the ‘official’ line of Jewry, whether the ill-informed drivel spewed out by The Jewish Chronicle, certain ‘respected’ (The Guardian e.g.) journalists, many ‘Jewish’ Labour MPs, the Jerusalem Post – Goodness me, the list goes on. Small mercies: at least we have Haaretz…