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<font size=3>Gilad Atzmon: <br><br>
</font><font size=4><b>Shoah Backfires<br>
</b></font><font size=3>Monday, January 10, 2011 at 1:27PM<br><br>
<a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-shoah-backfires.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-shoah-backfires.html<br><br>
</a> For years Israelis and Zionists have been
pumping 'Shoah' into our veins by using every possible propaganda
outlet: media, education, Hollywood, music, literature, billboards and so
on.<br><br>
Seemingly they have been very successful : We are all properly '
<i>Holocausted '</i>. We accept the suffering of the Jewish people -- and
we have even managed to draw a universal message from it all.<br><br>
We do accept that a real Shoah is taking place in front of our eyes in
Palestine, where the Jewish state locks millions of Palestinians behind
bars: it starves them, it stops medical supplies, food, cement, and
educational materials from getting in. But it does not stop there -- when
the Jewish state feels like it, it also kills Palestinians
indiscriminately. It either blitzes them with white phosphorous ,
or sends in its tank battalions to drive over Gaza. <br><br>
In preparation for <a href="http://www.hmd.org.uk/about/">Holocaust
Memorial Day</a> (1), London Zionist mouthpiece
<a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/43364/anti-israel-shoah-site-deliberately-causes-offence-survivors">
The Jewish Chronicle</a> is very disturbed by a UK-based pro
Palestinian web site named
<a href="http://www.shoah.org.uk/">shoah.org.uk</a>. The site is
obviously dedicated to the Palestinian Holocaust.<br><br>
The Jewish paper insists that the Shoah -- like Israel -- is a
‘Jews only club’. They do not want to 'let anyone else in'.<br><br>
Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust told
the Jewish paper, "Using the word 'Shoah' in this context is done
with the sole intention of causing offence to Holocaust survivors, their
families and the wider Jewish community and shows the greatest possible
disrespect to the tragedy of the Holocaust."<br><br>
I would fiercely argue that Pollock is wrong. Using the word
'Shoah' in this very context is there to awaken the world, the Jews, and
holocaust victims in particular, to the fact that the biggest
current perpetrator of crimes against humanity -- is actually
the Jewish state.<br><br>
Mark Gardner, of the Community Security Trust, said: "This
website is yet another sickening example of how the Holocaust is
perverted by anti-Zionists in order to attack Israel and
Zionism."<br><br>
Mark Gardner is almost correct; anti Zionists do indeed use the Shoah as
a means of mirroring. And it is now an accepted fact that the
Palestinians are the last victims of Hitler. It is also becoming accepted
that the Israelis are the Nazis of our time. And tragically enough, the
crimes in Palestine carried out by the Jewish state are also being
committed in the name of the Jewish people. As if this is not enough, it
is Jewish pilots who drop white phosphorus from planes which are
decorated with Jewish symbols.<br><br>
These facts are disturbing and demand the immediate attention of world
Jewry.<br><br>
Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies ( another morbid
institute that claims to represent British Jews ) told the Jewish
Chronicle that "even without delving into what is clearly a
one-sided and skewed narrative, by virtue of its title, this website is
extremely provocative and any trivialisation of the Holocaust in which
over six million Jewish men, women, and children were systematically
murdered is completely abhorrent."<br><br>
Benjamin is probably too lame to grasp that what we see here is the total
opposite -- We are actually witnessing an acceptance of an astute
<i>universalising</i> of the holocaust as carrying a <i>humanist</i>
message for all of us. We can see a deeper understanding of the true
moral meaning of that historical event.<br><br>
Surely we need to stand up against <i>all</i> forms of ethno-centric
homicidal policies. And it seems clear that Israel is no different from
Nazi Germany in that regard. In fact Israel is far worse, because Israel
acts under the guise of being a democracy, and its merciless policies are
a reflection of the majority Israeli population's yearning to live
in a 'Jews only' state. <br><br>
However, a few questions are still left open -- Why exactly do the
aforementioned Jews from the Jewish Chronicle and the Board of Deputies
want to maintain the notion and reality of historical suffering as being
exclusively Jewish property? Why don’t they want anyone else to use the
word 'Shoah'? Why do they demand a total control over the usage of
words and applications of meanings ? <br><br>
Can you imagine a Ukrainian protesting against the word 'famine'
being applied to the situation in Ethiopia?<br><br>
I really wonder why so many Jews insist on grounding their identity
politics on suffering and being hated by others?<br><br>
For clearly, one must admit that being loathed is not exactly something
to brag about.<br><br>
I am bewildered.<br><br>
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(1) It is interesting to read the definition of the Holocaust Memorial
Day on the official HMD's
<a href="http://www.hmd.org.uk/about/">site</a>:<br><br>
"HMD is about remembering the victims and those whose lives have
been changed beyond recognition of the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and
subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and the ongoing
atrocities today in Darfur."<br><br>
Basically everywhere except in Palestine.<br><br>
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