The belligerent state called ‘Israel’, a state built on the ashes of the ‘Holocaust’, has since its very inception perpetrated its own Holocaust upon the Palestinians. Over a million Palestinians have been exiled, denied the right of return to their homes, thousands upon thousands have been killed and maimed, and their land stolen by those whose only lessons learned from the Nazis was that of cruelty and tyranny.
The ‘Holocaust’ Memorial Day deserves our scorn, not support, because it venerates and remembers Jewish suffering and death to the exclusion of all others. It has become a tool in the hands of those who would shamefully exploit the suffering of the past to delegitimize all criticism of their present morally reprehensible and indefensible actions and policies against the Palestinians.
Iqbal Sacranie in responding to criticism against MCB’s boycott of the Memorial Day said:
A memorial day would in our opinion be better served by covering the ongoing mass killings and human rights abuses in our world, and thus make the cry “Never Again” real for all people who suffer, even now. We must do more than just reflect on the past. We must be able to recognise when similar abuses occur in our own time.
Not to acknowledge current and recent genocides would be to undermine the benefits of remembrance, deprecate lessons learnt from the Nazi Holocaust and call into question our commitment to prevent current and future inhumanity. The Nazi Holocaust began with a hatred of an entire people because of their religion and ethnic identity. To reflect a more tolerant and inclusive Britain, we believe that Holocaust Memorial Day ought to be renamed “Genocide Memorial Day” to make no distinction between genocides undertaken against people of other religions and ethnicity.
In its current manifestation, this memorial is a shameful reminder of the dangers of exclusion and delusions of supremacy. Ireland with its own experience of oppression and occupation should lead the way in renaming this day as a Genocide Memorial Day, a day in which we remember all genocides; past and present, and commit ourselves and our governments to implementing measures to put an end to this malaise once and for all.
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الثلاثاء 12 صفر 1431 at 12:29 pm
A place in history for all of us!Unfortunately politicians often abuse the power of the vote in favour of their own pursuits or (delusions of grandeur),listening only to the most persuasive,power-hungry aggressive and military capable.Hmmmmmm.
الأربعاء 13 صفر 1431 at 11:05 am
Something tells me the Jews won’t be remembered in your ‘genocide’ day.
الأربعاء 13 صفر 1431 at 1:49 pm
Get facts right. Holocaust /Genocide is a crime of actively trying to kill off an entire population (for no particular reason than ideological bigotry). Even the Russian pogrom campaign of Alexander III aimed at, “a third to emigrate, a third to die and a third to convert.” In 1948 there were 1 200 000 Arabs in Palestine West of the River Jordan and now (2010) there is no dispute that there are 4 million Arabs calling themselves Palestinian – even if they have names like Masri and Mughrabi – on each bank of the R. Jordan. Whatever else is happening, that population figure shouts it is not genocide and the misusers of the word merely make themselves ridiculous and make peacemaking more difficult by darkening the psychological context..
Second including Admin’s error elsewhere; the Israeli, ie Zionist state’s trial of Demanjuk acquitted him because the evidence was considered shaky. The present trial is prosecuted by Germany which is painfully aware how the Nazi episode destroyed Germany’s good name, her position in Europe and her World lead in research, engineering music and much else.
From the Enlightenment (Edmund Burke’s time) Diaspora Jews have only sought to be peaceful equal citizens – as promised by the French Rights of Man & Duties of Citizen, but Germans bounced the political cheque and the Tsarist regime had never signed it because like the Ottomans and Iranian ayatollahs they ran theocratically based government that made the support and enforcement of a particular religion its first aim. Diaspora Jews did not attack anybody – unlike blackshirts and pogromchiks and the Arab attacks on the Jews and British in 1929 and 1936.
The Arab states and the Palestine Arabs rejected the Peel two state solution, the UN 181 two state solution and the Green Line opportunity of 1949-67. Before accusing Israel of belligerency, look in the mirror because there are more than enough intra-Arab wars since 1945 that are sweet FA to do with Palestine. Israel exists for the same reasons in spades that Pakistan exists and also has a right to self defence and resistance against Arab ideas of (Moslem) supremacy. It never fails to amaze that the World’s 800 million NON –Arab Moslems: 200 million in Indonesia, and the 400 million in India, Pakistan, and Bangla Desh, allow themselves to be led by the nose in the political adventurism of Egyptian, Iraqi and Syrian Arab governments pursuing imperial dominance in the Levant while shouting Palestine to divert from their own malicious malevolence. That is what destroyed Germany!
الأربعاء 13 صفر 1431 at 2:01 pm
Incidentally, the whole article is founded on a lie.
The very first sentence of the HMD’s website states that the day ‘commemorates the tragic loss of life in the genocides of World War II, in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur’.
I expect an apology and a withdrawal of this disgusting ‘article’.
الأربعاء 13 صفر 1431 at 4:22 pm
Frank – using your argument regarding the present number of Palestinian Arabs would also negate the fact that anything such thing occurred with the Jews. I’m sure you are not suggesting that.
The Arab states were under no obligation to bend to the whims of any western powers, it was their land, why should they accept any imposition?
As for Jewish suffering, I mourn the loss of all Frank, I don’t think anyone is more special, unlike some. http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/260
Derek – yes, those specific Hebrew addresses and the name really demonstrates the inclusive nature of the event. If people are really serious about including all, and that includes the disgusting Jewish attempt at genocide on the Palestinians, then a name change would signify that. I suspect though, we’ll be waiting. It’s not an unreasonable suggestion but the number of verbal attacks we’ve received for daring to suggest it smacks of the usual hypocrisy.
الجمعة 15 صفر 1431 at 4:03 pm
I have twice submitted a fairly thorough reply to your comment on myy piece, but if you insist on not showing it you are not practising the freestof discussions, are you?
Admin: Frank – we’ve no intention of providing a platform for Zionist lies. It’s shameful that you would regurgitate old lies, but we’d be worse for taking the time to issue a response. There are plenty of sites dedicated to dismantling Zionist lies, we simply can’t be bothered.
الأربعاء 19 صفر 1431 at 12:29 pm
If you cannot face arithmetic – recorded and witnessed figures – then you are riding for another fall as the oil era shuts down over the next forty years and nations are no longer beholden to petrosheikhs.
What is remarkable in your dismissive manner and most of your articles is that you cannot stomach the Jews as a people. Well why the Palestine Arabs then? or the Irish or anybody? Pakistan exists for the same reasons that Israel does but “in spades.” The price of the one is the other which is why it is taking so long to erect a Palestine Arab government as long as the principals refuse to recognise as equals their prospective neighbours – and do not forget that Arafat in his time also tried to scupper Jordan and Lebanon.
الخميس 20 صفر 1431 at 1:22 am
I do feel for the plight of the Palestinians especially considering the fact the Jews of all people should know oppression never works. However what irks me is how a “real” genocide underway in Darfur is largely ignored. Since ealry 1990’s 2 million have been killed while since 1948 60,000 lives have been lost in the entire Arab Israeli conflict. Yet day after day the Muslim world fixates on Israel. Why and why not Darfur instead? Is it because no Jew is involved or because Muslim land has not been taken in Darfur? This observation seems to say the system is more imporatnt than the actual people(”oppression is worse than slaughter.”) Do we have to go plop some infidels or better yet a Jew in Darfur to get the Muslim world’s attention?