You can read the very telling YNet report here, and the Haa’retz accusations here.

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.

As if it couldn’t get any more contemptible, the ‘holocaust’ industry now seeks reparations on behalf of the unborn.

Unbelievably, at the trial of alleged death camp guard, John Demjanjuk, one individual was there testifying on behalf of his unborn brother or sister. What next? It’s time to bury the sham that this whole gross portrayal has become and decent, moral people need to call a halt to this grotesque exploitation of the justice system.

Close the curtains on events of sixty years ago and let’s deal with the real and present holocausts – Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. If justice means anything then the scum who have perpetrated crimes against humanity and war crimes must be held to account.

The term “Holocaust survivor” originally designated those who suffered the unique trauma of the Jewish ghettos, concentration camps and slave labor camps, often in sequence. The figure for these Holocaust survivors at war’s end is generally put at some 100,000. The number of living survivors cannot be more than a quarter of this figure now. Because enduring the camps became a crown of martyrdom, many Jews who spent the war elsewhere represented themselves as camp survivors. Another strong motive behind this misrepresentation, however, was material.

The postwar German government provided compensation to Jews who had been in ghettos or camps. Many Jews fabricated their pasts to meet this eligibility requirement. “If everyone who claims to be a survivor actually is one,” my mother used to exclaim, “who did Hitler kill?”

Indeed, many scholars have cast doubt on the reliability of survivor testimony. “A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work,” Hilberg recalls, “could be attributed to testimonies.” Even within the Holocaust industry, Deborah Lipstadt, for example, wryly observes that Holocaust survivors frequently maintain they were personally examined by Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.

Apart from the frailties of memory, some Holocaust survivor testimony may be suspect for additional reasons. Because survivors are now revered as secular saints, one doesn’t dare question them. Preposterous statements pass without comment. Elie Wiesel reminisces in his acclaimed memoir that, recently liberated from Buchenwald and only eighteen years old, “I read The Critique of Pure Reason— don’t laugh! — in Yiddish.” Leaving aside Wiesel’s acknowledgment that at the time “I was wholly ignorant of Yiddish grammar,” The Critique of Pure Reason was never translated into Yiddish. Wiesel also remembers in intricate detail a “mysterious Talmudic scholar” who “mastered Hungarian in two weeks, just to surprise me.” Wiesel tells a Jewish weekly that he “often gets hoarse or loses his voice” as he silently reads his books to himself “aloud, inwardly.” And to a New York Times reporter, he recalls that he was once hit by a taxi in Times Square. “I flew an entire block. I was hit at 45th Street and Broadway, and the ambulance picked me up at 44th” “The truth I present is unvarnished,” “Wiesel sighs, “I cannot do otherwise. Norman Finkelstein, ‘The Holocaust Industry’“

Some interesting questions and very valid points indeed, why must we so readily accept testimonies without a shred of evidence, why must we throw away our God-given faculty of reason to investigate claims and measure them against available evidence? Why are people so intimidated by valid inquiry to the point where those who dare question are censured, ostracized and worse … jailed! But question we must lest the hoaxers and frauds continue to exploit genuine suffering for their own base gain.

Take for example the memoir of Herman Rosenblat, ‘The Angel at the Fence’, a moving tale of love and endurance, a story that Oprah Winfrey declared “the single greatest love story…we’ve ever told on air.” It was a fraud, a lie, a big whopper. Then of course there is Kosinski’s ‘Painted Bird’, Binjamin Wilkomirski’s ‘Fragments’ and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’.

Perhaps the most disingenuous aspect of this industry is that of the school circuit, where alleged victims who could no more tell you what they did yesterday; can, with almost script-like accuracy, detail the windows of a building, the colours of a dress or the how many metres they walked and all from events some 60 yrs ago. All of this is accepted at face value, without question, why? Does alleged survivor status make one immune from scrutiny? In any other aspect of life would we accept such a testimony without corroboration?

There are without doubt genuine souls out there who suffered terribly at the hands of the Nazis, but as we have seen there are many more who would happily spin a tale or two for their own particular reasons. Only investigation will expose the frauds, demonizing honest scrutiny as antisemitic helps no one, least of all those who resort to such trite labels.

MPAC.ie on Southeast radio

In this short but revealing interview Muslims are castigated because they:
1. do not assimilate
2. wish to empower themselves
3. want to hold their leaders accountable to the community
4. have problems which precipitate Fort Hood instances
5. for daring to criticize the holocaust industry

We’re also informed that the speaker has tremendous respect for Muslims, but are then advised that he is speaking specifically of those who ‘interpret Islam’ correctly. Correctly according to whom, Kevin Myers? Non-Muslims once again telling Muslims what their religion is and the kind of Muslims they find acceptable…assimilation!

NOTE: The distortion within the recording makes it sound like Mujaahid said 500,000 villages were razed to the ground, the number is 500.

He’d never spoken about his alleged time in Belsen until recently, but after being ‘discovered’ by the Holocaust Educational Trust, he apparently changed his mind because as Katie Roche says, “he has realised that he must speak out so that this horrific event will never be forgotten,” – it seems the hundreds of films, books, magazines and museum displays simply aren’t enough.

And so the tours of Irish schools began, and the name Tomi Reichental cropped up in newspapers and even a short film was made about his story. Yet, it seems we were only told part of the story. In a happy ending story, we’d like to be able to say Reichental learned from his ordeal and that his alleged suffering made him a better person. We’d like to be able to say that, but we can’t, for in 1956 Reichental, then living in Occupied Palestine since 1949, fought with the Zionist state’s army in the Sinai Campaign.

The Jewish Zionist army having successfully occupied over 78% of Palestinian land in 1948, set about expelling over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland, razing villages and massacring thousands of men, women and children. However, they did not stop there, they planned to expand their borders and set about scheming ways in which they could garner international approval for their Eretz Israel goal.

And there’s plenty of evidence for this, Dr. Guy Laron, an ‘Israeli’ researcher, cites formally classified documents including General Staff proceedings.

‘On October 26, 1955 – in other words, exactly a year before the Sinai Campaign – chief of staff Moshe Dayan convened the General Staff and told the generals about a plan to expand the country’s borders, one stage at a time. A preliminary strike against Egypt was designed to ensure the capture of Gaza and Sinai up to the Suez Canal, and afterward up to Cairo as well. The first stage of capturing the West Bank was supposed to bring the Israel Defense Forces as far as Hebron, the second stage up to the Jordan River. In Lebanon, Israel planned to stop at the banks of the Litani River; the capture of the Golan Heights was supposed to bring the IDF to Damascus.’

How a man who had allegedly survived the Belsan concentration camp, witnessed its supposed horrors and lived to tell the tale could then, as part of the IDF, enact the same terror upon an innocent Palestinian population beggars belief. Even more astounding perhaps is that he’s given a platform to tell of his woes yet remains silent regarding his own actions.

While we believe that the horrible event that saw not only Jews but millions of Gypsies and other minorities slaughtered simply because they were different, should be remembered. We must ask if Reichental is the right person to remind us?

As far as we’re concerned inviting Reichental into any Irish school to talk about suffering is akin to inviting Mad Dog Adair to give a talk about loyalist torment in Northern Ireland, or the butcher of Belsen to discuss morality. This is nothing short of shameful and disingenuous exploitation of the good nature of Irish people.

Reichental is due to speak in Gorey Community School this November. We urge all concerned individuals to protest this exploitation of what Finkelstein calls the Holocaust Industry.

As Irish children listen to Reichental’s story perhaps they might remember the tragedy of the Nakba that Jewish survivors menacingly brought upon the Palestinian people:

Perhaps some conscientious child might ask if Reichantal is proud of the monster he helped establish?

Disclaimer:The link for Finkelstein’s amazing book is an external source, we are not responsible for their views or positions but rather point you there to benefit from Finkelstein’s work.

Virtually all of Israel is now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report, against any attempt to blame us over the war in Gaza. We’ve honed our message to a sharp point and, inspired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s performance at the UN, we’re delivering it with just the right tone of outrage:

How dare anyone deny us the right to self-defense! How dare anyone deny us the right to fight back against terrorism!

Very nice. Puts everyone else on the defensive. The right to self-defense is up there with motherhood and apple pie – who’s going to come out against it, especially for us, for Israel, for the Jews, for the people of the Holocaust?

The right to self-defense – perfect.

But I’d like to ask: Do the Palestinians also have the right to self-defense?

We probably wouldn’t admit it out loud, but in our heads we would say – again, in one voice – “No!”

This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We’re entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism.

That’s the way it’s always been, that’s the way it was in Operation Cast Lead.

AND THERE are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as “disproportionate.” We can blockade Gaza, we can answer Kassams with F-16s and Apaches, we can take 100 eyes for an eye.

We can deliberately destroy thousands of Gazan homes, the Gazan parliament, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Interior, courthouses, the only Gazan flour plant, the main poultry farm, a sewage treatment plant, water wells and God knows what else.

Deliberately.

After all, we’re acting in self-defense. By definition.

And what right do the Palestinians have to defend themselves against this?

None.

Why? Because we’re better than them. Because we’re a democracy and they’re a bunch of Islamo-fascists. Because ours is a culture of life and theirs is a culture of death. Because they’re out to destroy us and all we are saying is give peace a chance.

One look at the ruins of Gaza ought to make that plain enough.

Here is our idea of the “laws of war”: When Israeli bulldozers rolled across the border into Gazan villages and flattened house after house so Hamas wouldn’t have them for cover after the IDF pulled out, that was self-defense. But if a Palestinian boy who’d lived in one of those houses threw a stone at one of the bulldozers, that was terrorism.

The Goldstones of the world call this hypocrisy, a double standard. How dare they! Around here, we call it moral clarity.

JP