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Misuse of the HolocaustWe are told that because Hitler killed the Jews, the Zionist state is needed today, supposedly to protect the Jewish people. Protect them against whom? Against the Nazis? No, against the Palestinians.
This is the motivation for Canada's government’s public campaign about the Nazis’ Holocaust.
Canadian school children today know more about the Holocaust than they know about crimes in our own country: crimes such as stealing the lands of the indigenous peoples or throwing Canadians of Japanese descent into concentration camps during the Second World War.
In Washington, the U.S. government has sponsored an imposing Holocaust Museum. Why is there no museum to the Vietnamese, millions of whom were killed in the U.S. war against their country?
When the Nazi campaign against the Jews was in full swing, Canada’s prime minister at that time, Mackenzie King, praised Hitler (see Irving Abella, None is Too Many). Few voices protested Hitler’s mass murders. The Catholic Church kept silent. The U.S. and Canada excluded Jewish refugees.
For several decades after, governments said little about this horrendous crime.
But as the Israeli army proved it could defeat in battle the neighboring Arab states, the U.S. moved to build up the Israeli military as a weapon against the Mideast peoples. They needed an excuse for this provocative campaign, and they found it in the Holocaust. They insist that the Zionist state of Israel must be protected in order to prevent another Holocaust.
To answer this argument, we must know what the Holocaust was.
What was the Holocaust?
First of all, the basic facts are indisputable. The Holocaust is one of the best documented historical events of all time. The Nazis were methodical — they counted their victims and kept meticulous records. In my family’s Polish home town, of Piotrkov there were 30,000 Jews, only 100 survived. On the train that took my mother from France to Auschwitz, of 1,000 Jews, only a dozen survived.
Yes, this was genocide. Six million Jews were killed simply because they were Jews, and the goal was to kill them all. Even the innocent children were hunted down and sent to the gas chambers.
Of course it was not the first genocide. European colonialists exterminated almost entire peoples. Study the Americas, Australia, and Africa.
But the genocide against the Jews was unique in two ways.
First, it took place not in the industrially undeveloped Third World but in Europe. It was the first case of genocide against a white, European people.
Second, it was industrially organized. Not random killing, but managerial, bureaucratic, assembly-line slaughter. Even pieces of the body were recycled: the skin, the hair; and the gold fillings of the teeth.
In a deeper sense, though, the crime against the Jews was only too familiar. The Nazis said that the Jews were not Europeans but members of an inferior, subhuman race, Asiatic race. The Nazis sought to reorganize the globe along racial lines, with the Germans and North Europeans as the elite. Such racism is opposed to our most fundamental beliefs about the worth of human beings.
Where does this racism come from? Not from the House of Islam. Recall how the great U.S. Islamic leader and freedom fighter, Malcolm X, said when he visited Mecca that for the first time he saw peoples of all races worshipping together in equality.
No, this racism is the ideology of Euro-American imperialism.
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