Holocaust Memorial Day

Published on September 17, 2005 By Leauki In War on Terror

"Advisers appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths." -- TimesOnline

World War II has special meaning to Britain, because in World War II Britain fought for her existence as a nation as well as for the existence of Europe as we know it.

The genocide committed by the Nazis changed Europe in ways that can never be undone and that is why the event must be remembered and why the United Kingdom has a special connection with it.

Making a mockery of the event by including other events, including events that have never happened (the Palestinians, for example, still exist and their number seems to have only increased during the "genocide" they allege they were subject to), is not the right way to commemorate World War II. The Bosnians presumably deserve their own special day, but their fortunes were not as intertwined with Britain as the genocide of World War II was.

But if a need is felt to include something that happened in Palestine, then perhaps this would be the right moment to remind the world that the Arabs have tried to completely destroy Israel and drive the Jews into the sea SEVERAL TIMES since World War II. Perhaps that would constitute attempted genocide.

The day could be changed to include the attempted genocide because ignoring victims of anti-semitism after World War II could be regarded as offensive to Israelis (and possibly Germans). It would also serve to remind the world that anti-semitism did not die with Adolph Hitler.

Of course Jews might not react violently if Britain offends Israel while apparently such a reaction is to be expected when Arabs are offended.

It's a tough decision: do you stand with those who won't kill you if you don't, or do you stand with those who will?

Added later that day, after six comments:

Perhaps Muslim countries should have their own day remembering their local tragedies just as Europe has theirs.

They could have a Genocide Day that reminds them of the Palestinian genocide (which never happened) and could celebrate it in union with the Palestinians (who still exist). Never mind that the Palestinian population has actually grown during the alleged genocide and never mind that the day would commemorate an event that just never happened.

And never mind that the British Holocaust Day actually commemorates the fact that Europeans commited the great crime, not "the others" and thus serves as a reminder to us, to Europeans, to never let it happen again. The Muslim Genocide Day would merely serve as a reminder about how evil the others are. It would not prevent anything. It would serve merely as a feel-good day because it gives one the opportunity to show solidarity with Palestinians (life ones) without spending money or doing anything but remember an event (and an event that didn't happen, no less).

If the Muslim community want their equivalent of the Holocaust Day, they'd have to have a day commemorating the Arabs' attempt to destroy Israel. Not only did that actually happen but it is also something all Muslim nations have allowed to happen, like European nations did not prevent the holocaust.

And if it annoys people that it is always the Jews who are commemorated as victims; the way to change that is not to commemorate made-up events, the way to change that is to stop killing Jews.

Comments (Page 2)

bakerstreet

on Sep 21, 2005

His spirit is certainly alive there, though, whereas around the world it is otherwise reviled.

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