Recording
How the Zionists Rewrote the History of the Holocaust
Last
Tuesday Jewish Network for Palestine
and the Socialist Labour Network held
a webinar on how Zionism has rewritten the history of the holocaust in order to
justify genocide in Gaza.
It is
difficult to think of anything more disgusting than using the memory of the Jews
who died at the hands of the Nazis to justify the murder of Palestinian children
and their parents in Gaza.
The Western
powers – the United States, Britain and especially the German state - are happy
to go along with this rewriting of history. After all it lets them off the hook
and avoids western leaders having to answer uncomfortable questions such as why
the US and Britain refused to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.
Stephen Kapos and other descendants of holocaust survivors
A recent
example of this is how the riot and racist attacks of the Tel Aviv Maccabi fans
in the Netherlands was turned into a second Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom
of November 9-10 when 100 Jews were murdered and nearly all synagogues were
burnt to the ground.
This could
only happen because the attacks by Israel’s racist thugs on Arabs in Amsterdam
was conveniently
ignored, just as Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are ignored. The chants of ‘Death to the Arabs’ ‘May Your Villages Burn’
and ‘There is no school in Gaza today
because there are no children’ somehow disappeared down the memory hole of
Starmer, Scholtz, Biden and the Netherland’s idiot Prime Minister Schoof.
Instead the
fightback of Amsterdam residents who gave the Israeli thugs a deserved
thrashing was paraded as an anti-Semitic
pogrom.
There was
nothing more sick than the fascist leader of the Netherlands, who leads its
biggest parliamentary party The Freedom Party,
Geert Wilders, bemoaning the ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks whilst using it as a
pretext to call
for the deportation of Moroccans living in the Netherlands.
Dutch Nazi Party (NSB) marching in Amsterdam
Netherlands
had the highest rate of extermination of Jews of any Western country in the holocaust. This was in part because it had a relatively
strong fascist party the NSB, which helped the Gestapo winkle out Jews in
hiding like Anne Frank. It doesn’t take much imagination to recognise that 84
years ago, Geert Wilders would not have been a member of the Communist Party
which organised the strikes against the Jewish deportations. Geert Wilders would
have been a prominent leader of the Dutch Nazi Party, the NSB. The idea that
this fascist would have joined Dutch workers in their strike against the deportations
is absurd.
Ursula von der Liar
The same is
true of the far-right President of the European Commission, Ursula
von der Leyen. A member of the Christian Democrats, whose antecedents lie in the Weimar
conservative parties including the anti-Semitic DNVP
which helped put Hitler in power. If Von Der Liar had been alive 90 years ago
she would have been a cheer leader for the Nazis but today Jews are a useful stalking
horse for western imperialism in the Middle East.
We
organised this webinar precisely because western leaders and its prostitute
media have turned the Nazi holocaust into a justification for their war plans
and racism.
Tom Suarez
The first
speaker was Tom Suarez who has written two excellently researched books, State of Terror and Palestine Hijacked. Tom
described Zionism as a cult and Anti-Semitism as its drug. He described the
cruel cynicism of Zionism which opposed all rescue plans for Jewish refugees
from the Nazis that didn’t involve Palestine as its destination. He recalled the opposition of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, to the Kindertransport in 1938/9, after Kristallnacht, which saved
10,000 German Jewish children from death.
As Ben-Gurion
explained to the Central Committee of Mapai, the Israeli Labour Party, on 9
December 1938:
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.
Letter to the Jewish Chronicle 5 February 1993
This was
the policy of the Zionist movement throughout the war. Another example he gave
was of the deliberate sabotage of the efforts of Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld,
Chair of the Chief Rabbi’s Rescue Committee by the Board of Deputies, which at
that time was controlled by the Zionists. Indeed its President Selig Brodestsky
openly boasted of this sabotage. You can read about this in my book Zionism During the Holocaust.
HMS Patria
Tom described how the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israeli Occupation Forces, sank the Patria, because they preferred dead refugees to them being transported by the British to Mauritius. Over 250 of the 2,000 refugees died. The Haganah lied and claimed that the refugees themselves had sunk the boat because they preferred dying to living anywhere but Palestine. The habit of lying hasn't left them.
Tom
emphasised how anti-Semitism is key to holding Jews in the diaspora in
permanent fear, be it fake or genuine. The holocaust has been weaponised in
order that Israel can continue its ethnic cleansing.
The Patria sinking in Haifa harbour
After the
war the Zionists insisted that Jews be separated from non-Jews in the Displaced
Persons camps and in the Jewish camps there was a reign of terror to force them
to go, not to the United States or Britain but to Palestine. Those who didn’t
want to go were beaten up and worse.
Rabbi
Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine ran a kidnapping operation for Jewish children
who had been placed with non-Jewish families during the war. They were torn
from those families, regardless of their own wishes. In some cases children
whose parents were in England were still forced to go to Palestine.
The second
speaker was Haim
Bresheeth, the Israeli academic who was recently arrested by the police in
London as part of their attacks on Palestine solidarity supporters. The third
speaker was Tony Greenstein, author of Zionism
During the Holocaustand the final speaker was Stephen Kapos, who was a
child survivor of the Hungarian holocaust. He was sheltered by a Christian group
in Budapest.
Stephen Kapos
The session
was chaired by Esther Giles from the Socialist Labour Network. On January 27 we
will be holding a similar meeting on Holocaust Memorial Day. We are determined
not to allow the Zionists a monopoly over the holocaust narrative in order to
use one holocaust to justify more holocausts.
Tony Greenstein