International Holocaust Day

[FrankOFile]

Worth pausing to think and remember.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, an attempt to implement its "final solution" to the Jewish question. 27 January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

Also worth remembering the recent words of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in relation to this. In a speech to senior members of his Fatah movement, Abbas said that Adolf Hitler killed European Jews not because of antisemitism, but because of their “social functions” in society, such as money lending.
“These people were fought (sic) because of their social function related to money, usury,” Abbas said in the speech. “From Hitler’s point of view, they were sabotaging, and therefore he hated them.”

Interesting to see that Palestine still pedals the same anti-semitic tripe nearly a century later.

Wait, there’s more. Abbas claims Israel has committed ‘50 holocausts’ against the Palestinian people. Given the conservative estimate is 6 million people slaughtered in the Holocaust, this is some feat on the part of Israel to top this with 300 million killed. Clearly a man to negotiate peace with.

Perhaps Hamas have a more enlightened view. This from their website:

‘Following the special international conference in Stockholm concerning the alleged Jewish Holocaust during World War II, a senior leading member of The Islamic Resistance Movement-- Hamas--states the following:
This conference bears a clear Zionist goal, aimed at forging history by hiding the truth about the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis. . . . The invention of these grand illusions of an alleged crime that never occurred, ignoring the millions of dead European victims of Nazism during the war, clearly reveals the racist Zionist face, which believes in the superiority of the Jewish race over the rest of the nations.
The story itself has no proof. . . . The Zionist entity is using psychological and ideological terrorism through the Stockholm conference and the alleged Nazi Holocaust. . . .’

The ‘alleged’ Holocaust? Interesting, particularly as there is no separation between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism.

It is worth reflecting on such repugnant views on this important day.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Should be a good reminder to ensure we uphold the vital ‘Never Again’ considering current world problems.

[RedDwarf 1881]

The German philosopher Georg Hegel once famously said " The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history". I think Hegel was spot on and why we can expect past mistakes to be repeated .

[B.whitehouse+10more]

Don’t think this thread will end well

[LeighO]

I’ve already got the popcorn ready.

[Hoover Attack]

Should be a good reminder to ensure we uphold the vital ‘Never Again’ considering current world problems.

Absolutely.

Never again - no more genocides of ANY peoples.