“Never again,” they said 75 years ago, after Germany attempted to erase the Jews of Europe from existence.
If only they’d meant it.
But the Holocaust didn’t erupt from nowhere: it was the culmination of a long process. Although anti-Semitism had long stalked Europe, the cosmopolitan fin de siècle was surely different…except that the anti-semitic Dreyfuss Affair rocked France from 1894 to 1906, and the Bible of anti-semitism, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was published in Russia in 1903. It was all downhill from there.
Europe is fast sliding down the same slimy, slippery slope. Three-quarters of a century later, Jews are once again fleeing Europe as anti-Semitic violence ramps up from all sides. The cultural assault is now erasing the Jews from their own most important memorial.
The University College Union in the United Kingdom sent an email to branches that excluded mention of Jews among the groups persecuted during the Holocaust. According to The Jewish Chronicle, the UCU has since apologized. However, in a review of several websites connected to upcoming commemorations of Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, which will be held on January 27, references to Jews appear to be too often missing.
In the case of the UCU, a long list of those persecuted were mentioned, just not Jews. This included members of “trade unions” and “Roma” and “black people,” as well as gays and lesbians and “Jehovah’s Witnesses.” In addition, “non-Jewish Poles,” were mentioned – but not Jews. The UK’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, Eric Pickles, said the incident sends a “chilling message.”
The message is: “Juden raus”.
But the problem is much larger than just the UCU. Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 is already being wrapped into the easier to pronounce acronym “HMD 2020,” which in itself removes the word “Holocaust.” On some websites, such as the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s page devoted to “75 memorial flames,” it is clearly noted that the Holocaust was “the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe.” However, a press release from April about the “HMD 2020” theme, called “Standing Together,” doesn’t mention the word Jew. The press release, also at the Trust’s website, notes that “HMD 2020 will also include marking the 25th anniversary of the Genocide in Bosnia.” It is interesting that while Bosnia is mentioned, the place that the Shoah began in Germany is conveniently left out, lest anyone recall it was Germany that began the Holocaust and was largely responsible for it.
The website now says that the Holocaust was “the systematic murder of six million Jews across Europe.” However, a PDF for planning events doesn’t include the word “Jew.” The same pamphlet, when discussing the Rwandan genocide, mentions “an estimated 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus” who were murdered. It also mentions the “Kindertransport” of Jewish children but doesn’t mention that they were Jewish.
These are not just inconsequential oversights. Anyone who writes press releases about the Holocaust and mentions everyone but Jews clearly has an agenda. Of course Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust, but they were by far the single largest number of victims. More to the point, they were the specific target of the “Final Solution”.
Erasing Jews from the history of the Holocaust is a deliberate and sinister act.
A review of other sites related to the “HMD 2020” and “Stand Together” events reveals that Jews seem to be systematically excluded from discussions about the Holocaust.
A page for Bristol’s “HMD” doesn’t mention Jews on the homepage. It does mention 669 children rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe, but doesn’t mention that they were Jewish.
So, who does get a special mention?
On September 24, the Bristol HM Twitter account mentioned the “horrendous treatment of the Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar” and noted it is “close to being classed as genocide.”
[…] A six-page PDF put out by the HMD Trust […] highlights Albanian Muslims, alone among mentions of various groups in Europe, for saving Jews.
jpost.com/Diaspora/UKs-2020-Holocaust-Memorial-Day-events-removed-references-to-Jews-6
There is an undeniable pattern, here. The “corridor elite” of Europe have chosen sides: once again, Jews, you lose.