Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
The Nazification of Israel – When Israelis Talk about Extermination and Annihilation It’s Easy to Understand Why the German State Supports Them
Holocaust Memorial Day Meeting
Saturday 27 January 7 pm
Register here
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‘Never Again’ means Never Again for All
Palestinians Included
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Yad Vashem is Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Museum. Its is devoted to using the Holocaust, not as a way of warning the world of the dangers of fascism and racism but as a means of creating a particular Zionist narrative of the Holocaust as a means of legitimising the Israeli state.
As I show in my book, Zionism During the Holocaust, Yad Vashem distorts and manipulates the historical record in order to magnify Zionist resistance during the Holocaust whilst at the same time erasing the much larger role that anti-Zionist Jews (the vast majority of European Jews) played.
In particular Zionism has glossed over and condoned the collaboration of Zionist leaders with the Nazis. It has rehabilitated the most notorious of their collaborators, Rudolf Kasztner, the leader of Hungarian Zionism and the representative of the Jewish Agency in Hungary.
After the war Kasztner went to Nuremberg to testify in favour of several Nazi war criminals including Hermann Krumey, Eichmann’s second in command in Hungary who was in charge of the mechanics of the deportation process. Some 437,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Nearly all died in its gas chambers.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz was an Orthodox Jews, he turned down the Israel Prize and Professor at the Hebrew University Jerusalem - he was a polymath and had doctorates in medicine and philosophy. President Ezer Weizman described him as the 'spiritual conscience of Israel.' He called the settlers of the West Bank 'Judeo-Nazis'
Earlier this year 50 leading holocaust researchers in Israel wrote to Dani Dayan, Yad Vashem Chairman, asking him to speak out against those in Israel, including the Prime Minister himself, who were openly calling for genocide in Gaza.
Dayan himself is no slouch when it comes to racism. Former Chair of the Yesha Settlers Council he stood for the Knesset for the racist Tehiya settler party and then for Jewish Home. That a racist such as this could be Chairman of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Museum is in itself proof of the poison at the heart of Israel’s abuse of the memory of the Holocaust.
You might think that it was a no-brainer for the Chair of Israel’s holocaust memorial centre to condemn calls for the extermination and murder of Palestinians. It’s like asking the Pope to condemn abortion. But no, you would be wrong. In Israel you can shed tears over the extermination of the Jews (but not the Disabled, Gypsies or Gays) but you can also be, at one and the same time, an out and out racist towards every other victim. Ctd....
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