Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wrote Asking Me to Help Them 'Preserve the Truth of the Holocaust'.
I Responded by Asking Them Why They Wanted to Commemorate the Holocaust and what ‘Truth’ was it That They Wanted to Preserve?
I didn’t know that I was on Yad Vashem’s mailing list of donors. Clearly I now walk in exalted company! Perhaps that’s because Yad Vashem now has a copy of my book, given to them in memory of Yehuda Schwarzbaum (1930-2011) and his relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem
Clearly Zohar Neumann, who sent me the begging letter, hadn’t read my book because if he had he would have come across more criticism of Yad Vashem than I expect he is used to. Founded in 1953 as an Israeli State propaganda institution, Yad Vashem is the main institution charged with developing a Zionist holocaust narrative, distorting holocaust history and creating what is called ‘holocaust awareness’ or consciousness.
Despite its commitment to learning the lessons of the holocaust, Yad Vashem does not include Israel’s numerous racist laws against its own Arab citizens in that lesson. Nor does it consider the vicious anti-Arab discrimination in Israel, the pogroms against Arabs and calls to expel refugees as forming any part of those lessons. The ‘lessons of the Holocaust’ are Zionist not anti-racist ones.
Lenni Brenner - the author of Zionism in the Age of the Dictators and 51 Documents on Zionist-Nazi Collaboration
In Yad Vashem’s sanitised world we learn nothing about Zionist collaboration with the Nazis. Nor do we learn about how the Zionist leaders made every effort to sabotage rescue schemes where the destination was not Palestine. Or how the Zionists undermined the Jewish Boycott of Nazi German and instead did their best to ensure that the Nazi regime was not destabilised.
In his book Zionism and anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, Francis Nicosia, Professor of Holocaust Studies at Vermont University and himself a Zionist states that:
the police authorities were entirely satisfied by 1938 that Zionism had become the dominant political force among those Jews who remained in Germany (p.123)
Yad Vashem doesn’t ask why no Zionist Congress before 1939 condemned the Nazi attacks on Jews or why the Nazi state viewed the Zionists in Germany as the good, ‘racial’ Jews and why the Zionist Federation of Germany consciously used their favoured status to try and displace the existing non-Zionist leadership.
Still less do we find out why the heads of the Jewish Desks in the Gestapo were allowed to attend their conferences and use the German Jewish delegation as their proxies?
Eichmann attended the 1937 Zionist Congress in Zurich and his predecessor, Baron von Mildenstein attended the 1935 Congress in Lucerne. Nor do they ask why Eichmann visited the Zionists in Palestine alongside Haganah and Gestapo double-agent Feivel Polkes before the British expelled them.
What we do know is that there is no more ardent supporters of the traditional Jewish leadership in the ghettos, the Judenrate, than Yad Vashem, even though they were despised by the very Resistance that they purport to support. Ctd....
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