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The IHRA says that comparing Zionism and Israeli to the Nazi State is anti-Semitic yet today it is the Zionists who compare themselves to the Nazis

Speakers from top left to right - Tony Greenstein, Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead,

Prof. David Johnson, Lubna Speitan, Prof. Ilan Pappe, Prof. Kristina Hultgren,

Resisting the IHRA 9 May 2025 JNP Webinar

When I published my book Zionism During the Holocaust in October 2022 little could I know that a year later Israel would embark on a live-streamed genocide with Biden, Starmer and Schultz funding and arming Israel in order to complete the extermination of the Palestinians of Gaza.

It is remarkable that all those organisations that make up the Holocaust Industry not only kept silent but they even called those who did compare it with the Nazi holocaust ‘anti-Semitic’.

Karen Pollock believes comparisons between the Genocide of Palestinians and the Holocaust 'distorts' the memory of the Nazis' victims - far better to use that memory to justify the burning alive of children with their mothers

Prime amongst them was the empty headed trollope from the misnamed Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, who whined that ‘modern-day protests on a range of issues, including Gaza, are “trivialising” the Holocaust.’

If there is one thing Zionists hate above all it is comparing the Jewish holocaust to any other genocide or holocaust. To do so is to ‘trivialise’ the murder of 6 million Jews. What happened under the Nazis is unique, a one-off event attributed to the demonic nature of the Nazis. Nothing like it has ever happened before or since.

The Jewish holocaust is beyond history and indeed beyond any explanation. It is inexplicable, demonic, to be attributed to the ‘eliminationist’ mentality of the Germans (Daniel Goldhagen).

Zionism rejects such concepts as fascism, eugenics and selective breeding, racial imperialism or German settler colonialism. As Sybil Milton, the Chief Historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum observed:

the validity of the eugenic interpretation does not fit into the arguments of those historians positing anti-Semitism as a central motivation in Nazi policy. The preoccupation with antisemitism as a causative factor has thus limited our ability to see the connections between Nazi ideology, German social policy, and Genocide.

Milton observed that:

The emphasis on antisemitism and the exclusivity of the Jewish fate has, for obvious political reasons, also been the official Israeli interpretation

To Yehuda Bauer, the principal Zionist holocaust historian

The Nazis were ‘a political elite that had come to power with pseudo-messianic concepts of saving humanity from the Jews.

If the Nazis project was messianic, it was quasi-religious, beyond all explanation. To Bauer what determined Nazi policy towards the Roma was their asocial conduct, irrespective of race. Milton’s response was withering:

Defining an entire ethnic group as anti-social and criminal is a classic example of racism. I do not know why Mr. Bauer does not understand this.

Far from trivialising the Holocaust as Pollock believes, comparing it to other genocides such as Gaza helps us understand why it happened. When Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant calls the Palestinians human animals we can but recall the use by Himmler of the same phrase when describing Slavs and non-Aryans to senior SS officers on October 4 1936 in Posnan, Poland.

What is trivialising the holocaust, indeed mocking the holocaust is when Israelis call for the obliteration and destruction of Gaza and its people. How can we not recall the Nazi destruction of first the Warsaw Ghetto and then Warsaw itself.

By comparing the holocaust in Gaza to the Nazi holocaust we put the murdered Jews of the holocaust back into history rather than exceptionalising them as a freak of history. We take them out of the role that Zionism has created for them of being the reason for the annihilation of others. It is accepting that the 6 million Jews who died were killed for a reason and that they didn't bring it on themselves by refusing to be colonists in Palestine as the Zionist ideologues assert. Ctd....