By Eric Resnick
There are things that need to be said on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This comes from the heart of a Jewish American who lost relatives in the Holocaust and grew up in a community that took the Holocaust and the importance of learning lessons from it seriously. We grew up asking how something that terrible could happen at all, and how it could be that the world allowed it to happen.
The Holocaust was incomprehensible until now.
Led by the United States, the world’s response to the Holocaust was the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide convened in 1948. This was preceded by the Nuremberg Trials, where evidence that informed the convention was presented.
It was at that convention that the definition of genocide was codified, and it’s always worth repeating it:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Further:
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
There it is. Rooted in the evidence of both actions and state of mind, from the 13 trials of those who directed the Holocaust, evolved all the tools needed to ensure that we would never again have to ask how something that terrible could happen, nor how the world would allow it.
“Never Again” became the new battle cry, and it seemed that most decent people understood what that meant.
“Gaza will expose every hypocrite.” — Yahya Sinwar
The promise of the Genocide Convention didn’t last very long. Slightly longer than two generations later we have a new standard for cruelty, inhumanity, unspeakable crimes, and yes, genocide. It’s Gaza, and the progeny of Holocaust survivors are primarily responsible, as well as every world leader that traded their own privilege position for their duty to take a stand against genocide.
We are no different from our ancestors. Anyone who feigns ignorance about how the Holocaust happened after witnessing Gaza should be dismissed as an intellectual fraud.
The Holocaust did not start with the camps. It started with systemic dehumanization of those who would eventually spend their final days at the camps. That dehumanization made it possible for Genocide to be conducted with the acquiescence of the population. It went on for years.
Hitler’s rise to power began in 1919. The Nazi Party was formed in 1921. The first death camp to open was Dachau in 1933. Kristallnacht happened in 1938. Auschwitz-Birkenau opened in 1940. It’s a progression. It’s deliberate. There was a victimhood component, too. Hitler’s political success came from exploiting the German depression and resentment resulting from their defeat in WWI.
Zionists learned a lot from the Nazis, and began applying it in earnest in 1948 as the Zionist Project conducted the Nakba. The Nakba continues to this day.
The entire Zionist Project is settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing with components of Jewish supremacy. It’s not operationally different from Nazism. In fact, it relies on the same strategies of systemic dehumanization, only of Palestinians. Zionism exploits Jewish fear of repeating the Holocaust, and where fear is naturally insufficient, Zionism foments more.
As a side fact, the Zionists and Nazis collaborated. I know, no Jewish school would ever let their students know that, but it’s true. Zionists knew that if Nazis were successful it would be easier to convince reluctant Jews to back the project out of fear.
The Haavara Agreement of 1933 was between Nazis and Zionists. It allowed Jews leaving Germany and Austria for Palestine (and only Palestine) to keep some of their wealth.
Zionist Organization president Chaim Weizmann, a ghoul who would later become Israel’s first president, convinced the British government to refuse entry to child refugees of the Holocaust so they could be transferred to Palestine instead.
In the United States, Zionists picketed non-Zionist organizations who were sending food and supplies to the Jews in the ghettos of Poland.
If you notice a rhyming similarity to Zionist behavior today, your senses are not deceiving you.
To Zionist,s “Never Again” is not universal. They only mean Jews, and deeper truth be known, only Ashkenazi Jews of eastern European origin. If you are not Jewish, or you have something Jews covet, your collective demise is no problem. At its core, that’s what Nazism was too. The problem is, Holocaust education is taught through the prism of Zionist goals, not humanitarian ones.
Hence, the disparity between the interpretations of “Never Again.”
Holocaust education is transactionally centered around victims and victimhood, while only paying lip service to the more important piece of rejecting de-humanization and colonization universally and in all forms. The fact that people spend years studying the Holocaust but have no idea that there is a definition of Genocide or what it encompasses, is telling. It should be the first thing taught.
Zionists who will end your career if you do not sufficiently pay homage to their victimhood Holocaust narrative are providing material support for the Palestinian Genocide in Gaza and Ethnic Cleansing of the Occupied West Bank, and deny that either are occurring.
If you do not reject and condemn Zionism, recognize the genocide in Gaza, and seek justice for it, any commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day is just a performative farce.
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