Holocaust Revisited
A bit of AOL funny business going on here by the seem of things. A different image has been added to my article! I have the greatest sympathy for ALL the people that suffered in both the First and Second World Wars.
The German campaign to target specific groups, of which Jews were but one - others included the mentally and physically disabled, Communists, political opponents, homosexuals and classified 'deviants' and gypsies - was deplorable and despicable. Nor should time lessen our abhorrence of it or commitment to preventing it happening again. But we should also be very wary of giving precedence to any one racial or religious group to the exclusion of others, particularly if the intention is, to use it for party political or propaganda purposes, as the Holocaust remembrances clearly are.
As we have seen, Israel, itself responsible for both terrorism and genocide, besides on-going persecution, apartheid, bombing and ghettoising of Gaza closely akin to what happened in Warsaw, has made great play of the events of 75 years ago, and used it to great effect to influence European and American nations in its favour. Some would see this as the height of hypocrisy and duplicity.
As to the story of the Concentration Camps themselves, there has until comparatively recently been only one narrative in town, that of Gas Chambers and Six Million Jews murdered in them.
This has been shown by academics of the highest order, not only to be unreliable but also factually inaccurate in several respects. I noticed that even today's BBC News only referred to "more than a million" deaths, which was a significant shift, though of course still deplorable.
Relatively well-fed inmates being released from Auschwitz
In 'Breaking the Spell - The Holocaust, Myth and Reality', Professor Nicholas Kollerstrom argues that the many deaths that did occur, resulted not from gas chambers but from starvation and disease - mainly typhus - no less tragic, but certainly not as the story has been presented to the world.
He claims using contemporary documentation and other scientific evidence, there is nothing to support the claim of Gas Chambers. In fact they do the precise opposite.
We now find ourselves in a situation where the barbarism of the Second World War, enacted and suffered by all sides, has become the aphorism of just one group, to be used to brow beat old enemies and justify creating new ones.
Its practical manifestation has been the way it has been used to mendaciously influence liberal democracies to curtail free-speech and academic rigour in relation not only to criticism of the Jewish religion but to the activities, including war crimes, of the State of Israel itself, using a pretext of 'anti-semitism'.
For anyone committed to preventing a repeat of an holocaust, a potential reality which of course is not limited to Jews, this is quite intolerable.
Why is not equal attention focused on those suffering in Gaza TODAY?
We witness daily that those most vocal in seeking sympathy for historic mistreatment, are actively engaged in meting it out to others and arguing for violent aggression against its neighbours.
Let us start by re-investigating the received story and subjecting recent current events to the same rigorous and balanced examination before we all become victims of a new repressive regime, of which Hitler's Nazi Germany was the epitome.
Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust, Myth & Reality
40 Holocaust survivors condemn ‘massacre’ of Palestinians, call for BDS against Israel
