The Holocaust is deeply distressing to many Muslims. Not the fact of six million Jews being murdered — that’s not what distresses them. No, what is so distressing is that the mere mention of the Holocaust, discussion of the Holocaust, observances held to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and to honor its victims, all tend — Muslims fear — to create sympathy for Jews and the Jewish state, and that, of course, will never do. So it should not be a surprise that in the UK, an Islamic group with ties to Iran, the Islamic Human Rights Commission, has been doing its level best to persuade towns and schools not to observe the Holocaust Memorial Day. More on this grotesque attempt to efface the memory of what is one of the greatest crimes in human history can be found here: “British Islamic org. calls for boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day,” Jerusalem Post, January
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) wrote to 460 town halls and educational centers asking them to boycott the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day.
The IHRC, which British media has linked to Iran, said it was “morally unacceptable” that Gaza was not considered a “genocide” alongside the Holocaust….
Is the IDF committing “genocide” in Gaza? Of the 46,000 Gazans who according to Hamas have been killed, the IDF believes that at least 20,000 were Hamas fighters. In addition, before the war an average of 800 Gazans died each month from diseases and accidents. There is no reason to think that monthly average has changed, so in the 15 months of the war, 12,000 civilians have died of causes unrelated to combat. That means that the total number of combat-related civilian deaths in Gaza is 14,000. Out of a total population of 2.2 million, does 14,000 dead strike you as a “genocide”? And if the IDF is committing “genocide,” why does it make such tremendous efforts to warn civilians away from areas, neighborhoods, and buildings soon to be targeted? By March of this year, the IDF had already dropped nine million leaflets, sent fifteen million text messages, and made sixteen million robocalls to warn civilians away from danger. A military hellbent on “genocide” would not be spending so much effort — would not, indeed, be spending any effort — to minimize civilian casualties.
It’s not just the Islamic Human Rights Commission in the UK that wants us to charge Israel with “genocide” in Gaza; millions of people, screaming their spittle-flecked hatred on campus in America, and on city streets in Europe, are consumed with an anti-Israel animus that grades so easily into antisemitism (and the reverse is also true: antisemitism always includes hatred of the Jewish state), have convinced themselves that the embattled Jewish state, fighting a seven-front war, is committing “genocide” in Gaza.
Those who have kept their wits about them, and have looked steadily and whole at how the IDF has been fighting its war in Gaza, have come to a very different conclusion about that combat. British Colonel Richard Kemp was the Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan. He has fought in combat zones around the world, including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Iraq. He was also present throughout the earlier conflict in Gaza in 2014. This is his conclusion: “Based on my experience and on my observations: the Israel Defense Force, the IDF, does more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.” West Point Professor of Urban Warfare John Spencer has come to a similar conclusion from his studies: “Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history—above and beyond what international law requires.”
The Islamic Human Rights Commission in the UK and a cast of millions beg to differ. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, Pope Francis, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, Professor Rashid Khalidi, Hamid Dabashi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cornel West, and others of that simpleminded or sinister ilk, will all continue to insist, no matter what counter-evidence is presented, that the IDF has been committing “genocide” in Gaza.
IHRC also wrote a letter to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust itself, imploring the body to include Gaza on the list of genocides.
The “imploring” from the IHRC that the “Gaza genocide” also be remembered on Holocaust Memorial Day is both preposterous and disgusting.
The letter quotes the Holocaust Memorial Day’s website, which states the aim of the day is to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, as well as victims of recent genocides in “Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.”…
In all of the genocides listed at the website, there were deliberate mass killings of civilians, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of victims. The relative handful — in the thousands — of civilians who have died in Gaza as a result of the war were never the deliberate target. Those who were killed were the unintentional victims, the result of Hamas’ policy of embedding its fighters and is weapons in civilian areas. The IDF tries always to minimize civilian casualties; Hamas tries always to maximize them, to exploit the propaganda value of such deaths. Of course there have been civilian deaths; there always are in war. But there was no intent to kill civilians, and the number of civilians killed because of the conflict is much less, by more than an order of magnitude, than the numbers killed in the real genocides that took place in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
This is the time for the Holocaust Memorial Day organizers to answer the factitious claims being made by the IHRC, without giving an inch. To wit: there is no “genocide” in Gaza. The IDF makes efforts to protect civilians that is without parallel in the history of warfare. The IDF has provided millions upon millions of warnings by leaflet, by text messaging, by robocalling, to inform civilians about places that are soon to be targeted. Was that done in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur? Of course not. The killers in those real genocides were not about to warn their victims.
The IHMC doesn’t want anyone to forget the imaginary “genocide” in Gaza. But this attempt at moral blackmail will not work. You can cry to high heaven, Islamic Human Rights Commission of the UK that there has been a “genocide” in Gaza, but there is not a shred of evidence to support that claim. Instead, all the evidence shows how tremendous and unprecedented has been the IDF’s effort to save civilian lives. Let those organizing the Holocaust Memorial Day take on the nonsense and lies of the IHMC directly. And give special attention to the one “genocide” that is not past but very much present — the “genocide” that is going on today in Sudan, where the Arabs have already completed the slaughter of 70,000 mostly unarmed black Africans and are still killing. I don’t think the IHRC will like having that current genocide mentioned, but that’s too bad.
Siddi Nasrani says
To all of you in the Islamic group, go to hell you evil people.
You shall not win & take our country. We will rise up against you.
If our way of life does does not suit you, please go to one of your 57 Islamic states.
Hudders. says
Amen!
Remove the jihadi loving animals from Britain now.
(Bet Labour & Starmer actually support this boycott…)
Bruce David Watt says
if they add Muslims in Gaza they will have to add car accidents suicides and drownings to the lists
somehistory says
These rabid mozlums should be told to take a long walk on a short pier. And carry along some raw meat with which to chum the waters.
I’m getting really tired of reading/hearing about the whining demands of mozlums and their lying claims.
I do hope at least some of the people in the towns and schools will demonstrate evidence of honest spines.
Eddie says
Is not the demographic replacement of an indigenous people a form of Genocide?
Shall we talk about “Great” Britain and it’s ethnic people being swamped by the third world.
And when we are dead the Muslims will destroy our graves – as they plan to do in Dewsbury. That has already happened in some places.
Erase our culture , erase our history, erase us, erase our dead.
Hudders. says
YES!
Dewsbury, Huddersfield & many other Yorkshire attacked/towns have been invaded & people, properties that the islamist scum feel offended by are being vandalised daily.
Nothing or nobody is off limits to the animals.
Yorkshire is the center of the emerging British casliphatic state.
James Lincoln says
Eddie says,
“Is not the demographic replacement of an indigenous people a form of Genocide?”
Not technically, but it has the same results.
John Stewart says
Is there any western cultural tradition or event that does NOT offend Islam?
There are plentiful Muslim practices and events that civilised folks find offensive; boycotts can work both ways.
MD Anthony says
John Stewart the Jew calls for a boycott of Holocaust Remembrance Day? So that is what a self loathing Jew does.
Wow self loathing John Stewart…no wonder he is on meds
gravenimage says
That is not *at all* what John Sterwart is saying in this comment. Read his post again.
Then, I have no idea whether John Stewart is Jewish or not, and if he is on any medications–and I doubt that you do, either
Tim gallagher says
Decent human beings would naturally see the slaughter of millions of Jews by the Nazis scum as something to commemorate and mourn so, naturally enough, the barbaric, evil, blood lusting Muslim scum oppose any show of sympathy for Jewish people. Just another example of the total incompatibility of islam with civilised human beings everywhere. Any type of barbaric, evil, inhumane behaviour you will find that Muslims will support it. Islam truly is the devil’s own mob and should be blanket banned from all non Muslim countries. That is what it deserves.
Siddi Nasrani says
This is what the Islamic people are taught about the Jews, & of course they
believe it.
For example, in a weekly sermon in April 2002, Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the highest-ranking cleric in the Sunni Muslim world, called the Jews “the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.”[1]
In one of his sermons, Saudi sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, imam and preacher at the Al-Haraam mosque – the most important mosque in Mecca – beseeched Allah to annihilate the Jews. He also urged the Arabs to give up peace initiatives with them because they are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.”[2]
gravenimage says
+1
Leonidass says
Islam ( submission)will collapse ,like USSR in 1989,if we DENOUNCE pseudo prophet MUHAMMAD,who according to his biography( Sira) and traditions( Hadith) was a pedophile( wife Aisha was 9 yo), rapist, murderer, bandit (keeping20% of the booty for himself),liar and sex-slave trader and also LIBERATE THE MUSLIM WONEN from barbaric Sharia Law.The Koran states women are dumb, less intelligent than men,wives must be beaten for disobedience by their hudbands ,all women will go to hell unless in the last day their husband says he was pleased with her and all women must hide their curves and wear burkas ,so that men will not be aroused to rape them.Islam is a misogynistic ,violent , imperialist political ideology of Arab supremacy ISLAMOFASCISM(~70%), DISGUISED AS A RELIGION(~ 30%) that strives through violent Jihad and soft cultural Jihad ( dawa)to subjugate the World.Jihadists are promised, if killed battling infidels-kafirs,) they will go to Paradise to enjoy 72 virgins ,taking along 70 of their relatives regardless of their sins!Muslim Immigration is Hijra( flight)to take over the country they settle in ,like Muhammad did to Yatrib-Medina.This, along with forced child marriages and four wives per man ( Bin Laden had 52 siblings and 16 children),the muslims will soon outnumber the local populations and will impose Sharia law .Withdraw from UN MIGRANT COMPACT ,that falsely claims immigration is a Human Right expecting Western countries to accept and provide for an endless number of muslim illegal immigrants ,thus islamizing them. Muslim “refugees “should stay in Turkey or vast rich Saudi Arabia with international support ,until they can return to their countries.We must denounce islamic Sharia (=way)law of blasphemer,apostate ,homosexual , adulterer and hypocrite executions,misogyny,honor killings by stoning,hand amputations for theft,child brides,girls exclusion from schools,halal meat from tortured animals,clitorectomies,subjugation and segregation of women,burkas and Sharia banning of short skirts,bikinis,dancing,singing,painting ,sculptures of people,dogs,pork,alcohol and beauty contests .Demand gender equality for ALL muslim women.Punish severely those that kill apostates from Islam,blasphemers,adulterers or muslim hypocrites.Islam is incompatible with our freedom of speech, gender equality, values,way of life, Human Rights, Constitution, Republic and population stability needed to sustain Life on Earth.Tolerating intolerant Islam is cultural suicide!For more info on Islam go to YOU TUBE for: ApostateProphet,Exmuslims,David Wood,Ayan Hirsi Ali,BrigitteGabriel,BillWarner,Politicalislam.org,PamelaGeller,Jihadwatch,Nonie Darwish , Wafa Sultan,Richard Dawkins on Islam,Ani Cyrus , Geert Wilder,obsession – what the West needs to know.Also Google: Wikiislam, The religion of peace,barenakedislam, MEMRI etc.Watch the deposition of Ayan Hirsi Ali in Congress on how to defeat Islam:https://www.hoover.org/research/challenge-dawa-political-islam-ideology-and-movement-and-how-counter-it
Tony says
Islam means surrender(involuntary), not submission(voluntary). Allah in Islam demands SURRENDER which means ‘to Surrender, whether voluntarily or not, by becoming a Muslim’ while Submission, ‘to Submit’, is a voluntary act to follow the authority or control of another. Allah in Quran 49:14 says, “’The Bedouins said, ‘We believed.’ Say,’You did not believe. But say, ‘We surrender (became Muslim as a result of fear).’ And the faith has not entered your hearts. And if you obey Allah and his messenger, he will not decrease anything from your works. Surely Allah is forgiving, merciful.’”
gravenimage says
Islamic Group in UK Calls for Boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day
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I’m sure the IHRC would be fine if this day *celebrated* the Holocaust. Bloodyt thugs.
The Istanbulian says
As long as the IHRC recognizes the genocides that the Islamic occupations of Africa, Indian subcontinent, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, as well as Anatolia and the Levant….
Bexarkat says
Perhaps mention of the Holocaust is distressing to Moslems, is that the Nazis did not get “all of us.”
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims so often talk about finishing the job Hitler started. Horrifying…