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“The Holocaust Never Happened”

Meryl Yourish reports in her blog entry Swedes: Who cares about old, dead Jews when Gazans died last month? today: “See if you can follow this logic, because it’s pretty much escaping me. A town in Sweden has decided to cancel its Holocaust remembrance procession because of the Gaza war.” A northern Swedish city has decided to cancel a planned Holocaust Memorial Day torchlight procession due to the recent IDF offensive in Gaza, it was reported Tuesday.

(By the Editrix)

The official reason given for the decision, made by the municipal board and local church in Lulea, was safety concerns, but Bo Nordin, a clergyman and spokesman for the church, cited the war in Gaza.

“It feels uneasy to have a torchlight procession to remember the victims of the Holocaust at this time,” Nordin told Swedish National Radio. “We have been preoccupied and grief-stricken by the war in Gaza and it would feel just feel odd with a large ceremony about the Holocaust.”

I’m sorry, could you please explain that logic to me again? It would feel wrong to remember the victims of the Nazi genocide because Palestinians died in Gaza last month? Do you mean that it would feel wrong to remember people who were killed because they were Jewish because people who were Jewish killed Gazans?

Would someone kindly tell me again how criticism of Israel is not related to anti-Semitism, because I’m really missing that vital blind spot.

The decision drew fierce criticism from various organizations as well as residents of the city, and a defiant group of Lulea locals has decided to hold the torchlight procession anyway.

Good for you. And hey, Bo Nordin, way to show the compassionate side of Christianity—by being unable to feel sympathy for two disparate groups at the same time. You’re some religious leader, all right.

I will give explaining a try. This is the typical German way of thinking, which has been more or less adapted by the rest of Europe as well. It has to do with the psychological mechanism of self-exculpation that lets every single misdeed by Jews, real or perceived, and by Israel, the über-Jew, somehow magically lessen the German/European guilt of the Holocaust. Therefore every single misdeed by Jews, real or perceived, has to be duly noticed, given its due “importance”, and charged up against the genocide of the European Jews.

This thinking is, too, based on the deeply antisemitic premis that Auschwitz was a reformatory, a premis that has always been an accepted fact for the German-, and now for the European mainstream as well.

It seems that what Israel, the über-Jew, has done in Gaza has finally nullified the Holocaust in the mind of the Nordins of this world. The charging-up has finally come to a satisfactory end. I don’t think that it will remain an isolated case. Watch Roncesvalles and this space for more.

Cross-posted at Roncesvalles!

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#1 r-igg.com (01. Feb 2009 17:57)
“The Holocaust Never Happened” – Politically Incorrect – English Version…

Meryl Yourish reports in her blog entry Swedes: Who cares about old, dead Jews when Gazans died last month? today: “See if you can follow this logic, because it’s pretty much escaping me. A town in Sweden has decided to cancel its Holocaust remembrance…
#2 Blather (06. Feb 2009 09:53)
"Would someone kindly tell me again how criticism of Israel is not related to anti-Semitism?" Would criticism of the crusades make one un-Christian? Would criticism of Zimbabwe make you a racist? Would criticism of Gore Vidal make one illiterate?
#3 Larry_Stewart (05. Apr 2009 05:07)
Why must everyone feel that if you don't want to be apart of the holocaust hipe you hate the jewish people . Let it go move if I do or don't believe that a choice.
#4 mary (27. Apr 2009 22:28)
you people are stupid, you cant just let go off somethiing so significant in history. if we do, it might happen again
#5 Siderite (06. May 2009 14:13)
The point was that it DOES happen again, and by the very people that should know better. And if it is ok to let go of a lot of horrible things that are happening today because of failing TV ratings or public apathy or whatever, why should I care about the Holocaust?
#6 aliselvi (12. Sep 2009 15:39)
AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM · PRO-AMERICAN · PRO-ISRAEL · AGAINST THE ISLAMISATION OF EUROPE · FOR FUNDAMENTAL LAWS AND HUMAN RIGHTS — that was taken from the top of this web site. its seems to be ok when you point fingers, critisise and horrid about others but cant take it yourself by any standarts. when you say "FOR FUNDAMENTAL LAWS AND HUMAN RIGHTS", does that only include Jews? or the pains and grieviences of the Jews that suffered at the hands of others? over 40 million people were killed during the early stages of Comunism in Russia. and even more in China. arent those to be remembered? if its a matter of numbers, then we should honor those dead first.. if it isnt, then we should honor the people killed at the hands of curent Jews today, then Jews killed at the hands of others, some 60+ years ago. and to be truely honest, id rather care about "LIVE" people who are loosing those lives today then worry about those of the distant past.
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