From Canadian Dimension ➤ In his book The Holocaust Industry, political scientist Norman Finkelstein argues that an ideological construct has taken shape around the Holocaust that is used to cloak Israel with the status of “victim state” despite its “horrendous” human rights record. 




One of the key planks of this ideology is the notion of ‘uniqueness’, both of the European Holocaust and of Western Jews as victims.

In November 2019, Roger Hallam, one of the founders of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, was caught up in a highly controversial media storm in which he was accused of anti-Semitism. Hallam had contradicted the ideology Finkelstein had identified, describing the Holocaust as just another genocide—as he phrased it “just another fuckery in human history“—which, by example, he compared to the death toll in the Belgian Congo.

The constructed media notion of supposed offence to European Jews was highly specialised in that it was restricted to white, heterosexual, able-bodied, politically conservative victims. If insult had been genuinely given by Hallam it was also an offence to gay, disabled, black and leftist victims of Nazi eugenics and extermination policies.

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Israel, Holocaust And The Un-Existing Of Black Victimhood

From Canadian Dimension ➤ In his book The Holocaust Industry, political scientist Norman Finkelstein argues that an ideological construct has taken shape around the Holocaust that is used to cloak Israel with the status of “victim state” despite its “horrendous” human rights record. 




One of the key planks of this ideology is the notion of ‘uniqueness’, both of the European Holocaust and of Western Jews as victims.

In November 2019, Roger Hallam, one of the founders of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, was caught up in a highly controversial media storm in which he was accused of anti-Semitism. Hallam had contradicted the ideology Finkelstein had identified, describing the Holocaust as just another genocide—as he phrased it “just another fuckery in human history“—which, by example, he compared to the death toll in the Belgian Congo.

The constructed media notion of supposed offence to European Jews was highly specialised in that it was restricted to white, heterosexual, able-bodied, politically conservative victims. If insult had been genuinely given by Hallam it was also an offence to gay, disabled, black and leftist victims of Nazi eugenics and extermination policies.

Continue reading @ Canadian Dimension.

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  1. Holocaust Memorial Day commerates other genocides asuch as Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia as well as the genocides of the Roma and Sinti, gay people and of the disabled victims of the T4 programme.

    The uniqueness of the Holocaust lies less in the ethnicity of its victims than in use of the resources of a modern European state towards the physical extermination of this ethnic group in its entirety. The logistical planning of the Shoah from the construction of racial categories, the building of the camps, the transport logistics, the bureaucracy, the attempots to eradicate every semblance of existence of European Jewry makes it unique.

    The Shoah/Holacaust was in one sense colonialism brought back to Europe. But it fused the racism and colonialism of the massacres in the Belgian Congo and the genocide of the Herrdero people (to name just two examples) with centuries old European forms of antisemitism such as collective responsibiity of Jews for the death of Christ, thier "rootless cosmopolitanism", the child-killing, bllod libel slander, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion conspiracy, their associoation with finacial capitalism and communism.

    The Holocaust, like African slavery, needs to be remembered because of its utter negation of humanity and to ensure that it is never repeated. For "who remembers the Armenians now"? It is a universalist narrative.

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