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Holocaust a myth? by Saybhan Samat In his latest reference to Israel, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran in a television broadcast from south-east Iran in Zahedan, Sistan Baluchistan said that the Holocaust where it is claimed that six million Jews lost their lives in Europe during the second world war; is a myth. His comment outraged Israel who retaliated by calling Iran a rogue state and a danger to other countries in the region. In the past decade there has been a doubt regarding the Holocaust among several Europeon intellectuals who had done research on the Holocaust. Prominent among them was Roger Garudy, a Frenchman, who was arrested and had to stand trial as it is a crime publicly to dispute the official Holocaust story of six million murdered Jews. Besides Roger Garudy many other individuals have been fined, imprisoned or forced into exile for daring to contest Holocaust claims. It is of utmost importance for Israel to keep alive the Holocaust story in order to forestall political criticism and suppress debate about her policies in Palestine. Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar who teaches at De Paul University in Chicago, writes in his best selling book, The Holocaust Industry that "invoking the Holocaust is a ploy to delegitimize all criticism of Jews." He adds " By conferring total blamelessness on Jews the Holocaust dogma immunizes Israel and American Jewry from legitimate censure." Organised Jewry has exploited the Nazi Holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel's and its own morally indefensible policies. Memorials In many American and Europeon schools, as in Israel schools, a focus on the war time suffering of Europe's Jews is an obligatory part of the curriculum. Britain, Germany and Italy officially observe Holocaust Rememberance Day. The United Nations has voted to designate January 27 as international Holocaust Rememberance Day. There are more that 250 Holocaust museums and memorials world wide most of them in the US and Europe. The largest is the official US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., which draws some two million visitors yearly. The whole exercise is to serve Israel interests and bolster Jewish-Zionist power. It is no wonder when President Ahmadinejad refers to the Holocaust as a myth, he awakens the ire of the Israelis who retaliate naming Iran, a rogue state. The subject of the Holocaust had been focused on by many European scholars and intellectuals. It had been subdued due to judicial and legal procedure that make it a crime to question the Holocaust. With President Ahamadinejad's statement calling the Holocaust a myth there bound to be new avid interest and research on the Holocaust, which may break the spell the Israel-Zionists have cleverly created about it. |
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