Three Acts of Denial

The principal antisemitic commentary tropes which tend to emerge around the time of the annual Holocaust commemorations — like three acts of denial — are as follows...

1) Conflating the 'final solution' with contemporary events. (Almost always only those involving Jews.)

2) Diversifying/diluting the Holocaust, via name-checking every other group targeted for persecution by the Nazis to a point where mentioning the J word seems almost superfluous.

3) Suggesting that the European Holocaust has been an 'excuse' for the existence of a Jewish homeland; the only excuse according to some zealots.

These forms of bigotry have been steadily rising in recent times, perhaps peaking on Sunday when a pregnant Jewish woman called Lior Tibet was carried out of her own Holocaust commemoration event in Ireland as a result of a silent protest at the public shame the President was at that moment bringing upon the Irish nation.

 

 

For anyone else a bit too thick to immediately comprehend...

 

Anne Frank was not just any young civilian victim of the pitiless conflict that was WWII. To suggest such an equivalence is contemptible.

 

She is remembered for a whole package of reasons, but very specifically as an abiding emblem of the fate of Dutch Jews during the Holocaust: 75% of whom were exterminated by the Nazis.