[Marxism] THE(?) Holocaust

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

comrades -
 
By calling the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews THE Holocaust, we  unconsciously 
minimize all the other holocausts - genocides throughout history.  For Native 
Americans of the Western Hemisphere, the European extermination of  perhaps as 
much as 90% of their ranks qualifies as THE Holocaust, Likewise with 
 
the African slave trade,
British complicity in the Irish potato famine of the mid 19th  century
the Belgian genocide against the Congo in the late 19th  century
Armenians in 1915,
the victims of forced collectivization in the late 1920s/early  1930s in the 
USSR,
the CIA supported coup in Indondesia in 1965 with its death  toll of between 
half million and one million
3-4 million dead in Southeast Asia
Rwanda
the Congo today
and too damn many other examples
 
The Zionist movement plays a perverse game of "who  has suffered more" with 
the threat of being called anti Jewish if the "wrong "  answer is given. Let's 
not play into that.
 
Dennis Brasky
 

 
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Adam writes:

Much as I agree with the intent,  this is disturbingly reminiscent of
the  "Committee for an Open Debate  on the Holocaust."


Reply:

And what of it? We do need an open  debate on the Holocaust, as there are a  
few serious and historical  questions that need answering. Such as:

1. Where is the evidence that  the Holocaust ever took place - in  Palestine?

2. If there is no  evidence that the Holocaust took place in Palestine why  
have the  Palestinians been condemned to pay the price for it?

It is time to  tackle head on the weapons used by these Zionist ethnic  
cleansers to  justify the continued colonisation and savage occupation of the 
  
Palestinians. The first is the notion that to be anti-Zionist or  anti-Israel 
is  to 
be anti-Semitic; the second is to run for cover as  soon as the word 
Holocaust  
is mentioned.

The only fitting  tribute to those millions of victims of the gas chamber in  
Europe  then is to campaign for Palestinian human rights today. I urge you to 
  
read Finkelstein's 'The Holocaust  Industry.'



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