Islamic Group in UK Calls for Boycott of
Holocaust Memorial Day
The Holocaust is deeply distressing to many Muslims. Not the fact of six million Jews being murdered — that’s not what distresses them. No, what is so distressing is that the mere mention of the Holocaust, discussion of the Holocaust, observances held to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and to honor its victims, all tend — Muslims fear — to create sympathy for Jews and the Jewish state, and that, of course, will never do. So it should not be a surprise that in the UK, an Islamic group with ties to Iran, the Islamic Human Rights Commission, has been doing its level best to persuade towns and schools not to observe the Holocaust Memorial Day. More on this grotesque attempt to efface the memory of what is one of the greatest crimes in human history can be found here:
British Islamic org. calls for boycott of
Holocaust Memorial Day
Jerusalem Post, January
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) wrote to 460 town halls and educational centers asking them to boycott the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day.
The IHRC, which British media has linked to Iran, said it was “morally unacceptable” that Gaza was not considered a “genocide” alongside the Holocaust….
Is the IDF committing “genocide” in Gaza? Of the 46,000 Gazans who according to Hamas have been killed, the IDF believes that at least 20,000 were Hamas fighters. In addition, before the war an average of 800 Gazans died each month from diseases and accidents. There is no reason to think that monthly average has changed, so in the 15 months of the war, 12,000 civilians have died of causes unrelated to combat. That means that the total number of combat-related civilian deaths in Gaza is 14,000. Out of a total population of 2.2 million, does 14,000 dead strike you as a “genocide”? And if the IDF is committing “genocide,” why does it make such tremendous efforts to warn civilians away from areas, neighborhoods, and buildings soon to be targeted? By March of this year, the IDF had already dropped nine million leaflets, sent fifteen million text messages, and made sixteen million robocalls to warn civilians away from danger. A military hellbent on “genocide” would not be spending so much effort — would not, indeed, be spending any effort — to minimize civilian casualties.
It’s not just the Islamic Human Rights Commission in the UK that wants us to charge Israel with “genocide” in Gaza; millions of people, screaming their spittle-flecked hatred on campus in America, and on city streets in Europe, are consumed with an anti-Israel animus that grades so easily into antisemitism (and the reverse is also true: antisemitism always includes hatred of the Jewish state), have convinced themselves that the embattled Jewish state, fighting a seven-front war, is committing “genocide” in Gaza.
Those who have kept their wits about them, and have looked steadily and whole at how the IDF has been fighting its war in Gaza, have come to a very different conclusion about that combat. British Colonel Richard Kemp was the Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan. He has fought in combat zones around the world, including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Iraq. He was also present throughout the earlier conflict in Gaza in 2014. This is his conclusion: “Based on my experience and on my observations: the Israel Defense Force, the IDF, does more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.” West Point Professor of Urban Warfare John Spencer has come to a similar conclusion from his studies: “Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history—above and beyond what international law requires.”
The Islamic Human Rights Commission in the UK and a cast of millions beg to differ. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, Pope Francis, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, Professor Rashid Khalidi, Hamid Dabashi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cornel West, and others of that simpleminded or sinister ilk, will all continue to insist, no matter what counter-evidence is presented, that the IDF has been committing “genocide” in Gaza.
IHRC also wrote a letter to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust itself, imploring the body to include Gaza on the list of genocides.
The “imploring” from the IHRC that the “Gaza genocide” also be remembered on Holocaust Memorial Day is both preposterous and disgusting.
The letter quotes the Holocaust Memorial Day’s website, which states the aim of the day is to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, as well as victims of recent genocides in “Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.”…
In all of the genocides listed at the website, there were deliberate mass killings of civilians, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of victims. The relative handful — in the thousands — of civilians who have died in Gaza as a result of the war were never the deliberate target. Those who were killed were the unintentional victims, the result of Hamas’ policy of embedding its fighters and is weapons in civilian areas. The IDF tries always to minimize civilian casualties; Hamas tries always to maximize them, to exploit the propaganda value of such deaths. Of course there have been civilian deaths; there always are in war. But there was no intent to kill civilians, and the number of civilians killed because of the conflict is much less, by more than an order of magnitude, than the numbers killed in the real genocides that took place in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
This is the time for the Holocaust Memorial Day organizers to answer the factitious claims being made by the IHRC, without giving an inch. To wit: there is no “genocide” in Gaza. The IDF makes efforts to protect civilians that is without parallel in the history of warfare. The IDF has provided millions upon millions of warnings by leaflet, by text messaging, by robocalling, to inform civilians about places that are soon to be targeted. Was that done in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur? Of course not. The killers in those real genocides were not about to warn their victims.
The IHMC doesn’t want anyone to forget the imaginary “genocide” in Gaza. But this attempt at moral blackmail will not work. You can cry to high heaven, Islamic Human Rights Commission of the UK that there has been a “genocide” in Gaza, but there is not a shred of evidence to support that claim. Instead, all the evidence shows how tremendous and unprecedented has been the IDF’s effort to save civilian lives. Let those organizing the Holocaust Memorial Day take on the nonsense and lies of the IHMC directly. And give special attention to the one “genocide” that is not past but very much present — the “genocide” that is going on today in Sudan, where the Arabs have already completed the slaughter of 70,000 mostly unarmed black Africans and are still killing. I don’t think the IHRC will like having that current genocide mentioned, but that’s too bad.
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France: Muslim screams
‘Allahu akbar, the Jews must be killed,’
is acquitted on procedural error
Everything’s going to be fine. There is nothing whatsoever to be concerned about. Concern about this would be “racist” and “Islamophobic.” Trust your moral superiors. They know best, and are competently guiding us into the glorious future of multiculturalism and diversity.
‘Allah Akbar, the Jews must be killed’: due to a procedural error, the defendant is acquitted
translated from “‘Allah Akbar, il faut tuer les juifs’ : à cause d’une erreur de procédure, le prévenu est relaxé,” by Florent Duprat, La Dépêche, January 15, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):
El Mofaddal was tried before the court of Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), Tuesday, January 14, 2025, for “public and direct provocation not followed by effect to commit a crime.” He allegedly uttered, on October 14, 2023 on the Place Nationale, the sentence “Allah Akbar*: the Jews must be killed.” He was acquitted due to a procedural error.
The words are unequivocal. ‘Allah Akbar*, the Jews must be killed.’ El Mofaddal, 46, is said to have uttered this phrase drunk on October 14, 2023, in the early evening in the Place Nationale in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne). Exactly one week after the atrocities committed by Hamas on Israeli territory and the start of the war between the Hebrew State and the terrorist organization.
Anti-Israel protesters break police line in London, 77 people arrested
Anti-Israel protesters pushed through police lines and defied police conditions for a London march’s route on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said, with 77 people being arrested during the unrest.
The MET had on Wednesday set a route and time for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) protest march to the BBC so that it would not come close to a synagogue during Shabbat services, but protests began an hour earlier and convened on Saturday at the endpoint of Whitehall rather than the starting point at Russel Square.
A police line north of Whitehall was broken through just after noon, with protesters forcing their way into Trafalgar Square, the MET said. They were reportedly prevented from going further by another police line and two vans. A group of around 60 was arrested when they attempted to leave Trafalgar Square.
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