Politicizing the Holocaust: It has come back to bite Israel

 Israel is continuously condemned (incorrectly) for genocide, starvation, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and child-killing. Such allegations have been made by so-called friends and longstanding foes alike, as well as the usual suspects, the NGOs, and inevitably the United Nations. Such condemnations come right out of the playbook of Holocaust inversion

While everyone knows that it’s the proscribed terrorist organization that is culpable for the crimes listed above, why is Israel the one that is vilified for them – exactly the same ones that were committed against the Jewish people by Germany and its accomplices between 1933 to 1945?

Even though Israel has lost one war, the propaganda and advocacy war, there is something that must have caused the collective willing of the liberal West and its media to want to believe a terrorist organization rather than the only democracy in the Middle East, a region not known for adhering to human rights, gender equality, or the protection of minorities.

Those who committed the despicable acts on October 7, 2023, knew full well that while the said liberal West might be repulsed by their actions, they would be easily able to manipulate international public opinion and be thought of as the victims instead of the perpetrators – an inversion of the truth.

At times, they succeeded. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the habitual defamer of Israel, infamously claimed that “the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.” In the mindset of those concerned, Israel, the Jewish state, had for 80 years played the ultimate victim card. They had, as victims, engendered the collective guilt of the member states of the recently rebooted League of Nations, which by 1947 had been rebranded as the United Nations to pass the historic resolution on November 29 of that year enabling the creation of the State of Israel as part of the Partition Plan.

Israel's original sin

But in doing so, it is claimed, the price of the creation of the State of Israel was paid for by the Arabs who were forcibly removed from the land. This is enshrined in the “catastrophe” they call the “Nakba,” which the United Nations has manipulated since 1949 in lending its credentials to UNWRA, an alternative refugee agency, that has served as a sword of Damocles over Israel’s head ever since, fostering the belief of not only Arab victimhood but a right of return.

It is not difficult to see why, with the built-in voting power of the Non-Aligned Movement, that the UN regards the State of Israel as a nation born in sin.

The fact that five neighboring Arab countries declared war and invaded the nascent state seems to have been written out of history – much in the same way that the ethnic cleansing of 850,000 Jews living in the countries of the Arab League following the creation of the State of Israel has never been recognized.

The great-grandparents of those living in Gaza and parts of the West Bank were told to leave by the invading Arab armies and to come back once the Jews had been thrown into the sea. That’s another fact conveniently written out of the public narrative.

Anyone with a decent command of the facts already knows all this, so why have we reached such a state of affairs? Is it because Israel has used up all of its moral capital in the eyes of those who wish to see the war as one of victim and oppressor in the mindset of the liberal elite and their accompanying media echo chamber.

Framing Israel as a product of the Holocaust

Significantly, Israel has wittingly fostered this idea by framing the country as a product of the Holocaust rather than by the long overdue recognition that the Jews are the indigenous people of our ancient, ancestral God-given homeland; instead of emphasizing that the terrible wrongs perpetrated against the Jews of antiquity by the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, et al, could now be righted by giving the Jews their land back.

By politicizing the Holocaust, Israel has constantly reminded the perpetrators, the accomplices, and the bystanders of Europe’s darkest moment of their collective acts of commission and or omission. Israel might have been better served over the last 80 years focusing its efforts on demonstrating the Jewish historical connection to the land.

Instead, Israel ferries foreign diplomats and officials to Yad Vashem to pay their respects in the Hall of Remembrance. Such opportunities would have been better used by visits to the Western Wall or the Cave of the Patriarchs, identifiable evidence of the veracity of the Bible and the legitimacy of Jewish sovereignty. Indeed, Jewish sovereignty, in a land once part of the caliphate, is the underlying cause of 140 years of Muslim rejectionism.

The war that has now lasted close to two years is just a continuation, in its most extreme form, of that rejectionism. Israel must ask itself how relevant is it now to parrot the mantra of “never again” when, in the lifetime of 220,800 Holocaust survivors, it has happened again.

In the face of so much hatred and evil, what value exists in Holocaust education in its current form? Have the innumerable worldwide teaching programs improved the understanding of the Holocaust? Have such educational programs prevented subsequent genocidal wars from being perpetrated?

Has such education caused those countries with varying degrees of complicity to openly confess to the crimes of their grandparents’ generation?

Sadly, the answers to all these questions are at best negligible and at worst “no.”

More importantly, Israel’s “moral capital” – a term thrown in our faces in a deeply troubling article in the New Statesman by Lord Jonathan Sumption, a former UK Supreme Court justice – is now used up and the inversion of the truth is being portrayed against the Jewish state, as we see on a daily basis.