COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY EMILY HILTON IN THE
INDEPENDENT
"As a Jew, the
‘de-judification’ of the Holocaust by Donald Trump and Richard Spencer is
terrifying"
You should be ashamed to write that, totally ashamed.
First, ‘de-judification’ is a term straight from the Nazis. It
is an appalling word to use.
Second, whether you like it or not, it was not only Jews
hurt and destroyed by the Nazis. There were many groups. Hitler was not a
person with only one seething hatred.
I actually have a hard time understanding why recalling the
fact that many others died should bother the writer. It just smacks of an
extreme and weird kind of prejudice.
It "shouldn't," but then shouldn't in today's
world can be applied to so many behaviors, notably the appalling behavior of
Israel in keeping millions as legal non-persons while regularly
"legally" stealing their land and homes, the Holocaust somehow always
being cited as making this additional later barbarism okay.
I'll note also that many unfair charges have also in the
past been laid by writers with views related to this writer's views against
speaking of the documented Armenian Genocide or the Ukrainian Genocide called
Holodomor. The late Elie Wiesel sometimes went through frightening, accusatory
paroxysms over the very mention of any other event being compared with the
Holocaust.
As though terrible treatment can only be spoken of with
regard to Jewish people. That is an absurd claim, on its face.
And, of course, the greatest catastrophe in human history,
Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, killed 27
million Soviets plus millions of Germans. It indeed provided the covering noise
for the Holocaust.
