Blaming the Jews

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Bernard Harrison. Blaming the Jews

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BLAMING THE JEWS

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor

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In other words the Shoah has become a monstrous object of covetous lust. … From this comes the frenzied effort to gain admission to this very closed club and the desire to dislodge those who are already part of it. Consider this circa-2005 statement by Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Great Britain until 2006, who proposed replacing Holocaust Memorial Day with Genocide Day: “The message of the Holocaust was ‘never again’ and for that message to have practical effect on the world community it has to be inclusive. We can never have double standards in terms of human life. Muslims feel hurt and excluded that their lives are not equally valuable to those lives lost in the Holocaust time.” In short, and to put it bluntly, it is now time to change victims. In the contest for world title of best outcast, the Muslim must replace the Jew, all the more so because the latter not only failed to live up to his status but because he has himself become, with the creation of the state of Israel, an oppressor. In short, the idealization of the Jews has paved the way for his later vilification, or, to put it differently, the Judaization of the Muslims necessarily leads to the Nazification of the Israelis.27

Once again, it apparently needs to be said, the crime committed by the prosecutors of the Holocaust was that of treating a birth certificate as equivalent to a death warrant. It was not that of regarding the death of one person as less valuable (whatever that may mean) than the death of another. To think that it was is to forget. And with forgetfulness comes the possibility of repetition: perhaps this time not in the shape of a further destruction of the Jews but in that of some other group.

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