𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬

 

This short text I wrote on January 28, 2022, which I am publishing for the first time on my sites.

—Nasir Khan

For most people, the Holocaust under the Nazis means only the killing of Jews. As a result, for the rulers of Israel, it has been the only thing that matters and is still used as a defence to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from their land.

The Israeli arguments and response run along such lines: If we have got rid of the Palestinians, then don’t forget, we are the victims of the Holocaust! But why did you destroy Gaza in 2014? Oh, to ask this question is anti-Semitism! Don’t forget what happened to us under the Germans. Thus, the Holocaust is a catch-all defence to every crime Israel has committed and is committing against the Palestinians.

Why are you still illegally expanding in the occupied areas? We can expand wherever we want because this is ‘our land’ that God gave us. But why did the same God create thousands of years ago a people who have lived in Palestine for thousands of years and are called Palestinians? You see, you are anti-Semitic to say a thing like that. You hate us. Why don’t you shut up and mind your own business? Go away, you bloody anti-Semitic scoundrel!

But what the Nazis did to the Gypsies, the Poles, and to the millions of Soviet citizens during the Second World War finds little mention in the Holocaust narrative.