This article was originally published in Danish on December 15, 2019.
Recently, Jyllands-Posten called for more education to combat anti-Semitism. May we suggest that this could be done by locking people up in camps and using ordinary torture to kill their brain cells, as is done in other totalitarian states that want to control what people read, think and believe. I understand that China has some experience in this field, which I am sure they would like to share with others. Here, however, they are content to propose increased education about the holocaust. It’s an interesting and not very clever or well thought-out proposal – but then again, you wouldn’t expect it to be. In other words, a holocaust against the Jews 75 years ago should mean that new generations of Jews should be beyond criticism and analysis for all eternity – and that the reasons for this holocaust should forever be taboo!
In this context, let us remember that there are other peoples besides the Jews who have had their holocaust: the Turks brutally murdered 1.5 million Armenians after World War I (in percentage terms, a loss of roughly the same magnitude as that of the Jews during World War II), in Ukraine, Stalin purposefully starved some 6 million people to death in the 1930s. In Ukraine, Stalin purposefully starved around 6 million people to death in the 1930s – with Jews serving as the tyrant’s willing executioners – and communism as a whole has cost well over 100,000,000 lives. 2 million German civilians were murdered after World War II during the expulsion of a total of around 12 million Germans from their homes in Eastern Europe – another 1 million prisoners of war were starved to death. However, none of these holocaust-affected peoples are claiming immunity due to their painful past, which is largely unknown to others. Isn’t it about time we heard about these things? The Jewish holocaust is now hanging over people’s heads, and further stuffing it down their throats is likely to have the opposite effect. How about a little education on the consequences of the ravages of communism to prevent the further spread of this plague, which can continue its deadly activities unhindered from the parliamentary chamber? Furthermore, Islam has committed genocide on a scale that escapes precise quantification, but which is considered to surpass even that of Communism, and if you read the Old Testament, you will find an endless list of entire peoples exterminated by the Jews. I am sick and tired of hearing about the Jewish holocaust!
Incidentally, a large number of Armenians live in diaspora in both Europe and America. Armenians have also produced many talented, creative and successful people with considerable fortunes all over the world. They do not seek to capitalize on their holocaust either monetarily or emotionally, they do not engage in gender studies, feminism, Marxism, whiteness theories or anything else that degrades other peoples, and they do not aspire to positions where they get to rule over their host people. Therefore, there are no anti-Armenian tendencies. Why is it different with Jews than with all other peoples? If you want to teach anti-Semitism, you must first find out what creates anti-Semitism. So we need to hear some qualified suggestions?
Incidentally, a true anti-Semite’s comment on the holocaust would be quite short: “Good! Otherwise we would have had 6 million more + their offspring and their offspring’s offspring to work for our destruction! Hitler promised at the outbreak of the war that he would exterminate the Jews of Europe and he did what he could. Unfortunately, he didn’t have time to finish the job!” That would also be the only logical reaction from people in the Northern Front. But they deny the holocaust. So they believe that their idol Hitler said one thing, but like any other politician, he didn’t fulfill his promise, and they spend their time and effort fighting a war that ended 75 years ago. On holocaust denial, American Matt Koehl said: “I don’t really believe in a holocaust of that magnitude, but I don’t want to touch revisionism, because when you work so hard to prove that 6 million Jews weren’t gassed, you implicitly suggest that it would have been morally wrong to do this, when in fact it would have been the only morally right thing!” We’ll leave that for a moment!
This is just to show that increased holocaust education will not eliminate anti-Semitism, quite the opposite. Experience has shown that such education would quickly degenerate into pure emotional porn, and the victims of such education would feel like French geese used to produce foie gras. As mentioned, anti-Semitism can only be eradicated by eradicating its real causes, and as long as you assume that anti-Semitism is caused by ignorance, conspiracy theories, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ or similar nonsense, you won’t get far with your so-called “education”! And anti-Semitism rooted in the Koran cannot be removed with pictures of dead Jews – on the contrary, they will provoke cheers!
For the record, we would like to state that we do not condone the holocaust. We believe that it was a crime against the German people, who fought with their backs to the wall and whose scarce resources were now being used to transport completely unimportant people across Europe in trains that had the right of way over ammunition trains, troop transports and food trains. This was completely pointless and irresponsible. If you wanted to exterminate the Jews, you could have easily and cheaply done it where they were – and this was largely done in the Eastern regions. However, it required 85,000 police soldiers, who would have been much needed at the front, but who were now having fun shooting completely innocent people. And here we are at the heart of the matter. The holocaust was probably initiated as a reaction to the bombing of the German civilian population as a form of revenge. But the victims of the holocaust were in no way responsible for the terrorist bombings of German cities – they were just as innocent in everything that was going on as the German civilian population, who would not have supported the holocaust if they had been aware of it. The far more guilty (e.g. the members of the Frankfurt School) were let go by Hitler in the first years after 1933 and were now sitting in important positions in America in absolute safety, and they were hardly unhappy about the holocaust, which largely affected the despised Eastern Jews in particular and through this blood sacrifice paved the way for the formation of the State of Israel. Had the Allies really wanted to, they could have easily prevented the holocaust through targeted bombing, but it was not a high priority. There are many aspects of the holocaust that a Danish holocaust education would definitely not touch on. It would be appropriate to supplement with a small book that the author of these lines found in a bookstore in New York many years ago: Rabbi Moshe Shonfeld: The Holocaust Victims Accuse, Neturei Karta of U.S.A., Copyright 1977. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to know more about the holocaust.
It is not anti-Semitism that leads to the holocaust – it is the causes of anti-Semitism! To eradicate anti-Semitism, you must eradicate the causes!
Povl H. Riis-Knudsen
Translated with the help of AI
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