HOLOCAUST DENIAL IS A CRIME, GENOCIDE DENIAL IS KOSHER
Alex Papadapulos
Daily Sundial
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May 6 2010
California
Every year the Armenians scattered across the earth commemorate the
event that lead to their being scattered across the earth, the Armenian
Genocide. What resistance this term still provokes comes from two
sources, logically from two sources that will be damaged directly by
its recognition. The apparent source is the present Turkish Republic,
which does not want to be known as a state built on genocide, and
therefore avoids the odium of being known as a genocidal state. The
other, and the more troubling, is the zealous opposition of Israel
and Jewish organizations.
For years all the top Jewish organizations, the Anti-Defamation League,
(which in ’07 under Abe Foxman fired the head of its New England
chapter, Andrew Tarsy, for accepting the Armenian Genocide) AIPAC,
(which trains Turkish diplomats in ways to obfuscate the issue of the
Genocide) the B’nai Brith, and the mother of all Jewish organizations,
the ‘Jewish state’, Israel, have not merely refused to recognize the
Armenian Genocide, which would be understandable and well within their
rights as an uninvolved party,-no honest man demands tears of sorrow
from strangers for his own loss, he is too begrieved to look for an
audience- but is actively at the forefront of suppressing the first
genocide of the 20th century.
They have created lovely euphemisms for their dishonesty, calling
Jewish genocide deniers, like Bernard Lewis, Richard Pearle, and
others, ‘The Jewish Exclusivist School’; that is, Jews who want to keep
the Holocaust ‘unique’ event. They certainly are unique, we’ll give
’em that, if their leaders cast themselves as the defenders of the
memory of genocide and the sufferers of ‘the most unspeakable crime
in history’ while at the same time working hard to make people forget,
denying the genocide that preceded and influenced their own.
Their most often stated excuse, these Jewish leaders, is that the
passage of an official statement either in the U.N. or especially in
the legislature of the U.S., will adversely effect the relationship
between Israel and Turkey, Israel’s only Muslim ally. "Oh," we are
to say, "they are not evil, merely political opportunists."
There are men in prison today, like David Irving in Britain, for
doubting the Holocaust; yet for the conscious act of suppressing
the recognition of the Genocide, Jewish groups and Israel are kosher
because in so doing they’re pursuing selfish political interests. (To
be sure, there’s a good bit of denial too: a Jewish attorney named
Bruce Fein working for the Turkish Coalition of America can safely
write an article titled "Lies, Damn Lies and Armenian Deaths"
(Hufington Post, June 4, 2009) Which, I ask, is worse: To doubt
sincerely, or to cynically suppress and to say "We believe it" and to
suppress it nonetheless? The former is merely foolhardy, the latter
is evil.
Even if a bill recognizing the Genocide passes this or in the coming
years, it will be because of Jewish groups withdrawing their hand and
allowing it to pass to hurt a Turkey that no longer cooperates with
Israel, as recently Turkey refused to admit Israel into a joint NATO
military excercise; or when the President of Turkey scolded Shimon
Peres on Palestinian deaths, the next day in the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz a columnist mused: "Perhaps the next time the Armenian genocide
bill comes up in the U.S. congress, the Palestinians will help them
block it."
You know what? Maybe it will pass sometime soon, but for all the
wrong reasons.