Posted on 02/23/2022 3:42:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
Three events that followed the recent World Holocaust Remembrance Day illustrate how utterly “unlearned” the lesson of the Holocaust actually remains.
...Yet within less than two weeks, three events illustrated just how little the “lesson of the Holocaust” has been learned.
Notably, the media coverage of each was inversely proportional to its importance.
Event #1: Comedian Whoopi Goldberg’s foolish denial that the Holocaust involved race-based hatred: “Let's be truthful about it. Because the Holocaust isn't about race. No . . . these are two white groups of people!” Calls for Goldberg’s firing fueled a media feeding frenzy. And Whoopi was ritualistically shamed, suspended for two weeks from hosting The View.
Denying Hitler’s overtly racist motive for genocide is indeed offensive. How anyone could miss that fact about a Jew-hating dictator whose chief talking point emphasized the superior “Aryan race” is mind-boggling. And yet, a fair reading of Goldberg’s statements also indicates an absence of malice. Deeply misinformed commentary? Yes. Deliberate Holocaust denial? No. But this story drew far more attention than two other events presenting far greater risks to Jewish survival.
Event #2: Amnesty International’s massive, 280-page report charging Israel with “Apartheid Against Palestinians” through “a Cruel System of Domination and a Crime Against Humanity.” This document shouts from virtually every page, the illegitimacy of Israel’s very right to exist as a haven for the Jewish people. But it rests upon a foundation of inaccuracies and contextual omissions.
Chief among those omissions is the virtual absence of any reference to this reality: For the entire century from the 1920s to the present, the leaders of Israel’s Palestinian Arab neighbors have pursued just one goal through just one strategy, namely, the prevention and eradication of a Jewish state in the Middle East, through a never-ending terror and propaganda war.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Aldous Huxley - That Men do not learn very much from history is one of the most important lessons of history.
Canada just passed its own version of Hitler’s Enabling Act.
I’d say its Deep State learned plenty.
From Hitler.
Wasn’t Rwanda proof that we didn’t learn anything from the Holocaust?
If you have a well-stocked gun safe with plenty of ammo, it is a sign that perhaps you did learn a lot from history.
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