{"id":359744,"date":"2018-05-05T00:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/against-holocaust-denial\/"},"modified":"2018-05-05T00:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:54:59","slug":"against-holocaust-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/against-holocaust-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Holocaust Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_101840\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101840\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-04-at-9.21.37-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"363\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo source Ben Tilley | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Recently I read an \u201canti-Zionist\u201d Internet rant posted by a person who questioned the historical accuracy of the well-known and heavily documented fact that many millions of Jewish people were genocidally murdered by the German Nazi Third Reich.<\/p>\n<p>The rant-maker was on solid empirical and moral ground in denouncing the despicable behavior of the United States-backed Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) towards Palestinian people in the Israeli-Occupied Territories and particularly in Gaza.\u00a0Israel\u2019s abuse of the Palestinians \u2013 recently including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/10\/video-appears-show-cheers-israeli-sniper-shoots-palestinian\">open sniper-slaughter of unarmed protesters<\/a> on Israel-Gaza border \u2013 is one of the most egregious human rights atrocities of our time.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to fathom the murderous immorality of how Israel molests the people trapped in the open-air prison that is Gaza and how Israel mistreats the Palestinians more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>But the anti-Israel Internet poster made a critical mistake by combining his moral outrage at Israel\u2019s sickening offences against the Palestinians with denial of the Nazis\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-ii\/the-holocaust\/pictures\/holocaust-concentration-camps\/poland-auschwitz-birkenau-death-camp\">ghastly campaign<\/a> to eradicate European Jewry. The two crimes are intimately bound up and inseparably linked with each other. Israel\u2019s leaders and defenders have made little effort to hide their belief that \u201cthe Jewish state\u201d is entitled by the Nazi experience to do whatever Israel believes it must to make sure it Never Happens Again.\u00a0 If Israel thinks that means brutally uprooting, displacing,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/04\/against-holocaust-denial\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo source Ben Tilley | CC BY 2.0 Recently I read an \u201canti-Zionist\u201d Internet rant posted by a person who questioned the historical accuracy of the well-known and heavily documented fact that many millions of Jewish people were genocidally murdered by the German Nazi Third Reich. The rant-maker was on solid empirical and moral ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}