{"id":260590,"date":"2026-01-27T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/260590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:01:12","slug":"the-plot-against-the-holocaust-commentary-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/260590\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plot Against the Holocaust \u2013 Commentary Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the future, Europe is going to need a day to remind itself of the existence of International Holocaust Remembrance Day\u2014let alone the Holocaust itself.<\/p>\n

There have always been additional purposes to the \u201cgenocide\u201d libel lobbed against Israel. But in true Big Lie fashion, the most risible parts of the libel are the ones with the most staying power because they are the most useful to its propagators\u2019 hidden agenda.<\/p>\n

In this case, the hidden agenda becomes clearer as we get closer to marking remembrance of the Holocaust. The \u201cgenocide\u201d accusation is a form of Holocaust revisionism intended to inflate Israel\u2019s crimes while reducing those of the Nazis and have them both meet somewhere in the middle. But it turns out there is something darker at work here: The Holocaust itself\u2014the reason we have the term \u201cgenocide\u201d\u2014is being replaced.<\/p>\n

Amid the surge in anti-Semitism after October 7, we saw increased demand to skip Holocaust educational programs by activists and educators who insisted it was controversial or insensitive to focus, even for a day or a few hours, on Jewish suffering. This trend, appalling as it was, has exploded: British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, in 2023, more than 2,000 secondary schools held commemorative or educational events to mark the day. But on October 7 that year, everything changed. In January 2024, just a few months after the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust, the number fell dramatically to less than 1,200. In 2025,\u00a0just 854 schools<\/a>\u00a0chose to hold an event. I fear for what will happen this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those numbers are astounding. In the United Kingdom, the Holocaust is being memory-holed.<\/p>\n

Why? Because you cannot have both the \u201cIsraeli genocide\u201d and the \u201cNazi genocide\u201d; they are incompatible and can\u2019t coexist within a single category. So it appears enlightened Westerners are choosing the former and dispensing with the latter.<\/p>\n

Accusing Israel of genocide is not merely an attempt to isolate the Jewish state diplomatically; it is part of an effort to erase the Holocaust from history.<\/p>\n

Educators who want to continue marking the Holocaust are facing increasingly vicious resistance. Olivia Marks-Woldman, CEO of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, told the Telegraph<\/a> that some teachers say they feel unprepared for what to do if (increasingly, when) attendees try to make the lesson about Israel\u2019s supposed crimes. \u201cBut then there are people with their own agenda who want to use HMD to attack the memory of the Holocaust,\u201d Marks-Woldman said. \u201cWe have had people write to us saying they will only commemorate HMD on certain conditions, for example, if we put out a letter condemning Netanyahu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marks-Woldman told the Telegraph that Holocaust education \u201cshould not be conditional on anything.\u201d Which is exactly right, of course. Unfortunately, in some sick sense, anti-Zionists agree: They are essentially pushing to retain Holocaust education as long as it is made entirely about Jewish crimes. When someone says \u201cHolocaust,\u201d these sociopaths want people to think Gaza.<\/p>\n

It would be na\u00efve to think this isn\u2019t already progressing here in the U.S. as well. First, because it\u2019s the exact same movement running with the exact same propaganda. Second, because according to some reports, it\u2019s already happening.<\/p>\n

The Jewish Journal reports<\/a> that at UC-Irvine, the student government prepared a resolution for Holocaust Memorial Day. Jewish groups joined the others in backing the resolution, which originally said: \u201cthe world continues to witness a troubling rise in antisemitism, Holocaust denial, hate speech, and violence, both globally and within local communities, which reinforces the urgent need for education, historical understanding, and active resistance to all forms of discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

The student government apparently removed the Jewish sponsors and the particularist Jewish details, essentially confiscating the Holocaust from its victims. \u201cWhat was originally a thoughtfully crafted Holocaust remembrance statement was fundamentally altered by ASUCI senators questioning established history, erasing Jewish authorship, and ignoring Jewish student voices,\u201d one UC junior told the Journal.<\/p>\n

Unless this trend is reversed, Holocaust Remembrance Day may soon have nothing to do with the actual Holocaust at all.<\/p>\n

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