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January 31, 2007

'Palestinian Genocide Day' instead of Holocaust Day

More of this sort of thing, this time in Spain.

By Itamar Eichner for Ynet News, with thanks to Davida:

While the rest of Europe marked the UN-established International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, a small town in Spain opted instead to commemorate the 'Day of Palestinian Genocide'.

Ciempozuelos, a Madrid suburb home to less than 20,000 residents, announced that it would hold ceremonies and public events in honor of the 'genocide of the Palestinian people'.

Following the town's announcement Israel's Ambassador to Spain Victor Harel issued an urgent message to Ciempozeulos mayor Susana León, a member of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), asking him to reconsider his decision. Harel also turned to Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Moratinos and the PSOE secretary general.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) publicly slammed the decision as "shameful."

In an open letter to León the ADL wrote: "Applying the term 'genocide' to the Arab-Israeli conflict encourages hatred toward the State of Israel and deliberately insults those of us, both Jews and non-Jews, who seek to solemnly commemorate the victims of the Nazi campaign of slaughter."

The affair was covered extensively by the Spanish press. El Mundo, the country's largest daily newspaper, ran an editorial on the Ciempozeulos affair under the title – 'An insult to Israel'.

The coverage led to numerous Spanish citizens contacting the Israeli embassy to voice their support for Israel, while at the same time the Ciempozeulos administration was flooded by angry phone calls from outraged citizens.

Following the request of the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry the town eventually decided to cancel 'Palestinian Genocide Day' as well as choosing to forgo any of the original Holocaust ceremonies.

Any trace of the affair was stricken from the town's official website.

Down the memory hole.

Posted by Robert at January 31, 2007 10:49 AM
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Jews need to head for the European exits while there's still time.

Posted by: Beagle [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:33 AM

In less than 100 years the Holocaust will be totally purged from the history books at the rate things are going. The only thing that will be heard about it is that it was some myth to make Jews look like victims rather than victimizers. In its place as an accepted "fact" will be one of history's biggest lies-that those same Jews committed a deliberate and detailed genocide against those poor, noble Palestinians, stealing their sacred homeland and exterminating them to the best of their ability. More and more fools are buying into all this BS every day-it's only a matter of time before these things come to pass. The Holocaust deniers, with the help of Islamania, will totally rewrite history in the same way Stalin did.

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:35 AM

Black is white, in is out.
Already our religious history is re-written, "the US was always a secular state"....not what was taught in the early days of the US, I know because the truth was still taught when I was in school.

Posted by: Carolyn2 [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:44 AM

Are these Ciempozuelosians for or against a genocide of Palestinians?

Posted by: TheOmegaMan [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:45 AM

How about "Muslim Death Day," oooopss, there are 365 of those already....

Posted by: exsgtbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:50 AM

Muslims -- the all time thieves of everything.

They will even steal the righteous indignation of those they victimize, and then claim that very victimhood as their own.

This is a symptom of a culture so incapable of looking at its own reflection -- so completely incapable to face the reality of Islam's heinousness in the mirror that the only recourse left for Muslims is to project everything onto the outside world... all their poisonous hatred, all their ignorance, their rage, all of their self loathing and intellectual baggage must be projected onto 'the other' in order to protect the fragile Muslim mind from facing the truth about their failures and ugliness.

This is an indication that, at least on some level, Muslims KNOW how horrible their beliefs and minds actually are. Has there ever been a more cowardly and hypocritical society than Islam?

Parasites must be quarantined, the vectors isolated and destroyed. Cancerous growths must be cut away. Toxic wastes must be cleansed and contained, and healthy humans and ecosystems must be protected from them.

Isolation. Quarantine. ...

Posted by: jsla [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:50 AM

Why don't people remind the press --which has a limited knowledge of history, as we know-- about the Arab collaboration in the Holocaust, specifically in the person of Haj Amin el-Husseini, British-appointed mufti of Jerusalem? Husseini spent most of the war years in the Nazi-fascist domain, hobnobbing with Himmler and other Nazi bigwigs. He was aided by an entourage of scions of leading Palestinian Arab families. He helped the Germans recruit an Arab Legion to fight on their side, as well as Bosnian Muslim and Kossovo Muslim SS divisions. The Bosnian SS division was called Handschar [German spelling] or Khanjar. The Kossovo SS division was called Skanderbeg. This is ironic because George Skanderbeg was an Albanian who escaped from Ottoman captivity and came to lead a war against the Ottoman empire. His forces were made up of Albanian, Serbian, and other non-Muslim contingents. Though he had much success at the beginning, his forces were eventually defeated. How come Muslim collaboration with the Nazis is not talked about by the "Middle East experts" today?

Posted by: Eliyahu [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:51 AM

As long as we have leftist professors, leftist politician, leftist news reporters, leftist courts and justices and a large number of namby-pamby citizens who oooh and ahhhh at every anti-American activity (non violent and violent) in frenzied agreement, you can expect the Muslims to keep making demand after demand.

We must work harder in discrediting the Muslims authority for everything they do....Their Qur'an and their history...Their violent teachings and violent history must be broadcast at every level...Their lies must be challenged and outed...

We can win...

Posted by: exsgtbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 12:19 PM

ISLAMSFORLOSERS-You are so right when you say that in 100 years no one will know about the holocaust.

It took a few decades to erase the Armenian Genocide from peoples memories, or the slaughter of Greeks by Ottoman Turks, what makes this different?

We are deep in an age of true ignorance, where history is constantly being rewritten to appease traitors and thieves of all types.

History always repeats itself, simply because no one reads or knows history. I've been told that history is a meaningless subject and people need to look forward instead of to the past. This is said without any hint of irony, as if you don't know where you came from, how do you know where you're going?

Anyhow things are going bad for all of us, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, pretty much everyone will be affected on a level never seen in history.

Niv

Posted by: The fanatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 12:23 PM

It's good that so many complained.

Posted by: Celsius [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 12:38 PM

"...in honor of the 'genocide of the Palestinian people'"?

Oh dear... I mean, I don't like them either, but genocide would be a bit too much. :)

Posted by: Vera [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 1:11 PM

La maldición de allah está en ti, gente de Ciempozuelos, come mierda y muere!

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 1:23 PM

Love those moonbat local governments. Unfortunately, they exist in the U.S. as well. The one closest to me is Takoma Park, Maryland. They are a self-decalred nuclear free zone, so if their neighbor, The District of Columbia takes a hit, all the folks in Takoma Park will still be ok. Don't know about their view on the Isreali-Palestinian question, but would not be at all surprised if....

Posted by: MP [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 1:29 PM

sorry - I can spell self-declared, and Israeli-Palestinian. My learning disorder is kicking in.

Posted by: MP [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 1:31 PM

Not only in Spain. In Bolton, England, Muslim pressure led a local council to drop a Holocaust Day memorial in favor of a "Genocide Day" that would be all about the terrible things done to the "Palestinians" by those Israelis -- you know, the ones who provide that free medical care for the Arabs in those charity wards in every Israeli hospital, the ones who started the first Arab institutions of higher learning in the "West Bank," and who have made Arabic an official language, and required widespread study of it, and who despite every conceivable provocation, observe standards of behavior that are as high, or higher, in the care taken to avoid the innocent, as any army in the world. Meanwhile the "Palestinians," whose Haj Amin el Husseini was in up to his neck in raising troops -- the Bosnain SS. Brigade, for example --for his friend, and admirer, Adolf Hitler (but Rashid Ali in Baghdad, and Anwar Sadat in Cairo, and so many other Arabs were also, a little less effectively, determined to help the Nazi war effort), apparently expect us to ignore the atrocity after atrocity -- the little schoolgirls massacred at Ma'alot, the four sisters shot to death in the car a year or two ago, including the baby in her car seat, the seven Israeli girls on a school outing at that "Peace Garden" on the border with Jordan, the Israeli tourists shot while visiting the Sinai, the family sitting down to Passover dinner, the people in the pizzeria, the French Jewish girl waiting on tables in that cafe, and all the others, the thousands upon thousands of others, and not a single similar act, which could so easily be carried out, with a bomb on an Arab bus or two, but never is, by the Israelis with their Western or hyper-Western standards, and the "Palestinians" with their primitive hatreds, the hatreds that find their textual source in Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira.

Here's that Bolton story:


Council boss says 'sorry' over Holocaust service decision
By Rob Devey

The apology fills the front page of The Bolton News
THE leader of Bolton Council has said "I'm sorry" over a controversial decision which saw the town's Holocaust memorial service cancelled.

And Cliff Morris has vowed the event - which remembers the millions murdered by the Nazis - will be back next year.

An informal all-party committee of party leaders, deputies and whips backed a recommendation by the Bolton Interfaith Council to scrap this year's ceremony at a meeting on December 4. They decided to replace it instead with a more inclusive Genocide Memorial Day in June in the belief that Jews on the interfaith council had been consulted.

But the interfaith council's treasurer, vicar of Bolton Canon Michael Williams, says there are no Jews on the body and no Jews in Bolton were consulted.

Cllr Morris said: "Had we known this, of course we would have asked for consultation.

"It's a misunderstanding. We should have asked all the right questions and I apologise. The event will definitely be back next year."

Millions of people, including Jews, homosexuals, members of the Catholic and Protestant clergy and Poles, died in concentration camps at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust.

The most notorious was Auschwitz, where up to 1.5 million were killed between 1940 and 1945. Cllr Andy Morgan, Conservative group whip, who was at the meeting, said: "If the Jewish community was not consulted, we are angry because we were told at the meeting it was represented on the interfaith council. We have been misled."

Cllr Barbara Ronson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group, who was also at the meeting, said: "Either one of the councillors or an officer told us there was Jewish representation on the interfaith council. I would have wished to hear what the Jewish community felt about it."

We should have asked all the right questions and I apologise. The event will definitely be back next year
- Cllr Cliff Morris

Canon Williams has defended the role of the Interfaith Council, claiming it was Bolton Council which made the final decision.

"All we did was make a recommendation to Bolton Council, and I don't regret that advice," he said.

"I think we should remember all instances of genocide. It was up to the local authority to decide whether to take that advice."

Canon Williams added that Jewish people in Bolton would be welcome on the interfaith council, which has Christian, Muslim and Hindu members, but said none had come forward. The 2001 census recorded 146 Jews in the town.

The decision to scrap this year's Holocaust service attracted widespread criticism from councillors and religious leaders.

Cllr Frank White, whose job is to oversee community cohesion in Bolton, was furious as the decision was made behind his back.

He said yesterday: "I'm pleased Cllr Morris has recognised the gravity of the situation and the feelings it has engendered. This has been a terrible mistake. "

One Bolton resident who came to England as a refugee from Holland in the war, having lost his entire family to the Nazis, told of his disgust.

The man, who did not wish to be named, arrived in Bolton in 1942.

He said: "It's a disgraceful situation when the largest town in the country does not mark this day and I am personally offended.

"It's too late to do anything for this year although I'm obviously pleased the service will be returning."


Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 2:06 PM

We are deep in an age of true ignorance, where history is constantly being rewritten to appease traitors and thieves of all types.

[...]

Niv
Posted by: The fanatic

The only difference being that there is a photographic record of the Holocaust which exists. There are also spoken word interviews which have been recorded - from victims, from perpetrators and from witnesses such as the Allied soldiers who freed the concentration camp inmates whom they still found alive.

I myself have heard first-hand testimony - if you want to call it that. Some people have a need to talk about what happened to them while others stay silent.

I do hope the islamofascists won;t get a hold of this record or they'll do to it what they've already done to the Alexandria Library. And so many other cultural and religious institutions and monuments which they've managed to defile and destroy.

Even if there hadn't been a Holocaust we should be on the side of Israel - for so many reasons that they need not be discussed right now at length.

And because the Holocaust did indeed happen we have - especially Germans - a special reason to prevent harm from coming to The State of Israel and the Jewish people as well.

It's ironic that the well-meaning German Lefty-fools [Linksgutmenschen] are now on the side of the 'palestinians' who have hijacked the persecution of the Jews as if it were their own.

It is one thing for the moFoes to do that. It is what we've learned to expect from them. After all, the koran is the manual of doublespeak and turnaroundspeak. Taquiya and kitman and Hubdilaya or whatever they call it.

But it is quite another thing for the International Left to buy this cynically concocted moslem crap and support their aim to eradicate the State of Israel.

We all should know better. First and foremost the Germans.

Our place is with the victims after what we have done or what was done in our name. It is shameful for some of us to once again succumb to evil rhetoric and enable once again those who have been persecuting Jews and others for centuries.

Maybe I haven't said this very eklegantly but I hope it comes across.

Shame on those who cannot separate rhetoric from reality!

Shame on those who ignore History. They do so not only at their own peril - but at all of ours.

We cannot say shame on the moslems. They merely do what they always have done. It is up to us [Thank you, Robert and Hugh] to recognize what they do and how they do it. Break their techniques down for the blind among us to see.

They can cover their eyes and ears. And they can try to silence us. One day, they too, will have lost their right to speak freely.

The dark spectre of islam looms over Civilization as it has never before.

And the band plays on...

Posted by: MeanieMo [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 2:09 PM

This gave me an idea. We need an Infidel Genocide Day, Non-Muslim Genocide Day or Victims of Genocidal Jihad Day to remember the untold millions killed and subjugated by Islam during it's still on-going 14 century war against all who aren't Muslims. We can have special parades to remember the approximately 60-70 million Hindus slaughtered by Muslims in India and the untold millions of Europeans, Africans and Asians enslaved by Muslim Arabs and the continued slaughter by Muslims today of innocents (including other Muslims)around the world.

You think CAIR will enter a float?

Posted by: Proud Infidel [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 2:30 PM

MeanieMo, I agree that having a pictorial archive helps in teaching, but don't forget that a picture is only as good as the info attached to it.

Revisionism is a plague on our society, and another symptom of this plague is the ignoring of fact.

Thankfully there are people out there that want to keep these events (and not just Holocaust) but reasons for the war in the first place alive.

One of my best friends in a Police Officer who is currently a school liaison. He was appalled when speaking to a group of high school kids that absolutely none of them had heard of the holocaust and knew nothing about WWII. As a result he has made arrangements with the local bus company for a free bus and driver and is taking the kids to a holocaust presentation in the city. How disgraceful has our education system become that it ignores history that is not even 100 years old, and requires someone outside the institution to educate its students?

These are the symptoms of decay that the socialist world has brought upon us, and if we do not participate in its change it will be the main weapon to our undoing.

Niv

Posted by: The fanatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 3:38 PM

Another country in Europe to be written off...what else is new? Hope the Spaniards enjoy their eventual subjugation by the Arabs. At some point, they do get what they deserve. I suppose next they'll be offering to give Adolosia to Osama.

Posted by: J.S. [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 3:44 PM

What about the ongoing genocide in Southern Sudan.
If you stretch the time frame back to the early 1980’s it is estimated that 2 million people have been killed, largely because of the determination of the Islamic North to impose a Sharia system on the Christian-Sharia South.
Vast crimes have been carried out by the Janjaweed militia supported by the Government in Khartoum.
Support has taken the form not only of arms but use of military aircraft.
Why does the UN not impose a No-fly zone as was used in the former Yugoslavia?

Well it could if sufficient will-power was shown.

Why are these PC Spaniards ignoring the extermination of 2 million people in Darfur?

Posted by: Odyessus [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 3:51 PM

Al Andaluz is an Islamic country.

Ask any Mohammedan, it is 'rightfully' theirs...

Posted by: sheik yer'mami [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 4:12 PM

Here's the real genocide: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26711

Posted by: scaramouoche [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 4:31 PM

Let's rewrite history with the power that we possess.

Posted by: lonewolf [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 7:22 PM

Can we now formally declare the DEATH OF THE WEST?

If this is not it-- I don't know what is?

Posted by: genevieve [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 7:49 PM

"Already our religious history is re-written, "the US was always a secular state"....not what was taught in the early days of the US, I know because the truth was still taught when I was in school.

Posted by: Carolyn2"

Well no, Carolyn, if you were actually taught in school that the U.S. Constitution made Christianity the state religion, you were in fact taught wrong. The U.S. is not an "officially" Christian country, nor is it officially anything in terms of religion, which is precisely what is meant by a secular state. In putting this in their Constitution, clever men that they were, they have precisely avoided the kind of B.S. going on in Britain and elsewhere right now, where religious education is seen far more as a governmental responsibility and therefore Islamists are demanding equal time, emphasis (and money) given to their own proseletyzing. In the U.S., the flip side to being free to practice one's own religion without governmental interference is the government being free of any demands by any religious groups to kowtow to its particular beliefs, something the Christian Right seems to conveniently forget, along with an unfortunate number of people in the present administration. Yeah, I know it's unlikely in the near future that a non-Christian would ever be elected President, but constitutionally, there's nothing to prevent it. You don't like it, take it up with the Founding Fathers; even as dead as they are they could probably still argue you under the table.

Posted by: angloirishslav [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:15 PM

One thing I want to know is: if there really was "genocide" committed against the Palestinian people, why are there still so damn many of them? The whole point of genocide, it seems to me, is to make a sizable dent in the numbers of a given population; the population of those callng themselves Palestinians has, on the contrary, exploded over the past few decades. If there really was a "genocide," it must have been the lamest genocide in history.

Posted by: angloirishslav [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2007 11:20 PM

So much to reply to.. but time to go to sleep finally.. I am still PISSED OFF as hell re. the lack of reaction from the White House about the abduction and murder of 5 of our soldiers by the insanians.

CAN BUSH FINALLY complain at least a LITTLE about the lack of Geneva Conventions for OUR forces??

We have guys locked up in Pendleton and these insanians murder our captives in COLD BLOOD - EXECUTION STYLE!!

Damn that just PISSES ME OFF!!

Get behind that microphone already, Bush.

Or prepare an Am-Bush for them.. I'll go along with that.. say nothing and BOMBS AWAY!! But it has to happen VERY SOON!!

what i was going to say:
Ciempozeulos - affanculo
Bolton - same to you! Affanculo!

ny the way. the Spanish Minister of Justice refused to attend a conference in SOWdi when they barred the women he brought from entering the facilities. He's a Sozi at that. Finally a Spaniard with cojones!!

I'd love to kick one of those fat SOWdis in theirs. penalty style.

Posted by: MeanieMo [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 1, 2007 4:11 AM

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