Holocaust Denial is a favorite sport and a pastime among a certain group of Muslims who cannot allow themselves to admit that there had ever been a Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered, for recognition of that truth might increase sympathy for the Jews, and thus for the Zionists, and that would never do. In France some Muslim students have refused to study the Holocaust, which is part of the national history curriculum, for that very reason: they don’t want to hear about it, they don’t want to think about it, they don’t want anyone else to learn about it.
The best known of the Arab Holocaust deniers is none other than Mahmoud Abbas, President-for-Life of the Palestinian Authority, now in the 15th year of his four-year term. In 1984 he earned his doctorate at Patrice Lumumba University with a thesis entitled The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism. According to Abbas, the Zionists were in cahoots with the Nazis: those wicked Zionists figured that if the Nazis persecuted Jews in Europe, more of them would flee to Palestine. And for the Zionists, that was all that mattered.
In his thesis Abbas said the “so-called” Holocaust had been exaggerated and Zionists had created the “myth of the six million dead,” which was, according to Abbas, a ”fantastic lie.”
Here is a key paragraph in Abbas’ dissertation:
It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement, however, is to inflate this figure [of Holocaust deaths] so that their gains will be greater. This led them to emphasize this figure [six million] in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions — fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand.”
Elsewhere in his work, Abbas says that perhaps a somewhat greater number or Jews, possibly as many as 800,000, died. But he was sure of one thing – the total was nowhere near six million; that claim ha to have been a deliberate fabrication.
In May 2018, in a televised address to the Palestinian Parliament, Abbas blamed European Jews’ “social function” — specifically “usury and banking and such” — as the basis for the animosity toward them that led to their mass murder (“only 800,000” still qualifies as mass murder). Abbas claimed his views are backed by Jewish authors, whose books conclude “that animosity toward Jews was not because of their religion but because of their social activities.”
I was reminded of Abbas — whom so many seem to have forgotten, or perhaps never knew, is a Holocaust denier — when I read at MEMRI.org about another, very recent, example of the same dreary type, one Dr Ibrahim Alloush. Dr. Alloush is a Jordanian-Palestinian academic, who was interviewed on the television program Palestine Today on December 17, where he went beyond Abbas’s minimizing of the Holocaust to denying it altogether. The MEMRI.org report on Alloush, who spent 14 years in the U.S. and received his doctorate from Oklahoma State in economics, is here.
Kuwaiti-born Jordanian-Palestinian academic Dr. Ibrahim Alloush, said in an interview on Palestine Today TV (Lebanon) on December 27, 2020 that the Westerners are fed up of hearing Jewish claims of victimhood. He said that Jews hold the whole world responsible for antisemitic persecution and massacres, which culminated in the “so-called Holocaust.” Dr. Alloush added that no Jew or non-Jew died in the gas chambers, because there we no gas chambers. Dr. Alloush teaches at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan. He had lived and studied in the U.S. for 14 years until he got his PhD from Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Ibrahim Alloush: “What some people do not understand is that Westerners are fed up with the claims about the historical victimhood of the Jews and about the whole world being antisemitic. The [Jews] have [they claim] gone through persecution and a series of massacres, for which they hold the entire world responsible. The culmination of this persecution and those massacres is the so-called Holocaust.
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“They claim that they were burned in gas chambers, but not a single person — Jewish or non-Jewish — died in a gas chamber, because there were no gas chambers at all.”
“No gas chambers at all” in what Alloush dismisses as that “so-called Holocaust”?
No gas chambers in the extermination camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek? No gas chambers in those mobile gas vans that were used to kill at least 700,000 Jews, especially in the Soviet Union?
Were all those gas chambers mentioned in the memoirs of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Olga Lengyel, Krystyna Zywulska, and hundreds of others – French, Dutch, German, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian Jews – mere figments of the Jewish imagination, made up out of whole cloth by people trying to win sympathy for the Zionist project?
Were they all made up, those photos and videos taken by the American, British, Russian forces who liberated the death camps – videos that slowly panned over the gas chambers, and the mountains of corpses of those who had recently been gassed so the Germans had not time to burn them, and destroy the evidence? Were those rooms piled high with eyeglasses taken from the dead, and other rooms piled even higher with shoes taken from those about to be killed – all fabrications, part of some fantastic Jewish, or more exactly, Zionist plot to win sympathy?
Here is Ibrahim Alloush, the complete Holocaust denier even more extreme than Mahmoud Abbas, for he won’t admit that any Jews were murdered by the Nazis. He’s a professor of economics, who is a regular columnist for the Jordanian weekly newspaper Assabeel, an editor of the online publication Arab Voice, an active participant in the Association Against Zionism and Racism, a guest on numerous television shows in Jordan and Lebanon, where he is invited to take part in debates (in one he suggests that Palestinian suicide bombers armed with “small nuclear weapons “ should fan out across Israel and detonate themselves) – in short, this sinister crackbrain is presented as a perfectly respectable commentator on world and regional events, treated with respect rather than heaped with the ridicule and met with the disgust that is his proper due.
But why should we be surprised? Isn’t the man who for 15 yeas has been head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, another Holocaust denier? Doesn’t he differ from Ibrahim Alloush only in the numbers of Jews he’s willing, most reluctantly, to concede might – “might” – in fact have been killed by the Nazis during that “fantastic lie” that has come to be known, because of Zionist propaganda, as the Holocaust?
mortimer says
The ultimate authority on the Holocaust was the director of it, Adolf Eichmann. Before his death, Eichmann revealed that, by the count of his own clerks, the Nazis were successful in murdering over 6 million Jews.
Jews also were killed by the Nazis and their Arab Muslim allies in North Africa.
Henry says
No Arabs participated in the Holocaust mortimer
gravenimage says
Yes and no, Henry. The Mufti of Jerusalem colluded with Hitler on the outline of the Holocaust, it was modeled on the Armenian Genocide, committed by the Muslim Turks, Muslims in the SS often targeted Jews, and Muslims in German and French colonies felt especially emboldened to attack Jewish populations.
“The Role of Muslims and the Holocaust”
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935420.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935420-e-005
So Muslims did indeed have a role in the Holocaust, albeit not a major one.
Then there are also a small handful of cases where individual Muslims saved Jews. Much is made of these cases, but they are much rarer than Muslims involved in the Holocaust in much uglier ways.
Henry says
No. I’m well read on this subject. Go read the works of Francis Nicosia namely “ Nazi Germany and the Arab World” if you want to know more about the mufti. There were no German colonial forces in WW2 (they lost their colonies decades before), and the French ones were on the allied side. The only Muslims in the “SS” were Waffen SS troops from the 13th and 21st Divisions. They were made to operate in Yugoslavia and Albania under Ustasha supervision. The Waffen SS was the combat portion of the SS that fought under the Regular army. They were not the ones who conducted the final solution, those were the Totenkopfverbande (“Deaths Head units)
Rarely says
These evil ignoramuses keep denying the Holocaust as a “fantastic lie” on one hand — too incredible to believe — and yet with the other call out for the murder of the 6,000,000 Jews living in Israel.
Their anodes aren’t talking to their diodes.
Infidel says
You mean ‘cathodes’. Diodes are bi-polar p-n junctions. Anodes and cathodes are positive and negative ends of a battery
Westman says
Sounds about right. These deniers are definitely reverse-biased.
Infidel says
Good one!
gravenimage says
So true, Rarely. This is enormously common with Muslims.
Stephen Cowley says
Opinion in the Muslim world on this was influenced by French philosopher Roger Garaudy (1913-2012), a former communist who converted to Islam and wrote a trilogy of books giving modernist interpretations of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the last of which drew on revisionist literature in France.
gravenimage says
I think it’s more the other way around, Stephen. Roger Garaudy converted to Islam because he was a vicious antisemite. The fact is that Islam has been full of murderous hatred of Jews since its inception. The “Prophet” Muhammed himself enslaved and murdered hundreds of Jews.
Stephen Cowley says
I’m not sure what your source for that is. I had always assumed that he converted because Islam was most easily assimilable to his modernist theological preconceptions. In the event, his views earned him a fatwa from a more orthodox Muslim cleric.
kuffar n Proud says
I wonder what Mahmoud Abbas’s narrative would have been if ‘Only 800,000 muslims’ had been murdered in mass chambers during WWII?
Infidel says
That one’s easy: muslim historians are usually unanimous in denouncing Genghiz Khan, a non-muslim who did massacre several muslim cities in central Asia – Samarqand, Qonyeurgench, Herat, Baghdad and several others. Never mind that it was provoked by the Qhwarezmid sultan who kept beheading messengers that Genghiz Khan sent him to establish normal relations. After 2 such incidents, Ghanghiz Khan spent a year preparing for war, and brought down the full weight of the Mongol hordes on the Qhwarezmid sultanate and the Abbasid Caliphate, ending both! Which is why they’re condemned. For a while, they even ended muslim rule in Iran.
It was no different from what previous and subsequent Muslim conquerors, like Mahmoud of Ghazni, Tamerlane, Nader Shah and Ahmad Shah Durrani did. Note that while some muslims, like the Iranians, happily condemned conquerors like Tamerlane, others like the people of Turkistan to this day consider him a national hero. Similarly, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey are all proud of Mahmoud of Ghazni. Muslims are happy w/ genocidal murderers, except when their own happen to be the targets of those campaigns, like Genghiz Khan’s were
commonsense says
While I believe permanent residency (with citizenship being their ultimate objective) should be denied to virtually all Muslims who try to enter the U.S., our clueless authorities should have certainly denied entry to those Muslims named Tamerlan (as in Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber) or Saifullah (sword of Allah), et al. This denial should certainly extend to their families, especially the parents, who named them. Such names are obvious red flags. Oddly, I discovered some years ago that Jihad is a fairly common name among Lebanese Christians.
Of course, with the incoming administration, all vetting of Muslim arrivals will largely cease. So expect more Tamerlans, Saifullahs, et al. coming to your neighborhood soon.
Infidel says
Commonsense, that should be pretty obvious, but our 17 intelligence agencies would never pick up on such things
Wellington says
Denying the real Holocaust although all the while wanting a second one.
So very rich. So very Islamic.
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
On every issue, most Muslims are nothing but liars and complete fantasists, so this is no surprise. With most Muslims, you know they are telling lies any time their lips are moving. All of Islam is one huge lie anyway. Muhammad, though I doubt that he even existed, but rather was invented by another batch of liars later on, invented this disgusting version of what god is supposed to be like called allah, and the lies neverendingly roll on from then on. On denying mass murder on a huge scale, I wonder if the Muslims also say that the murder of 270 million non-Muslims by Muslims during islam’s evil, murderous 1400 year history did not happen. Probably the greatest bullshit merchants ever are the followers of Islam, which is all one big lie. Whatever most Muslims tell us, the truth will be the complete opposite.
john smith says
Islam is pure evil it’s the antithesis of anything that is good. To a pious muslim hate is love, good is evil, lies are truth, and so on. Both these muslims know in their hearts that there was a holocaust, but their hearts and minds have become so perverted by islam, they believe their lies are the truth.
Ridiculous as this may sound to some, but this is what islam can do to people, it can destroy your soul.
gravenimage says
Mahmoud Abbas and Ibrahim Alloush On the ‘Fantastic Lie’ of the Holocaust
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So often the case that those who deny the Holocaust admire Hitler and want to finish the job…
Infidel says
Actually, even more contradictory is them denying the holocaust while at the same time blaming Hitler for not finishing the job
somehistory says
“Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions ”
Well, liar, and Truth denier, a “debate” is not necessarily a list of the facts. A debate can be two people discussing/arguing about a subject of which neither know a bit. So, your “scholars” were “debating” but for them, it was on a topic of which they knew nothing.
I have read personal accounts of people who managed to survive the camps. I knew one woman who had been a guard at one of the camps. There are too many photos, too many personal stories of the horrors for any honest person to deny what happened. Even those who saw the smoke and smelled the stench and looked away, but later came forward to say it all happened are witnesses.
If moslims wish to scare the Jews, they bring it up and threaten. If they wish to present themselves as ‘peaceful’ they deny it. Whatever affords them bragging rithts.
And I’m so glad that the aloush creep is no longer in America. Wish he had taken omar and tlaib and ellison along when he left. And hooper, and awad, and the cair creep in Florida whose wife has accused him of violence, beating her when she was pregnant, etc. And that female billhoo hoo in CA.
gravenimage says
Yes–the Holocaust is the most heavily documented atrocity in human history–by survivors, liberators, witnesses, and the Nazis themselves.
somehistory says
Titus bragged about what he did to the Jews. As did the Babylonians and others before him.
moslims want to brag more than they do, but the only way they believe they will still have victim status is to deny that the Jews were ever treated in such a horrific way. And they have even pushed the idea that they have it worse than the Jews did during the Holocaust, and that the Jews did those things to themselves.
Just can’t be truthful, no matter what way they go…it’s all lies, all of the time.
Peter Carroll says
It was for this very reason that the Allied Supreme Commander, General Dwight D Eisenhower ordered the concentration camps be photographed, and the German civilians witness the holocaust.
He said, if it’s not recorded, people in the future will deny it ever happened. How right he was.