Anti-racism is a Trojan horse for anti-Semitism
Never trust an 'anti-racist'. That is one of the many conclusions to be drawn from the darkness that followed October 7. To wit: in Parliament, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign – yes, the same outfit that projected 'from the river to the sea' onto Big Ben last year – were allowed to set up a stall to lobby MPs in Westminster Hall in June. But a proposal to set up a Holocaust memorial exhibition in the same space was turned down because it was not 'politically neutral'.
Where was the outcry from the anti-racists? One can only imagine the furore if an exhibition about the slave trade had been rejected rather than one about Jewish suffering. Defending the decision, a parliamentary spokesman pointed out that it was taken 'on a case-by-case basis'. But that was the whole point. When it comes to anti-racism, some cases are looked upon more favourably than others.
Quite how a display about Jewish persecution – created by the National Holocaust Centre and Museum – can be viewed as political remains to be explained. Entitled Vicious Circle, it tells the story of pogroms from Kristallnacht to the Farhud in Baghdad, culminating in the October 7 massacres. We have arrived, it seems, at a point where simply being Jewish, and wishing to mourn your dead, and asking others to acknowledge your pain, has become a political act. But the Palestine Solidarity Campaign? The ones who organise those awful marches through London? The ones who insisted on menacing a synagogue? Fill your boots.
This was just one shameful episode among many on Holocaust Memorial Day. There was the Good Morning Britain presenter informing viewers that six million 'people' had been killed, Angela Rayner lighting a candle for 'all those who were murdered' and Humanists UK tweeting sorrow for 'all the victims of genocide'.
There was the wreath-laying ceremony on Lowestoft which excluded Jews. There were the disgraceful scenes in Dublin, where a Jewish woman was dragged out for objecting when the president started waxing lyrical about Gaza. This, in other words, was the year that the Jews were told: the Holocaust is not about you.
So we must ask again. Where was the outcry from the 'anti-racists'? Part of the problem was that certain left-wing Jews have assimilated the denigration of their own people. An extreme example was the pro-Palestinian group 'Jews Against Genocide' who mounted a contemptible protest about Gaza at the Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station. (We're all against genocide but can't we limit ourselves to the ones that actually took place?) These were similar lunatics to the ones who recited the Jewish prayer of mourning for Hamas terrorists outside Parliament a few years back.
So much for those on the radical fringes. But the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) itself also commemorates the genocides in Darfur, Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Why is it only the Jews who are expected to give up ownership of their anguish? And why do we do it to ourselves? Predictably, when the HMDT emailed an invitation to its memorial ceremony, it referred to the 'devastating violence against Palestinian civilians in Gaza'. Predictably, the Holocaust was excluded from Westminster Hall.
I rest my case. The people who profess to be 'anti-racist' are the ones you have to watch. In this post-moral world, anti-racism has become a Trojan horse for the very sin it claims to oppose.
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