UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission, which praised October 7, is urging a boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, December 19, 2024

UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission, which praised October 7, is urging a boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day

The UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission has initiated a campaign to urge everyone boycott the annual Holocaust Memorial Day activities on January 27.

The reason given is because the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust did not list Gaza as a genocide along with genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Their press release implies that the organization behind the commemoration uses the Holocaust as an excuse to promote murdering Palestinian children.

IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh said, “We have suspected for a long time that HMD promotes the exceptionalisation of genocide through the Nazi Holocaust. Any failure to include the actual genocide that is unfolding so graphically in our own time gives the lie to the slogan 'Never Again' exposing it as a political device to promote one genocide over all others. Civil society cannot allow the Gaza genocide to be legitimised by the misappropriation of the Nazi Holocaust”.

The IHRC sent a letter to 460 universities, schools and town councils instructing them to boycott the event unless the events prioritize Gaza over the Holocaust itself. As they self-righteously write, "Our commitment to ‘Never Again’ must extend to all people, in all places, for it to hold true."

Really?

Because the IHRC itself praised the October 7 attacks as "spectacular" in a 15 minute video that idolizes Hamas and the Iranian terror axis, and even praises war - an unusual position for a human rights NGO.

The IHRC also lobbies the British government to reverse its bans on Hamas and Hezbollah, saying that these are "popular resistance groups" who represent all Palestinians. Not only that, but they oppose the British navy defending worldwide shipping under attack by the Houthis.

In fact, the this antisemitic "human rights" organization that is proudly pro-war and pro-terror enjoys consultative status with the United Nations and with various official EU institutions. Needless to say, the IHRC positions towards Islamist terrorism contradicts the stated aims of the UN and EU.

Not too many human rights groups explicitly support attacking, burning and raping civilians. Not too many human rights NGOs support a strategy of getting 1.8 billion Muslims to support war.

But when the group calls itself Islamic, then the world gives them a pass.

Perhaps a letter writing campaign can be mounted to pressure the UN and EU to sever all ties with a group that supports and praises violence. Even if it calls itself "Islamic."