At the beginning of the month, Dr. Ran Tzhor was appointed to the position of director of the libraries at the Yad Vashem Museum. We would not have required his appointment, had he not been an extreme leftist, post-Zionist, as his father testifies in an interview with "Haaretz".
Tzahor's name became widely known in 2006, when the consul for communications and information in Los Angeles, Gilad Milo, sent a telegram to the Foreign Ministry and described how Tzahor gives lectures in which he compares the IDF to the Nazi army and encourages resistance.
A person present in the audience during the lecture where the storm was born quoted Tzhor, who testified that "when he arrived in the territories, he saw the things the IDF was doing and was ashamed," and that "the house-to-house fighting reminded him of the Wehrmacht."
Shortly after Milo's letter and the publication of the comments, Tzhor and his father were interviewed by Haaretz.
There, the interviewer Uri Blao states that Tzahor does not compare the IDF to the Nazis.
Tzhor himself, who points out in an interview that Israel is colonialist, says that the comparison is wrong and immediately afterwards continues to dig into his own heart: "I was talking about an image that is very difficult for me, about Kalkilia and the wall that surrounds it from all sides. When I look at it, I can't help but think of something that is difficult Especially for me, which is deep inside my consciousness. I think this image of the ghetto is very significant in my decision to refuse."
That is, for a senior Yad Vashem official, the IDF soldiers are the successors of the Nazi German army, and the Palestinian cities are ghettos. Who are we to complain about Abu Mazen and 50 holocausts.
As things stand, Yad Vashem's decision to appoint a person like Tzahor to a senior position in the museum is a national shame and a disgrace to the memory of the Holocaust.
You have to say things as they are: according to Yad Vashem's definition, one of the foundations of Holocaust denial is the underestimation of its extent, and this is what is done by those who claim that the Palestinian cities remind them of ghettos where Jews were murdered, starved to death, persecuted and exterminated.
This is not a fight for opinions, or for right and left.
The founders of Yad Vashem established the museum to place the victims and murderers in the historically correct places.
Who was slaughtered and who murdered.
The attitude that there is a little Nazi hiding in each of us is the complete opposite of this spirit.
If there is a little Nazi hiding in all of us, if Kalkilia is the Warsaw ghetto and the State of Israel is a colonialist project - there is no need for Yad Vashem.
It is possible to close the basta and establish a "World War II Museum".
Yad Vashem, a state institution that is in complete turmoil, does not see a problem with the appointment and accepts Tzhor's words that the press reports are false.
Danny Dayan cannot be expected to do anything, because he was appointed to the position to say "yes" to anything that is asked of him.
Although he was the head of the Yesha Council, he does not see a problem in hiring a person who refuses to serve in Yesha, even though he also knows very well, deep inside, that if Efi Emit had been the chairman of Yad Vashem - this appointment would not have happened.
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