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Highlights: January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Israel marks four holocaust days in the week of the Zionist "terrible days" The Holocaust did not happen in a vacuum, it was a product of an era of colonialism, writes Yossi Ben-Ghiat. A military decision does not guarantee peace, a change in values ​​does, he says. The world of those days was a world of destruction and discrimination, Ben- Ghiat writes. The Holocaust is a crime against all humanity, he writes.


The Jews who were massacred in the Holocaust were not murdered because they did not have an air force, but because of the evil of the exterminators. Even the Jews of the Diaspora today are not protected because they have a mighty Jewish army at their disposal, but because they live in states of law. In preparation for International Holocaust Day, it is important to remember: true security is achieved through values, not through force


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There are four holocaust days in Israel.

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the well-known holocaust day, which opens the week of the Zionist "terrible days";

the General Kaddish Day of the Chief Rabbinate;

Tisha B'Av to mark all the past disasters of the Jewish people;

and January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.



January 27, the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, was designated by the United Nations as the International Day of Remembrance in memory of "a third of the Jewish people and countless other minorities", with a deep understanding that the Holocaust is a crime against all humanity. This is not our day, but the day when our trauma is dissolved in other people's tragedies. We need to dwell on these things for a moment. We have a tendency, natural, to see everything through our own glasses. To approach ourselves. But the Holocaust did not happen in a vacuum. It was a product of an era; colonialism that is all about white arrogance, "scientific" ideologies which concern the improvement and improvement of the race, and systemic damage to many peoples.

The problem was not a lack of Jewish power to fight back.

Nazi tanks near Belarus, 1941/Official site, Wikipedia

On one of the walls in the Holocaust Museum in Washington is engraved a quote from Hitler, from the speech he gave to the generals of the Wehrmacht, a week before the German invasion of Poland: "[...] After all, who is talking today about the extermination of the Armenians?".

The world of those days was a world of destruction and discrimination.

This is how the holocausts and murders of the Indian peoples in North America were carried out;

of the Herero, Himba and Nama peoples in Namibia in South West Africa;

of the Armenians in Turkey;

And finally, of the Jews in the heart of Europe.

A reality that was a combination of unrestrained power, alongside racial arrogance, religious justifications and national extremism.

And in Hannah Arendt's exact words: "The supreme crime of the Nazis [...] the physical extermination of the Jewish people was a crime against humanity, committed in the body of the Jewish people" - and only "the choice of the victims, not the nature of the crime, could stem from the long history of hatred The Jews and anti-Semitism".

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A military decision does not guarantee peace, a change in values ​​does.

IDF soldiers operate in Gaza/IDF spokesman

The millions of Jews who were massacred in the Holocaust were not murdered because they did not have an air force, and were not persecuted because the IDF did not meet the schedule and arrived 50 years too late. This was not an issue of a lack of power, but of a lack of values. They were killed and slaughtered because other human beings - The Nazis and their helpers - there was no basic commitment to human life, any human being. They grew up within an ideology and a time when racial superiority was acceptable, the Ignacia movement aspired to improve the human race and was widespread throughout the West. Civil equality and real human rights did not exist, and anyway the murder of "others" And the destruction of nations took place in other arenas around the world, without her mind.



This is exactly the challenge that faced the mythical Raphael Lamkin, who set out almost alone. He understood before everyone else that if the murder of a person by another is considered a terrible crime, then there is no reason why the murder of millions by governments should not be considered as well For a most serious crime. Governments must be held accountable for their crimes. He investigated the extermination of nations, put these crimes on the statute books and, almost single-handedly, changed the normative landscape of the world.

4 holocaust days, one of them "for a third of the Jewish people and countless minorities".

The European Commission marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day/imagin

This is the essential material for thoughts on the day of universal remembrance of the Holocaust.

The Jews in today's USA, Germany, Great Britain and France are not protected because of a large and formidable Jewish army at their disposal, but because these are countries of law, order and a deep commitment to the equality of all human beings. That's how the Jews are, and like them all the immigrants and minorities there. Whereas Israel, which Committed to this equality, led by the ideologies of Jewish supremacy and denying the rights and freedoms of millions, is repeatedly forced to face similar treatment directed at her.



Nothing in the entire history of violence between the Jews and the Palestinians justifies anything from the horrors of October 23. Just as the events of October 7, which are embedded in memories Shoahites, cannot justify the blind and angry killing of thousands of Palestinians, their starvation and the destruction of their homeland.

Starving Palestinians and destroying their homeland will not solve anything.

Evacuation to the south of the Gaza Strip last November/Reuters

Real and sustainable security, for Israelis and Palestinians, will never come from a military decision or mass killing of civilians, especially innocents.

Only a great change of values, which will turn the space between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea into a space of civil humanity equal to all, will ensure the peace of nations and countries.

If it was possible in Europe at the time, with the real holocaust, it is no less essential here and just as possible.



The writer served as chairman of the Knesset and chairman of the Jewish Agency

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