The rise of the Holocaust (Day) deniers

Posted on September 12, 2005
The Moderate Voice
by Michael Stickings

From the (London) Times:

ADVISERS appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims.

They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths.
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Holocaust Day was established by Blair in 2001 after a sustained campaign by Jewish leaders to create a lasting memorial to the 6m victims of Hitler. It is marked each year on January 27.
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[...] I have no problem with a day to remember victims of genocide more generally, nor even specifically: It's certainly true that the victims of genocide in, say, Armenia and Cambodia, or Bosnia and Rwanda, or even Stalin's Russia, are often forgotten, or at least subject to far less official remembrance than the victims of the Holocaust [...].

[...]Obviously, jurisdictions with, say, large Armenian or Cambodian populations would likely afford those two genocides greater emphasis in terms of official remembrance.
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To me, lumping genocides together means, ultimately, neglecting the singularities of each one. I see nothing wrong with recognizing a Holocaust Day, but then I see nothing wrong with recognizing a day for another genocide (or other genocides). That should be up to individual jurisdictions.
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