Donald Trump vs. Jackie Walker: The Omission of Jews And Antisemitism From Remembering The Holocaust
31 January 2017
By Gilad Atzmon
The Guardian reports today that the White House has defended its omission of
Jews and antisemitism from a statement remembering the Holocaust by saying
that Donald Trumps administration ''took into account all of those who
suffered''.
In practice the conservative 'reactionary president has succeeded where ultra
progressive Jackie Walker failed. Walker was suspended from the Labour party a
few months ago for pointing out that the Holocaust Memorial Day was not
wide-ranging enough to include other genocides.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day last Friday, the White House
'failed' to mention Jews, Judaism or antisemitism. The presidential statement,
instead, universally referred to the suffering of all innocent people, a fact
that upset many American Jewish leaders such as Jonathan Greenblatt, the head
of the Anti-Defamation League and Steven Goldstein, the executive director of
the Anne Frank Centre. Both Goldstein and Greenblatt believe that the
Holocaust is a jews-only territory and the holocaust memorial must promote the
primacy of Jewish suffering.
But for the rest of humanity, it seems, it has become clear that the Jewish
State is at the root of a regional disaster. The rest of humanity is also
becoming aware that it is the Jewish lobby and Zio-cons that are pushing for
more and more global conflicts whether it is a war against Libya, Syria, Iran
or Iraq. Those who follow my writings are aware of Israeli writer Sever
Plocker, who admitted a few years ago on the Zionist outlet Ynet that ''We (the
Jews) mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were
Jewish." Plocker basically accepted that the Holodomor, the systematic
starvation of Ukrainian peasants, was largely perpetrated by a bunch of Jewish
bolsheviks who were ''Stalins willing executioners'' (as Jewish historian Yuri
Slezkine refers to them in his monumental The Jewish Century)
Jackie Walker was obviously spot on suggesting that the holocaust memorial day
must address other peoples suffering. Walker is a Black woman, she would
probably have liked to see the Holocaust memorial day commemorating the crimes
of slavery.
Bizarrely enough, despite progressive Jackie Walker telling the truth, she was
expelled by her 'progressive party yet it was the 'reactionary Donald Trump
who succeeded in making this day universal. This anomaly demands our
attention, because it is far from being a coincidence. In the world in which
we live, it is often the so-called 'reactionaries who lead the push for
universal thinking, while those who claim to be 'progressives often subscribe
to tribalism and the primacy of one peoples suffering.
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