{"id":103663,"date":"2023-04-18T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103663"},"modified":"2023-04-18T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:42:11","slug":"25-09-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103663","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Holocaust distortion is rising worldwide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018Holocaust distortion is rising worldwide\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

ETGAR LEFKOVITS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan sits down with JNS for an interview ahead of Israel\u2019s Holocaust Remembrance Day.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nLithuanians massacre Jews at the Liet\u016bkis garage during the Kaunas pogrom, June 27, 1941. Credit: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Holocaust distortion and trivialization and banalization are on the rise around the globe, even as outright denial is relegated to the fringes of society, the head of Yad Vashem says.<\/span><\/p>\n

The remarks come at a time when multiple European countries seek to whitewash their roles in World War II by highlighting the heroes among their countrymen while obscuring or outright denying the actions of collaborators who participated in the murder of six million Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is that outright Holocaust denial is today marginal,\u201d Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, said in an interview with JNS ahead of Israel\u2019s Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday evening\/Tuesday daytime. \u201cNo serious person will deny that the Holocaust happened except in lunatic fringes on social media [for example] in Iran or Malaysia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, we see a very worrying rise in Holocaust distortion which is no less disturbing,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dayan said that multiple governments and groups in European countries are actively promoting an outright \u201chistorical fallacy\u201d whereby their countries only helped Jews during the Holocaust while denying their people\u2019s collaboration with Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey highlight the Righteous Among the Nations while obscuring or denying that there were many more collaborators than righteous,\u201d he said, referring to the honor bestowed by Yad Vashem upon non-Jews who saved Jews at the risk of their own lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis distortion is an affront to the victims,\u201d Dayan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He listed multiple \u201cWestern as well as Eastern\u201d European countries where this is happening: France, where last year a Jewish presidential candidate\u2014\u00c9ric Zemmour\u2014promoted the historical fallacy that the collaborationist Vichy regime was favorable to the Jews; Poland, which denies the widespread collaboration with the Nazis, something Dayan called \u201cvery problematic\u201d; Bulgaria, which highlights the salvation of its Jews but neglects the crimes it committed against foreign Jews, as well as leaders of the Baltic states, who, like many others, highlight their Righteous countrymen while ignoring the greater reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost European countries do not excel in looking into their past and recognizing their sins,\u201d Dayan said. \u201cThe easy way, the pleasant way, to remember the Shoah is to commemorate the Righteous. Nations should not only look into the good that some did [also] but into the horrendous acts that some of their people did.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission is to bring countries to fully recognize their actions in the Shoah\u2014to honor the good and to repent the bad,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trivialization and banalization<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In the interview, Dayan also called out the trivialization and banalization of the Shoah that was rampant during the COVID-19 pandemic, with \u201coutrageous comparisons\u201d drawn between the green passes of those vaccinated and the yellow stars the Nazis forced the Jews to wear, as well as in the Russian war in Ukraine where, he said, both sides misuse the Shoah for their propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

He cited both the Russian narrative that Moscow had to \u201cde-Nazify Ukraine,\u201d and the Ukrainian retort that Israel should help them as they supposedly assisted the Jews during the Shoah, when, in fact, there was widespread collaboration by Ukrainians in the slaughter of the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe see that awareness of Shoah is growing but we have to be sure this awareness is not misused to distort and trivialize the Shoah in a propaganda war,\u201d Dayan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antisemitism in the U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Dayan, previously Israel\u2019s consul general in New York, said that he was surprised how antisemitism has taken hold in the U.S., a subject he thought would be low on his agenda during his time in a country that does not have the same history of antisemitism as Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said that a synergy had been created between four streams of antisemitism in the U.S.: neo-Nazi white supremacists; ideological Black antisemitism; hooligan antisemitism; and antisemitism thinly veiled as anti-Israel rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lessons of the past<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Dayan said that while the situation today was emphatically not that of Germany in the 1930s, we have a responsibility to learn from the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the experience they lacked,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the privilege to say it can\u2019t happen, because it happened. They were entitled to that terrible naivete; we are not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dayan said that the message he shares with foreign dignitaries is that \u201cNever again\u201d is now.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAntisemitism must be confronted and stopped immediately before it develops into monstrous dimensions and then it will be too late to stop,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you say \u2018Never Again,\u2019 then if you mean it, never is now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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