Netanyahu blames Palestine for the Holocaust...like wtf?

[Comrade Jacob]

He uses the awful events of the holocaust to attack Palestine, not only that but he goes further and actually blames Palestine for it.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Meanwhile, thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel are living in poverty...:mad:

[Antiochus]

From what I heard, historians and holocaust remembrance organizations (even the ADL, which usually tows the Israeli line) have hammered this idiot pretty hard for it.

[Invader Zim]

From what I heard, historians and holocaust remembrance organizations (even the ADL, which usually tows the Israeli line) have hammered this idiot pretty hard for it.

Yep, even other nutcases in his own party have been distancing themselves from his comments. Needless to say, it should not be necessary to explain the inaccuracy of his comments.

[GalickyH]

And what about this?

[Comrade Jacob]

Blaming the holocaust on Palestine is holocaust revisionism. It's practically defending Hitler for fuck's sake.

[Aslan]

Ridiculous, Israel is really becoming a laughing stock these days. Seriously the Palestinians did the holocaust? I don't think he can be that crazy, I just think he is just doing his normal bat-shit insane.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

This is historical revisionism, which has until this idiot's contribution the field of the far-right holocaust deniers. Disgraceful.

[Invader Zim]

Blaming the holocaust on Palestine is holocaust revisionism. It's practically defending Hitler for fuck's sake.

There is nothing wrong with Holocaust 'revisionism'. Our understanding of the Holocaust is 'revised' all of the time as new studies are produced which adds to or alters our collective knowledge of events.

What you are talking about is Holocaust denial / negationism. The problem here is that Holocaust deniers have sought to appropriate for themselves the title of 'revisionists' as a means of providing themselves with unwarranted legitimacy. The result has not been that they have successfully achieved any degree of legitimacy, rather that the term and concept of historical revisionism has been tainted with denial by association. But rather than allow them to claim the term 'revisionism' as their own, they should be called what they are -- deniers.

[Abdullah Tshabal]

You could pretty much directly call Netanyahu as a "Nazi".

[Aslan]

That's going too far in my opinion. Netanyahu is a populist who fans his flame of popularity by encouraging paranoia about the ''Palestinian menace''. Its similar to how apartheid South Africa kept itself sustained by constantly talking about the ''black communist menace'' until 1994 when the threat was and the nation liberalized.

[Khalistani]

The "Palestinians did the Holocaust" theory is literally as old as World War II itself.

During WWII, many Jewish intellectuals like Ze'ev Jabotinsky (chief of Beitar) publicly supported Hitler and the legal persecution of Jews in Europe, as they thought it would help swell their ranks in order to fight the Palestinians. They then begun spreading the rumour that the Mufti of Jerusalem was behind the increasing persecution of Jews in order to help fuel further resentment against Palestinians and to spur Jewish immigrants into action against the Palestinian population.

[Abdullah Tshabal]

The current Israeli nation doesn't consider blacks as people (Even if they are Jewish) and there's consistent attacks against blacks in the streets by angry mobs, police and even the military(?). The police violence against blacks in the US is bad, but Israel turns the dial up at least a couple of notches. And mentioning the Apartheid in pre-1994 South Africa, Israel was in bed with them and best friends. But not anymore.

[mutualaid]

with or without netan-yahoo israel is a prison camp.

[Minty Fresh]

He uses the awful events of the holocaust to attack Palestine, not only that but he goes further and actually blames Palestine for it.

His argument is based mostly on the case Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at the time. Bibi claimed that Hitler only wanted to deport Jews & it was in fact Husseini's idea to murder them in the holocaust. The Mufti was a Palestinian nationalist & a fervent anti-semite, but the idea that he was an architect of the holocaust is complete fiction.

He was mostly just a PR stunt; peddling pro-Axis propaganda to Muslims in British colonies. Before the war, Husseini & his ilk kept making various requests to the Germans to support their cause, which were consistently denied because the Germans were trying to avoid provoking the British (Palestine was a British mandate at the time).

To the Germans, he was just kinda this annoying dude who kept asking them about shit they didn't care about (the Germans were not all that interested in expansionism outside of Europe; the North African campaign was mostly about saving Mussolini's disastrous efforts).

His wikipedia page discredits pretty much all of Bibi's ridiculous claims. I'd provide the link, but I haven't made 25 posts yet. Just Google him.