I am used to receiving threatening emails, letters and X posts because of my opposition to antisemitism, and for calling out the fake news duly trotted out by the BBC on Gaza. But I thought that on Holocaust Memorial Day it might be different. How wrong I was as folks deliberately tried to stop people learning of what happened to the Jews.
Holocaust Memorial Day is on January 27 as that is the day, in 1945, when the Russians liberated Auschwitz, the biggest death camp of them all where 1.1 million Jews were killed. To take the Jews out of ones remembrance is abhorrent and will only fuel a growing ignorance or denial of what went on.
I ran a podcast about HMD on my subscription website ShareProphets.com. Within hours the site was the subject of a massive DOS attack as someone tried to take it down. Such attacks have in the past happened when I have spoken out on these matters. It was no coincidence. Folks really did not want me honouring six million dead Jews. Just as folks have threatened to disrupt the Sharestock event I run if I do not promise to never write about Israel or anti-semitism again.
Over on the BBC presenter after presenter talked of Holocaust Memorial Day when we remember six million dead “people” and “other genocides”. This was a deliberate attempt to erase Jewish suffering from history and to big up the suffering of others. It was not alone in this. West Ham United, the club I support over land and sea, posted on X
@WestHam
West Ham United and London Stadium will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday evening by lighting up London Stadium and joining people across the country at 8pm to Light the Darkness in remembrance of the millions of innocent victims of genocide.
West Ham United and London Stadium will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday evening by lighting up London Stadium and joining people across the country at 8pm to Light the Darkness in remembrance of the millions of innocent victims of genocide.
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Holocaust Memorial Day is on January 27 as that is the day, in 1945, when the Russians liberated Auschwitz, the biggest death camp of them all where 1.1 million Jews were killed. To take the Jews out of ones remembrance is abhorrent and will only fuel a growing ignorance or denial of what went on.
I am not surprised by the BBC. As for West Ham, it needs to apologise and sack whoever was responsible for this. It won’t and its relegation from the Premier League this year is all the more deserved.