British PM Tony Blair
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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: September 11, 2005 |
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Recently appointed advisors to British Prime Minister Tony Blair recommended to the PM to cancel the U.K.'s National Holocaust Memorial Day and instead replace it with a more generic "Genocide Day," which would be less offensive to Muslims, according to a report in The Sunday Times. The day would recognize the mass murders of Muslims in Chechnya, Palestine, and Bosnia.
The advisors added that Holocaust Day "excludes Muslims" and sends a message to young Muslims that "western lives have more value than non-western lives".
PM Tony Blair has not yet commented on the proposal, but one Home Office spokesman said they would consider the proposal for a separate Genocide Day, but that the Holocaust was a "defining tragedy in European history".
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Blair urged to cancel Holocaust Day
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09.11.2005
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