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Michael Anbar , PhD, is a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Buffalo. Formerly a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, he is the author of , published by iUniverse.
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By Michael Anbar
January 3, 2005
Until the last ten years I have been a Holocaust denier. I did not fail to realize the magnitude of this historic catastrophe of the Jewish people. This unbelievable catastrophe has cost the lives of my grandmother, my uncles and aunts on both sides of our family as well as many of my cousins. But I tried to look at that gruesome historical period as a horrendous natural disaster, like the tsunami we witnessed last week. I tried to forget it, ignoring its unbelievable consequences, saying to myself "let the bygones be bygones". Like the victims of a tsunami I said to myself that we must focus on rebuilding the ruins rather than on past devastation.
Getting lately more involved in political historical analysis, I started to wonder whether the Holocaust was really an unpredictable "natural" disaster. And I began to realize that there is much more to holocaust denial than meets the eye.
We learned from last week's tsunami that natural disasters are not entirely unpredictable. Many thousands of people would not have perished if alarms were blazing and bells were ringing in the villages and towns of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and Somalia, and many people would have escaped a horrible death. Elsewhere on this planet meaningful signs were detected, predicting a humongous human disaster, much of which could have been prevented if the warning could reach the thousand of potential victims in time.
Now, if a sudden subterranean shift of tectonic plates can be detected and precisely located, and its horrendous consequences projected in space and time, how could one have missed the intended murder of a whole nation, of a whole culture? Can one forget that Mein Kampf was published 12 years before the Holocaust?
In the last few years I started asking myself "what if" questions:
What if following the Kristalnacht in 1938, all of world Jewry, well aware of Hitler's ideology, would have united in a deafening uncompromising protest and in an unmitigated economic war against the misojudaic German national socialists?
What if Jewish anti-Nazi writings in the world's press and Jewish speeches over the radio would have attempted to neutralized Germany's supremacist propaganda in the mid-1930s, thus foiling Hitler's dream of world conquest and its domination by the "superior" Germanic "race"? Hitler's intentions were not secret ? one could read them in Mein Kampf (which is one of the most popular books in the misojudaic Muslim world of today).
What if millions of Polish Jews would have heeded Vladimir (Ze'ev) Zhabotinsky's warning and left Poland before the 1939 German invasion?
What if German Jewry would have defied the racist discriminatory German laws, denounced them internationally, and forcefully resisted deportation and internment? The Nazis, who yielded to international pressure regarding "elimination" of the retarded, would not have dared in 1938 to brutally suppress an open revolt of an organized united minority, supported by millions of Jews all over the world. Not only the Holocaust could have been prevented but possibly also World War II.
What if German Jews and German Catholics would have joined forces against their common ideological enemy, and Catholics would have raised the whole world of Catholicism, headed by the Pope. against barbaric pagan Nazism, rather than remain quiescent and observe the genocide of the "eternally cursed" Jewish people? Vatican II should have been convened before World War II.
What if the Jewish leadership would have exposed to the British and the American publics the close alliance between the Reichskanzler, Adolph Hitler, the archenemy of the West, and Haj Amin Al Hussaini, the British appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, founder of the anti-Zionist Arab terrorist movement, Yassir Arafat's relative and idol, and a major instigator of the Holocaust? That alliance was well known at the time, as Haj Amin was broadcasting his virulent anti-Jewish diatribe on Radio Berlin.
What if the Jewish socialist leaders of American labor unions would have considered the plight of European Jewry, who suffered a far greater tragedy than that of last week's tsunami, to be more important than their petty political interests?
We are receiving again signals of an imminent disaster to the Jewish people. The writing does not appear as a secret code on the proverbial wall. It is explicitly written in the 1400 year-old Qur'an that Jews are subhuman beings (remember Mein Kampf). Moreover, the Hadith, the prime written extension of the Qur'an, calls for killing of all Jews. It is written in the Russian provocative forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which is the most popular non-religious book in today's Arab world. Those libelous "Protocols" have been dramatized in a 29- part series broadcast weekly on Egyptian state-run TV. This misojudaic vicious propaganda is now being replayed all over the Islamic world, inciting millions of Muslims against Jews.
Unlike in Hitler's defunct dream, Saudi Arabia, an American ally, and Jordan, Israel's neighbor and economic partner, are Judenrein by local law already today. Other Arab countries have expelled "just" over 95% of their Jewish populations. (Amazingly, Israel's PM Sharon seems to exceed to this Islamic religious racist premise by intending to expel all Jews from Israeli territories conceded to Arab sovereignty, thus legitimizing Hitler's unfulfilled dream.)
The call for elimination of the Jewish people is not limited to Riyadh, Damascus and Ramallah; it ranges from Algiers to Teheran and from Mogadishu, Somalia, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Iranian Islamists have declared the destruction of Israel by a nuclear bomb a national goal. Moreover, a whole generation of young Muslims, in the PA territories as well as all over the Muslim world, is being impregnated with murderous hatred to the Jewish people. Surprisingly, this genocidal incitement in the "Palestinian" media and schools, which would have been causus beli anywhere else in the world, seems to be tolerated by the liberal Israelis as "free speech" that may be protested but does not call for immediate punitive action.
If this is not enough, students in colleges and universities in Europe and the US are being indoctrinated in misojudaism, disguised as anti-Zionism, by Marxists who have become ideological allies of the Islamists in Jew-hatred. Jewish students are being intimidated and physically abused on campuses in Europe and in the US, reminiscent of Germany in 1935.
If all these are not signs that the global anti-Jewish tectonic plates are shifting again and going to crash soon and that a national cataclysmic catastrophe is imminent, what else are we waiting for?
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Addendum by the author:
I have been receiving feedback on this essay from several friends raising pertinent points. These boil down to two main questions:
1. The anti-Jewish writings I mentioned are fairly old, so why am I getting excited about them now, all of a sudden?
2. So what should the Jewish people do at this point?
The answer to the first question is fairly simple:
It is true that anti-Jewish rhetoric is at least 2300 years old. The precursor to the Protocols can be found in the Book of Esther. However, the problem is with the current use of this anti-Jewish rhetoric. Jews have recently been expelled from Arab countries. Jews are being murdered nowadays in Israel daily simply because they are Jews. Jewish students are being beaten up on campuses today because they are Jews. Jewish students are trying today to hide their Jewish identity not only in France, but also in Detroit, San Francisco and Irvine. Pro-Israeli professors are not being promoted today because of their political stance. Iran is preparing to destroy Israel as we speak. Millions of Muslim kids are being indoctrinated today to hate Jews and kill them if they can, based on those old writings. Islamism is more dangerous today to the survival of the Jewish people than Nazism was 60 years ago, because there are many more Jew-hating Muslims than there ever were Germans, and they are spread all over the world. Moreover, Islamism has managed to recruit also the active collaboration of liberals in the West to their assault on the Jews. History tells us that those liberals will become the next victims of Islamism if it ever succeeds to get rid of the Jews.
The answer to the second question is not more complicated:
Since Islamism poses today the greatest danger to the Jewish nation, Jews must unite to fight Islamism globally, allying themselves, with no reservation, with anyone who is threatened by and fights Islam, be it Christians, Buddhists or Hindus.
Notwithstanding their liberal pacifistic tradition, Jews must go on the offensive because they are the first target in the current clash of civilizations. What is not less important in this political religion-driven conflict, Jews must never retreat under Islamic assault, as they will only encourage more of the same.
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