re: #169 lawhawk

When the Palestinians (and Arabs and Iranians and other anti Semites) deny the Holocaust existed, they often do so at the same time expropriating the language of the Holocaust for their own needs - claiming that Israel is perpetrating a Holocaust on Palestinians even as there has been no such genocide or ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Period. Hysterical claims of genocide - like in Jenin - simply did not exist. But the lies persist and Hamas’ top thug is merely repeating what has been long held by Palestinians - that the Holocaust, which was a major reason for the founding of Israel - took away their birthright and is somehow illegitimate.

I don’t think there were visible claims of a “genocide” in Jenin, the term is “Jenin massacre”.

What I find curious though is that the Holocaust did not seem to play any major political role in the run-up to the creation of Israel (the problem of refugees obviously played a practical role). It’s not like the nations gathered and for moral reasons decided to award the Jews with the state because of the genocide, thereby coming up with the partition plan. There’s no evidence they were so “sentimental”. See [PDF]