Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

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WEBINAR SUMMARY

“Holocaust” is a brand name that Jews monopolize and widely advertise. As with commercial brands, “Holocaust” forms a distinct and sought-after elevated position in the public mind. Other victims of genocide lack the resources to widely publicize their genocides.

Standard Holocaust messaging partakes of racist presumption, such as “The Holocaust was the greatest crime in history”. Unequal victims? Tetraplegics and quadriplegics are unequal victims, yet tetraplegics don’t get special attention. Victim hierarchies backfire on Jews: Why are 36 million murdered Chinese not more important than 6 million Jews?

Murder is murder: Gas chambers are irrelevant. That Jews were the only group facing total extermination is false. Hitler personally authorized the release of Jews for money. 2-3 million European Jews were left alive, as were some 200,000 Jewish inmates in Nazi German camps. Besides, “total extermination” presupposes an equal ability of genociders to do so. Stalin was in no position to even contemplate killing all 50 million Ukrainians.

Jews dismissingly say that “only” 10% of Poles died, which is as insulting as saying that “only” 33% of the world’s Jews died. The Germans were not playing favorites when they killed proportionately fewer Poles than Jews: The Germans lacked the wartime manpower to handle the massive Polish guerrilla warfare that would ensue in any larger German Pole-killing operation.

Poles and not only Jews, faced extermination (albeit postwar). This included GENERALPLAN OST, use of mass sterilization, and expansion of gassing facilities at Auschwitz.

Besides monopolizing Auschwitz, Jews are hostile to any monuments or ceremonies that combine their sufferings with those of others. Besides showing victim chauvinism, Jews-only monuments, by design, guarantee “separate and unequal” treatment: Jews get the lion’s share of attention and other genocides are marginalized.

Silenced or neglected genocides experience a “second wounding”. Genocide-Recognition Equality should be a fundamental human right, and Holocaust supremacy should rightly be condemned and rejected as a form of racism.