As part of this year's International Holocaust Day those ever-astute journalists at the BBC posed the question: "Is it time to lay the Holocaust to rest?" I had to go back and re-read the headline because I was absolutely sure I misread it the first time. Apparently I am a better reader than I originally suspected. So now, also in honour of International Holocaust Day, I have a question that I would like to pose to the BBC's international audience: "Is it time to accept, once and for all, that we will never be able to lay the Holocaust to rest as long as there are blatant anti-Semites like the BBC out there?"
I cannot even begin to imagine how this story made the BBC's editorial line-up. I've been a journalist; I know how the editorial pitch sessions work. Someone must have made a very compelling argument that ran contrary to the facts on the ground. Or, the more obvious choice: Britain is just sick of Jews and their problems. Why waste more ink or air time on that old subject? Been there. Done that.
I am sure they know that anti-Semitism in Europe is running at a 70-year-high. Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Manuel Valls have both said that something must be done to get anti-Semitism under control. Jews are being bullied on the streets of London, murdered in the grocery store in Paris and police escorted to synagogue in Antwerp. Yeah, I can see how the BBC could have come to the conclusion that it was time to draw a line in the human remains of the Holocaust and just shut down all that negative talk. I guess they need more ink and air for their love-affair with radical Islam.
And where is Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party who happens to be Jewish? I will tell you were he is. According to an article in the New Statesmen in 2012, here's what he had to say about his own Jewish identity: "Like many others from Holocaust families, I have a paradoxical relationship with history. One one level I feel intimately connected with it -- this happened to my parents and grandparents. On another, it feels like a totally different world." Pretty damn sad. He's probably on the BBC's Editorial Board.
For all those fools in British media, politics and society-at-large, let me answer the BBC's question.
No. It is not time to lay the Holocaust to rest. It may never be that time. What is happening to the Jews is a harbinger of what will happen to British society as a whole. Yes, even the monarchy. Do you honestly think that radical Islam will stop once it rids society of the Jews? If you do, you are sadly mistaken and you may well end up being a participant in a Holocaust that leaves the Final Solution of Adolf Hitler in the dust. The Jews are just a convenient excuse for everything wrong with anything anywhere. They are the canary in the mine.
Israelis don't have the luxury of even thinking about forgetting the Holocaust. We don't even get to take a day off. As recently as 12 hours ago we got a little reminder from Hezbollah, that there is always another Holocaust nipping at our feet. Two dead soldiers, seven wounded and Hamas couldn't congratulate them fast enough and warn that there was more to come. There's always more to come and if the world was smart it would take the Jews and Holocaust lesson more seriously. Because when they are finished with us they are coming for you. Now that will be a new story.
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