Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Offensive Video

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) has released this video for Holocaust Memorial Day 2017.

While I sympathize with all victims of discrimination and hate crimes, this video is offensive to me as a Jew.

There is clearly an agenda at play here to compare hate crimes against Muslims with the Holocaust, a state-sponsored genocide. And it is not at all subtle.

The video opens with a Muslim lady being harassed. She then appears two more times, in various stages of upset. In fact, she appears in approximately 30 seconds of the video.

In comparison, the Jewish hate crime of present day depicted in the video is a cemetery desecration, which features in approximately 20 seconds of the video.

But not only that – check out the imagery at 53 seconds into the video.

If you did not notice:

That object on the Muslim woman looks a hell of lot like a yellow star.

Again, I am opposed to all forms of discrimination. But to give precedence to hate crimes against Muslims and compare them to what happened in the Holocaust? That’s just offensive and wrong.

Incidentally, if the HMDT wants to educate about the Holocaust so it doesn’t happen again, they could do worse than educating British Muslims about it, given they are more likely to be antisemitic than the general population.

So how did this offensive video happen? I suspect it has something to do with having Dilwar Hussain and Fiyaz Mughal on the board of Trustees.

6 thoughts on “Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Offensive Video”

  1. Norman_In_New_York

    As I pointed out yesterday, hijacking worthy causes is a major part of the anti-Israel jihad strategy. For too long, this has been flying under the political and media radar.

  2. Quite right Dave. Don’t even get me started on the disgusting equivalence being drawn here. I don’t even have the words.
    Good eye on that yellow flower pin. I’d not have noticed it myself. There’s no way that was an accident.
    I’d have to say something else about this video infuriates me, possibly even more than the first issue, if you can believe it.
    I note that with Muslims and homosexuals, they show youths being harassed, beaten up, etc. It’s a very present-tense set of examples, and their youth implies the future.
    With Jews, what do they show? They show an aging woman staring at a desecrated cemetery – as though Jews getting harassed, beaten up, and far worse are no longer relevant problems in the world. As though we only need to fear for our cemeteries and other relics of the past, but Jews as people have nothing to worry about. They give a poignant example of Jews being attacked, but the example is from 1930’s Germany. So apparently that’s all in the past and nobody who isn’t German and 95 years of age or older needs to be concerned with it.
    So in England, according to this organization, Jewish safety is not a pressing issue. I’m pretty sure some folks would disagree with that claim.
    And what the h*ll is up with the slogan “how can life go on?”. Is the sequel video going to be a suicide note? It sounds like every single Jew who was involved in producing this video has utterly given up on Jews having a future. It’s horrific.

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