1. Per said:

I have a guts feeling that some "compromise" may come out of this mess anyway. The question is then whether the Jewish community in the UK should anticipate the establishment of a "Deir Yassin Day" by proposing to move the Holocaust day till 24 April, and commemorate the Holocaust together with the Armenians and other victims of genocide, on an International Dhimmi Day dedicated to the victims of Appeasement.

2. Ted Belman said:

Nothing compares to the holocaust. It is a unique event in history, particularly European history, that must be memorialized.

Of course any country can choose to memorialize anything they want but that is no reason to ride on the back of the holocaust or to detract from its uniquenbess. Let it stand on its own two feet.

I have no doubt that the motivation here is to destroy the symbolism of the holocaust rather than to memorialize other mass killings.

3. A Time to Speak said:

There have been many dreadful mass losses of life in history as an effect or side-effect of wars. That is not the same thing as deliberately calculated plans to annihilate an entire people.

1. The Albigensians in the 13th century
2. The Tasmanians, deliberately and totally exterminated by the British "SETTLERS" in Australia in the 19th century.
3. The Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in World War I.
4. The Jews and the Gypsies by the Germans before and during World War II.

Deliberate genocide against Muslims? When? Where? by Whom?

4. Per said:

"Nothing compares to the holocaust."
Which is true if you only speak about numbers per unit of time, or technical methods.

The slaughtering of persecuted Jews over the past 2000 years, however, amounts to many times the 6 million killed during the 3 year duration of the Holocaust. In addition, one should not be surprised if the number of others killed by Islam and other regimes for similar reasons over the past 1400 years, is found to exceed 600 million.

The Holocaust was a brief episode in the history of genocide. Failing til learn and memoralize the whole history, will certainly not diminish the chance for having it repeated.

5. leonard said:

The Home Secretary appoints a Task Force of Islamic extremists to tacke extremism post 7/7. Then surprise surprise the first act by a leadership in denial is an antisemitic one - to trivialise the uniqueness of the holocaust for political means by seeking to equate it with the israel/palestine conflict. The true test for the government is whether they can retain the high moral ground by dismissing the efforts of this extremist fringe, or pander to their warped perspectives and offer them some sort of secondary genocide day in order to appease them.The Labour Party popularity is declining fast and the Government will be judged by the wider community by their response.

6. BobW said:

Something similiar is going on in the States - although the political confrontation is absent because of sophisticated USG methods.

There is a new museum to memorialize the Cambodia "killing fields". A slavery museum is currently being built. There are programs for the Vietnamese refugee "boat people". The Armenian preWWI massacre is receiving attention. There are additional programs comingling Holocoast museums into a larger mosiac.

Circa 2002, there was a demographic change in the States. The largest and richest minorities were blacks and Jews, respectively. This has now changed. The largest and richest are Mexicans and overseas Chinese, respectively. America's link with Europe is thus broken.

The current US Holocoast Museum theme is now "tolerance".

Watch some other countries follow London and Washington, D.C.
The Shoah will fade away no less than Verdun and Normandy.

Kol tuv,
BobW

7. Jerusalem Posts said:

And just to let the rest of the world know how anti-Israel/anti-semitic the UK is:

IDF general escapes arrest by London police's anti-terrorist unit

General (res.) Doron Almog, former head of the Israel Defense Forces' Southern Command, escaped arrest Sunday by the London police's anti-terrorist and war crimes unit, when he remained on an aircraft that had landed in Heathrow airport and returned with it to Israel several hours later.

Almog had arrived in London on an El-Al flight. Israel Ambassador Zvi Hefetz learned of a plan to arrest him for allegedly perpetrating war crimes during the intifada, and quickly informed Yaki Dayan, head of the political department in Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's bureau.

Melanie Phillips has a brilliant analysis of what's going on in the UK right now - the Monster in Britain's Midst

8. Joe said:

As bad as the Holocaust was, there was no way that Hitler could have killed ALL the Jews - many already were living in America and other parts of the world.

Why is the Holocaust worse than the slaughter of over a million Armenians by the Turks, or of the millions (possibly as many as 10 million depending on which estimates you look at) of Ukrainians by the Soviets, etc.? These other genocides get essentially no attention and are not taught in schools.

9. t said:

Joe you don t see the connection? Jew s are persecuted MORE than anyn race on earth!!!!!
Yes it s terrible that other racwes are killed! But None seems to complain.

10. Leonard said:

The arrest warrant was apparently issued by Daniel Machover of Messrs Hickman and Rose and was signed by District Judge Tomothy Workman who sits at Bow Street Magistrates Court
according to the Jerusalem Post. It seems that the anti-Israel elements in the UK are being granted a licence to run riot completely unchecked, and the UK foreign office doesn't give a damn about the damage caused to Anglo-Israeli relations. A tricky situation for the only Democracy in the Middle East.

11. Grant Bronson said:

The Armenian genocide is still quite controversial, in terms of the fact that there are major disputes as to what actually happened, although no one disputes that hundreds and thousands of Armenians were killed in the context of an ethnic war.

Nevertheless, the organized, industrialized Genocide perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews, seeking to whipe them all out, killing all the Jews they could in the territories they conquered, and supported by earlier Jihadists like Mufti Al-Husseini (Arafat's uncle) has been unmatched in human history. It is a dark spot, especially in Europe, which is supposed to be the heart of the "enlightened, civilized" world, where the majority of that world either joined in the kill-your-tiny-minority neighbor fun, or stood by and looked the other way. It is also notable in that it is the culmunation of centuries of European anti-Semitism (or Judenhaus, Jew-hatred, for those who argue that Anti-Semitism, despite being coined to mean Jew-hatred, must also mean hatred of all Semitic peoples).