Glad To Get Yom HaShoah Over With So I Can Call For Another Shoah With A Clear Conscience

by Zarah Sultana, Labour Party MP for Coventry South

London, 21 April – Thank goodness that’s done. Feigning concern for the welfare of Jews one day a year on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising exacts a price in nerves and emotional composure. But doing so allows me to return to my normal routine of working to undermine the sovereignty and security for Jews that only a Jewish state provides.

As the part of anti-racism, Labour has faced numerous challenges, not least of them the embarrassing tendency of various members to display racism, usally in the form of antisemitism. Fortunately, no one outside a noisy cadre of activists cares about that, despite their control of the media, banks, and world governments, and as such a token gesture of sympathy for dead Jews suffices to atone. As far as my constituents are concerned – by which I mean the unelected leaders and opinion-makers in Tehran, Ramallah, Gaza, Ankara, Doha, and then, as an afterthought, perhaps some of the louder pro-Palestine activists in Coventry South itself, but on the geography of that last part I’m flexible – the main concern of a British parliamentarian is Palestine. If promoting the Palestinian cause means campaigning to weaken the one institution that gives Jews control over their own security and independence, so be it.

A few million dead Jews is a small price to pay for the eradication of racism, the chief manifestation of which in our world is Palestinian suffering. But stating that outright without throwing a bone to the Jewish narcissist competitors in the Victimhood Olympics who insist it all be about them can create all sorts of unpleasantness that one easily avoid by spouting “Never Again” platitudes on Yom HaShoah and being done with it. Jeremy Corbyn taught me that.

The fact is it effectively takes only a few minutes to indulge the haters who insist Jewish survival and safety matter. It isn’t even a full day. Just the time it takes to dash off a tweet with some hackneyed phraseology and catch phrases – or better yet, have a social media volunteer or intern craft it – and boom, Ali Baba’s your uncle, that’s it for another year. Any negative or nasty replies highlighting my hypocrisy can be left for the intern to deal with. Still, it makes my skin crawl to have to acknowledge Jewish suffering and refrain on that one day from blatant statements that they probably deserve it, because just look at Palestine.

Next time the world will have to make sure none of them are left so I don’t have to bother with this.

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