About six SJP activists convened to launch an observance that took the form of every other event in their skill set: chanting slogans “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!”
New York, April 18 – Holocaust Remembrance Day occurs today, on the 80th anniversary of the 1943 launch of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a day that a number of anti-Zionists have decided to observe despite the occasion’s official status as an Israeli government institution, because, observers report, those definitely-not-antisemitic opponents of Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland have interpreted the tone of the day as festive.
Activists with IfNotNow and Students for Justice in Palestine, among other groups, seized on Yom HaShoah as conveying an aspirational message, to the effect that greater success by the Nazis and their local collaborators in Europe and North Africa in perpetrating genocide against the Jews could have prevented Palestinian displacement and loss in the Holy Land – and that, though they try not to say this part out loud, that remains the solution to the Jewish Problem.
The State of Israel adopted Yom HaShoah – officially titled Yom HaZikkaron LaShaoh V’Lag’vurah, “Memorial Day for the Holocaust and Resistance” – to mark both the horrific Jewish experiences under Nazi oppression and to acknowledge Jewish efforts to fight their murderers, even under hopeless circumstances. Palestinians and their international supporters, however, have found Jewish survival and reestablishment of sovereignty inconvenient at best; their only-sometimes-unspoken attitude includes ambitions of having the opportunity, if not pursuing it to the same extent, that the Nazis did. Wartime Palestinian leaders openly allied with the Nazis and formulated plans to bring the Final Solution to Palestine if the Third Reich were to oust the British from the territory.
Last night and this morning, handfuls of confused INN and SJP activists sought in vain Yom HaShoah events with the tone they expected, stymied again and again as each advertised lecture, meeting, film screening, panel discussion, or other observance they encountered either implied or created expectation of a mournful, reproachful, or at least somber perspective on the Holocaust, rather than the relish with which the activists assumed it must carry.
Several groups of the activists resolved to organize events that reflect the tone they deemed proper for Yom HaShoah. Onlookers reported that toward afternoon, about six SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace activists had convened to launch an observance of their own, one that took the form of every other such event in their skill set: chanting slogans such as “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!” a thinly-veiled call for another genocide against Israel’s seven million Jews.
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