Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 30.07.2025
Introduction-News from Brazil
1. What is Anti-Semitism?
2. Jewish persecution of the non-Jews
3. Some known cases of Genocide of non-Jews
4. Is the Genocide of the Jews Unique?
5. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
6. Conclusion
Introduction-News from Brazil
Following Brazil’s withdrawal from the IHRA, on July 25, the Zionist Organization Combat Anti-Semitism Movement issued an attack on Brazil
CAM Director of Hispanic Affairs Shay Salamon issued the following statement on Friday in response to the Brazilian government’s reported withdrawal from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA):
“The Brazilian government’s move is not only irresponsible, but also deeply alarming at a time of rising antisemitism worldwide. Denying the importance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and abandoning its Working Definition of Antisemitism minimizes the Holocaust and disregards the history of a people who have been victimized by hatred for ages.”
“Brazil is home to the second-largest Jewish community in Latin America, including many descendants of Holocaust survivors, and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has now turned his back on them.”
“This decision, on top of his constant attacks on Israel, further confirms what was already clear — President Lula has normalized antisemitism in his official discourse. His approach represents neither neutrality nor diplomacy — rather, it’s complicity.”[i]
What is the nature of the IHRA? Is it an alliance for education about the Holocaust or a coalition to cover up the war crimes of the Zionist Monster?
1. What is Anti-Semitism?
There is no question that Anti-Semitism is a form of racism directed against Jews, not because of what they do, but because they belong to the Jewish group. The term itself is problematic, as it has been directed in most cases against European Jews who have no connection to the Semites, while the Arabs are Semites. There have been two forms of Anti-Semitism. One based on religion: The Jews killed the Messiah”. The other one is based on pseudo-science: “The Jewish race is infected and dangerous.”.
Undoubtedly, the Jewish chief priest Kiffa had responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus. Still, many jews at that time had sympathy for the struggle of Jesus against the corrupted regime of the Jewish society. The racist stereotype of the Jews was a result of the fact that Jews lost their position as pre-capitalist financiers.
During the Middle Ages in Europe, Jews were prohibited from working in craft trades or joining guilds. Money-lending and commerce were among the few activities open to them. The cliché of Jews as “usurers”, as rich or greedy, is rooted in this historical discrimination. The fact that many Jewish people were and are poor is overlooked.
Antisemitism includes many contradictory stereotypes: for example, Jews have been blamed both for Bolshevism and for rampant capitalism; they are accused of being both too foreign and too assimilated.
Not every expression of a negative stereotype of Jews is Anti-Semitism. To be a real anti-Semitism-it must be expressed by people with power to harm the Jews. When an oppressed person expresses a negative stereotype of Jews, it is a prejudiced opinion.
The worst genocide against the Jews took place during WWII by the Nazis. There were other known cases of pogroms against Jews. However, it is not true that Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years, as in some periods of history, Jews have persecuted non-Jews. Nor is it true that only the Jews have suffered from genocide.
2. Jewish persecution of the non-Jews.
If we believe the Bible, the Jews who settled in Palestine(Canaan as it was known then) committed genocide against the different people who lived in Canaan.
The Hebrew Bible, specifically the Book of Joshua, details the Israelites’ conquest of Canaan after their exodus from Egypt. This narrative portrays a forceful takeover, with the Israelites instructed to eliminate or drive out the existing Canaanite inhabitants. However, Archaeological Evidence indicates a more complexed picture. It suggests that the Israelites may have emerged from within the Canaanite population and arrived from what is now Iraq before the alleged exodus.
Around 1200 BCE, the Eastern Mediterranean experienced widespread instability, marked by the destruction of major cities and the collapse of empires. Canaan was also affected by this collapse, with some cities experiencing destruction. This period likely facilitated the rise of new groups, including the Israelites and the Philistines, who settled in the southern coastal plain.
While some Jews did persecute early Christians, it’s not accurate to say Jews “persecuted early Christians” as a whole. Early Christians faced persecution from both Jewish authorities and the Roman Empire. The New Testament itself depicts instances of early Christians being persecuted by the Jewish Sanhedrin. The New Testament, specifically Acts of the Apostles, portrays the Sanhedrin, the Jewish religious court, as persecuting early Christians.
Acts 7:54-8:3 describes the stoning of Stephen, and Paul’s early life involved persecuting Christians. However, the Romans also persecuted Christians for various reasons, including their refusal to worship the Roman gods and their perceived threat to Roman social order.
Jews participated in the slave trade of Africans. Jews did participate in the transatlantic slave trade, both as traders and slave owners. Some Sephardic Jews, along with New Christians (descendants of converted Jews), were involved in the early years of the transatlantic slave trade. Studies indicate that Jewish involvement was relatively limited compared to that of other European groups involved in the trade, such as the Dutch and British.
The upper-class Jews in the South of the USA owned slaves. Judah P. Benjamin, a prominent Confederate official, was a Jewish slaveholder. Benjamin served in the Confederate government, holding the positions of Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State.
Professor Tony Martin, of Wellesley College, USA, claimed in The Secret Relationship that Jews had a higher per capita slave ownership than for the white population as a whole.”
Jews in the South mainly lived in towns and cities. Slave ownership was much more common in southern urban areas than in the southern countryside. The relatively high proportion of Jewish slaveholding is because the Jews lived in the urban part of the South.
3. Some known cases of Genocide of non-Jews
The genocide of indigenous peoples of the U.S
The genocide of indigenous peoples of the U.S. portion of North America was carried out by the policies of the colonial power pursuing its interests. The colonization began in 1607 when England’s Jamestown colonists arrived in present-day Virginia with instructions to “settle” the already heavily populated coastal area. Beginning in 1830, the U.S. undertook a policy of “removing” all native people from the area east of the Mississippi River. In the series of interments and thousand-mile forced marches which followed, entire peoples were decimated. The Cherokees, for instance, suffered 50 percent fatalities during the “Trail of Tears”; the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Creeks, 25 to 35 percent each.
The mid-19th century saw numerous conflicts, including those in California, where massacres like the Sand Creek massacre resulted in hundreds of deaths. The Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, while not the only conflict of that year, resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 Lakota people, according to Wikipedia. Thousands of Native Indians were killed in the “Indian Wars” at the end of the 19th century. Possibly 45,000.
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Armenian Genocide
When, in 1894, the Armenians in the Sasun region refused to pay an oppressive tax, Ottoman troops and Kurdish tribesmen killed thousands of Armenians in the region. Another series of mass killings began in the fall of 1895, when Ottoman authorities’ suppression of an Armenian demonstration in Istanbul became a massacre. In all, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were killed in massacres between 1894 and 1896, which later came to be known as the Hamidian massacres. Some 20,000 more Armenians were killed in urban riots and pogroms in Adana and Hadjin in 1909.
The Armenian most known Genocide was carried out by the “Young Turk” government of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1918. Starting in April 1915, Armenian men in the Ottoman armies, serving separately in unarmed labor battalions, were removed and murdered. Of the remaining population, the adult and teenage males were separated from the deportation caravans and killed under the direction of Young Turk functionaries. Women, children, and the elderly were driven for months over mountains and desert, often raped, tortured, and mutilated. Deprived of food and water, they fell by the hundreds of thousands along the routes to the desert. Ultimately, more than half the Armenian population (1,500,000 people) was annihilated.
Herzel, the father of Zionism, who was a journalist and knew of the first genocide of the Armenians, helped to cover up for it because he wanted to convince the Sultan of Turkey to sell him Palestine.
The Herero Genocide
The Herero Genocide occurred between 1904-1907 in current day Namibia. The Hereros were herdsmen who migrated to the region in the 17th and 18th centuries. After a German presence was established in the region in the 1800s, the Herero territory was annexed (in 1885) as a part of German South West Africa.
A series of uprisings against German colonialists, from 1904–1907, led to the extermination of approximately four-fifths of the Herero population. After Herero soldiers attacked German farmers, German troops implemented a policy to eliminate all Hereros from the region, including women and children.
Nankin
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China’s capital city of Nanking and murdered 300,000 out of the 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. After just four days of fighting, Japanese troops smashed into the city with orders issued to “kill all captives.” The terrible violence – citywide burnings, stabbings, drownings, rapes, and thefts – did not cease for about six weeks. The Japanese troops raped over 20,000 women, most of whom were murdered thereafter so they could never bear witness.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
In the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, conflict between the three main ethnic groups – the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims – resulted in genocide committed by the Serbs against Bosnian Muslims. In the late 1980s, Slobodan Milosevic came to power. In 1992, acts of “ethnic cleansing” started in Bosnia, a mostly Muslim country where the Serb minority made up only 32% of the population. Milosevic responded to Bosnia’s declaration of independence by attacking Sarajevo, where Serb snipers shot down civilians. The Bosnian Muslims were outgunned, and the Serbs continued to gain ground. They systematically rounded up local Muslims and committed acts of mass murder, deported men and boys to concentration camps, and forced repopulation of entire towns. Serbs also terrorized Muslim families by using rape as a weapon against women and girls. Over 200,000 Muslim civilians were systematically murdered and 2,000,000 became refugees at the hands of the Serbs.
The Genocide in Darfur
Since February 2003, government-sponsored militias known as the Janjaweed have conducted a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, starvation and displacement in Darfur.
It is estimated that 400,000 people have died due to violence, starvation, and disease. More than 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes, and over 200,000 have fled across the border to Chad. Many now live in camps that lack adequate food, shelter, sanitation, and healthcare.
The Rwandan Genocide
Beginning on April 6, 1994, groups of ethnic Hutu, armed mostly with machetes, began a campaign of terror and bloodshed which embroiled the Central African country of Rwanda. For about 100 days, the Hutu militias, known in Rwanda as Interhamwe, followed what evidence suggests was a clear and premeditated attempt to exterminate the country’s ethnic Tutsi population. The Rwandan state radio, controlled by Hutu extremists, further encouraged the killings by broadcasting non-stop hate propaganda and even pinpointed the locations of Tutsis in hiding. The killings only ended after armed Tutsi rebels, invading from neighboring countries, managed to defeat the Hutus and halt the genocide in July 1994. By then, over one-tenth of the population, an estimated 800,000 persons, had been killed. The country’s industrial infrastructure had been destroyed and much of its population had been dislocated.
The Genocide of the Gypsies
While the Jewish Holocaust, when the Nazis and their helpers murdered millions of Jews, is well-known because the victims were Europeans, and it has been used for Zionist propaganda to justify the crimes against the Palestinians. The genocide of the Roma is less famous. The Nazis viewed Romani peoples as racially inferior and as social outsiders. During World War II, the Nazis and their allies and collaborators perpetrated a genocide of European Roma. They shot tens of thousands of Romani people in occupied eastern Poland, the Soviet Union, and Serbia. They also murdered thousands more Roma from western and central Europe in killing centers.
Genocide in Cambodia
From 1975-1979, Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge political party in a reign of violence, fear, and brutality over Cambodia. An attempt to form a Communist peasant farming society resulted in the deaths of 25% of the population from starvation, overwork, and executions. Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. Inspired by Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China, the Khmer Rouge attempted to “purify” Cambodia of Western culture, city life, and religion. Different ethnic groups and all those considered to be of the “old society”, intellectuals, former government officials, and Buddhist monks were murdered.
4. Is the Genocide of the Jews Unique?
The Zionists describe the Holocaust as unique: the systematic attempt to eradicate Jewry and its culture. For the Zionists, it was not just qualitatively different from other genocides, but it is also not given to human understanding. However ghastly, the Holocaust was not historically unique as an instance of genocide, nor necessarily aimed with greater ferocity or ideological purpose at the Jews than at the Roma, gays, and others: It is necessary to draw comparisons between and among all these precisely to understand how to prevent such events. The unique side of the genocide of the Jews is that it was carried out in an industrial process. However, it can repeat itself in other capitalist societies.
The empirical case for uniqueness is weak, not least in terms of historical accuracy. Other groups of people have suffered even greater numerical losses in other genocides, whether absolutely or proportionately, than did European Jewry or Roma during the Holocaust, even though ʻby the time the war was over, almost two out of every three Jews in Europe (and one out of three worldwide) had died in the concentration and death camps, in the ghettoes, or at the hands of mobile killing squads, the Einsatzgruppen.
Between April and July 1994, as many as 850,000 Tutsi people were slaughtered in Rwanda, primarily with handguns and machetes. This is a rate of about 10,000 per day, a figure equal to the maximum ever achieved during a single 24-hour period at Auschwitz … [and] if speed is to be a criterion, no one has come close to matching the achievements of the United States in killing at least 100,000 people in a matter of hours with the firebombing of Tokyo and the subsequent vaporizing, in virtually a single nuclear instant, of more than 200,000 innocent Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The reason the Zionists and their supporters insist that the genocide of the Jews is unique is that the Zionist monster uses it to justify the genocide of the Palestinians. That is why if a person compares the genocide of the Palestinians to the genocide of the Jews, he will immediately be accused of Anti-Semitism. It must be added that the Zionist monster is using AI, which is more advanced than the Nazi’s technology for their war crimes.
5. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA was founded in 1998 with a declared aim to ensure uniform remembrance, education, and research in connection with the Holocaust. However, the fundamental objective of the IHRA is to protect the genocide committed by the Zionist state against the Palestinians.
On 26 May 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted a non-binding document defining antisemitism and providing several examples of contemporary antisemitic acts. With a disproportionate amount of its examples of antisemitic behavior referring to one form or another of criticism of Israel, the definition was quickly adopted as a tool to suppress and silence Palestinian civil society. Some of these include, “Applying double standards by requiring of it [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” and “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor”.
The definition was used to censor or criminalize criticism of Israel almost immediately after its adoption. National laws conflating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement with antisemitism were adopted by the parliaments of Germany, the Czech Republic, and Austria in 2019, citing the IHRA definition as the reason for their decision. The parliaments of these three EU Member States also called on their respective governments not to financially support groups or projects that call for a boycott of Israel or support the BDS movement.
Since 2019, several prominent artists and academics in Germany have been smeared with accusations of antisemitism and saw their events canceled and/or defunded due to their involvement with or support of BDS. This censorship extends to even Jewish Israeli artists who were declared to be “antisemites” and defunded under the clampdown of any BDS-involved activity. In Austria, our comrade Michael Pröbsting, the International Secretary of the RCIT, was found guilty because he defends Palestinians and received a conditional jail sentence.
6 Conclusion
The IHRA is not an organization for researching and studying issues related to the Holocaust. It is an umbrella organization acting as a shield to defend the genocide of the Palestinians. Withdrawing from this criminal alliance is the correct step against the Zionist monster and its monitor, who is sitting in the white house.
Endnotes:
[i] https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/president-lula-has-turned-his-back-on-brazils-jews-with-reported-ihra-withdrawal/