{"id":54648,"date":"2024-01-27T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54648"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:01:00","slug":"hamas-its-holocaust-denialism-and-the-complicity-of-a-un-agency-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/27\/hamas-its-holocaust-denialism-and-the-complicity-of-a-un-agency-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas, its Holocaust denialism and the complicity of a UN agency in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, a genocide that had the Jewish people as its main victim.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/08\/the-infamy-of-the-un-it-invokes-against-israel-the-article-that-it-has-never-invoked-against-russia\/\">The infamy of the UN: it invokes against Israel the article that it has never invoked against Russia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/25\/the-united-nations-contribution-to-hamas-disinformation-and-its-bias-against-israel\/\">The United Nations' contribution to Hamas disinformation and its bias against Israel<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Today the Holocaust is proven with abundant evidence and documentation. Despite this, <strong>there are still people and organizations that deny the existence of this genocide<\/strong>. Among Holocaust deniers there are neo-nazi activists and other types of antisemites, who are joined by more and more Islamists. <strong>Among the Holocaust denial groups is the terrorist organization Hamas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>Hamas and its Holocaust denialism<\/big><\/p>\n<p>15 years ago, events occurred that illustrate not only <strong>the degree of anti-Semitic fanaticism of Hamas, but also the complicity of a UN agency<\/strong> with the anti-Jewish prejudices of that terrorist group. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180119235054\/https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/world\/un-caught-in-gaza-dispute-over-study-of-holocaust-1.1430963\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In September 2009 it was claimed that UNRWA, the UN agency in Gaza, would teach the Holocaust in its 221 schools in Gaza<\/a>, more than the third part of the 600 schools in that Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The response of the Islamist terrorist organization was clear: <em>\"<strong>We refuse to let our children study a lie invented by the Zionists<\/strong>\"<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsMaps\/idUSTRE57T1JW20090830\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas said<\/a>, an infamous statement that any nostalgic for Nazism could sign. <strong>Holocaust denialism is widespread in Gaza and Arab countries<\/strong>. In the same vein as Hamas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeerah.info\/News\/2009\/August\/30%20n\/Gaza%20Refugee%20Committees%20Criticize%20UN%20Curriculum,%20Call%20for%20Removing%20the%20Holocaust%20Program%20and%20Replace%20it%20with%20the%20Palestinian%20Nakba.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza Refugee Committees stated<\/a>: <em>\"The refugee camps committees categorically refuse to let our children be taught <strong>this lie created by the Jews and intensified by their media<\/strong>\"<\/em>, referring to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p><big>UNRWA omits the Holocaust from its schools in Gaza<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Given the denialist position of Hamas and other Palestinian groups, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/sep\/08\/hamas-and-the-holocaust\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UNRWA denied that the Holocaust was included in its curricula in Gaza<\/a>. What's more, as a result of that controversy, it was discovered - as the American channel NBC pointed out on September 9, 2009 - that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna32743298\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UN schools in the West Bank, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon also did not mention the Holocaust<\/a>. As often happens, the forgetting of history threatens to repeat its darkest episodes.<\/p>\n<p><big>The involvement of UNRWA officials in the October 7 attack<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Just this week, Israel presented evidence about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/unrwa-sacks-staffers-who-allegedly-participated-in-oct-7-attack-us-halts-funding\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the involvement of 12 UNRWA officials in the terrorist attack of October 7<\/a>, an attack in which vehicles and facilities of that agency were also used the UN<\/strong>. Let us remember that already in October, UN Watch denounced that <a href=\"https:\/\/unwatch.org\/un-staff-celebrate-hamas-massacre\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UN officials celebrated that Hamas terrorist attack against Israel<\/a>. As a result of the data known this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240225165310\/https:\/\/www.state.gov\/statement-on-unrwa-allegations\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday the State Department of The US announced the suspension of its donations to UNRWA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>The responsibility of the UN in the new rise of anti-Semitism<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023 was <strong>the worst massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust<\/strong>. That massacre did not happen suddenly: it is the result of decades of Islamist anti-Semitism in the Palestinian territories, <strong>a hatred of Jews facilitated and fueled by a UN agency and by the organization itself<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/03\/scandal-at-the-un-iran-is-elected-for-a-vice-presidency-of-its-general-assembly\/\" >which places Iran in positions of responsibility<\/a> while that Islamist dictatorship supports Islamist terrorism in several countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/news\/iran-still-holocaust-denial-biz-big-time\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denies the Holocaust<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/khamenei-when-iran-speaks-of-wiping-out-israel-it-refers-to-regime-not-jews\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatens to wipe out Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let us also remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/06\/20\/un-human-rights-council-68-resolutions-against-israel-and-none-against-venezuela\/\">the UN Human Rights Council has condemned Israel more times than the rest of the countries combined<\/a> (including communist dictatorships and Islamist regimes) and that the October 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/statement\/2023-10-24\/secretary-generals-remarks-the-security-council-the-middle-east-delivered\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UN Secretary General, socialist Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, justified Hamas' attacks against Israel<\/a> by stating that <em>\"did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation\", <strong>assuming the terrorists' discourse to justify their crimes.<\/strong> With what moral authority can the UN speak about human rights in these conditions?<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Reuters. Hamas terrorists with their heads covered with balaclavas.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, a genocide that had the Jewish people as its main victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}