Thread by @omgstater

Some people claim the Holocaust didn’t have a Jewish specificity.

Sadly they are wrong. Jews wish they weren’t wrong, but to our cost we know they are.

These are the facts. Stop bothering relatives of the victims of genocide on the day we remember them.

Attempts to de-Judaise the nature of the Holocaust are an insulting “all lives matter”.

They are motivated by racism or the need to accommodate a racist viewpoint which deliberately glosses over the facts

“It could have been you - we are all different”. No, it probably couldn’t have been you if you aren’t Jewish. That’s the point.

And if you don’t support the Jewish community against racism today, then you have not learned a thing about the Holocaust

The Holocaust didn’t magically appear, divorced from historical context.

The uniqueness of the Holocaust comes from the technology and determination to maximise its usage to wipe out Jews.

But the sentiment and attitudes behind it were very old

And now, especially on Holocaust Memorial Day, we see technology once again utilised to demonise Jews.

Social Media spreads lies and hate impressively fast and there is little to stop this tidal wave of incitement

So if you stay silent when Jews are abused. If you deny that antisemitism was central to the Holocaust. If you justify incitement against Jews because some live in a certain country.....

then you are complicit in creating an environment of hate that made the #Holocaust possible

In the UK, a Jewish person is more than twice as likely to suffer a racist attack than the next most attacked group.

The Holocaust is not some faraway tale. Racists don’t usually wear black boots and do Nazi salutes. Hatred against Jews finds ways of becoming socially acceptable

The finger of hate is again pointing at us, in living memory of our genocide.

The Holocaust was a plan to destroy Jews, among a history where anti-Jewish racism has been a near constant feature of non-Jewish society.

The denial of it is part of it. /end