An Old Story Renewed

"Modern Jewish history, then, begins with the Jews impatiently knocking on the portals of the eighteenth century, seeking admittance to full citizenship. The French revolution left Jewish emancipation as a residue on the bottom of the revolutionary crucible. As Napoleon's armies advanced, the walls of the ghetto crumbled.
But, mercifully, the emancipated Jews were unaware of the assault to be made upon them by a new degeneracy of man -- racism. 
Most people think of anti-Semitism as having existed for four thousand years, ever since Jewish history began, mainly because the term has been conferred retroactively by so many historians on past events which outwardly resembled anti-Semitism. 
Anti-Semitism is illogical, irrational, and stems from unconscious forces. First comes the prejudice; then follows the rationalized justification for that feeling. Anti-Jewish violence, on the other hand, stems from logical, rational, and conscious motivation."

An antisemitic poster published in Poland in March 1941. The caption reads, "Jews are lice; They cause typhus." This German-published poster was intended to instill fear of Jews among Christian Poles.

— Muzeum Okregowe w Rzeszowie / Historical Museum of Rzeszow

"Karl Jacobi founded modern mathematical physics; Georg Cantor introduced the concept of transfinite numbers; Hermann Minkowski fathered the geometry of numbers, formulated the concept of relativity of time and space; Sir William Herschel was first to measure the distances of stars from the sun; David Ricardo is regarded as the father of capitalism; A Jew founded the German potash industry; Jewish chemists devised methods to estimate vapor density; Richard Willstatter determined the composition of chlorophyll; Jewish physicists discovered the Hertzian wave, isolated isotopes, worked in electron kinetics; Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, Niels Bohr all brilliant in physics were driven out of Europe by fascism."
"In Germany more than anywhere else in Europe, Jewish pre-eminence in every field helped to create the German Zeitgeist -- the German "spirit of the times".
Max I. Dimont -- Jews, God and History

Little wonder Jews thought of themselves as indispensable to Germany, and that Germany needed them, valued them, honoured them, and they would always be seen as Germans first, Jews last, and in this would lie their pride and security, for were they not more German than the Aryans? Little need would they have of the concept of Zionism; it was not they who would campaign to return to Zion, for their place was in Europe.

Until Europe became the charnel house of bloodletting, that crucible of death, destroying six million Jews because they were Jews. The Final Solution came as close to destroying Europe's Jews as its planners had intended. And 70 years after the ending of the Second World War and the liberation of the pathetic remnants of Jewry from Hitler's infamous death camps, world Jewry has never recovered, and never will recover from that massive assault on their presence on Earth.

Many of those who survived the Final Solution, however, did end up in a country of their own, one that would be dedicated to preserving the presence of Jews, not destroying them. As that systemic program of extermination proceeded however, rumours swept the international community, but the scope and improbability of such a campaign went so against the grain of understanding and the capacity to conceive of such a monstrosity that no one believed it.

And when first-hand accounts and evidence surfaced, then no one wanted to believe it. And how to respond? During a global war, all attention is riveted on the warring parties, on the attacked attempting to cope with their attackers, on defense against offense. Even while the Axis powers fought to achieve success in world domination they managed to contrive time, energy and resources to minute details involved in genocidal atrocities.

Death camps were constructed in eastern Europe and elsewhere on the continent where Germany occupied other nations, knowing that there was a living history in those nations of pogroms, that Jews would have few defenders who would care to stir themselves in compassion and responsibility for that most basic of human rights: the right to life. As the first organized industrial genocide, the Holocaust was a resounding success; ridding the world of the pestilential existence of those arrogant Chosen People.

The bureaucracy involved, the fine attention to details, left an indelible trail, and proof positive that the Holocaust did occur, and six million Jews did perish. The German adoration of the Aryan ideal found support in an Aryan nation, Iran. When racial-religious hatred combusts there is a spontaneous freedom of shared values; Germany then and Iran now represent state-executed constructs of genocide; one in the past, the other for the future.

Mahmod Mohammad Tabrizi's anti-Semitic cartoon that won Iranian Prize. Photo: www.irancartoon.ir. Jews praying before the New York Stock Exchange

Both used denigration and the pathology of revulsion for a people held to be less than human. Germany had its turn, and now the Islamic Republic of Iran is working toward fulfillment of its opportunity to mount a second Holocaust, while denying that the first ever occurred. Nazi Germany produced films which showed Jews living healthy, free lives in Germany, screening its massive extermination pogrom.

Iran sees no need for such delicacy and tact, freely promising to destroy Israel, as do its proxy terrorist Islamists.

With a little bit of help from its friends.