Although there has been wide publicity about holocaust in WWII, the Iranian (Persian) holocaust has been ignored which happened earlier in WWI during 1917-1919 which has been written by Mohammad Majd.
As many as 8 to 10 million Persians, almost half of the population of Iran at the time, perished because of starvation and disease due to British, an occupying force, war policy during the famine of 1917-1919, making it the greatest calamity in Persia’s history. In this book, Mohammad Gholi Majd argues that Persia was the greatest victim of World War One and also the victim of possibly the worst genocide of the twentieth century. Using U.S. State Department records, as well as Persian and British sources, Majd describes and documents a veritable holocaust about which practically nothing has been written. It is the first book in Majd’s World War I trilogy.

The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919
By Mohammad Gholi Majid

As far as demanding that the world give one group the Guinness World title of the Most Picked Upon People in the Entire History of Mankind, well who else is demanding such recognition? The events of WWII while tragic only lasted from 1938-1945. 10-12 million Chineses civilians were murdered by the Japanese during that same conflict, yet there is little said or written in U.S. mainstream media about that. Certainly their Holocaust wasn’t deemed important enough to force Japan into paying reparations. An Uncle of mine and his family were taken away by the Nazi’s for hiding Jews, yet their deaths are not given the same recognition or import as the people they attempted to aid. Native Americans, Africans, Irish, Cambodians, Armenians have all experienced their own Holocausts.

With regard to Hollywood being run by Jews, a quick check of Entertainment Weekly’s issue of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood should be enough evidence of who controls U.S. media. Overwhelming the percentage is in favor of Jews when counting the top twenty powermakers.

Obviously some unimformed as well those who subscribe to a belief in a religous superiority spew the easy canard of anti-semitism against any who dare to speak out against Zionism. Zionism predates Communisn, Fascism, and the National Socialist Party. It is based on European coloialism and a belief in religious superiority over all other groups and peoples.

A study of the original borders the U.N. set for Israel and how much of Palestine they now control will show any moron that the country has had expansionist goals and more than achieved then in its 59 year history. Again in the truest leagal sense the Security Council, which is the only binding vote in the U.N. never voted on the annexation and partitioning of Palestine in 1947. The U.N. General Council is the only body that voted on it. From a strictly jurisprudence standpoint that does not make Israel’s creation binding, no matter how much one wants to believe it.

With regard to AIPAC and ADL controlling the U.S. Senate and Congress I guess Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, Norman Finklestein Mehrene Larudee, Illan Pappe and Benny Morris are all anti-semites not to mention self-loathing Jews. Walt and Mearshimer have just released a book on this topic and are once again being savaged as being rabid anti-semites. Foxman was interviewed on NPR the other day and that little Fascist hurled the accusation of anti-semite like Joe McCarthy did with Reds 50 years ago. This term in itself is a gross misnomer since Arabs are semites and all of those mentioned are critcizing Israel for it’s occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. To paraphrase yourself, just because U.S. media chooses to ignore events, and issues does not mean it didn’t happen. Obviously some people still have a hard time seperating criticisim of Israel with being racist towards all Jews. One can deny Israel ‘s racist and apartheid policies, their violation of international law and ethnic cleansing, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It only make those who espouse such beliefs ignorant sheep who goose-step to the voices of fanatics.

“Hue- You accuse Jaime of raising the issue of anti-Semitism as a ‘tactic’ and a ‘ruse’. This itself is proof of anti-Semitism; at root what you’re saying is that Jews raise the issue of anti-Semitsm dishonestly in order to further their own ends”.

You are deluded by your own beliefs (is there a Jewish stereotype in that portion of my statement that makes you ticklish?) if you think pointing out Jaime’s MO is proof of my being anti-Semitic. Can you spot any hypocrisy or selective judgment in your words?

“Why do you believe that when the issue of racism directed against Jews is raised there is no need to take it seriously”?

Can you apply your understanding and use of “racism” to any other than those confronting Zionism?

“Do you respond with the same flipancy and insensitivity when other ethnic minorities complain of racism? If I was accused of racism I’d be falling over myself trying to explain to the person/people I had offended that this was not the case. Further to that I’d act on what I’d been told and be much more careful in my use of language so as to avoid a repetition of an unintended offence. I certainly wouldn’t counter the accusation with the suggestion that the other person was simply using the accusation of racism as a tactic”.

I find your bastardizing of the word, “racism” to be very insulting, offensive, insensitive and racist.

“Have you ever studied anti-Semitsm? Do you know the many ways in which racism has historically been directed at Jews? Are you familiar with the manifold derogatory and false anti-Semitic stereotypes”?

Were I taught that 2+2 were 5 my entire life, it wouldn’t make it so. And suggesting that one goes to classes to learn that challenging Jaime’s tactics and ruses is racist is a frightening proposition that to a certain extent is already happening…..but it doesn’t make it rational.

“A classic anti-Semitic stereotype is of the deceitful Jew lying in order to further his own ends. You can’t say that raising the issue of anti-Semitsm is a ‘ruse’ or a ‘tactic’ without relying to this very old racist stereotype”.

I’ll add self loathing to earlier list (Is that racist?)

But lets take a look at the zionists own self comments. What are they really like:

Quotes from Zionists

There are some pretty choice quotes from shockingly honest Zionists. You can find them in places like here and here. A few samples (emphasis in red; if you wonder about my continuing concerns about the Zionist Empire, see 12 to 16; 11 is so accurate a statement of Israeli negotiating procedure it is almost funny):

1. “We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.” – Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha’aretz, April 4, 1969.

2. “Among ourselves, it must be clear that there is no place in the country for both peoples together. With the Arabs we shall not achieve our aim of being an independent people in this country. The only solution is Eretz-Israel, at least the west part of Eretz-Israel, without Arabs . . . And there is no other way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries. Transfer all of them, not one village or tribe should remain . . .” –Joseph Weitz, entry in his diary for 1940 (quoted in his article: ‘A solution to the Refugee Problem: An Israeli State with a small Arab Minority’, published in Davar, 29 September, 1967.

3. “I gathered all of the Jewish mukhtars, who have contact with Arabs in different villages and asked them to whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived in Galilée and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time . . . The tactic reached its goal completely. The building of the police station at Halsa fell into our hands without a shot. The wide areas were cleaned . . .” – Yigal Allon, Ha Sepher Ha Palmach, Vol. 2, p. 268, 1948.

4. “…as uncontrolled panic spread through all Arab quarters, the Israelis brought up jeeps with loudspeakers which broadcast recorded ‘horror sounds’. These included shrieks, wails and anguished moans of Arab women, the wail of sirens and the clang of fire-alarm bells, interrupted by a sepulchral voice calling out in Arabic: ‘Save your souls, all ye faithful: The Jews are using poison gas and atomic weapons. Run for your lives in the name of Allah’.” – Leo Heiman, Israeli Army Reserve Officer who fought in 1948. Marine Corps Gazette, June 1964.

5. “Because we took the land this gives us the image of being bad, of being aggressive. The Jews always considered that the land belonged to them, but in fact it belonged to the Arabs. I would go further: I would say the original source of this conflict lies with Israel, with the Jews – and you can quote me.” – Yehoshofat Harkabi, former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence, in ‘Peace Won’t be a Plane Ticket to Cairo,’ International Armed Forces Journal, October 1973, p.30.

6. “It is unacceptable that nations made up of people who have only just come down from the trees should take themselves for world leaders . . . How can such primitive beings have an opinion of their own?” – Yitzhak Shamir, in reference to the black African nations who voted in support of the 1975 U.N. resolution, which denounced Zionism as a form of racism, in Yediot Ahronot, November 14, 1975.

7. “The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war.” – Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha’aretz, 19 March 1972.

8. “Let us not today fling accusations at the murderers. Who are we that we should argue against their hatred? For eight years now they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their very eyes, we turn into our homestead the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.” – Moshe Dyan, 1953, quoted by Uri Avneri in Israel without Zionists, p. 134.

9. “I don’t understand your optimism. Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.” – David Ben Gurion, 1956, quoted by Nahum Goldmann in The Jewish Paradox, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99.

10. “We take the land first and the law comes after.” – Mr. Palmon, Arab affairs adviser to the Mayor of Jerusalem, quoted in The Guardian, 26 April 1972.

11. “We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise solution. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism.” – General Yehoshafat Harkabi, Ma’ariv, 2 November 1973.

12. “To maintain the status quo will not do. We have to set up a dynamic state bent upon expansion.” – David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel, The Philosophical Press, New York, 1954, p. 419.

13. “During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.” – Moshe Dyan, Ma’ariv, 7 July 1968.

14. “Palestine is a territory whose chief geographical feature is this: that the river Jordan does not delineate its frontier but flows through its centre.” – Vladimir Jabotinsky, at the 16th Zionist Congress (1929), quoted by Desmond Stewart in The Middle East: Temple of Janus, p.304.

15. “Take the American Declaration of Independence for instance. It contains no mention of the territorial limits. We are not obliged to state the limits of our State.” – Ben Gurion’s diary, 14 May 1948, quoted by Michael Bar Zohar in The Armed Prophet, p.133.

16. “The Achilles heel of the Arab coalition is the Lebanon. Muslim supremacy in this country is artificial and can easily be overthrown. A Christian State ought to be set up there, with its southern frontier on the river Litani. We would sign a treaty of alliance with this State. Thus when we have broken the strength of the Arab Legion and bombed Amman, we could wipe out Transjordan; after that Syria would fall. And if Egypt still dared to make war on us, we would bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo. We should thus end the war and would have but paid to Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors.” – Ben Gurion’s Diary, 21 May 1948, quoted by Michael Bar Zohar in The Armed Prophet, p.139.

17. “I shall not be ashamed to confess that if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men – intelligent, decent, devoted to our ideal and burning with the desire to help redeem Jews – and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague Jews with anti-Semitic slogans such as ‘Bloody Jew’, ‘Jews go to Palestine’ and similar intimacies. I can vouch that the results in terms of a considerable immigration to Israel from these countries would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been preaching for decades to deaf ears.” – Davar, 1952, Editor Sharan, quoted by Alfred Lilienthal in The Other Side of the Coin, Devin-Adair, New York, p.47.

18. “We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel . . . Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.” – Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces – Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.

19. “We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return.” – David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar’s Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.

20. “We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?’ Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘Drive them out!’” – Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

21. “There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument: . . . the need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish . . . with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary.” – Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency’s Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.

22. “Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours . . . Everything we don’t grab will go to them.” – Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

23. “Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment . . . Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” – Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.

24. “We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not . . .You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.” – Chaim Weizmann, in Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

25. “The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.” – Ehud Barak, current Israeli Minister of Defense, in the Jerusalem Post, Aug. 30, 2000.

26. “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” – Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 in N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1.

27. “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.” – mega-political donor, mostly to the Democratic Party, Haim Saban explaining how to make your political donations go further in NYT, September 5, 2004.
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That said, only a rabid zionist could deny the massive disproportionality with which Israel has metted out its relentless attacks against Palistinians and Lebonese civilians.

Hezbollah’s actions pale in comparison. No one denies that there were crimes committed, but a full hearing of the situation, the context that this war took place makes the case irrefutably against Israel, a state who went after another in the name (pretext) of retribution for the capture of 2 soldiers.

I don’t see HRW has the exclusive word on criminality. The UN, Amnesty and others together weighed in and gave a persuasive argument for Israeli war crimes.

South Africa and Israel were close allies as racist, outlaw states during the 4 decades of Apartheid. During an official visit by Prime Minister of South Africa, John Vorster–an ardent fan of Hitler during WWII–to Israel in 1976, an official South African government publication stated that “Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples.”

Hue- You accuse Jaime of raising the issue of anti-Semitism as a ‘tactic’ and a ‘ruse’. This itself is proof of anti-Semitism; at root what you’re saying is that Jews raise the issue of anti-Semitsm dishonestly in order to further their own ends.

Why do you believe that when the issue of racism directed against Jews is raised there is no need to take it seriously?

Do you respond with the same flipancy and insensitivity when other ethnic minorities complain of racism? If I was accused of racism I’d be falling over myself trying to explain to the person/people I had offended that this was not the case. Further to that I’d act on what I’d been told and be much more careful in my use of language so as to avoid a repetition of an unintended offence. I certainly wouldn’t counter the accusation with the suggestion that the other person was simply using the accusation of racism as a tactic.

Have you ever studied anti-Semitsm? Do you know the many ways in which racism has historically been directed at Jews? Are you familiar with the manifold derogatory and false anti-Semitic stereotypes?

A classic anti-Semitic stereotype is of the deceitful Jew lying in order to further his own ends. You can’t say that raising the issue of anti-Semitsm is a ‘ruse’ or a ‘tactic’ without relying to this very old racist stereotype.

On the subject of Hezbollah and whether they commited war crimes- I had an intersting conversation with a professor who specialises in international humanitarian law this Saturday. His view is that it is crystal clear that some of Hezbollah’s actions during last summer’s war violated the principles of international humanitarian law; the first principle of which is to distinguish between military and non-military objectives. Using weapons, such as unguided missiles, which are incapable of making this distinction is a war crime. This same professor also believes that Israeli settlements are also very clearly illegal under international law, so I think its fair to say that his views are to be considered as reliable and not simply a partisan favouring of one side over the other.

That Hezbollah has commited war crimes has nothing to do with whether Israel may have also commited war crimes. It is not correct to say that if Israel has commited war crimes then Hezbollah a priori cannot have also done so. Naturally, this also applies in the opposite direction. Denying this very obvious point is evidence of either poor or biased thinking.

Of far more concern is the fact that the left are queueing up to offer support to genocidal, racist, homophobic and misogynist organisations. Can anyone explain why organisations of this nature are ordinarily shunned by the left except in the case where they are fighting against Jews, or against perceived ‘Jewish’ interests?

Dissident Voice, on a topic as fraught as the Israel/Palestinian conflict can’t you do better than this?

J Olson, for god’s sake get some help for your sick antisemitism.

Israel was ratified as a legitimate country by the UN. However Jew haters both right and left and radical Islamic try to hold Israel up to a different standard than then every other country in the world.

It’s all about demonizing and dehumanizing and delegitimizing if they can get away with it. But these lies are as clear as beer piss.

Hollywood for years was substantially run by Jews, but that’s no longer the case. Many of the largest corporations are now multinationals. And not necessarily Jewish owned.

The so called deadline to nuke Iran is utter bullshit. Entirely made up.

The “Jewish Lobby” doesn’t control US foreign policy.

Israel’s nothing like South Africa used to be. The lies don’t become real just because they’ve been repeated. But maybe it’s because this place is friendly to those sentiments that they have a home here.

Yawn.

At least the Nazis and white supremacists are are more honest about their Joooo hatred.

Something the management here can be proud of….

The Jewish Lobby controls Middle East policy in D.C. They control the message being put out on American mainstream media. Between the end of Sept and the beginning of Dec. there will be six major studio film releases dealing the Iraq war and Arabs. Everyone of these films has a biased point of view that is blatantly anti-Islamic. Even the L.A. Times is on record admitting that Hollywood is controled by Jews. Wake up and smell the coffee. A single group of people demand that the entire world designates the events of WWII (1939-1945) as the most horrific thing that has ever happened to anyone in the entire history of mankind. Please. 10-12 million Chinese civilians were slaughter by the Japanese during the same war and you hardly hear a word about that atrocity. The Irish, Camboadians, Africans, Native Americans, and Armenians have all suffered their own Holocausts, yet they are not given the same weight as the events of WWII. Many of these Holocausts lasted far longer than WWII, yet that doesn’t even register on the ricter scale.
Two months ago Israel gave the U.N. E.U. and US. a deadline of 18 months to nuke Iran or they will. The clock is ticking. A recent poll in Haaretz showed that 74% of all Israelis favor the U.S. nuking Iran. No kidding, why go to the expense when you can get the U.S. to do your dirty work for you. Talk about playing right into a stereotype.
Israel is an illegitimate country. The General Council voted for partitioning Palestine in 1947. Their vote is not binding. The Security Council never voted on the partion. It is the U.N. Security Council’s vote that is binding. Israel has never adhered to the borders that were mandated. They have a 59 year history of violating international law and countless U.N. resolutions. Israel is a rogue country that should be shunned by all countries, especially those that profess to be democratic. Israel beging a democracy is one of the best Kafkaesque lies that the Western public has been sold. It is a country that was borne out of a European colonialist and ethnic superiority philosophy that isn’t any different than South Africa. It is time for the apartheid wall to come down and for Palestine to be restored to the Palestinian people. Sorry, but using a book of religious fables as grounds for establishing ownership to real-estate just isn’t acceptable, especially when the book being used was authored by the very people who are using it to establish their case. That is called biased, but then everything with regard to the Palestinians and the Middle East has been biased against the indiginous peoples since the end of WWI.

But this time the US and Israel decided they needed to destroy Hezbollah once and for all………..

That is why Israel’s response was disproportionte, indiscriminant, and constituted a frenzy of racist, hatred, and criminal carpet bombing against the civilian population of Lebanon.

The Zionist lobby has been targeting Human Rights Watch for many years. This is no excuse for shading the facts and accusing Hezbollah of war crimes to appease the Lobby unless it can be proved. HRW did not prove their case but cowered to the Israel lobby.
They can do better!

Hezbollah terrorized their own by using Lebanese civilian areas to launch their attacks. That’s a major atrocity too. For HRW not to acknowledge these simple facts would have made it entirely irrelevant.