Mick Hartley

From MEMRI TV, Osama Abu Irshaid, the Executive Director of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), at the Third Palestinian National Dialogue in Istanbul.

[T]he Zionist enterprise can only be dismantled if Palestinians understand that it is not limited to Israel but is a multifaceted global enterprise. He said that “Israel has blackmailed the world with the Holocaust,” claiming that it has a “monopoly” on the victim mentality. Abu Irshaid emphasized that it is imperative to establish a new narrative of the “Palestinian genocide,” adding that the “Zionist lobby” established many Holocaust museums, and that even Palestinian activists have been “influenced by this propaganda” to the extent that they left the Holocaust museum in Washington, DC, crying. He said that there are many rich Arabs and Palestinians who can build more than one Palestinian holocaust museum.

It’s so breathtakingly cynical. Never mind the historical facts, it’s all a question of presentation. Perhaps he’s been paying attention to post-modern scholarship, where there’s no truth, only power games. In Gramscian fashion, challenging the hegemonic narrative.

Anyway, the battle’s largely been won in Western academia. Hasn’t he noticed? They talk endlessly of the genocide in Gaza. Norman Finkelstein wrote The Holocaust Industry back in 2000 about the Jews exploiting the Holocaust for their own sinister ends. The door’s wide open….