Why is The Scotsman ignoring the Gaza Holocaust?
Today’s Scotsman editorial warns ‘we must guard against a new holocaust,’ but ignores the one underway in the land of Palestine.
Holocaust, from the Greek holos ‘whole’ + kaustos ‘burnt,’ means destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. The Nazi regime’s murder of 6 million Jews during World War II is known as “The Holocaust,” but 5 million non-Jews were also murdered by the Nazis.
So another word was coined by the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin to mean the mass murder of a people based on their ethnicity – genocide. Genocide is what the International Court of Justice, Human Rights Watch, Medicins Sans Frontiere, Amnesty International and the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights all agree Israel is committing against the Palestinians.
Of course it’s supremely ironic that the perpetrators of this 21st century genocide are those who are the survivors and their descendants of the Nazi holocaust – Zionist Jewish Israelis.
A July 2024 Lancet study concluded that deaths in Gaza are likely far higher than the 37,396 then reported:
“In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.”
This Holocaust didn’t begin on October 7, 2023, but in 1948 when the state of Israel was founded. Ever since Israel has deliberately used forced evictions, destruction of homes, guns, tanks, bombs, economic siege, starvation, the destruction of natural resources, the deprivation of water, electricity and medicine to achieve the same result – the mass murder of Palestinians.
Although the United States is Israel’s chief enabler, the UK, under Zionist Keir Starmer, and EU leaders are complicit not only in supplying Israel with weapons but also in refusing to say that Israel is committing humanity’s worst crime. The Scottish Administration hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory, either.
The Scotsman should have the moral courage to acknowledge this Holocaust.
How could anyone claiming to be a journalist write such an opinion piece in the face of the most broadcast genocide in history? It’s professional malpractice. It’s also disgusting.
Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.